JavaScript Job Trends in Somerset

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 26 34
Rank change year-on-year -21 +8 -16
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 39 24 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 3.51% 6.32% 3.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.18% 28.24% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 38 21 12
10th Percentile - - £32,750
25th Percentile £28,750 £26,500 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £31,000 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -34.39% -5.50%
75th Percentile £54,844 £35,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £68,375
South West median annual salary £55,500 £50,000 £52,837
% change year-on-year +11.00% -5.37% -3.93%

All Programming Languages
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 227 85 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 20.45% 22.37% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 181 73 87
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,500 £35,940
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,625
90th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £73,750
South West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Somerset

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Somerset over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Somerset

JavaScript
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Weston-super-Mare - 25 £30,500 - 1
Taunton -17 9 £70,000 +233.33%
Bath -17 3 £53,750 -23.21% 6
Bridgwater - 1 £42,500 -
Yeovil - 1 - -
JavaScript
South West

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 7 (17.95%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.38%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (5.13%) GitHub
4 2 (5.13%) SaaS
5 1 (2.56%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.56%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.56%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 34 (87.18%) Git
2 25 (64.10%) Eclipse
2 25 (64.10%) Subversion
3 19 (48.72%) JUnit
4 7 (17.95%) JIRA
4 7 (17.95%) MSI
5 2 (5.13%) JMeter
5 2 (5.13%) Selenium
General
1 8 (20.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Retail
3 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.26%) Finance
5 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (92.31%) Developer
2 25 (64.10%) Java Developer
3 23 (58.97%) Junior
3 23 (58.97%) Junior Developer
3 23 (58.97%) Junior Java Developer
4 9 (23.08%) Senior
5 7 (17.95%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.13%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) QA Test Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Technical Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
7 2 (5.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (82.05%) RESTful
2 28 (71.79%) React
3 25 (64.10%) Jakarta EE
3 25 (64.10%) Struts
3 25 (64.10%) Web Services
4 9 (23.08%) CSS
4 9 (23.08%) HTML
5 8 (20.51%) .NET
5 8 (20.51%) REST
6 7 (17.95%) .NET Core
6 7 (17.95%) .NET Framework
6 7 (17.95%) ATL
6 7 (17.95%) COM
6 7 (17.95%) CSS3
6 7 (17.95%) GeoJSON
6 7 (17.95%) HTML5
6 7 (17.95%) MFC
6 7 (17.95%) Terraform
6 7 (17.95%) WPF
7 2 (5.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Cloud Native
1 7 (17.95%) Onboarding
2 5 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Windows
3 6 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (87.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 26 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (48.72%) Requirements Analysis
3 19 (48.72%) Technical Architecture
4 11 (28.21%) Agile
5 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
5 8 (20.51%) Design Patterns
5 8 (20.51%) DevOps
5 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
6 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
6 7 (17.95%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (17.95%) DevSecOps
6 7 (17.95%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.95%) Knowledge Transfer
6 7 (17.95%) Microservices
6 7 (17.95%) SOLID
6 7 (17.95%) Static Application Security Testing
6 7 (17.95%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 36 (92.31%) Python
2 26 (66.67%) C++
2 26 (66.67%) Java
3 25 (64.10%) Perl
4 8 (20.51%) C#
4 8 (20.51%) TypeScript
5 7 (17.95%) Bicep
6 3 (7.69%) PHP
7 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 26 (66.67%) Degree
2 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
2 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.21%) Accessibility
2 7 (17.95%) NCSC
2 7 (17.95%) WCAG
3 3 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle