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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -38 +4 -11
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 152 423 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.23% 7.98% 8.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.90% 26.27% 21.99%
Number of salaries quoted 118 224 318
10th Percentile £27,200 £33,225 £35,249
25th Percentile £29,563 £42,188 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,375 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.54% +2.97%

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 764 1,610 1,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.23% 30.35% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 565 881 1,415
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 3 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 3 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 -24 53 £50,000 -23.08% 46
Gloucestershire -4 30 £72,500 +20.83% 30
Devon -12 23 £40,000 -8.57% 17
Somerset -7 21 £29,000 -31.76% 21
Dorset -25 14 £40,000 -20.00% 8
Wiltshire -35 4 £60,000 -7.69% 19
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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 7 (4.61%) Apache
3 3 (1.97%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.97%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.97%) WebLogic Portal
4 2 (1.32%) WordPress
5 1 (0.66%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (7.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.66%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (3.29%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.63%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (2.63%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.97%) Primavera
4 1 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.66%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 67 (44.08%) AWS
2 46 (30.26%) Azure
3 21 (13.82%) GitHub
4 13 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (7.89%) Serverless
6 7 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (4.61%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.95%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (3.29%) SaaS
9 3 (1.97%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (1.97%) OCI
10 2 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.32%) Pulumi
11 1 (0.66%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 1 (0.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.66%) Figma
11 1 (0.66%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.87%) Internet
2 1 (0.66%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.47%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.55%) MySQL
3 12 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.29%) Power BI
6 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.63%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (2.63%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.63%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.97%) Oracle Discoverer
8 3 (1.97%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.66%) Big Data
9 1 (0.66%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.66%) DB2
Development Applications
1 40 (26.32%) Git
2 17 (11.18%) Cypress.io
3 14 (9.21%) JIRA
4 10 (6.58%) Oracle APEX
5 8 (5.26%) GitLab
5 8 (5.26%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.61%) Selenium
7 6 (3.95%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.95%) JUnit
7 6 (3.95%) Postman
8 5 (3.29%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.63%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.63%) Zephyr
10 3 (1.97%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (1.32%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.32%) Gatling
11 2 (1.32%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.32%) Locust
11 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.32%) TestRail
General
1 26 (17.11%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.87%) Marketing
2 15 (9.87%) Multimedia
3 9 (5.92%) Finance
4 7 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.63%) Law
6 4 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.32%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.32%) Banking
8 2 (1.32%) Electronics
8 2 (1.32%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.66%) Games
9 1 (0.66%) Military
9 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (45.39%) Developer
2 28 (18.42%) Software Engineer
3 23 (15.13%) Software Developer
4 19 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (9.87%) Senior
5 15 (9.87%) Trainee
6 11 (7.24%) Designer
6 11 (7.24%) Senior Developer
7 9 (5.92%) .NET Developer
7 9 (5.92%) Tester
8 8 (5.26%) Graduate
9 7 (4.61%) Analyst
9 7 (4.61%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.61%) Test Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) C# Developer
10 6 (3.95%) C# Software Developer
10 6 (3.95%) Oracle Developer
10 6 (3.95%) Trainee Developer
10 6 (3.95%) Trainee Software Developer
11 5 (3.29%) Graduate IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (45.39%) HTML
2 62 (40.79%) CSS
3 38 (25.00%) React
4 20 (13.16%) .NET
5 19 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 14 (9.21%) Playwright
7 13 (8.55%) Spring
8 12 (7.89%) Spring Boot
9 10 (6.58%) REST
9 10 (6.58%) RESTful
10 9 (5.92%) .NET Framework
10 9 (5.92%) Entity Framework
11 8 (5.26%) Vue
12 7 (4.61%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.61%) Hibernate
12 7 (4.61%) HTML5
13 6 (3.95%) CSS3
13 6 (3.95%) JSF
13 6 (3.95%) Symfony
13 6 (3.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.24%) Cloud Native
1 11 (7.24%) Motion Graphics
2 5 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.97%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.97%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.97%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.97%) Smart Home
5 2 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.66%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.66%) PACS
6 1 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.66%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.89%) Linux
2 4 (2.63%) Windows
3 3 (1.97%) Unix
4 2 (1.32%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.66%) Android
5 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (38.82%) Agile
2 49 (32.24%) Software Engineering
3 35 (23.03%) CI/CD
4 32 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (15.79%) Mentoring
5 24 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (14.47%) Test Automation
7 21 (13.82%) DevOps
8 18 (11.84%) Computer Science
8 18 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (10.53%) Microservices
9 16 (10.53%) MVC
10 13 (8.55%) Scrum
11 12 (7.89%) B2B
11 12 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (7.89%) Front End Development
12 11 (7.24%) B2B Marketing
12 11 (7.24%) Containerisation
12 11 (7.24%) Demand Generation
Programming Languages
1 55 (36.18%) Python
2 43 (28.29%) Java
3 39 (25.66%) TypeScript
4 35 (23.03%) SQL
5 31 (20.39%) C#
6 11 (7.24%) PHP
7 10 (6.58%) PL/SQL
8 9 (5.92%) R
8 9 (5.92%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.95%) C
10 4 (2.63%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.32%) C++
11 2 (1.32%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.32%) XAML
12 1 (0.66%) Bash
12 1 (0.66%) Perl
12 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (23.68%) Degree
2 30 (19.74%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 15 (9.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 15 (9.87%) Azure Certification
4 15 (9.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (9.21%) DV Cleared
6 10 (6.58%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.26%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.97%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.89%) QA
2 8 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.66%) DICOM
3 1 (0.66%) GDPR
3 1 (0.66%) HL7
3 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.26%) Kibana
3 6 (3.95%) Terraform
4 3 (1.97%) Ansible
4 3 (1.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.66%) Grafana
5 1 (0.66%) logstash
Vendors
1 23 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.16%) Oracle
3 11 (7.24%) Adobe
4 8 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.63%) Infor
6 3 (1.97%) IFS
7 2 (1.32%) SAP
7 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.66%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.66%) BMC
8 1 (0.66%) Remedy
8 1 (0.66%) Sybase
8 1 (0.66%) WooCommerce