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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 26 15
Rank change year-on-year -32 -11 +9
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 205 218 829
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.60% 7.63% 7.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.41% 25.92% 27.24%
Number of salaries quoted 173 147 692
10th Percentile £30,250 £33,700 £31,575
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.37% +10.34% -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 1,249 841 3,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.86% 29.43% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 845 560 2,407
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,850 £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 June 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 June 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 -18 73 £55,500 -7.50% 15
Devon -4 41 £50,000 -4.76% 10
Gloucestershire -33 39 £50,000 -13.04% 11
Somerset -41 25 £32,500 -43.48% 9
Dorset -11 11 £45,000 +20.00% 2
Wiltshire -30 6 £61,250 +2.08% 5
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 10 (4.88%) Apache
2 4 (1.95%) CMS
2 4 (1.95%) Confluence
2 4 (1.95%) WordPress
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.98%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.98%) InDesign
1 2 (0.98%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.49%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.49%) Elementor
2 1 (0.49%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (34.63%) Azure
2 65 (31.71%) AWS
3 21 (10.24%) GCP
3 21 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (8.78%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.32%) GitHub
6 14 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.83%) Serverless
7 13 (6.34%) SaaS
8 9 (4.39%) OpenShift
9 8 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.44%) npm
11 4 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.95%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.95%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.95%) Figma
12 3 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.46%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.46%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.46%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.90%) VPN
1 8 (3.90%) WAN
2 7 (3.41%) Internet
3 4 (1.95%) Broadband
4 3 (1.46%) AMQP
5 2 (0.98%) Network Security
5 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.49%) DNS
6 1 (0.49%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.73%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.76%) MongoDB
3 15 (7.32%) MySQL
4 14 (6.83%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (5.37%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.41%) Big Data
8 5 (2.44%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.44%) Power BI
8 5 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.46%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.46%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.46%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.46%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.98%) GIS
10 2 (0.98%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (26.83%) Git
2 16 (7.80%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.32%) Subversion
4 14 (6.83%) Cypress.io
4 14 (6.83%) GitLab
5 13 (6.34%) Eclipse
6 8 (3.90%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.41%) JIRA
7 7 (3.41%) JUnit
7 7 (3.41%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.44%) Robot Framework
8 5 (2.44%) Selenium
8 5 (2.44%) TestRail
9 3 (1.46%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.46%) MSI
9 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.49%) Maven
10 1 (0.49%) MSTest
10 1 (0.49%) NUnit
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
General
1 36 (17.56%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (4.88%) Finance
3 10 (4.88%) Manufacturing
4 9 (4.39%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.41%) Multimedia
7 6 (2.93%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.93%) Automotive
7 6 (2.93%) Retail
8 5 (2.44%) Marketing
9 4 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.46%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.98%) Electronics
11 2 (0.98%) Local Government
11 2 (0.98%) Military
11 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 112 (54.63%) Developer
2 37 (18.05%) Software Engineer
3 36 (17.56%) Senior
4 27 (13.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (11.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (9.76%) JavaScript Developer
7 18 (8.78%) Software Developer
8 17 (8.29%) Senior Developer
9 16 (7.80%) Java Developer
10 15 (7.32%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 14 (6.83%) Junior
11 14 (6.83%) Junior Developer
12 13 (6.34%) .NET Developer
12 13 (6.34%) Architect
12 13 (6.34%) Junior Java Developer
12 13 (6.34%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (6.34%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (5.85%) PHP Developer
14 10 (4.88%) Analyst
14 10 (4.88%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (36.10%) React
2 53 (25.85%) CSS
3 52 (25.37%) HTML
4 38 (18.54%) RESTful
5 35 (17.07%) .NET
6 30 (14.63%) Node.js
7 26 (12.68%) AngularJS
7 26 (12.68%) Vue
8 22 (10.73%) REST
9 21 (10.24%) ASP.NET
10 15 (7.32%) .NET Core
11 14 (6.83%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (6.83%) Web Services
12 13 (6.34%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (6.34%) J2EE
12 13 (6.34%) Playwright
12 13 (6.34%) Struts
13 12 (5.85%) Blazor
14 11 (5.37%) Spring
14 11 (5.37%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.85%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (4.39%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.90%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.41%) Educational Technology
6 4 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.95%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.46%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.46%) iPhone
8 2 (0.98%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.49%) IoT
9 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.73%) Linux
2 16 (7.80%) Windows
3 8 (3.90%) CentOS
4 7 (3.41%) Unix
5 3 (1.46%) Android
5 3 (1.46%) Debian
5 3 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (39.51%) Full-Stack Development
2 71 (34.63%) Agile
3 64 (31.22%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (26.83%) Software Engineering
5 53 (25.85%) CI/CD
6 39 (19.02%) DevOps
7 31 (15.12%) Front End Development
8 29 (14.15%) Containerisation
9 24 (11.71%) AI
10 22 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (10.73%) Web Development
11 21 (10.24%) Mentoring
12 19 (9.27%) Computer Science
12 19 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (9.27%) Microservices
12 19 (9.27%) Scrum
12 19 (9.27%) Test Automation
13 18 (8.78%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (8.78%) User Experience
14 15 (7.32%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 92 (44.88%) Python
2 61 (29.76%) TypeScript
3 58 (28.29%) C#
4 50 (24.39%) SQL
5 48 (23.41%) Java
6 30 (14.63%) C++
7 26 (12.68%) PHP
8 16 (7.80%) Bash
9 13 (6.34%) Perl
10 9 (4.39%) Go
11 8 (3.90%) PowerShell
11 8 (3.90%) Rust
12 6 (2.93%) C
13 5 (2.44%) R
14 4 (1.95%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.46%) Bicep
15 3 (1.46%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.46%) VB
16 1 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (14.15%) Degree
1 29 (14.15%) Security Cleared
2 19 (9.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 11 (5.37%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.90%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.41%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.46%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.34%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.88%) QA
3 5 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.44%) WCAG
4 3 (1.46%) NCSC
5 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (20.98%) Docker
2 5 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (17.56%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.73%) Terraform
3 17 (8.29%) Ansible
4 13 (6.34%) Grafana
4 13 (6.34%) Kibana
5 12 (5.85%) logstash
6 5 (2.44%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.95%) Podman
8 3 (1.46%) Plesk
8 3 (1.46%) Puppet
9 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.49%) Argo
10 1 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (21.46%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.88%) Google
3 8 (3.90%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.41%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.44%) Splunk
5 5 (2.44%) VMware
6 4 (1.95%) Adobe
7 3 (1.46%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.98%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.98%) SAP
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle