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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 54 27
Rank change year-on-year -31 -27 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 146 141 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.62% 4.41% 6.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.41% 20.61% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 104 96 157
10th Percentile £45,000 £28,250 £31,900
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £46,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.66% -15.45% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £59,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,069 £78,125 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,013 684 1,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.25% 21.40% 24.30%
Number of salaries quoted 718 536 737
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,125 £32,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,125 £67,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -21 60 £64,653 +29.31% 5
Coventry +8 31 £70,000 +40.00% 3
Staffordshire 0 17 £55,000 +6.80% 3
Warwickshire -28 14 £55,000 - 4
Worcestershire -19 10 £57,500 +43.75%
Shropshire -21 4 £62,500 +38.89%
Herefordshire -13 3 £55,000 -8.33%
Wolverhampton -6 1 £37,500 +10.29%
Stourbridge - 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 8 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.68%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Elementor
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (8.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (4.79%) Infor M3
2 7 (4.79%) Lawson
3 4 (2.74%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 84 (57.53%) Azure
2 43 (29.45%) AWS
3 25 (17.12%) Power Platform
4 18 (12.33%) Power Automate
5 16 (10.96%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (9.59%) Serverless
7 13 (8.90%) SaaS
8 12 (8.22%) Azure Functions
9 7 (4.79%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.42%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.74%) GCP
11 4 (2.74%) iPaaS
12 3 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.05%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.37%) Azure AI
13 2 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (1.37%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) Ethernet
1 3 (2.05%) Firewall
1 3 (2.05%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.37%) Internet
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.33%) MongoDB
2 14 (9.59%) SQL Server
3 13 (8.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (8.22%) Power BI
5 10 (6.85%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.48%) MySQL
6 8 (5.48%) QlikView
6 8 (5.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (4.11%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.37%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.68%) Looker
11 1 (0.68%) Redis
11 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (13.01%) Git
2 15 (10.27%) JUnit
3 14 (9.59%) Maven
3 14 (9.59%) Mockito
4 3 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.37%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.37%) GitLab
6 1 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
General
1 32 (21.92%) Finance
2 20 (13.70%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.96%) Manufacturing
5 13 (8.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.79%) Retail
8 4 (2.74%) Marketing
9 3 (2.05%) Advertising
9 3 (2.05%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.05%) Automotive
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (60.27%) Developer
2 27 (18.49%) Senior
3 25 (17.12%) Lead
4 22 (15.07%) Senior Developer
5 18 (12.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (10.96%) Lead Developer
7 15 (10.27%) .NET Developer
7 15 (10.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 15 (10.27%) Software Developer
8 12 (8.22%) Consultant
9 10 (6.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 10 (6.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (6.85%) Integration Developer
9 10 (6.85%) Java Developer
9 10 (6.85%) React Developer
9 10 (6.85%) Senior React Developer
10 9 (6.16%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (6.16%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 8 (5.48%) Data Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (28.08%) React
2 39 (26.71%) .NET
3 32 (21.92%) REST
4 22 (15.07%) CSS
5 21 (14.38%) .NET Core
5 21 (14.38%) Node.js
6 20 (13.70%) ASP.NET
6 20 (13.70%) HTML
7 19 (13.01%) ASP.NET Core
8 16 (10.96%) ASP.NET Web API
8 16 (10.96%) RESTful
8 16 (10.96%) XML
9 14 (9.59%) Blazor
9 14 (9.59%) Spring
10 13 (8.90%) JSON
11 11 (7.53%) Playwright
12 9 (6.16%) .NET Framework
13 8 (5.48%) XSLT
14 7 (4.79%) CSS3
14 7 (4.79%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.59%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (7.53%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.16%) Taxonomies
4 8 (5.48%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.48%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.79%) Mashup
6 6 (4.11%) CMDB
6 6 (4.11%) Virtual Team
7 5 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.74%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.05%) IoT
9 3 (2.05%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (2.05%) Robotics
9 3 (2.05%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.37%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.37%) iPhone
10 2 (1.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.85%) Linux
2 2 (1.37%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (47.26%) Agile
2 52 (35.62%) CI/CD
3 51 (34.93%) Mentoring
4 44 (30.14%) AI
5 43 (29.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 36 (24.66%) Microservices
7 35 (23.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (22.60%) Technical Leadership
9 32 (21.92%) Scrum
10 29 (19.86%) DevOps
10 29 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (17.81%) Technical Architecture
12 24 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (16.44%) ERP
13 23 (15.75%) TDD
14 21 (14.38%) LLM
15 19 (13.01%) SDLC
15 19 (13.01%) Software Engineering
15 19 (13.01%) Sprint Planning
16 18 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (47.95%) SQL
2 50 (34.25%) C#
3 43 (29.45%) Java
4 36 (24.66%) TypeScript
5 28 (19.18%) Python
6 14 (9.59%) PL/SQL
7 11 (7.53%) Bash
8 8 (5.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.74%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.05%) C
10 3 (2.05%) C++
10 3 (2.05%) PHP
11 2 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.68%) Ruby
12 1 (0.68%) Scala
12 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.48%) Degree
3 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.12%) Accessibility
2 14 (9.59%) QA
3 13 (8.90%) WCAG
4 9 (6.16%) GDPR
5 7 (4.79%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (2.05%) IEC 61131
7 3 (2.05%) NIST
8 1 (0.68%) PERC
System Software
1 17 (11.64%) Docker
2 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (13.70%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.59%) Oracle
3 7 (4.79%) Infor
3 7 (4.79%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.42%) Google
4 5 (3.42%) SAP
5 4 (2.74%) Sage
6 3 (2.05%) Allen-Bradley
6 3 (2.05%) Siemens
7 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.37%) Pega
8 1 (0.68%) Adobe
8 1 (0.68%) Databricks
8 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.68%) Informatica
8 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.68%) WooCommerce