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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -28 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 493 1,429 1,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.12% 8.15% 11.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.63% 28.19% 27.97%
Number of salaries quoted 302 1,156 1,165
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,950
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 2,511 5,069 5,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.06% 28.90% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,724 4,040 3,688
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -7.56% +8.18%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £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 30 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 30 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 -21 203 £65,000 +8.33% 901
Berkshire -39 79 £82,500 +17.86% 526
Hampshire -34 77 £53,750 -2.27% 358
Buckinghamshire +7 72 £52,500 - 237
Surrey -19 65 £67,500 +22.73% 237
East Sussex -2 58 £44,323 -15.58% 122
Oxfordshire +2 52 £60,000 - 138
Kent -4 51 £30,500 -44.55% 229
Middlesex -4 23 - - 1
West Sussex -13 10 £61,250 +11.36% 116
Sussex -1 2 £42,500 -15.00%
Isle of Wight - 1 £47,500 - 1
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 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.84%) CMS
3 13 (2.64%) Confluence
4 12 (2.43%) IIS
5 11 (2.23%) WordPress
6 7 (1.42%) Umbraco
7 6 (1.22%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.41%) ColdFusion
8 2 (0.41%) Drupal
8 2 (0.41%) Jadu
9 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.42%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.20%) InVision
4 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.41%) Sage 1000
3 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (27.99%) AWS
1 138 (27.99%) Azure
2 59 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (8.52%) Azure Service Bus
4 39 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
4 39 (7.91%) Serverless
5 38 (7.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 32 (6.49%) SaaS
7 30 (6.09%) SonarCloud
8 25 (5.07%) Pulumi
9 23 (4.67%) GCP
10 22 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (4.46%) Amazon S3
11 19 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (3.25%) Power Automate
13 16 (3.25%) Power Platform
14 12 (2.43%) Cloudflare
14 12 (2.43%) PaaS
15 11 (2.23%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.30%) Broadband
2 35 (7.10%) TCP/IP
3 34 (6.90%) VPN
4 3 (0.61%) Internet
4 3 (0.61%) Network Security
5 1 (0.20%) DNS
5 1 (0.20%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.20%) HTTP
5 1 (0.20%) Intranet
5 1 (0.20%) Modbus
5 1 (0.20%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
2 67 (13.59%) SQL Server
3 63 (12.78%) MySQL
4 50 (10.14%) Relational Database
5 43 (8.72%) NoSQL
6 38 (7.71%) RDBMS
7 37 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (4.46%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.83%) OLTP
10 7 (1.42%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.42%) Redis
11 3 (0.61%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.41%) Big Data
12 2 (0.41%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.41%) Power BI
13 1 (0.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 132 (26.77%) Git
2 47 (9.53%) Cucumber
3 44 (8.92%) Visual Studio
4 36 (7.30%) Robot Framework
5 35 (7.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 30 (6.09%) JIRA
6 30 (6.09%) MSBuild
6 30 (6.09%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (5.68%) Jenkins
8 25 (5.07%) Jaeger
9 21 (4.26%) Selenium
10 20 (4.06%) webpack
11 15 (3.04%) Cypress.io
11 15 (3.04%) gulp
11 15 (3.04%) JUnit
12 14 (2.84%) GitLab
12 14 (2.84%) JMeter
12 14 (2.84%) TeamCity
13 13 (2.64%) Mockito
14 12 (2.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 127 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 87 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 43 (8.72%) Retail
4 36 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.10%) Telecoms
6 31 (6.29%) Finance
7 28 (5.68%) Games
8 14 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.84%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.03%) Banking
9 10 (2.03%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.83%) Law
10 9 (1.83%) Legal
11 7 (1.42%) Local Government
12 5 (1.01%) Advertising
12 5 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.01%) Marketing
13 4 (0.81%) Electronics
