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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 19 25
Rank change year-on-year -42 +6 -14
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 145 386 373
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.90% 8.77% 8.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.93% 27.16% 21.57%
Number of salaries quoted 114 210 302
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,940 £33,800
25th Percentile £34,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £81,250
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 766 1,421 1,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.30% 32.27% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 569 787 1,392
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £35,297
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,679 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 57 £50,000 -21.57% 53
Gloucestershire -4 27 £67,500 +12.50% 40
Devon 0 23 £40,000 -11.11% 31
Somerset -17 15 £27,000 -36.47% 29
Dorset -28 11 £65,000 +30.00% 22
Wiltshire -42 4 £61,250 +6.52% 21
Cornwall -23 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 (5.52%) Confluence
2 7 (4.83%) Apache
3 3 (2.07%) Tomcat
3 3 (2.07%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.07%) WebLogic Portal
4 2 (1.38%) WordPress
5 1 (0.69%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (5.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.38%) Windchill
3 1 (0.69%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Infor CloudSuite
1 3 (2.07%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 3 (2.07%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.07%) Primavera
2 2 (1.38%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.38%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 68 (46.90%) AWS
2 53 (36.55%) Azure
3 23 (15.86%) GitHub
4 13 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (7.59%) Serverless
6 7 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (4.83%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.83%) SaaS
7 3 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.07%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (2.07%) OCI
7 3 (2.07%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.07%) Pulumi
8 2 (1.38%) GCP
8 2 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.69%) Figma
9 1 (0.69%) Firebase
9 1 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.69%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.72%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.97%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (8.97%) MySQL
3 10 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.83%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.14%) Neo4j
6 5 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.07%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (2.07%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.07%) Oracle Discoverer
8 3 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.07%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.38%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.38%) Power BI
10 1 (0.69%) Big Data
10 1 (0.69%) DB2
10 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 40 (27.59%) Git
2 15 (10.34%) Cypress.io
3 11 (7.59%) JIRA
4 10 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.90%) Oracle APEX
5 9 (6.21%) GitLab
6 8 (5.52%) Selenium
7 7 (4.83%) Cucumber
7 7 (4.83%) JUnit
7 7 (4.83%) Postman
8 6 (4.14%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.45%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.76%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.76%) Zephyr
11 3 (2.07%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (1.38%) Gatling
12 2 (1.38%) LoadRunner
12 2 (1.38%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.38%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.38%) TestNG
General
1 18 (12.41%) Multimedia
2 16 (11.03%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.90%) Marketing
4 5 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.76%) Finance
5 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.76%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.07%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.38%) Electronics
7 2 (1.38%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Games
8 1 (0.69%) Military
8 1 (0.69%) Retail
8 1 (0.69%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 69 (47.59%) Developer
2 26 (17.93%) Software Engineer
3 24 (16.55%) Software Developer
4 20 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (12.41%) Trainee
6 17 (11.72%) Senior
7 12 (8.28%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.21%) .NET Developer
8 9 (6.21%) Tester
9 8 (5.52%) Designer
9 8 (5.52%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.83%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.83%) Trainee Developer
10 7 (4.83%) Trainee Software Developer
11 6 (4.14%) Automation Tester
11 6 (4.14%) C# Developer
11 6 (4.14%) C# Software Developer
11 6 (4.14%) Oracle Developer
12 5 (3.45%) .NET Software Developer
12 5 (3.45%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (44.14%) HTML
2 60 (41.38%) CSS
3 40 (27.59%) React
4 19 (13.10%) .NET
5 18 (12.41%) AngularJS
6 13 (8.97%) Playwright
7 11 (7.59%) Spring
7 11 (7.59%) Spring Boot
8 10 (6.90%) RESTful
9 9 (6.21%) .NET Framework
9 9 (6.21%) Entity Framework
9 9 (6.21%) Vue
10 8 (5.52%) REST
11 7 (4.83%) .NET Core
12 6 (4.14%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (4.14%) MERN Stack
12 6 (4.14%) Node.js
12 6 (4.14%) Symfony
13 5 (3.45%) HTML5
13 5 (3.45%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.52%) Motion Graphics
3 5 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.76%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.76%) Smart Home
5 3 (2.07%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.38%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.69%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) IoT
7 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.59%) Linux
2 4 (2.76%) Unix
3 3 (2.07%) Windows
4 2 (1.38%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.69%) Android
5 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (35.86%) Agile
2 43 (29.66%) Software Engineering
3 36 (24.83%) CI/CD
4 32 (22.07%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (19.31%) Mentoring
6 23 (15.86%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (15.17%) DevOps
8 21 (14.48%) Test Automation
9 19 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (11.03%) Microservices
11 15 (10.34%) MVC
12 14 (9.66%) Computer Science
12 14 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (8.28%) Front End Development
14 11 (7.59%) Manual Testing
14 11 (7.59%) Scrum
15 10 (6.90%) API Testing
15 10 (6.90%) Containerisation
16 9 (6.21%) B2B
16 9 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 61 (42.07%) Python
2 44 (30.34%) Java
3 39 (26.90%) TypeScript
4 33 (22.76%) C#
5 32 (22.07%) SQL
6 12 (8.28%) PHP
7 11 (7.59%) R
8 10 (6.90%) PL/SQL
9 9 (6.21%) T-SQL
10 8 (5.52%) C
11 4 (2.76%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.38%) Bash
12 2 (1.38%) C++
12 2 (1.38%) Perl
12 2 (1.38%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.38%) XAML
13 1 (0.69%) Go
13 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.00%) Degree
3 19 (13.10%) AWS Certification
4 18 (12.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 18 (12.41%) Azure Certification
4 18 (12.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (11.03%) DV Cleared
6 10 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (6.21%) SC Cleared
8 8 (5.52%) ISTQB
9 5 (3.45%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.69%) OCA
11 1 (0.69%) OCP
11 1 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.97%) QA
2 8 (5.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.69%) GDPR
3 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (13.10%) Docker
2 3 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.83%) Kibana
3 4 (2.76%) Terraform
4 3 (2.07%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.38%) Ansible
6 1 (0.69%) Argo
6 1 (0.69%) Grafana
6 1 (0.69%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.69%) logstash
6 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.10%) Oracle
3 8 (5.52%) Adobe
4 7 (4.83%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.07%) IFS
5 3 (2.07%) Infor
6 2 (1.38%) SAP
6 2 (1.38%) Splunk
7 1 (0.69%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.69%) BMC
7 1 (0.69%) Google
7 1 (0.69%) Remedy
7 1 (0.69%) Siemens
7 1 (0.69%) WooCommerce