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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 59 31
Rank change year-on-year -33 -28 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 129 138 366
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.50% 4.01% 5.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.81% 17.67% 25.61%
Number of salaries quoted 94 90 234
10th Percentile £36,775 £32,463 £32,250
25th Percentile £46,360 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,069 £78,875 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +7.44% -6.92%

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 1,007 781 1,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.73% 22.68% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 739 611 1,037
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,125 £32,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +0.92%
75th Percentile £72,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 August 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 August 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 -19 54 £58,750 - 16
Staffordshire -10 14 £55,000 +15.79% 2
Worcestershire -10 13 £57,500 +21.05% 2
Coventry -11 13 £48,750 -2.50% 3
Warwickshire -22 10 £55,000 - 2
Wolverhampton -11 7 £70,000 +71.78%
Shropshire -16 7 £50,000 -4.76% 12
Herefordshire -20 3 £55,000 -38.89% 1
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 7 (5.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (3.10%) WordPress
3 3 (2.33%) IIS
4 1 (0.78%) CMS
4 1 (0.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.78%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.78%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (5.43%) Infor M3
1 7 (5.43%) Lawson
2 5 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.55%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 71 (55.04%) Azure
2 38 (29.46%) AWS
3 13 (10.08%) Power Platform
4 12 (9.30%) SaaS
5 11 (8.53%) Power Automate
6 9 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (6.20%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.43%) GitHub
9 6 (4.65%) Serverless
10 5 (3.88%) Azure Functions
10 5 (3.88%) PowerApps
11 4 (3.10%) BrowserStack
12 3 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.55%) Azure AI
13 2 (1.55%) Copilot Studio
13 2 (1.55%) Google Play
13 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
14 1 (0.78%) AWS IoT
14 1 (0.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.20%) Internet
2 5 (3.88%) Ethernet
3 3 (2.33%) Firewall
3 3 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.18%) MongoDB
2 12 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (8.53%) MySQL
4 9 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (6.20%) Power BI
5 8 (6.20%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.43%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.88%) QlikView
7 5 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.55%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.78%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.78%) Redis
11 1 (0.78%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.78%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 18 (13.95%) Git
2 15 (11.63%) JUnit
3 14 (10.85%) Maven
3 14 (10.85%) Mockito
4 6 (4.65%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.88%) Gatling
6 4 (3.10%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (3.10%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.55%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.55%) GitLab
7 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.55%) JMeter
7 2 (1.55%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.55%) Postman
7 2 (1.55%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.55%) Selenium
8 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.78%) JIRA
8 1 (0.78%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (23.26%) Finance
2 16 (12.40%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.85%) Manufacturing
4 12 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.75%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.65%) Multimedia
7 6 (4.65%) Retail
8 5 (3.88%) Advertising
8 5 (3.88%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.88%) Automotive
9 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Electronics
10 1 (0.78%) Law
10 1 (0.78%) Legal
10 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (55.04%) Developer
2 24 (18.60%) Lead
3 19 (14.73%) Senior
4 17 (13.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (13.18%) Software Developer
5 16 (12.40%) Senior Developer
6 15 (11.63%) .NET Developer
7 11 (8.53%) Java Developer
7 11 (8.53%) Lead Developer
7 11 (8.53%) Software Engineer
8 10 (7.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (7.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (6.98%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 8 (6.20%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (6.20%) React Developer
10 8 (6.20%) Senior React Developer
11 7 (5.43%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 7 (5.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (4.65%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (31.01%) .NET
2 38 (29.46%) React
3 26 (20.16%) CSS
3 26 (20.16%) HTML
3 26 (20.16%) REST
4 20 (15.50%) .NET Core
5 19 (14.73%) ASP.NET
5 19 (14.73%) Node.js
6 18 (13.95%) ASP.NET Core
7 15 (11.63%) ASP.NET Web API
7 15 (11.63%) Playwright
8 14 (10.85%) RESTful
8 14 (10.85%) Spring
9 13 (10.08%) Blazor
10 9 (6.98%) .NET Framework
11 6 (4.65%) Entity Framework
11 6 (4.65%) JSON
11 6 (4.65%) Terraform
12 5 (3.88%) Kafka
12 5 (3.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.08%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.20%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.43%) Mashup
4 5 (3.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.88%) Robotics
4 5 (3.88%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.10%) CMDB
5 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.10%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.33%) IoT
6 3 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.33%) Social Media
7 2 (1.55%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.55%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.53%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Windows
2 3 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.55%) Android
4 1 (0.78%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (48.84%) Agile
2 54 (41.86%) CI/CD
3 42 (32.56%) Mentoring
4 39 (30.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (27.13%) Microservices
6 32 (24.81%) Scrum
7 31 (24.03%) AI
7 31 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (18.60%) SDLC
9 24 (18.60%) TDD
10 23 (17.83%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (16.28%) DevOps
11 21 (16.28%) LLM
12 20 (15.50%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (15.50%) Sprint Planning
13 18 (13.95%) Technical Architecture
14 17 (13.18%) Containerisation
14 17 (13.18%) Time Management
15 15 (11.63%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 63 (48.84%) SQL
2 49 (37.98%) C#
3 36 (27.91%) Java
4 27 (20.93%) TypeScript
5 24 (18.60%) Python
6 14 (10.85%) PL/SQL
7 11 (8.53%) Bash
8 9 (6.98%) PHP
9 6 (4.65%) C
10 5 (3.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (3.10%) R
12 3 (2.33%) VBA
13 2 (1.55%) C++
13 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.55%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.78%) JCL
14 1 (0.78%) Ruby
14 1 (0.78%) Scala
14 1 (0.78%) VB
14 1 (0.78%) VB6
Qualifications
1 24 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.50%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.43%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (4.65%) Degree
5 5 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.18%) Accessibility
2 13 (10.08%) QA
3 6 (4.65%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.88%) IEC 61131
5 4 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (2.33%) NIST
7 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (13.18%) Docker
2 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (15.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.78%) Grafana
3 1 (0.78%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 39 (30.23%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.85%) Oracle
3 7 (5.43%) Infor
4 5 (3.88%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (3.88%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.88%) Siemens
5 3 (2.33%) Adobe
5 3 (2.33%) Google
5 3 (2.33%) SAP
6 2 (1.55%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.55%) Sage
7 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.78%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.78%) Informatica
7 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.78%) Splunk
7 1 (0.78%) Veracode