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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 58 32
Rank change year-on-year -31 -26 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 140 132 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.59% 3.99% 5.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.47% 18.21% 24.87%
Number of salaries quoted 103 88 181
10th Percentile £41,889 £31,863 £32,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,563 £65,001
90th Percentile £92,630 £79,125 £75,000
England median annual salary £59,773 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.45% +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 1,039 725 1,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.81% 21.94% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 745 568 887
10th Percentile £38,000 £32,125 £32,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £65,302
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £76,250
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 12 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 12 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 -8 59 £58,750 -6.00% 24
Coventry -7 20 £62,500 +25.00% 7
Staffordshire -8 16 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Warwickshire -19 14 £55,000 - 4
Worcestershire -19 13 £57,500 +21.05% 2
Wolverhampton -7 6 £70,000 +105.88%
Herefordshire -16 3 £55,000 -38.89% 2
Shropshire -23 3 £62,500 +38.89% 10
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 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.14%) IIS
4 1 (0.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.71%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.14%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.71%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (7.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (5.00%) Infor M3
2 7 (5.00%) Lawson
3 4 (2.86%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 72 (51.43%) Azure
2 34 (24.29%) AWS
3 21 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 16 (11.43%) Power Automate
5 14 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (10.00%) SaaS
6 12 (8.57%) Serverless
7 11 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (7.14%) Azure Functions
9 7 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.86%) BrowserStack
10 4 (2.86%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.14%) GitHub
12 2 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.43%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.43%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.43%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.57%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.14%) Firewall
2 3 (2.14%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.14%) MongoDB
2 12 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.86%) MySQL
4 10 (7.14%) Power BI
5 9 (6.43%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.71%) QlikView
6 8 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 8 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.43%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.43%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.71%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (12.86%) Git
2 15 (10.71%) JUnit
3 14 (10.00%) Maven
3 14 (10.00%) Mockito
4 5 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.86%) Gatling
5 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (2.86%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.43%) GitLab
7 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.71%) JIRA
General
1 31 (22.14%) Finance
2 20 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.86%) Manufacturing
4 17 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.29%) Retail
8 5 (3.57%) Advertising
8 5 (3.57%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.57%) Automotive
9 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (57.14%) Developer
2 26 (18.57%) Lead
3 24 (17.14%) Senior
4 21 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (11.43%) Software Developer
7 15 (10.71%) .NET Developer
7 15 (10.71%) Lead Developer
8 13 (9.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 11 (7.86%) Java Developer
9 11 (7.86%) Software Engineer
10 10 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (7.14%) React Developer
10 10 (7.14%) Senior React Developer
11 9 (6.43%) Consultant
11 9 (6.43%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (6.43%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 8 (5.71%) Data Engineer
13 7 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (28.57%) .NET
1 40 (28.57%) React
2 28 (20.00%) REST
3 22 (15.71%) CSS
3 22 (15.71%) HTML
4 20 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 20 (14.29%) Node.js
5 19 (13.57%) ASP.NET
6 18 (12.86%) ASP.NET Core
7 16 (11.43%) RESTful
8 15 (10.71%) ASP.NET Web API
8 15 (10.71%) Playwright
9 14 (10.00%) Spring
10 13 (9.29%) Blazor
10 13 (9.29%) XML
11 12 (8.57%) JSON
12 9 (6.43%) .NET Framework
13 7 (5.00%) XSLT
14 6 (4.29%) Entity Framework
14 6 (4.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.71%) Virtual Team
4 7 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.00%) Mashup
5 6 (4.29%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.29%) Taxonomies
6 5 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.57%) Robotics
7 4 (2.86%) CMDB
7 4 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.14%) IoT
8 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.14%) Social Media
9 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (2.14%) Windows
2 3 (2.14%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (50.71%) Agile
2 58 (41.43%) CI/CD
3 48 (34.29%) Mentoring
4 41 (29.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 38 (27.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (26.43%) AI
7 34 (24.29%) Microservices
8 33 (23.57%) Scrum
9 30 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
11 27 (19.29%) DevOps
12 24 (17.14%) ERP
12 24 (17.14%) SDLC
12 24 (17.14%) TDD
13 23 (16.43%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (15.00%) LLM
14 21 (15.00%) Technical Architecture
15 20 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
16 17 (12.14%) Containerisation
16 17 (12.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (50.71%) SQL
2 54 (38.57%) C#
3 40 (28.57%) Java
4 31 (22.14%) TypeScript
5 20 (14.29%) Python
6 14 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 11 (7.86%) Bash
8 8 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (5.00%) PHP
10 6 (4.29%) C
11 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.14%) C++
12 3 (2.14%) VBA
13 2 (1.43%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.71%) Ruby
14 1 (0.71%) Scala
14 1 (0.71%) VB
14 1 (0.71%) VB6
Qualifications
1 24 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.71%) Degree
4 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.29%) Accessibility
2 11 (7.86%) QA
2 11 (7.86%) WCAG
3 7 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.29%) GDPR
5 5 (3.57%) IEC 61131
6 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (2.14%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (12.14%) Docker
2 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.00%) Oracle
3 7 (5.00%) Infor
4 5 (3.57%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (3.57%) SAP
4 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.57%) Siemens
5 4 (2.86%) Sage
6 3 (2.14%) Adobe
6 3 (2.14%) Google
7 2 (1.43%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.43%) Pega
8 1 (0.71%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.71%) Informatica
8 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.71%) Salesforce