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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -25 -4 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 255 206 499
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.92% 5.91% 6.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.45% 25.06% 24.27%
Number of salaries quoted 206 144 382
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £69,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,773 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.57% +10.17% -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 1,461 822 2,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.72% 23.59% 25.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,032 548 1,524
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £33,400
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £52,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £69,063 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £81,250
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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +5 84 £60,000 - 30
Devon +7 51 £55,000 +4.76% 15
Gloucestershire -43 49 £53,750 -8.51% 36
Somerset -31 39 £35,000 -24.32% 13
Dorset -10 18 £35,250 -6.00% 10
Wiltshire -39 8 £57,500 -4.17% 3
Cornwall - 3 - -
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 (5.49%) Apache
2 8 (3.14%) Confluence
3 3 (1.18%) CMS
3 3 (1.18%) JBoss
3 3 (1.18%) nginx
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.78%) WordPress
5 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.39%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.78%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.78%) InDesign
2 2 (0.78%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.39%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 92 (36.08%) Azure
2 71 (27.84%) AWS
3 32 (12.55%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 23 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (9.02%) GCP
6 17 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 14 (5.49%) GitHub
7 14 (5.49%) SaaS
8 8 (3.14%) Serverless
9 7 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.96%) Azure AI
10 5 (1.96%) Figma
10 5 (1.96%) Google Play
10 5 (1.96%) npm
11 4 (1.57%) Datadog
12 3 (1.18%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (1.18%) Cloud Run
12 3 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.14%) VPN
1 8 (3.14%) WAN
2 4 (1.57%) Internet
2 4 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.18%) Broadband
3 3 (1.18%) SSL
4 2 (0.78%) AMQP
4 2 (0.78%) Network Security
5 1 (0.39%) DNS
5 1 (0.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.02%) MongoDB
2 21 (8.24%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.27%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (6.27%) MySQL
4 12 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.14%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.75%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (2.35%) InfluxDB
8 6 (2.35%) Power BI
9 5 (1.96%) Big Data
10 4 (1.57%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.18%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.18%) ZAP BI
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.78%) Cloudera CDH
12 2 (0.78%) GIS
12 2 (0.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 77 (30.20%) Git
2 26 (10.20%) Subversion
3 23 (9.02%) GitLab
4 22 (8.63%) Jenkins
5 21 (8.24%) Eclipse
6 18 (7.06%) Cypress.io
6 18 (7.06%) JUnit
7 17 (6.67%) JIRA
8 10 (3.92%) Selenium
8 10 (3.92%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.75%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.75%) MSI
9 7 (2.75%) Robot Framework
9 7 (2.75%) TestRail
10 5 (1.96%) Postman
11 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.57%) NUnit
12 3 (1.18%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.18%) Snyk
12 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 55 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (9.80%) Finance
4 14 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.31%) Aerospace
6 10 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.53%) Military
7 9 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.14%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.35%) Retail
10 4 (1.57%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.18%) Automotive
11 3 (1.18%) Law
11 3 (1.18%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.78%) Electronics
12 2 (0.78%) Legal
12 2 (0.78%) Local Government
12 2 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 131 (51.37%) Developer
2 51 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 39 (15.29%) Senior
4 36 (14.12%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (9.41%) Architect
5 24 (9.41%) Solutions Architect
6 23 (9.02%) Java Developer
7 22 (8.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 22 (8.63%) Junior
8 21 (8.24%) Junior Developer
8 21 (8.24%) Senior Developer
8 21 (8.24%) Software Developer
9 20 (7.84%) Junior Java Developer
10 19 (7.45%) JavaScript Developer
11 17 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (6.27%) .NET Developer
13 15 (5.88%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
14 14 (5.49%) Analyst
14 14 (5.49%) Lead
15 12 (4.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (37.65%) React
2 59 (23.14%) HTML
3 58 (22.75%) CSS
4 56 (21.96%) RESTful
5 49 (19.22%) .NET
6 34 (13.33%) Node.js
7 26 (10.20%) .NET Core
8 25 (9.80%) AngularJS
8 25 (9.80%) REST
9 24 (9.41%) ASP.NET
9 24 (9.41%) Vue
10 23 (9.02%) Web Services
11 21 (8.24%) Jakarta EE
11 21 (8.24%) Struts
12 19 (7.45%) .NET Framework
13 17 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (6.27%) ASP.NET Core
14 16 (6.27%) Blazor
14 16 (6.27%) HTML5
15 15 (5.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.92%) Mobile App
3 10 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.14%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.96%) iPhone
7 4 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.18%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.18%) Social Media
9 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.78%) Blog
9 2 (0.78%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.78%) IoT
9 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.76%) Linux
2 25 (9.80%) Windows
3 8 (3.14%) Android
3 8 (3.14%) CentOS
4 6 (2.35%) Unix
5 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.78%) Debian
6 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (45.49%) Full-Stack Development
2 94 (36.86%) Agile
3 90 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (30.98%) Software Engineering
5 72 (28.24%) CI/CD
6 57 (22.35%) DevOps
7 42 (16.47%) AI
8 41 (16.08%) Test Automation
9 39 (15.29%) Containerisation
10 32 (12.55%) Microservices
11 31 (12.16%) Computer Science
11 31 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (10.98%) Front End Development
12 28 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (10.59%) Collaborative Culture
14 25 (9.80%) LLM
15 23 (9.02%) API Development
15 23 (9.02%) Machine Learning
15 23 (9.02%) Scrum
15 23 (9.02%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 126 (49.41%) Python
2 83 (32.55%) C#
3 71 (27.84%) SQL
4 67 (26.27%) TypeScript
5 65 (25.49%) Java
6 49 (19.22%) C++
7 21 (8.24%) Perl
8 20 (7.84%) Bash
8 20 (7.84%) PHP
9 12 (4.71%) Go
10 11 (4.31%) PowerShell
10 11 (4.31%) Rust
11 7 (2.75%) Bicep
12 4 (1.57%) C
12 4 (1.57%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.18%) R
14 2 (0.78%) XAML
15 1 (0.39%) Ruby
15 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 51 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.65%) Degree
3 30 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (10.20%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.35%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.18%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.18%) OCP
10 3 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.45%) Accessibility
2 17 (6.67%) QA
3 10 (3.92%) WCAG
4 9 (3.53%) NCSC
5 7 (2.75%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.18%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (20.39%) Docker
2 6 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (19.61%) Kubernetes
2 30 (11.76%) Terraform
3 17 (6.67%) Ansible
3 17 (6.67%) Grafana
4 14 (5.49%) Kibana
5 13 (5.10%) logstash
6 6 (2.35%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.57%) Podman
7 4 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.18%) Nagios
8 3 (1.18%) Plesk
8 3 (1.18%) Puppet
9 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 66 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.49%) Red Hat
3 12 (4.71%) Google
4 9 (3.53%) Atlassian
4 9 (3.53%) Splunk
5 6 (2.35%) VMware
6 3 (1.18%) Adobe
6 3 (1.18%) New Relic
6 3 (1.18%) Oracle
7 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.78%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.39%) IBM
8 1 (0.39%) OpenAI