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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 18 19
Rank change year-on-year -41 +1 -8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 146 372 479
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.83% 9.12% 9.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.74% 27.13% 23.83%
Number of salaries quoted 111 190 401
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,625 £32,625
25th Percentile £36,125 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,188 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,037 £60,500
% change year-on-year -10.50% +10.80% -6.92%

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 779 1,371 2,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.08% 33.62% 39.12%
Number of salaries quoted 555 734 1,643
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,281 £43,675 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,600
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 19 January 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 January 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 -20 62 £50,000 -16.67% 50
Gloucestershire -4 27 £67,500 +3.85% 63
Devon -4 22 £40,000 -11.11% 37
Somerset -23 11 £27,000 -38.29% 32
Dorset -31 10 £65,000 +30.00% 32
Wiltshire -40 6 £65,000 +13.04% 29
Cornwall -17 1 - - 7
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 9 (6.16%) Apache
2 8 (5.48%) Confluence
3 3 (2.05%) Tomcat
3 3 (2.05%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.05%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.37%) Windchill
3 1 (0.68%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.05%) Primavera
2 2 (1.37%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (52.05%) AWS
2 60 (41.10%) Azure
3 29 (19.86%) GitHub
4 14 (9.59%) Serverless
5 13 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.16%) SaaS
7 8 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (4.79%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.11%) GCP
10 5 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.05%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (2.05%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.05%) OCI
12 3 (2.05%) Pulumi
13 2 (1.37%) Azure API Management
13 2 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (1.37%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.68%) AMQP
2 1 (0.68%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.68%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.27%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (9.59%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.53%) MySQL
3 11 (7.53%) NoSQL
4 10 (6.85%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.11%) Neo4j
6 5 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.05%) Big Data
8 3 (2.05%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.05%) Oracle Discoverer
8 3 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.37%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.68%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.68%) DB2
10 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.68%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (28.08%) Git
2 16 (10.96%) Jenkins
3 14 (9.59%) Cypress.io
4 12 (8.22%) GitLab
5 10 (6.85%) Oracle APEX
6 9 (6.16%) JIRA
6 9 (6.16%) Selenium
7 8 (5.48%) Cucumber
8 7 (4.79%) JUnit
9 6 (4.11%) Bitbucket
10 5 (3.42%) Postman
10 5 (3.42%) Visual Studio
11 4 (2.74%) REST Assured
11 4 (2.74%) Zephyr
12 3 (2.05%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (2.05%) SonarQube
12 3 (2.05%) TestRail
13 2 (1.37%) LoadRunner
13 2 (1.37%) SoapUI
13 2 (1.37%) TestNG
General
1 21 (14.38%) Multimedia
2 17 (11.64%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.85%) Marketing
4 6 (4.11%) Finance
4 6 (4.11%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.42%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.74%) Electronics
6 4 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.74%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Games
9 1 (0.68%) Military
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 67 (45.89%) Developer
2 29 (19.86%) Software Engineer
3 24 (16.44%) Software Developer
4 21 (14.38%) Trainee
5 18 (12.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (10.96%) Senior
7 10 (6.85%) .NET Developer
7 10 (6.85%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.48%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.48%) Trainee Developer
8 8 (5.48%) Trainee Software Developer
9 7 (4.79%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.79%) Tester
10 6 (4.11%) Automation Tester
10 6 (4.11%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.11%) C# Software Developer
10 6 (4.11%) Designer
10 6 (4.11%) Lead
10 6 (4.11%) Oracle Developer
10 6 (4.11%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (44.52%) HTML
2 64 (43.84%) CSS
3 42 (28.77%) React
4 18 (12.33%) .NET
4 18 (12.33%) AngularJS
5 13 (8.90%) RESTful
5 13 (8.90%) Spring
5 13 (8.90%) Spring Boot
6 12 (8.22%) Playwright
7 10 (6.85%) Vue
8 9 (6.16%) .NET Framework
8 9 (6.16%) Entity Framework
9 8 (5.48%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (5.48%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.79%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (4.79%) REST
11 6 (4.11%) MERN Stack
11 6 (4.11%) Node.js
11 6 (4.11%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.11%) Motion Graphics
3 4 (2.74%) Educational Technology
3 4 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.74%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.37%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.37%) Smart Home
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) IoT
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.22%) Linux
2 4 (2.74%) Unix
2 4 (2.74%) Windows
3 2 (1.37%) CentOS
3 2 (1.37%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.68%) Debian
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (38.36%) Agile
2 47 (32.19%) Software Engineering
3 45 (30.82%) CI/CD
4 35 (23.97%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (23.29%) Mentoring
6 27 (18.49%) DevOps
7 26 (17.81%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (13.70%) Test Automation
10 17 (11.64%) Microservices
11 15 (10.27%) Containerisation
11 15 (10.27%) MVC
12 14 (9.59%) Scrum
13 12 (8.22%) Computer Science
13 12 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (6.85%) API Testing
14 10 (6.85%) Front End Development
15 9 (6.16%) API Development
15 9 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
15 9 (6.16%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 72 (49.32%) Python
2 49 (33.56%) Java
3 38 (26.03%) TypeScript
4 31 (21.23%) C#
5 29 (19.86%) SQL
6 14 (9.59%) PHP
7 13 (8.90%) R
8 10 (6.85%) PL/SQL
9 9 (6.16%) T-SQL
10 8 (5.48%) C
11 5 (3.42%) Bash
12 4 (2.74%) Kotlin
13 3 (2.05%) C++
14 2 (1.37%) Go
14 2 (1.37%) VB
14 2 (1.37%) VB.NET
14 2 (1.37%) XAML
15 1 (0.68%) Perl
15 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.12%) Degree
3 22 (15.07%) AWS Certification
3 22 (15.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 21 (14.38%) Azure Certification
4 21 (14.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (11.64%) DV Cleared
6 9 (6.16%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (5.48%) ISTQB
8 5 (3.42%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.68%) OCA
10 1 (0.68%) OCP
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.22%) QA
2 8 (5.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (17.12%) Docker
2 5 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (15.07%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.85%) Kibana
3 8 (5.48%) Terraform
4 6 (4.11%) Ansible
5 4 (2.74%) Grafana
5 4 (2.74%) logstash
6 3 (2.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.68%) Argo
7 1 (0.68%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.68%) Puppet
7 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.01%) Oracle
3 8 (5.48%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.11%) Adobe
5 4 (2.74%) SAP
6 3 (2.05%) IFS
6 3 (2.05%) Splunk
7 2 (1.37%) Google
7 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.68%) BMC
8 1 (0.68%) Remedy
8 1 (0.68%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.68%) Siemens
8 1 (0.68%) VMware