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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 49 22
Rank change year-on-year -16 -27 +8
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 254 147 501
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.52% 4.21% 6.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.38% 20.19% 25.60%
Number of salaries quoted 187 106 290
10th Percentile £30,250 £26,500 £32,950
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £53,918
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.27% -1.97%
75th Percentile £71,250 £64,688 £69,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,551 728 1,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.37% 20.83% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,135 492 1,231
10th Percentile £34,775 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -13 74 £60,000 +14.29% 43
Gloucestershire -27 61 £85,000 +47.83% 52
Devon +8 49 £62,500 +47.06% 16
Somerset -16 41 £35,000 +12.90% 12
Dorset -5 17 £33,000 +20.00% 14
Wiltshire -16 7 £57,500 - 1
Cornwall - 2 - -
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 17 (6.69%) Apache
2 10 (3.94%) Confluence
3 4 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.18%) JBoss
4 3 (1.18%) nginx
5 2 (0.79%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 90 (35.43%) Azure
2 77 (30.31%) AWS
3 35 (13.78%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (12.99%) Power Platform
5 27 (10.63%) GCP
6 26 (10.24%) OpenShift
7 19 (7.48%) SaaS
8 18 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.72%) GitHub
10 10 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.76%) Serverless
12 6 (2.36%) Azure AI
13 5 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.97%) Google Play
14 4 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.57%) Datadog
14 4 (1.57%) Figma
15 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
15 3 (1.18%) Power Automate
15 3 (1.18%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.15%) VPN
1 8 (3.15%) WAN
2 4 (1.57%) AMQP
3 3 (1.18%) SSL
3 3 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.79%) Broadband
5 1 (0.39%) DNS
5 1 (0.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.66%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.87%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (4.33%) MySQL
5 9 (3.54%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.76%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.76%) Power BI
8 6 (2.36%) Big Data
8 6 (2.36%) InfluxDB
9 4 (1.57%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.57%) GIS
9 4 (1.57%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.57%) MariaDB
9 4 (1.57%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.18%) ZAP BI
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 75 (29.53%) Git
2 31 (12.20%) Subversion
3 26 (10.24%) Eclipse
3 26 (10.24%) Jenkins
4 25 (9.84%) GitLab
5 22 (8.66%) JUnit
6 20 (7.87%) JIRA
7 17 (6.69%) Cypress.io
8 12 (4.72%) Selenium
9 11 (4.33%) SonarQube
10 8 (3.15%) Cucumber
10 8 (3.15%) TestRail
11 7 (2.76%) MSI
11 7 (2.76%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.97%) Postman
13 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.18%) NUnit
13 3 (1.18%) Snyk
13 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (1.18%) TeamCity
General
1 61 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.20%) Finance
3 29 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.69%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.94%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.54%) Military
8 8 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.15%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.76%) Retail
10 4 (1.57%) Law
11 3 (1.18%) Legal
11 3 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.79%) Banking
12 2 (0.79%) Electronics
12 2 (0.79%) Environmental Health
12 2 (0.79%) Local Government
12 2 (0.79%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 119 (46.85%) Developer
2 50 (19.69%) Software Engineer
3 40 (15.75%) Full-Stack Developer
4 38 (14.96%) Senior
5 26 (10.24%) Architect
5 26 (10.24%) Java Developer
5 26 (10.24%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (9.84%) Junior
7 23 (9.06%) Junior Developer
7 23 (9.06%) Junior Java Developer
8 22 (8.66%) Software Developer
9 20 (7.87%) Senior Developer
10 18 (7.09%) Lead
11 17 (6.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 16 (6.30%) JavaScript Developer
13 15 (5.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 14 (5.51%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
15 13 (5.12%) Analyst
16 12 (4.72%) .NET Developer
16 12 (4.72%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (39.76%) React
2 59 (23.23%) RESTful
3 48 (18.90%) CSS
4 46 (18.11%) HTML
5 42 (16.54%) Node.js
6 39 (15.35%) .NET
7 34 (13.39%) Terraform
8 27 (10.63%) Web Services
9 26 (10.24%) Jakarta EE
9 26 (10.24%) Struts
10 25 (9.84%) Vue
11 24 (9.45%) .NET Core
12 19 (7.48%) AngularJS
12 19 (7.48%) REST
13 18 (7.09%) .NET Framework
13 18 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (7.09%) Spring
14 17 (6.69%) ASP.NET
14 17 (6.69%) Spring Boot
15 15 (5.91%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.30%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.15%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.15%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.97%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.97%) iPhone
7 4 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.18%) Blog
8 3 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.18%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.18%) Social Media
9 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.79%) IoT
9 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.99%) Linux
2 26 (10.24%) Windows
3 10 (3.94%) CentOS
4 9 (3.54%) Android
5 7 (2.76%) Unix
6 5 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.57%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.57%) Debian
7 4 (1.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (48.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 101 (39.76%) Agile
2 101 (39.76%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (32.28%) CI/CD
4 80 (31.50%) Software Engineering
5 59 (23.23%) DevOps
6 51 (20.08%) AI
6 51 (20.08%) Test Automation
7 37 (14.57%) Computer Science
7 37 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (14.57%) Microservices
8 36 (14.17%) Containerisation
9 31 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (11.02%) Machine Learning
11 27 (10.63%) Collaborative Culture
11 27 (10.63%) LLM
12 26 (10.24%) Code Quality
13 23 (9.06%) Scrum
14 22 (8.66%) Requirements Analysis
15 21 (8.27%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 138 (54.33%) Python
2 76 (29.92%) SQL
3 75 (29.53%) Java
4 72 (28.35%) C#
5 59 (23.23%) TypeScript
6 54 (21.26%) C++
7 26 (10.24%) Perl
8 22 (8.66%) Bash
9 16 (6.30%) PHP
10 13 (5.12%) PowerShell
10 13 (5.12%) Rust
11 9 (3.54%) Go
12 7 (2.76%) Bicep
13 4 (1.57%) C
13 4 (1.57%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.79%) XAML
16 1 (0.39%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.50%) Degree
3 38 (14.96%) SC Cleared
4 34 (13.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.69%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.18%) OCP
8 3 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.66%) Accessibility
2 20 (7.87%) QA
3 11 (4.33%) WCAG
4 10 (3.94%) NCSC
5 7 (2.76%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.18%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 57 (22.44%) Docker
2 6 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (23.23%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.27%) Ansible
3 17 (6.69%) Grafana
4 14 (5.51%) Kibana
4 14 (5.51%) logstash
5 6 (2.36%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.97%) Puppet
7 3 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.18%) Nagios
7 3 (1.18%) Plesk
7 3 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.79%) Podman
9 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 65 (25.59%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.30%) Red Hat
3 15 (5.91%) Google
4 9 (3.54%) Atlassian
4 9 (3.54%) Splunk
5 6 (2.36%) VMware
6 4 (1.57%) Sage
6 4 (1.57%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.57%) SAP
7 3 (1.18%) New Relic
8 2 (0.79%) IBM
8 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle
9 1 (0.39%) Adobe
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco
9 1 (0.39%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud