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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -34 -2 +5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 14 24 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 2.03% 9.30% 9.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.14% 42.11% 38.01%
Number of salaries quoted 14 23 56
10th Percentile £36,625 £36,000 £33,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,875 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £50,000 £74,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £57,000 £81,750 £63,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.34%

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 99 57 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 14.39% 22.09% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 65 49 143
10th Percentile £33,150 £36,750 £30,650
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £58,125
90th Percentile £58,250 £79,500 £63,750
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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
Bridgwater - 5 £45,000 -
Bath -25 4 £51,392 -10.62% 6
Weston-super-Mare - 3 £45,000 - 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) npm
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Health Technology
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Integration Developer
3 2 (14.29%) PHP Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Integration Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Node.js
1 4 (28.57%) Playwright
1 4 (28.57%) React
1 4 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) CSS
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) Laravel
2 2 (14.29%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
1 4 (28.57%) Front End Development
1 4 (28.57%) Manual Testing
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (7.14%) B2B Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Data Transformation
3 1 (7.14%) Demand Generation
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (7.14%) SDLC
3 1 (7.14%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (7.14%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (7.14%) Test Scripting
3 1 (7.14%) Test Strategy
3 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
3 1 (7.14%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
3 4 (28.57%) PHP
4 2 (14.29%) Go
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle