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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 18 9
Rank change year-on-year -38 -9 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 12 25 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 1.84% 7.02% 11.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.88% 29.41% 41.29%
Number of salaries quoted 12 19 56
10th Percentile £27,475 £35,100 £31,875
25th Percentile £37,188 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +21.05% -17.39%
75th Percentile £50,000 £73,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £79,500 £63,750
South West median annual salary £51,250 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.58% +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 101 85 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 15.51% 23.88% 27.19%
Number of salaries quoted 76 45 130
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £50,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £85,000 £63,875
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -3.83%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 - 4 £45,000 - 1
Weston-super-Mare - 3 £45,000 -
Bath -23 2 £60,000 +4.35% 5
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 2 (16.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) npm
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Health Technology
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (16.67%) Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Playwright
2 3 (25.00%) CSS
2 3 (25.00%) HTML
2 3 (25.00%) Node.js
2 3 (25.00%) React
2 3 (25.00%) REST
3 2 (16.67%) Laravel
3 2 (16.67%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
1 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) B2B
3 2 (16.67%) B2B Marketing
3 2 (16.67%) Demand Generation
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (8.33%) API Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) ERP
4 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
4 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C#
1 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 2 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft