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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 53 33
Rank change year-on-year -45 -20 +6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 114 150 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.35% 4.39% 5.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.18% 18.63% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 77 98 253
10th Percentile £35,250 £33,200 £32,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,911 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,389 £78,750 £77,000
England median annual salary £58,730 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.65% +8.33% -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 1,020 805 1,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.09% 23.56% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 754 639 1,089
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,760 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £70,830 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,375
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.00% -7.12%

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 5 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 5 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 -22 45 £57,500 -6.12% 21
Coventry -10 12 £45,000 -5.26% 6
Staffordshire -26 11 £55,000 -18.52% 8
Worcestershire -13 10 £57,500 +21.05% 4
Warwickshire -19 9 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Shropshire -13 8 £50,000 -4.76% 14
Wolverhampton -16 7 £70,000 +71.78%
Herefordshire -21 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 (6.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (3.51%) WordPress
3 3 (2.63%) IIS
4 2 (1.75%) CMS
5 1 (0.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) nginx
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Photoshop
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.88%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (5.26%) Infor M3
1 6 (5.26%) Lawson
2 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (57.02%) Azure
2 38 (33.33%) AWS
3 10 (8.77%) Power Automate
4 8 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (7.02%) GitHub
4 8 (7.02%) Power Platform
4 8 (7.02%) SaaS
5 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (3.51%) Azure Functions
6 4 (3.51%) BrowserStack
6 4 (3.51%) PowerApps
6 4 (3.51%) Serverless
7 3 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.75%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.75%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (1.75%) Google Play
8 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.88%) AWS IoT
9 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) Internet
2 5 (4.39%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.75%) Firewall
3 2 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.91%) MongoDB
2 12 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (9.65%) MySQL
4 9 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.51%) Power BI
7 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.75%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.75%) QlikView
8 2 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.88%) Redis
9 1 (0.88%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 16 (14.04%) Git
2 15 (13.16%) JUnit
3 14 (12.28%) Maven
3 14 (12.28%) Mockito
4 6 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.39%) Gatling
5 5 (4.39%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (3.51%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.75%) GitLab
7 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.75%) JMeter
7 2 (1.75%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.75%) Postman
7 2 (1.75%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.75%) Selenium
8 1 (0.88%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.88%) JIRA
8 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.88%) Vite
General
1 31 (27.19%) Finance
2 12 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 10 (8.77%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.26%) Multimedia
6 6 (5.26%) Retail
7 5 (4.39%) Advertising
7 5 (4.39%) Aerospace
7 5 (4.39%) Automotive
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Electronics
8 1 (0.88%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 63 (55.26%) Developer
2 21 (18.42%) Lead
3 18 (15.79%) Senior
4 15 (13.16%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (13.16%) Senior Developer
5 14 (12.28%) .NET Developer
5 14 (12.28%) Software Developer
6 11 (9.65%) Java Developer
6 11 (9.65%) Software Engineer
7 10 (8.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 9 (7.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 8 (7.02%) Lead Developer
9 8 (7.02%) React Developer
9 8 (7.02%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 8 (7.02%) Senior React Developer
10 7 (6.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (6.14%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (5.26%) CRM Developer
11 6 (5.26%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.26%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (32.46%) .NET
1 37 (32.46%) React
2 26 (22.81%) REST
3 23 (20.18%) CSS
3 23 (20.18%) HTML
4 20 (17.54%) .NET Core
5 18 (15.79%) ASP.NET
5 18 (15.79%) ASP.NET Core
6 15 (13.16%) Node.js
6 15 (13.16%) Playwright
7 14 (12.28%) ASP.NET Web API
7 14 (12.28%) Spring
8 13 (11.40%) Blazor
9 11 (9.65%) RESTful
10 7 (6.14%) .NET Framework
11 6 (5.26%) Entity Framework
11 6 (5.26%) JSON
12 5 (4.39%) Kafka
12 5 (4.39%) XML
13 4 (3.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.26%) Mashup
5 5 (4.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (4.39%) Robotics
5 5 (4.39%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.63%) Social Media
8 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.75%) iPhone
8 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.53%) Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Windows
2 3 (2.63%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.75%) Android
4 1 (0.88%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (50.00%) Agile
2 54 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 39 (34.21%) Mentoring
4 35 (30.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 35 (30.70%) Microservices
5 32 (28.07%) AI
6 29 (25.44%) Scrum
7 28 (24.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (20.18%) SDLC
8 23 (20.18%) TDD
9 22 (19.30%) Technical Leadership
10 21 (18.42%) DevOps
10 21 (18.42%) LLM
11 20 (17.54%) Sprint Planning
12 18 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
13 17 (14.91%) Time Management
14 16 (14.04%) Containerisation
15 15 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (13.16%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 56 (49.12%) SQL
2 44 (38.60%) C#
3 33 (28.95%) Java
4 24 (21.05%) TypeScript
5 19 (16.67%) Python
6 14 (12.28%) PL/SQL
7 12 (10.53%) Bash
8 11 (9.65%) PHP
9 6 (5.26%) C
10 4 (3.51%) R
11 3 (2.63%) VBA
12 2 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.75%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.88%) C++
13 1 (0.88%) JCL
13 1 (0.88%) Ruby
13 1 (0.88%) Scala
13 1 (0.88%) VB
13 1 (0.88%) VB6
Qualifications
1 21 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.39%) Degree
6 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.04%) Accessibility
2 12 (10.53%) QA
3 6 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.39%) IEC 61131
5 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (14.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (17.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
3 1 (0.88%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 38 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.28%) Oracle
3 6 (5.26%) Infor
4 5 (4.39%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (4.39%) Siemens
5 3 (2.63%) Adobe
5 3 (2.63%) Google
6 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.88%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.88%) Informatica
7 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) SAP
7 1 (0.88%) Splunk
7 1 (0.88%) Veracode