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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -27 +2 -13
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 155 435 408
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.94% 7.13% 9.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.83% 25.62% 22.59%
Number of salaries quoted 118 229 337
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £35,249
25th Percentile £30,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £69,750
90th Percentile £73,250 £80,500 £77,611
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.54% +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 744 1,698 1,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 18.93% 27.85% 40.28%
Number of salaries quoted 533 946 1,436
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £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 5 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 5 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 -9 51 £50,000 -23.08% 53
Gloucestershire -1 30 £57,500 +4.55% 59
Dorset -25 23 £27,500 -45.00% 10
Devon -14 21 £40,000 - 23
Somerset 0 20 £27,000 -31.65% 25
Wiltshire -27 5 £60,000 -7.69% 14
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 (4.52%) Confluence
2 6 (3.87%) Apache
3 4 (2.58%) WordPress
4 3 (1.94%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.94%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.94%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (1.29%) CMS
5 2 (1.29%) Drupal
5 2 (1.29%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (7.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (1.94%) Elementor
3 2 (1.29%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.29%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.65%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.65%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (3.87%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.58%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (2.58%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (1.94%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.94%) Primavera
4 2 (1.29%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.65%) Shopify
5 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 60 (38.71%) AWS
2 38 (24.52%) Azure
3 18 (11.61%) GitHub
4 12 (7.74%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.16%) Serverless
6 7 (4.52%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.58%) Figma
7 4 (2.58%) GCP
7 4 (2.58%) SaaS
8 3 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.94%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.94%) OCI
8 3 (1.94%) Pulumi
9 2 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.29%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (1.29%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.29%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.74%) Internet
2 1 (0.65%) 2G
2 1 (0.65%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.65%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) HbbTV
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.84%) SQL Server
2 19 (12.26%) MySQL
3 11 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.10%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.81%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.81%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.52%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.87%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.87%) Power BI
7 5 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.58%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (1.94%) CockroachDB
9 3 (1.94%) Oracle Discoverer
9 3 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.29%) Big Data
10 2 (1.29%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (29.03%) Git
2 17 (10.97%) Cypress.io
3 16 (10.32%) JIRA
4 10 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.45%) Oracle APEX
5 8 (5.16%) JUnit
5 8 (5.16%) Postman
6 7 (4.52%) GitLab
6 7 (4.52%) Selenium
7 6 (3.87%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.23%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.58%) Zephyr
10 3 (1.94%) Maven
10 3 (1.94%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (1.94%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.29%) Appium
11 2 (1.29%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.29%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.29%) webpack
11 2 (1.29%) WebSpeed
General
1 39 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.55%) Finance
3 19 (12.26%) Marketing
4 16 (10.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (8.39%) Law
6 10 (6.45%) Multimedia
7 8 (5.16%) Banking
8 7 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (3.87%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.94%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.94%) Electronics
12 3 (1.94%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.94%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.29%) Games
13 2 (1.29%) Retail
13 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.65%) Legal
14 1 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (45.16%) Developer
2 31 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 23 (14.84%) Software Developer
4 14 (9.03%) Senior
5 13 (8.39%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (7.10%) Designer
7 10 (6.45%) .NET Developer
7 10 (6.45%) Graduate
7 10 (6.45%) Trainee
8 9 (5.81%) Analyst
8 9 (5.81%) Lead
8 9 (5.81%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.16%) Java Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) C# Developer
10 7 (4.52%) C# Software Developer
10 7 (4.52%) Tester
11 6 (3.87%) .NET Software Developer
11 6 (3.87%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Oracle Developer
11 6 (3.87%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (47.10%) HTML
2 65 (41.94%) CSS
3 42 (27.10%) React
4 26 (16.77%) AngularJS
5 24 (15.48%) .NET
6 14 (9.03%) HTML5
7 13 (8.39%) RESTful
7 13 (8.39%) Spring
8 12 (7.74%) Playwright
8 12 (7.74%) REST
8 12 (7.74%) Vue
9 10 (6.45%) Spring Boot
10 9 (5.81%) .NET Framework
10 9 (5.81%) CSS3
10 9 (5.81%) Entity Framework
10 9 (5.81%) Hibernate
10 9 (5.81%) Web Services
11 8 (5.16%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.52%) Laravel
12 7 (4.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.10%) Motion Graphics
2 9 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.52%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.58%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.58%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.94%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.94%) Smart Home
7 2 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.29%) Wiki
8 1 (0.65%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.65%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.90%) Linux
2 4 (2.58%) Unix
2 4 (2.58%) Windows
3 2 (1.29%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.65%) Android
4 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (43.23%) Agile
2 52 (33.55%) Software Engineering
3 35 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 29 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (16.77%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (14.84%) DevOps
6 23 (14.84%) Mentoring
7 21 (13.55%) Test Automation
8 20 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (12.26%) Computer Science
9 19 (12.26%) User Experience
10 16 (10.32%) MVC
10 16 (10.32%) Scrum
10 16 (10.32%) SDLC
11 13 (8.39%) B2B
11 13 (8.39%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (8.39%) Microservices
11 13 (8.39%) Software Testing
12 12 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (7.74%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 50 (32.26%) SQL
2 46 (29.68%) Python
3 41 (26.45%) Java
4 39 (25.16%) TypeScript
5 29 (18.71%) C#
6 16 (10.32%) PHP
7 10 (6.45%) PL/SQL
7 10 (6.45%) T-SQL
8 5 (3.23%) R
9 4 (2.58%) C
10 3 (1.94%) C++
11 2 (1.29%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.29%) XAML
12 1 (0.65%) Bash
12 1 (0.65%) Go
12 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.65%) Perl
12 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (22.58%) Degree
2 24 (15.48%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.32%) AWS Certification
4 14 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 10 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (6.45%) SC Cleared
6 9 (5.81%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.23%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.10%) QA
2 6 (3.87%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) DICOM
4 1 (0.65%) HL7
4 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (12.26%) Docker
2 3 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.16%) Terraform
3 7 (4.52%) Kibana
4 3 (1.94%) Ansible
4 3 (1.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.65%) Argo
5 1 (0.65%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (16.77%) Oracle
2 20 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.74%) Adobe
4 7 (4.52%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.58%) Infor
5 4 (2.58%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.94%) IFS
6 3 (1.94%) Sybase
7 2 (1.29%) Databricks
7 2 (1.29%) Google
7 2 (1.29%) Netlify
7 2 (1.29%) QAD
7 2 (1.29%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.29%) SAP
7 2 (1.29%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.65%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.65%) BMC
8 1 (0.65%) Genesys
8 1 (0.65%) Remedy