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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -27 -4 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 481 1,426 1,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.10% 8.43% 11.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.72% 28.67% 28.37%
Number of salaries quoted 288 1,162 1,186
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,500 £69,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £66,212 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.35% -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 2,439 4,974 5,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.86% 29.39% 40.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,680 4,003 3,733
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -5.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 23 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 23 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 -25 197 £65,000 +8.33% 873
Berkshire -41 77 £82,500 +15.79% 523
Hampshire -40 73 £55,000 - 360
Buckinghamshire +4 70 £52,500 -4.55% 211
Surrey -11 68 £67,500 +22.73% 224
East Sussex +2 58 £42,500 -19.05% 109
Oxfordshire +4 50 £60,000 - 145
Kent -7 47 £30,000 -45.45% 198
Middlesex -2 24 - - 4
West Sussex -14 10 £61,250 +8.89% 98
Sussex -2 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 18 (3.74%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.91%) Confluence
3 12 (2.49%) CMS
4 11 (2.29%) WordPress
5 8 (1.66%) IIS
6 6 (1.25%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.04%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.42%) ColdFusion
8 2 (0.42%) Drupal
8 2 (0.42%) Jadu
9 1 (0.21%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 10 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.46%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.21%) InVision
4 1 (0.21%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.21%) Sage 1000
2 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 136 (28.27%) Azure
2 127 (26.40%) AWS
3 61 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (8.94%) Azure Service Bus
5 40 (8.32%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (8.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 39 (8.11%) Serverless
7 30 (6.24%) SaaS
7 30 (6.24%) SonarCloud
8 25 (5.20%) Pulumi
9 23 (4.78%) Amazon EC2
9 23 (4.78%) Amazon S3
10 22 (4.57%) GCP
11 19 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (3.33%) Power Automate
13 16 (3.33%) Power Platform
14 12 (2.49%) PaaS
15 10 (2.08%) Figma
15 10 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.48%) Broadband
2 35 (7.28%) TCP/IP
3 34 (7.07%) VPN
4 3 (0.62%) Internet
4 3 (0.62%) Network Security
5 1 (0.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (13.31%) Elasticsearch
2 58 (12.06%) SQL Server
3 57 (11.85%) MySQL
4 50 (10.40%) Relational Database
5 42 (8.73%) NoSQL
6 38 (7.90%) RDBMS
7 37 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (4.57%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.66%) OLTP
10 7 (1.46%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.04%) Redis
12 4 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.62%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.42%) Big Data
14 2 (0.42%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.42%) Data Mining
14 2 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 128 (26.61%) Git
2 47 (9.77%) Cucumber
3 43 (8.94%) Visual Studio
4 37 (7.69%) Robot Framework
5 35 (7.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 31 (6.44%) MSBuild
7 30 (6.24%) Team Foundation Server
8 29 (6.03%) Jenkins
9 28 (5.82%) JIRA
10 25 (5.20%) Jaeger
11 22 (4.57%) webpack
12 20 (4.16%) Selenium
13 16 (3.33%) Cypress.io
13 16 (3.33%) GitLab
13 16 (3.33%) gulp
14 15 (3.12%) JUnit
15 14 (2.91%) JMeter
16 13 (2.70%) Mockito
17 11 (2.29%) Bitbucket
18 10 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 120 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 43 (8.94%) Retail
4 35 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.28%) Telecoms
5 33 (6.86%) Finance
6 27 (5.61%) Games
7 15 (3.12%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.08%) Law
9 10 (2.08%) Legal
9 10 (2.08%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.87%) Banking
11 7 (1.46%) Local Government
12 5 (1.04%) Electronics
12 5 (1.04%) Marketing
13 4 (0.83%) Advertising
13 4 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.42%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 241 (50.10%) Developer
2 89 (18.50%) Senior
3 72 (14.97%) Senior Developer
4 53 (11.02%) Lead
5 51 (10.60%) Full-Stack Developer
6 38 (7.90%) Software Engineer
7 35 (7.28%) Test Automation Engineer
7 35 (7.28%) Test Engineer
8 33 (6.86%) Software Developer
9 32 (6.65%) Architect
9 32 (6.65%) Technical Architect
10 29 (6.03%) Team Leader
11 27 (5.61%) Junior
12 26 (5.41%) Junior Developer
13 25 (5.20%) JavaScript Developer
13 25 (5.20%) PHP Developer
14 22 (4.57%) Java Developer
15 20 (4.16%) Lead Developer
16 17 (3.53%) C# Developer
17 15 (3.12%) Games Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (44.70%) HTML
2 177 (36.80%) CSS
3 151 (31.39%) .NET
4 141 (29.31%) React
5 79 (16.42%) REST
6 76 (15.80%) Node.js
7 57 (11.85%) ASP.NET
8 52 (10.81%) JSON
9 45 (9.36%) XML
10 37 (7.69%) AngularJS
10 37 (7.69%) Web Services
11 36 (7.48%) jQuery
12 34 (7.07%) Bootstrap
13 33 (6.86%) Spring Boot
14 31 (6.44%) Elastic Stack
14 31 (6.44%) Jest
15 30 (6.24%) gRPC
15 30 (6.24%) Laravel
16 29 (6.03%) Spring
17 27 (5.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.07%) Linux Command Line
2 24 (4.99%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.74%) Cyberattack
4 18 (3.74%) Mobile App
5 14 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.46%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.46%) Robotics
10 6 (1.25%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.25%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.62%) Molecular Biology
11 3 (0.62%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 98 (20.37%) Linux
2 49 (10.19%) Windows
3 30 (6.24%) Android
4 25 (5.20%) Unix
5 10 (2.08%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.04%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.62%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (35.97%) Agile
2 170 (35.34%) DevOps
3 116 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
4 106 (22.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 96 (19.96%) Software Engineering
6 92 (19.13%) Mentoring
7 89 (18.50%) CI/CD
8 87 (18.09%) Microservices
9 74 (15.38%) Test Automation
10 67 (13.93%) Design Patterns
11 66 (13.72%) MVC
12 63 (13.10%) Performance Optimisation
13 59 (12.27%) Containerisation
14 56 (11.64%) Artificial Intelligence
15 54 (11.23%) OOP
16 53 (11.02%) Computer Science
17 47 (9.77%) Code Quality
18 46 (9.56%) Coaching
18 46 (9.56%) Front End Development
18 46 (9.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 159 (33.06%) Python
2 142 (29.52%) C#
2 142 (29.52%) SQL
3 132 (27.44%) TypeScript
4 127 (26.40%) Java
5 80 (16.63%) PHP
6 61 (12.68%) Bash
7 47 (9.77%) Go
8 45 (9.36%) C++
9 43 (8.94%) PowerShell
10 34 (7.07%) Rust
11 27 (5.61%) C
12 19 (3.95%) MATLAB
12 19 (3.95%) Ruby
13 18 (3.74%) R
14 16 (3.33%) Dart
15 13 (2.70%) Shell Script
16 11 (2.29%) PL/SQL
17 9 (1.87%) VB.NET
18 5 (1.04%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 108 (22.45%) Degree
2 48 (9.98%) Security Cleared
3 35 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (6.65%) AWS Certification
5 29 (6.03%) DV Cleared
6 21 (4.37%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.46%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.83%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.62%) PhD
10 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.21%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (19.33%) QA
2 38 (7.90%) GDPR
3 26 (5.41%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.25%) WCAG
5 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.42%) WAI
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.21%) SLA
6 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 144 (29.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 109 (22.66%) Kubernetes
2 55 (11.43%) Terraform
3 46 (9.56%) Ansible
4 28 (5.82%) Kustomize
5 27 (5.61%) Prometheus
6 25 (5.20%) Argo
7 13 (2.70%) Kibana
8 2 (0.42%) Grafana
Vendors
1 54 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.61%) Google
3 13 (2.70%) Cisco
3 13 (2.70%) Dynatrace
3 13 (2.70%) Splunk
4 12 (2.49%) Oracle
5 8 (1.66%) Solace
6 7 (1.46%) Rollbar
6 7 (1.46%) UiPath
7 6 (1.25%) Meraki
8 5 (1.04%) Adobe
8 5 (1.04%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.83%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.62%) Apple
10 3 (0.62%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.62%) Sawtooth Software
10 3 (0.62%) Twitter
11 2 (0.42%) WSO2
12 1 (0.21%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.21%) Sage