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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -35 -9 +8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 203 215 824
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.60% 7.56% 7.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.50% 25.69% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 172 144 689
10th Percentile £30,250 £33,100 £32,100
25th Percentile £38,438 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.37% +10.33% -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 1,230 837 3,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.76% 29.44% 29.24%
Number of salaries quoted 833 557 2,406
10th Percentile £34,100 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,600 £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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -17 74 £55,000 -8.33% 18
Devon -5 41 £50,000 -4.76% 12
Gloucestershire -35 39 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Somerset -40 23 £37,500 -34.78% 9
Dorset -16 10 £45,000 +20.00% 4
Wiltshire -30 6 £61,250 +2.08% 7
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 10 (4.93%) Apache
2 4 (1.97%) CMS
2 4 (1.97%) Confluence
2 4 (1.97%) WordPress
3 3 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.99%) InDesign
1 2 (0.99%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.49%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.49%) Elementor
2 1 (0.49%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (34.48%) Azure
2 65 (32.02%) AWS
3 21 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (9.36%) GCP
5 18 (8.87%) Power Platform
6 17 (8.37%) GitHub
7 14 (6.90%) Serverless
8 13 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (6.40%) SaaS
9 9 (4.43%) OpenShift
10 8 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.46%) npm
12 4 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.97%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.97%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (1.97%) Figma
13 3 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.48%) Cloud Run
13 3 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.43%) Internet
2 8 (3.94%) VPN
2 8 (3.94%) WAN
3 4 (1.97%) Broadband
4 3 (1.48%) AMQP
5 2 (0.99%) Network Security
5 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.49%) DNS
6 1 (0.49%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.84%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.36%) MongoDB
3 15 (7.39%) MySQL
4 14 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (5.42%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.45%) Big Data
8 6 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.46%) InfluxDB
9 5 (2.46%) Power BI
9 5 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.48%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.48%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.48%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.48%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.99%) GIS
11 2 (0.99%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (27.09%) Git
2 16 (7.88%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.90%) Cypress.io
3 14 (6.90%) GitLab
4 13 (6.40%) Subversion
5 11 (5.42%) Eclipse
6 8 (3.94%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.45%) JIRA
7 7 (3.45%) JUnit
7 7 (3.45%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.46%) Robot Framework
8 5 (2.46%) Selenium
8 5 (2.46%) TestRail
9 3 (1.48%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.48%) MSI
9 3 (1.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.49%) git-flow
10 1 (0.49%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.49%) Postman
General
1 36 (17.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (4.93%) Finance
3 10 (4.93%) Manufacturing
4 9 (4.43%) Multimedia
4 9 (4.43%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.96%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.96%) Automotive
7 5 (2.46%) Marketing
8 4 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.97%) Retail
9 3 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.48%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.99%) Electronics
10 2 (0.99%) Local Government
10 2 (0.99%) Military
10 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 110 (54.19%) Developer
2 36 (17.73%) Software Engineer
3 35 (17.24%) Senior
4 27 (13.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (11.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (9.85%) JavaScript Developer
7 19 (9.36%) Software Developer
8 17 (8.37%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.39%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 14 (6.90%) Java Developer
11 13 (6.40%) Architect
11 13 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (5.91%) .NET Developer
12 12 (5.91%) Junior
12 12 (5.91%) Junior Developer
12 12 (5.91%) PHP Developer
12 12 (5.91%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (5.42%) Junior Java Developer
14 10 (4.93%) Analyst
14 10 (4.93%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (34.98%) React
2 55 (27.09%) CSS
3 54 (26.60%) HTML
4 35 (17.24%) RESTful
5 34 (16.75%) .NET
6 30 (14.78%) Node.js
7 26 (12.81%) AngularJS
7 26 (12.81%) Vue
8 22 (10.84%) REST
9 20 (9.85%) ASP.NET
10 14 (6.90%) .NET Core
11 13 (6.40%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (6.40%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (6.40%) Playwright
12 12 (5.91%) Web Services
13 11 (5.42%) Blazor
13 11 (5.42%) HTML5
13 11 (5.42%) J2EE
13 11 (5.42%) Spring
13 11 (5.42%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.91%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.94%) Client/Server
3 8 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.94%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.45%) Educational Technology
5 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.97%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.48%) Graphic Design
7 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.99%) iPhone
7 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) IoT
8 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.85%) Linux
2 16 (7.88%) Windows
3 8 (3.94%) CentOS
4 5 (2.46%) Unix
5 3 (1.48%) Debian
5 3 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.48%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.99%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (38.42%) Full-Stack Development
2 70 (34.48%) Agile
3 62 (30.54%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (26.11%) CI/CD
5 52 (25.62%) Software Engineering
6 38 (18.72%) DevOps
7 31 (15.27%) Front End Development
8 29 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 23 (11.33%) AI
10 22 (10.84%) Mentoring
10 22 (10.84%) Web Development
11 20 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (9.36%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (9.36%) Microservices
12 19 (9.36%) Scrum
12 19 (9.36%) Test Automation
13 18 (8.87%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (8.87%) User Experience
14 17 (8.37%) Computer Science
15 15 (7.39%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 92 (45.32%) Python
2 61 (30.05%) TypeScript
3 56 (27.59%) C#
4 49 (24.14%) SQL
5 46 (22.66%) Java
6 27 (13.30%) C++
7 26 (12.81%) PHP
8 16 (7.88%) Bash
9 11 (5.42%) Perl
10 9 (4.43%) Go
11 8 (3.94%) PowerShell
11 8 (3.94%) Rust
12 6 (2.96%) C
12 6 (2.96%) R
13 4 (1.97%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.48%) Bicep
14 3 (1.48%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.48%) VB
15 1 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.30%) Degree
3 17 (8.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 11 (5.42%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.93%) AWS Certification
6 10 (4.93%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.43%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.48%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.40%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.93%) QA
3 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.46%) WCAG
4 3 (1.48%) NCSC
5 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (20.20%) Docker
2 5 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (16.75%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.84%) Terraform
3 17 (8.37%) Ansible
4 13 (6.40%) Grafana
4 13 (6.40%) Kibana
5 12 (5.91%) logstash
6 5 (2.46%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.97%) Podman
8 3 (1.48%) Plesk
8 3 (1.48%) Puppet
9 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.49%) Argo
10 1 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (22.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.43%) Google
3 8 (3.94%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.46%) Splunk
5 5 (2.46%) VMware
6 4 (1.97%) Adobe
7 3 (1.48%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.99%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.99%) SAP
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle