JavaScript Job Trends in the West Midlands

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 54 29
Rank change year-on-year -29 -25 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 139 135 343
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.57% 4.14% 5.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.40% 18.80% 25.20%
Number of salaries quoted 102 91 178
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,500 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £93,190 £78,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

JavaScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,037 718 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.72% 22.02% 22.71%
Number of salaries quoted 739 564 860
10th Percentile £38,000 £32,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the West Midlands

JavaScript
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -16 59 £58,750 -2.08% 54
Coventry -6 21 £62,500 +25.00% 7
Staffordshire -10 16 £55,000 -4.35% 2
Warwickshire -23 14 £55,000 - 5
Worcestershire -17 12 £57,500 +21.05% 2
Wolverhampton -8 5 £70,000 +105.88% 4
Herefordshire -17 3 £55,000 -38.89% 2
Shropshire -21 3 £62,500 +38.89% 9
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.16%) IIS
4 1 (0.72%) CMS
4 1 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.72%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (7.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (5.04%) Infor M3
2 7 (5.04%) Lawson
3 4 (2.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 73 (52.52%) Azure
2 34 (24.46%) AWS
3 21 (15.11%) Power Platform
4 16 (11.51%) Power Automate
5 14 (10.07%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (9.35%) SaaS
7 12 (8.63%) Serverless
8 11 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (7.19%) Azure Functions
10 7 (5.04%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (2.88%) BrowserStack
11 4 (2.88%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.16%) GitHub
13 2 (1.44%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.44%) Azure AI
13 2 (1.44%) Copilot Studio
13 2 (1.44%) Google Play
13 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.60%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.16%) Firewall
2 3 (2.16%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.23%) MongoDB
2 12 (8.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (8.63%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.91%) MySQL
4 10 (7.19%) Power BI
5 9 (6.47%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.76%) QlikView
6 8 (5.76%) Relational Database
6 8 (5.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.16%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.44%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.44%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (11.51%) Git
2 15 (10.79%) JUnit
3 14 (10.07%) Maven
3 14 (10.07%) Mockito
4 5 (3.60%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.88%) Gatling
5 4 (2.88%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (2.88%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.44%) GitLab
General
1 31 (22.30%) Finance
2 20 (14.39%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.95%) Manufacturing
4 17 (12.23%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.32%) Retail
8 5 (3.60%) Advertising
8 5 (3.60%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.60%) Automotive
9 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Legal
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (57.55%) Developer
2 26 (18.71%) Lead
3 24 (17.27%) Senior
4 21 (15.11%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.95%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (11.51%) Software Developer
7 15 (10.79%) .NET Developer
7 15 (10.79%) Lead Developer
8 13 (9.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 11 (7.91%) Java Developer
10 10 (7.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (7.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (7.19%) React Developer
10 10 (7.19%) Senior React Developer
10 10 (7.19%) Software Engineer
11 9 (6.47%) Consultant
11 9 (6.47%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.47%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 8 (5.76%) Data Engineer
13 7 (5.04%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (28.78%) .NET
2 39 (28.06%) React
3 27 (19.42%) REST
4 22 (15.83%) CSS
4 22 (15.83%) HTML
5 20 (14.39%) .NET Core
5 20 (14.39%) Node.js
6 19 (13.67%) ASP.NET
7 18 (12.95%) ASP.NET Core
8 16 (11.51%) RESTful
9 15 (10.79%) ASP.NET Web API
9 15 (10.79%) Playwright
10 14 (10.07%) Spring
11 13 (9.35%) Blazor
12 12 (8.63%) XML
13 11 (7.91%) JSON
14 9 (6.47%) .NET Framework
15 6 (4.32%) Entity Framework
15 6 (4.32%) Terraform
15 6 (4.32%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (7.19%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.76%) Virtual Team
4 7 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.04%) Mashup
5 6 (4.32%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.32%) Taxonomies
6 5 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.60%) Robotics
7 4 (2.88%) CMDB
7 4 (2.88%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.16%) IoT
8 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.16%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.16%) Social Media
9 2 (1.44%) iPhone
9 2 (1.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.19%) Linux
2 3 (2.16%) Windows
2 3 (2.16%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (50.36%) Agile
2 57 (41.01%) CI/CD
3 47 (33.81%) Mentoring
4 41 (29.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (26.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (25.90%) AI
7 34 (24.46%) Microservices
8 32 (23.02%) Scrum
9 28 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (20.14%) Technical Leadership
10 27 (19.42%) DevOps
11 24 (17.27%) ERP
11 24 (17.27%) TDD
12 23 (16.55%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (16.55%) SDLC
13 21 (15.11%) LLM
13 21 (15.11%) Technical Architecture
14 19 (13.67%) Sprint Planning
15 17 (12.23%) Time Management
16 16 (11.51%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (51.08%) SQL
2 54 (38.85%) C#
3 40 (28.78%) Java
4 31 (22.30%) TypeScript
5 21 (15.11%) Python
6 14 (10.07%) PL/SQL
7 11 (7.91%) Bash
8 8 (5.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (4.32%) PHP
10 5 (3.60%) C
11 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.16%) C++
12 3 (2.16%) VBA
13 2 (1.44%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.72%) Ruby
14 1 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.04%) Degree
3 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.88%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.42%) Accessibility
2 11 (7.91%) QA
2 11 (7.91%) WCAG
3 7 (5.04%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.32%) GDPR
5 5 (3.60%) IEC 61131
6 4 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (2.16%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (11.51%) Docker
2 3 (2.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (13.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (26.62%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.07%) Oracle
3 7 (5.04%) Infor
4 5 (3.60%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (3.60%) SAP
4 5 (3.60%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.60%) Siemens
5 4 (2.88%) Sage
6 3 (2.16%) Adobe
6 3 (2.16%) Google
7 2 (1.44%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.44%) Pega
8 1 (0.72%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.72%) Informatica
8 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.72%) Salesforce