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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 52 22
Rank change year-on-year -15 -30 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 253 137 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.39% 3.85% 7.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.11% 19.27% 25.76%
Number of salaries quoted 183 105 242
10th Percentile £30,250 £26,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £29,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,500 £53,918
Median % change year-on-year +31.87% -15.61% -1.97%
75th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,000 £82,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,570 711 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.83% 19.98% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,168 493 1,005
10th Percentile £36,117 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,656 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -10 77 £60,000 +20.00% 16
Gloucestershire -32 61 £85,000 +44.68% 36
Devon +4 43 £62,500 +51.52% 11
Somerset -11 43 £37,500 +38.89% 20
Dorset -10 15 £33,000 +20.00% 9
Wiltshire -15 9 £53,750 -6.52% 4
Cornwall - 1 - - 2
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 18 (7.11%) Apache
2 10 (3.95%) Confluence
3 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.19%) JBoss
4 3 (1.19%) nginx
5 2 (0.79%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.58%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 95 (37.55%) Azure
2 86 (33.99%) AWS
3 35 (13.83%) Power Platform
4 33 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (10.67%) OpenShift
6 26 (10.28%) GCP
7 21 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (7.11%) SaaS
9 12 (4.74%) GitHub
10 11 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (3.16%) Serverless
12 7 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.37%) Azure AI
14 5 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.98%) Google Play
15 4 (1.58%) Datadog
15 4 (1.58%) Figma
15 4 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (1.58%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) AMQP
2 4 (1.58%) VPN
2 4 (1.58%) WAN
3 3 (1.19%) SSL
4 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) Broadband
5 1 (0.40%) DNS
5 1 (0.40%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.91%) Elasticsearch
1 20 (7.91%) MongoDB
2 12 (4.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.56%) MySQL
4 8 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.16%) Power BI
4 8 (3.16%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.16%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.77%) Big Data
5 7 (2.77%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (2.37%) InfluxDB
7 5 (1.98%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (1.98%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.58%) ClickHouse
8 4 (1.58%) GIS
9 3 (1.19%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.19%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.19%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 74 (29.25%) Git
2 31 (12.25%) Subversion
3 26 (10.28%) Eclipse
3 26 (10.28%) GitLab
3 26 (10.28%) Jenkins
4 22 (8.70%) JUnit
5 20 (7.91%) JIRA
6 16 (6.32%) Cypress.io
7 13 (5.14%) Selenium
8 11 (4.35%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.16%) Cucumber
9 8 (3.16%) TestRail
10 7 (2.77%) MSI
10 7 (2.77%) Robot Framework
11 5 (1.98%) Postman
12 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.19%) JMeter
12 3 (1.19%) NUnit
12 3 (1.19%) Snyk
12 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 61 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.04%) Finance
3 30 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.30%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.35%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.16%) Military
7 8 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.77%) Retail
9 4 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.58%) Law
9 4 (1.58%) Legal
9 4 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.79%) Banking
11 2 (0.79%) Electronics
11 2 (0.79%) Environmental Health
11 2 (0.79%) Local Government
11 2 (0.79%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 114 (45.06%) Developer
2 55 (21.74%) Software Engineer
3 40 (15.81%) Senior
4 32 (12.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 27 (10.67%) Architect
5 27 (10.67%) Java Developer
5 27 (10.67%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (9.88%) Junior
7 24 (9.49%) Software Developer
8 23 (9.09%) Junior Developer
8 23 (9.09%) Junior Java Developer
9 20 (7.91%) Senior Developer
10 18 (7.11%) Lead
11 15 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (5.14%) Test Engineer
13 12 (4.74%) .NET Developer
13 12 (4.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 10 (3.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 10 (3.95%) JavaScript Developer
15 9 (3.56%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (40.71%) React
2 57 (22.53%) RESTful
3 43 (17.00%) CSS
3 43 (17.00%) HTML
3 43 (17.00%) Node.js
4 41 (16.21%) .NET
5 36 (14.23%) Terraform
6 27 (10.67%) Web Services
7 26 (10.28%) Jakarta EE
7 26 (10.28%) Struts
8 25 (9.88%) Vue
9 23 (9.09%) .NET Core
10 21 (8.30%) REST
10 21 (8.30%) Spring
11 20 (7.91%) AngularJS
11 20 (7.91%) Spring Boot
12 18 (7.11%) .NET Framework
12 18 (7.11%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (6.72%) ASP.NET
14 16 (6.32%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.37%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.98%) iPhone
8 4 (1.58%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.58%) PMI
8 4 (1.58%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.19%) Blog
9 3 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.19%) IoT
9 3 (1.19%) Social Media
10 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.62%) Linux
2 22 (8.70%) Windows
3 11 (4.35%) CentOS
4 9 (3.56%) Android
5 7 (2.77%) Unix
6 6 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.98%) Debian
7 5 (1.98%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (46.64%) Full-Stack Development
2 106 (41.90%) Agile
3 97 (38.34%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (34.78%) CI/CD
4 88 (34.78%) Software Engineering
5 65 (25.69%) DevOps
6 60 (23.72%) AI
7 56 (22.13%) Test Automation
8 39 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (15.42%) Microservices
9 38 (15.02%) Containerisation
10 36 (14.23%) Computer Science
11 33 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (11.86%) Collaborative Culture
13 29 (11.46%) Code Quality
14 28 (11.07%) LLM
14 28 (11.07%) Machine Learning
15 24 (9.49%) API Development
16 23 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
16 23 (9.09%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 134 (52.96%) Python
2 79 (31.23%) Java
3 73 (28.85%) C#
3 73 (28.85%) SQL
4 59 (23.32%) TypeScript
5 54 (21.34%) C++
6 26 (10.28%) Perl
7 22 (8.70%) Bash
8 18 (7.11%) PHP
9 13 (5.14%) Rust
10 12 (4.74%) PowerShell
11 9 (3.56%) Go
12 7 (2.77%) Bicep
13 4 (1.58%) C
13 4 (1.58%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.79%) XAML
16 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (28.06%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.18%) Degree
3 39 (15.42%) SC Cleared
4 33 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (7.11%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.58%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.19%) OCP
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 21 (8.30%) QA
3 12 (4.74%) WCAG
4 10 (3.95%) NCSC
5 8 (3.16%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 59 (23.32%) Docker
2 6 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 63 (24.90%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.70%) Ansible
3 17 (6.72%) Grafana
4 14 (5.53%) Kibana
4 14 (5.53%) logstash
5 6 (2.37%) Puppet
5 6 (2.37%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.19%) Nagios
6 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.79%) Plesk
8 1 (0.40%) Podman
8 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 64 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.72%) Red Hat
3 15 (5.93%) Google
4 9 (3.56%) Atlassian
4 9 (3.56%) Splunk
5 6 (2.37%) VMware
6 5 (1.98%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.58%) Sage
7 4 (1.58%) SAP
8 3 (1.19%) New Relic
9 2 (0.79%) IBM
9 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle
10 1 (0.40%) Adobe
10 1 (0.40%) Cisco
10 1 (0.40%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud