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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -34 -9 +6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 194 223 817
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.53% 7.94% 8.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.30% 26.45% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 164 152 689
10th Percentile £30,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,438 £45,750 £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 £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.23% +10.17% -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 1,190 843 2,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.52% 30.02% 29.85%
Number of salaries quoted 790 563 2,394
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 June 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 June 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 -23 73 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Devon -1 39 £50,000 -4.76% 16
Gloucestershire -33 37 £52,500 -4.55% 13
Somerset -38 17 £37,500 -34.78% 11
Dorset -17 11 £45,000 +5.88% 5
Wiltshire -26 7 £65,000 +13.04% 6
Cornwall - 5 £32,000 - 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 8 (4.12%) Apache
2 4 (2.06%) CMS
2 4 (2.06%) WordPress
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.03%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.03%) InDesign
1 2 (1.03%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.52%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.52%) Elementor
2 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.52%) Sketch
2 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (33.51%) Azure
2 61 (31.44%) AWS
3 21 (10.82%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (9.28%) GCP
5 17 (8.76%) GitHub
5 17 (8.76%) Power Platform
6 13 (6.70%) SaaS
6 13 (6.70%) Serverless
7 8 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.61%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.58%) npm
10 4 (2.06%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.06%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (2.06%) Figma
10 4 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.55%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.15%) Internet
2 8 (4.12%) VPN
2 8 (4.12%) WAN
3 4 (2.06%) Broadband
4 2 (1.03%) AMQP
4 2 (1.03%) Network Security
4 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.82%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.25%) MongoDB
3 14 (7.22%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (6.70%) MySQL
5 12 (6.19%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.09%) Big Data
8 5 (2.58%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.06%) InfluxDB
9 4 (2.06%) Neo4j
9 4 (2.06%) Power BI
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.55%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.03%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (1.03%) GIS
11 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (24.74%) Git
2 15 (7.73%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.70%) Cypress.io
4 11 (5.67%) GitLab
5 10 (5.15%) Subversion
6 8 (4.12%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.12%) Eclipse
7 6 (3.09%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.58%) JUnit
9 4 (2.06%) JIRA
9 4 (2.06%) Robot Framework
9 4 (2.06%) Selenium
9 4 (2.06%) TestRail
10 3 (1.55%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.52%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.52%) MSTest
12 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
General
1 36 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.15%) Manufacturing
3 10 (5.15%) Multimedia
4 9 (4.64%) Finance
5 8 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.12%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.09%) Automotive
7 5 (2.58%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.58%) Marketing
8 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Retail
8 3 (1.55%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.03%) Electronics
9 2 (1.03%) Local Government
9 2 (1.03%) Military
9 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 102 (52.58%) Developer
2 36 (18.56%) Software Engineer
3 33 (17.01%) Senior
4 27 (13.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (12.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (10.31%) JavaScript Developer
7 19 (9.79%) Software Developer
8 16 (8.25%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.73%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 13 (6.70%) Architect
10 13 (6.70%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (6.19%) PHP Developer
11 12 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (5.67%) Java Developer
13 10 (5.15%) .NET Developer
13 10 (5.15%) Analyst
13 10 (5.15%) Python Developer
13 10 (5.15%) Trainee
14 9 (4.64%) Junior
14 9 (4.64%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (34.02%) React
2 55 (28.35%) CSS
3 54 (27.84%) HTML
4 29 (14.95%) RESTful
5 28 (14.43%) .NET
5 28 (14.43%) AngularJS
5 28 (14.43%) Node.js
6 26 (13.40%) Vue
7 18 (9.28%) REST
8 17 (8.76%) ASP.NET
9 12 (6.19%) Playwright
10 11 (5.67%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (5.67%) Tailwind CSS
11 10 (5.15%) .NET Core
11 10 (5.15%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (5.15%) Spring
11 10 (5.15%) Web Services
12 9 (4.64%) Blazor
13 8 (4.12%) Spring Boot
13 8 (4.12%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.19%) Cloud Native
1 12 (6.19%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.12%) Client/Server
3 7 (3.61%) Educational Technology
3 7 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.61%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.55%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) IoT
7 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.76%) Linux
2 12 (6.19%) Windows
3 6 (3.09%) CentOS
4 4 (2.06%) Unix
5 2 (1.03%) Debian
5 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 63 (32.47%) Agile
3 57 (29.38%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (26.29%) Software Engineering
5 47 (24.23%) CI/CD
6 31 (15.98%) DevOps
7 30 (15.46%) Front End Development
8 24 (12.37%) Containerisation
8 24 (12.37%) Mentoring
9 22 (11.34%) Web Development
10 20 (10.31%) AI
11 19 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (9.28%) User Experience
13 17 (8.76%) Scrum
13 17 (8.76%) Test Automation
14 16 (8.25%) Collaborative Culture
14 16 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (7.73%) Computer Science
15 15 (7.73%) LLM
16 14 (7.22%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 87 (44.85%) Python
2 61 (31.44%) TypeScript
3 50 (25.77%) C#
4 47 (24.23%) SQL
5 44 (22.68%) Java
6 26 (13.40%) PHP
7 23 (11.86%) C++
8 13 (6.70%) Bash
9 9 (4.64%) Perl
10 8 (4.12%) C
10 8 (4.12%) Go
11 7 (3.61%) PowerShell
11 7 (3.61%) R
11 7 (3.61%) Rust
12 3 (1.55%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.55%) VB
13 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (12.89%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.37%) Degree
3 15 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (7.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 11 (5.67%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.67%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.15%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.61%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.55%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.52%) OCA
9 1 (0.52%) OCP
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.15%) Accessibility
1 10 (5.15%) QA
2 5 (2.58%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (19.59%) Docker
2 4 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (15.98%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.25%) Terraform
3 14 (7.22%) Ansible
4 11 (5.67%) Grafana
4 11 (5.67%) Kibana
5 10 (5.15%) logstash
6 4 (2.06%) Podman
6 4 (2.06%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.55%) Plesk
8 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.03%) Puppet
9 1 (0.52%) Argo
9 1 (0.52%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (21.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.61%) Google
3 6 (3.09%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.09%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.06%) Adobe
4 4 (2.06%) Splunk
4 4 (2.06%) VMware
5 2 (1.03%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle
5 2 (1.03%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.03%) SAP
6 1 (0.52%) Siemens