JavaScript Jobs in the South East

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 505 1,422 1,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.26% 8.44% 11.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.97% 28.66% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 316 1,158 1,184
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -7.69% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,529 4,962 5,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.35% 29.44% 40.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,773 3,988 3,762
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £60,743 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.24% -7.69% +4.00%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in the South East.

Salary trend for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the South East

JavaScript
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley -21 219 £65,000 +8.33% 128
Berkshire -35 91 £81,250 +10.17% 71
Hampshire -38 77 £55,000 - 54
Buckinghamshire +12 69 £52,500 -4.55% 35
Surrey -14 66 £67,500 +22.73% 45
East Sussex +2 61 £42,500 -19.05% 7
Oxfordshire +4 59 £60,000 - 30
Kent -9 44 £30,000 -45.45% 25
Middlesex -4 24 - - 2
West Sussex -15 10 £61,250 +8.89% 9
Sussex -4 1 £42,500 -15.00% 7
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.37%) Confluence
3 11 (2.18%) WordPress
4 10 (1.98%) CMS
5 6 (1.19%) IIS
5 6 (1.19%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.40%) ColdFusion
6 2 (0.40%) Jadu
6 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Joomla!
Applications
1 11 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.20%) InVision
3 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.20%) Sage 1000
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 146 (28.91%) Azure
2 127 (25.15%) AWS
3 68 (13.47%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (9.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 43 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
6 42 (8.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 33 (6.53%) Serverless
7 33 (6.53%) SonarCloud
8 30 (5.94%) SaaS
9 26 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (4.95%) Pulumi
11 24 (4.75%) GCP
12 20 (3.96%) Amazon S3
13 19 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (3.37%) Power Automate
14 17 (3.37%) Power Platform
15 13 (2.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (2.38%) GitHub
16 12 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.93%) TCP/IP
2 34 (6.73%) VPN
3 29 (5.74%) Broadband
4 3 (0.59%) Internet
4 3 (0.59%) Network Security
5 1 (0.20%) DNS
5 1 (0.20%) HTTP
5 1 (0.20%) Intranet
5 1 (0.20%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (13.47%) SQL Server
2 60 (11.88%) MySQL
3 59 (11.68%) Elasticsearch
4 50 (9.90%) Relational Database
5 49 (9.70%) NoSQL
6 39 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (7.52%) RDBMS
8 27 (5.35%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.39%) OLTP
10 5 (0.99%) Redis
11 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.59%) Big Data
12 3 (0.59%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.40%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.40%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 151 (29.90%) Git
2 47 (9.31%) Cucumber
3 44 (8.71%) Visual Studio
4 39 (7.72%) Robot Framework
5 36 (7.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 34 (6.73%) MSBuild
7 33 (6.53%) Jenkins
7 33 (6.53%) Team Foundation Server
8 32 (6.34%) JIRA
9 28 (5.54%) Selenium
10 25 (4.95%) Jaeger
10 25 (4.95%) webpack
11 24 (4.75%) Cypress.io
12 21 (4.16%) GitLab
13 17 (3.37%) gulp
14 15 (2.97%) JUnit
15 14 (2.77%) JMeter
16 13 (2.57%) Mockito
17 10 (1.98%) TeamCity
18 9 (1.78%) Bitbucket
General
1 119 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 89 (17.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 45 (8.91%) Retail
4 35 (6.93%) Finance
4 35 (6.93%) Telecoms
5 33 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (5.54%) Games
7 15 (2.97%) Public Sector
8 12 (2.38%) Law
8 12 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.98%) Banking
9 10 (1.98%) Legal
9 10 (1.98%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.58%) Electronics
11 7 (1.39%) Local Government
11 7 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.19%) Marketing
13 4 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.59%) Advertising
15 2 (0.40%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 246 (48.71%) Developer
2 93 (18.42%) Senior
3 70 (13.86%) Senior Developer
4 57 (11.29%) Lead
5 49 (9.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 48 (9.50%) Software Engineer
7 37 (7.33%) Software Developer
8 35 (6.93%) Architect
8 35 (6.93%) Technical Architect
8 35 (6.93%) Test Automation Engineer
8 35 (6.93%) Test Engineer
9 32 (6.34%) Team Leader
10 27 (5.35%) JavaScript Developer
11 26 (5.15%) Junior
11 26 (5.15%) Junior Developer
12 25 (4.95%) PHP Developer
13 23 (4.55%) Java Developer
14 21 (4.16%) Lead Developer
15 18 (3.56%) C# Developer
16 16 (3.17%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (43.96%) HTML
2 185 (36.63%) CSS
3 167 (33.07%) .NET
4 155 (30.69%) React
5 83 (16.44%) REST
6 82 (16.24%) Node.js
7 63 (12.48%) ASP.NET
8 55 (10.89%) JSON
9 50 (9.90%) XML
10 39 (7.72%) AngularJS
10 39 (7.72%) Web Services
11 38 (7.52%) Bootstrap
11 38 (7.52%) Jest
12 35 (6.93%) jQuery
13 33 (6.53%) gRPC
14 32 (6.34%) Spring Boot
15 31 (6.14%) Elastic Stack
15 31 (6.14%) Laravel
16 29 (5.74%) HTML5
17 28 (5.54%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.73%) Linux Command Line
2 24 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (4.75%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.56%) Cyberattack
3 18 (3.56%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.98%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.58%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.39%) Robotics
11 6 (1.19%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.19%) Molecular Biology
11 6 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.59%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 101 (20.00%) Linux
2 50 (9.90%) Windows
3 30 (5.94%) Android
4 25 (4.95%) Unix
5 10 (1.98%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.19%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.99%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (35.84%) DevOps
2 177 (35.05%) Agile
3 119 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (22.18%) Software Engineering
5 109 (21.58%) Full-Stack Development
6 91 (18.02%) Microservices
7 83 (16.44%) CI/CD
7 83 (16.44%) Mentoring
8 73 (14.46%) Test Automation
9 72 (14.26%) Design Patterns
9 72 (14.26%) MVC
10 67 (13.27%) Performance Optimisation
11 61 (12.08%) Artificial Intelligence
11 61 (12.08%) Containerisation
12 59 (11.68%) Computer Science
13 56 (11.09%) OOP
14 54 (10.69%) Code Quality
15 49 (9.70%) Front End Development
16 48 (9.50%) Coaching
17 45 (8.91%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 162 (32.08%) Python
2 158 (31.29%) C#
3 152 (30.10%) SQL
4 144 (28.51%) TypeScript
5 128 (25.35%) Java
6 85 (16.83%) PHP
7 61 (12.08%) Bash
8 48 (9.50%) Go
9 47 (9.31%) C++
10 44 (8.71%) PowerShell
11 34 (6.73%) Rust
12 27 (5.35%) C
13 19 (3.76%) MATLAB
13 19 (3.76%) Ruby
14 18 (3.56%) R
15 16 (3.17%) Dart
16 13 (2.57%) Shell Script
17 10 (1.98%) PL/SQL
18 9 (1.78%) VB.NET
19 5 (0.99%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 118 (23.37%) Degree
2 49 (9.70%) Security Cleared
3 37 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (5.94%) DV Cleared
5 26 (5.15%) AWS Certification
6 21 (4.16%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.79%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.59%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.59%) PhD
10 1 (0.20%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (18.42%) QA
2 41 (8.12%) GDPR
3 25 (4.95%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.78%) WCAG
5 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.40%) WAI
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 159 (31.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 124 (24.55%) Kubernetes
2 55 (10.89%) Terraform
3 46 (9.11%) Ansible
4 31 (6.14%) Kustomize
5 27 (5.35%) Prometheus
6 26 (5.15%) Argo
7 13 (2.57%) Kibana
8 2 (0.40%) Grafana
9 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 57 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.35%) Google
3 13 (2.57%) Cisco
3 13 (2.57%) Dynatrace
3 13 (2.57%) Splunk
4 11 (2.18%) Oracle
5 8 (1.58%) Solace
6 7 (1.39%) UiPath
7 6 (1.19%) Meraki
7 6 (1.19%) Rollbar
7 6 (1.19%) Sawtooth Software
8 5 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.99%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.79%) Adobe
9 4 (0.79%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.59%) Apple
10 3 (0.59%) Twitter
11 2 (0.40%) WSO2
12 1 (0.20%) Roku
12 1 (0.20%) Sage