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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 38 23
Rank change year-on-year -15 -15 +9
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 266 168 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.89% 4.86% 6.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.66% 22.05% 23.69%
Number of salaries quoted 205 126 355
10th Percentile £30,250 £26,625 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +7.44% -6.92%

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 1,506 762 2,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.38% 22.05% 25.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,080 517 1,479
10th Percentile £32,975 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,713 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 22 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 22 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 -1 84 £60,000 +4.35% 26
Gloucestershire -28 59 £85,000 +51.11% 29
Devon +1 46 £60,000 +41.18% 12
Somerset -21 43 £37,500 +7.14% 8
Dorset -10 19 £35,250 -6.00% 3
Wiltshire -27 8 £44,250 -26.25% 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 15 (5.64%) Apache
2 7 (2.63%) Confluence
3 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.13%) JBoss
3 3 (1.13%) nginx
4 2 (0.75%) CMS
4 2 (0.75%) WordPress
5 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.75%) InDesign
2 2 (0.75%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.38%) Magento
2 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 93 (34.96%) Azure
2 77 (28.95%) AWS
3 34 (12.78%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (11.65%) Power Platform
5 27 (10.15%) GCP
6 21 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (7.89%) OpenShift
7 16 (6.02%) SaaS
8 15 (5.64%) GitHub
9 9 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.01%) Serverless
11 6 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.26%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.88%) Figma
12 5 (1.88%) Google Play
13 4 (1.50%) Datadog
14 3 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.13%) Cloud Functions
14 3 (1.13%) Cloud Run
14 3 (1.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.01%) VPN
1 8 (3.01%) WAN
2 4 (1.50%) Internet
2 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.13%) AMQP
3 3 (1.13%) Broadband
3 3 (1.13%) SSL
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
4 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.27%) MongoDB
2 16 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 15 (5.64%) MySQL
4 12 (4.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (2.26%) InfluxDB
7 6 (2.26%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.88%) Big Data
8 5 (1.88%) Power BI
9 4 (1.50%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.13%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.13%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.13%) ZAP BI
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.75%) GIS
Development Applications
1 83 (31.20%) Git
2 31 (11.65%) Subversion
3 26 (9.77%) Eclipse
4 24 (9.02%) Jenkins
5 23 (8.65%) GitLab
6 22 (8.27%) JUnit
7 20 (7.52%) Cypress.io
8 18 (6.77%) JIRA
9 11 (4.14%) Selenium
10 10 (3.76%) SonarQube
11 8 (3.01%) TestRail
12 7 (2.63%) Cucumber
12 7 (2.63%) MSI
12 7 (2.63%) Robot Framework
13 5 (1.88%) Postman
14 4 (1.50%) NUnit
15 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket
15 3 (1.13%) CircleCI
15 3 (1.13%) Snyk
15 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 59 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.03%) Finance
3 29 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.39%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.14%) Aerospace
7 10 (3.76%) Military
8 9 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.01%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.63%) Retail
11 4 (1.50%) Law
11 4 (1.50%) Multimedia
12 3 (1.13%) Legal
12 3 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.75%) Banking
13 2 (0.75%) Environmental Health
13 2 (0.75%) Local Government
13 2 (0.75%) Marketing
13 2 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 129 (48.50%) Developer
2 54 (20.30%) Software Engineer
3 41 (15.41%) Senior
4 39 (14.66%) Full-Stack Developer
5 27 (10.15%) Java Developer
6 26 (9.77%) Architect
6 26 (9.77%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (9.40%) Junior
8 23 (8.65%) Junior Developer
8 23 (8.65%) Junior Java Developer
8 23 (8.65%) Senior Developer
8 23 (8.65%) Software Developer
9 19 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 17 (6.39%) Lead
11 15 (5.64%) .NET Developer
11 15 (5.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 15 (5.64%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 15 (5.64%) JavaScript Developer
12 13 (4.89%) Analyst
13 11 (4.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (39.10%) React
2 60 (22.56%) RESTful
3 56 (21.05%) HTML
4 55 (20.68%) CSS
5 45 (16.92%) .NET
6 40 (15.04%) Node.js
7 32 (12.03%) Terraform
8 28 (10.53%) Web Services
9 26 (9.77%) .NET Core
9 26 (9.77%) Jakarta EE
9 26 (9.77%) Struts
10 23 (8.65%) Vue
11 22 (8.27%) REST
12 20 (7.52%) AngularJS
12 20 (7.52%) ASP.NET
13 19 (7.14%) .NET Framework
14 17 (6.39%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (6.39%) HTML5
14 17 (6.39%) Spring
15 16 (6.02%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.38%) Mobile App
3 9 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.01%) Client/Server
5 5 (1.88%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.88%) iPhone
6 4 (1.50%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.13%) Blog
7 3 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.13%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.13%) Social Media
8 2 (0.75%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.75%) IoT
8 2 (0.75%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.03%) Linux
2 25 (9.40%) Windows
3 9 (3.38%) Android
3 9 (3.38%) CentOS
4 7 (2.63%) Unix
5 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.13%) Debian
6 3 (1.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (46.24%) Full-Stack Development
2 101 (37.97%) Agile
3 99 (37.22%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (31.58%) Software Engineering
5 80 (30.08%) CI/CD
6 59 (22.18%) DevOps
7 50 (18.80%) Test Automation
8 48 (18.05%) AI
9 39 (14.66%) Containerisation
10 36 (13.53%) Computer Science
10 36 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (12.41%) Microservices
12 31 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (10.15%) Collaborative Culture
13 27 (10.15%) LLM
13 27 (10.15%) Machine Learning
14 25 (9.40%) Code Quality
15 24 (9.02%) Front End Development
15 24 (9.02%) Scrum
16 22 (8.27%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 144 (54.14%) Python
2 82 (30.83%) C#
3 76 (28.57%) Java
4 73 (27.44%) SQL
5 65 (24.44%) TypeScript
6 57 (21.43%) C++
7 26 (9.77%) Perl
8 21 (7.89%) Bash
9 19 (7.14%) PHP
10 13 (4.89%) Rust
11 11 (4.14%) PowerShell
12 10 (3.76%) Go
13 7 (2.63%) Bicep
14 5 (1.88%) C
15 4 (1.50%) T-SQL
16 3 (1.13%) PL/SQL
16 3 (1.13%) R
17 2 (0.75%) XAML
18 1 (0.38%) Objective-C
18 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 62 (23.31%) Security Cleared
2 49 (18.42%) Degree
3 33 (12.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (12.03%) SC Cleared
5 17 (6.39%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.13%) OCP
10 3 (1.13%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.75%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.65%) Accessibility
2 21 (7.89%) QA
3 11 (4.14%) WCAG
4 10 (3.76%) NCSC
5 7 (2.63%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.13%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 56 (21.05%) Docker
2 6 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 57 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.14%) Ansible
3 16 (6.02%) Grafana
4 13 (4.89%) Kibana
4 13 (4.89%) logstash
5 6 (2.26%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.50%) Puppet
7 3 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.13%) Nagios
7 3 (1.13%) Plesk
7 3 (1.13%) Podman
7 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 69 (25.94%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.64%) Google
2 15 (5.64%) Red Hat
3 9 (3.38%) Atlassian
3 9 (3.38%) Splunk
4 6 (2.26%) VMware
5 4 (1.50%) Adobe
6 3 (1.13%) New Relic
6 3 (1.13%) Oracle
6 3 (1.13%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.75%) IBM
7 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.75%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.38%) Cisco
8 1 (0.38%) Sage
8 1 (0.38%) SAP