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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -30 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 483 1,455 1,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.92% 8.00% 11.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.17% 28.04% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 297 1,166 1,168
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 £70,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,375 £91,250
England median annual salary £66,100 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.17% -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 2,520 5,189 5,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.68% 28.55% 39.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,733 4,104 3,661
10th Percentile £33,550 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -5.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -25 198 £65,000 +8.33% 366
Hampshire -36 75 £52,500 -4.55% 71
Berkshire -43 75 £81,250 +16.07% 293
Buckinghamshire +3 71 £52,500 - 41
Surrey -12 63 £67,500 +22.73% 38
East Sussex -1 55 £45,000 -14.29% 24
Oxfordshire +10 52 £60,000 - 35
Kent 0 51 £30,500 -41.90% 16
Middlesex -2 22 - - 2
West Sussex -14 12 £41,250 -25.00% 8
Sussex -1 3 £42,500 -15.00% 7
Isle of Wight - 1 £47,500 - 2
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 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.90%) CMS
2 14 (2.90%) Confluence
3 13 (2.69%) IIS
4 11 (2.28%) WordPress
5 7 (1.45%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.83%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.41%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.41%) Drupal
7 2 (0.41%) Jadu
8 1 (0.21%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.41%) 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
1 3 (0.62%) Sage 1000
2 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (28.57%) AWS
2 136 (28.16%) Azure
3 55 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (8.28%) Azure Service Bus
5 39 (8.07%) Serverless
6 37 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (7.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 33 (6.83%) SaaS
9 28 (5.80%) SonarCloud
10 25 (5.18%) Pulumi
11 22 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (4.35%) GCP
13 19 (3.93%) Amazon S3
14 18 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (3.52%) Power Platform
16 14 (2.90%) Power Automate
17 13 (2.69%) Cloudflare
18 12 (2.48%) PaaS
19 11 (2.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.45%) Broadband
2 35 (7.25%) TCP/IP
3 34 (7.04%) VPN
4 4 (0.83%) Network Security
5 2 (0.41%) Internet
6 1 (0.21%) DNS
6 1 (0.21%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.21%) Firewall
6 1 (0.21%) HTTP
6 1 (0.21%) Intranet
6 1 (0.21%) Modbus
6 1 (0.21%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (13.87%) Elasticsearch
2 66 (13.66%) SQL Server
3 63 (13.04%) MySQL
4 49 (10.14%) Relational Database
5 40 (8.28%) NoSQL
6 39 (8.07%) RDBMS
7 35 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (4.14%) MongoDB
9 10 (2.07%) OLTP
10 7 (1.45%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.45%) Redis
11 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.62%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.62%) Power BI
13 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.41%) Big Data
13 2 (0.41%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 123 (25.47%) Git
2 47 (9.73%) Cucumber
3 41 (8.49%) Visual Studio
4 35 (7.25%) Robot Framework
5 33 (6.83%) Octopus Deploy
6 30 (6.21%) JIRA
7 29 (6.00%) MSBuild
8 28 (5.80%) Team Foundation Server
9 27 (5.59%) Jenkins
10 25 (5.18%) Jaeger
11 19 (3.93%) Selenium
12 18 (3.73%) webpack
13 16 (3.31%) JUnit
14 15 (3.11%) JMeter
14 15 (3.11%) TeamCity
15 14 (2.90%) Bitbucket
15 14 (2.90%) gulp
15 14 (2.90%) Mockito
16 12 (2.48%) GitLab
16 12 (2.48%) NUnit
General
1 125 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 41 (8.49%) Retail
4 38 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.25%) Telecoms
6 31 (6.42%) Finance
7 27 (5.59%) Games
8 15 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.07%) Banking
11 9 (1.86%) Legal
11 9 (1.86%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.66%) Law
13 6 (1.24%) Marketing
14 5 (1.04%) Advertising
14 5 (1.04%) Local Government
14 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.83%) Swedish Language
16 3 (0.62%) Back Office
16 3 (0.62%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 255 (52.80%) Developer
2 92 (19.05%) Senior
3 77 (15.94%) Senior Developer
4 57 (11.80%) Full-Stack Developer
5 55 (11.39%) Lead
6 35 (7.25%) Test Automation Engineer
6 35 (7.25%) Test Engineer
7 33 (6.83%) Software Engineer
8 32 (6.63%) Junior
8 32 (6.63%) Software Developer
9 31 (6.42%) Junior Developer
10 29 (6.00%) Architect
10 29 (6.00%) Technical Architect
11 28 (5.80%) PHP Developer
11 28 (5.80%) Team Leader
12 22 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
12 22 (4.55%) Lead Developer
13 21 (4.35%) Java Developer
14 18 (3.73%) .NET Developer
15 17 (3.52%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (46.38%) HTML
2 183 (37.89%) CSS
3 156 (32.30%) .NET
4 135 (27.95%) React
5 80 (16.56%) REST
6 74 (15.32%) Node.js
7 61 (12.63%) ASP.NET
8 53 (10.97%) JSON
9 44 (9.11%) AngularJS
10 40 (8.28%) XML
11 36 (7.45%) jQuery
12 34 (7.04%) Web Services
13 32 (6.63%) Bootstrap
13 32 (6.63%) RESTful
13 32 (6.63%) Spring Boot
14 31 (6.42%) Laravel
15 30 (6.21%) Jest
16 29 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (6.00%) HTML5
17 28 (5.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.04%) Linux Command Line
2 24 (4.97%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.93%) Mobile App
5 18 (3.73%) Cyberattack
6 15 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.86%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.86%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.45%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.24%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.24%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.24%) Robotics
13 5 (1.04%) Online Games
14 3 (0.62%) 3D Graphics
14 3 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (19.67%) Linux
2 49 (10.14%) Windows
3 31 (6.42%) Android
4 25 (5.18%) Unix
5 10 (2.07%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.04%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.21%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (35.61%) Agile
2 164 (33.95%) DevOps
3 119 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
4 111 (22.98%) Full-Stack Development
5 97 (20.08%) Mentoring
6 95 (19.67%) CI/CD
7 88 (18.22%) Software Engineering
8 84 (17.39%) Microservices
9 76 (15.73%) Test Automation
10 69 (14.29%) MVC
11 65 (13.46%) Design Patterns
12 61 (12.63%) Performance Optimisation
13 57 (11.80%) Containerisation
14 55 (11.39%) OOP
15 51 (10.56%) Artificial Intelligence
15 51 (10.56%) Computer Science
16 48 (9.94%) Front End Development
17 47 (9.73%) Coaching
18 46 (9.52%) TDD
19 45 (9.32%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 157 (32.51%) Python
2 147 (30.43%) C#
3 145 (30.02%) SQL
4 128 (26.50%) TypeScript
5 127 (26.29%) Java
6 81 (16.77%) PHP
7 62 (12.84%) Bash
8 45 (9.32%) Go
9 44 (9.11%) C++
10 43 (8.90%) PowerShell
11 34 (7.04%) Rust
12 29 (6.00%) C
13 19 (3.93%) MATLAB
13 19 (3.93%) Ruby
14 16 (3.31%) Dart
14 16 (3.31%) R
15 14 (2.90%) Shell Script
16 11 (2.28%) PL/SQL
17 9 (1.86%) VB.NET
18 5 (1.04%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 107 (22.15%) Degree
2 46 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 35 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (6.63%) AWS Certification
5 27 (5.59%) DV Cleared
6 20 (4.14%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.83%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.62%) PhD
10 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.21%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.21%) HNC
11 1 (0.21%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (18.63%) QA
2 36 (7.45%) GDPR
3 26 (5.38%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.04%) WCAG
5 2 (0.41%) WAI
6 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.21%) SLA
6 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 138 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 101 (20.91%) Kubernetes
2 61 (12.63%) Terraform
3 46 (9.52%) Ansible
4 27 (5.59%) Prometheus
5 26 (5.38%) Kustomize
6 25 (5.18%) Argo
7 14 (2.90%) Kibana
8 2 (0.41%) Grafana
9 1 (0.21%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 57 (11.80%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.59%) Google
3 14 (2.90%) Dynatrace
3 14 (2.90%) Oracle
3 14 (2.90%) Splunk
4 13 (2.69%) Cisco
5 12 (2.48%) Rollbar
6 8 (1.66%) Solace
7 6 (1.24%) Adobe
7 6 (1.24%) Meraki
7 6 (1.24%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.24%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.04%) UiPath
9 4 (0.83%) Twitter
10 3 (0.62%) Apple
10 3 (0.62%) Sage
11 2 (0.41%) WSO2
12 1 (0.21%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.21%) Roku
12 1 (0.21%) VMware