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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 6 24
Rank change year-on-year -43 +18 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 13 96 50
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.64% 15.61% 7.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.16% 46.83% 21.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11 61 45
10th Percentile £28,250 £23,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £32,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.23% -31.58% -13.64%
75th Percentile £64,375 £51,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,000
Wales median annual salary £42,250 £32,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +30.00% -31.58% -13.64%

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 128 205 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 16.12% 33.33% 35.67%
Number of salaries quoted 101 122 176
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,250 £52,144
Median % change year-on-year +13.99% -7.47% +4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £66,382
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £73,750
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £49,104 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.01% -1.79% -

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 18 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 18 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
Torfaen - 5 £67,500 -
Cardiff -30 4 £40,250 +23.85% 49
Newport -14 3 £30,500 -37.11% 45
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 1 (7.69%) ColdFusion
1 1 (7.69%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) GitHub
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure API Management
5 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
5 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Internet
2 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
2 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Zephyr
3 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.69%) JMeter
3 1 (7.69%) Moq
3 1 (7.69%) Postman
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
3 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Multimedia
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Trainee
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior JavaScript Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior SQL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) CSS
2 8 (61.54%) HTML
3 5 (38.46%) HTML5
4 3 (23.08%) .NET
4 3 (23.08%) Django
4 3 (23.08%) React
4 3 (23.08%) RESTful
5 2 (15.38%) Bootstrap
6 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (7.69%) CSS3
6 1 (7.69%) Express.js
6 1 (7.69%) FHIR
6 1 (7.69%) jQuery
6 1 (7.69%) koa
6 1 (7.69%) Node.js
6 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
6 1 (7.69%) OpenID
6 1 (7.69%) Playwright
6 1 (7.69%) PySpark
6 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Mentoring
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (30.77%) User Experience
5 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (23.08%) Kanban
5 3 (23.08%) OOP
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Workflow
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Test Management
7 1 (7.69%) BDD
7 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (7.69%) High Availability
7 1 (7.69%) Non-Functional Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) R
5 1 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) HL7
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Qualys