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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 47 32
Rank change year-on-year -55 -15 +7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 104 152 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.26% 4.47% 5.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.31% 18.91% 25.70%
Number of salaries quoted 70 99 297
10th Percentile £33,625 £35,700 £32,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,375 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £79,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,773 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.71% +10.33% -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 1,009 804 1,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.25% 23.63% 21.91%
Number of salaries quoted 754 640 1,211
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,104 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £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 27 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 27 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 -28 38 £57,500 -8.00% 18
Coventry -8 12 £45,000 -5.26% 4
Staffordshire -24 11 £55,000 -21.43% 7
Shropshire -11 9 £62,500 +19.05% 7
Worcestershire -12 8 £51,250 +7.89% 1
Warwickshire -14 8 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Wolverhampton -17 7 £70,000 +71.78%
Herefordshire -20 3 £55,000 -38.89% 1
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 5 (4.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (3.85%) WordPress
3 3 (2.88%) IIS
4 2 (1.92%) CMS
5 1 (0.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.96%) nginx
5 1 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.96%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Photoshop
2 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.96%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.96%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.85%) Infor M3
2 4 (3.85%) Lawson
3 1 (0.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (57.69%) Azure
2 33 (31.73%) AWS
3 9 (8.65%) Power Automate
4 8 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (7.69%) GitHub
4 8 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.81%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (4.81%) SaaS
7 4 (3.85%) Azure Functions
7 4 (3.85%) BrowserStack
7 4 (3.85%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.85%) Serverless
8 3 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.92%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.92%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.92%) Google Play
9 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.96%) AWS IoT
10 1 (0.96%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.77%) Internet
2 5 (4.81%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.96%) Firewall
3 1 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.35%) MongoDB
2 12 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (10.58%) MySQL
4 9 (8.65%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.77%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.85%) Power BI
7 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.92%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.92%) QlikView
9 1 (0.96%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.96%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 16 (15.38%) Git
2 13 (12.50%) JUnit
3 12 (11.54%) Maven
3 12 (11.54%) Mockito
4 6 (5.77%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.81%) Gatling
5 5 (4.81%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (3.85%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.92%) GitLab
7 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.92%) JMeter
7 2 (1.92%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.92%) Postman
7 2 (1.92%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.92%) Selenium
8 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.96%) JIRA
8 1 (0.96%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (25.96%) Finance
2 10 (9.62%) Manufacturing
2 10 (9.62%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.77%) Multimedia
4 6 (5.77%) Retail
5 5 (4.81%) Advertising
5 5 (4.81%) Aerospace
5 5 (4.81%) Automotive
6 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Electronics
6 1 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (52.88%) Developer
2 17 (16.35%) Lead
3 15 (14.42%) Senior
4 14 (13.46%) .NET Developer
5 11 (10.58%) Senior Developer
5 11 (10.58%) Software Developer
5 11 (10.58%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (8.65%) Java Developer
8 8 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (5.77%) CRM Developer
9 6 (5.77%) React Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Senior React Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Trainee
10 5 (4.81%) Analyst
10 5 (4.81%) Junior
10 5 (4.81%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (35.58%) .NET
2 34 (32.69%) React
3 22 (21.15%) CSS
3 22 (21.15%) HTML
4 21 (20.19%) REST
5 20 (19.23%) .NET Core
6 18 (17.31%) ASP.NET
6 18 (17.31%) ASP.NET Core
7 14 (13.46%) ASP.NET Web API
8 13 (12.50%) Blazor
8 13 (12.50%) Playwright
9 12 (11.54%) Node.js
9 12 (11.54%) Spring
10 10 (9.62%) RESTful
11 7 (6.73%) .NET Framework
12 6 (5.77%) Entity Framework
13 5 (4.81%) JSON
13 5 (4.81%) Kafka
13 5 (4.81%) XML
14 3 (2.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.81%) Robotics
4 5 (4.81%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (3.85%) Mashup
5 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.88%) Social Media
7 2 (1.92%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.92%) iPhone
7 2 (1.92%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.96%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.96%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.62%) Linux
2 3 (2.88%) Windows
2 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.92%) Android
4 1 (0.96%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (50.00%) Agile
2 49 (47.12%) CI/CD
3 35 (33.65%) Mentoring
4 32 (30.77%) Microservices
5 30 (28.85%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (25.96%) AI
7 24 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (23.08%) Scrum
8 21 (20.19%) DevOps
8 21 (20.19%) TDD
9 19 (18.27%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (17.31%) SDLC
11 17 (16.35%) LLM
12 16 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
13 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (13.46%) Containerisation
14 14 (13.46%) Software Engineering
14 14 (13.46%) Technical Architecture
15 13 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (50.00%) SQL
2 42 (40.38%) C#
3 30 (28.85%) Java
4 18 (17.31%) Python
4 18 (17.31%) TypeScript
5 12 (11.54%) PL/SQL
6 11 (10.58%) PHP
7 10 (9.62%) Bash
8 6 (5.77%) C
9 4 (3.85%) R
10 3 (2.88%) VBA
11 2 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.96%) C++
12 1 (0.96%) JCL
12 1 (0.96%) Ruby
12 1 (0.96%) Scala
12 1 (0.96%) VB
12 1 (0.96%) VB6
Qualifications
1 17 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (5.77%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.88%) Degree
6 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.46%) Accessibility
2 10 (9.62%) QA
3 6 (5.77%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.81%) IEC 61131
5 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.96%) NIST
6 1 (0.96%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (14.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (17.31%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.77%) Terraform
3 1 (0.96%) Grafana
3 1 (0.96%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 38 (36.54%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.54%) Oracle
3 5 (4.81%) Allen-Bradley
3 5 (4.81%) Siemens
4 4 (3.85%) Infor
5 3 (2.88%) Adobe
5 3 (2.88%) Google
6 2 (1.92%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.96%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.96%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.96%) Informatica
7 1 (0.96%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.96%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.96%) SAP
7 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.96%) Splunk
7 1 (0.96%) Veracode