13 4 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.61%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 260 (52.74%) Developer
2 93 (18.86%) Senior
3 78 (15.82%) Senior Developer
4 57 (11.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 56 (11.36%) Lead
6 35 (7.10%) Software Engineer
6 35 (7.10%) Test Automation Engineer
6 35 (7.10%) Test Engineer
7 34 (6.90%) Software Developer
8 33 (6.69%) Junior
9 32 (6.49%) Junior Developer
10 31 (6.29%) Architect
10 31 (6.29%) Technical Architect
11 29 (5.88%) Team Leader
12 28 (5.68%) PHP Developer
13 23 (4.67%) JavaScript Developer
14 22 (4.46%) Java Developer
14 22 (4.46%) Lead Developer
15 18 (3.65%) .NET Developer
15 18 (3.65%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (45.44%) HTML
2 186 (37.73%) CSS
3 163 (33.06%) .NET
4 143 (29.01%) React
5 80 (16.23%) REST
6 78 (15.82%) Node.js
7 63 (12.78%) ASP.NET
8 51 (10.34%) JSON
9 44 (8.92%) AngularJS
10 41 (8.32%) XML
11 36 (7.30%) jQuery
11 36 (7.30%) Web Services
12 34 (6.90%) Bootstrap
13 33 (6.69%) Spring Boot
14 32 (6.49%) Jest
14 32 (6.49%) Laravel
15 31 (6.29%) Elastic Stack
15 31 (6.29%) RESTful
16 30 (6.09%) gRPC
17 29 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
2 24 (4.87%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 18 (3.65%) Cyberattack
6 14 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.83%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.62%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.62%) Robotics
10 6 (1.22%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.22%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.81%) Online Games
12 3 (0.61%) 3D Graphics
12 3 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 97 (19.68%) Linux
2 49 (9.94%) Windows
3 31 (6.29%) Android
4 25 (5.07%) Unix
5 10 (2.03%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.41%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (36.11%) Agile
2 169 (34.28%) DevOps
3 119 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (22.72%) Full-Stack Development
5 97 (19.68%) Mentoring
6 96 (19.47%) CI/CD
7 94 (19.07%) Software Engineering
8 87 (17.65%) Microservices
9 77 (15.62%) Test Automation
10 72 (14.60%) MVC
11 68 (13.79%) Design Patterns
12 63 (12.78%) Performance Optimisation
13 58 (11.76%) Containerisation
14 57 (11.56%) Artificial Intelligence
15 56 (11.36%) Computer Science
15 56 (11.36%) OOP
16 48 (9.74%) Code Quality
17 47 (9.53%) Coaching
17 47 (9.53%) Front End Development
17 47 (9.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 156 (31.64%) Python
2 154 (31.24%) C#
3 147 (29.82%) SQL
4 135 (27.38%) TypeScript
5 127 (25.76%) Java
6 82 (16.63%) PHP
7 61 (12.37%) Bash
8 46 (9.33%) Go
9 45 (9.13%) C++
10 42 (8.52%) PowerShell
11 34 (6.90%) Rust
12 29 (5.88%) C
13 19 (3.85%) MATLAB
13 19 (3.85%) Ruby
14 16 (3.25%) Dart
14 16 (3.25%) R
15 13 (2.64%) Shell Script
16 10 (2.03%) PL/SQL
16 10 (2.03%) VB.NET
17 5 (1.01%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 113 (22.92%) Degree
2 46 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 38 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (6.49%) AWS Certification
5 28 (5.68%) DV Cleared
6 20 (4.06%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.81%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.61%) PhD
10 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.20%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) HNC
11 1 (0.20%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (18.86%) QA
2 36 (7.30%) GDPR
3 26 (5.27%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.22%) WCAG
5 2 (0.41%) WAI
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
6 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 145 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 108 (21.91%) Kubernetes
2 60 (12.17%) Terraform
3 46 (9.33%) Ansible
4 27 (5.48%) Kustomize
4 27 (5.48%) Prometheus
5 25 (5.07%) Argo
6 13 (2.64%) Kibana
7 2 (0.41%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 56 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.48%) Google
3 13 (2.64%) Cisco
3 13 (2.64%) Dynatrace
3 13 (2.64%) Splunk
4 12 (2.43%) Oracle
5 11 (2.23%) Rollbar
6 8 (1.62%) Solace
7 7 (1.42%) UiPath
8 6 (1.22%) Meraki
9 5 (1.01%) Adobe
9 5 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.01%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.81%) Twitter
11 3 (0.61%) Apple
12 2 (0.41%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.41%) Sage
12 2 (0.41%) Sawtooth Software
12 2 (0.41%) WSO2
13 1 (0.20%) Roku