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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -26 -8 +5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 228 218 752
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.76% 6.63% 7.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.50% 25.65% 26.78%
Number of salaries quoted 192 153 623
10th Percentile £30,350 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,438 £41,250 £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 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +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 1,382 850 2,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.70% 25.86% 28.70%
Number of salaries quoted 960 570 2,205
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -16 73 £60,000 - 26
Devon +1 50 £50,000 -4.76% 13
Gloucestershire -37 45 £52,500 -6.67% 17
Somerset -38 31 £32,500 -43.48% 12
Dorset -13 15 £41,250 +10.00% 3
Wiltshire -36 5 £57,500 -2.13% 3
Cornwall - 4 £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 14 (6.14%) Apache
2 6 (2.63%) Confluence
3 4 (1.75%) CMS
3 4 (1.75%) WordPress
4 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.88%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (0.88%) InDesign
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.88%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.44%) Elementor
2 1 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (35.96%) Azure
2 70 (30.70%) AWS
3 25 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (9.65%) GCP
4 22 (9.65%) Power Platform
5 20 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.14%) SaaS
6 14 (6.14%) Serverless
7 13 (5.70%) OpenShift
8 12 (5.26%) GitHub
9 8 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.19%) Azure AI
10 5 (2.19%) Figma
10 5 (2.19%) Google Play
10 5 (2.19%) npm
11 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.75%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.75%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.32%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.51%) VPN
1 8 (3.51%) WAN
2 4 (1.75%) Internet
3 3 (1.32%) AMQP
3 3 (1.32%) Broadband
4 2 (0.88%) Network Security
4 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.44%) DNS
5 1 (0.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.09%) MongoDB
2 21 (9.21%) SQL Server
3 20 (8.77%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (7.89%) MySQL
5 12 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.95%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.07%) Big Data
7 7 (3.07%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.19%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (2.19%) Power BI
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.32%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.32%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.88%) GIS
10 2 (0.88%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (25.44%) Git
2 20 (8.77%) GitLab
3 18 (7.89%) Subversion
4 17 (7.46%) Jenkins
5 16 (7.02%) Cypress.io
5 16 (7.02%) Eclipse
6 11 (4.82%) JIRA
7 10 (4.39%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.39%) JUnit
8 9 (3.95%) SonarQube
9 7 (3.07%) Robot Framework
9 7 (3.07%) Selenium
9 7 (3.07%) TestRail
10 5 (2.19%) MSI
11 3 (1.32%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.88%) Postman
13 1 (0.44%) git-flow
13 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (15.35%) Social Skills
2 20 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.26%) Finance
4 10 (4.39%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.51%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.63%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.63%) Automotive
6 6 (2.63%) Retail
7 5 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.75%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.32%) Marketing
9 3 (1.32%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.88%) Local Government
10 2 (0.88%) Military
10 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (53.07%) Developer
2 47 (20.61%) Software Engineer
3 39 (17.11%) Senior
4 29 (12.72%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (10.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (8.77%) JavaScript Developer
6 20 (8.77%) Senior Developer
7 19 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 18 (7.89%) .NET Developer
9 17 (7.46%) Architect
9 17 (7.46%) Junior
9 17 (7.46%) Junior Developer
9 17 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (7.02%) Junior Java Developer
10 16 (7.02%) Software Developer
11 15 (6.58%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 14 (6.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 13 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (5.26%) Analyst
15 11 (4.82%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (35.96%) React
2 55 (24.12%) CSS
3 54 (23.68%) HTML
4 46 (20.18%) RESTful
5 42 (18.42%) .NET
6 33 (14.47%) Node.js
7 29 (12.72%) Vue
8 27 (11.84%) AngularJS
9 26 (11.40%) ASP.NET
10 24 (10.53%) REST
11 21 (9.21%) .NET Core
12 18 (7.89%) ASP.NET Core
12 18 (7.89%) Web Services
13 17 (7.46%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (7.02%) Blazor
14 16 (7.02%) J2EE
14 16 (7.02%) Struts
15 15 (6.58%) .NET Framework
15 15 (6.58%) Playwright
15 15 (6.58%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.82%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.39%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.51%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.19%) iPhone
6 5 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.75%) Educational Technology
8 3 (1.32%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.88%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.44%) IoT
10 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.44%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.40%) Linux
2 22 (9.65%) Windows
3 10 (4.39%) CentOS
4 6 (2.63%) Unix
5 5 (2.19%) Android
6 3 (1.32%) Debian
6 3 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (43.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 82 (35.96%) Agile
3 73 (32.02%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (28.95%) Software Engineering
5 63 (27.63%) CI/CD
6 49 (21.49%) DevOps
7 33 (14.47%) AI
8 32 (14.04%) Containerisation
8 32 (14.04%) Front End Development
9 30 (13.16%) Microservices
10 28 (12.28%) Test Automation
11 25 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (10.96%) Web Development
12 24 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (10.09%) Collaborative Culture
14 22 (9.65%) Computer Science
14 22 (9.65%) Scrum
15 20 (8.77%) LLM
16 18 (7.89%) Machine Learning
16 18 (7.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 104 (45.61%) Python
2 69 (30.26%) C#
3 63 (27.63%) TypeScript
4 59 (25.88%) Java
4 59 (25.88%) SQL
5 35 (15.35%) C++
6 26 (11.40%) PHP
7 19 (8.33%) Bash
8 16 (7.02%) Perl
9 10 (4.39%) Go
9 10 (4.39%) PowerShell
9 10 (4.39%) Rust
10 6 (2.63%) C
11 5 (2.19%) Bicep
12 4 (1.75%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.32%) R
13 3 (1.32%) VB
14 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.04%) Degree
3 22 (9.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.14%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.70%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.32%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.02%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.95%) QA
3 8 (3.51%) WCAG
4 5 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.19%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (20.61%) Docker
2 7 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (19.30%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.84%) Terraform
3 20 (8.77%) Ansible
4 17 (7.46%) Grafana
4 17 (7.46%) Kibana
5 16 (7.02%) logstash
6 7 (3.07%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.75%) Podman
8 3 (1.32%) Plesk
8 3 (1.32%) Puppet
9 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (24.12%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.26%) Google
3 10 (4.39%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.95%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.07%) Splunk
5 7 (3.07%) VMware
6 4 (1.75%) Adobe
7 3 (1.32%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.88%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle