JavaScript Job Trends in the South East

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 38 19
Rank change year-on-year -35 -19 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 334 443 1,456
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.27% 5.66% 7.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.08% 23.51% 27.96%
Number of salaries quoted 282 288 1,170
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,450
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.98%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £94,875 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.37% +10.33% -7.69%

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 2,554 1,884 5,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 17.38% 24.09% 28.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,950 1,274 4,169
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in the South East

JavaScript
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the South East over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

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 16 June 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
Thames Valley -40 88 £55,000 -15.38% 52
Hampshire -25 80 £60,000 +20.00% 42
East Sussex +1 60 £47,500 +5.56% 7
Berkshire 0 55 £50,000 -39.39% 26
Surrey -10 52 £71,250 +5.56% 16
Kent -46 25 £29,000 -4.92% 9
West Sussex -6 24 £75,500 +83.03% 16
Oxfordshire -35 17 £56,500 -5.83% 11
Buckinghamshire -45 16 £60,000 +14.29% 15
Middlesex +31 1 - - 4
Isle of Wight +5 1 £42,500 -10.53%
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (3.29%) Confluence
2 9 (2.69%) WordPress
3 5 (1.50%) Apache
3 5 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.90%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Shopify
2 3 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 111 (33.23%) AWS
2 110 (32.93%) Azure
3 41 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (11.98%) Power Platform
5 31 (9.28%) SaaS
6 26 (7.78%) GitHub
7 19 (5.69%) GCP
7 19 (5.69%) Serverless
8 17 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (4.49%) Azure AI
10 13 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (3.59%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (3.59%) Power Automate
11 12 (3.59%) PowerApps
12 10 (2.99%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.50%) Kong
15 5 (1.50%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.88%) Internet
2 5 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (1.50%) Firewall
2 5 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.20%) Hyperconnected
3 4 (1.20%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.90%) MQTT
5 2 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (19.16%) SQL Server
2 42 (12.57%) MongoDB
3 29 (8.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 29 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (8.08%) MySQL
5 23 (6.89%) Power BI
6 22 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (4.19%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.89%) Redis
9 6 (1.80%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.50%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.20%) Crystal Reports
11 4 (1.20%) Metadata
12 3 (0.90%) Flink
12 3 (0.90%) Looker
12 3 (0.90%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (14.37%) Git
2 15 (4.49%) JIRA
3 13 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.99%) JUnit
5 9 (2.69%) GitLab
6 7 (2.10%) JMeter
6 7 (2.10%) Mockito
7 4 (1.20%) Selenium
8 3 (0.90%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.60%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.60%) Mocha
9 2 (0.60%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.30%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.30%) Postman
10 1 (0.30%) Storybook
10 1 (0.30%) TestNG
10 1 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 129 (38.62%) Social Skills
2 36 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (8.38%) Finance
4 13 (3.89%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.29%) Retail
6 8 (2.40%) Automotive
6 8 (2.40%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.10%) Marketing
8 6 (1.80%) Legal
8 6 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.50%) Law
9 5 (1.50%) Multimedia
10 4 (1.20%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.90%) Aviation
11 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.90%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.60%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 207 (61.98%) Developer
2 72 (21.56%) Full-Stack Developer
3 55 (16.47%) Software Engineer
4 46 (13.77%) Lead
5 39 (11.68%) Software Developer
6 36 (10.78%) .NET Developer
6 36 (10.78%) Lead Developer
7 33 (9.88%) Senior
8 32 (9.58%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (7.49%) Lead Software Developer
10 24 (7.19%) Web Developer
11 18 (5.39%) JavaScript Developer
12 17 (5.09%) Senior Developer
13 15 (4.49%) Power Platform Developer
14 11 (3.29%) Senior Software Engineer
15 10 (2.99%) Analyst
16 9 (2.69%) Support Engineer
17 8 (2.40%) Applications Engineer
17 8 (2.40%) C# Software Engineer
17 8 (2.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (34.43%) HTML
1 115 (34.43%) React
2 103 (30.84%) CSS
3 101 (30.24%) .NET
4 74 (22.16%) Node.js
5 56 (16.77%) jQuery
6 49 (14.67%) ASP.NET
7 44 (13.17%) REST
8 40 (11.98%) ASP.NET Core
9 35 (10.48%) Blazor
10 31 (9.28%) .NET Core
11 30 (8.98%) JSON
12 28 (8.38%) AngularJS
13 23 (6.89%) ASP.NET Web API
13 23 (6.89%) Vue
14 22 (6.59%) RESTful
15 19 (5.69%) Laravel
15 19 (5.69%) XML
16 17 (5.09%) HTML5
17 16 (4.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.39%) Legacy Systems
1 18 (5.39%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (2.99%) Data Structures
3 10 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (2.99%) Low-Code
4 8 (2.40%) IoT
4 8 (2.40%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.40%) Robotics
5 7 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.80%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.50%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.20%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.20%) Social Network
9 3 (0.90%) Augmented Reality
9 3 (0.90%) Clustering
9 3 (0.90%) EPoS
9 3 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.88%) Linux
2 21 (6.29%) Windows
3 5 (1.50%) Unix
4 4 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.60%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (38.62%) Full-Stack Development
2 115 (34.43%) Agile
3 84 (25.15%) CI/CD
4 83 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (23.65%) DevOps
6 67 (20.06%) AI
6 67 (20.06%) Software Engineering
7 55 (16.47%) Microservices
8 50 (14.97%) Machine Learning
9 47 (14.07%) Scrum
10 45 (13.47%) Computer Science
11 40 (11.98%) Web Development
12 37 (11.08%) TDD
13 36 (10.78%) User Experience
14 35 (10.48%) Mentoring
15 34 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (9.88%) Containerisation
16 33 (9.88%) Test Automation
17 28 (8.38%) SDLC
18 26 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 115 (34.43%) TypeScript
2 111 (33.23%) Python
2 111 (33.23%) SQL
3 96 (28.74%) C#
4 44 (13.17%) Java
5 43 (12.87%) PHP
6 21 (6.29%) C++
7 12 (3.59%) Go
8 9 (2.69%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.40%) Rust
9 8 (2.40%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.10%) VBA
11 5 (1.50%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.50%) R
12 4 (1.20%) Ruby
12 4 (1.20%) VBScript
13 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.60%) C
14 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.30%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 78 (23.35%) Degree
2 47 (14.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (7.19%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.29%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.40%) PhD
7 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.50%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.90%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.60%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.30%) HND
11 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.49%) QA
2 23 (6.89%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.50%) SLA
5 4 (1.20%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 48 (14.37%) Docker
2 6 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (10.18%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.39%) Terraform
3 7 (2.10%) Kibana
4 4 (1.20%) Ansible
5 1 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.30%) Podman
5 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 79 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.10%) Dynatrace
2 7 (2.10%) Splunk
3 6 (1.80%) Cisco
3 6 (1.80%) Google
3 6 (1.80%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.50%) F5
4 5 (1.50%) HubSpot
4 5 (1.50%) Juniper
4 5 (1.50%) Oracle
4 5 (1.50%) Palo Alto
4 5 (1.50%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.50%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.20%) SYSPRO
6 3 (0.90%) BMC
6 3 (0.90%) Confluent
6 3 (0.90%) MuleSoft
6 3 (0.90%) Remedy
7 2 (0.60%) Adobe
7 2 (0.60%) WooCommerce