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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 23 16
Rank change year-on-year -37 -7 +4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 183 222 784
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.39% 8.28% 8.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.15% 26.33% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 145 158 685
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £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 £62,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.37% +10.33% -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 1,133 843 2,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.79% 31.46% 32.56%
Number of salaries quoted 701 600 2,394
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,525 £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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -30 69 £55,000 -8.33% 41
Devon +6 38 £45,000 -28.00% 15
Gloucestershire -31 35 £52,500 -12.50% 28
Somerset -38 13 £45,000 -21.74% 10
Dorset -16 12 £45,000 -10.00% 5
Wiltshire -26 6 £65,000 +13.04% 17
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 9 (4.92%) Apache
2 4 (2.19%) WordPress
3 3 (1.64%) CMS
4 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.09%) Confluence
4 2 (1.09%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.55%) Joomla!
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.09%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (1.09%) InDesign
1 2 (1.09%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.55%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.55%) Elementor
2 1 (0.55%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.55%) Sketch
2 1 (0.55%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
2 1 (0.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 63 (34.43%) AWS
2 55 (30.05%) Azure
3 19 (10.38%) GitHub
4 14 (7.65%) SaaS
4 14 (7.65%) Serverless
5 12 (6.56%) GCP
6 10 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.83%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.83%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.73%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.73%) npm
10 4 (2.19%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.64%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.64%) Cloud Run
11 3 (1.64%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.56%) Internet
2 5 (2.73%) VPN
2 5 (2.73%) WAN
3 4 (2.19%) Broadband
4 2 (1.09%) AMQP
4 2 (1.09%) Network Security
4 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.93%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.74%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (8.20%) MongoDB
4 14 (7.65%) MySQL
5 13 (7.10%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.28%) Big Data
7 6 (3.28%) Neo4j
8 5 (2.73%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.19%) InfluxDB
10 3 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.64%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.09%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (1.09%) CockroachDB
11 2 (1.09%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.09%) Power BI
12 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.55%) GIS
12 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (23.50%) Git
2 18 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.74%) Cypress.io
4 14 (7.65%) GitLab
5 11 (6.01%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.37%) Selenium
7 6 (3.28%) JIRA
7 6 (3.28%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.73%) TestRail
9 4 (2.19%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.19%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.64%) JUnit
11 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.09%) Postman
11 2 (1.09%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.09%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.09%) Subversion
11 2 (1.09%) TestNG
12 1 (0.55%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.55%) Locust
General
1 25 (13.66%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.56%) Multimedia
3 8 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.83%) Finance
4 7 (3.83%) Manufacturing
4 7 (3.83%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.28%) Automotive
6 5 (2.73%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.73%) Marketing
7 3 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.64%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.09%) Electronics
8 2 (1.09%) Military
8 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.55%) Local Government
9 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 95 (51.91%) Developer
2 38 (20.77%) Software Engineer
3 31 (16.94%) Full-Stack Developer
4 27 (14.75%) Senior
5 24 (13.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (10.93%) JavaScript Developer
7 18 (9.84%) Software Developer
8 15 (8.20%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 14 (7.65%) PHP Developer
9 14 (7.65%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.56%) Trainee
11 11 (6.01%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (5.46%) Python Developer
13 9 (4.92%) .NET Developer
13 9 (4.92%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 9 (4.92%) Test Engineer
14 8 (4.37%) Analyst
15 7 (3.83%) Lead
16 6 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 6 (3.28%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (32.24%) HTML
1 59 (32.24%) React
2 58 (31.69%) CSS
3 28 (15.30%) AngularJS
4 25 (13.66%) Node.js
4 25 (13.66%) Vue
5 24 (13.11%) .NET
6 21 (11.48%) RESTful
7 16 (8.74%) Playwright
7 16 (8.74%) REST
8 15 (8.20%) ASP.NET
9 13 (7.10%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (7.10%) Spring
10 12 (6.56%) Spring Boot
11 9 (4.92%) .NET Core
11 9 (4.92%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (4.37%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (4.37%) HTML5
12 8 (4.37%) Sass
13 7 (3.83%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.56%) Cloud Native
1 12 (6.56%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.37%) Educational Technology
3 7 (3.83%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.73%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.64%) Graphic Design
6 3 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) IoT
8 1 (0.55%) iPhone
8 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.55%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.20%) Linux
2 9 (4.92%) Windows
3 6 (3.28%) CentOS
4 2 (1.09%) Debian
4 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (33.88%) Full-Stack Development
2 58 (31.69%) Agile
3 50 (27.32%) CI/CD
4 49 (26.78%) Software Engineering
5 38 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (17.49%) DevOps
7 27 (14.75%) Front End Development
8 24 (13.11%) Containerisation
9 23 (12.57%) Mentoring
10 21 (11.48%) Test Automation
10 21 (11.48%) Web Development
11 18 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (9.29%) Scrum
13 16 (8.74%) Microservices
14 15 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (7.65%) Collaborative Culture
16 13 (7.10%) Infrastructure as Code
16 13 (7.10%) User Experience
17 12 (6.56%) Unit Testing
18 11 (6.01%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 79 (43.17%) Python
2 63 (34.43%) TypeScript
3 44 (24.04%) C#
4 43 (23.50%) Java
5 35 (19.13%) SQL
6 29 (15.85%) PHP
7 12 (6.56%) Bash
7 12 (6.56%) C++
8 10 (5.46%) C
9 9 (4.92%) R
10 8 (4.37%) Go
11 7 (3.83%) PowerShell
11 7 (3.83%) Rust
12 2 (1.09%) VB
13 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.55%) Perl
13 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.55%) Ruby
13 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (14.21%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.38%) Degree
3 16 (8.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 13 (7.10%) AWS Certification
4 13 (7.10%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.56%) Azure Certification
5 12 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.28%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.73%) ISTQB
9 4 (2.19%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.55%) OCA
11 1 (0.55%) OCP
11 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.10%) QA
2 8 (4.37%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (19.13%) Docker
2 4 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.74%) Terraform
3 13 (7.10%) Ansible
4 12 (6.56%) Kibana
5 11 (6.01%) Grafana
6 10 (5.46%) logstash
7 4 (2.19%) Podman
7 4 (2.19%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.64%) Plesk
9 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.09%) Puppet
10 1 (0.55%) Argo
10 1 (0.55%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.83%) Atlassian
2 7 (3.83%) Google
3 6 (3.28%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.28%) Splunk
4 5 (2.73%) Oracle
5 4 (2.19%) Adobe
5 4 (2.19%) VMware
6 2 (1.09%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.09%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.09%) SAP
7 1 (0.55%) Siemens