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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 24 19
Rank change year-on-year -34 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 207 217 803
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.60% 7.27% 7.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.02% 25.59% 27.10%
Number of salaries quoted 174 149 670
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £79,250 £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 1,292 848 2,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.24% 28.42% 29.15%
Number of salaries quoted 873 570 2,343
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,694 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,525 £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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -14 69 £60,000 - 18
Devon -3 45 £50,000 -4.76% 12
Gloucestershire -39 40 £50,000 -13.04% 20
Somerset -41 27 £32,500 -43.48% 13
Dorset -12 11 £45,000 +20.00% 5
Wiltshire -37 6 £61,250 +4.26% 4
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 11 (5.31%) Apache
2 4 (1.93%) CMS
2 4 (1.93%) Confluence
2 4 (1.93%) WordPress
3 3 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.97%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.97%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.97%) InDesign
1 2 (0.97%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.48%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.48%) Elementor
2 1 (0.48%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (33.82%) Azure
2 66 (31.88%) AWS
3 21 (10.14%) GCP
3 21 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.76%) Serverless
6 13 (6.28%) GitHub
6 13 (6.28%) SaaS
7 10 (4.83%) OpenShift
8 8 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.42%) Figma
9 5 (2.42%) npm
10 4 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.93%) Azure Functions
10 4 (1.93%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.45%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.86%) VPN
1 8 (3.86%) WAN
2 5 (2.42%) Internet
3 3 (1.45%) AMQP
3 3 (1.45%) Broadband
4 2 (0.97%) Network Security
4 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.48%) DNS
5 1 (0.48%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.66%) MongoDB
3 17 (8.21%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (7.25%) MySQL
5 10 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.38%) Big Data
8 6 (2.90%) InfluxDB
9 5 (2.42%) Power BI
10 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.45%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (1.45%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.45%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.97%) GIS
12 2 (0.97%) Neo4j
13 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (26.09%) Git
2 17 (8.21%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.73%) GitLab
3 16 (7.73%) Subversion
4 15 (7.25%) Cypress.io
5 14 (6.76%) Eclipse
6 9 (4.35%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.86%) JUnit
7 8 (3.86%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.38%) JIRA
9 6 (2.90%) Robot Framework
9 6 (2.90%) Selenium
9 6 (2.90%) TestRail
10 3 (1.45%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.45%) MSI
10 3 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.97%) Postman
12 1 (0.48%) git-flow
12 1 (0.48%) Maven
12 1 (0.48%) NUnit
General
1 35 (16.91%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (5.31%) Finance
4 9 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 9 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.90%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.90%) Automotive
6 6 (2.90%) Retail
7 5 (2.42%) Multimedia
8 4 (1.93%) Marketing
9 3 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.45%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.97%) Local Government
10 2 (0.97%) Military
10 2 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Electronics
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (54.59%) Developer
2 39 (18.84%) Software Engineer
3 37 (17.87%) Senior
4 28 (13.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (12.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (9.66%) JavaScript Developer
7 18 (8.70%) Senior Developer
8 17 (8.21%) Java Developer
8 17 (8.21%) Software Developer
9 15 (7.25%) .NET Developer
9 15 (7.25%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 15 (7.25%) Junior
9 15 (7.25%) Junior Developer
10 14 (6.76%) Junior Java Developer
11 13 (6.28%) Architect
11 13 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (6.28%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (5.31%) PHP Developer
13 10 (4.83%) Analyst
13 10 (4.83%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (37.68%) React
2 51 (24.64%) CSS
2 51 (24.64%) HTML
3 39 (18.84%) RESTful
4 36 (17.39%) .NET
5 32 (15.46%) Node.js
6 28 (13.53%) Vue
7 27 (13.04%) AngularJS
8 22 (10.63%) ASP.NET
8 22 (10.63%) REST
9 17 (8.21%) .NET Core
10 16 (7.73%) Web Services
11 15 (7.25%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (6.76%) Blazor
12 14 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (6.76%) J2EE
12 14 (6.76%) Playwright
12 14 (6.76%) Struts
13 12 (5.80%) .NET Framework
13 12 (5.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.86%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.90%) Educational Technology
6 5 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.93%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.45%) Graphic Design
8 3 (1.45%) iPhone
9 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.48%) PropTech
10 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.63%) Linux
2 17 (8.21%) Windows
3 9 (4.35%) CentOS
4 6 (2.90%) Unix
5 3 (1.45%) Android
5 3 (1.45%) Debian
5 3 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (42.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 74 (35.75%) Agile
3 65 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (27.54%) Software Engineering
5 55 (26.57%) CI/CD
6 40 (19.32%) DevOps
7 31 (14.98%) Front End Development
8 28 (13.53%) Containerisation
9 25 (12.08%) AI
10 22 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (10.63%) Microservices
10 22 (10.63%) Test Automation
10 22 (10.63%) Web Development
11 20 (9.66%) Collaborative Culture
11 20 (9.66%) Computer Science
11 20 (9.66%) Scrum
12 19 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (8.70%) Mentoring
13 18 (8.70%) User Experience
14 15 (7.25%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 93 (44.93%) Python
2 61 (29.47%) TypeScript
3 60 (28.99%) C#
4 52 (25.12%) SQL
5 51 (24.64%) Java
6 32 (15.46%) C++
7 26 (12.56%) PHP
8 17 (8.21%) Bash
9 14 (6.76%) Perl
10 9 (4.35%) Go
10 9 (4.35%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.35%) Rust
11 6 (2.90%) C
12 4 (1.93%) R
12 4 (1.93%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.45%) Bicep
13 3 (1.45%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.45%) VB
14 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.49%) Degree
3 20 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 11 (5.31%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.83%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.42%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.45%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.76%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.35%) QA
3 5 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.42%) WCAG
4 3 (1.45%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (20.29%) Docker
2 6 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (17.87%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.11%) Terraform
3 18 (8.70%) Ansible
4 15 (7.25%) Grafana
4 15 (7.25%) Kibana
5 14 (6.76%) logstash
6 6 (2.90%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.93%) Podman
8 3 (1.45%) Plesk
8 3 (1.45%) Puppet
9 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.35%) Google
2 9 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.86%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.90%) Splunk
4 6 (2.90%) VMware
5 4 (1.93%) Adobe
6 3 (1.45%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.97%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle
8 1 (0.48%) SAP