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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -31 -11 +9
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 202 215 827
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.58% 7.54% 7.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.37% 25.81% 27.21%
Number of salaries quoted 171 144 691
10th Percentile £30,250 £33,100 £32,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 1,234 833 3,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.79% 29.23% 29.17%
Number of salaries quoted 836 554 2,408
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,675 £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 19 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 19 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 -18 73 £55,500 -7.50% 16
Devon -9 41 £50,000 -4.76% 10
Gloucestershire -33 39 £50,000 -9.09% 22
Somerset -36 23 £37,500 -34.78% 9
Dorset -16 10 £45,000 +20.00% 4
Wiltshire -31 6 £61,250 +2.08% 6
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 10 (4.95%) Apache
2 4 (1.98%) CMS
2 4 (1.98%) Confluence
2 4 (1.98%) WordPress
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.99%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.99%) InDesign
1 2 (0.99%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.50%) Elementor
2 1 (0.50%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (34.16%) Azure
2 63 (31.19%) AWS
3 21 (10.40%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (9.41%) GCP
5 18 (8.91%) Power Platform
6 15 (7.43%) GitHub
7 14 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.93%) Serverless
8 13 (6.44%) SaaS
9 9 (4.46%) OpenShift
10 8 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.48%) npm
12 4 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.98%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.98%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (1.98%) Figma
13 3 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.49%) Cloud Run
13 3 (1.49%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.96%) VPN
1 8 (3.96%) WAN
2 7 (3.47%) Internet
3 4 (1.98%) Broadband
4 3 (1.49%) AMQP
5 2 (0.99%) Network Security
5 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.50%) DNS
6 1 (0.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.89%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.90%) MongoDB
3 15 (7.43%) MySQL
4 14 (6.93%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (5.45%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.47%) Big Data
8 5 (2.48%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.48%) Power BI
8 5 (2.48%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.49%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.49%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.99%) GIS
10 2 (0.99%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (26.24%) Git
2 16 (7.92%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.93%) Cypress.io
3 14 (6.93%) GitLab
4 13 (6.44%) Subversion
5 11 (5.45%) Eclipse
6 8 (3.96%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.47%) JIRA
7 7 (3.47%) JUnit
7 7 (3.47%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.48%) Robot Framework
8 5 (2.48%) Selenium
8 5 (2.48%) TestRail
9 3 (1.49%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.49%) MSI
9 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.50%) git-flow
10 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 36 (17.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (4.95%) Finance
3 10 (4.95%) Manufacturing
4 9 (4.46%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.47%) Multimedia
7 6 (2.97%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.97%) Automotive
8 5 (2.48%) Marketing
9 4 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.98%) Retail
10 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.99%) Electronics
11 2 (0.99%) Local Government
11 2 (0.99%) Military
11 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 110 (54.46%) Developer
2 36 (17.82%) Software Engineer
3 35 (17.33%) Senior
4 27 (13.37%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (11.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (9.90%) JavaScript Developer
7 18 (8.91%) Software Developer
8 17 (8.42%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.43%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 14 (6.93%) Java Developer
11 13 (6.44%) .NET Developer
11 13 (6.44%) Architect
11 13 (6.44%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (5.94%) Junior
12 12 (5.94%) Junior Developer
12 12 (5.94%) PHP Developer
12 12 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (5.45%) Junior Java Developer
14 10 (4.95%) Analyst
14 10 (4.95%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (35.64%) React
2 53 (26.24%) CSS
3 52 (25.74%) HTML
4 36 (17.82%) RESTful
5 35 (17.33%) .NET
6 30 (14.85%) Node.js
7 26 (12.87%) AngularJS
7 26 (12.87%) Vue
8 22 (10.89%) REST
9 21 (10.40%) ASP.NET
10 15 (7.43%) .NET Core
11 14 (6.93%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (6.44%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (6.44%) Playwright
13 12 (5.94%) Blazor
13 12 (5.94%) Web Services
14 11 (5.45%) HTML5
14 11 (5.45%) J2EE
14 11 (5.45%) Spring
14 11 (5.45%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.43%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.94%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.46%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.96%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.47%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.49%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.49%) iPhone
8 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.50%) IoT
9 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.90%) Linux
2 16 (7.92%) Windows
3 8 (3.96%) CentOS
4 5 (2.48%) Unix
5 3 (1.49%) Android
5 3 (1.49%) Debian
5 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (39.11%) Full-Stack Development
2 71 (35.15%) Agile
3 62 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (26.24%) CI/CD
5 52 (25.74%) Software Engineering
6 39 (19.31%) DevOps
7 31 (15.35%) Front End Development
8 29 (14.36%) Containerisation
9 24 (11.88%) AI
10 22 (10.89%) Web Development
11 20 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (9.90%) Mentoring
12 19 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (9.41%) Microservices
12 19 (9.41%) Scrum
12 19 (9.41%) Test Automation
13 18 (8.91%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (8.91%) User Experience
14 17 (8.42%) Computer Science
15 15 (7.43%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 90 (44.55%) Python
2 61 (30.20%) TypeScript
3 57 (28.22%) C#
4 50 (24.75%) SQL
5 46 (22.77%) Java
6 27 (13.37%) C++
7 26 (12.87%) PHP
8 16 (7.92%) Bash
9 11 (5.45%) Perl
10 9 (4.46%) Go
11 8 (3.96%) PowerShell
11 8 (3.96%) Rust
12 6 (2.97%) C
13 5 (2.48%) R
14 4 (1.98%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.49%) Bicep
15 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.49%) VB
16 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.37%) Degree
3 17 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 11 (5.45%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.95%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.96%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.47%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.49%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.44%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.95%) QA
3 5 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.48%) WCAG
4 3 (1.49%) NCSC
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (20.30%) Docker
2 5 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (16.83%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.89%) Terraform
3 17 (8.42%) Ansible
4 13 (6.44%) Grafana
4 13 (6.44%) Kibana
5 12 (5.94%) logstash
6 5 (2.48%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.98%) Podman
8 3 (1.49%) Plesk
8 3 (1.49%) Puppet
9 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.50%) Argo
10 1 (0.50%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (21.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.95%) Google
3 8 (3.96%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.47%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.48%) Splunk
5 5 (2.48%) VMware
6 4 (1.98%) Adobe
7 3 (1.49%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.99%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.99%) SAP
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle