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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 55 33
Rank change year-on-year -31 -22 +1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 121 140 354
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.42% 4.07% 5.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.91% 17.68% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 84 91 241
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £46,341 £41,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,399 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £78,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +7.44% -6.92%

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 1,016 792 1,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.93% 23.00% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 748 622 1,066
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,375
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% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £86,200 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +2.36% +3.75% -5.84%

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 August 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 August 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 -20 48 £58,750 - 36
Coventry -13 13 £48,750 +2.63% 6
Worcestershire -9 11 £57,500 +21.05% 4
Staffordshire -21 11 £55,000 -18.52% 7
Warwickshire -18 10 £55,000 - 4
Shropshire -15 8 £50,000 -4.76% 9
Wolverhampton -11 7 £70,000 +71.78%
Herefordshire -17 3 £55,000 -38.89% 1
Dudley - 2 £30,250 -
Bilston - 1 £66,500 -
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 (5.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (3.31%) WordPress
3 3 (2.48%) IIS
4 2 (1.65%) CMS
5 1 (0.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) nginx
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.83%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Photoshop
2 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.83%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.83%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Infor M3
1 7 (5.79%) Lawson
2 6 (4.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (55.37%) Azure
2 38 (31.40%) AWS
3 12 (9.92%) Power Automate
4 10 (8.26%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (8.26%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.26%) SaaS
5 8 (6.61%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (6.61%) GitHub
6 7 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.13%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.13%) PowerApps
7 5 (4.13%) Serverless
8 4 (3.31%) BrowserStack
9 3 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.65%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.65%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.65%) Google Play
10 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.83%) Boomi
11 1 (0.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.96%) Internet
2 5 (4.13%) Ethernet
3 3 (2.48%) Firewall
3 3 (2.48%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.05%) MongoDB
2 12 (9.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (9.09%) MySQL
4 9 (7.44%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (4.96%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.13%) Power BI
7 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.65%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.65%) QlikView
9 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.83%) Redis
10 1 (0.83%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 17 (14.05%) Git
2 15 (12.40%) JUnit
3 14 (11.57%) Maven
3 14 (11.57%) Mockito
4 6 (4.96%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.13%) Gatling
5 5 (4.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (3.31%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.65%) GitLab
7 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.65%) JMeter
7 2 (1.65%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.65%) Postman
7 2 (1.65%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.65%) Selenium
8 1 (0.83%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.83%) JIRA
8 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.83%) Vite
General
1 31 (25.62%) Finance
2 13 (10.74%) Manufacturing
3 11 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 9 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.96%) Multimedia
6 6 (4.96%) Retail
7 5 (4.13%) Advertising
7 5 (4.13%) Aerospace
7 5 (4.13%) Automotive
8 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Electronics
8 1 (0.83%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
Job Titles
1 68 (56.20%) Developer
2 24 (19.83%) Lead
3 18 (14.88%) Senior
4 17 (14.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (13.22%) Software Developer
6 15 (12.40%) Senior Developer
7 14 (11.57%) .NET Developer
8 11 (9.09%) Java Developer
8 11 (9.09%) Lead Developer
8 11 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 10 (8.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 9 (7.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (6.61%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 8 (6.61%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (6.61%) React Developer
11 8 (6.61%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 8 (6.61%) Senior React Developer
12 7 (5.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.79%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.96%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (31.40%) .NET
2 37 (30.58%) React
3 26 (21.49%) REST
4 24 (19.83%) CSS
4 24 (19.83%) HTML
5 20 (16.53%) .NET Core
6 18 (14.88%) ASP.NET
6 18 (14.88%) ASP.NET Core
7 17 (14.05%) Node.js
8 15 (12.40%) Playwright
9 14 (11.57%) ASP.NET Web API
9 14 (11.57%) Spring
10 13 (10.74%) Blazor
11 12 (9.92%) RESTful
12 7 (5.79%) .NET Framework
13 6 (4.96%) Entity Framework
13 6 (4.96%) JSON
14 5 (4.13%) Kafka
14 5 (4.13%) XML
15 4 (3.31%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.74%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.61%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.79%) Mashup
4 6 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (4.13%) Robotics
5 5 (4.13%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.31%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.48%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.48%) Social Media
8 2 (1.65%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.65%) iPhone
8 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.92%) Linux
2 3 (2.48%) Windows
2 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.65%) Android
4 1 (0.83%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (48.76%) Agile
2 55 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 40 (33.06%) Mentoring
4 37 (30.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (28.93%) Microservices
6 32 (26.45%) AI
7 30 (24.79%) Scrum
8 29 (23.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (19.83%) SDLC
10 23 (19.01%) TDD
11 22 (18.18%) DevOps
11 22 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (17.36%) LLM
12 21 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (16.53%) Sprint Planning
14 18 (14.88%) Technical Architecture
15 17 (14.05%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (14.05%) Time Management
16 16 (13.22%) Containerisation
17 15 (12.40%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 57 (47.11%) SQL
2 47 (38.84%) C#
3 34 (28.10%) Java
4 27 (22.31%) TypeScript
5 20 (16.53%) Python
6 14 (11.57%) PL/SQL
7 12 (9.92%) Bash
8 11 (9.09%) PHP
9 6 (4.96%) C
10 4 (3.31%) R
11 3 (2.48%) VBA
12 2 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.83%) C++
13 1 (0.83%) JCL
13 1 (0.83%) Ruby
13 1 (0.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.83%) VB
13 1 (0.83%) VB6
Qualifications
1 22 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.96%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (4.96%) Degree
5 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.22%) Accessibility
2 12 (9.92%) QA
3 6 (4.96%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.13%) IEC 61131
5 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (2.48%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (14.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (16.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.96%) Terraform
3 1 (0.83%) Grafana
3 1 (0.83%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (33.06%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.57%) Oracle
3 7 (5.79%) Infor
4 5 (4.13%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (4.13%) Siemens
5 3 (2.48%) Adobe
5 3 (2.48%) Google
5 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.65%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.83%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.83%) Informatica
7 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk
7 1 (0.83%) Veracode