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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 19 22
Rank change year-on-year -32 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 153 432 390
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.31% 7.80% 8.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.29% 26.28% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 119 228 323
10th Percentile £26,500 £33,525 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +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 754 1,644 1,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.30% 29.69% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 557 904 1,426
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,625 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +1.14% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,625 £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 30 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 30 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 -21 50 £50,000 -23.08% 40
Gloucestershire -3 30 £72,500 +20.83% 32
Devon -13 24 £40,000 -8.57% 19
Somerset -9 21 £29,000 -30.95% 18
Dorset -27 16 £33,750 -32.50% 11
Wiltshire -35 5 £60,000 -7.69% 18
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 (5.23%) Confluence
2 7 (4.58%) Apache
3 3 (1.96%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.96%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.96%) WebLogic Portal
4 2 (1.31%) WordPress
5 1 (0.65%) CMS
5 1 (0.65%) Drupal
5 1 (0.65%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (7.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.65%) Elementor
2 1 (0.65%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.65%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (3.27%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.61%) Infor CloudSuite
2 4 (2.61%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.96%) Primavera
4 1 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (42.48%) AWS
2 44 (28.76%) Azure
3 19 (12.42%) GitHub
4 13 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (7.84%) Serverless
6 7 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (4.58%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.92%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (3.27%) SaaS
9 3 (1.96%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (1.96%) OCI
10 2 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.31%) Figma
10 2 (1.31%) Pulumi
11 1 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.65%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.50%) Internet
2 1 (0.65%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.38%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.50%) MySQL
3 12 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.23%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.23%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.27%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.27%) Power BI
6 5 (3.27%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.61%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (2.61%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.96%) Oracle Discoverer
8 3 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.65%) Big Data
9 1 (0.65%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.65%) DB2
Development Applications
1 39 (25.49%) Git
2 17 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 15 (9.80%) JIRA
4 10 (6.54%) Oracle APEX
5 9 (5.88%) Jenkins
6 8 (5.23%) GitLab
7 7 (4.58%) JUnit
7 7 (4.58%) Selenium
8 6 (3.92%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.92%) Postman
9 5 (3.27%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.61%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.61%) Zephyr
11 3 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (1.31%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.31%) Gatling
12 2 (1.31%) LoadRunner
12 2 (1.31%) Maven
12 2 (1.31%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.31%) TestRail
General
1 28 (18.30%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.80%) Marketing
3 13 (8.50%) Multimedia
4 11 (7.19%) Finance
5 8 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.27%) Law
6 5 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.61%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.96%) Banking
8 3 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.31%) Electronics
9 2 (1.31%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.65%) Games
10 1 (0.65%) Military
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 70 (45.75%) Developer
2 29 (18.95%) Software Engineer
3 23 (15.03%) Software Developer
4 18 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (9.80%) Senior
6 13 (8.50%) Trainee
7 11 (7.19%) Designer
7 11 (7.19%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.54%) .NET Developer
9 9 (5.88%) Graduate
9 9 (5.88%) Tester
10 7 (4.58%) Analyst
10 7 (4.58%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.58%) Test Engineer
11 6 (3.92%) C# Developer
11 6 (3.92%) C# Software Developer
11 6 (3.92%) Oracle Developer
11 6 (3.92%) Trainee Developer
11 6 (3.92%) Trainee Software Developer
12 5 (3.27%) Graduate IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (44.44%) HTML
2 61 (39.87%) CSS
3 39 (25.49%) React
4 21 (13.73%) .NET
5 20 (13.07%) AngularJS
6 14 (9.15%) Playwright
7 13 (8.50%) Spring
8 11 (7.19%) Spring Boot
9 10 (6.54%) REST
9 10 (6.54%) RESTful
10 9 (5.88%) .NET Framework
10 9 (5.88%) Entity Framework
10 9 (5.88%) Vue
11 8 (5.23%) Hibernate
11 8 (5.23%) HTML5
12 7 (4.58%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.58%) CSS3
13 6 (3.92%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (3.92%) JSF
13 6 (3.92%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.19%) Cloud Native
1 11 (7.19%) Motion Graphics
2 5 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.61%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.96%) Smart Home
5 2 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.65%) PACS
6 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.65%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.84%) Linux
2 4 (2.61%) Windows
3 3 (1.96%) Unix
4 2 (1.31%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.65%) Android
5 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (39.87%) Agile
2 50 (32.68%) Software Engineering
3 36 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 31 (20.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (15.03%) Mentoring
7 22 (14.38%) Test Automation
8 21 (13.73%) DevOps
9 19 (12.42%) Computer Science
10 18 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (10.46%) MVC
13 15 (9.80%) Microservices
14 14 (9.15%) Scrum
15 12 (7.84%) B2B
15 12 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (7.84%) Front End Development
15 12 (7.84%) User Experience
16 11 (7.19%) B2B Marketing
16 11 (7.19%) Demand Generation
Programming Languages
1 53 (34.64%) Python
2 43 (28.10%) Java
3 40 (26.14%) TypeScript
4 37 (24.18%) SQL
5 32 (20.92%) C#
6 12 (7.84%) PHP
7 10 (6.54%) PL/SQL
8 9 (5.88%) T-SQL
9 7 (4.58%) R
10 6 (3.92%) C
11 4 (2.61%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.31%) C++
12 2 (1.31%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.31%) XAML
13 1 (0.65%) Bash
13 1 (0.65%) Perl
13 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (24.18%) Degree
2 30 (19.61%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (9.15%) AWS Certification
4 14 (9.15%) DV Cleared
5 13 (8.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 13 (8.50%) Azure Certification
5 13 (8.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (6.54%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.23%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.96%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.84%) QA
2 8 (5.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.65%) DICOM
3 1 (0.65%) GDPR
3 1 (0.65%) HL7
3 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (12.42%) Docker
2 3 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (10.46%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.23%) Kibana
3 6 (3.92%) Terraform
4 3 (1.96%) Ansible
4 3 (1.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) logstash
Vendors
1 21 (13.73%) Microsoft
1 21 (13.73%) Oracle
2 11 (7.19%) Adobe
3 8 (5.23%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.61%) Infor
5 3 (1.96%) IFS
6 2 (1.31%) SAP
6 2 (1.31%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.31%) Sybase
7 1 (0.65%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.65%) BMC
7 1 (0.65%) Netlify
7 1 (0.65%) Remedy
7 1 (0.65%) WooCommerce