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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 39 26
Rank change year-on-year -14 -13 +8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 266 173 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.91% 4.98% 5.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.70% 22.50% 23.62%
Number of salaries quoted 206 131 357
10th Percentile £30,250 £26,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,188 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +5.69% -5.38%

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 1,503 769 2,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.42% 22.15% 25.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,078 523 1,472
10th Percentile £33,525 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,996 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +5 86 £60,000 +14.29% 41
Gloucestershire -28 59 £85,000 +47.83% 53
Devon +4 45 £60,000 +41.18% 13
Somerset -24 43 £37,500 +7.14% 9
Dorset -9 19 £35,250 -6.00% 5
Wiltshire -23 8 £44,250 -26.25% 4
Cornwall - 3 - -
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 15 (5.64%) Apache
2 7 (2.63%) Confluence
3 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.13%) JBoss
3 3 (1.13%) nginx
4 2 (0.75%) CMS
4 2 (0.75%) WordPress
5 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.38%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.75%) InDesign
2 2 (0.75%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.38%) Magento
2 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 95 (35.71%) Azure
2 76 (28.57%) AWS
3 34 (12.78%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (11.65%) Power Platform
5 27 (10.15%) GCP
6 21 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (7.89%) OpenShift
7 17 (6.39%) SaaS
8 15 (5.64%) GitHub
9 9 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.01%) Serverless
11 6 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.26%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.88%) Figma
12 5 (1.88%) Google Play
13 4 (1.50%) Datadog
14 3 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.13%) Cloud Run
14 3 (1.13%) npm
14 3 (1.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.01%) VPN
1 8 (3.01%) WAN
2 4 (1.50%) Internet
2 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.13%) AMQP
3 3 (1.13%) Broadband
3 3 (1.13%) SSL
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
4 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.27%) MongoDB
2 18 (6.77%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (5.64%) MySQL
5 12 (4.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (2.26%) InfluxDB
8 6 (2.26%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.88%) Big Data
9 5 (1.88%) Power BI
10 4 (1.50%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.13%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.13%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.13%) ZAP BI
12 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.75%) GIS
Development Applications
1 83 (31.20%) Git
2 31 (11.65%) Subversion
3 26 (9.77%) Eclipse
4 24 (9.02%) Jenkins
5 23 (8.65%) GitLab
6 22 (8.27%) JUnit
7 20 (7.52%) Cypress.io
8 18 (6.77%) JIRA
9 11 (4.14%) Selenium
10 10 (3.76%) SonarQube
11 8 (3.01%) TestRail
12 7 (2.63%) Cucumber
12 7 (2.63%) MSI
12 7 (2.63%) Robot Framework
13 5 (1.88%) Postman
14 4 (1.50%) NUnit
15 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket
15 3 (1.13%) CircleCI
15 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 3 (1.13%) TeamCity
General
1 58 (21.80%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.03%) Finance
3 29 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.14%) Aerospace
7 10 (3.76%) Military
8 9 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.01%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.63%) Retail
11 4 (1.50%) Law
11 4 (1.50%) Multimedia
12 3 (1.13%) Legal
12 3 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.75%) Banking
13 2 (0.75%) Electronics
13 2 (0.75%) Local Government
13 2 (0.75%) Marketing
13 2 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 131 (49.25%) Developer
2 53 (19.92%) Software Engineer
3 40 (15.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 40 (15.04%) Senior
4 27 (10.15%) Java Developer
5 26 (9.77%) Architect
5 26 (9.77%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (9.40%) Junior
7 24 (9.02%) Software Developer
8 23 (8.65%) Junior Developer
8 23 (8.65%) Junior Java Developer
8 23 (8.65%) Senior Developer
9 19 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 17 (6.39%) Lead
11 16 (6.02%) .NET Developer
12 15 (5.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (5.64%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 15 (5.64%) JavaScript Developer
13 13 (4.89%) Analyst
14 11 (4.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (39.10%) React
2 60 (22.56%) RESTful
3 58 (21.80%) HTML
4 57 (21.43%) CSS
5 47 (17.67%) .NET
6 40 (15.04%) Node.js
7 32 (12.03%) Terraform
8 28 (10.53%) Web Services
9 26 (9.77%) .NET Core
9 26 (9.77%) Jakarta EE
9 26 (9.77%) Struts
10 24 (9.02%) REST
11 23 (8.65%) Vue
12 22 (8.27%) AngularJS
12 22 (8.27%) ASP.NET
13 19 (7.14%) .NET Framework
14 17 (6.39%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (6.39%) HTML5
15 16 (6.02%) ASP.NET Core
15 16 (6.02%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.77%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.38%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.01%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.88%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.88%) iPhone
7 4 (1.50%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.13%) Blog
8 3 (1.13%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.13%) Social Media
9 2 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.75%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.75%) IoT
9 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.03%) Linux
2 25 (9.40%) Windows
3 9 (3.38%) Android
3 9 (3.38%) CentOS
4 7 (2.63%) Unix
5 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.13%) Debian
6 3 (1.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (46.24%) Full-Stack Development
2 101 (37.97%) Agile
3 98 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (30.83%) Software Engineering
5 79 (29.70%) CI/CD
6 58 (21.80%) DevOps
7 49 (18.42%) Test Automation
8 47 (17.67%) AI
9 39 (14.66%) Containerisation
10 37 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (13.16%) Computer Science
12 34 (12.78%) Microservices
13 31 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (10.15%) Collaborative Culture
14 27 (10.15%) LLM
14 27 (10.15%) Machine Learning
15 26 (9.77%) Code Quality
16 25 (9.40%) Scrum
17 24 (9.02%) Front End Development
18 23 (8.65%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 142 (53.38%) Python
2 83 (31.20%) C#
3 75 (28.20%) Java
4 73 (27.44%) SQL
5 67 (25.19%) TypeScript
6 56 (21.05%) C++
7 26 (9.77%) Perl
8 21 (7.89%) Bash
9 19 (7.14%) PHP
10 13 (4.89%) Rust
11 11 (4.14%) PowerShell
12 10 (3.76%) Go
13 7 (2.63%) Bicep
14 5 (1.88%) C
15 4 (1.50%) T-SQL
16 3 (1.13%) PL/SQL
16 3 (1.13%) R
17 2 (0.75%) XAML
18 1 (0.38%) Objective-C
18 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 62 (23.31%) Security Cleared
2 48 (18.05%) Degree
3 33 (12.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (12.03%) SC Cleared
5 17 (6.39%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.13%) OCP
10 3 (1.13%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.65%) Accessibility
2 20 (7.52%) QA
3 11 (4.14%) WCAG
4 10 (3.76%) NCSC
5 7 (2.63%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.13%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 57 (21.43%) Docker
2 6 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 56 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.14%) Ansible
3 16 (6.02%) Grafana
4 13 (4.89%) Kibana
4 13 (4.89%) logstash
5 6 (2.26%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.50%) Puppet
7 3 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.13%) Nagios
7 3 (1.13%) Plesk
7 3 (1.13%) Podman
7 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 68 (25.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.64%) Red Hat
3 14 (5.26%) Google
4 9 (3.38%) Atlassian
4 9 (3.38%) Splunk
5 6 (2.26%) VMware
6 4 (1.50%) Adobe
7 3 (1.13%) New Relic
7 3 (1.13%) Oracle
7 3 (1.13%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.75%) IBM
8 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.75%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.38%) Sage
9 1 (0.38%) SAP