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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 46 28
Rank change year-on-year -52 -18 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 113 138 456
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.32% 4.68% 5.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.78% 19.01% 23.54%
Number of salaries quoted 86 84 386
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% +3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,438 £73,125 £67,188
90th Percentile £90,949 £80,500 £80,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,215 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% +10.36% -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 959 726 1,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.21% 24.62% 25.13%
Number of salaries quoted 718 548 1,662
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,750 £76,250 £75,772
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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -12 52 £52,065 -9.45% 13
Coventry -12 12 £45,000 -5.26% 4
Wolverhampton -12 10 £70,000 +47.37% 1
Shropshire -20 9 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Warwickshire -19 8 £60,000 +12.15% 3
Staffordshire -40 6 £58,750 -9.62% 3
Worcestershire -30 5 £42,500 -12.82% 1
Bilston - 4 £66,500 -
Dudley - 2 £30,250 - 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 5 (4.42%) CMS
2 4 (3.54%) nginx
2 4 (3.54%) WordPress
3 3 (2.65%) IIS
4 2 (1.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.54%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.88%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.54%) Shopify
3 1 (0.88%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 52 (46.02%) Azure
2 42 (37.17%) AWS
3 24 (21.24%) GitHub
4 10 (8.85%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (7.96%) Power Automate
6 7 (6.19%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.54%) BrowserStack
8 4 (3.54%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.54%) SaaS
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.65%) Serverless
10 2 (1.77%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.77%) Google Play
11 1 (0.88%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (0.88%) MailChimp
11 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.81%) Internet
2 5 (4.42%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.88%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.39%) MySQL
2 10 (8.85%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.31%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.54%) Power BI
6 3 (2.65%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.77%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.88%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 32 (28.32%) Git
2 9 (7.96%) JUnit
3 8 (7.08%) Maven
3 8 (7.08%) Mockito
4 6 (5.31%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.42%) Gatling
5 5 (4.42%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (3.54%) Vite
6 4 (3.54%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.77%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.77%) GitLab
7 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.77%) JMeter
7 2 (1.77%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.77%) Postman
7 2 (1.77%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.77%) Selenium
8 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.88%) JIRA
8 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
General
1 20 (17.70%) Finance
2 19 (16.81%) Multimedia
3 12 (10.62%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.08%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.42%) Advertising
6 5 (4.42%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.42%) Automotive
7 2 (1.77%) Retail
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Electronics
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (44.25%) Developer
2 19 (16.81%) Lead
2 19 (16.81%) Trainee
3 15 (13.27%) Software Developer
4 13 (11.50%) Senior
5 11 (9.73%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.08%) Trainee Developer
6 8 (7.08%) Trainee Software Developer
7 7 (6.19%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 7 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.31%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.31%) CRM Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (4.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (31.86%) CSS
1 36 (31.86%) HTML
2 30 (26.55%) .NET
3 26 (23.01%) React
4 13 (11.50%) REST
5 12 (10.62%) .NET Core
6 10 (8.85%) ASP.NET
6 10 (8.85%) ASP.NET Core
6 10 (8.85%) Playwright
6 10 (8.85%) RESTful
6 10 (8.85%) Spring
7 7 (6.19%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (5.31%) .NET Framework
8 6 (5.31%) Node.js
9 5 (4.42%) Blazor
9 5 (4.42%) Entity Framework
9 5 (4.42%) JSON
9 5 (4.42%) Kafka
9 5 (4.42%) Laravel
9 5 (4.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.96%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.08%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.42%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.42%) Robotics
4 5 (4.42%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.54%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.65%) Social Media
7 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.77%) iPhone
7 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.88%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.85%) Linux
2 3 (2.65%) Windows
2 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.77%) Android
4 1 (0.88%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.82%) Agile
2 41 (36.28%) CI/CD
2 41 (36.28%) Mentoring
3 30 (26.55%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (21.24%) AI
5 22 (19.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (17.70%) DevOps
6 20 (17.70%) Microservices
7 15 (13.27%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (13.27%) Scrum
7 15 (13.27%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (12.39%) Software Engineering
8 14 (12.39%) TDD
9 12 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (9.73%) Containerisation
10 11 (9.73%) SDLC
10 11 (9.73%) Test Automation
10 11 (9.73%) User Experience
11 10 (8.85%) CRM
11 10 (8.85%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.97%) SQL
2 34 (30.09%) C#
2 34 (30.09%) Python
3 28 (24.78%) Java
4 16 (14.16%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.39%) PHP
6 11 (9.73%) R
7 9 (7.96%) Bash
8 8 (7.08%) PL/SQL
9 6 (5.31%) C
10 3 (2.65%) VBA
11 2 (1.77%) Go
12 1 (0.88%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.88%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.88%) C++
12 1 (0.88%) JCL
12 1 (0.88%) Scala
12 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.88%) VB
12 1 (0.88%) VB6
Qualifications
1 20 (17.70%) AWS Certification
1 20 (17.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (16.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 19 (16.81%) Azure Certification
3 11 (9.73%) Security Cleared
4 10 (8.85%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) Degree
6 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.73%) Accessibility
1 11 (9.73%) QA
2 6 (5.31%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.42%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (14.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (14.16%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.31%) Terraform
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
3 1 (0.88%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 45 (39.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.08%) Oracle
3 5 (4.42%) Allen-Bradley
3 5 (4.42%) Siemens
4 3 (2.65%) Adobe
5 2 (1.77%) Google
6 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.88%) IBM
6 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.88%) Splunk
6 1 (0.88%) Veracode