JavaScript Job Trends in South Wales

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 5 30
Rank change year-on-year -40 +25 -13
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 24 109 42
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 2.77% 14.51% 7.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.00% 45.61% 19.72%
Number of salaries quoted 22 72 38
10th Percentile £28,275 £23,750 £34,531
25th Percentile £39,250 £31,250 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £32,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -31.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £73,750 £51,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - £68,750 £77,325
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £32,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +84.62% -31.58% -9.52%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 150 239 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 17.32% 31.82% 38.38%
Number of salaries quoted 126 148 153
10th Percentile £34,125 £23,750 £35,150
25th Percentile £47,500 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.97% +1.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,401 £72,487
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £49,324
% change year-on-year +10.00% +1.37% -1.40%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in South Wales

JavaScript
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in South Wales over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in South Wales

JavaScript
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 7 December 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
Torfaen - 11 £67,500 - 1
Cardiff -25 8 £60,000 +84.62% 38
Newport -12 3 £30,500 -37.11% 28
Bridgend - 2 £50,000 -
JavaScript
Wales

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (4.17%) ColdFusion
1 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (20.83%) GitHub
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
4 1 (4.17%) BrowserStack
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (4.17%) NetScaler
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) Appium
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) JMeter
3 1 (4.17%) JUnit
3 1 (4.17%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (4.17%) Maven
3 1 (4.17%) Moq
3 1 (4.17%) Postman
3 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.17%) TestNG
3 1 (4.17%) WebDriver
3 1 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Multimedia
4 1 (4.17%) Advertising
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
1 10 (41.67%) Lead
2 6 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Senior
2 6 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Web Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Trainee
4 3 (12.50%) Web Developer
5 2 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.17%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (4.17%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (75.00%) HTML
2 16 (66.67%) CSS
3 11 (45.83%) HTML5
4 10 (41.67%) React
5 9 (37.50%) Django
6 3 (12.50%) .NET
6 3 (12.50%) RESTful
6 3 (12.50%) Sass
6 3 (12.50%) Symfony
6 3 (12.50%) Vue
7 2 (8.33%) Bootstrap
7 2 (8.33%) REST
8 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (4.17%) CSS3
8 1 (4.17%) Express.js
8 1 (4.17%) Node.js
8 1 (4.17%) OAuth
8 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
8 1 (4.17%) OpenID
8 1 (4.17%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Legacy Code
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 12 (50.00%) Agile
3 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (41.67%) User Experience
5 9 (37.50%) Kanban
5 9 (37.50%) Scrum
5 9 (37.50%) Software Testing
5 9 (37.50%) Workflow
6 7 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
7 5 (20.83%) DevOps
7 5 (20.83%) Web Development
8 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (12.50%) OOP
9 2 (8.33%) API Integration
9 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
10 1 (4.17%) BDD
10 1 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 1 (4.17%) High Availability
10 1 (4.17%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (8.33%) R
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
4 1 (4.17%) Groovy
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) HL7
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) Qualys
2 1 (4.17%) Salesforce