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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 26 16
Rank change year-on-year -31 -10 +6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 198 219 825
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.54% 7.76% 7.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.24% 26.20% 27.23%
Number of salaries quoted 169 148 688
10th Percentile £30,250 £33,900 £32,025
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,438 £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 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.37% +10.33% -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 1,219 836 3,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.65% 29.62% 29.32%
Number of salaries quoted 822 558 2,397
10th Percentile £34,550 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,575 £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 16 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 16 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 -15 73 £55,000 -8.33% 18
Devon -3 41 £50,000 -4.76% 13
Gloucestershire -35 37 £50,000 -9.09% 11
Somerset -41 20 £35,000 -39.13% 13
Dorset -17 10 £45,000 +20.00% 4
Wiltshire -28 7 £65,000 +10.64% 8
Cornwall - 5 £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 8 (4.04%) Apache
2 4 (2.02%) CMS
2 4 (2.02%) WordPress
3 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.01%) Confluence
3 2 (1.01%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.01%) InDesign
1 2 (1.01%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.51%) Elementor
2 1 (0.51%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (33.84%) Azure
2 63 (31.82%) AWS
3 21 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (9.60%) GCP
5 18 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 17 (8.59%) GitHub
7 13 (6.57%) SaaS
7 13 (6.57%) Serverless
8 10 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.04%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.53%) npm
12 4 (2.02%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.02%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (2.02%) Figma
12 4 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.52%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.55%) Internet
2 8 (4.04%) VPN
2 8 (4.04%) WAN
3 4 (2.02%) Broadband
4 2 (1.01%) AMQP
4 2 (1.01%) Network Security
4 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.51%) DNS
5 1 (0.51%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.60%) MongoDB
3 14 (7.07%) MySQL
4 13 (6.57%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (6.06%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.03%) Big Data
8 5 (2.53%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.53%) Power BI
8 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.52%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.01%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.01%) GIS
10 2 (1.01%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.01%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.51%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 52 (26.26%) Git
2 16 (8.08%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.07%) Cypress.io
4 13 (6.57%) GitLab
5 12 (6.06%) Subversion
6 10 (5.05%) Eclipse
7 7 (3.54%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.03%) JUnit
8 6 (3.03%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.53%) JIRA
9 5 (2.53%) Robot Framework
9 5 (2.53%) Selenium
9 5 (2.53%) TestRail
10 3 (1.52%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.51%) git-flow
11 1 (0.51%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.51%) MSTest
11 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.51%) Postman
General
1 36 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.05%) Finance
3 10 (5.05%) Manufacturing
4 9 (4.55%) Multimedia
5 8 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.03%) Automotive
7 5 (2.53%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.53%) Marketing
8 4 (2.02%) Retail
9 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.52%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.01%) Electronics
10 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.01%) Local Government
10 2 (1.01%) Military
10 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (53.54%) Developer
2 35 (17.68%) Software Engineer
3 34 (17.17%) Senior
4 26 (13.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (12.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (10.10%) JavaScript Developer
7 19 (9.60%) Software Developer
8 16 (8.08%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.58%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 13 (6.57%) Architect
10 13 (6.57%) Java Developer
10 13 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (6.06%) .NET Developer
11 12 (6.06%) PHP Developer
11 12 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (5.56%) Junior
12 11 (5.56%) Junior Developer
13 10 (5.05%) Analyst
13 10 (5.05%) Junior Java Developer
13 10 (5.05%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (35.35%) React
2 53 (26.77%) CSS
3 52 (26.26%) HTML
4 32 (16.16%) .NET
4 32 (16.16%) RESTful
5 30 (15.15%) Node.js
6 26 (13.13%) AngularJS
6 26 (13.13%) Vue
7 20 (10.10%) ASP.NET
8 19 (9.60%) REST
9 13 (6.57%) .NET Core
9 13 (6.57%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (6.57%) Playwright
10 12 (6.06%) Blazor
10 12 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
11 11 (5.56%) Web Services
12 10 (5.05%) J2EE
12 10 (5.05%) Spring
12 10 (5.05%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.57%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.04%) Client/Server
3 8 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.04%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.54%) Educational Technology
5 4 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.52%) Graphic Design
7 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.01%) iPhone
7 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) IoT
8 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.60%) Linux
2 14 (7.07%) Windows
3 7 (3.54%) CentOS
4 5 (2.53%) Unix
5 2 (1.01%) Android
5 2 (1.01%) Debian
5 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.87%) Full-Stack Development
2 68 (34.34%) Agile
3 61 (30.81%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (25.76%) CI/CD
4 51 (25.76%) Software Engineering
5 35 (17.68%) DevOps
6 31 (15.66%) Front End Development
7 26 (13.13%) Containerisation
8 23 (11.62%) Mentoring
9 22 (11.11%) AI
9 22 (11.11%) Web Development
10 20 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (9.09%) Scrum
11 18 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 18 (9.09%) User Experience
12 17 (8.59%) Collaborative Culture
13 16 (8.08%) Computer Science
13 16 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (8.08%) Microservices
14 15 (7.58%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 88 (44.44%) Python
2 59 (29.80%) TypeScript
3 54 (27.27%) C#
4 50 (25.25%) SQL
5 43 (21.72%) Java
6 26 (13.13%) PHP
7 25 (12.63%) C++
8 15 (7.58%) Bash
9 10 (5.05%) Perl
10 8 (4.04%) Go
10 8 (4.04%) PowerShell
11 7 (3.54%) Rust
12 6 (3.03%) C
12 6 (3.03%) R
13 4 (2.02%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.52%) VB
15 1 (0.51%) Bicep
15 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (13.13%) Degree
2 25 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (7.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 10 (5.05%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (4.04%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.52%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 10 (5.05%) QA
3 5 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.52%) WCAG
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (20.20%) Docker
2 5 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (16.16%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.09%) Terraform
3 15 (7.58%) Ansible
4 12 (6.06%) Grafana
4 12 (6.06%) Kibana
5 11 (5.56%) logstash
6 5 (2.53%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.02%) Podman
8 3 (1.52%) Plesk
9 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.01%) Puppet
10 1 (0.51%) Argo
10 1 (0.51%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (21.72%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.04%) Google
3 7 (3.54%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.54%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.53%) Splunk
4 5 (2.53%) VMware
5 4 (2.02%) Adobe
6 2 (1.01%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.01%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.01%) SAP
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle