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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -34 -8 +3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 191 205 785
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.47% 7.77% 8.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.24% 25.79% 26.88%
Number of salaries quoted 159 142 683
10th Percentile £30,150 £40,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.35% -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 1,176 795 2,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.21% 30.15% 31.31%
Number of salaries quoted 762 549 2,388
10th Percentile £33,775 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,563
90th Percentile £79,200 £82,950 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -22 74 £55,000 -8.33% 32
Devon +1 37 £50,000 -13.04% 10
Gloucestershire -33 33 £50,000 -16.67% 10
Somerset -37 16 £41,250 -28.26% 7
Dorset -12 13 £45,000 -7.69% 5
Wiltshire -30 7 £65,000 +13.04% 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 (4.19%) Apache
2 4 (2.09%) WordPress
3 3 (1.57%) CMS
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.05%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.05%) InDesign
1 2 (1.05%) 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 (1.05%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 62 (32.46%) AWS
1 62 (32.46%) Azure
2 19 (9.95%) GitHub
3 16 (8.38%) GCP
3 16 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (7.85%) SaaS
5 14 (7.33%) Serverless
6 13 (6.81%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.66%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.62%) npm
10 4 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.09%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.09%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.09%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.57%) Cloud Run
11 3 (1.57%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.28%) Internet
2 7 (3.66%) VPN
2 7 (3.66%) WAN
3 4 (2.09%) Broadband
4 2 (1.05%) AMQP
4 2 (1.05%) Network Security
4 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.99%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.85%) MongoDB
2 15 (7.85%) MySQL
3 14 (7.33%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (6.81%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.14%) Big Data
7 5 (2.62%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.09%) InfluxDB
8 4 (2.09%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.09%) Power BI
9 3 (1.57%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.05%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.05%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.05%) GIS
10 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (25.13%) Git
2 17 (8.90%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.81%) Cypress.io
3 13 (6.81%) GitLab
4 10 (5.24%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.66%) Subversion
6 6 (3.14%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.62%) Eclipse
7 5 (2.62%) JIRA
7 5 (2.62%) JUnit
7 5 (2.62%) Selenium
8 4 (2.09%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.09%) TestRail
9 3 (1.57%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.05%) Postman
10 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.05%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (1.05%) TestNG
11 1 (0.52%) MSTest
General
1 34 (17.80%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.28%) Multimedia
3 11 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.71%) Manufacturing
5 8 (4.19%) Finance
6 7 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.14%) Automotive
8 5 (2.62%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.62%) Marketing
9 4 (2.09%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.05%) Electronics
11 2 (1.05%) Local Government
11 2 (1.05%) Military
11 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.05%) Retail
11 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 102 (53.40%) Developer
2 36 (18.85%) Software Engineer
3 29 (15.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 29 (15.18%) Senior
4 24 (12.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 20 (10.47%) JavaScript Developer
6 19 (9.95%) Software Developer
7 15 (7.85%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 15 (7.85%) Senior Developer
8 14 (7.33%) PHP Developer
9 12 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (6.28%) Trainee
10 10 (5.24%) .NET Developer
10 10 (5.24%) Python Developer
11 9 (4.71%) Analyst
11 9 (4.71%) Architect
11 9 (4.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 9 (4.71%) Java Developer
11 9 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (31.94%) React
2 57 (29.84%) CSS
3 56 (29.32%) HTML
4 28 (14.66%) .NET
4 28 (14.66%) AngularJS
4 28 (14.66%) Node.js
5 26 (13.61%) RESTful
5 26 (13.61%) Vue
6 18 (9.42%) REST
7 17 (8.90%) ASP.NET
8 13 (6.81%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (6.81%) Playwright
9 11 (5.76%) Spring
10 10 (5.24%) .NET Core
10 10 (5.24%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (5.24%) Spring Boot
10 10 (5.24%) Tailwind CSS
11 9 (4.71%) Blazor
12 8 (4.19%) HTML5
12 8 (4.19%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.81%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.28%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.19%) Educational Technology
4 7 (3.66%) Client/Server
4 7 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.66%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.57%) Graphic Design
7 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.05%) IoT
7 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.52%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.38%) Linux
2 11 (5.76%) Windows
3 6 (3.14%) CentOS
4 3 (1.57%) Unix
5 2 (1.05%) Debian
5 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (35.60%) Full-Stack Development
2 63 (32.98%) Agile
3 50 (26.18%) CI/CD
3 50 (26.18%) Software Engineering
4 48 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (16.75%) DevOps
6 31 (16.23%) Front End Development
7 25 (13.09%) Containerisation
7 25 (13.09%) Mentoring
8 22 (11.52%) Web Development
9 19 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (9.42%) Test Automation
11 17 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (8.90%) Scrum
11 17 (8.90%) User Experience
12 16 (8.38%) Collaborative Culture
13 15 (7.85%) AI
14 14 (7.33%) Microservices
15 13 (6.81%) ERP
15 13 (6.81%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 84 (43.98%) Python
2 62 (32.46%) TypeScript
3 49 (25.65%) C#
4 44 (23.04%) SQL
5 43 (22.51%) Java
6 29 (15.18%) PHP
7 20 (10.47%) C++
8 13 (6.81%) Bash
9 9 (4.71%) R
10 8 (4.19%) C
10 8 (4.19%) Go
11 7 (3.66%) PowerShell
11 7 (3.66%) Rust
12 6 (3.14%) Perl
13 3 (1.57%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.57%) VB
14 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (13.09%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.52%) Degree
3 16 (8.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 13 (6.81%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.28%) Azure Certification
5 12 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.76%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.66%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.57%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.52%) OCA
10 1 (0.52%) OCP
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.76%) QA
2 10 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (19.37%) Docker
2 4 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (15.71%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.38%) Terraform
3 13 (6.81%) Ansible
4 11 (5.76%) Grafana
4 11 (5.76%) Kibana
5 10 (5.24%) logstash
6 4 (2.09%) Podman
6 4 (2.09%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.57%) Plesk
8 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.05%) Puppet
9 1 (0.52%) Argo
9 1 (0.52%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.66%) Google
3 6 (3.14%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.14%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.14%) Splunk
4 4 (2.09%) Adobe
4 4 (2.09%) Oracle
4 4 (2.09%) VMware
5 2 (1.05%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.05%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.05%) SAP
6 1 (0.52%) Siemens