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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 32 24
Rank change year-on-year -23 -8 +3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 245 208 548
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.85% 6.07% 6.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.09% 25.15% 24.91%
Number of salaries quoted 201 146 430
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,773 £66,150 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.64% +10.25% -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 1,434 827 2,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.68% 24.15% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,005 552 1,660
10th Percentile £32,850 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £68,750
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 29 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 29 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 -1 82 £60,000 - 23
Devon +10 52 £52,500 - 12
Gloucestershire -40 46 £52,500 -10.64% 23
Somerset -40 35 £31,500 -31.89% 15
Dorset -12 18 £35,250 -6.00% 6
Wiltshire -37 6 £57,500 -4.17% 4
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 (5.71%) Apache
2 7 (2.86%) Confluence
3 3 (1.22%) CMS
3 3 (1.22%) JBoss
3 3 (1.22%) nginx
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.82%) WordPress
5 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.41%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.82%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.82%) InDesign
2 2 (0.82%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.41%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 88 (35.92%) Azure
2 68 (27.76%) AWS
3 32 (13.06%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (12.24%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.98%) GCP
6 20 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.71%) OpenShift
7 14 (5.71%) SaaS
8 12 (4.90%) GitHub
9 8 (3.27%) Serverless
10 5 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.04%) Azure AI
10 5 (2.04%) Figma
10 5 (2.04%) Google Play
10 5 (2.04%) npm
11 4 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.63%) Datadog
12 3 (1.22%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (1.22%) Cloud Run
13 2 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.27%) VPN
1 8 (3.27%) WAN
2 4 (1.63%) Internet
2 4 (1.63%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.22%) Broadband
3 3 (1.22%) SSL
4 2 (0.82%) AMQP
4 2 (0.82%) Network Security
5 1 (0.41%) DNS
5 1 (0.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.39%) MongoDB
2 20 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.53%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (6.53%) MySQL
4 12 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.27%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.45%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (2.45%) InfluxDB
7 6 (2.45%) Power BI
8 5 (2.04%) Big Data
9 4 (1.63%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.82%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (0.82%) GIS
11 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 71 (28.98%) Git
2 23 (9.39%) Subversion
3 20 (8.16%) GitLab
4 19 (7.76%) Jenkins
5 18 (7.35%) Eclipse
6 15 (6.12%) Cypress.io
6 15 (6.12%) JIRA
7 13 (5.31%) JUnit
8 8 (3.27%) Selenium
8 8 (3.27%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.86%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.86%) Robot Framework
10 6 (2.45%) MSI
10 6 (2.45%) TestRail
11 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.22%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.22%) Postman
12 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.82%) NUnit
13 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (8.16%) Finance
4 12 (4.90%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.08%) Aerospace
6 9 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.27%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.86%) Military
9 6 (2.45%) Retail
10 4 (1.63%) Automotive
10 4 (1.63%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.22%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.82%) Law
12 2 (0.82%) Local Government
12 2 (0.82%) Marketing
12 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.41%) Banking
13 1 (0.41%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 125 (51.02%) Developer
2 50 (20.41%) Software Engineer
3 37 (15.10%) Senior
4 34 (13.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (9.80%) Architect
5 24 (9.80%) Solutions Architect
6 23 (9.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 20 (8.16%) Java Developer
7 20 (8.16%) JavaScript Developer
7 20 (8.16%) Junior
8 19 (7.76%) Junior Developer
8 19 (7.76%) Senior Developer
9 18 (7.35%) Junior Java Developer
10 17 (6.94%) Software Developer
11 16 (6.53%) .NET Developer
11 16 (6.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (6.12%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 14 (5.71%) Analyst
14 12 (4.90%) Lead
14 12 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (36.73%) React
2 58 (23.67%) HTML
3 57 (23.27%) CSS
4 49 (20.00%) RESTful
5 45 (18.37%) .NET
6 31 (12.65%) Node.js
7 24 (9.80%) ASP.NET
7 24 (9.80%) REST
7 24 (9.80%) Vue
8 23 (9.39%) .NET Core
8 23 (9.39%) AngularJS
9 20 (8.16%) Web Services
10 18 (7.35%) Jakarta EE
10 18 (7.35%) Struts
11 17 (6.94%) .NET Framework
12 16 (6.53%) ASP.NET Core
12 16 (6.53%) Blazor
13 15 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (6.12%) HTML5
14 14 (5.71%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.90%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (4.08%) Mobile App
3 10 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.27%) Client/Server
6 7 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.04%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.04%) iPhone
8 4 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.22%) Social Media
10 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.82%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.82%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.82%) IoT
10 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.84%) Linux
2 23 (9.39%) Windows
3 8 (3.27%) CentOS
4 7 (2.86%) Android
5 6 (2.45%) Unix
6 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.82%) Debian
7 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (44.49%) Full-Stack Development
2 88 (35.92%) Agile
3 85 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (29.39%) Software Engineering
5 67 (27.35%) CI/CD
6 53 (21.63%) DevOps
7 42 (17.14%) AI
8 36 (14.69%) Test Automation
9 35 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 31 (12.65%) Microservices
11 29 (11.84%) Front End Development
12 28 (11.43%) Computer Science
13 27 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (10.20%) LLM
15 24 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (9.39%) Collaborative Culture
16 23 (9.39%) Machine Learning
16 23 (9.39%) Web Development
17 22 (8.98%) Scrum
18 21 (8.57%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 116 (47.35%) Python
2 80 (32.65%) C#
3 71 (28.98%) SQL
4 63 (25.71%) TypeScript
5 58 (23.67%) Java
6 43 (17.55%) C++
7 21 (8.57%) PHP
8 19 (7.76%) Bash
9 18 (7.35%) Perl
10 11 (4.49%) PowerShell
11 10 (4.08%) Go
11 10 (4.08%) Rust
12 6 (2.45%) Bicep
13 4 (1.63%) C
13 4 (1.63%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.22%) R
15 1 (0.41%) Ruby
15 1 (0.41%) VB
15 1 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 43 (17.55%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.92%) Degree
3 27 (11.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (8.57%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.63%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.22%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.41%) OCP
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.35%) Accessibility
2 15 (6.12%) QA
3 9 (3.67%) WCAG
4 7 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.86%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 48 (19.59%) Docker
2 6 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.61%) Terraform
3 17 (6.94%) Ansible
4 15 (6.12%) Grafana
5 14 (5.71%) Kibana
6 13 (5.31%) logstash
7 6 (2.45%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.63%) Podman
8 4 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.22%) Nagios
9 3 (1.22%) Plesk
9 3 (1.22%) Puppet
10 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 65 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.90%) Google
2 12 (4.90%) Red Hat
3 9 (3.67%) Atlassian
3 9 (3.67%) Splunk
4 6 (2.45%) VMware
5 3 (1.22%) Adobe
5 3 (1.22%) New Relic
6 2 (0.82%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle
6 2 (0.82%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.41%) IBM
7 1 (0.41%) OpenAI