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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -30 -4 +2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 190 238 797
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.79% 8.75% 9.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.92% 25.35% 26.85%
Number of salaries quoted 151 179 698
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.08%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,322
England median annual salary £59,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.89% +10.35% -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 1,004 939 2,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.72% 34.53% 35.53%
Number of salaries quoted 651 632 2,471
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,250 £82,725 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -20 73 £52,500 -12.50% 29
Gloucestershire -4 39 £56,250 -6.25% 31
Devon +8 35 £42,050 -35.31% 15
Somerset -30 14 £45,000 -21.74% 12
Dorset -26 11 £45,000 -12.20% 7
Wiltshire -40 7 £65,000 -1.89% 12
Cornwall - 3 £32,000 - 1
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 7 (3.68%) Apache
2 4 (2.11%) WordPress
3 3 (1.58%) CMS
3 3 (1.58%) Confluence
3 3 (1.58%) NServiceBus
3 3 (1.58%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.58%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.58%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Joomla!
Applications
1 3 (1.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.05%) InDesign
2 2 (1.05%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.05%) Windchill
3 1 (0.53%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.53%) Elementor
3 1 (0.53%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.53%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.58%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.58%) Primavera
2 2 (1.05%) Eloqua
2 2 (1.05%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (41.05%) AWS
2 64 (33.68%) Azure
3 23 (12.11%) GitHub
4 17 (8.95%) Serverless
5 15 (7.89%) SaaS
6 14 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.74%) GCP
9 8 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.21%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.63%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.11%) npm
12 3 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.58%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.58%) OCI
13 2 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.05%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.00%) Internet
2 2 (1.05%) Broadband
2 2 (1.05%) Network Security
2 2 (1.05%) VPN
2 2 (1.05%) WAN
3 1 (0.53%) AMQP
3 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.42%) MySQL
3 15 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (6.84%) NoSQL
5 11 (5.79%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.21%) Neo4j
6 8 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.11%) Big Data
8 4 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.58%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.58%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.58%) Oracle Discoverer
9 3 (1.58%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.05%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.53%) DB2
11 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.53%) Power BI
11 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (25.26%) Git
2 18 (9.47%) Cypress.io
3 15 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.32%) GitLab
5 10 (5.26%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.68%) JIRA
6 7 (3.68%) Selenium
7 4 (2.11%) JUnit
7 4 (2.11%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (2.11%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (2.11%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.11%) TestRail
7 4 (2.11%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.58%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.58%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.05%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.05%) Postman
9 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.05%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.05%) TestNG
General
1 21 (11.05%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.00%) Multimedia
3 8 (4.21%) Finance
3 8 (4.21%) Marketing
3 8 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (4.21%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.16%) Automotive
4 6 (3.16%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.11%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.11%) Electronics
6 4 (2.11%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.05%) Military
7 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 99 (52.11%) Developer
2 37 (19.47%) Software Engineer
3 26 (13.68%) Software Developer
4 24 (12.63%) Senior
5 22 (11.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 19 (10.00%) Trainee
8 13 (6.84%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.32%) .NET Developer
9 12 (6.32%) PHP Developer
10 10 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
11 9 (4.74%) Java Developer
11 9 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (4.74%) Test Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Lead
13 7 (3.68%) .NET Software Developer
14 6 (3.16%) Automation Tester
14 6 (3.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 6 (3.16%) Python Developer
14 6 (3.16%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (37.37%) HTML
2 70 (36.84%) CSS
3 53 (27.89%) React
4 28 (14.74%) AngularJS
5 26 (13.68%) .NET
6 19 (10.00%) Vue
7 18 (9.47%) Node.js
8 17 (8.95%) Playwright
9 16 (8.42%) Spring
10 15 (7.89%) REST
10 15 (7.89%) Spring Boot
11 14 (7.37%) ASP.NET
11 14 (7.37%) RESTful
12 10 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
13 9 (4.74%) Sass
14 8 (4.21%) MERN Stack
15 7 (3.68%) .NET Framework
15 7 (3.68%) Symfony
16 6 (3.16%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.21%) Educational Technology
2 8 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.21%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.16%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.58%) Graphic Design
5 3 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.53%) IoT
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.53%) Motion Graphics
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.37%) Linux
2 8 (4.21%) Windows
3 4 (2.11%) CentOS
3 4 (2.11%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) Debian
4 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (32.63%) Agile
2 55 (28.95%) Software Engineering
3 54 (28.42%) CI/CD
4 50 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (18.42%) DevOps
6 34 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (16.32%) Mentoring
8 27 (14.21%) Cybersecurity
9 25 (13.16%) Front End Development
10 24 (12.63%) Test Automation
11 23 (12.11%) Containerisation
12 18 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (8.95%) Microservices
14 16 (8.42%) Scrum
14 16 (8.42%) Web Development
15 15 (7.89%) MVC
16 14 (7.37%) API Development
16 14 (7.37%) Computer Science
17 12 (6.32%) Collaborative Culture
17 12 (6.32%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 86 (45.26%) Python
2 65 (34.21%) TypeScript
3 52 (27.37%) Java
4 46 (24.21%) C#
5 30 (15.79%) PHP
6 29 (15.26%) SQL
7 13 (6.84%) R
8 12 (6.32%) C
9 9 (4.74%) Bash
9 9 (4.74%) C++
10 7 (3.68%) Go
11 5 (2.63%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.11%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.11%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.11%) Rust
13 2 (1.05%) VB
14 1 (0.53%) Perl
14 1 (0.53%) Ruby
14 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.11%) Degree
3 22 (11.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 20 (10.53%) AWS Certification
5 19 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 19 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 19 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (4.74%) ISTQB
8 6 (3.16%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.63%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.53%) OCA
11 1 (0.53%) OCP
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.47%) QA
2 9 (4.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (21.58%) Docker
2 5 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.32%) Terraform
3 10 (5.26%) Kibana
4 9 (4.74%) Ansible
5 8 (4.21%) Grafana
6 7 (3.68%) logstash
7 3 (1.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (1.58%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.05%) Podman
8 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.53%) Argo
9 1 (0.53%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.53%) Puppet
9 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.26%) Oracle
3 8 (4.21%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.63%) Adobe
4 5 (2.63%) Splunk
5 4 (2.11%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.11%) SAP
6 3 (1.58%) Google
6 3 (1.58%) IFS
6 3 (1.58%) VMware
7 2 (1.05%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.53%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.53%) Siemens