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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 23 17
Rank change year-on-year -37 -6 +3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 186 205 788
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.41% 7.81% 8.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.23% 25.85% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 152 141 686
10th Percentile £32,250 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,215 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% +10.36% -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 1,146 793 2,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.84% 30.22% 31.55%
Number of salaries quoted 732 546 2,398
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -25 73 £55,000 -8.33% 29
Devon +4 36 £50,000 -13.04% 11
Gloucestershire -29 33 £50,000 -16.67% 14
Somerset -39 14 £43,892 -23.67% 8
Dorset -14 13 £45,000 -7.69% 5
Wiltshire -32 6 £65,000 +13.04% 12
Cornwall - 5 £32,000 -
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 9 (4.84%) Apache
2 4 (2.15%) WordPress
3 3 (1.61%) CMS
4 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.08%) Confluence
4 2 (1.08%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.54%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.08%) InDesign
1 2 (1.08%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.54%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.54%) Elementor
2 1 (0.54%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.54%) Sketch
2 1 (0.54%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.54%) Shopify
2 1 (0.54%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 60 (32.26%) AWS
2 57 (30.65%) Azure
3 19 (10.22%) GitHub
4 16 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (8.06%) SaaS
6 14 (7.53%) Serverless
7 13 (6.99%) GCP
8 12 (6.45%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.76%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.69%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.69%) npm
13 4 (2.15%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.61%) Cloud Run
14 3 (1.61%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.45%) Internet
2 7 (3.76%) VPN
2 7 (3.76%) WAN
3 4 (2.15%) Broadband
4 2 (1.08%) AMQP
4 2 (1.08%) Network Security
4 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.06%) MongoDB
3 14 (7.53%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (7.53%) MySQL
4 13 (6.99%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.23%) Big Data
7 5 (2.69%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.15%) InfluxDB
8 4 (2.15%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.61%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.61%) Power BI
10 2 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.08%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.08%) GIS
10 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (23.66%) Git
2 17 (9.14%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.53%) GitLab
4 13 (6.99%) Cypress.io
5 10 (5.38%) Cucumber
6 6 (3.23%) JIRA
6 6 (3.23%) Selenium
6 6 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.69%) JUnit
8 4 (2.15%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.15%) Subversion
8 4 (2.15%) TestRail
9 3 (1.61%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.08%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.08%) Postman
10 2 (1.08%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.08%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (1.08%) TestNG
General
1 32 (17.20%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.45%) Multimedia
3 9 (4.84%) Manufacturing
4 8 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.76%) Finance
5 7 (3.76%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.23%) Automotive
7 5 (2.69%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.69%) Marketing
8 4 (2.15%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Electronics
10 2 (1.08%) Local Government
10 2 (1.08%) Military
10 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 97 (52.15%) Developer
2 36 (19.35%) Software Engineer
3 29 (15.59%) Full-Stack Developer
3 29 (15.59%) Senior
4 24 (12.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 20 (10.75%) JavaScript Developer
6 19 (10.22%) Software Developer
7 15 (8.06%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 15 (8.06%) Senior Developer
8 14 (7.53%) PHP Developer
9 12 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (6.45%) Trainee
10 10 (5.38%) Python Developer
11 9 (4.84%) .NET Developer
11 9 (4.84%) Analyst
11 9 (4.84%) Architect
11 9 (4.84%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 9 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (4.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (4.30%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (31.72%) React
2 56 (30.11%) CSS
2 56 (30.11%) HTML
3 28 (15.05%) AngularJS
4 27 (14.52%) Node.js
5 26 (13.98%) .NET
6 25 (13.44%) Vue
7 23 (12.37%) RESTful
8 18 (9.68%) REST
9 16 (8.60%) ASP.NET
10 14 (7.53%) Playwright
11 13 (6.99%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (6.45%) Spring
13 11 (5.91%) Spring Boot
14 9 (4.84%) .NET Core
14 9 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (4.84%) Tailwind CSS
15 8 (4.30%) Blazor
15 8 (4.30%) HTML5
15 8 (4.30%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.30%) Educational Technology
4 7 (3.76%) Client/Server
4 7 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.76%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.61%) Graphic Design
6 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) IoT
8 1 (0.54%) iPhone
8 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.54%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.06%) Linux
2 11 (5.91%) Windows
3 6 (3.23%) CentOS
4 2 (1.08%) Debian
4 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.54%) Android
5 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 61 (32.80%) Agile
3 50 (26.88%) CI/CD
4 47 (25.27%) Software Engineering
5 44 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (16.67%) DevOps
7 29 (15.59%) Front End Development
8 25 (13.44%) Mentoring
9 24 (12.90%) Containerisation
10 21 (11.29%) Web Development
11 18 (9.68%) Test Automation
12 17 (9.14%) Scrum
13 16 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (8.60%) User Experience
14 15 (8.06%) AI
14 15 (8.06%) Collaborative Culture
14 15 (8.06%) Microservices
15 13 (6.99%) ERP
15 13 (6.99%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 81 (43.55%) Python
2 62 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 49 (26.34%) C#
4 41 (22.04%) Java
4 41 (22.04%) SQL
5 29 (15.59%) PHP
6 15 (8.06%) C++
7 12 (6.45%) Bash
8 9 (4.84%) R
9 8 (4.30%) C
9 8 (4.30%) Go
10 7 (3.76%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.76%) Rust
11 3 (1.61%) Perl
12 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.08%) VB
13 1 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.75%) Degree
3 16 (8.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 13 (6.99%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.38%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.76%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.61%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.54%) OCA
10 1 (0.54%) OCP
10 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.91%) QA
2 10 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.69%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (18.28%) Docker
2 4 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (14.52%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.60%) Terraform
3 13 (6.99%) Ansible
4 12 (6.45%) Kibana
5 11 (5.91%) Grafana
6 10 (5.38%) logstash
7 4 (2.15%) Podman
7 4 (2.15%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.61%) Plesk
9 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.08%) Puppet
10 1 (0.54%) Argo
10 1 (0.54%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.76%) Atlassian
2 7 (3.76%) Google
3 6 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.23%) Splunk
4 5 (2.69%) Oracle
5 4 (2.15%) Adobe
5 4 (2.15%) VMware
6 2 (1.08%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.08%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.08%) SAP
7 1 (0.54%) Siemens