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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 18 23
Rank change year-on-year -36 +5 -11
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 149 415 390
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.13% 8.07% 9.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.58% 26.33% 22.03%
Number of salaries quoted 119 223 322
10th Percentile £27,300 £33,750 £34,250
25th Percentile £32,125 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £79,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +0.78%

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 761 1,576 1,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.01% 30.64% 41.08%
Number of salaries quoted 565 875 1,430
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,000 £35,748
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,875 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 -22 53 £50,000 -23.08% 66
Gloucestershire -1 28 £75,000 +25.00% 62
Devon -9 24 £40,000 -8.57% 52
Somerset -8 21 £29,000 -31.76% 41
Dorset -28 12 £40,000 -20.00% 24
Wiltshire -35 4 £60,000 -7.69% 38
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 (5.37%) Confluence
2 7 (4.70%) Apache
3 3 (2.01%) Tomcat
3 3 (2.01%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.01%) WebLogic Portal
4 2 (1.34%) WordPress
5 1 (0.67%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.67%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Infor CloudSuite
1 4 (2.68%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 4 (2.68%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.01%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.01%) Primavera
3 1 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (43.62%) AWS
2 47 (31.54%) Azure
3 21 (14.09%) GitHub
4 13 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (8.05%) Serverless
6 7 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (4.70%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.70%) SaaS
7 5 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (3.36%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.01%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (2.01%) OCI
9 2 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.34%) Pulumi
10 1 (0.67%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.67%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.67%) Firebase
10 1 (0.67%) GCP
10 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.07%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.09%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.72%) MySQL
3 11 (7.38%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (5.37%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.70%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.68%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (2.68%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.68%) Power BI
7 4 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.01%) Oracle Discoverer
8 3 (2.01%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.01%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.67%) Big Data
9 1 (0.67%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 37 (24.83%) Git
2 15 (10.07%) Cypress.io
2 15 (10.07%) JIRA
3 10 (6.71%) Oracle APEX
4 8 (5.37%) GitLab
4 8 (5.37%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.37%) Selenium
5 6 (4.03%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.03%) JUnit
5 6 (4.03%) Postman
6 5 (3.36%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.36%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.68%) Zephyr
8 3 (2.01%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (2.01%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.34%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.34%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.34%) Locust
9 2 (1.34%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.34%) TestRail
General
1 21 (14.09%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.07%) Multimedia
3 14 (9.40%) Marketing
4 5 (3.36%) Finance
4 5 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.68%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.34%) Electronics
7 2 (1.34%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.67%) Games
8 1 (0.67%) Law
8 1 (0.67%) Military
8 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (46.31%) Developer
2 25 (16.78%) Software Engineer
3 22 (14.77%) Software Developer
4 19 (12.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (10.07%) Senior
5 15 (10.07%) Trainee
6 11 (7.38%) Designer
6 11 (7.38%) Senior Developer
7 9 (6.04%) .NET Developer
7 9 (6.04%) Tester
8 7 (4.70%) Graduate
8 7 (4.70%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.70%) Test Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) Analyst
9 6 (4.03%) Automation Tester
9 6 (4.03%) C# Developer
9 6 (4.03%) C# Software Developer
9 6 (4.03%) Oracle Developer
9 6 (4.03%) Trainee Developer
9 6 (4.03%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (44.97%) HTML
2 60 (40.27%) CSS
3 36 (24.16%) React
4 20 (13.42%) .NET
5 17 (11.41%) AngularJS
6 13 (8.72%) Playwright
7 11 (7.38%) Spring
7 11 (7.38%) Spring Boot
8 10 (6.71%) RESTful
9 9 (6.04%) .NET Framework
9 9 (6.04%) Entity Framework
9 9 (6.04%) REST
10 8 (5.37%) Vue
11 7 (4.70%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.70%) HTML5
12 6 (4.03%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (4.03%) Symfony
12 6 (4.03%) Web Services
13 5 (3.36%) ASP.NET
13 5 (3.36%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.38%) Motion Graphics
2 10 (6.71%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.68%) Private Cloud
3 4 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.01%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.01%) Smart Home
5 2 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.67%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.67%) PACS
6 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.38%) Linux
2 4 (2.68%) Windows
3 3 (2.01%) Unix
4 2 (1.34%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.67%) Android
5 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.57%) Agile
2 44 (29.53%) Software Engineering
3 34 (22.82%) CI/CD
4 32 (21.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 23 (15.44%) Mentoring
6 22 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (14.77%) Test Automation
7 21 (14.09%) DevOps
8 18 (12.08%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (11.41%) Computer Science
10 16 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (10.74%) Microservices
10 16 (10.74%) MVC
11 12 (8.05%) B2B
11 12 (8.05%) Front End Development
12 11 (7.38%) B2B Marketing
12 11 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (7.38%) Demand Generation
12 11 (7.38%) Manual Testing
12 11 (7.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 55 (36.91%) Python
2 41 (27.52%) Java
3 36 (24.16%) TypeScript
4 35 (23.49%) SQL
5 33 (22.15%) C#
6 13 (8.72%) PHP
7 10 (6.71%) PL/SQL
8 9 (6.04%) R
8 9 (6.04%) T-SQL
9 6 (4.03%) C
10 4 (2.68%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.34%) C++
11 2 (1.34%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.34%) XAML
12 1 (0.67%) Bash
12 1 (0.67%) Perl
12 1 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (24.16%) Degree
2 29 (19.46%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.07%) AWS Certification
3 15 (10.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 15 (10.07%) Azure Certification
3 15 (10.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (9.40%) DV Cleared
5 13 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (6.71%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.37%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.68%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.72%) QA
2 8 (5.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.67%) DICOM
3 1 (0.67%) GDPR
3 1 (0.67%) HL7
3 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (11.41%) Docker
2 3 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (10.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.70%) Kibana
3 6 (4.03%) Terraform
4 3 (2.01%) Ansible
4 3 (2.01%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.67%) Grafana
5 1 (0.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 23 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.08%) Oracle
3 11 (7.38%) Adobe
4 7 (4.70%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.68%) Infor
6 3 (2.01%) IFS
7 2 (1.34%) SAP
8 1 (0.67%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.67%) BMC
8 1 (0.67%) Remedy
8 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.67%) Splunk
8 1 (0.67%) WooCommerce