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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 25 19
Rank change year-on-year -27 -6 +6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 221 217 781
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.71% 6.82% 7.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.38% 25.35% 27.10%
Number of salaries quoted 187 152 650
10th Percentile £30,850 £32,500 £32,475
25th Percentile £39,375 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,215 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% +10.36% -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 1,349 856 2,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.55% 26.89% 28.90%
Number of salaries quoted 930 579 2,268
10th Percentile £33,975 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,550 £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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -15 73 £60,000 - 20
Devon +8 49 £50,000 -4.76% 10
Gloucestershire -33 41 £50,000 -13.04% 31
Somerset -41 29 £32,500 -43.48% 12
Dorset -15 14 £45,000 +20.00% 4
Wiltshire -33 6 £61,250 +4.26% 7
Cornwall - 4 £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 12 (5.43%) Apache
2 5 (2.26%) Confluence
3 4 (1.81%) CMS
3 4 (1.81%) WordPress
4 3 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.90%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.45%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.90%) InDesign
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.90%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.45%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.45%) Elementor
2 1 (0.45%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (36.20%) Azure
2 69 (31.22%) AWS
3 23 (10.41%) GCP
3 23 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (9.05%) Power Platform
5 19 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (6.79%) SaaS
7 14 (6.33%) Serverless
8 13 (5.88%) GitHub
9 10 (4.52%) OpenShift
10 8 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.26%) Azure AI
11 5 (2.26%) Figma
11 5 (2.26%) Google Play
11 5 (2.26%) npm
12 4 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.81%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.81%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (1.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.62%) VPN
1 8 (3.62%) WAN
2 4 (1.81%) Internet
3 3 (1.36%) AMQP
3 3 (1.36%) Broadband
4 2 (0.90%) Network Security
4 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.45%) DNS
5 1 (0.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.41%) MongoDB
2 21 (9.50%) SQL Server
3 19 (8.60%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (7.69%) MySQL
5 12 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (4.52%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.17%) Big Data
8 6 (2.71%) InfluxDB
9 5 (2.26%) Power BI
10 4 (1.81%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.81%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.36%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.36%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.36%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.90%) GIS
12 2 (0.90%) Neo4j
13 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (24.89%) Git
2 17 (7.69%) Subversion
3 16 (7.24%) GitLab
3 16 (7.24%) Jenkins
4 15 (6.79%) Cypress.io
4 15 (6.79%) Eclipse
5 10 (4.52%) JIRA
6 9 (4.07%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.07%) JUnit
7 8 (3.62%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.71%) Robot Framework
8 6 (2.71%) Selenium
8 6 (2.71%) TestRail
9 4 (1.81%) MSI
10 3 (1.36%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.90%) Postman
12 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.45%) git-flow
12 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 37 (16.74%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.43%) Finance
4 9 (4.07%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.62%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.71%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.71%) Automotive
6 6 (2.71%) Retail
7 5 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.81%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.36%) Marketing
9 3 (1.36%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.90%) Local Government
10 2 (0.90%) Military
10 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (53.85%) Developer
2 44 (19.91%) Software Engineer
3 38 (17.19%) Senior
4 29 (13.12%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (11.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (9.05%) JavaScript Developer
7 19 (8.60%) Senior Developer
8 18 (8.14%) .NET Developer
8 18 (8.14%) Java Developer
9 16 (7.24%) Junior
9 16 (7.24%) Junior Developer
9 16 (7.24%) Software Developer
10 15 (6.79%) Architect
10 15 (6.79%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 15 (6.79%) Junior Java Developer
10 15 (6.79%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (5.43%) Analyst
13 11 (4.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (4.98%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (37.56%) React
2 53 (23.98%) CSS
3 52 (23.53%) HTML
4 43 (19.46%) RESTful
5 42 (19.00%) .NET
6 34 (15.38%) Node.js
7 29 (13.12%) Vue
8 28 (12.67%) AngularJS
9 26 (11.76%) ASP.NET
10 23 (10.41%) REST
11 21 (9.50%) .NET Core
12 18 (8.14%) ASP.NET Core
13 17 (7.69%) Blazor
13 17 (7.69%) Web Services
14 15 (6.79%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (6.79%) J2EE
14 15 (6.79%) Struts
15 14 (6.33%) .NET Framework
15 14 (6.33%) Playwright
15 14 (6.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.24%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.98%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.62%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.26%) Educational Technology
7 5 (2.26%) iPhone
7 5 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.36%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.45%) IoT
10 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.86%) Linux
2 19 (8.60%) Windows
3 9 (4.07%) CentOS
4 6 (2.71%) Unix
5 5 (2.26%) Android
6 3 (1.36%) Debian
6 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (42.99%) Full-Stack Development
2 82 (37.10%) Agile
3 70 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (28.51%) Software Engineering
5 59 (26.70%) CI/CD
6 48 (21.72%) DevOps
7 32 (14.48%) Front End Development
8 31 (14.03%) AI
9 30 (13.57%) Containerisation
10 28 (12.67%) Microservices
11 25 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (11.31%) Test Automation
12 24 (10.86%) Web Development
13 23 (10.41%) Scrum
14 22 (9.95%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (9.50%) Computer Science
16 20 (9.05%) Collaborative Culture
17 18 (8.14%) LLM
17 18 (8.14%) Mentoring
17 18 (8.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 99 (44.80%) Python
2 67 (30.32%) C#
3 63 (28.51%) TypeScript
4 58 (26.24%) SQL
5 55 (24.89%) Java
6 33 (14.93%) C++
7 26 (11.76%) PHP
8 17 (7.69%) Bash
9 15 (6.79%) Perl
10 9 (4.07%) Go
10 9 (4.07%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.07%) Rust
11 6 (2.71%) C
12 4 (1.81%) Bicep
12 4 (1.81%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.36%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.36%) R
13 3 (1.36%) VB
14 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 31 (14.03%) Degree
3 21 (9.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.98%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.81%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.36%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.79%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.07%) QA
3 7 (3.17%) WCAG
4 5 (2.26%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.81%) NCSC
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (20.81%) Docker
2 6 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (18.55%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.86%) Terraform
3 18 (8.14%) Ansible
4 15 (6.79%) Grafana
4 15 (6.79%) Kibana
5 14 (6.33%) logstash
6 6 (2.71%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.81%) Podman
8 3 (1.36%) Plesk
8 3 (1.36%) Puppet
9 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.43%) Google
3 9 (4.07%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.62%) Atlassian
5 6 (2.71%) Splunk
5 6 (2.71%) VMware
6 4 (1.81%) Adobe
7 3 (1.36%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.90%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle