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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 19 22
Rank change year-on-year -29 +3 -11
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 165 438 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.65% 7.68% 8.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.29% 26.26% 22.12%
Number of salaries quoted 127 231 324
10th Percentile £26,500 £33,000 £35,249
25th Percentile £31,000 £40,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,375 £71,250 £69,813
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%

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 775 1,668 1,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.13% 29.26% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 574 917 1,420
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 -23 55 £50,000 -21.57% 40
Gloucestershire +2 35 £67,500 +12.50% 31
Devon -9 25 £40,000 -5.88% 19
Somerset -8 20 £27,000 -34.94% 21
Dorset -26 19 £33,750 -32.50% 11
Wiltshire -33 5 £60,000 -7.69% 15
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 7 (4.24%) Apache
1 7 (4.24%) Confluence
2 4 (2.42%) WordPress
3 3 (1.82%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.82%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.82%) WebLogic Portal
4 2 (1.21%) CMS
4 2 (1.21%) Drupal
4 2 (1.21%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.61%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (1.82%) Elementor
3 2 (1.21%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.21%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.61%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.61%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (3.64%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.42%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (2.42%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.82%) Primavera
4 2 (1.21%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.61%) Shopify
5 1 (0.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 68 (41.21%) AWS
2 47 (28.48%) Azure
3 20 (12.12%) GitHub
4 14 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (6.06%) Serverless
6 6 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.03%) SaaS
8 4 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.42%) Figma
9 3 (1.82%) GCP
9 3 (1.82%) OCI
10 2 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.21%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (1.21%) Cloudflare
10 2 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.21%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.21%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.48%) Internet
2 1 (0.61%) 2G
2 1 (0.61%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.61%) HbbTV
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.94%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.30%) MySQL
3 12 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.45%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.85%) NoSQL
7 7 (4.24%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.03%) Oracle Database
8 5 (3.03%) Power BI
9 4 (2.42%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (2.42%) Neo4j
9 4 (2.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.82%) Oracle Discoverer
10 3 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.21%) Big Data
11 2 (1.21%) CockroachDB
12 1 (0.61%) DB2
Development Applications
1 45 (27.27%) Git
2 20 (12.12%) Cypress.io
3 15 (9.09%) JIRA
4 10 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.06%) Oracle APEX
5 8 (4.85%) GitLab
6 7 (4.24%) JUnit
6 7 (4.24%) Postman
6 7 (4.24%) Selenium
7 6 (3.64%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.03%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.42%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.42%) Zephyr
10 3 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (1.82%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.21%) Gatling
11 2 (1.21%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.21%) TestRail
11 2 (1.21%) webpack
11 2 (1.21%) WebSpeed
General
1 34 (20.61%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.91%) Finance
3 17 (10.30%) Marketing
4 13 (7.88%) Multimedia
5 11 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.85%) Law
7 6 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.64%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.03%) Banking
8 5 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.82%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.82%) Electronics
10 3 (1.82%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.21%) Games
11 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.61%) Automotive
12 1 (0.61%) Military
12 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (46.06%) Developer
2 33 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 25 (15.15%) Software Developer
4 18 (10.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (9.70%) Senior
6 13 (7.88%) Trainee
7 12 (7.27%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.67%) .NET Developer
8 11 (6.67%) Designer
9 10 (6.06%) Tester
10 9 (5.45%) Analyst
10 9 (5.45%) Graduate
11 7 (4.24%) C# Developer
11 7 (4.24%) C# Software Developer
12 6 (3.64%) .NET Software Developer
12 6 (3.64%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.64%) Lead
12 6 (3.64%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.64%) Trainee Developer
12 6 (3.64%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (46.06%) HTML
2 68 (41.21%) CSS
3 44 (26.67%) React
4 27 (16.36%) AngularJS
5 24 (14.55%) .NET
6 15 (9.09%) Playwright
7 13 (7.88%) Spring
7 13 (7.88%) Vue
8 12 (7.27%) HTML5
8 12 (7.27%) REST
9 11 (6.67%) RESTful
9 11 (6.67%) Spring Boot
10 9 (5.45%) .NET Framework
10 9 (5.45%) CSS3
10 9 (5.45%) Entity Framework
11 8 (4.85%) Hibernate
12 7 (4.24%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.24%) Web Services
13 6 (3.64%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (3.64%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 11 (6.67%) Motion Graphics
2 7 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.42%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.42%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.82%) Smart Home
6 2 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.21%) Wiki
7 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.61%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.09%) Linux
2 4 (2.42%) Windows
3 3 (1.82%) Unix
4 2 (1.21%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.61%) Android
5 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (40.61%) Agile
2 55 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 41 (24.85%) CI/CD
4 32 (19.39%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (15.15%) DevOps
6 25 (15.15%) Mentoring
7 24 (14.55%) Test Automation
8 20 (12.12%) Computer Science
8 20 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (10.30%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (10.30%) MVC
10 16 (9.70%) Scrum
11 15 (9.09%) User Experience
12 13 (7.88%) Microservices
12 13 (7.88%) SDLC
13 12 (7.27%) B2B
13 12 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (7.27%) Software Testing
14 11 (6.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 54 (32.73%) Python
2 46 (27.88%) TypeScript
3 44 (26.67%) Java
3 44 (26.67%) SQL
4 33 (20.00%) C#
5 15 (9.09%) PHP
6 10 (6.06%) PL/SQL
7 9 (5.45%) T-SQL
8 7 (4.24%) R
9 6 (3.64%) C
10 4 (2.42%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.21%) C++
11 2 (1.21%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.21%) XAML
12 1 (0.61%) Bash
12 1 (0.61%) Perl
12 1 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (22.42%) Degree
2 30 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.70%) AWS Certification
4 15 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (8.48%) DV Cleared
6 13 (7.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 13 (7.88%) Azure Certification
6 13 (7.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (6.06%) SC Cleared
8 8 (4.85%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.88%) QA
2 9 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.61%) DICOM
3 1 (0.61%) GDPR
3 1 (0.61%) HL7
3 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (13.33%) Docker
2 3 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.85%) Kibana
3 7 (4.24%) Terraform
4 3 (1.82%) Ansible
4 3 (1.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.61%) logstash
Vendors
1 23 (13.94%) Oracle
2 22 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.27%) Adobe
4 8 (4.85%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.42%) Infor
6 3 (1.82%) IFS
6 3 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.21%) Netlify
7 2 (1.21%) QAD
7 2 (1.21%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.21%) SAP
7 2 (1.21%) Sybase
7 2 (1.21%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.61%) BMC
8 1 (0.61%) Databricks
8 1 (0.61%) Remedy