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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 46 27
Rank change year-on-year -43 -19 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 106 156 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.39% 5.16% 5.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.05% 19.87% 24.50%
Number of salaries quoted 78 99 402
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,850 £32,500
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 £72,500 £73,750 £65,938
90th Percentile £87,519 £79,250 £81,175
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.37% +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 959 785 2,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.54% 25.98% 24.20%
Number of salaries quoted 718 604 1,720
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,875 £77,125 £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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -13 42 £50,000 -20.00% 13
Coventry -9 15 £45,000 -5.26% 10
Wolverhampton -14 10 £70,000 +71.78% 4
Shropshire -12 9 £62,500 +16.28% 9
Warwickshire -20 7 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Staffordshire -29 6 £55,000 -18.52% 8
Worcestershire -12 4 £42,750 -10.00% 2
Bilston - 4 £66,500 -
Herefordshire -21 2 £55,000 - 1
Dudley - 2 £30,250 - 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 5 (4.72%) CMS
2 4 (3.77%) nginx
2 4 (3.77%) WordPress
3 3 (2.83%) IIS
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.94%) Confluence
5 1 (0.94%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.94%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.77%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.94%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (49.06%) Azure
2 37 (34.91%) AWS
3 19 (17.92%) GitHub
4 9 (8.49%) Power Automate
5 8 (7.55%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (6.60%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.77%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.77%) BrowserStack
8 4 (3.77%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.77%) SaaS
8 4 (3.77%) Serverless
9 3 (2.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.89%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.89%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.89%) Google Play
10 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.94%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.21%) Internet
2 5 (4.72%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.94%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.21%) MySQL
2 13 (12.26%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.83%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.83%) Power BI
8 2 (1.89%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.94%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.94%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 26 (24.53%) Git
2 10 (9.43%) JUnit
3 9 (8.49%) Maven
3 9 (8.49%) Mockito
4 6 (5.66%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.72%) Gatling
5 5 (4.72%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (3.77%) Vite
6 4 (3.77%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.89%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.89%) GitLab
7 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.89%) JMeter
7 2 (1.89%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.89%) Postman
7 2 (1.89%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.89%) Selenium
8 1 (0.94%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.94%) JIRA
8 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (19.81%) Finance
2 14 (13.21%) Multimedia
3 9 (8.49%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.72%) Advertising
6 5 (4.72%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.72%) Automotive
6 5 (4.72%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Electronics
8 1 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 51 (48.11%) Developer
2 19 (17.92%) Lead
3 16 (15.09%) Software Developer
4 14 (13.21%) Trainee
5 13 (12.26%) Senior
6 11 (10.38%) Software Engineer
7 10 (9.43%) .NET Developer
8 7 (6.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (6.60%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.66%) CRM Developer
9 6 (5.66%) Trainee Developer
9 6 (5.66%) Trainee Software Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.77%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (32.08%) .NET
2 32 (30.19%) CSS
2 32 (30.19%) HTML
3 28 (26.42%) React
4 19 (17.92%) .NET Core
5 14 (13.21%) ASP.NET
5 14 (13.21%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (13.21%) REST
6 10 (9.43%) ASP.NET Web API
6 10 (9.43%) Playwright
6 10 (9.43%) RESTful
6 10 (9.43%) Spring
7 9 (8.49%) Blazor
8 8 (7.55%) Node.js
9 7 (6.60%) .NET Framework
10 6 (5.66%) Entity Framework
11 5 (4.72%) JSON
11 5 (4.72%) Kafka
11 5 (4.72%) Laravel
11 5 (4.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.72%) Robotics
4 5 (4.72%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.77%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.83%) Social Media
7 2 (1.89%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.89%) iPhone
7 2 (1.89%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.94%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.94%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.43%) Linux
2 3 (2.83%) Windows
2 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.89%) Android
4 1 (0.94%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (44.34%) Agile
2 42 (39.62%) CI/CD
3 37 (34.91%) Mentoring
4 31 (29.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (23.58%) Microservices
6 22 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (19.81%) AI
8 20 (18.87%) DevOps
9 17 (16.04%) Scrum
9 17 (16.04%) TDD
10 16 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (13.21%) Software Engineering
12 11 (10.38%) Containerisation
12 11 (10.38%) LLM
12 11 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.38%) Test Automation
13 10 (9.43%) Code Quality
13 10 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (9.43%) Sprint Planning
13 10 (9.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 42 (39.62%) SQL
2 38 (35.85%) C#
3 26 (24.53%) Java
4 23 (21.70%) Python
5 15 (14.15%) TypeScript
6 14 (13.21%) PHP
7 9 (8.49%) Bash
7 9 (8.49%) PL/SQL
8 8 (7.55%) R
9 6 (5.66%) C
10 3 (2.83%) VBA
11 2 (1.89%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.94%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.94%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.94%) C++
12 1 (0.94%) Go
12 1 (0.94%) JCL
12 1 (0.94%) Scala
12 1 (0.94%) VB
12 1 (0.94%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (14.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (13.21%) AWS Certification
2 14 (13.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 14 (13.21%) Azure Certification
3 11 (10.38%) Security Cleared
4 10 (9.43%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.89%) Degree
6 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.38%) Accessibility
1 11 (10.38%) QA
2 6 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.72%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.94%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (15.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.66%) Terraform
3 1 (0.94%) Grafana
3 1 (0.94%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 41 (38.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.49%) Oracle
3 5 (4.72%) Allen-Bradley
3 5 (4.72%) Siemens
4 3 (2.83%) Adobe
5 2 (1.89%) Google
5 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.94%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.94%) Splunk
6 1 (0.94%) Veracode