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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 23 16
Rank change year-on-year -31 -7 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 186 221 780
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.43% 8.28% 8.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.37% 26.44% 26.79%
Number of salaries quoted 148 157 681
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £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 £62,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £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 1,136 836 2,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.82% 31.33% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 705 598 2,393
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -27 69 £55,000 -8.33% 25
Devon +2 39 £45,000 -28.00% 15
Gloucestershire -29 35 £52,500 -12.50% 25
Somerset -38 14 £45,000 -21.74% 10
Dorset -15 12 £45,000 -7.69% 5
Wiltshire -29 6 £65,000 +13.04% 19
Cornwall - 5 £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 9 (4.84%) Apache
2 4 (2.15%) WordPress
3 3 (1.61%) CMS
4 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.08%) Confluence
4 2 (1.08%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.54%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.08%) InDesign
1 2 (1.08%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.54%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.54%) Elementor
2 1 (0.54%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.54%) Sketch
2 1 (0.54%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.54%) Shopify
2 1 (0.54%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (34.95%) AWS
2 55 (29.57%) Azure
3 19 (10.22%) GitHub
4 15 (8.06%) SaaS
4 15 (8.06%) Serverless
5 12 (6.45%) GCP
6 10 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.76%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.76%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.69%) npm
11 4 (2.15%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.61%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.61%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.61%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.45%) Internet
2 5 (2.69%) VPN
2 5 (2.69%) WAN
3 4 (2.15%) Broadband
4 2 (1.08%) AMQP
4 2 (1.08%) Network Security
4 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.75%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.60%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (8.06%) MongoDB
3 15 (8.06%) MySQL
4 14 (7.53%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.23%) Big Data
6 6 (3.23%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.69%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.15%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.61%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.08%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.08%) Power BI
11 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.54%) DB2
11 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (23.12%) Git
2 18 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.60%) Cypress.io
4 14 (7.53%) GitLab
5 11 (5.91%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.30%) Selenium
7 6 (3.23%) JIRA
7 6 (3.23%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.69%) TestRail
9 4 (2.15%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.15%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.61%) JUnit
11 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.08%) Postman
11 2 (1.08%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.08%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.08%) Subversion
11 2 (1.08%) TestNG
12 1 (0.54%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.54%) Locust
General
1 25 (13.44%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.45%) Multimedia
3 8 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.76%) Finance
4 7 (3.76%) Manufacturing
4 7 (3.76%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.23%) Automotive
6 5 (2.69%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.69%) Marketing
7 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.61%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.08%) Electronics
8 2 (1.08%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.08%) Military
8 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.54%) Local Government
9 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 98 (52.69%) Developer
2 38 (20.43%) Software Engineer
3 33 (17.74%) Full-Stack Developer
4 28 (15.05%) Senior
5 24 (12.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (10.75%) JavaScript Developer
7 18 (9.68%) Software Developer
8 15 (8.06%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 15 (8.06%) PHP Developer
8 15 (8.06%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.45%) Trainee
10 11 (5.91%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (5.38%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.84%) .NET Developer
12 9 (4.84%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 9 (4.84%) Test Engineer
13 8 (4.30%) Analyst
14 7 (3.76%) Lead
14 7 (3.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (3.23%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (32.26%) React
2 59 (31.72%) HTML
3 58 (31.18%) CSS
4 28 (15.05%) AngularJS
5 25 (13.44%) Node.js
5 25 (13.44%) Vue
6 24 (12.90%) .NET
7 21 (11.29%) RESTful
8 16 (8.60%) Playwright
8 16 (8.60%) REST
9 15 (8.06%) ASP.NET
10 14 (7.53%) Spring
11 13 (6.99%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (6.99%) Spring Boot
12 9 (4.84%) .NET Core
12 9 (4.84%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (4.30%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (4.30%) HTML5
13 8 (4.30%) Laravel
13 8 (4.30%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.30%) Educational Technology
4 7 (3.76%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.69%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.61%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) IoT
9 1 (0.54%) iPhone
9 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.54%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.06%) Linux
2 9 (4.84%) Windows
3 6 (3.23%) CentOS
4 2 (1.08%) Debian
4 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.54%) Android
5 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (34.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 60 (32.26%) Agile
3 52 (27.96%) CI/CD
4 49 (26.34%) Software Engineering
5 39 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (17.20%) DevOps
7 28 (15.05%) Front End Development
8 25 (13.44%) Containerisation
9 23 (12.37%) Mentoring
10 22 (11.83%) Web Development
11 21 (11.29%) Test Automation
12 18 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (9.14%) Microservices
13 17 (9.14%) Scrum
14 16 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (7.53%) Collaborative Culture
15 14 (7.53%) User Experience
16 13 (6.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 12 (6.45%) API Development
17 12 (6.45%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 80 (43.01%) Python
2 63 (33.87%) TypeScript
3 44 (23.66%) C#
3 44 (23.66%) Java
4 36 (19.35%) SQL
5 31 (16.67%) PHP
6 12 (6.45%) Bash
6 12 (6.45%) C++
7 10 (5.38%) C
8 9 (4.84%) R
9 8 (4.30%) Go
10 7 (3.76%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.76%) Rust
11 2 (1.08%) VB
12 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.54%) Ruby
12 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.22%) Degree
3 16 (8.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 13 (6.99%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.99%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.23%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.69%) ISTQB
9 4 (2.15%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.54%) OCA
11 1 (0.54%) OCP
11 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.99%) QA
2 9 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (19.89%) Docker
2 4 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.60%) Terraform
3 13 (6.99%) Ansible
4 12 (6.45%) Kibana
5 11 (5.91%) Grafana
6 10 (5.38%) logstash
7 4 (2.15%) Podman
7 4 (2.15%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.61%) Plesk
9 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.08%) Puppet
10 1 (0.54%) Argo
10 1 (0.54%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.76%) Atlassian
2 7 (3.76%) Google
3 6 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.23%) Splunk
4 5 (2.69%) Oracle
5 4 (2.15%) Adobe
5 4 (2.15%) VMware
6 2 (1.08%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.08%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.08%) SAP
7 1 (0.54%) Siemens