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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -39 -1 +3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 192 234 775
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.57% 8.69% 8.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.27% 27.30% 26.36%
Number of salaries quoted 149 168 686
10th Percentile £28,450 £40,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £49,688 £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 £60,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,250 £80,750 £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 1,112 857 2,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.88% 31.84% 33.42%
Number of salaries quoted 688 630 2,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,471 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% +6.43% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,188 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,475 £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 25 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 25 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 -22 71 £50,000 -16.67% 18
Gloucestershire -21 41 £56,250 -11.76% 19
Devon +4 36 £45,000 -30.77% 9
Somerset -41 14 £45,000 -21.74% 9
Dorset -25 12 £45,000 -12.20% 5
Wiltshire -37 6 £65,000 +10.64% 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 (4.17%) Apache
2 4 (2.08%) WordPress
3 3 (1.56%) CMS
3 3 (1.56%) NServiceBus
4 2 (1.04%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.04%) InDesign
1 2 (1.04%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.52%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.52%) Elementor
2 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.52%) Sketch
2 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 77 (40.10%) AWS
2 61 (31.77%) Azure
3 22 (11.46%) GitHub
4 16 (8.33%) SaaS
5 14 (7.29%) Serverless
6 12 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (5.73%) GCP
8 9 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.13%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.60%) npm
11 4 (2.08%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.56%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.56%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.56%) Figma
13 2 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.38%) Internet
2 4 (2.08%) Broadband
2 4 (2.08%) VPN
2 4 (2.08%) WAN
3 2 (1.04%) Network Security
3 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.52%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (7.81%) MySQL
4 14 (7.29%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.17%) Neo4j
6 8 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.60%) Big Data
7 5 (2.60%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.08%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.04%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.04%) Power BI
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.52%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.52%) DB2
10 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (25.00%) Git
2 21 (10.94%) Cypress.io
3 18 (9.38%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.29%) GitLab
5 12 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.17%) Selenium
7 6 (3.13%) JIRA
7 6 (3.13%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.60%) TestRail
9 4 (2.08%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.08%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.56%) JUnit
11 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.04%) Postman
11 2 (1.04%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.04%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.04%) Subversion
11 2 (1.04%) TestNG
12 1 (0.52%) MSTest
12 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 22 (11.46%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.38%) Multimedia
3 8 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.13%) Automotive
4 6 (3.13%) Finance
4 6 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 6 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.60%) Marketing
5 5 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.56%) Military
8 2 (1.04%) Electronics
8 2 (1.04%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 99 (51.56%) Developer
2 39 (20.31%) Software Engineer
3 29 (15.10%) Full-Stack Developer
4 26 (13.54%) Senior
5 24 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 24 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 18 (9.38%) Trainee
7 16 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
8 14 (7.29%) PHP Developer
8 14 (7.29%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.73%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 10 (5.21%) Python Developer
10 10 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (5.21%) Test Engineer
11 9 (4.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 8 (4.17%) .NET Developer
12 8 (4.17%) Lead
13 7 (3.65%) Analyst
13 7 (3.65%) Java Developer
14 6 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (33.33%) HTML
2 63 (32.81%) CSS
3 56 (29.17%) React
4 27 (14.06%) AngularJS
5 25 (13.02%) .NET
6 21 (10.94%) Node.js
6 21 (10.94%) Vue
7 20 (10.42%) Playwright
8 16 (8.33%) REST
8 16 (8.33%) RESTful
9 15 (7.81%) ASP.NET
9 15 (7.81%) Spring
10 14 (7.29%) Spring Boot
11 13 (6.77%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.69%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (4.17%) Laravel
13 8 (4.17%) MERN Stack
13 8 (4.17%) Sass
14 7 (3.65%) Apache NiFi
14 7 (3.65%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.29%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.17%) Educational Technology
3 8 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.60%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.08%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.56%) Graphic Design
6 3 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) IoT
8 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.52%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.25%) Linux
2 8 (4.17%) Windows
3 5 (2.60%) CentOS
4 1 (0.52%) Debian
4 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (30.73%) Agile
2 57 (29.69%) Full-Stack Development
3 56 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 55 (28.65%) Software Engineering
5 36 (18.75%) DevOps
5 36 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (15.10%) Mentoring
7 27 (14.06%) Front End Development
8 26 (13.54%) Cybersecurity
8 26 (13.54%) Test Automation
9 24 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 20 (10.42%) Web Development
11 18 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (8.85%) Scrum
13 15 (7.81%) Microservices
14 14 (7.29%) Collaborative Culture
15 13 (6.77%) API Development
15 13 (6.77%) Computer Science
15 13 (6.77%) MVC
16 12 (6.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 87 (45.31%) Python
2 68 (35.42%) TypeScript
3 50 (26.04%) Java
4 44 (22.92%) C#
5 31 (16.15%) PHP
6 28 (14.58%) SQL
7 13 (6.77%) R
8 12 (6.25%) Bash
8 12 (6.25%) C
9 11 (5.73%) C++
10 8 (4.17%) Go
11 7 (3.65%) PowerShell
12 6 (3.13%) Rust
13 4 (2.08%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.04%) VB
15 1 (0.52%) Perl
15 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.52%) Ruby
15 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 21 (10.94%) Degree
4 19 (9.90%) AWS Certification
5 18 (9.38%) Azure Certification
5 18 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (8.85%) DV Cleared
7 10 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (4.69%) ISTQB
9 4 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.08%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.04%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.52%) OCA
11 1 (0.52%) OCP
11 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.38%) QA
2 8 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 41 (21.35%) Docker
2 4 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (18.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.81%) Terraform
3 12 (6.25%) Ansible
3 12 (6.25%) Kibana
4 11 (5.73%) Grafana
5 10 (5.21%) logstash
6 4 (2.08%) Podman
6 4 (2.08%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.52%) Argo
8 1 (0.52%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.52%) Plesk
8 1 (0.52%) Puppet
8 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.13%) Splunk
4 5 (2.60%) Google
4 5 (2.60%) Oracle
4 5 (2.60%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.08%) Adobe
5 4 (2.08%) VMware
6 2 (1.04%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.04%) SAP
7 1 (0.52%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.52%) Siemens