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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 16 16
Rank change year-on-year -39 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 161 354 685
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.87% 9.64% 10.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.37% 27.70% 26.30%
Number of salaries quoted 126 187 595
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -3.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,375
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.44% +10.42% -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 831 1,278 2,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.79% 34.81% 39.32%
Number of salaries quoted 581 682 2,187
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 9 February 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 9 February 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 71 £50,000 -20.00% 37
Gloucestershire -3 32 £57,500 -13.21% 43
Devon -3 24 £40,000 -15.79% 19
Dorset -31 10 £65,000 +30.00% 11
Somerset -30 9 £45,000 - 15
Wiltshire -48 5 £65,000 +13.04% 14
Cornwall -13 2 £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 8 (4.97%) Apache
2 7 (4.35%) Confluence
3 3 (1.86%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.86%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.86%) WebLogic Portal
3 3 (1.86%) WordPress
4 2 (1.24%) CMS
4 2 (1.24%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.62%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.24%) Windchill
3 1 (0.62%) Elementor
3 1 (0.62%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.86%) Primavera
2 2 (1.24%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (50.93%) AWS
2 66 (40.99%) Azure
3 27 (16.77%) GitHub
4 15 (9.32%) Serverless
5 12 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (7.45%) SaaS
6 10 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (4.97%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.97%) GCP
8 5 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.48%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.86%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (1.86%) OCI
10 3 (1.86%) Pulumi
11 2 (1.24%) Azure API Management
11 2 (1.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.24%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.04%) Internet
2 1 (0.62%) AMQP
2 1 (0.62%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.62%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.32%) Elasticsearch
1 15 (9.32%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.07%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.45%) MySQL
4 10 (6.21%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.97%) Neo4j
6 5 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.48%) Big Data
8 3 (1.86%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.86%) Oracle Discoverer
8 3 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.24%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.62%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.62%) DB2
10 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.62%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (22.98%) Git
2 15 (9.32%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.07%) Cypress.io
4 10 (6.21%) GitLab
5 9 (5.59%) Cucumber
5 9 (5.59%) Oracle APEX
6 8 (4.97%) JIRA
7 7 (4.35%) Selenium
8 6 (3.73%) JUnit
9 5 (3.11%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.11%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.48%) Postman
10 4 (2.48%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.86%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.86%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.86%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.24%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.24%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.24%) TestNG
12 2 (1.24%) TestRail
General
1 21 (13.04%) Multimedia
2 14 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 9 (5.59%) Marketing
4 8 (4.97%) Finance
5 6 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.73%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.11%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.48%) Electronics
7 4 (2.48%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.86%) Automotive
8 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Military
10 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 79 (49.07%) Developer
2 33 (20.50%) Software Engineer
3 25 (15.53%) Software Developer
4 21 (13.04%) Trainee
5 19 (11.80%) Senior
6 17 (10.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (6.21%) .NET Developer
7 10 (6.21%) PHP Developer
7 10 (6.21%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.59%) Test Engineer
9 8 (4.97%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.97%) Trainee Developer
9 8 (4.97%) Trainee Software Developer
10 7 (4.35%) Tester
11 6 (3.73%) Automation Tester
11 6 (3.73%) C# Developer
11 6 (3.73%) C# Software Developer
11 6 (3.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (3.73%) Lead
11 6 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (40.37%) CSS
1 65 (40.37%) HTML
2 47 (29.19%) React
3 24 (14.91%) AngularJS
4 19 (11.80%) .NET
5 15 (9.32%) Vue
6 14 (8.70%) Spring
6 14 (8.70%) Spring Boot
7 13 (8.07%) RESTful
8 11 (6.83%) Playwright
9 10 (6.21%) ASP.NET
9 10 (6.21%) Node.js
10 9 (5.59%) .NET Framework
10 9 (5.59%) Entity Framework
10 9 (5.59%) REST
11 8 (4.97%) MERN Stack
12 7 (4.35%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
12 7 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (3.73%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.83%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.97%) Educational Technology
3 4 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.48%) Motion Graphics
3 4 (2.48%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.24%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.24%) Smart Home
6 1 (0.62%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) IoT
6 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.62%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.62%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.83%) Linux
2 4 (2.48%) Unix
2 4 (2.48%) Windows
3 2 (1.24%) CentOS
3 2 (1.24%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.62%) Debian
4 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (37.27%) Agile
2 51 (31.68%) Software Engineering
3 42 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 39 (24.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (20.50%) Mentoring
6 29 (18.01%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (16.15%) DevOps
8 25 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (11.18%) Test Automation
10 16 (9.94%) Containerisation
10 16 (9.94%) Microservices
11 15 (9.32%) MVC
12 14 (8.70%) Front End Development
13 13 (8.07%) Scrum
14 12 (7.45%) API Development
14 12 (7.45%) Computer Science
14 12 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (6.83%) User Experience
16 10 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
17 9 (5.59%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 79 (49.07%) Python
2 53 (32.92%) Java
3 43 (26.71%) TypeScript
4 33 (20.50%) C#
5 28 (17.39%) SQL
6 22 (13.66%) PHP
7 13 (8.07%) R
8 11 (6.83%) C
9 9 (5.59%) PL/SQL
10 8 (4.97%) T-SQL
11 6 (3.73%) Bash
12 5 (3.11%) C++
13 4 (2.48%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.86%) Go
15 2 (1.24%) PowerShell
15 2 (1.24%) Rust
15 2 (1.24%) VB
15 2 (1.24%) XAML
16 1 (0.62%) Perl
16 1 (0.62%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.91%) Degree
3 22 (13.66%) AWS Certification
3 22 (13.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 21 (13.04%) Azure Certification
4 21 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (11.80%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.59%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.73%) ISTQB
9 5 (3.11%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.62%) OCA
11 1 (0.62%) OCP
11 1 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.21%) QA
2 9 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) GDPR
3 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (18.63%) Docker
2 5 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (16.15%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.59%) Terraform
3 8 (4.97%) Kibana
4 6 (3.73%) Ansible
5 4 (2.48%) Grafana
5 4 (2.48%) logstash
6 3 (1.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.62%) Argo
7 1 (0.62%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.62%) Podman
7 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.62%) Puppet
7 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.94%) Oracle
3 8 (4.97%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.11%) Adobe
5 4 (2.48%) SAP
6 3 (1.86%) IFS
6 3 (1.86%) Splunk
7 2 (1.24%) Google
7 2 (1.24%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.62%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.62%) BMC
8 1 (0.62%) Remedy
8 1 (0.62%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.62%) Siemens
8 1 (0.62%) VMware