JavaScript Job Trends in the South West

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 48 22
Rank change year-on-year -14 -26 +10
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 252 145 495
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.53% 4.17% 6.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.32% 20.17% 25.04%
Number of salaries quoted 189 104 295
10th Percentile £30,250 £26,500 £32,700
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,773 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.45% +3.85% -

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,544 719 1,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.51% 20.66% 25.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,128 484 1,273
10th Percentile £34,850 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -3.85%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in the South West

JavaScript
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in the South West over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in the South West

JavaScript
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Bristol -15 74 £60,000 +14.29% 37
Gloucestershire -27 61 £85,000 +47.83% 33
Devon +1 47 £60,000 +41.18% 13
Somerset -23 39 £35,000 +12.90% 10
Dorset -8 18 £33,000 +20.00% 12
Wiltshire -19 7 £57,500 - 5
Cornwall - 3 - -
JavaScript
England

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 16 (6.35%) Apache
2 9 (3.57%) Confluence
3 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.19%) JBoss
3 3 (1.19%) nginx
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.40%) InDesign
2 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.40%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 89 (35.32%) Azure
2 75 (29.76%) AWS
3 34 (13.49%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (12.30%) Power Platform
5 27 (10.71%) GCP
6 25 (9.92%) OpenShift
7 20 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (6.75%) SaaS
9 12 (4.76%) GitHub
10 9 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.38%) Azure AI
11 6 (2.38%) Serverless
12 5 (1.98%) Figma
12 5 (1.98%) Google Play
13 4 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.59%) Datadog
14 3 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.19%) Cloud Functions
14 3 (1.19%) Cloud Run
14 3 (1.19%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.17%) VPN
1 8 (3.17%) WAN
2 3 (1.19%) AMQP
2 3 (1.19%) Broadband
2 3 (1.19%) SSL
2 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.40%) DNS
3 1 (0.40%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.13%) MongoDB
2 19 (7.54%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (4.37%) MySQL
5 10 (3.97%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (2.38%) InfluxDB
8 6 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.98%) Big Data
9 5 (1.98%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.98%) Power BI
10 4 (1.59%) GIS
10 4 (1.59%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.19%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.19%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.19%) ZAP BI
12 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 74 (29.37%) Git
2 30 (11.90%) Subversion
3 26 (10.32%) Eclipse
4 25 (9.92%) Jenkins
5 24 (9.52%) GitLab
6 22 (8.73%) JUnit
7 19 (7.54%) Cypress.io
8 18 (7.14%) JIRA
9 12 (4.76%) Selenium
10 11 (4.37%) SonarQube
11 8 (3.17%) Cucumber
11 8 (3.17%) TestRail
12 7 (2.78%) MSI
12 7 (2.78%) Robot Framework
13 5 (1.98%) Postman
14 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
14 3 (1.19%) CircleCI
14 3 (1.19%) NUnit
14 3 (1.19%) Snyk
14 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 57 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.30%) Finance
3 29 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.75%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.57%) Aerospace
6 9 (3.57%) Military
7 8 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.78%) Retail
9 4 (1.59%) Law
10 3 (1.19%) Legal
10 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.79%) Banking
11 2 (0.79%) Electronics
11 2 (0.79%) Environmental Health
11 2 (0.79%) Local Government
11 2 (0.79%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 119 (47.22%) Developer
2 50 (19.84%) Software Engineer
3 39 (15.48%) Full-Stack Developer
4 37 (14.68%) Senior
5 26 (10.32%) Architect
5 26 (10.32%) Java Developer
5 26 (10.32%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (9.92%) Junior
7 23 (9.13%) Junior Developer
7 23 (9.13%) Junior Java Developer
8 21 (8.33%) Software Developer
9 19 (7.54%) Senior Developer
10 18 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 17 (6.75%) JavaScript Developer
12 16 (6.35%) Lead
13 15 (5.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 15 (5.95%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
14 12 (4.76%) .NET Developer
14 12 (4.76%) Analyst
14 12 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (39.68%) React
2 60 (23.81%) RESTful
3 48 (19.05%) CSS
4 46 (18.25%) HTML
5 42 (16.67%) Node.js
6 40 (15.87%) .NET
7 33 (13.10%) Terraform
8 27 (10.71%) Web Services
9 26 (10.32%) Jakarta EE
9 26 (10.32%) Struts
10 24 (9.52%) .NET Core
10 24 (9.52%) Vue
11 19 (7.54%) AngularJS
12 18 (7.14%) .NET Framework
12 18 (7.14%) ASP.NET
12 18 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (7.14%) REST
13 17 (6.75%) Spring
14 16 (6.35%) CSS3
14 16 (6.35%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 9 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.17%) Client/Server
5 7 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.98%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.98%) iPhone
7 4 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.19%) Blog
8 3 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.19%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.19%) Social Media
9 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.79%) IoT
9 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.70%) Linux
2 25 (9.92%) Windows
3 9 (3.57%) Android
3 9 (3.57%) CentOS
4 7 (2.78%) Unix
5 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.19%) Debian
6 3 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (48.02%) Full-Stack Development
2 101 (40.08%) Agile
3 99 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (32.94%) CI/CD
5 78 (30.95%) Software Engineering
6 60 (23.81%) DevOps
7 49 (19.44%) Test Automation
8 47 (18.65%) AI
9 37 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 36 (14.29%) Microservices
11 35 (13.89%) Computer Science
12 30 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
13 27 (10.71%) LLM
13 27 (10.71%) Machine Learning
14 24 (9.52%) Code Quality
14 24 (9.52%) Scrum
15 21 (8.33%) Requirements Analysis
15 21 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 134 (53.17%) Python
2 74 (29.37%) SQL
3 73 (28.97%) Java
4 72 (28.57%) C#
5 60 (23.81%) TypeScript
6 54 (21.43%) C++
7 26 (10.32%) Perl
8 22 (8.73%) Bash
9 14 (5.56%) PHP
10 13 (5.16%) PowerShell
10 13 (5.16%) Rust
11 9 (3.57%) Go
12 7 (2.78%) Bicep
13 4 (1.59%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.19%) C
14 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.79%) XAML
16 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (26.59%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.86%) Degree
3 37 (14.68%) SC Cleared
4 32 (12.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.35%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.19%) OCP
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.73%) Accessibility
2 19 (7.54%) QA
3 11 (4.37%) WCAG
4 10 (3.97%) NCSC
5 7 (2.78%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 57 (22.62%) Docker
2 6 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 58 (23.02%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.94%) Ansible
3 17 (6.75%) Grafana
4 14 (5.56%) Kibana
4 14 (5.56%) logstash
5 6 (2.38%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.59%) Puppet
7 3 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.19%) Nagios
7 3 (1.19%) Plesk
7 3 (1.19%) Podman
7 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 65 (25.79%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.95%) Google
2 15 (5.95%) Red Hat
3 9 (3.57%) Atlassian
3 9 (3.57%) Splunk
4 6 (2.38%) VMware
5 4 (1.59%) Sage
5 4 (1.59%) SAP
6 3 (1.19%) Adobe
6 3 (1.19%) New Relic
6 3 (1.19%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.79%) IBM
7 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco