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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 49 22
Rank change year-on-year -13 -27 +8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 251 147 501
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.50% 4.21% 6.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.26% 20.19% 25.60%
Number of salaries quoted 187 106 290
10th Percentile £30,250 £26,500 £32,950
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £53,918
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.27% -1.97%
75th Percentile £71,250 £64,688 £69,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,544 728 1,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.40% 20.83% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,133 492 1,231
10th Percentile £34,700 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -13 74 £60,000 +14.29% 52
Gloucestershire -28 61 £85,000 +47.83% 75
Devon +4 48 £62,500 +47.06% 18
Somerset -17 39 £35,000 +12.90% 12
Dorset -5 17 £33,000 +20.00% 17
Wiltshire -13 7 £57,500 - 2
Cornwall - 2 - -
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 17 (6.77%) Apache
2 10 (3.98%) Confluence
3 4 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.20%) JBoss
4 3 (1.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 89 (35.46%) Azure
2 77 (30.68%) AWS
3 34 (13.55%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (12.35%) Power Platform
5 27 (10.76%) GCP
6 26 (10.36%) OpenShift
7 18 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.17%) SaaS
8 12 (4.78%) GitHub
9 10 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.79%) Serverless
11 6 (2.39%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.99%) Google Play
13 4 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.59%) Datadog
13 4 (1.59%) Figma
14 3 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.20%) Slack
15 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.19%) VPN
1 8 (3.19%) WAN
2 4 (1.59%) AMQP
3 3 (1.20%) SSL
3 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.80%) Broadband
5 1 (0.40%) DNS
5 1 (0.40%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.76%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.97%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (4.38%) MySQL
5 9 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.79%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.39%) Big Data
8 6 (2.39%) InfluxDB
9 5 (1.99%) Power BI
10 4 (1.59%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.59%) GIS
10 4 (1.59%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.59%) MariaDB
10 4 (1.59%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.20%) ZAP BI
12 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 75 (29.88%) Git
2 31 (12.35%) Subversion
3 26 (10.36%) Eclipse
3 26 (10.36%) Jenkins
4 25 (9.96%) GitLab
5 22 (8.76%) JUnit
6 20 (7.97%) JIRA
7 17 (6.77%) Cypress.io
8 12 (4.78%) Selenium
9 11 (4.38%) SonarQube
10 8 (3.19%) Cucumber
10 8 (3.19%) TestRail
11 7 (2.79%) MSI
11 7 (2.79%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.99%) Postman
13 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.20%) NUnit
13 3 (1.20%) Snyk
13 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
General
1 59 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.35%) Finance
3 29 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.98%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.59%) Military
8 8 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.19%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.79%) Retail
10 4 (1.59%) Law
11 3 (1.20%) Legal
11 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.80%) Banking
12 2 (0.80%) Electronics
12 2 (0.80%) Environmental Health
12 2 (0.80%) Local Government
12 2 (0.80%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 117 (46.61%) Developer
2 50 (19.92%) Software Engineer
3 40 (15.94%) Full-Stack Developer
4 37 (14.74%) Senior
5 26 (10.36%) Architect
5 26 (10.36%) Java Developer
5 26 (10.36%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (9.96%) Junior
7 23 (9.16%) Junior Developer
7 23 (9.16%) Junior Java Developer
8 21 (8.37%) Software Developer
9 19 (7.57%) Senior Developer
10 17 (6.77%) Lead
11 16 (6.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 16 (6.37%) JavaScript Developer
12 15 (5.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (5.58%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
14 13 (5.18%) Analyst
15 12 (4.78%) .NET Developer
15 12 (4.78%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (40.24%) React
2 59 (23.51%) RESTful
3 45 (17.93%) CSS
4 43 (17.13%) HTML
5 42 (16.73%) Node.js
6 39 (15.54%) .NET
7 34 (13.55%) Terraform
8 27 (10.76%) Web Services
9 26 (10.36%) Jakarta EE
9 26 (10.36%) Struts
10 24 (9.56%) .NET Core
10 24 (9.56%) Vue
11 19 (7.57%) AngularJS
11 19 (7.57%) REST
12 18 (7.17%) .NET Framework
12 18 (7.17%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (7.17%) Spring
13 17 (6.77%) ASP.NET
13 17 (6.77%) Spring Boot
14 15 (5.98%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.96%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.19%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.19%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.99%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.99%) iPhone
7 4 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.20%) Blog
8 3 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.20%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Social Media
9 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.80%) IoT
9 2 (0.80%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.15%) Linux
2 25 (9.96%) Windows
3 10 (3.98%) CentOS
4 9 (3.59%) Android
5 7 (2.79%) Unix
6 5 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.59%) Debian
7 4 (1.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (48.21%) Full-Stack Development
2 100 (39.84%) Agile
2 100 (39.84%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (32.67%) CI/CD
4 80 (31.87%) Software Engineering
5 59 (23.51%) DevOps
6 51 (20.32%) Test Automation
7 49 (19.52%) AI
8 37 (14.74%) Computer Science
8 37 (14.74%) Microservices
9 36 (14.34%) Containerisation
9 36 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (10.76%) Collaborative Culture
11 27 (10.76%) LLM
11 27 (10.76%) Machine Learning
12 26 (10.36%) Code Quality
13 23 (9.16%) Scrum
14 22 (8.76%) Requirements Analysis
15 21 (8.37%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 136 (54.18%) Python
2 75 (29.88%) SQL
3 74 (29.48%) Java
4 71 (28.29%) C#
5 59 (23.51%) TypeScript
6 54 (21.51%) C++
7 26 (10.36%) Perl
8 22 (8.76%) Bash
9 14 (5.58%) PHP
10 13 (5.18%) PowerShell
10 13 (5.18%) Rust
11 9 (3.59%) Go
12 7 (2.79%) Bicep
13 4 (1.59%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.20%) C
14 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.80%) XAML
16 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (27.09%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.33%) Degree
3 38 (15.14%) SC Cleared
4 34 (13.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.77%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.20%) OCP
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.37%) Accessibility
2 19 (7.57%) QA
3 11 (4.38%) WCAG
4 10 (3.98%) NCSC
5 7 (2.79%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.20%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 57 (22.71%) Docker
2 6 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (23.51%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.37%) Ansible
3 17 (6.77%) Grafana
4 14 (5.58%) Kibana
4 14 (5.58%) logstash
5 6 (2.39%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.99%) Puppet
7 3 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.20%) Nagios
7 3 (1.20%) Plesk
7 3 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.80%) Podman
9 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 64 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.37%) Red Hat
3 15 (5.98%) Google
4 9 (3.59%) Atlassian
4 9 (3.59%) Splunk
5 6 (2.39%) VMware
6 4 (1.59%) Sage
6 4 (1.59%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.59%) SAP
7 3 (1.20%) New Relic
8 2 (0.80%) IBM
8 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle
9 1 (0.40%) Adobe
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco