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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -37 -3 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 196 237 789
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.67% 8.92% 9.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.79% 27.85% 26.53%
Number of salaries quoted 151 171 691
10th Percentile £28,500 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £49,375 £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 £73,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.88% +10.34% -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 1,102 851 2,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.01% 32.03% 34.12%
Number of salaries quoted 685 626 2,465
10th Percentile £33,850 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,250 £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 April 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 April 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 -27 72 £50,000 -16.67% 27
Gloucestershire -22 41 £56,250 -11.76% 31
Devon +8 37 £45,000 -30.77% 12
Dorset -19 13 £45,000 -14.29% 9
Somerset -41 13 £45,000 -21.74% 13
Wiltshire -40 7 £65,000 +8.33% 11
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 (4.08%) Apache
2 4 (2.04%) WordPress
3 3 (1.53%) CMS
3 3 (1.53%) NServiceBus
4 2 (1.02%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.51%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.51%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.02%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.02%) InDesign
1 2 (1.02%) Photoshop
1 2 (1.02%) Windchill
2 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.51%) Elementor
2 1 (0.51%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.51%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Eloqua
1 2 (1.02%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.51%) Primavera
2 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (40.31%) AWS
2 62 (31.63%) Azure
3 23 (11.73%) GitHub
4 16 (8.16%) Serverless
5 15 (7.65%) SaaS
6 14 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (5.61%) GCP
8 10 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.06%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.04%) npm
12 3 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.53%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.53%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.53%) Figma
13 2 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.18%) Internet
2 4 (2.04%) Broadband
2 4 (2.04%) VPN
2 4 (2.04%) WAN
3 2 (1.02%) Network Security
3 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.67%) MySQL
3 16 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (7.65%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.12%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (4.08%) Neo4j
8 6 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.55%) Big Data
9 5 (2.55%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.04%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.02%) CockroachDB
12 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.51%) Cloudera CDH
12 1 (0.51%) DB2
12 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.51%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (23.98%) Git
2 21 (10.71%) Cypress.io
3 18 (9.18%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.14%) GitLab
5 12 (6.12%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.08%) Selenium
7 6 (3.06%) JIRA
7 6 (3.06%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.55%) TestRail
9 4 (2.04%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.04%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.53%) JUnit
11 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (1.02%) Postman
11 2 (1.02%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.02%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.02%) Subversion
11 2 (1.02%) TestNG
11 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (11.73%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.18%) Multimedia
3 7 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.06%) Automotive
4 6 (3.06%) Finance
4 6 (3.06%) Manufacturing
4 6 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (3.06%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.55%) Marketing
6 4 (2.04%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Military
8 2 (1.02%) Electronics
8 2 (1.02%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 101 (51.53%) Developer
2 40 (20.41%) Software Engineer
3 28 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 27 (13.78%) Senior
5 24 (12.24%) Software Developer
6 23 (11.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 18 (9.18%) Trainee
8 15 (7.65%) JavaScript Developer
9 14 (7.14%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.63%) PHP Developer
11 11 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (5.10%) .NET Developer
12 10 (5.10%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 10 (5.10%) Python Developer
12 10 (5.10%) Test Engineer
13 9 (4.59%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 9 (4.59%) Java Developer
14 8 (4.08%) Lead
15 7 (3.57%) Analyst
16 6 (3.06%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (34.69%) HTML
2 67 (34.18%) CSS
3 54 (27.55%) React
4 29 (14.80%) AngularJS
5 25 (12.76%) .NET
6 22 (11.22%) Vue
7 20 (10.20%) Node.js
7 20 (10.20%) Playwright
8 17 (8.67%) Spring
9 16 (8.16%) RESTful
9 16 (8.16%) Spring Boot
10 15 (7.65%) REST
11 14 (7.14%) ASP.NET
12 13 (6.63%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (4.59%) Sass
13 9 (4.59%) Tailwind CSS
14 8 (4.08%) MERN Stack
15 7 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
15 7 (3.57%) HTML5
15 7 (3.57%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.08%) Educational Technology
5 6 (3.06%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.04%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.53%) Graphic Design
8 3 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) IoT
10 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.51%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.63%) Linux
2 9 (4.59%) Windows
3 5 (2.55%) CentOS
4 2 (1.02%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Debian
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (31.63%) Agile
2 57 (29.08%) CI/CD
2 57 (29.08%) Software Engineering
3 56 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 37 (18.88%) DevOps
5 36 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (14.80%) Mentoring
7 26 (13.27%) Containerisation
7 26 (13.27%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (13.27%) Front End Development
7 26 (13.27%) Test Automation
8 21 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (10.20%) Web Development
10 18 (9.18%) Scrum
11 16 (8.16%) Microservices
12 15 (7.65%) Computer Science
12 15 (7.65%) MVC
13 14 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (6.63%) API Development
14 13 (6.63%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 89 (45.41%) Python
2 68 (34.69%) TypeScript
3 53 (27.04%) Java
4 45 (22.96%) C#
5 31 (15.82%) PHP
6 28 (14.29%) SQL
7 13 (6.63%) R
8 12 (6.12%) Bash
8 12 (6.12%) C
9 11 (5.61%) C++
10 8 (4.08%) Go
11 7 (3.57%) PowerShell
12 6 (3.06%) Rust
13 4 (2.04%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.02%) VB
15 1 (0.51%) Perl
15 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.51%) Ruby
15 1 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 22 (11.22%) Degree
3 19 (9.69%) AWS Certification
4 18 (9.18%) Azure Certification
4 18 (9.18%) DV Cleared
4 18 (9.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.59%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.55%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.53%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.51%) OCA
10 1 (0.51%) OCP
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.18%) QA
2 9 (4.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (21.94%) Docker
2 4 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.65%) Terraform
3 12 (6.12%) Ansible
3 12 (6.12%) Kibana
4 11 (5.61%) Grafana
5 10 (5.10%) logstash
6 4 (2.04%) Podman
6 4 (2.04%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.51%) Argo
8 1 (0.51%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.51%) Plesk
8 1 (0.51%) Puppet
8 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.08%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.06%) Oracle
3 6 (3.06%) Splunk
4 5 (2.55%) Google
4 5 (2.55%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.04%) Adobe
5 4 (2.04%) VMware
6 2 (1.02%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.02%) SAP
7 1 (0.51%) IFS
7 1 (0.51%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.51%) Siemens