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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 52 32
Rank change year-on-year -51 -20 +9
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 96 151 449
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.19% 4.46% 5.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.77% 18.62% 25.03%
Number of salaries quoted 66 98 338
10th Percentile £33,125 £35,425 £32,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £72,500 £65,938
90th Percentile £88,148 £81,250 £83,250
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 983 811 1,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.21% 23.96% 23.01%
Number of salaries quoted 738 641 1,433
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,041 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £77,500
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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -29 34 £57,500 -8.00% 14
Coventry -6 11 £66,250 +39.47% 4
Staffordshire -21 11 £55,000 -21.43% 6
Shropshire -9 9 £62,500 +16.28% 4
Wolverhampton -16 8 £70,000 +71.78% 1
Warwickshire -22 7 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Worcestershire -18 5 £43,000 -9.47% 3
Herefordshire -24 3 £55,000 -38.89%
Dudley - 2 £30,250 - 1
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 4 (4.17%) WordPress
2 3 (3.13%) IIS
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.08%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) nginx
4 1 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.04%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Photoshop
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.04%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.08%) Infor M3
2 2 (2.08%) Lawson
3 1 (1.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (56.25%) Azure
2 29 (30.21%) AWS
3 9 (9.38%) Power Automate
4 8 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (8.33%) GitHub
4 8 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.21%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (5.21%) SaaS
7 4 (4.17%) Azure Functions
7 4 (4.17%) BrowserStack
7 4 (4.17%) PowerApps
7 4 (4.17%) Serverless
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.08%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (2.08%) Google Play
9 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.04%) AWS IoT
10 1 (1.04%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.25%) Internet
2 5 (5.21%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.71%) MongoDB
2 12 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (11.46%) MySQL
4 9 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.17%) Power BI
7 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.08%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.08%) QlikView
9 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.04%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 16 (16.67%) Git
2 11 (11.46%) JUnit
3 10 (10.42%) Maven
3 10 (10.42%) Mockito
4 6 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 5 (5.21%) Gatling
5 5 (5.21%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (4.17%) Zephyr
7 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.08%) GitLab
7 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.08%) JMeter
7 2 (2.08%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.08%) Postman
7 2 (2.08%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.08%) Selenium
8 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.04%) JIRA
8 1 (1.04%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (23.96%) Finance
2 10 (10.42%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Multimedia
4 6 (6.25%) Retail
5 5 (5.21%) Advertising
5 5 (5.21%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.21%) Automotive
6 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Electronics
6 1 (1.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (51.04%) Developer
2 17 (17.71%) Lead
3 14 (14.58%) .NET Developer
4 12 (12.50%) Senior
5 11 (11.46%) Software Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Software Developer
7 8 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (7.29%) Java Developer
8 7 (7.29%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.25%) CRM Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Trainee
10 5 (5.21%) Analyst
10 5 (5.21%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
10 5 (5.21%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 5 (5.21%) Junior
10 5 (5.21%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.17%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (36.46%) .NET
2 31 (32.29%) React
3 22 (22.92%) CSS
3 22 (22.92%) HTML
4 19 (19.79%) .NET Core
5 18 (18.75%) ASP.NET
5 18 (18.75%) ASP.NET Core
6 17 (17.71%) REST
7 14 (14.58%) ASP.NET Web API
8 13 (13.54%) Blazor
9 12 (12.50%) Node.js
10 11 (11.46%) Playwright
11 10 (10.42%) RESTful
11 10 (10.42%) Spring
12 7 (7.29%) .NET Framework
13 6 (6.25%) Entity Framework
14 5 (5.21%) JSON
14 5 (5.21%) Kafka
14 5 (5.21%) XML
15 3 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (5.21%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.21%) Robotics
4 5 (5.21%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.13%) Social Media
7 2 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (2.08%) iPhone
7 2 (2.08%) Mashup
7 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.04%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Windows
2 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.08%) Android
4 1 (1.04%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (50.00%) Agile
2 45 (46.88%) CI/CD
3 31 (32.29%) Mentoring
4 30 (31.25%) Microservices
5 28 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (23.96%) AI
7 21 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (21.88%) DevOps
8 20 (20.83%) Scrum
9 19 (19.79%) TDD
10 17 (17.71%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (14.58%) Software Engineering
12 13 (13.54%) LLM
12 13 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (13.54%) SDLC
13 12 (12.50%) Containerisation
13 12 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
13 12 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 11 (11.46%) Business Intelligence
14 11 (11.46%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 47 (48.96%) SQL
2 39 (40.63%) C#
3 27 (28.13%) Java
4 17 (17.71%) Python
5 16 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 11 (11.46%) PHP
7 10 (10.42%) PL/SQL
8 8 (8.33%) Bash
9 6 (6.25%) C
10 4 (4.17%) R
11 3 (3.13%) VBA
12 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (2.08%) T-SQL
13 1 (1.04%) C++
13 1 (1.04%) JCL
13 1 (1.04%) Ruby
13 1 (1.04%) Scala
13 1 (1.04%) VB
13 1 (1.04%) VB6
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.08%) Degree
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.33%) QA
3 6 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 5 (5.21%) IEC 61131
5 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.04%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (13.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) Grafana
3 1 (1.04%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 37 (38.54%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.42%) Oracle
3 5 (5.21%) Allen-Bradley
3 5 (5.21%) Siemens
4 3 (3.13%) Adobe
4 3 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) Infor
5 2 (2.08%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.04%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.04%) Informatica
6 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) SAP
6 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) Splunk
6 1 (1.04%) Veracode