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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 32 25
Rank change year-on-year -22 -7 +3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 267 200 490
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.98% 5.69% 6.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.91% 24.81% 23.82%
Number of salaries quoted 207 137 371
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -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 1,491 806 2,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.63% 22.91% 25.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,058 531 1,503
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,875 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 August 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 August 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 +1 85 £60,000 +4.35% 31
Gloucestershire -35 57 £85,000 +47.83% 34
Devon +8 49 £55,000 +15.79% 17
Somerset -21 43 £37,500 +7.14% 11
Dorset -9 19 £35,250 -6.00% 9
Wiltshire -24 8 £44,250 -26.25% 4
Cornwall - 3 - -
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 15 (5.62%) Apache
2 7 (2.62%) Confluence
3 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.12%) JBoss
3 3 (1.12%) nginx
4 2 (0.75%) CMS
4 2 (0.75%) WordPress
5 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.37%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.75%) InDesign
2 2 (0.75%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.37%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 95 (35.58%) Azure
2 75 (28.09%) AWS
3 34 (12.73%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (11.61%) Power Platform
5 26 (9.74%) GCP
6 22 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.12%) OpenShift
8 15 (5.62%) GitHub
8 15 (5.62%) SaaS
9 9 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.00%) Serverless
11 6 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.25%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.87%) Figma
12 5 (1.87%) Google Play
13 4 (1.50%) Datadog
13 4 (1.50%) npm
14 3 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.12%) Cloud Run
14 3 (1.12%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.00%) VPN
1 8 (3.00%) WAN
2 4 (1.50%) Internet
2 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.12%) AMQP
3 3 (1.12%) Broadband
3 3 (1.12%) SSL
4 2 (0.75%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) DNS
5 1 (0.37%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.87%) MongoDB
2 19 (7.12%) SQL Server
3 16 (5.99%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (5.62%) MySQL
5 12 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.62%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (2.25%) InfluxDB
8 6 (2.25%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.87%) Big Data
9 5 (1.87%) Power BI
10 4 (1.50%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.12%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.12%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.12%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.12%) ZAP BI
12 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.75%) GIS
Development Applications
1 82 (30.71%) Git
2 30 (11.24%) Subversion
3 24 (8.99%) Eclipse
3 24 (8.99%) Jenkins
4 23 (8.61%) GitLab
5 21 (7.87%) Cypress.io
5 21 (7.87%) JUnit
6 19 (7.12%) JIRA
7 11 (4.12%) Selenium
8 10 (3.75%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.00%) TestRail
10 7 (2.62%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.62%) MSI
10 7 (2.62%) Robot Framework
11 5 (1.87%) Postman
12 4 (1.50%) NUnit
13 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.12%) CircleCI
13 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 58 (21.72%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.99%) Finance
3 30 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.99%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.49%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.75%) Military
7 9 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.25%) Retail
10 4 (1.50%) Law
10 4 (1.50%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.12%) Legal
11 3 (1.12%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.75%) Automotive
12 2 (0.75%) Banking
12 2 (0.75%) Electronics
12 2 (0.75%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 131 (49.06%) Developer
2 55 (20.60%) Software Engineer
3 42 (15.73%) Senior
4 38 (14.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (9.74%) Architect
5 26 (9.74%) Java Developer
5 26 (9.74%) Solutions Architect
6 24 (8.99%) Junior
7 23 (8.61%) Senior Developer
8 22 (8.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 22 (8.24%) Junior Developer
8 22 (8.24%) Junior Java Developer
8 22 (8.24%) Software Developer
9 17 (6.37%) JavaScript Developer
10 16 (5.99%) .NET Developer
10 16 (5.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 16 (5.99%) Lead
11 15 (5.62%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 14 (5.24%) Analyst
13 11 (4.12%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (39.33%) React
2 59 (22.10%) HTML
3 58 (21.72%) CSS
3 58 (21.72%) RESTful
4 48 (17.98%) .NET
5 38 (14.23%) Node.js
6 26 (9.74%) .NET Core
6 26 (9.74%) Web Services
7 25 (9.36%) REST
8 24 (8.99%) Jakarta EE
8 24 (8.99%) Struts
8 24 (8.99%) Vue
9 22 (8.24%) AngularJS
9 22 (8.24%) ASP.NET
10 19 (7.12%) .NET Framework
11 18 (6.74%) Playwright
12 17 (6.37%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (6.37%) HTML5
13 16 (5.99%) ASP.NET Core
13 16 (5.99%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.11%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.24%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (3.75%) Mobile App
3 10 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.00%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.87%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.87%) iPhone
7 4 (1.50%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.12%) Blog
8 3 (1.12%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.12%) Social Media
9 2 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.75%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.75%) IoT
9 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.99%) Linux
2 25 (9.36%) Windows
3 9 (3.37%) Android
3 9 (3.37%) CentOS
4 6 (2.25%) Unix
5 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.12%) Debian
6 3 (1.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (45.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 101 (37.83%) Agile
3 96 (35.96%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (32.21%) Software Engineering
5 78 (29.21%) CI/CD
6 57 (21.35%) DevOps
7 51 (19.10%) Test Automation
8 47 (17.60%) AI
9 39 (14.61%) Containerisation
10 35 (13.11%) Computer Science
10 35 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (12.36%) Microservices
12 31 (11.61%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (10.11%) Collaborative Culture
13 27 (10.11%) Front End Development
13 27 (10.11%) LLM
13 27 (10.11%) Machine Learning
14 26 (9.74%) Code Quality
15 25 (9.36%) Scrum
16 23 (8.61%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 141 (52.81%) Python
2 85 (31.84%) C#
3 73 (27.34%) Java
4 72 (26.97%) SQL
5 70 (26.22%) TypeScript
6 55 (20.60%) C++
7 24 (8.99%) Perl
8 21 (7.87%) Bash
9 20 (7.49%) PHP
10 13 (4.87%) Rust
11 10 (3.75%) Go
11 10 (3.75%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.62%) Bicep
13 6 (2.25%) C
14 4 (1.50%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.12%) R
16 2 (0.75%) XAML
17 1 (0.37%) Objective-C
17 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 60 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.98%) Degree
3 33 (12.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (11.24%) SC Cleared
5 17 (6.37%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (2.62%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.12%) OCP
10 3 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.61%) Accessibility
2 22 (8.24%) QA
3 11 (4.12%) WCAG
4 10 (3.75%) NCSC
5 7 (2.62%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.12%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 53 (19.85%) Docker
2 6 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (19.48%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.99%) Terraform
3 19 (7.12%) Ansible
4 16 (5.99%) Grafana
5 13 (4.87%) Kibana
5 13 (4.87%) logstash
6 6 (2.25%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.50%) Puppet
8 3 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.12%) Nagios
8 3 (1.12%) Plesk
8 3 (1.12%) Podman
8 3 (1.12%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 68 (25.47%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.62%) Red Hat
3 14 (5.24%) Google
4 9 (3.37%) Atlassian
4 9 (3.37%) Splunk
5 6 (2.25%) VMware
6 4 (1.50%) Adobe
7 3 (1.12%) New Relic
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle
7 3 (1.12%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.75%) IBM
8 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.75%) OpenAI