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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 7 18
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 34 105 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 5.14% 9.57% 9.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.82% 38.60% 28.02%
Number of salaries quoted 31 71 61
10th Percentile £51,000 £23,750 £28,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £73,750 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £62,500 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +38.89% -3.23% -15.45%

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 114 272 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 17.22% 24.79% 34.52%
Number of salaries quoted 101 175 180
10th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 £33,733
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,289 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £66,382
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £46,355
% change year-on-year +4.76% +13.26% -11.71%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript 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 19 September 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 19 September 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
Cardiff -10 16 £60,000 +37.14% 18
Torfaen - 12 £67,500 -
Newport -6 2 £52,000 +8.33% 12
Bridgend -6 2 £50,000 -
Gwent +2 1 £52,000 - 8
Glamorgan -12 1 £62,500 - 23
JavaScript
Wales

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 6 (17.65%) CMS
2 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 3 (8.82%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (64.71%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) Serverless
3 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) AWS
4 4 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 4 (11.76%) PowerApps
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Functions
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (8.82%) Contentful
5 3 (8.82%) GCP
5 3 (8.82%) npm
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub
7 1 (2.94%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.94%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.94%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) Looker
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) Bitbucket
2 4 (11.76%) Cucumber
2 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) JIRA
2 4 (11.76%) Selenium
3 3 (8.82%) Appium
3 3 (8.82%) JMeter
3 3 (8.82%) JUnit
3 3 (8.82%) Katalon Studio
3 3 (8.82%) Maven
3 3 (8.82%) REST Assured
3 3 (8.82%) TestNG
4 2 (5.88%) GitLab
4 2 (5.88%) webpack
5 1 (2.94%) Postman
5 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.94%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.94%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Advertising
6 1 (2.94%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
1 16 (47.06%) Lead
2 11 (32.35%) Senior
2 11 (32.35%) Senior Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (20.59%) Senior Web Developer
4 7 (20.59%) Web Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 5 (14.71%) JavaScript Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) QA Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) QA Leader
8 1 (2.94%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.94%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Senior .NET Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (67.65%) HTML
2 17 (50.00%) CSS
3 15 (44.12%) React
4 11 (32.35%) Django
4 11 (32.35%) HTML5
5 10 (29.41%) Vue
6 7 (20.59%) REST
6 7 (20.59%) Sass
6 7 (20.59%) Symfony
7 4 (11.76%) Bootstrap
7 4 (11.76%) Express.js
7 4 (11.76%) Node.js
8 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
8 3 (8.82%) GraphQL
8 3 (8.82%) hapi
8 3 (8.82%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (8.82%) NestJS
8 3 (8.82%) OpenLayers
8 3 (8.82%) React Native
8 3 (8.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Legacy Code
2 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.82%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) Mentoring
2 20 (58.82%) Agile
3 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (35.29%) Scrum
4 12 (35.29%) User Experience
5 11 (32.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (32.35%) Kanban
5 11 (32.35%) Software Testing
5 11 (32.35%) Workflow
6 9 (26.47%) Web Development
7 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
8 6 (17.65%) Microservices
9 5 (14.71%) DevOps
10 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
10 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (11.76%) Sprint Retrospective
10 4 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
11 3 (8.82%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (20.59%) TypeScript
3 5 (14.71%) C#
4 4 (11.76%) Java
5 3 (8.82%) Groovy
5 3 (8.82%) PHP
6 2 (5.88%) SQL
7 1 (2.94%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Google
2 3 (8.82%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.94%) Ahrefs
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Qualys
3 1 (2.94%) Salesforce