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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -38 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 156 369 627
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.89% 9.47% 10.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.21% 27.62% 25.79%
Number of salaries quoted 120 195 541
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,625 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £65,313 £72,500 £66,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,261 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.45% +10.44% -7.69%

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 812 1,336 2,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.04% 34.28% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 579 710 2,027
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +8.90% -1.08%
75th Percentile £68,575 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 30 January 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 30 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
Bristol -23 68 £50,000 -16.67% 42
Gloucestershire +3 31 £57,500 -11.54% 44
Devon +1 22 £40,000 -15.79% 23
Somerset -27 10 £36,000 -17.71% 17
Dorset -33 10 £65,000 +30.00% 14
Wiltshire -44 5 £65,000 +13.04% 16
Cornwall -15 2 £32,000 -8.57%
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 (5.13%) Apache
2 7 (4.49%) Confluence
3 3 (1.92%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.92%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.92%) WebLogic Portal
3 3 (1.92%) WordPress
4 2 (1.28%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.64%) CMS
5 1 (0.64%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.28%) Windchill
3 1 (0.64%) Elementor
3 1 (0.64%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.92%) Primavera
2 2 (1.28%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (51.28%) AWS
2 64 (41.03%) Azure
3 27 (17.31%) GitHub
4 15 (9.62%) Serverless
5 12 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (6.41%) SaaS
7 8 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.49%) GCP
9 5 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.56%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.92%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (1.92%) OCI
11 3 (1.92%) Pulumi
12 2 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.28%) Azure API Management
12 2 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.46%) Internet
2 1 (0.64%) AMQP
2 1 (0.64%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.62%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (8.97%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.05%) MySQL
3 11 (7.05%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.13%) Neo4j
5 5 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.92%) Big Data
7 3 (1.92%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.92%) Oracle Discoverer
7 3 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.28%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.28%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.64%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.64%) DB2
9 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.64%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (23.72%) Git
2 15 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 10 (6.41%) GitLab
4 10 (6.41%) Oracle APEX
5 9 (5.77%) Cucumber
6 8 (5.13%) JIRA
7 7 (4.49%) Selenium
8 6 (3.85%) JUnit
9 5 (3.21%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.21%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.56%) Postman
10 4 (2.56%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.92%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.92%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.92%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.28%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.28%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.28%) TestNG
12 2 (1.28%) TestRail
General
1 21 (13.46%) Multimedia
2 15 (9.62%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.41%) Marketing
4 8 (5.13%) Finance
5 6 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.56%) Electronics
6 4 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.28%) Automotive
7 2 (1.28%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Games
8 1 (0.64%) Military
8 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 75 (48.08%) Developer
2 31 (19.87%) Software Engineer
3 24 (15.38%) Software Developer
4 21 (13.46%) Trainee
5 18 (11.54%) Senior
6 17 (10.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (6.41%) .NET Developer
7 10 (6.41%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.77%) Test Engineer
9 8 (5.13%) Java Developer
9 8 (5.13%) PHP Developer
9 8 (5.13%) Trainee Developer
9 8 (5.13%) Trainee Software Developer
10 7 (4.49%) Tester
11 6 (3.85%) Automation Tester
11 6 (3.85%) C# Developer
11 6 (3.85%) C# Software Developer
11 6 (3.85%) Lead
11 6 (3.85%) Oracle Developer
12 5 (3.21%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (42.95%) CSS
1 67 (42.95%) HTML
2 46 (29.49%) React
3 22 (14.10%) AngularJS
4 18 (11.54%) .NET
5 14 (8.97%) Spring
5 14 (8.97%) Spring Boot
6 13 (8.33%) RESTful
6 13 (8.33%) Vue
7 11 (7.05%) Playwright
8 9 (5.77%) .NET Framework
8 9 (5.77%) ASP.NET
8 9 (5.77%) Entity Framework
8 9 (5.77%) Node.js
9 8 (5.13%) MERN Stack
9 8 (5.13%) REST
10 7 (4.49%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.49%) Apache NiFi
10 7 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (3.85%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.05%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.85%) Educational Technology
3 5 (3.21%) Motion Graphics
4 4 (2.56%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.28%) Smart Home
7 1 (0.64%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) IoT
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.64%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.64%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.41%) Linux
2 4 (2.56%) Unix
2 4 (2.56%) Windows
3 2 (1.28%) CentOS
3 2 (1.28%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.64%) Debian
4 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (36.54%) Agile
2 50 (32.05%) Software Engineering
3 42 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 37 (23.72%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (21.15%) Mentoring
6 29 (18.59%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (16.03%) DevOps
7 25 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (11.54%) Test Automation
9 16 (10.26%) Microservices
10 15 (9.62%) MVC
11 14 (8.97%) Containerisation
12 13 (8.33%) Front End Development
13 12 (7.69%) Computer Science
13 12 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (7.69%) Scrum
14 11 (7.05%) User Experience
15 10 (6.41%) API Development
15 10 (6.41%) Infrastructure as Code
16 9 (5.77%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (50.00%) Python
2 52 (33.33%) Java
3 42 (26.92%) TypeScript
4 32 (20.51%) C#
5 29 (18.59%) SQL
6 19 (12.18%) PHP
7 13 (8.33%) R
8 11 (7.05%) C
9 10 (6.41%) PL/SQL
10 9 (5.77%) T-SQL
11 5 (3.21%) Bash
12 4 (2.56%) C++
12 4 (2.56%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.28%) Go
13 2 (1.28%) Rust
13 2 (1.28%) VB
13 2 (1.28%) XAML
14 1 (0.64%) Perl
14 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (22.44%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.67%) Degree
3 22 (14.10%) AWS Certification
3 22 (14.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 21 (13.46%) Azure Certification
4 21 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (11.54%) DV Cleared
6 8 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.13%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.85%) ISTQB
8 5 (3.21%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.64%) OCA
10 1 (0.64%) OCP
10 1 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.41%) QA
2 9 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.64%) GDPR
3 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (17.95%) Docker
2 5 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (16.03%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.77%) Terraform
3 8 (5.13%) Kibana
4 6 (3.85%) Ansible
5 4 (2.56%) Grafana
5 4 (2.56%) logstash
6 3 (1.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.64%) Argo
7 1 (0.64%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.64%) Puppet
7 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.90%) Oracle
3 8 (5.13%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.85%) Adobe
5 4 (2.56%) SAP
6 3 (1.92%) IFS
6 3 (1.92%) Splunk
7 2 (1.28%) Google
7 2 (1.28%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.64%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.64%) BMC
8 1 (0.64%) Remedy
8 1 (0.64%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.64%) Siemens
8 1 (0.64%) VMware