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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 19 21
Rank change year-on-year -36 +2 -9
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 142 372 444
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.83% 8.94% 9.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.91% 26.98% 23.59%
Number of salaries quoted 111 193 372
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £32,875 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.00% +0.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 751 1,379 1,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.97% 33.15% 39.37%
Number of salaries quoted 553 748 1,527
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,448 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 12 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 12 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 -21 62 £50,000 -20.00% 40
Gloucestershire -4 24 £67,500 +8.00% 43
Devon -2 22 £40,000 -11.11% 29
Somerset -16 12 £27,000 -36.47% 25
Dorset -31 10 £65,000 +30.00% 24
Wiltshire -43 5 £62,500 +8.70% 25
Cornwall -19 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 8 (5.63%) Confluence
2 6 (4.23%) Apache
3 3 (2.11%) Tomcat
3 3 (2.11%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.11%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.70%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.41%) Windchill
3 1 (0.70%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.11%) Primavera
2 2 (1.41%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.70%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.70%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 72 (50.70%) AWS
2 57 (40.14%) Azure
3 27 (19.01%) GitHub
4 11 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (7.75%) Serverless
5 9 (6.34%) SaaS
6 7 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (4.93%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.82%) GCP
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.11%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.11%) OCI
8 3 (2.11%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.70%) Figma
9 1 (0.70%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.79%) Internet
2 1 (0.70%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.86%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.15%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (7.75%) MySQL
3 11 (7.75%) NoSQL
4 10 (7.04%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.23%) Neo4j
5 6 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.11%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.11%) Oracle Discoverer
7 3 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.41%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.70%) Big Data
9 1 (0.70%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.70%) DB2
9 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (28.17%) Git
2 13 (9.15%) Cypress.io
2 13 (9.15%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.04%) JIRA
3 10 (7.04%) Oracle APEX
4 9 (6.34%) GitLab
5 8 (5.63%) Selenium
6 7 (4.93%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.93%) JUnit
7 6 (4.23%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.52%) Postman
8 5 (3.52%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.82%) REST Assured
9 4 (2.82%) Zephyr
10 3 (2.11%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (1.41%) Gatling
11 2 (1.41%) LoadRunner
11 2 (1.41%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.41%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.41%) TestNG
General
1 21 (14.79%) Multimedia
2 18 (12.68%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.75%) Marketing
4 6 (4.23%) Finance
4 6 (4.23%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.52%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.82%) Electronics
6 4 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.82%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Games
8 1 (0.70%) Military
8 1 (0.70%) Retail
8 1 (0.70%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (45.77%) Developer
2 27 (19.01%) Software Engineer
3 24 (16.90%) Software Developer
4 21 (14.79%) Trainee
5 17 (11.97%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (9.86%) Senior
7 9 (6.34%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.63%) .NET Developer
8 8 (5.63%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.63%) Trainee Developer
8 8 (5.63%) Trainee Software Developer
9 7 (4.93%) Designer
9 7 (4.93%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.93%) Tester
10 6 (4.23%) Automation Tester
10 6 (4.23%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.23%) C# Software Developer
10 6 (4.23%) Lead
10 6 (4.23%) Oracle Developer
10 6 (4.23%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (45.77%) HTML
2 63 (44.37%) CSS
3 40 (28.17%) React
4 18 (12.68%) .NET
5 17 (11.97%) AngularJS
6 11 (7.75%) Playwright
6 11 (7.75%) RESTful
6 11 (7.75%) Spring
6 11 (7.75%) Spring Boot
7 9 (6.34%) .NET Framework
7 9 (6.34%) Entity Framework
8 7 (4.93%) .NET Core
8 7 (4.93%) Vue
9 6 (4.23%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (4.23%) ASP.NET
9 6 (4.23%) MERN Stack
9 6 (4.23%) REST
9 6 (4.23%) Symfony
10 5 (3.52%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.52%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.93%) Motion Graphics
3 5 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.82%) Educational Technology
4 4 (2.82%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.11%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.41%) Smart Home
7 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) IoT
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.04%) Linux
2 4 (2.82%) Unix
3 3 (2.11%) Windows
4 2 (1.41%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.32%) Agile
2 42 (29.58%) Software Engineering
3 38 (26.76%) CI/CD
4 33 (23.24%) Mentoring
5 32 (22.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (18.31%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (15.49%) DevOps
8 20 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (13.38%) Test Automation
10 16 (11.27%) Microservices
11 13 (9.15%) Containerisation
11 13 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (9.15%) MVC
11 13 (9.15%) Scrum
12 12 (8.45%) Computer Science
13 11 (7.75%) Front End Development
14 10 (7.04%) API Testing
15 9 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
15 9 (6.34%) Manual Testing
16 8 (5.63%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 67 (47.18%) Python
2 45 (31.69%) Java
3 37 (26.06%) TypeScript
4 31 (21.83%) C#
5 30 (21.13%) SQL
6 14 (9.86%) PHP
7 13 (9.15%) R
8 10 (7.04%) PL/SQL
9 9 (6.34%) T-SQL
10 8 (5.63%) C
11 4 (2.82%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.41%) Bash
12 2 (1.41%) C++
12 2 (1.41%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.41%) XAML
13 1 (0.70%) Go
13 1 (0.70%) Perl
13 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.31%) Degree
3 22 (15.49%) AWS Certification
4 21 (14.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 21 (14.79%) Azure Certification
4 21 (14.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (11.27%) DV Cleared
6 9 (6.34%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (5.63%) ISTQB
8 5 (3.52%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.70%) OCA
10 1 (0.70%) OCP
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.15%) QA
2 8 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (16.20%) Docker
2 3 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (13.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.93%) Kibana
3 4 (2.82%) Terraform
4 3 (2.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.41%) Ansible
6 1 (0.70%) Argo
6 1 (0.70%) Grafana
6 1 (0.70%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.70%) logstash
6 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.38%) Oracle
3 7 (4.93%) Adobe
3 7 (4.93%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.82%) SAP
5 3 (2.11%) IFS
6 2 (1.41%) Splunk
7 1 (0.70%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.70%) BMC
7 1 (0.70%) Google
7 1 (0.70%) Infor
7 1 (0.70%) Remedy
7 1 (0.70%) Siemens