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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 7 25
Rank change year-on-year -40 +18 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 15 93 59
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.89% 15.68% 7.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.10% 45.81% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 13 58 54
10th Percentile £28,250 £23,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £32,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -31.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £55,873 £50,625 £61,875
90th Percentile £70,175 £68,750 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £44,000 £32,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +35.38% -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 124 203 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 15.64% 34.23% 34.31%
Number of salaries quoted 97 120 216
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,098
25th Percentile £42,000 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,250 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +13.99% -6.36% +3.06%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,825 £74,230 £73,750
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 29 January 2026.

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 29 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
Newport -10 5 £41,000 -15.46% 21
Cardiff -27 5 £50,000 +53.85% 25
Torfaen - 4 £54,750 -
Bridgend - 1 £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 2 (13.33%) ColdFusion
2 1 (6.67%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 3 (20.00%) AWS
4 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (20.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (13.33%) Serverless
6 1 (6.67%) Azure API Management
6 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
6 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
2 1 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Zephyr
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) JMeter
3 1 (6.67%) Moq
3 1 (6.67%) Postman
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Multimedia
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Trainee
5 2 (13.33%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior SQL Developer
5 2 (13.33%) SEO Developer
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Developer
6 1 (6.67%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior JavaScript Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) CSS
2 8 (53.33%) HTML
3 5 (33.33%) HTML5
4 4 (26.67%) RESTful
5 3 (20.00%) .NET
6 2 (13.33%) Bootstrap
6 2 (13.33%) CSS3
6 2 (13.33%) Django
6 2 (13.33%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (13.33%) React
7 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (6.67%) Express.js
7 1 (6.67%) FHIR
7 1 (6.67%) jQuery
7 1 (6.67%) koa
7 1 (6.67%) Node.js
7 1 (6.67%) OAuth
7 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
7 1 (6.67%) OpenID
7 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (20.00%) OOP
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (20.00%) User Experience
6 2 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (13.33%) API Development
6 2 (13.33%) API Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) C#
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (13.33%) R
6 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) HL7
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Qualys