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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 20 15
Rank change year-on-year -34 -5 +3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 191 239 792
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.83% 8.79% 9.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.22% 25.43% 26.98%
Number of salaries quoted 153 180 693
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £48,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -3.83%
75th Percentile £62,500 £74,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,250 £80,250 £77,715
England median annual salary £57,500 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.16% +10.35% -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 994 940 2,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.70% 34.57% 35.92%
Number of salaries quoted 643 629 2,451
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,500 £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 1 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 1 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 -19 75 £50,000 -16.67% 29
Gloucestershire -9 38 £56,250 -6.25% 31
Devon +10 34 £40,000 -38.46% 15
Somerset -36 14 £45,000 -21.74% 12
Dorset -25 11 £45,000 -10.00% 7
Wiltshire -39 7 £65,000 -1.89% 12
Cornwall - 3 £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 7 (3.66%) Apache
2 4 (2.09%) Confluence
2 4 (2.09%) WordPress
3 3 (1.57%) CMS
3 3 (1.57%) NServiceBus
3 3 (1.57%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.57%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.57%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) Joomla!
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.05%) InDesign
2 2 (1.05%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.05%) Windchill
3 1 (0.52%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.52%) Elementor
3 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.52%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.57%) Primavera
2 2 (1.05%) Eloqua
2 2 (1.05%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (40.84%) AWS
2 66 (34.55%) Azure
3 25 (13.09%) GitHub
4 18 (9.42%) Serverless
5 15 (7.85%) SaaS
6 14 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (4.71%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.71%) GCP
9 4 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.09%) npm
9 4 (2.09%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.57%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.57%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.57%) OCI
11 2 (1.05%) Azure API Management
11 2 (1.05%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.99%) Internet
2 2 (1.05%) Broadband
2 2 (1.05%) Network Security
2 2 (1.05%) VPN
2 2 (1.05%) WAN
3 1 (0.52%) AMQP
3 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.09%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.38%) MySQL
3 15 (7.85%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (7.33%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.28%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.19%) Neo4j
6 8 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.09%) Big Data
8 4 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.57%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.57%) Oracle Discoverer
9 3 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.05%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.05%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.52%) Cloudera CDH
11 1 (0.52%) DB2
11 1 (0.52%) Power BI
11 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (25.65%) Git
2 17 (8.90%) Cypress.io
3 13 (6.81%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.76%) GitLab
5 9 (4.71%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.19%) JIRA
7 6 (3.14%) Selenium
8 5 (2.62%) JUnit
8 5 (2.62%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (2.09%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.09%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (2.09%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.57%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.57%) TestRail
11 2 (1.05%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.05%) Postman
11 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.05%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.05%) Subversion
11 2 (1.05%) TestNG
General
1 22 (11.52%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.99%) Multimedia
3 9 (4.71%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.19%) Finance
4 8 (4.19%) Marketing
4 8 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.14%) Automotive
5 6 (3.14%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.09%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.09%) Electronics
6 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.05%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.05%) Military
7 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.05%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 99 (51.83%) Developer
2 38 (19.90%) Software Engineer
3 27 (14.14%) Software Developer
4 24 (12.57%) Senior
5 22 (11.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (10.99%) Trainee
7 18 (9.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 13 (6.81%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.28%) .NET Developer
9 12 (6.28%) PHP Developer
10 9 (4.71%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.71%) JavaScript Developer
10 9 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) Lead
11 8 (4.19%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) .NET Software Developer
12 7 (3.66%) Trainee Developer
13 6 (3.14%) Automation Tester
13 6 (3.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 6 (3.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (38.74%) HTML
2 73 (38.22%) CSS
3 54 (28.27%) React
4 29 (15.18%) AngularJS
5 26 (13.61%) .NET
6 19 (9.95%) Node.js
6 19 (9.95%) Vue
7 16 (8.38%) Playwright
7 16 (8.38%) REST
7 16 (8.38%) Spring
8 15 (7.85%) RESTful
8 15 (7.85%) Spring Boot
9 14 (7.33%) ASP.NET
10 9 (4.71%) Sass
10 9 (4.71%) Tailwind CSS
11 8 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.19%) MERN Stack
12 7 (3.66%) .NET Framework
12 7 (3.66%) HTML5
12 7 (3.66%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.19%) Educational Technology
3 7 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.57%) Graphic Design
6 3 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) IoT
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.52%) Motion Graphics
8 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.52%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.33%) Linux
2 7 (3.66%) Windows
3 4 (2.09%) Unix
4 3 (1.57%) CentOS
5 1 (0.52%) Debian
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (32.98%) Agile
2 56 (29.32%) Software Engineering
3 53 (27.75%) CI/CD
4 49 (25.65%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (17.80%) DevOps
5 34 (17.80%) Mentoring
6 33 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (15.18%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (12.57%) Front End Development
9 23 (12.04%) Test Automation
10 22 (11.52%) Containerisation
11 18 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (9.42%) Microservices
12 17 (8.90%) Scrum
13 15 (7.85%) MVC
13 15 (7.85%) Web Development
14 14 (7.33%) API Development
14 14 (7.33%) Computer Science
15 12 (6.28%) Unit Testing
16 11 (5.76%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 87 (45.55%) Python
2 65 (34.03%) TypeScript
3 53 (27.75%) Java
4 46 (24.08%) C#
5 30 (15.71%) PHP
5 30 (15.71%) SQL
6 14 (7.33%) R
7 12 (6.28%) C
8 8 (4.19%) C++
9 7 (3.66%) Bash
10 6 (3.14%) Go
11 5 (2.62%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.09%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.09%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.57%) Rust
14 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.05%) VB
15 1 (0.52%) Perl
15 1 (0.52%) Ruby
15 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.57%) Degree
3 23 (12.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 22 (11.52%) AWS Certification
5 21 (10.99%) Azure Certification
5 21 (10.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (10.47%) DV Cleared
7 10 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (4.71%) ISTQB
9 6 (3.14%) SC Cleared
10 5 (2.62%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.52%) OCA
12 1 (0.52%) OCP
12 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.42%) QA
2 10 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (20.94%) Docker
2 5 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (17.80%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.24%) Terraform
3 9 (4.71%) Kibana
4 7 (3.66%) Ansible
5 6 (3.14%) Grafana
6 5 (2.62%) logstash
7 3 (1.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (1.05%) Podman
8 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.05%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.52%) Argo
9 1 (0.52%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.52%) Puppet
9 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.28%) Oracle
3 8 (4.19%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.62%) Adobe
5 4 (2.09%) SAP
5 4 (2.09%) Splunk
6 3 (1.57%) Google
6 3 (1.57%) IFS
6 3 (1.57%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.05%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.05%) VMware
8 1 (0.52%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.52%) Siemens