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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 47 28
Rank change year-on-year -32 -19 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 125 190 415
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.90% 5.31% 6.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.64% 20.79% 23.97%
Number of salaries quoted 111 114 368
10th Percentile - £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,150
England median annual salary £59,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.88% +10.34% -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 799 914 1,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.13% 25.53% 28.02%
Number of salaries quoted 635 583 1,529
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,154
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -27 64 £39,000 -27.44% 26
Warwickshire +11 13 £57,500 +27.78% 9
Shropshire -18 9 £37,500 -31.82% 1
Coventry -12 8 £45,000 -14.29% 7
Solihull +8 6 £100,000 +100.00% 2
Wolverhampton -10 5 £85,000 +78.95% 2
Bilston - 5 £66,500 -
Worcestershire -17 4 £37,000 -7.50% 3
Dudley -1 2 £30,250 - 2
Herefordshire -21 2 £48,750 -7.14% 2
Staffordshire -37 2 £68,750 +52.78% 5
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 (6.40%) CMS
2 7 (5.60%) IIS
3 6 (4.80%) Apache
4 5 (4.00%) nginx
4 5 (4.00%) WordPress
5 3 (2.40%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.60%) NServiceBus
6 2 (1.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.60%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (4.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.00%) Shopify
3 3 (2.40%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 57 (45.60%) Azure
2 49 (39.20%) AWS
3 38 (30.40%) GitHub
4 19 (15.20%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (12.80%) SaaS
6 12 (9.60%) Power Platform
7 11 (8.80%) Power Automate
8 10 (8.00%) PowerApps
9 9 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.20%) Serverless
11 3 (2.40%) Firebase
11 3 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.60%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (0.80%) GCP
13 1 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (25.60%) Internet
2 2 (1.60%) Intranet
3 1 (0.80%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.80%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.20%) MySQL
3 8 (6.40%) Power BI
3 8 (6.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.60%) MS Access
6 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.80%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.80%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 45 (36.00%) Git
2 6 (4.80%) Vite
3 4 (3.20%) Cypress.io
3 4 (3.20%) JUnit
3 4 (3.20%) Maven
3 4 (3.20%) Mockito
4 3 (2.40%) GitLab
4 3 (2.40%) JIRA
4 3 (2.40%) Selenium
5 2 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.60%) JMeter
5 2 (1.60%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.60%) Postman
5 2 (1.60%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.80%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.80%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.80%) webpack
General
1 32 (25.60%) Multimedia
1 32 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.80%) Finance
3 7 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.80%) Law
5 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.20%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Legal
7 2 (1.60%) Marketing
7 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (44.80%) Developer
2 32 (25.60%) Trainee
3 23 (18.40%) Software Developer
4 15 (12.00%) Trainee Developer
4 15 (12.00%) Trainee Software Developer
5 13 (10.40%) Lead
6 10 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 9 (7.20%) Junior
8 8 (6.40%) Head of Engineering
8 8 (6.40%) Senior
8 8 (6.40%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Applications Specialist
10 6 (4.80%) Applications Support
10 6 (4.80%) Applications Support Specialist
10 6 (4.80%) Consultant
10 6 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Support Specialist
11 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Developer
11 5 (4.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (42.40%) HTML
2 52 (41.60%) CSS
3 28 (22.40%) .NET
4 26 (20.80%) React
5 11 (8.80%) Vue
6 8 (6.40%) Laravel
6 8 (6.40%) Spring
7 7 (5.60%) Node.js
8 6 (4.80%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.80%) LAMP
8 6 (4.80%) REST
8 6 (4.80%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.00%) LEMP Stack
9 5 (4.00%) YAML
10 4 (3.20%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.20%) React Native
10 4 (3.20%) RESTful
10 4 (3.20%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.80%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (4.80%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.80%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (0.80%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.80%) CMDB
5 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.80%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.80%) IoT
5 1 (0.80%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.80%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.80%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.20%) Linux
2 1 (0.80%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (29.60%) Mentoring
2 34 (27.20%) Full-Stack Development
3 33 (26.40%) Agile
4 28 (22.40%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (16.80%) DevOps
7 20 (16.00%) CI/CD
8 18 (14.40%) CRM
9 16 (12.80%) User Experience
10 15 (12.00%) AI
11 12 (9.60%) Scrum
12 11 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (8.80%) E-Commerce
12 11 (8.80%) Front End Development
12 11 (8.80%) Machine Learning
12 11 (8.80%) Software Engineering
13 10 (8.00%) Decision-Making
14 9 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (7.20%) Customer Engagement
14 9 (7.20%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 52 (41.60%) Python
2 36 (28.80%) SQL
3 29 (23.20%) C#
4 21 (16.80%) Java
5 19 (15.20%) PHP
6 17 (13.60%) R
7 11 (8.80%) TypeScript
8 7 (5.60%) Bash
9 4 (3.20%) Go
9 4 (3.20%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.60%) Delphi
10 2 (1.60%) Groovy
10 2 (1.60%) XAML
11 1 (0.80%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.80%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.80%) JCL
Qualifications
1 34 (27.20%) Microsoft Certification
2 33 (26.40%) AWS Certification
3 32 (25.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 32 (25.60%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.60%) Degree
4 7 (5.60%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.40%) IBM Certification
8 2 (1.60%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.80%) QA
2 4 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.40%) WCAG
4 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.80%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (11.20%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.60%) Ansible
2 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.60%) Terraform
3 1 (0.80%) Grafana
3 1 (0.80%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 58 (46.40%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.80%) Oracle
3 6 (4.80%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.40%) Guidewire
4 3 (2.40%) IBM
5 2 (1.60%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.60%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.80%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.80%) Foundry
6 1 (0.80%) Palantir
6 1 (0.80%) Splunk
6 1 (0.80%) Veracode