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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 29 22
Rank change year-on-year -30 -7 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 225 214 645
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.66% 6.35% 7.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.12% 25.54% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 195 152 526
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,650 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,668
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.17% -4.24%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,215 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% +10.36% -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 1,396 838 2,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.51% 24.87% 27.65%
Number of salaries quoted 994 564 1,931
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,625 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -7 74 £60,000 - 27
Devon +8 51 £50,000 -4.76% 14
Gloucestershire -40 39 £51,250 -10.87% 20
Somerset -42 33 £30,500 -41.90% 14
Dorset -8 17 £35,250 -6.00% 4
Cornwall - 4 £32,000 -
Wiltshire -39 3 £57,500 -4.17% 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 11 (4.89%) Apache
2 6 (2.67%) Confluence
3 4 (1.78%) CMS
4 3 (1.33%) WordPress
5 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.89%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.89%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.89%) InDesign
2 2 (0.89%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (33.33%) Azure
2 62 (27.56%) AWS
3 26 (11.56%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (10.22%) Power Platform
5 20 (8.89%) GCP
6 18 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.22%) SaaS
8 12 (5.33%) OpenShift
9 10 (4.44%) GitHub
10 9 (4.00%) Serverless
11 6 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.22%) Azure AI
12 5 (2.22%) Figma
12 5 (2.22%) Google Play
12 5 (2.22%) npm
13 3 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.33%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.33%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (1.33%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.56%) VPN
1 8 (3.56%) WAN
2 4 (1.78%) Internet
3 3 (1.33%) Broadband
4 2 (0.89%) AMQP
4 2 (0.89%) Network Security
4 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.44%) DNS
5 1 (0.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.22%) MongoDB
2 19 (8.44%) SQL Server
3 16 (7.11%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (7.11%) MySQL
4 12 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.67%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.22%) Big Data
7 5 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
7 5 (2.22%) Power BI
8 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.33%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.89%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.89%) GIS
9 2 (0.89%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (28.44%) Git
2 21 (9.33%) Subversion
3 19 (8.44%) GitLab
4 18 (8.00%) Eclipse
5 16 (7.11%) Jenkins
6 14 (6.22%) Cypress.io
7 13 (5.78%) JIRA
8 12 (5.33%) JUnit
9 7 (3.11%) Cucumber
9 7 (3.11%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.67%) Robot Framework
10 6 (2.67%) Selenium
10 6 (2.67%) TestRail
11 5 (2.22%) MSI
12 3 (1.33%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.89%) Postman
14 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
14 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 39 (17.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (4.89%) Finance
4 10 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.56%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.11%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.67%) Retail
8 5 (2.22%) Automotive
8 5 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.78%) Multimedia
10 3 (1.33%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.89%) Local Government
11 2 (0.89%) Marketing
11 2 (0.89%) Military
11 2 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 119 (52.89%) Developer
2 47 (20.89%) Software Engineer
3 36 (16.00%) Senior
4 32 (14.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (10.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 21 (9.33%) Java Developer
7 20 (8.89%) JavaScript Developer
8 19 (8.44%) Junior
8 19 (8.44%) Junior Developer
9 18 (8.00%) Architect
9 18 (8.00%) Junior Java Developer
9 18 (8.00%) Senior Developer
9 18 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (7.11%) .NET Developer
10 16 (7.11%) Software Developer
11 15 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 15 (6.67%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 14 (6.22%) Analyst
13 13 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (4.44%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (35.56%) React
2 55 (24.44%) HTML
3 53 (23.56%) CSS
4 46 (20.44%) RESTful
5 40 (17.78%) .NET
6 29 (12.89%) Node.js
7 24 (10.67%) ASP.NET
7 24 (10.67%) REST
7 24 (10.67%) Vue
8 22 (9.78%) AngularJS
9 21 (9.33%) .NET Core
10 20 (8.89%) Web Services
11 18 (8.00%) Jakarta EE
11 18 (8.00%) Struts
12 16 (7.11%) ASP.NET Core
12 16 (7.11%) Blazor
13 15 (6.67%) .NET Framework
14 14 (6.22%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (6.22%) Playwright
14 14 (6.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.89%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.44%) Mobile App
3 10 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.56%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.22%) iPhone
7 5 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.89%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.89%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.89%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.89%) IoT
11 1 (0.44%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.44%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.56%) Linux
2 21 (9.33%) Windows
3 8 (3.56%) CentOS
4 6 (2.67%) Unix
5 5 (2.22%) Android
6 2 (0.89%) Debian
6 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (46.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 77 (34.22%) Problem-Solving
3 76 (33.78%) Agile
4 64 (28.44%) Software Engineering
5 60 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 46 (20.44%) DevOps
7 34 (15.11%) AI
8 31 (13.78%) Containerisation
8 31 (13.78%) Front End Development
9 30 (13.33%) Microservices
10 28 (12.44%) Test Automation
11 26 (11.56%) Computer Science
12 24 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (10.67%) Web Development
13 21 (9.33%) Collaborative Culture
13 21 (9.33%) Scrum
14 20 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (8.89%) LLM
15 19 (8.44%) Machine Learning
16 17 (7.56%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 100 (44.44%) Python
2 69 (30.67%) C#
3 63 (28.00%) SQL
4 59 (26.22%) TypeScript
5 54 (24.00%) Java
6 38 (16.89%) C++
7 22 (9.78%) PHP
8 18 (8.00%) Perl
9 16 (7.11%) Bash
10 9 (4.00%) Go
10 9 (4.00%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.00%) Rust
11 5 (2.22%) Bicep
12 4 (1.78%) C
12 4 (1.78%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.33%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.33%) R
14 1 (0.44%) Ruby
14 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (16.44%) Degree
2 34 (15.11%) Security Cleared
3 26 (11.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.33%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.78%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.33%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.44%) QA
3 8 (3.56%) WCAG
4 5 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.22%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (20.44%) Docker
2 6 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (18.67%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.78%) Terraform
3 16 (7.11%) Ansible
4 14 (6.22%) Grafana
4 14 (6.22%) Kibana
5 13 (5.78%) logstash
6 6 (2.67%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.78%) Podman
8 3 (1.33%) Plesk
9 2 (0.89%) Puppet
10 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (24.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.89%) Google
3 8 (3.56%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.67%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.67%) Splunk
4 6 (2.67%) VMware
5 3 (1.33%) Adobe
6 2 (0.89%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.89%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle