JavaScript Job Trends in Gloucestershire

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 17 18
Rank change year-on-year -41 +1 +6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 45 55 187
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 2.55% 9.96% 11.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.76% 29.10% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 20 24 138
10th Percentile £37,200 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,250 £43,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,250 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -2.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,313 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,250 £91,250 £82,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 327 189 634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.52% 34.24% 38.78%
Number of salaries quoted 212 95 503
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,350 £32,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £42,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £52,600 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% +0.19% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £89,800 £85,250 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Gloucestershire

JavaScript
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Gloucester -24 20 - - 5
Cheltenham -45 5 £62,500 +4.17% 8
Cirencester - 4 £85,000 -
Tewkesbury -10 2 £44,000 +3.53% 4
Stroud - 1 £45,000 -
JavaScript
South West

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 12 (26.67%) Apache
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Elementor
Cloud Services
1 30 (66.67%) AWS
2 12 (26.67%) OpenShift
3 11 (24.44%) Azure
4 7 (15.56%) GCP
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.67%) Serverless
6 1 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Canva
6 1 (2.22%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) AMQP
2 2 (4.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (15.56%) Big Data
2 7 (15.56%) InfluxDB
3 5 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.67%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.44%) MySQL
5 2 (4.44%) Neo4j
5 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (40.00%) GitLab
2 17 (37.78%) Jenkins
3 12 (26.67%) Git
4 10 (22.22%) Cucumber
5 9 (20.00%) SonarQube
6 8 (17.78%) Cypress.io
7 7 (15.56%) Robot Framework
7 7 (15.56%) Selenium
7 7 (15.56%) TestRail
8 2 (4.44%) Subversion
General
1 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.44%) Finance
3 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Marketing
4 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (57.78%) Software Engineer
2 8 (17.78%) Test Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Test Automation Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Developer
5 4 (8.89%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) JavaScript Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Graduate
6 2 (4.44%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing Assistant
7 1 (2.22%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (37.78%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (33.33%) React
3 11 (24.44%) Vue
4 9 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
5 7 (15.56%) AngularJS
5 7 (15.56%) HTML
5 7 (15.56%) Playwright
5 7 (15.56%) pytest
6 5 (11.11%) Node.js
7 4 (8.89%) REST
7 4 (8.89%) RESTful
8 3 (6.67%) gRPC
8 3 (6.67%) Material-UI
8 3 (6.67%) OpenAPI
8 3 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.67%) Spring
8 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 3 (6.67%) Swagger
9 2 (4.44%) CSS
9 2 (4.44%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.22%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.11%) Linux
2 10 (22.22%) CentOS
3 7 (15.56%) Windows
4 3 (6.67%) Debian
4 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (62.22%) Software Engineering
2 26 (57.78%) CI/CD
3 19 (42.22%) Collaborative Culture
4 16 (35.56%) Agile
5 15 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 14 (31.11%) DevOps
6 14 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (24.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 7 (15.56%) Dashboard Development
9 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (15.56%) Software Testing
9 7 (15.56%) Test Management
10 6 (13.33%) API Development
10 6 (13.33%) Observability
10 6 (13.33%) Service Delivery
11 5 (11.11%) Microservices
11 5 (11.11%) Scrum
12 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 32 (71.11%) Python
2 23 (51.11%) Java
3 18 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 17 (37.78%) Bash
5 16 (35.56%) C++
6 10 (22.22%) Rust
7 8 (17.78%) PowerShell
8 7 (15.56%) Go
9 6 (13.33%) C
10 3 (6.67%) C#
11 1 (2.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (64.44%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.89%) DV Cleared
3 7 (15.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 16 (35.56%) Docker
2 7 (15.56%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (44.44%) Ansible
2 19 (42.22%) Kubernetes
2 19 (42.22%) Terraform
3 16 (35.56%) Grafana
3 16 (35.56%) Kibana
3 16 (35.56%) logstash
4 7 (15.56%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.67%) Puppet
6 1 (2.22%) Podman
6 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 9 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 7 (15.56%) Splunk
3 7 (15.56%) VMware
4 3 (6.67%) Google
4 3 (6.67%) SaltStack
5 1 (2.22%) Adobe