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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 62 29
Rank change year-on-year -31 -33 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 113 140 440
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.47% 4.21% 6.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.20% 18.11% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 101 108 382
10th Percentile - £38,750 £32,625
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,188 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,450
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 926 773 1,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.05% 23.24% 26.89%
Number of salaries quoted 712 592 1,639
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £68,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,900
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 14 April 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 14 April 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 51 £35,250 -35.91% 13
Warwickshire -1 12 £57,500 +19.79% 6
Wolverhampton -12 10 £70,000 +47.37% 3
Coventry -15 9 £45,000 -14.29% 4
Shropshire -25 9 £37,500 -31.82%
Worcestershire -24 6 £42,500 -2.86% 1
Bilston - 5 £66,500 -
Solihull +10 4 £100,000 +100.00% 1
Staffordshire -31 3 £72,500 +52.63% 2
Dudley - 2 £30,250 - 2
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 7 (6.19%) CMS
2 5 (4.42%) nginx
3 4 (3.54%) WordPress
4 3 (2.65%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.77%) IIS
5 2 (1.77%) NServiceBus
5 2 (1.77%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.88%) Confluence
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Photoshop
2 5 (4.42%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.88%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.42%) Shopify
3 2 (1.77%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 47 (41.59%) Azure
2 41 (36.28%) AWS
3 35 (30.97%) GitHub
4 17 (15.04%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (7.96%) Power Automate
5 9 (7.96%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.19%) PowerApps
7 7 (6.19%) SaaS
8 4 (3.54%) BrowserStack
9 3 (2.65%) Serverless
10 2 (1.77%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.77%) Firebase
11 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (24.78%) Internet
2 2 (1.77%) Ethernet
2 2 (1.77%) Intranet
3 1 (0.88%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.73%) MySQL
2 8 (7.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (5.31%) Power BI
3 6 (5.31%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.54%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.77%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.88%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 43 (38.05%) Git
2 5 (4.42%) Cucumber
2 5 (4.42%) Gatling
2 5 (4.42%) Vite
3 4 (3.54%) Zephyr
4 3 (2.65%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.65%) GitLab
4 3 (2.65%) JIRA
4 3 (2.65%) Selenium
5 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.77%) JMeter
5 2 (1.77%) JUnit
5 2 (1.77%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.77%) Maven
5 2 (1.77%) Mockito
5 2 (1.77%) Postman
5 2 (1.77%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
General
1 28 (24.78%) Multimedia
2 20 (17.70%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.50%) Finance
4 10 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.54%) Law
6 4 (3.54%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.77%) Advertising
7 2 (1.77%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.77%) Automotive
7 2 (1.77%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Electronics
8 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 51 (45.13%) Developer
2 28 (24.78%) Trainee
3 20 (17.70%) Software Developer
4 16 (14.16%) Lead
5 13 (11.50%) Trainee Developer
5 13 (11.50%) Trainee Software Developer
6 10 (8.85%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 10 (8.85%) Software Engineer
7 9 (7.96%) Junior
8 8 (7.08%) Head of Engineering
9 7 (6.19%) Senior
10 6 (5.31%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Junior Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Product Owner
12 4 (3.54%) Administrator
12 4 (3.54%) Consultant
12 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Developer
12 4 (3.54%) Quality Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) Trainee Administrator
12 4 (3.54%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (43.36%) CSS
1 49 (43.36%) HTML
2 26 (23.01%) .NET
3 22 (19.47%) React
4 10 (8.85%) Vue
5 7 (6.19%) Laravel
5 7 (6.19%) Playwright
6 6 (5.31%) .NET Core
6 6 (5.31%) Node.js
7 5 (4.42%) JSON
7 5 (4.42%) LEMP Stack
7 5 (4.42%) REST
7 5 (4.42%) Spring
7 5 (4.42%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (4.42%) XML
7 5 (4.42%) YAML
8 4 (3.54%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.65%) Hibernate
9 3 (2.65%) JPA
9 3 (2.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.54%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.65%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.77%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.77%) Robotics
6 2 (1.77%) Social Media
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.88%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.19%) Linux
2 2 (1.77%) Windows
2 2 (1.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.88%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.09%) Agile
2 32 (28.32%) Mentoring
3 29 (25.66%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (21.24%) CI/CD
4 24 (21.24%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (16.81%) DevOps
6 16 (14.16%) User Experience
7 14 (12.39%) AI
8 12 (10.62%) E-Commerce
8 12 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (9.73%) Machine Learning
9 11 (9.73%) Software Engineering
10 10 (8.85%) Front End Development
10 10 (8.85%) SDLC
11 9 (7.96%) Code Quality
11 9 (7.96%) Customer Engagement
11 9 (7.96%) Product Backlog
11 9 (7.96%) Scrum
11 9 (7.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (43.36%) Python
2 31 (27.43%) C#
3 27 (23.89%) SQL
4 19 (16.81%) Java
5 15 (13.27%) PHP
5 15 (13.27%) R
6 11 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.31%) Bash
8 4 (3.54%) Go
9 3 (2.65%) C
10 2 (1.77%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.77%) VBA
11 1 (0.88%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.88%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.88%) JCL
11 1 (0.88%) VB
11 1 (0.88%) VB6
Qualifications
1 29 (25.66%) AWS Certification
1 29 (25.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (24.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 28 (24.78%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.54%) Degree
3 4 (3.54%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.77%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.77%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.96%) QA
2 7 (6.19%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.77%) IEC 61131
3 2 (1.77%) WCAG
4 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (10.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) Grafana
2 1 (0.88%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 47 (41.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.65%) Guidewire
3 2 (1.77%) Adobe
3 2 (1.77%) Allen-Bradley
3 2 (1.77%) IBM
3 2 (1.77%) Oracle
3 2 (1.77%) Siemens
3 2 (1.77%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.88%) Foundry
4 1 (0.88%) Palantir
4 1 (0.88%) Splunk
4 1 (0.88%) Veracode