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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 19 22
Rank change year-on-year -33 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 161 434 393
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.50% 7.75% 9.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.05% 26.19% 22.29%
Number of salaries quoted 125 228 326
10th Percentile £26,900 £32,850 £35,750
25th Percentile £34,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £69,938
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%

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 765 1,657 1,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.65% 29.59% 40.55%
Number of salaries quoted 566 911 1,422
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £44,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 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
Bristol -21 53 £50,000 -23.08% 42
Gloucestershire -1 33 £67,500 +12.50% 35
Devon -9 25 £40,000 -5.88% 24
Somerset -6 20 £27,000 -34.94% 22
Dorset -24 18 £33,750 -32.50% 12
Wiltshire -38 5 £60,000 -7.69% 19
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 8 (4.97%) Confluence
2 7 (4.35%) Apache
3 3 (1.86%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.86%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.86%) WebLogic Portal
3 3 (1.86%) WordPress
4 2 (1.24%) CMS
4 2 (1.24%) Drupal
5 1 (0.62%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.62%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (6.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.24%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.24%) Elementor
2 2 (1.24%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.62%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (3.73%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.48%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (2.48%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.86%) Primavera
4 1 (0.62%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.62%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 69 (42.86%) AWS
2 46 (28.57%) Azure
3 19 (11.80%) GitHub
4 13 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (7.45%) Serverless
6 7 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.73%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (3.11%) SaaS
9 3 (1.86%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (1.86%) Figma
9 3 (1.86%) GCP
9 3 (1.86%) OCI
10 2 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.24%) Cloudflare
10 2 (1.24%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.24%) Vercel
11 1 (0.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.70%) Internet
2 1 (0.62%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.66%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.56%) MySQL
3 12 (7.45%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.59%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.59%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.11%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.11%) Power BI
7 4 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.48%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (2.48%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.86%) Oracle Discoverer
8 3 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.24%) Big Data
9 2 (1.24%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.62%) DB2
Development Applications
1 41 (25.47%) Git
2 18 (11.18%) Cypress.io
3 16 (9.94%) JIRA
4 10 (6.21%) Oracle APEX
5 9 (5.59%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.97%) GitLab
6 8 (4.97%) Selenium
7 7 (4.35%) Bitbucket
7 7 (4.35%) JUnit
8 6 (3.73%) Postman
9 5 (3.11%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.48%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.48%) Zephyr
11 3 (1.86%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.86%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.24%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.24%) Gatling
12 2 (1.24%) LoadRunner
12 2 (1.24%) Maven
12 2 (1.24%) TestRail
General
1 30 (18.63%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.94%) Finance
3 15 (9.32%) Marketing
4 13 (8.07%) Multimedia
5 10 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.35%) Law
7 5 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.11%) Banking
7 5 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.86%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.24%) Electronics
10 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.24%) Games
10 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.62%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.62%) Military
11 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (46.58%) Developer
2 30 (18.63%) Software Engineer
3 24 (14.91%) Software Developer
4 18 (11.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (9.94%) Senior
6 13 (8.07%) Trainee
7 12 (7.45%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.83%) .NET Developer
8 11 (6.83%) Designer
9 9 (5.59%) Graduate
9 9 (5.59%) Tester
10 8 (4.97%) Analyst
11 7 (4.35%) C# Developer
11 7 (4.35%) C# Software Developer
11 7 (4.35%) Java Developer
11 7 (4.35%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.73%) .NET Software Developer
12 6 (3.73%) Oracle Developer
12 6 (3.73%) Trainee Developer
12 6 (3.73%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (45.34%) HTML
2 65 (40.37%) CSS
3 44 (27.33%) React
4 24 (14.91%) AngularJS
5 23 (14.29%) .NET
6 15 (9.32%) Spring
7 14 (8.70%) Playwright
8 13 (8.07%) Spring Boot
9 12 (7.45%) Vue
10 11 (6.83%) HTML5
10 11 (6.83%) RESTful
11 10 (6.21%) REST
12 9 (5.59%) .NET Framework
12 9 (5.59%) Entity Framework
13 8 (4.97%) CSS3
13 8 (4.97%) Hibernate
14 7 (4.35%) .NET Core
14 7 (4.35%) Web Services
15 6 (3.73%) Apache NiFi
15 6 (3.73%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.45%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.83%) Motion Graphics
3 6 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.48%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.48%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.86%) Smart Home
7 2 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.62%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.07%) Linux
2 4 (2.48%) Windows
3 3 (1.86%) Unix
4 2 (1.24%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.62%) Android
5 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (40.37%) Agile
2 52 (32.30%) Software Engineering
3 41 (25.47%) CI/CD
4 31 (19.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (15.53%) Mentoring
7 23 (14.29%) DevOps
8 22 (13.66%) Test Automation
9 20 (12.42%) Computer Science
9 20 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (10.56%) MVC
11 16 (9.94%) Scrum
12 15 (9.32%) Microservices
12 15 (9.32%) User Experience
13 12 (7.45%) B2B
13 12 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (7.45%) Front End Development
13 12 (7.45%) SDLC
14 11 (6.83%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (33.54%) Python
2 46 (28.57%) Java
3 43 (26.71%) SQL
3 43 (26.71%) TypeScript
4 33 (20.50%) C#
5 14 (8.70%) PHP
6 10 (6.21%) PL/SQL
7 9 (5.59%) T-SQL
8 7 (4.35%) R
9 6 (3.73%) C
10 4 (2.48%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.24%) C++
11 2 (1.24%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.24%) XAML
12 1 (0.62%) Bash
12 1 (0.62%) Perl
12 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (22.98%) Degree
2 30 (18.63%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.94%) AWS Certification
4 15 (9.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 13 (8.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 13 (8.07%) Azure Certification
6 13 (8.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (6.21%) SC Cleared
8 8 (4.97%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.86%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.07%) QA
2 8 (4.97%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) DICOM
3 1 (0.62%) GDPR
3 1 (0.62%) HL7
3 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (13.66%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (11.80%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.97%) Kibana
3 7 (4.35%) Terraform
4 3 (1.86%) Ansible
4 3 (1.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.62%) Grafana
5 1 (0.62%) logstash
Vendors
1 23 (14.29%) Oracle
2 22 (13.66%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.83%) Adobe
4 8 (4.97%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.48%) Infor
6 3 (1.86%) IFS
7 2 (1.24%) Netlify
7 2 (1.24%) SAP
7 2 (1.24%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.24%) Sybase
8 1 (0.62%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.62%) BMC
8 1 (0.62%) Databricks
8 1 (0.62%) QAD
8 1 (0.62%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.62%) Remedy
8 1 (0.62%) WooCommerce