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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -33 -8 +6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 195 223 798
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.55% 8.15% 8.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.47% 26.48% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 164 150 684
10th Percentile £30,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,438 £46,063 £42,188
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 £70,938 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.23% +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 1,184 842 2,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.47% 30.77% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 783 567 2,387
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 5 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 5 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 -21 73 £55,000 -8.33% 34
Devon -2 39 £50,000 -4.76% 12
Gloucestershire -28 37 £52,500 -6.67% 17
Somerset -35 17 £37,500 -34.78% 9
Dorset -14 12 £45,000 -5.26% 6
Wiltshire -32 7 £65,000 +13.04% 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 8 (4.10%) Apache
2 3 (1.54%) CMS
2 3 (1.54%) WordPress
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.03%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.03%) InDesign
1 2 (1.03%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.51%) Elementor
2 1 (0.51%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.51%) Sketch
2 1 (0.51%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (33.33%) Azure
2 61 (31.28%) AWS
3 21 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (9.23%) GCP
5 17 (8.72%) GitHub
5 17 (8.72%) Power Platform
6 13 (6.67%) SaaS
6 13 (6.67%) Serverless
7 8 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.59%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.56%) npm
10 4 (2.05%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.05%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.54%) Cloud Run
11 3 (1.54%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.13%) Internet
2 8 (4.10%) VPN
2 8 (4.10%) WAN
3 4 (2.05%) Broadband
4 2 (1.03%) AMQP
4 2 (1.03%) Network Security
4 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.77%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.21%) MongoDB
3 14 (7.18%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (7.18%) MySQL
4 12 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.08%) Big Data
7 5 (2.56%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.05%) InfluxDB
8 4 (2.05%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.05%) Power BI
9 3 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.54%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.03%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.03%) GIS
10 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (25.13%) Git
2 16 (8.21%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 12 (6.15%) GitLab
5 10 (5.13%) Subversion
6 9 (4.62%) Cucumber
7 8 (4.10%) Eclipse
8 6 (3.08%) JUnit
8 6 (3.08%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.05%) JIRA
9 4 (2.05%) Robot Framework
9 4 (2.05%) Selenium
9 4 (2.05%) TestRail
10 3 (1.54%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.51%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.51%) Postman
12 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.51%) TestNG
General
1 36 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.13%) Manufacturing
3 10 (5.13%) Multimedia
4 9 (4.62%) Finance
5 8 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.08%) Automotive
7 5 (2.56%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.56%) Marketing
8 4 (2.05%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.54%) Retail
10 2 (1.03%) Electronics
10 2 (1.03%) Local Government
10 2 (1.03%) Military
10 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 101 (51.79%) Developer
2 37 (18.97%) Software Engineer
3 33 (16.92%) Senior
4 27 (13.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 24 (12.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (10.26%) JavaScript Developer
7 19 (9.74%) Software Developer
8 15 (7.69%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 15 (7.69%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.67%) Architect
9 13 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (6.15%) PHP Developer
11 11 (5.64%) Java Developer
12 10 (5.13%) .NET Developer
12 10 (5.13%) Analyst
12 10 (5.13%) Python Developer
12 10 (5.13%) Trainee
13 9 (4.62%) Junior
13 9 (4.62%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (33.85%) React
2 55 (28.21%) CSS
3 53 (27.18%) HTML
4 29 (14.87%) RESTful
5 28 (14.36%) .NET
5 28 (14.36%) AngularJS
5 28 (14.36%) Node.js
6 26 (13.33%) Vue
7 18 (9.23%) REST
8 17 (8.72%) ASP.NET
9 12 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (6.15%) Playwright
10 10 (5.13%) .NET Core
10 10 (5.13%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (5.13%) Spring
10 10 (5.13%) Tailwind CSS
10 10 (5.13%) Web Services
11 9 (4.62%) Blazor
12 8 (4.10%) Spring Boot
12 8 (4.10%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.15%) Cloud Native
1 12 (6.15%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.10%) Client/Server
3 7 (3.59%) Educational Technology
3 7 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.59%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.54%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.03%) IoT
6 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.51%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.72%) Linux
2 12 (6.15%) Windows
3 6 (3.08%) CentOS
4 4 (2.05%) Unix
5 2 (1.03%) Debian
5 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.51%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.38%) Full-Stack Development
2 63 (32.31%) Agile
3 57 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 48 (24.62%) CI/CD
6 32 (16.41%) DevOps
7 30 (15.38%) Front End Development
8 24 (12.31%) Containerisation
8 24 (12.31%) Mentoring
9 21 (10.77%) Web Development
10 19 (9.74%) AI
10 19 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (9.23%) User Experience
12 17 (8.72%) Scrum
12 17 (8.72%) Test Automation
13 16 (8.21%) Collaborative Culture
13 16 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (7.69%) Computer Science
14 15 (7.69%) LLM
15 14 (7.18%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 88 (45.13%) Python
2 62 (31.79%) TypeScript
3 51 (26.15%) C#
4 48 (24.62%) SQL
5 45 (23.08%) Java
6 26 (13.33%) PHP
7 23 (11.79%) C++
8 13 (6.67%) Bash
9 9 (4.62%) Perl
10 8 (4.10%) C
10 8 (4.10%) Go
11 7 (3.59%) PowerShell
11 7 (3.59%) R
11 7 (3.59%) Rust
12 3 (1.54%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.54%) VB
13 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.31%) Degree
3 15 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (7.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 11 (5.64%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.64%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.13%) Azure Certification
6 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.59%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.54%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) OCA
9 1 (0.51%) OCP
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.64%) QA
2 10 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (19.49%) Docker
2 4 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (15.90%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.21%) Terraform
3 14 (7.18%) Ansible
4 11 (5.64%) Grafana
4 11 (5.64%) Kibana
5 10 (5.13%) logstash
6 4 (2.05%) Podman
6 4 (2.05%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.54%) Plesk
8 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.03%) Puppet
9 1 (0.51%) Argo
9 1 (0.51%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.59%) Google
3 6 (3.08%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.08%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.56%) Splunk
5 4 (2.05%) Adobe
5 4 (2.05%) VMware
6 3 (1.54%) Oracle
7 2 (1.03%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.03%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.03%) SAP
8 1 (0.51%) Siemens