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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 30 24
Rank change year-on-year -24 -6 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 239 215 578
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.81% 6.31% 6.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.76% 25.63% 25.28%
Number of salaries quoted 197 153 463
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,837
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +8.83% -3.93%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,773 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.71% +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 1,426 839 2,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.75% 24.64% 26.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,003 565 1,742
10th Percentile £32,800 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,125 £65,000 £68,750
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 26 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 26 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 -11 77 £60,000 - 25
Devon +7 50 £50,000 -4.76% 14
Gloucestershire -40 47 £51,250 -12.77% 14
Somerset -39 35 £31,500 -31.89% 16
Dorset -14 17 £35,250 -6.00% 5
Wiltshire -29 5 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Cornwall - 4 £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 14 (5.86%) Apache
2 7 (2.93%) Confluence
3 4 (1.67%) CMS
4 3 (1.26%) JBoss
4 3 (1.26%) nginx
4 3 (1.26%) WordPress
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.84%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.42%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.84%) InDesign
2 2 (0.84%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.42%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.42%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (34.31%) Azure
2 69 (28.87%) AWS
3 26 (10.88%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (9.62%) Power Platform
5 22 (9.21%) GCP
6 20 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.86%) OpenShift
7 14 (5.86%) SaaS
8 12 (5.02%) GitHub
9 9 (3.77%) Serverless
10 6 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.09%) Azure AI
11 5 (2.09%) Figma
11 5 (2.09%) Google Play
11 5 (2.09%) npm
12 4 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.67%) Datadog
13 3 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.26%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.35%) VPN
1 8 (3.35%) WAN
2 4 (1.67%) Internet
2 4 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.26%) Broadband
3 3 (1.26%) SSL
4 2 (0.84%) AMQP
4 2 (0.84%) Network Security
5 1 (0.42%) DNS
5 1 (0.42%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.62%) MongoDB
2 21 (8.79%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.69%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (6.69%) MySQL
4 12 (5.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 9 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.51%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (2.51%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.09%) Big Data
7 5 (2.09%) Power BI
8 4 (1.67%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.84%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.84%) GIS
10 2 (0.84%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.42%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 70 (29.29%) Git
2 23 (9.62%) Subversion
3 20 (8.37%) GitLab
4 19 (7.95%) Jenkins
5 18 (7.53%) Eclipse
6 15 (6.28%) Cypress.io
6 15 (6.28%) JIRA
7 13 (5.44%) JUnit
8 8 (3.35%) Selenium
8 8 (3.35%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.93%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.93%) Robot Framework
10 6 (2.51%) MSI
10 6 (2.51%) TestRail
11 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.26%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.26%) Postman
12 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.84%) NUnit
13 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (20.08%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.95%) Finance
4 13 (5.44%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.60%) Aerospace
6 9 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.35%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.93%) Military
9 6 (2.51%) Retail
10 4 (1.67%) Automotive
10 4 (1.67%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.26%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.84%) Local Government
12 2 (0.84%) Marketing
12 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.42%) Law
13 1 (0.42%) Legal
Job Titles
1 125 (52.30%) Developer
2 50 (20.92%) Software Engineer
3 37 (15.48%) Senior
4 32 (13.39%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (9.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 21 (8.79%) Java Developer
7 20 (8.37%) JavaScript Developer
7 20 (8.37%) Junior
8 19 (7.95%) Junior Developer
8 19 (7.95%) Senior Developer
9 18 (7.53%) Architect
9 18 (7.53%) Junior Java Developer
9 18 (7.53%) Software Developer
9 18 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (6.69%) .NET Developer
11 15 (6.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 15 (6.28%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 14 (5.86%) Analyst
13 12 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (4.60%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (36.40%) React
2 59 (24.69%) HTML
3 57 (23.85%) CSS
4 48 (20.08%) RESTful
5 44 (18.41%) .NET
6 31 (12.97%) Node.js
7 25 (10.46%) ASP.NET
7 25 (10.46%) REST
8 24 (10.04%) AngularJS
8 24 (10.04%) Vue
9 23 (9.62%) .NET Core
10 20 (8.37%) Web Services
11 18 (7.53%) Jakarta EE
11 18 (7.53%) Struts
12 17 (7.11%) .NET Framework
13 16 (6.69%) ASP.NET Core
13 16 (6.69%) Blazor
14 15 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (6.28%) HTML5
14 15 (6.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.79%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.02%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.18%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.18%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.35%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.09%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.09%) iPhone
8 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.26%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.26%) Social Media
9 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.84%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.84%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.84%) IoT
10 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.42%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.13%) Linux
2 23 (9.62%) Windows
3 8 (3.35%) CentOS
4 7 (2.93%) Android
5 6 (2.51%) Unix
6 3 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.84%) Debian
7 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (44.35%) Full-Stack Development
2 88 (36.82%) Agile
3 82 (34.31%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (30.13%) Software Engineering
5 66 (27.62%) CI/CD
6 52 (21.76%) DevOps
7 36 (15.06%) Containerisation
8 35 (14.64%) AI
8 35 (14.64%) Test Automation
9 32 (13.39%) Microservices
10 30 (12.55%) Front End Development
11 28 (11.72%) Computer Science
11 28 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (10.04%) Web Development
13 23 (9.62%) Collaborative Culture
13 23 (9.62%) Scrum
14 22 (9.21%) API Development
15 20 (8.37%) LLM
15 20 (8.37%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 112 (46.86%) Python
2 73 (30.54%) C#
3 64 (26.78%) SQL
4 62 (25.94%) TypeScript
5 59 (24.69%) Java
6 44 (18.41%) C++
7 22 (9.21%) PHP
8 19 (7.95%) Bash
9 18 (7.53%) Perl
10 11 (4.60%) PowerShell
10 11 (4.60%) Rust
11 10 (4.18%) Go
12 6 (2.51%) Bicep
13 5 (2.09%) C
14 4 (1.67%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.26%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.26%) R
16 1 (0.42%) Ruby
16 1 (0.42%) VB
16 1 (0.42%) XAML
Qualifications
1 43 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 41 (17.15%) Degree
3 27 (11.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (8.79%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.86%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.26%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.42%) OCP
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.42%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.53%) Accessibility
2 15 (6.28%) QA
3 9 (3.77%) WCAG
4 7 (2.93%) NCSC
5 5 (2.09%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 50 (20.92%) Docker
2 6 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (19.25%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.88%) Terraform
3 17 (7.11%) Ansible
4 15 (6.28%) Grafana
5 14 (5.86%) Kibana
6 13 (5.44%) logstash
7 6 (2.51%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.67%) Podman
8 4 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.26%) Nagios
9 3 (1.26%) Plesk
9 3 (1.26%) Puppet
10 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 58 (24.27%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.02%) Google
2 12 (5.02%) Red Hat
3 9 (3.77%) Atlassian
3 9 (3.77%) Splunk
4 6 (2.51%) VMware
5 3 (1.26%) Adobe
5 3 (1.26%) New Relic
6 2 (0.84%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle
6 2 (0.84%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.42%) IBM
7 1 (0.42%) OpenAI