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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -36 -4 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 185 233 785
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.46% 8.68% 8.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.77% 27.48% 26.69%
Number of salaries quoted 145 167 688
10th Percentile £29,750 £41,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £49,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £74,750 £81,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.37% +10.34% -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 1,103 848 2,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.64% 31.58% 33.16%
Number of salaries quoted 675 621 2,428
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +4.92% -0.45%
75th Percentile £65,625 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -26 70 £55,000 -8.33% 19
Gloucestershire -29 38 £55,000 -13.73% 19
Devon +6 34 £45,000 -30.77% 9
Somerset -37 14 £45,000 -21.74% 9
Dorset -23 11 £45,000 -14.29% 5
Wiltshire -36 6 £65,000 +13.04% 10
Cornwall - 5 £32,000 - 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 (4.32%) Apache
2 4 (2.16%) WordPress
3 3 (1.62%) CMS
3 3 (1.62%) NServiceBus
4 2 (1.08%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.54%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.08%) InDesign
1 2 (1.08%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.54%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.54%) Elementor
2 1 (0.54%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.54%) Sketch
2 1 (0.54%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.54%) Shopify
2 1 (0.54%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 72 (38.92%) AWS
2 55 (29.73%) Azure
3 20 (10.81%) GitHub
4 16 (8.65%) SaaS
5 14 (7.57%) Serverless
6 11 (5.95%) GCP
7 10 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.24%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.24%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.70%) npm
11 4 (2.16%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.62%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.62%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.62%) Figma
12 3 (1.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.11%) Internet
2 4 (2.16%) Broadband
2 4 (2.16%) VPN
2 4 (2.16%) WAN
3 2 (1.08%) Network Security
3 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.54%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.89%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.11%) MySQL
3 14 (7.57%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (7.57%) NoSQL
4 12 (6.49%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.24%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.70%) Big Data
7 5 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.16%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.08%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.08%) Power BI
10 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.54%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.54%) DB2
10 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.54%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (23.78%) Git
2 18 (9.73%) Cypress.io
2 18 (9.73%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.57%) GitLab
4 11 (5.95%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.32%) Selenium
6 6 (3.24%) JIRA
6 6 (3.24%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.70%) TestRail
8 4 (2.16%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.16%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.62%) JUnit
10 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.08%) Postman
10 2 (1.08%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.08%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.08%) Subversion
10 2 (1.08%) TestNG
11 1 (0.54%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.54%) Locust
General
1 22 (11.89%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.11%) Multimedia
3 8 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.24%) Automotive
4 6 (3.24%) Finance
4 6 (3.24%) Manufacturing
4 6 (3.24%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.70%) Marketing
6 4 (2.16%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.08%) Electronics
7 2 (1.08%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.08%) Military
7 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.08%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 98 (52.97%) Developer
2 37 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 31 (16.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 28 (15.14%) Senior
5 24 (12.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 21 (11.35%) Software Developer
7 19 (10.27%) JavaScript Developer
8 17 (9.19%) Senior Developer
9 15 (8.11%) PHP Developer
9 15 (8.11%) Trainee
10 14 (7.57%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 10 (5.41%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.86%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 9 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (4.86%) Test Engineer
13 8 (4.32%) Lead
14 7 (3.78%) .NET Developer
14 7 (3.78%) Analyst
14 7 (3.78%) Java Developer
15 6 (3.24%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (31.35%) HTML
2 57 (30.81%) CSS
3 54 (29.19%) React
4 26 (14.05%) AngularJS
5 23 (12.43%) .NET
6 22 (11.89%) Node.js
6 22 (11.89%) Vue
7 18 (9.73%) Playwright
8 16 (8.65%) REST
8 16 (8.65%) RESTful
9 15 (8.11%) Spring
10 14 (7.57%) ASP.NET
10 14 (7.57%) Spring Boot
11 13 (7.03%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.86%) Laravel
12 9 (4.86%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (4.32%) Sass
14 7 (3.78%) .NET Core
14 7 (3.78%) Apache NiFi
14 7 (3.78%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.49%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.32%) Educational Technology
3 8 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.24%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.16%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.62%) Graphic Design
6 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) IoT
8 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.54%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.49%) Linux
2 8 (4.32%) Windows
3 5 (2.70%) CentOS
4 1 (0.54%) Debian
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (32.43%) Agile
2 58 (31.35%) Full-Stack Development
3 54 (29.19%) CI/CD
4 51 (27.57%) Software Engineering
5 34 (18.38%) DevOps
5 34 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (14.59%) Front End Development
6 27 (14.59%) Mentoring
7 24 (12.97%) Containerisation
7 24 (12.97%) Test Automation
8 21 (11.35%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (10.81%) Web Development
10 18 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (9.19%) Scrum
12 15 (8.11%) Microservices
13 14 (7.57%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (7.03%) API Development
15 12 (6.49%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (6.49%) Unit Testing
16 11 (5.95%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 83 (44.86%) Python
2 63 (34.05%) TypeScript
3 48 (25.95%) Java
4 41 (22.16%) C#
5 31 (16.76%) PHP
6 28 (15.14%) SQL
7 12 (6.49%) Bash
8 11 (5.95%) C++
8 11 (5.95%) R
9 10 (5.41%) C
10 8 (4.32%) Go
11 7 (3.78%) PowerShell
12 6 (3.24%) Rust
13 4 (2.16%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.08%) VB
15 1 (0.54%) Perl
15 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.54%) Ruby
15 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 19 (10.27%) Degree
3 16 (8.65%) AWS Certification
4 15 (8.11%) Azure Certification
4 15 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 15 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.78%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.16%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.54%) OCA
9 1 (0.54%) OCP
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.65%) QA
2 8 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 39 (21.08%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (17.84%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.11%) Terraform
3 12 (6.49%) Ansible
3 12 (6.49%) Kibana
4 11 (5.95%) Grafana
5 10 (5.41%) logstash
6 4 (2.16%) Podman
6 4 (2.16%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.54%) Argo
8 1 (0.54%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.54%) Plesk
8 1 (0.54%) Puppet
8 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.32%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.24%) Splunk
4 5 (2.70%) Google
4 5 (2.70%) Oracle
4 5 (2.70%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.16%) Adobe
5 4 (2.16%) VMware
6 2 (1.08%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.08%) SAP
7 1 (0.54%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.54%) Siemens