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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 49 21
Rank change year-on-year -17 -28 +9
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 255 143 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.46% 4.08% 6.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.14% 19.83% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 186 105 272
10th Percentile £30,250 £26,500 £32,550
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,668
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -5.07% -4.24%
75th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,580 721 1,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.26% 20.55% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,149 491 1,159
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £83,116
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.81% -3.67% -

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -16 77 £60,000 +14.29% 34
Gloucestershire -28 61 £85,000 +47.83% 62
Devon +5 47 £62,500 +47.06% 17
Somerset -13 41 £35,000 +12.90% 18
Dorset -1 17 £33,000 +20.00% 19
Wiltshire -21 7 £57,500 - 1
Cornwall - 2 - - 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 17 (6.67%) Apache
2 10 (3.92%) Confluence
3 4 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.18%) JBoss
4 3 (1.18%) nginx
5 2 (0.78%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 91 (35.69%) Azure
2 81 (31.76%) AWS
3 34 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (12.94%) Power Platform
5 27 (10.59%) GCP
6 26 (10.20%) OpenShift
7 19 (7.45%) SaaS
8 18 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.71%) GitHub
10 10 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.75%) Serverless
12 6 (2.35%) Azure AI
13 5 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.96%) Google Play
14 4 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.57%) Datadog
14 4 (1.57%) Figma
15 3 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 3 (1.18%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.75%) VPN
1 7 (2.75%) WAN
2 4 (1.57%) AMQP
3 3 (1.18%) SSL
3 3 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.78%) Broadband
5 1 (0.39%) DNS
5 1 (0.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.63%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (4.31%) MySQL
5 9 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.75%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (2.75%) Power BI
8 6 (2.35%) Big Data
8 6 (2.35%) InfluxDB
8 6 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.57%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.57%) GIS
9 4 (1.57%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.57%) MariaDB
9 4 (1.57%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.18%) ZAP BI
11 2 (0.78%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 75 (29.41%) Git
2 31 (12.16%) Subversion
3 26 (10.20%) Eclipse
3 26 (10.20%) GitLab
3 26 (10.20%) Jenkins
4 22 (8.63%) JUnit
5 20 (7.84%) JIRA
6 17 (6.67%) Cypress.io
7 12 (4.71%) Selenium
8 11 (4.31%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.14%) Cucumber
9 8 (3.14%) TestRail
10 7 (2.75%) MSI
10 7 (2.75%) Robot Framework
11 5 (1.96%) Postman
12 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.18%) NUnit
12 3 (1.18%) Snyk
12 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (1.18%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.16%) Finance
3 29 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.92%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.53%) Military
8 8 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.75%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.75%) Retail
10 4 (1.57%) Law
11 3 (1.18%) Legal
11 3 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.78%) Banking
12 2 (0.78%) Electronics
12 2 (0.78%) Environmental Health
12 2 (0.78%) Local Government
12 2 (0.78%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 118 (46.27%) Developer
2 52 (20.39%) Software Engineer
3 39 (15.29%) Senior
4 38 (14.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (10.20%) Architect
5 26 (10.20%) Java Developer
5 26 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (9.80%) Junior
7 23 (9.02%) Junior Developer
7 23 (9.02%) Junior Java Developer
7 23 (9.02%) Software Developer
8 20 (7.84%) Senior Developer
9 18 (7.06%) Lead
10 15 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 15 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 15 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
11 12 (4.71%) .NET Developer
11 12 (4.71%) Analyst
11 12 (4.71%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 12 (4.71%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (40.39%) React
2 60 (23.53%) RESTful
3 47 (18.43%) CSS
4 46 (18.04%) HTML
5 41 (16.08%) Node.js
6 40 (15.69%) .NET
7 35 (13.73%) Terraform
8 27 (10.59%) Web Services
9 26 (10.20%) Jakarta EE
9 26 (10.20%) Struts
10 25 (9.80%) Vue
11 24 (9.41%) .NET Core
12 19 (7.45%) AngularJS
12 19 (7.45%) REST
13 18 (7.06%) .NET Framework
13 18 (7.06%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (7.06%) Spring
14 17 (6.67%) ASP.NET
14 17 (6.67%) Spring Boot
15 15 (5.88%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.27%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.75%) Client/Server
5 7 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.75%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.96%) iPhone
8 4 (1.57%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.18%) Blog
9 3 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.18%) Social Media
10 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.78%) IoT
10 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.33%) Linux
2 25 (9.80%) Windows
3 10 (3.92%) CentOS
4 9 (3.53%) Android
5 7 (2.75%) Unix
6 5 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.57%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.57%) Debian
7 4 (1.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (47.84%) Full-Stack Development
2 102 (40.00%) Agile
3 100 (39.22%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (32.94%) CI/CD
5 83 (32.55%) Software Engineering
6 60 (23.53%) DevOps
7 53 (20.78%) AI
7 53 (20.78%) Test Automation
8 38 (14.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (14.90%) Microservices
9 37 (14.51%) Computer Science
10 36 (14.12%) Containerisation
11 32 (12.55%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (10.98%) Code Quality
12 28 (10.98%) Collaborative Culture
12 28 (10.98%) Machine Learning
13 27 (10.59%) LLM
14 23 (9.02%) Requirements Analysis
14 23 (9.02%) Scrum
15 22 (8.63%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 136 (53.33%) Python
2 76 (29.80%) Java
2 76 (29.80%) SQL
3 72 (28.24%) C#
4 59 (23.14%) TypeScript
5 54 (21.18%) C++
6 26 (10.20%) Perl
7 22 (8.63%) Bash
8 17 (6.67%) PHP
9 13 (5.10%) PowerShell
9 13 (5.10%) Rust
10 9 (3.53%) Go
11 7 (2.75%) Bicep
12 4 (1.57%) C
12 4 (1.57%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.78%) XAML
15 1 (0.39%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 69 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.43%) Degree
3 38 (14.90%) SC Cleared
4 34 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.18%) OCP
8 3 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.63%) Accessibility
2 20 (7.84%) QA
3 11 (4.31%) WCAG
4 10 (3.92%) NCSC
5 7 (2.75%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.18%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 58 (22.75%) Docker
2 6 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (23.14%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.24%) Ansible
3 17 (6.67%) Grafana
4 14 (5.49%) Kibana
4 14 (5.49%) logstash
5 6 (2.35%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.96%) Puppet
7 3 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.18%) Nagios
7 3 (1.18%) Plesk
7 3 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.78%) Podman
9 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 64 (25.10%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.27%) Red Hat
3 15 (5.88%) Google
4 9 (3.53%) Atlassian
4 9 (3.53%) Splunk
5 6 (2.35%) VMware
6 4 (1.57%) Sage
6 4 (1.57%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.57%) SAP
7 3 (1.18%) New Relic
8 2 (0.78%) IBM
8 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.78%) Oracle
9 1 (0.39%) Adobe
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco
9 1 (0.39%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud