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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 58 28
Rank change year-on-year -37 -30 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 136 142 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.50% 4.34% 6.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.40% 19.83% 26.22%
Number of salaries quoted 99 95 164
10th Percentile £45,000 £29,150 £32,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £36,250 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £78,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

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 1,015 716 1,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.23% 21.88% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 712 561 765
10th Percentile £38,000 £32,125 £32,350
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -15 59 £64,653 +29.31% 33
Coventry +5 26 £70,000 +40.00% 5
Staffordshire -11 15 £55,000 +6.80% 19
Warwickshire -26 14 £55,000 - 8
Worcestershire -16 10 £57,500 +31.43% 4
Herefordshire -16 3 £55,000 -13.73% 2
Shropshire -21 3 £62,500 +38.89% 14
Wolverhampton -7 1 £37,500 +10.29% 3
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 8 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.47%) IIS
4 1 (0.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.74%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.47%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (8.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (5.15%) Infor M3
2 7 (5.15%) Lawson
3 4 (2.94%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 78 (57.35%) Azure
2 38 (27.94%) AWS
3 22 (16.18%) Power Platform
4 16 (11.76%) Power Automate
5 14 (10.29%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (9.56%) SaaS
6 13 (9.56%) Serverless
7 11 (8.09%) Azure Functions
8 6 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.21%) iPaaS
9 3 (2.21%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.47%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.47%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.47%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.47%) GitHub
10 2 (1.47%) Google Play
10 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.21%) Firewall
2 3 (2.21%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.29%) SQL Server
3 12 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (7.35%) Power BI
5 9 (6.62%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.88%) MySQL
6 8 (5.88%) QlikView
6 8 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (4.41%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.47%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (11.76%) Git
2 15 (11.03%) JUnit
3 14 (10.29%) Maven
3 14 (10.29%) Mockito
4 3 (2.21%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
General
1 30 (22.06%) Finance
2 19 (13.97%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.24%) Public Sector
4 17 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 12 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.41%) Retail
8 4 (2.94%) Advertising
8 4 (2.94%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.94%) Automotive
9 2 (1.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Law
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (59.56%) Developer
2 26 (19.12%) Senior
3 23 (16.91%) Lead
4 22 (16.18%) Senior Developer
5 18 (13.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (11.76%) Lead Developer
7 15 (11.03%) Software Developer
8 14 (10.29%) .NET Developer
8 14 (10.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 11 (8.09%) Consultant
10 10 (7.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (7.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (7.35%) Java Developer
10 10 (7.35%) React Developer
10 10 (7.35%) Senior React Developer
11 9 (6.62%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.62%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 8 (5.88%) Data Engineer
12 8 (5.88%) Software Engineer
13 7 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (28.68%) React
2 37 (27.21%) .NET
3 30 (22.06%) REST
4 20 (14.71%) .NET Core
4 20 (14.71%) CSS
4 20 (14.71%) Node.js
5 19 (13.97%) ASP.NET
6 18 (13.24%) ASP.NET Core
6 18 (13.24%) HTML
7 15 (11.03%) ASP.NET Web API
7 15 (11.03%) RESTful
7 15 (11.03%) XML
8 14 (10.29%) Spring
9 13 (9.56%) Blazor
9 13 (9.56%) JSON
10 11 (8.09%) Playwright
11 9 (6.62%) .NET Framework
12 8 (5.88%) XSLT
13 6 (4.41%) Entity Framework
13 6 (4.41%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.56%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.88%) Taxonomies
4 7 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.15%) Mashup
5 6 (4.41%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.68%) CMDB
6 5 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.68%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.94%) Robotics
8 3 (2.21%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.21%) IoT
8 3 (2.21%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.47%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.35%) Linux
2 2 (1.47%) Android
2 2 (1.47%) Windows
2 2 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (48.53%) Agile
2 50 (36.76%) CI/CD
3 49 (36.03%) Mentoring
4 41 (30.15%) AI
4 41 (30.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (25.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (25.00%) Microservices
7 32 (23.53%) Scrum
8 30 (22.06%) Technical Leadership
9 27 (19.85%) DevOps
10 26 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.65%) ERP
11 24 (17.65%) Technical Architecture
12 23 (16.91%) TDD
13 22 (16.18%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (15.44%) LLM
15 19 (13.97%) SDLC
15 19 (13.97%) Sprint Planning
16 17 (12.50%) Time Management
17 16 (11.76%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 69 (50.74%) SQL
2 49 (36.03%) C#
3 38 (27.94%) Java
4 31 (22.79%) TypeScript
5 23 (16.91%) Python
6 14 (10.29%) PL/SQL
7 11 (8.09%) Bash
8 8 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.94%) C
9 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.21%) C++
10 3 (2.21%) PHP
11 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.47%) VBA
12 1 (0.74%) Ruby
12 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.88%) Degree
3 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.68%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.65%) Accessibility
2 13 (9.56%) WCAG
3 11 (8.09%) QA
4 8 (5.88%) GDPR
5 6 (4.41%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.94%) IEC 61131
6 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (2.21%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (11.76%) Docker
2 3 (2.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (13.97%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.29%) Oracle
3 7 (5.15%) Infor
4 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.68%) SAP
6 4 (2.94%) Allen-Bradley
6 4 (2.94%) Sage
6 4 (2.94%) Siemens
7 3 (2.21%) Google
8 2 (1.47%) Adobe
8 2 (1.47%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.47%) Pega
9 1 (0.74%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.74%) Informatica
9 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.74%) Salesforce