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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 19 17
Rank change year-on-year -39 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 189 233 780
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.50% 8.68% 8.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.01% 27.35% 26.63%
Number of salaries quoted 147 167 684
10th Percentile £28,800 £41,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,500 £81,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.37% +10.34% -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 1,111 852 2,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.71% 31.73% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 685 624 2,418
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,563 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -26 70 £50,000 -16.67% 20
Gloucestershire -19 41 £56,250 -11.76% 30
Devon +2 34 £45,000 -30.77% 9
Somerset -41 14 £45,000 -21.74% 9
Dorset -25 12 £45,000 -14.29% 6
Wiltshire -36 6 £65,000 +10.64% 11
Cornwall - 5 £32,000 - 1
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 (4.23%) Apache
2 4 (2.12%) WordPress
3 3 (1.59%) CMS
3 3 (1.59%) NServiceBus
4 2 (1.06%) Confluence
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.06%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.06%) InDesign
1 2 (1.06%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.53%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.53%) Elementor
2 1 (0.53%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.53%) Sketch
2 1 (0.53%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.53%) Shopify
2 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 76 (40.21%) AWS
2 59 (31.22%) Azure
3 21 (11.11%) GitHub
4 16 (8.47%) SaaS
5 14 (7.41%) Serverless
6 11 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.82%) GCP
7 9 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.17%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.17%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.65%) npm
10 4 (2.12%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.59%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.59%) Cloud Run
11 3 (1.59%) Figma
12 2 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.99%) Internet
2 4 (2.12%) Broadband
2 4 (2.12%) VPN
2 4 (2.12%) WAN
3 2 (1.06%) Network Security
3 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.53%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.17%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.47%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (7.94%) MySQL
4 14 (7.41%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.35%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.23%) Neo4j
6 8 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.65%) Big Data
7 5 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.12%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.06%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.06%) Power BI
10 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.53%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.53%) DB2
10 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (24.87%) Git
2 20 (10.58%) Cypress.io
3 18 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.41%) GitLab
5 12 (6.35%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.23%) Selenium
7 6 (3.17%) JIRA
7 6 (3.17%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.65%) TestRail
9 4 (2.12%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.12%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.59%) JUnit
11 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.06%) Postman
11 2 (1.06%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.06%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.06%) Subversion
11 2 (1.06%) TestNG
12 1 (0.53%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.53%) Locust
General
1 22 (11.64%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.99%) Multimedia
3 8 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.17%) Automotive
4 6 (3.17%) Finance
4 6 (3.17%) Manufacturing
4 6 (3.17%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.65%) Marketing
6 4 (2.12%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.59%) Military
8 2 (1.06%) Electronics
8 2 (1.06%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 98 (51.85%) Developer
2 39 (20.63%) Software Engineer
3 29 (15.34%) Full-Stack Developer
4 26 (13.76%) Senior
5 24 (12.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 23 (12.17%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.99%) Trainee
8 16 (8.47%) JavaScript Developer
9 14 (7.41%) PHP Developer
9 14 (7.41%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.82%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 10 (5.29%) Python Developer
11 10 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (5.29%) Test Engineer
12 9 (4.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 8 (4.23%) Lead
14 7 (3.70%) .NET Developer
14 7 (3.70%) Analyst
14 7 (3.70%) Java Developer
15 6 (3.17%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (32.80%) HTML
2 61 (32.28%) CSS
3 56 (29.63%) React
4 27 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 24 (12.70%) .NET
6 21 (11.11%) Node.js
6 21 (11.11%) Vue
7 19 (10.05%) Playwright
8 16 (8.47%) REST
8 16 (8.47%) RESTful
9 15 (7.94%) ASP.NET
9 15 (7.94%) Spring
10 14 (7.41%) Spring Boot
11 13 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (4.23%) Laravel
13 8 (4.23%) MERN Stack
13 8 (4.23%) Sass
14 7 (3.70%) .NET Core
14 7 (3.70%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.35%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (4.23%) Educational Technology
3 8 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.65%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.12%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.59%) Graphic Design
6 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) IoT
8 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.53%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.35%) Linux
2 8 (4.23%) Windows
3 5 (2.65%) CentOS
4 1 (0.53%) Debian
4 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (31.22%) Agile
2 56 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 55 (29.10%) CI/CD
4 54 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 35 (18.52%) DevOps
5 35 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (14.81%) Mentoring
7 27 (14.29%) Front End Development
8 25 (13.23%) Cybersecurity
8 25 (13.23%) Test Automation
9 24 (12.70%) Containerisation
10 20 (10.58%) Web Development
11 18 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (8.99%) Scrum
13 15 (7.94%) Microservices
14 14 (7.41%) Collaborative Culture
15 13 (6.88%) API Development
16 12 (6.35%) Computer Science
16 12 (6.35%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (6.35%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 86 (45.50%) Python
2 67 (35.45%) TypeScript
3 50 (26.46%) Java
4 42 (22.22%) C#
5 31 (16.40%) PHP
6 28 (14.81%) SQL
7 12 (6.35%) Bash
7 12 (6.35%) C
7 12 (6.35%) R
8 11 (5.82%) C++
9 8 (4.23%) Go
10 7 (3.70%) PowerShell
11 6 (3.17%) Rust
12 4 (2.12%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.06%) VB
14 1 (0.53%) Perl
14 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.53%) Ruby
14 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 21 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 20 (10.58%) Degree
4 18 (9.52%) AWS Certification
5 17 (8.99%) Azure Certification
5 17 (8.99%) DV Cleared
5 17 (8.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.23%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.12%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.53%) OCA
10 1 (0.53%) OCP
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.99%) QA
2 8 (4.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 41 (21.69%) Docker
2 4 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.94%) Terraform
3 12 (6.35%) Ansible
3 12 (6.35%) Kibana
4 11 (5.82%) Grafana
5 10 (5.29%) logstash
6 4 (2.12%) Podman
6 4 (2.12%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.53%) Argo
8 1 (0.53%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.53%) Plesk
8 1 (0.53%) Puppet
8 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.23%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.17%) Splunk
4 5 (2.65%) Google
4 5 (2.65%) Oracle
4 5 (2.65%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.12%) Adobe
5 4 (2.12%) VMware
6 2 (1.06%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.06%) SAP
7 1 (0.53%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.53%) Siemens