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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 -12
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 144 345 252
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 4.50% 6.33% 7.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.33% 25.65% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 99 149 229
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,650 £36,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,650 £72,500
England median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% - +4.00%

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 675 1,345 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.07% 24.69% 33.61%
Number of salaries quoted 524 718 987
10th Percentile £32,125 £32,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,313 £40,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £68,084 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 -35 44 £50,000 -13.04% 37
Staffordshire +10 28 £51,500 +3.00% 22
Warwickshire +16 19 £55,000 +37.50% 12
Solihull -3 10 £90,000 +71.43% 4
Herefordshire -4 6 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Coventry -17 5 £52,500 +10.53% 17
Worcestershire -4 3 £40,000 -27.27% 5
Shropshire -10 2 £45,000 - 3
West Bromwich - 2 £30,000 -
Walsall +5 1 £33,000 -22.35% 7
Wolverhampton -3 1 £34,000 -12.26% 8
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 16 (11.11%) IIS
2 13 (9.03%) Confluence
3 6 (4.17%) Apache
3 6 (4.17%) CMS
4 4 (2.78%) WordPress
5 3 (2.08%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.69%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 21 (14.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.39%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (1.39%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.69%) Maximo
3 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 58 (40.28%) Azure
2 44 (30.56%) AWS
3 24 (16.67%) SaaS
4 21 (14.58%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (11.11%) GCP
6 15 (10.42%) Power Platform
7 10 (6.94%) Power Automate
8 9 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.25%) GitHub
8 9 (6.25%) PowerApps
8 9 (6.25%) Serverless
9 5 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (3.47%) Figma
10 4 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.78%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.39%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.39%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.17%) Internet
2 4 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (38.19%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.94%) MySQL
3 8 (5.56%) Power BI
3 8 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.08%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.08%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.39%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.39%) MS Access
7 2 (1.39%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 28 (19.44%) JIRA
2 27 (18.75%) Maven
3 26 (18.06%) Selenium
4 24 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 24 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 24 (16.67%) GitLab
4 24 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 24 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 17 (11.81%) Git
6 4 (2.78%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (2.78%) JMeter
6 4 (2.78%) JUnit
6 4 (2.78%) Mockito
7 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.08%) webpack
8 2 (1.39%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.39%) Moq
8 2 (1.39%) NSubstitute
8 2 (1.39%) NUnit
8 2 (1.39%) Postman
General
1 47 (32.64%) Social Skills
2 41 (28.47%) Finance
3 29 (20.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (16.67%) Banking
5 15 (10.42%) Law
6 11 (7.64%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (7.64%) Investment Banking
6 11 (7.64%) Retail
7 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.25%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.86%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.86%) Marketing
9 6 (4.17%) Multimedia
10 3 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.39%) Electronics
11 2 (1.39%) Games
11 2 (1.39%) iGaming
12 1 (0.69%) Automotive
12 1 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 62 (43.06%) Developer
2 29 (20.14%) Software Engineer
3 21 (14.58%) Senior
4 13 (9.03%) Senior Developer
5 12 (8.33%) Applications Support
6 11 (7.64%) Software Developer
7 10 (6.94%) Support Specialist
7 10 (6.94%) Technical Support
8 8 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 8 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (4.86%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.86%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) Applications Specialist
10 6 (4.17%) Applications Support Specialist
10 6 (4.17%) Junior
10 6 (4.17%) Technical Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) Technical Support Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) Trainee
11 5 (3.47%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (46.53%) HTML
2 57 (39.58%) CSS
3 56 (38.89%) React
4 33 (22.92%) .NET
5 32 (22.22%) Spring
6 30 (20.83%) Spring Boot
7 25 (17.36%) Redux
8 24 (16.67%) JPA
8 24 (16.67%) Kafka
9 23 (15.97%) REST
10 18 (12.50%) RESTful
11 16 (11.11%) HTML5
12 15 (10.42%) Hibernate
13 14 (9.72%) Jest
14 13 (9.03%) CSS3
15 11 (7.64%) LAMP
15 11 (7.64%) Sass
16 10 (6.94%) AngularJS
16 10 (6.94%) Node.js
17 8 (5.56%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 24 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (7.64%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.47%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.47%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.08%) W3C
7 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.39%) IoT
8 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.69%) CMDB
8 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.69%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.69%) Mobile Games
8 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.69%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.19%) Linux
2 2 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (44.44%) Agile
2 50 (34.72%) DevOps
3 45 (31.25%) Front End Development
4 41 (28.47%) CI/CD
5 40 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (26.39%) Software Engineering
7 35 (24.31%) CRM
8 34 (23.61%) SDLC
9 33 (22.92%) Microservices
10 31 (21.53%) Mentoring
11 30 (20.83%) Test Automation
12 27 (18.75%) Containerisation
13 25 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (17.36%) Performance Optimisation
14 24 (16.67%) Computer Science
15 21 (14.58%) User Experience
16 19 (13.19%) TDD
17 16 (11.11%) Clean Code
18 15 (10.42%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 76 (52.78%) SQL
2 51 (35.42%) Java
3 46 (31.94%) C#
4 42 (29.17%) Python
5 40 (27.78%) TypeScript
6 28 (19.44%) PHP
7 10 (6.94%) R
8 9 (6.25%) C++
8 9 (6.25%) Rust
9 7 (4.86%) C
9 7 (4.86%) Dart
9 7 (4.86%) MATLAB
9 7 (4.86%) Ruby
10 4 (2.78%) Perl
11 3 (2.08%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.39%) Delphi
12 2 (1.39%) Scala
12 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.39%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.39%) XAML
Qualifications
1 27 (18.75%) Degree
2 23 (15.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.94%) Azure Certification
3 10 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.56%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.47%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.69%) HND
9 1 (0.69%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.83%) QA
2 18 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.69%) PMO
4 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (22.92%) Docker
2 2 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (24.31%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.78%) Terraform
3 2 (1.39%) Ansible
3 2 (1.39%) Kibana
3 2 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.67%) Solace
3 20 (13.89%) Oracle
4 10 (6.94%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.17%) Guidewire
6 5 (3.47%) HubSpot
7 4 (2.78%) Google
8 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.39%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.39%) Infor
8 2 (1.39%) Splunk
9 1 (0.69%) Ahrefs
9 1 (0.69%) Foundry
9 1 (0.69%) IBM
9 1 (0.69%) Palantir
9 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow