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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 21 14
Rank change year-on-year -58 -7 +1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 260 819 838
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.51% 8.98% 10.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.19% 26.94% 29.43%
Number of salaries quoted 203 529 738
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £114,500 £83,750 £88,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 1,606 3,040 2,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.52% 33.32% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,252 1,788 2,240
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 -68 99 £60,000 -14.29% 117
Berkshire -58 66 £68,750 -11.29% 67
Hampshire -42 56 £55,000 - 41
East Sussex -7 40 £61,250 +44.12% 24
Surrey -54 25 £52,500 -19.23% 22
Buckinghamshire -28 23 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Kent -14 22 £76,250 +27.08% 23
Oxfordshire -24 10 £67,500 +12.50% 27
West Sussex -2 8 £30,000 -40.00% 28
Middlesex -4 7 - - 3
Isle of Wight - 3 £45,000 - 14
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 (4.23%) WordPress
2 6 (2.31%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.54%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.31%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.92%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.54%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.15%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (1.15%) InDesign
4 3 (1.15%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 95 (36.54%) Azure
2 85 (32.69%) AWS
3 41 (15.77%) GCP
4 36 (13.85%) GitHub
5 29 (11.15%) SaaS
6 26 (10.00%) Serverless
7 18 (6.92%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (6.15%) Power Platform
9 12 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (3.85%) Entra ID
10 10 (3.85%) Figma
11 9 (3.46%) Stripe
12 7 (2.69%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (2.69%) PaaS
12 7 (2.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (2.31%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.23%) Internet
2 2 (0.77%) Network Security
3 1 (0.38%) Broadband
3 1 (0.38%) DNS
3 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.85%) Relational Database
2 21 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.00%) MySQL
4 12 (4.62%) OLTP
4 12 (4.62%) RDBMS
4 12 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.92%) Power BI
6 3 (1.15%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.15%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.38%) Metadata
7 1 (0.38%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.38%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 65 (25.00%) Git
2 22 (8.46%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.00%) JUnit
4 12 (4.62%) JMeter
4 12 (4.62%) Mockito
5 8 (3.08%) Axure RP
5 8 (3.08%) JIRA
6 4 (1.54%) Babel
6 4 (1.54%) rollup.js
6 4 (1.54%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.77%) Balsamiq
7 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.77%) Postman
7 2 (0.77%) Subversion
8 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.38%) Selenium
8 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.38%) Xcode
General
1 73 (28.08%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.46%) Finance
3 29 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.62%) Law
5 24 (9.23%) Marketing
5 24 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.23%) Multimedia
7 9 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.69%) Legal
8 7 (2.69%) Retail
9 4 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.15%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.77%) Advertising
11 2 (0.77%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.77%) Automotive
11 2 (0.77%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Games
12 1 (0.38%) International Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 190 (73.08%) Developer
2 64 (24.62%) Senior
3 51 (19.62%) Software Developer
4 50 (19.23%) Senior Developer
5 45 (17.31%) Full-Stack Developer
6 30 (11.54%) .NET Developer
7 23 (8.85%) .NET Software Developer
7 23 (8.85%) Software Engineer
8 21 (8.08%) Engineering Manager
9 19 (7.31%) Web Developer
10 18 (6.92%) Java Developer
11 16 (6.15%) Senior Web Developer
12 15 (5.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 15 (5.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (5.38%) Full-Stack Web Developer
13 14 (5.38%) Oracle Developer
13 14 (5.38%) React Developer
13 14 (5.38%) Senior Oracle Developer
14 12 (4.62%) Mid-Level Java Developer
15 11 (4.23%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (50.77%) HTML
2 100 (38.46%) CSS
3 93 (35.77%) React
4 65 (25.00%) .NET
5 43 (16.54%) Node.js
6 39 (15.00%) REST
7 34 (13.08%) JSON
8 26 (10.00%) RESTful
9 24 (9.23%) AngularJS
10 22 (8.46%) jQuery
11 20 (7.69%) Web Services
11 20 (7.69%) XML
12 19 (7.31%) Spring
13 18 (6.92%) Spring Boot
14 16 (6.15%) .NET Framework
14 16 (6.15%) ASP.NET
15 14 (5.38%) .NET Core
16 13 (5.00%) Hibernate
16 13 (5.00%) Vue
17 12 (4.62%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.08%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (7.31%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.08%) Cybercrime
5 7 (2.69%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.92%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.54%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.15%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.15%) Digital Signage
8 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.15%) Social Media
8 3 (1.15%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.77%) PMI
10 1 (0.38%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.38%) CMDB
10 1 (0.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.85%) Windows
2 7 (2.69%) Linux
3 3 (1.15%) Android
4 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (45.00%) Agile
2 68 (26.15%) CI/CD
3 66 (25.38%) Software Engineering
4 63 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (20.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 51 (19.62%) User Experience
7 47 (18.08%) DevOps
8 41 (15.77%) AI
9 40 (15.38%) Mentoring
10 29 (11.15%) SDLC
10 29 (11.15%) TDD
11 28 (10.77%) Clean Code
12 27 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (10.38%) Web Development
13 24 (9.23%) Microservices
13 24 (9.23%) Roadmaps
14 22 (8.46%) Containerisation
14 22 (8.46%) Front End Development
15 21 (8.08%) Test Automation
15 21 (8.08%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 63 (24.23%) Python
1 63 (24.23%) TypeScript
2 49 (18.85%) C#
3 45 (17.31%) Java
4 44 (16.92%) SQL
5 21 (8.08%) PHP
6 14 (5.38%) PL/SQL
7 13 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.69%) Apex Code
8 7 (2.69%) Rust
9 6 (2.31%) Go
10 5 (1.92%) C++
11 4 (1.54%) R
12 3 (1.15%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.15%) VBA
13 2 (0.77%) C
13 2 (0.77%) Perl
14 1 (0.38%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.38%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (12.69%) Degree
2 32 (12.31%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.23%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 11 (4.23%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.15%) PhD
8 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.77%) HNC
8 2 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.08%) QA
2 12 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.31%) GDPR
4 5 (1.92%) WCAG
5 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 45 (17.31%) Docker
2 10 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (14.23%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.62%) Kibana
3 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.15%) Oracle
3 13 (5.00%) Splunk
4 12 (4.62%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.08%) Adobe
5 8 (3.08%) HubSpot
6 7 (2.69%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.31%) Google
8 5 (1.92%) Cisco
8 5 (1.92%) Meraki
9 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.38%) Ahrefs
10 1 (0.38%) Jitterbit
10 1 (0.38%) Screaming Frog
10 1 (0.38%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.38%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.38%) Talend
10 1 (0.38%) Workday