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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 19 22
Rank change year-on-year -39 +3 -10
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 143 377 440
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.80% 9.08% 9.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.67% 27.08% 23.59%
Number of salaries quoted 111 195 367
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,125 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.00% +0.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.05% +4.40% -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 766 1,392 1,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.02% 33.51% 39.51%
Number of salaries quoted 559 755 1,509
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,218
25th Percentile £39,281 £43,650 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.29%
75th Percentile £67,950 £71,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 15 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 15 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 62 £50,000 -16.67% 39
Gloucestershire 0 25 £67,500 +8.00% 54
Devon -2 22 £40,000 -11.11% 31
Somerset -22 11 £27,000 -36.47% 25
Dorset -29 10 £65,000 +30.00% 24
Wiltshire -44 5 £62,500 +8.70% 21
Cornwall -20 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 8 (5.59%) Confluence
2 7 (4.90%) Apache
3 3 (2.10%) Tomcat
3 3 (2.10%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.10%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.70%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.40%) Windchill
3 1 (0.70%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.10%) Primavera
2 2 (1.40%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.70%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.70%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.75%) AWS
2 58 (40.56%) Azure
3 27 (18.88%) GitHub
4 12 (8.39%) Serverless
5 11 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.29%) SaaS
7 7 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (4.90%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.50%) GCP
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.10%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.10%) OCI
9 3 (2.10%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (0.70%) Figma
10 1 (0.70%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.70%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.69%) Internet
2 1 (0.70%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.79%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (9.79%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.69%) MySQL
2 11 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.99%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.20%) Neo4j
4 6 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.80%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.10%) Oracle Discoverer
6 3 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.40%) Big Data
7 2 (1.40%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.70%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.70%) DB2
8 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (27.97%) Git
2 14 (9.79%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 10 (6.99%) GitLab
4 10 (6.99%) JIRA
4 10 (6.99%) Oracle APEX
5 8 (5.59%) Cucumber
5 8 (5.59%) Selenium
6 7 (4.90%) JUnit
7 6 (4.20%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.50%) Postman
8 5 (3.50%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.80%) REST Assured
9 4 (2.80%) Zephyr
10 3 (2.10%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (1.40%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.40%) Locust
11 2 (1.40%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.40%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.40%) TestNG
General
1 21 (14.69%) Multimedia
2 18 (12.59%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.99%) Marketing
4 6 (4.20%) Finance
4 6 (4.20%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.50%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.80%) Electronics
6 4 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.80%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.40%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Games
8 1 (0.70%) Military
8 1 (0.70%) Retail
8 1 (0.70%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 67 (46.85%) Developer
2 27 (18.88%) Software Engineer
3 25 (17.48%) Software Developer
4 21 (14.69%) Trainee
5 18 (12.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (9.79%) Senior
7 9 (6.29%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.59%) .NET Developer
8 8 (5.59%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Trainee Developer
8 8 (5.59%) Trainee Software Developer
9 7 (4.90%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.90%) Tester
10 6 (4.20%) Automation Tester
10 6 (4.20%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.20%) C# Software Developer
10 6 (4.20%) Designer
10 6 (4.20%) Lead
10 6 (4.20%) Oracle Developer
10 6 (4.20%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (44.76%) HTML
2 62 (43.36%) CSS
3 40 (27.97%) React
4 18 (12.59%) .NET
5 17 (11.89%) AngularJS
6 12 (8.39%) Spring
6 12 (8.39%) Spring Boot
7 11 (7.69%) Playwright
7 11 (7.69%) RESTful
8 9 (6.29%) .NET Framework
8 9 (6.29%) Entity Framework
9 8 (5.59%) Vue
10 7 (4.90%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.90%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (4.20%) ASP.NET
11 6 (4.20%) MERN Stack
11 6 (4.20%) REST
11 6 (4.20%) Symfony
12 5 (3.50%) Hibernate
12 5 (3.50%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.20%) Motion Graphics
3 5 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.80%) Educational Technology
4 4 (2.80%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.10%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.40%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.40%) Smart Home
7 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) IoT
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.99%) Linux
2 4 (2.80%) Unix
3 3 (2.10%) Windows
4 2 (1.40%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (37.76%) Agile
2 44 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 40 (27.97%) CI/CD
4 34 (23.78%) Mentoring
5 33 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
7 24 (16.78%) DevOps
8 21 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (13.99%) Test Automation
10 17 (11.89%) Microservices
11 14 (9.79%) Containerisation
11 14 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (9.09%) MVC
12 13 (9.09%) Scrum
13 12 (8.39%) Computer Science
14 11 (7.69%) Front End Development
15 10 (6.99%) API Testing
16 9 (6.29%) Business Intelligence
16 9 (6.29%) Manual Testing
17 8 (5.59%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 69 (48.25%) Python
2 47 (32.87%) Java
3 38 (26.57%) TypeScript
4 31 (21.68%) C#
5 30 (20.98%) SQL
6 14 (9.79%) PHP
7 13 (9.09%) R
8 10 (6.99%) PL/SQL
9 9 (6.29%) T-SQL
10 8 (5.59%) C
11 4 (2.80%) Kotlin
12 3 (2.10%) Bash
13 2 (1.40%) C++
13 2 (1.40%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.40%) XAML
14 1 (0.70%) Go
14 1 (0.70%) Perl
14 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.48%) Degree
3 22 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 21 (14.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 21 (14.69%) Azure Certification
4 21 (14.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (11.89%) DV Cleared
6 9 (6.29%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (5.59%) ISTQB
8 5 (3.50%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.70%) OCA
10 1 (0.70%) OCP
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.09%) QA
2 8 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (16.78%) Docker
2 3 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.59%) Kibana
3 5 (3.50%) Terraform
4 3 (2.10%) Ansible
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.40%) Grafana
5 2 (1.40%) logstash
6 1 (0.70%) Argo
6 1 (0.70%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.29%) Oracle
3 7 (4.90%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.20%) Adobe
5 4 (2.80%) SAP
6 3 (2.10%) IFS
7 2 (1.40%) Splunk
8 1 (0.70%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.70%) BMC
8 1 (0.70%) Google
8 1 (0.70%) Infor
8 1 (0.70%) Remedy
8 1 (0.70%) Siemens