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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 24 16
Rank change year-on-year -37 -8 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 181 213 788
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.34% 7.92% 8.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.86% 25.98% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 145 151 690
10th Percentile £33,200 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £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 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £74,750 £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 1,141 820 2,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.77% 30.49% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 717 577 2,399
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,137
90th Percentile £79,550 £83,150 £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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -25 72 £55,000 -8.33% 30
Devon -1 35 £47,500 -24.00% 11
Gloucestershire -38 32 £50,000 -16.67% 22
Dorset -13 13 £45,000 -7.69% 4
Somerset -41 13 £45,000 -21.74% 9
Wiltshire -30 6 £65,000 +13.04% 13
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 9 (4.97%) Apache
2 4 (2.21%) WordPress
3 3 (1.66%) CMS
4 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.10%) Confluence
4 2 (1.10%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.55%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.10%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.10%) InDesign
1 2 (1.10%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.55%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.55%) Elementor
2 1 (0.55%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.55%) Sketch
2 1 (0.55%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
2 1 (0.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 59 (32.60%) AWS
2 55 (30.39%) Azure
3 19 (10.50%) GitHub
4 14 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (7.73%) SaaS
4 14 (7.73%) Serverless
5 12 (6.63%) GCP
6 10 (5.52%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.87%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.76%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.76%) npm
10 4 (2.21%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.66%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.66%) Cloud Run
11 3 (1.66%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.63%) Internet
2 6 (3.31%) VPN
2 6 (3.31%) WAN
3 4 (2.21%) Broadband
4 2 (1.10%) AMQP
4 2 (1.10%) Network Security
4 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.05%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.29%) MongoDB
3 14 (7.73%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (7.73%) MySQL
4 13 (7.18%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.31%) Big Data
7 5 (2.76%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.21%) InfluxDB
8 4 (2.21%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.66%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.10%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.10%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.10%) GIS
10 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.10%) Power BI
11 1 (0.55%) DB2
11 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (23.76%) Git
2 17 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.73%) Cypress.io
3 14 (7.73%) GitLab
4 10 (5.52%) Cucumber
5 6 (3.31%) JIRA
5 6 (3.31%) Selenium
5 6 (3.31%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.21%) JUnit
6 4 (2.21%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.21%) TestRail
7 3 (1.66%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.66%) Subversion
8 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.10%) Postman
8 2 (1.10%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.10%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.10%) TestNG
9 1 (0.55%) Maven
9 1 (0.55%) MSTest
General
1 28 (15.47%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.63%) Multimedia
3 8 (4.42%) Manufacturing
4 7 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.87%) Finance
4 7 (3.87%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.31%) Automotive
5 6 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.76%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.76%) Marketing
7 4 (2.21%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Electronics
9 2 (1.10%) Local Government
9 2 (1.10%) Military
9 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 95 (52.49%) Developer
2 35 (19.34%) Software Engineer
3 30 (16.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 28 (15.47%) Senior
5 24 (13.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (11.05%) JavaScript Developer
7 18 (9.94%) Software Developer
8 15 (8.29%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 14 (7.73%) PHP Developer
9 14 (7.73%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (6.63%) Trainee
11 10 (5.52%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.97%) .NET Developer
12 9 (4.97%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 8 (4.42%) Analyst
13 8 (4.42%) Architect
13 8 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (3.87%) Lead
14 7 (3.87%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (31.49%) HTML
1 57 (31.49%) React
2 56 (30.94%) CSS
3 27 (14.92%) AngularJS
4 25 (13.81%) Node.js
4 25 (13.81%) Vue
5 24 (13.26%) .NET
6 21 (11.60%) RESTful
7 16 (8.84%) REST
8 15 (8.29%) ASP.NET
8 15 (8.29%) Playwright
9 13 (7.18%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (7.18%) Spring
10 12 (6.63%) Spring Boot
11 9 (4.97%) .NET Core
11 9 (4.97%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (4.42%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (4.42%) HTML5
12 8 (4.42%) Sass
13 7 (3.87%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.63%) Cloud Native
1 12 (6.63%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.42%) Educational Technology
3 7 (3.87%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.31%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.66%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) IoT
9 1 (0.55%) iPhone
9 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.55%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.29%) Linux
2 10 (5.52%) Windows
3 6 (3.31%) CentOS
4 2 (1.10%) Debian
4 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.10%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (33.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 58 (32.04%) Agile
3 48 (26.52%) CI/CD
4 46 (25.41%) Software Engineering
5 41 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (17.13%) DevOps
7 27 (14.92%) Front End Development
8 24 (13.26%) Containerisation
8 24 (13.26%) Mentoring
9 21 (11.60%) Web Development
10 19 (10.50%) Test Automation
11 17 (9.39%) Scrum
12 16 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (8.29%) Microservices
13 15 (8.29%) User Experience
14 14 (7.73%) Collaborative Culture
15 13 (7.18%) AI
15 13 (7.18%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (6.63%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (43.09%) Python
2 60 (33.15%) TypeScript
3 47 (25.97%) C#
4 41 (22.65%) Java
5 38 (20.99%) SQL
6 29 (16.02%) PHP
7 14 (7.73%) C++
8 12 (6.63%) Bash
9 9 (4.97%) R
10 8 (4.42%) C
10 8 (4.42%) Go
11 7 (3.87%) PowerShell
11 7 (3.87%) Rust
12 2 (1.10%) Perl
12 2 (1.10%) VB
13 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.55%) Ruby
13 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (12.71%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.50%) Degree
3 16 (8.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 13 (7.18%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.63%) Azure Certification
5 12 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.52%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.31%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.21%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.66%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.55%) OCA
11 1 (0.55%) OCP
11 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.63%) QA
2 9 (4.97%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (18.23%) Docker
2 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (14.92%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.84%) Terraform
3 13 (7.18%) Ansible
4 12 (6.63%) Kibana
5 11 (6.08%) Grafana
6 10 (5.52%) logstash
7 4 (2.21%) Podman
7 4 (2.21%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.66%) Plesk
9 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.10%) Puppet
10 1 (0.55%) Argo
10 1 (0.55%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.87%) Atlassian
2 7 (3.87%) Google
3 6 (3.31%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.31%) Splunk
4 5 (2.76%) Oracle
5 4 (2.21%) Adobe
5 4 (2.21%) VMware
6 2 (1.10%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.10%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.10%) SAP
7 1 (0.55%) Siemens