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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -27 -8 +6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 227 218 765
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.77% 6.70% 7.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.53% 25.41% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 191 153 637
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,500 £32,400
25th Percentile £39,375 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% +10.37% -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 1,373 858 2,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.75% 26.36% 28.77%
Number of salaries quoted 950 580 2,238
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,222
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,525 £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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -13 74 £60,000 - 20
Devon +3 50 £50,000 -4.76% 13
Gloucestershire -33 44 £50,000 -13.04% 24
Somerset -41 30 £31,500 -45.22% 13
Dorset -16 14 £45,000 +20.00% 4
Wiltshire -34 6 £61,250 +4.26% 5
Cornwall - 4 £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 13 (5.73%) Apache
2 5 (2.20%) Confluence
3 4 (1.76%) CMS
3 4 (1.76%) WordPress
4 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.88%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.88%) InDesign
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.88%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.44%) Elementor
2 1 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (36.12%) Azure
2 71 (31.28%) AWS
3 25 (11.01%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (10.13%) GCP
5 22 (9.69%) Power Platform
6 19 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.61%) SaaS
8 14 (6.17%) Serverless
9 13 (5.73%) GitHub
10 12 (5.29%) OpenShift
11 8 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.20%) Azure AI
12 5 (2.20%) Figma
12 5 (2.20%) Google Play
12 5 (2.20%) npm
13 4 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.76%) Azure Functions
13 4 (1.76%) Cloud Functions
14 3 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.32%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.52%) VPN
1 8 (3.52%) WAN
2 4 (1.76%) Internet
3 3 (1.32%) AMQP
3 3 (1.32%) Broadband
4 2 (0.88%) Network Security
4 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.44%) DNS
5 1 (0.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.13%) MongoDB
2 21 (9.25%) SQL Server
3 20 (8.81%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (7.49%) MySQL
5 12 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (4.41%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.08%) Big Data
8 7 (3.08%) InfluxDB
9 5 (2.20%) Power BI
10 4 (1.76%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.32%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.32%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.88%) GIS
12 2 (0.88%) Neo4j
13 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (25.11%) Git
2 19 (8.37%) GitLab
3 18 (7.93%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.93%) Subversion
4 16 (7.05%) Cypress.io
4 16 (7.05%) Eclipse
5 10 (4.41%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.41%) JIRA
5 10 (4.41%) JUnit
6 9 (3.96%) SonarQube
7 7 (3.08%) Robot Framework
7 7 (3.08%) Selenium
7 7 (3.08%) TestRail
8 4 (1.76%) MSI
9 3 (1.32%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.88%) Postman
11 1 (0.44%) git-flow
11 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (15.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.29%) Finance
4 9 (3.96%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.52%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.64%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.64%) Automotive
6 6 (2.64%) Retail
7 5 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.76%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.32%) Marketing
9 3 (1.32%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.88%) Local Government
10 2 (0.88%) Military
10 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (52.86%) Developer
2 47 (20.70%) Software Engineer
3 38 (16.74%) Senior
4 29 (12.78%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (11.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (8.81%) JavaScript Developer
7 19 (8.37%) Java Developer
7 19 (8.37%) Senior Developer
8 18 (7.93%) .NET Developer
9 17 (7.49%) Architect
9 17 (7.49%) Junior
9 17 (7.49%) Junior Developer
9 17 (7.49%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (7.05%) Junior Java Developer
10 16 (7.05%) Software Developer
11 15 (6.61%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 13 (5.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (5.29%) Analyst
14 11 (4.85%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (36.56%) React
2 53 (23.35%) CSS
3 52 (22.91%) HTML
4 44 (19.38%) RESTful
5 42 (18.50%) .NET
6 34 (14.98%) Node.js
7 30 (13.22%) Vue
8 28 (12.33%) AngularJS
9 26 (11.45%) ASP.NET
10 23 (10.13%) REST
11 21 (9.25%) .NET Core
12 18 (7.93%) ASP.NET Core
12 18 (7.93%) Web Services
13 17 (7.49%) Blazor
13 17 (7.49%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (7.05%) J2EE
14 16 (7.05%) Struts
15 15 (6.61%) Playwright
15 15 (6.61%) Spring
16 14 (6.17%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.49%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.85%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.52%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.20%) Educational Technology
7 5 (2.20%) iPhone
7 5 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.32%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.88%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.44%) IoT
11 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.44%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.01%) Linux
2 20 (8.81%) Windows
3 10 (4.41%) CentOS
4 6 (2.64%) Unix
5 5 (2.20%) Android
6 3 (1.32%) Debian
6 3 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (43.17%) Full-Stack Development
2 83 (36.56%) Agile
3 74 (32.60%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (29.07%) Software Engineering
5 62 (27.31%) CI/CD
6 49 (21.59%) DevOps
7 33 (14.54%) AI
8 32 (14.10%) Front End Development
9 31 (13.66%) Containerisation
10 29 (12.78%) Microservices
11 27 (11.89%) Test Automation
12 24 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (10.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (10.57%) Web Development
13 22 (9.69%) Collaborative Culture
13 22 (9.69%) Computer Science
13 22 (9.69%) Scrum
14 20 (8.81%) LLM
15 18 (7.93%) Machine Learning
15 18 (7.93%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 104 (45.81%) Python
2 69 (30.40%) C#
3 63 (27.75%) TypeScript
4 60 (26.43%) SQL
5 58 (25.55%) Java
6 35 (15.42%) C++
7 26 (11.45%) PHP
8 19 (8.37%) Bash
9 16 (7.05%) Perl
10 10 (4.41%) Go
10 10 (4.41%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.41%) Rust
11 6 (2.64%) C
12 4 (1.76%) Bicep
12 4 (1.76%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.32%) R
13 3 (1.32%) VB
14 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.10%) Degree
3 22 (9.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.73%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.29%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.76%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.32%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.61%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.96%) QA
3 7 (3.08%) WCAG
4 5 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.76%) NCSC
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (20.70%) Docker
2 7 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (18.94%) Kubernetes
2 26 (11.45%) Terraform
3 20 (8.81%) Ansible
4 17 (7.49%) Grafana
4 17 (7.49%) Kibana
5 16 (7.05%) logstash
6 7 (3.08%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.76%) Podman
8 3 (1.32%) Plesk
8 3 (1.32%) Puppet
9 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (23.79%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.29%) Google
3 10 (4.41%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.96%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.08%) Splunk
5 7 (3.08%) VMware
6 4 (1.76%) Adobe
7 3 (1.32%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.88%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle