JavaScript Job Trends in Portsmouth

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 36 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 -22 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 6 19 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Portsmouth 1.60% 4.01% 10.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.94% 16.24% 32.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 16
10th Percentile £28,400 £32,375 -
25th Percentile £29,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £42,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -25.88% -35.85% +20.45%
75th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £52,250 £55,000 -
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 101 117 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 26.93% 24.68% 31.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43 80 50
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,125 £49,063 £48,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £75,000 £79,125
Hampshire median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year - +8.49% -3.64%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Portsmouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Portsmouth

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 1 (16.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 3 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Advertising
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Trainee
2 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Trainee Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Trainee Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Trainee Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) CakePHP
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) Laravel
4 1 (16.67%) Node.js
4 1 (16.67%) React
4 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 2 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (16.67%) API Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
2 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) R
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft