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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 50 30
Rank change year-on-year -47 -20 -10
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 112 139 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.31% 4.65% 6.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.70% 19.20% 23.68%
Number of salaries quoted 86 85 384
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,250 £80,350
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +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 957 724 1,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.20% 24.21% 25.37%
Number of salaries quoted 715 546 1,641
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,998 £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 £82,500 £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 23 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 23 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 -23 52 £49,130 -14.56% 10
Coventry -15 11 £45,000 -5.26% 4
Wolverhampton -15 10 £70,000 +47.37% 1
Shropshire -21 9 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Warwickshire -15 8 £60,000 +25.00% 4
Staffordshire -40 6 £58,750 -9.62% 3
Worcestershire -21 5 £42,500 -12.82% 1
Bilston - 4 £66,500 -
Dudley - 2 £30,250 -
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 (4.46%) CMS
2 4 (3.57%) nginx
2 4 (3.57%) WordPress
3 3 (2.68%) IIS
4 2 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.89%) Confluence
5 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.89%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.57%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.89%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.57%) Shopify
3 1 (0.89%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 51 (45.54%) Azure
2 42 (37.50%) AWS
3 24 (21.43%) GitHub
4 11 (9.82%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (8.04%) Power Automate
6 7 (6.25%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.57%) BrowserStack
8 4 (3.57%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.57%) SaaS
9 3 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.79%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.79%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.79%) Google Play
10 2 (1.79%) Serverless
11 1 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.89%) MailChimp
11 1 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.96%) Internet
2 5 (4.46%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.89%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.50%) MySQL
2 9 (8.04%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.46%) Power BI
3 5 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.79%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.89%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.89%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 32 (28.57%) Git
2 9 (8.04%) JUnit
3 8 (7.14%) Maven
3 8 (7.14%) Mockito
4 6 (5.36%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.46%) Gatling
5 5 (4.46%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (3.57%) Vite
6 4 (3.57%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.79%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.79%) GitLab
7 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.79%) JMeter
7 2 (1.79%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.79%) Postman
7 2 (1.79%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.79%) Selenium
8 1 (0.89%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.89%) JIRA
8 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (17.86%) Finance
2 19 (16.96%) Multimedia
3 12 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.46%) Advertising
6 5 (4.46%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.46%) Automotive
7 2 (1.79%) Retail
8 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Electronics
8 1 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (44.64%) Developer
2 19 (16.96%) Lead
2 19 (16.96%) Trainee
3 15 (13.39%) Software Developer
4 13 (11.61%) Senior
5 11 (9.82%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.14%) Trainee Developer
6 8 (7.14%) Trainee Software Developer
7 7 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 7 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.36%) CRM Developer
9 5 (4.46%) .NET Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (4.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.57%) Administrator
10 4 (3.57%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (32.14%) CSS
1 36 (32.14%) HTML
2 28 (25.00%) .NET
3 26 (23.21%) React
4 14 (12.50%) REST
5 11 (9.82%) .NET Core
6 10 (8.93%) Playwright
6 10 (8.93%) RESTful
6 10 (8.93%) Spring
7 8 (7.14%) ASP.NET
7 8 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (5.36%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (5.36%) JSON
8 6 (5.36%) Node.js
9 5 (4.46%) .NET Framework
9 5 (4.46%) Laravel
9 5 (4.46%) Vue
9 5 (4.46%) XML
10 4 (3.57%) Kafka
10 4 (3.57%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.46%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.46%) Robotics
4 5 (4.46%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.68%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.68%) Social Media
7 2 (1.79%) iPhone
7 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.89%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.89%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.93%) Linux
2 3 (2.68%) Windows
2 3 (2.68%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.79%) Android
4 1 (0.89%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (39.29%) Agile
2 40 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 39 (34.82%) CI/CD
4 30 (26.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (19.64%) AI
6 21 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (17.86%) DevOps
8 18 (16.07%) Microservices
9 15 (13.39%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (13.39%) Scrum
10 14 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 14 (12.50%) TDD
10 14 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (10.71%) User Experience
13 11 (9.82%) Containerisation
13 11 (9.82%) SDLC
13 11 (9.82%) Test Automation
14 10 (8.93%) Front End Development
14 10 (8.93%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 35 (31.25%) SQL
2 34 (30.36%) Python
3 32 (28.57%) C#
4 28 (25.00%) Java
5 15 (13.39%) TypeScript
6 14 (12.50%) PHP
7 11 (9.82%) R
8 9 (8.04%) Bash
9 8 (7.14%) PL/SQL
10 6 (5.36%) C
11 3 (2.68%) VBA
12 2 (1.79%) Go
13 1 (0.89%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.89%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.89%) C++
13 1 (0.89%) JCL
13 1 (0.89%) Scala
13 1 (0.89%) VB
13 1 (0.89%) VB6
Qualifications
1 20 (17.86%) AWS Certification
1 20 (17.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (16.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 19 (16.96%) Azure Certification
3 12 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 11 (9.82%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.79%) Degree
6 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.89%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.82%) Accessibility
1 11 (9.82%) QA
2 6 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.46%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (13.39%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.89%) Grafana
3 1 (0.89%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 45 (40.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.14%) Oracle
3 5 (4.46%) Allen-Bradley
3 5 (4.46%) Siemens
4 3 (2.68%) Adobe
5 2 (1.79%) Google
6 1 (0.89%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.89%) IBM
6 1 (0.89%) Splunk
6 1 (0.89%) Veracode