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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 68 29
Rank change year-on-year -22 -39 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 117 140 434
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.62% 4.17% 6.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.27% 18.16% 23.61%
Number of salaries quoted 105 109 378
10th Percentile - £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,150
England median annual salary £59,773 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.73% +10.35% -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 882 771 1,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.24% 22.94% 27.31%
Number of salaries quoted 687 577 1,619
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,868
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 54 £39,000 -29.09% 18
Warwickshire +9 12 £57,500 +7.48% 6
Wolverhampton -12 10 £70,000 +47.37% 2
Coventry -12 9 £45,000 -14.29% 7
Shropshire -26 9 £37,500 -31.82% 1
Worcestershire -18 6 £42,500 +6.25% 3
Bilston - 5 £66,500 -
Solihull +8 4 £100,000 +100.00% 1
Staffordshire -32 3 £72,500 +52.63% 7
Dudley - 2 £30,250 - 1
Herefordshire -23 1 £60,000 +9.09% 1
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 (5.98%) CMS
2 5 (4.27%) nginx
3 4 (3.42%) WordPress
4 3 (2.56%) IIS
4 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.71%) Apache
5 2 (1.71%) NServiceBus
5 2 (1.71%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.85%) Confluence
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (5.13%) Photoshop
2 5 (4.27%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.85%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (8.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.27%) Shopify
3 2 (1.71%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 50 (42.74%) Azure
2 43 (36.75%) AWS
3 35 (29.91%) GitHub
4 18 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (8.55%) Power Automate
5 10 (8.55%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.55%) SaaS
6 9 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.84%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.42%) BrowserStack
8 4 (3.42%) Serverless
9 3 (2.56%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.56%) Firebase
10 1 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.85%) MailChimp
10 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (23.93%) Internet
2 2 (1.71%) Intranet
3 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.85%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.11%) MySQL
2 8 (6.84%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.13%) Power BI
4 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.71%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.85%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 45 (38.46%) Git
2 6 (5.13%) Vite
3 5 (4.27%) Cucumber
3 5 (4.27%) Gatling
4 4 (3.42%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.42%) JIRA
4 4 (3.42%) Zephyr
5 3 (2.56%) GitLab
5 3 (2.56%) Selenium
6 2 (1.71%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.71%) JMeter
6 2 (1.71%) JUnit
6 2 (1.71%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.71%) Maven
6 2 (1.71%) Mockito
6 2 (1.71%) Postman
6 2 (1.71%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.85%) webpack
General
1 28 (23.93%) Multimedia
2 22 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.11%) Finance
4 10 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.42%) Law
5 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.71%) Legal
8 1 (0.85%) Advertising
8 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.85%) Automotive
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Electronics
8 1 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 53 (45.30%) Developer
2 28 (23.93%) Trainee
3 20 (17.09%) Software Developer
4 17 (14.53%) Lead
5 13 (11.11%) Trainee Developer
5 13 (11.11%) Trainee Software Developer
6 10 (8.55%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 10 (8.55%) Software Engineer
7 9 (7.69%) Junior
8 8 (6.84%) Head of Engineering
9 7 (5.98%) Senior
10 6 (5.13%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.27%) Junior Developer
11 5 (4.27%) Product Owner
12 4 (3.42%) CRM Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 4 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.42%) JavaScript Engineer
12 4 (3.42%) Lead DevOps
12 4 (3.42%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (42.74%) CSS
1 50 (42.74%) HTML
2 27 (23.08%) .NET
3 24 (20.51%) React
4 11 (9.40%) Vue
5 8 (6.84%) Laravel
6 7 (5.98%) Node.js
6 7 (5.98%) Playwright
7 6 (5.13%) .NET Core
7 6 (5.13%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (4.27%) LEMP Stack
8 5 (4.27%) REST
8 5 (4.27%) Spring
8 5 (4.27%) XML
8 5 (4.27%) YAML
9 4 (3.42%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.42%) JSON
9 4 (3.42%) React Native
10 3 (2.56%) Next.js
10 3 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.97%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.42%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.42%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.85%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.85%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Robotics
7 1 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Kali Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Windows
2 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (30.77%) Agile
2 33 (28.21%) Mentoring
3 31 (26.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 26 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 24 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (17.95%) DevOps
7 17 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (14.53%) User Experience
8 15 (12.82%) AI
9 13 (11.11%) E-Commerce
10 12 (10.26%) CRM
10 12 (10.26%) Software Engineering
11 11 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (9.40%) Front End Development
11 11 (9.40%) Machine Learning
11 11 (9.40%) SDLC
12 10 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (8.55%) Code Quality
12 10 (8.55%) Test Automation
13 9 (7.69%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 50 (42.74%) Python
2 31 (26.50%) C#
3 29 (24.79%) SQL
4 19 (16.24%) Java
5 17 (14.53%) PHP
6 15 (12.82%) R
7 13 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.13%) Bash
9 4 (3.42%) Go
10 2 (1.71%) C
10 2 (1.71%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.85%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.85%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.85%) JCL
11 1 (0.85%) VB
11 1 (0.85%) VB6
11 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (24.79%) AWS Certification
1 29 (24.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (23.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 28 (23.93%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.27%) Degree
3 5 (4.27%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.56%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.71%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.71%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.55%) QA
2 8 (6.84%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.56%) WCAG
4 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.85%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.85%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) Grafana
2 1 (0.85%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 49 (41.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.42%) Oracle
3 3 (2.56%) Guidewire
4 2 (1.71%) IBM
4 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.71%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.85%) Adobe
5 1 (0.85%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.85%) Foundry
5 1 (0.85%) Palantir
5 1 (0.85%) Siemens
5 1 (0.85%) Splunk
5 1 (0.85%) Veracode