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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 16 16
Rank change year-on-year -44 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 167 367 693
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.79% 10.63% 10.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.81% 29.81% 26.80%
Number of salaries quoted 135 197 603
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £31,450
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.34%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £74,750 £79,250 £79,628
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.44% +10.42% -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 888 1,231 2,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.86% 35.67% 38.83%
Number of salaries quoted 618 665 2,180
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,925 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.34%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,150 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -22 73 £53,750 -14.00% 36
Gloucestershire -5 31 £57,500 -13.21% 34
Devon -8 29 £42,050 -21.77% 17
Somerset -30 10 £45,000 -21.74% 17
Dorset -34 8 £65,000 +30.00% 12
Wiltshire -51 6 £65,000 +13.04% 11
Cornwall -14 2 £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 7 (4.19%) Apache
2 4 (2.40%) Confluence
3 3 (1.80%) NServiceBus
3 3 (1.80%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.80%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.80%) WebLogic Portal
3 3 (1.80%) WordPress
4 2 (1.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.60%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.20%) Windchill
2 1 (0.60%) Elementor
2 1 (0.60%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.80%) Primavera
2 2 (1.20%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (46.71%) AWS
2 65 (38.92%) Azure
3 26 (15.57%) GitHub
4 15 (8.98%) Serverless
5 13 (7.78%) SaaS
6 11 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.79%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.19%) GCP
10 4 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.80%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.80%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.80%) OCI
11 3 (1.80%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.20%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.20%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.57%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) AMQP
2 1 (0.60%) Broadband
2 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.18%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.98%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (7.19%) MySQL
4 11 (6.59%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.39%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.79%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.40%) Big Data
8 4 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.80%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.80%) Oracle Discoverer
9 3 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.20%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.60%) Cloudera CDH
11 1 (0.60%) DB2
11 1 (0.60%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.60%) Power BI
11 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (23.35%) Git
2 13 (7.78%) Cypress.io
3 11 (6.59%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.99%) GitLab
5 9 (5.39%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.79%) Oracle APEX
7 6 (3.59%) JIRA
8 5 (2.99%) JUnit
8 5 (2.99%) Selenium
9 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.40%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.80%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (1.80%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.20%) Postman
11 2 (1.20%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.20%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.20%) TestNG
11 2 (1.20%) TestRail
11 2 (1.20%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
General
1 21 (12.57%) Multimedia
2 15 (8.98%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.19%) Finance
3 7 (4.19%) Marketing
4 6 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (3.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.99%) Automotive
5 5 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.40%) Electronics
6 4 (2.40%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.20%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.20%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) Military
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Retail
9 1 (0.60%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 83 (49.70%) Developer
2 35 (20.96%) Software Engineer
3 25 (14.97%) Software Developer
4 21 (12.57%) Senior
4 21 (12.57%) Trainee
5 18 (10.78%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (6.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 10 (5.99%) PHP Developer
7 10 (5.99%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.39%) .NET Developer
9 8 (4.79%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) Trainee Developer
9 8 (4.79%) Trainee Software Developer
10 7 (4.19%) Lead
10 7 (4.19%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.19%) Tester
11 6 (3.59%) Automation Tester
11 6 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (2.99%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (38.92%) CSS
1 65 (38.92%) HTML
2 50 (29.94%) React
3 27 (16.17%) AngularJS
4 19 (11.38%) .NET
5 16 (9.58%) Vue
6 15 (8.98%) Spring
7 14 (8.38%) Spring Boot
8 13 (7.78%) Node.js
9 12 (7.19%) Playwright
9 12 (7.19%) RESTful
10 11 (6.59%) ASP.NET
10 11 (6.59%) REST
11 8 (4.79%) MERN Stack
12 7 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (3.59%) .NET Framework
13 6 (3.59%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (3.59%) Entity Framework
13 6 (3.59%) Laravel
13 6 (3.59%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.79%) Educational Technology
3 5 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.40%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.80%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.20%) Motion Graphics
6 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.20%) Smart Home
7 1 (0.60%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.60%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) IoT
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.19%) Linux
2 4 (2.40%) Unix
2 4 (2.40%) Windows
3 2 (1.20%) CentOS
4 1 (0.60%) Debian
4 1 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (34.73%) Agile
2 55 (32.93%) Software Engineering
3 43 (25.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 42 (25.15%) CI/CD
5 33 (19.76%) Mentoring
6 29 (17.37%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (16.77%) DevOps
8 26 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (10.78%) Front End Development
10 17 (10.18%) Containerisation
10 17 (10.18%) Microservices
10 17 (10.18%) Test Automation
11 14 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (8.38%) Scrum
12 13 (7.78%) API Development
12 13 (7.78%) Computer Science
12 13 (7.78%) MVC
13 10 (5.99%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (5.99%) Manual Testing
13 10 (5.99%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 77 (46.11%) Python
2 52 (31.14%) TypeScript
3 51 (30.54%) Java
4 33 (19.76%) C#
5 25 (14.97%) SQL
6 23 (13.77%) PHP
7 13 (7.78%) R
8 11 (6.59%) C
9 8 (4.79%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.59%) Bash
11 5 (2.99%) C++
11 5 (2.99%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.40%) Go
12 4 (2.40%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.20%) Rust
13 2 (1.20%) VB
14 1 (0.60%) Perl
14 1 (0.60%) Ruby
14 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.77%) Degree
3 22 (13.17%) AWS Certification
3 22 (13.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 21 (12.57%) Azure Certification
4 21 (12.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (11.38%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.39%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.79%) ISTQB
8 5 (2.99%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.60%) OCA
10 1 (0.60%) OCP
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.38%) QA
2 8 (4.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (19.16%) Docker
2 5 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (17.37%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.79%) Kibana
2 8 (4.79%) Terraform
3 6 (3.59%) Ansible
4 5 (2.99%) Grafana
5 4 (2.40%) logstash
6 3 (1.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.60%) Argo
8 1 (0.60%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.60%) Podman
8 1 (0.60%) Puppet
8 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.38%) Oracle
3 7 (4.19%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.40%) SAP
5 3 (1.80%) Adobe
5 3 (1.80%) IFS
5 3 (1.80%) Splunk
6 2 (1.20%) Google
6 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.60%) BMC
7 1 (0.60%) Remedy
7 1 (0.60%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.60%) Siemens
7 1 (0.60%) VMware