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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -31 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 187 274 760
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.91% 9.73% 9.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.87% 27.37% 26.97%
Number of salaries quoted 150 191 667
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.34%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £57,593 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.01% +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 941 1,001 2,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.64% 35.55% 36.81%
Number of salaries quoted 628 642 2,366
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.00% -4.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 19 March 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 19 March 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 75 £50,000 -16.67% 39
Gloucestershire -3 37 £57,500 -4.17% 30
Devon +8 31 £42,050 -34.04% 10
Somerset -27 14 £45,000 -21.74% 7
Dorset -31 11 £45,000 -10.00% 6
Wiltshire -39 7 £65,000 -1.89% 11
Cornwall - 3 £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 7 (3.74%) Apache
2 4 (2.14%) Confluence
2 4 (2.14%) WordPress
3 3 (1.60%) CMS
3 3 (1.60%) NServiceBus
3 3 (1.60%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.60%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.60%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Joomla!
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.07%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.07%) InDesign
2 2 (1.07%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.07%) Windchill
3 1 (0.53%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.53%) Elementor
3 1 (0.53%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.53%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.60%) Primavera
2 2 (1.07%) Eloqua
2 2 (1.07%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (40.64%) AWS
2 65 (34.76%) Azure
3 25 (13.37%) GitHub
4 17 (9.09%) Serverless
5 15 (8.02%) SaaS
6 14 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (4.81%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.28%) GCP
10 4 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.14%) npm
10 4 (2.14%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.60%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.60%) OCI
12 2 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.07%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.23%) Internet
2 2 (1.07%) Broadband
2 2 (1.07%) Network Security
3 1 (0.53%) AMQP
3 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.83%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.56%) MySQL
3 15 (8.02%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (6.95%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.35%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.28%) Neo4j
7 7 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.14%) Big Data
9 4 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.60%) Oracle Discoverer
10 3 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.07%) CockroachDB
11 2 (1.07%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.53%) Cloudera CDH
12 1 (0.53%) DB2
12 1 (0.53%) Power BI
12 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (25.67%) Git
2 17 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 12 (6.42%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.88%) GitLab
5 9 (4.81%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.28%) JIRA
7 6 (3.21%) Oracle APEX
7 6 (3.21%) Selenium
8 5 (2.67%) JUnit
9 4 (2.14%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.14%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (2.14%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.60%) TestRail
11 2 (1.07%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.07%) Postman
11 2 (1.07%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.07%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.07%) Subversion
11 2 (1.07%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (11.23%) Multimedia
2 20 (10.70%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.28%) Finance
3 8 (4.28%) Marketing
3 8 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (4.28%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.21%) Automotive
5 5 (2.67%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.14%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.14%) Electronics
6 4 (2.14%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.07%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.07%) Military
7 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.07%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.53%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 96 (51.34%) Developer
2 39 (20.86%) Software Engineer
3 26 (13.90%) Software Developer
4 24 (12.83%) Senior
5 21 (11.23%) Trainee
6 19 (10.16%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (8.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 13 (6.95%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.42%) .NET Developer
9 12 (6.42%) PHP Developer
10 9 (4.81%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Lead
11 8 (4.28%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) .NET Software Developer
12 7 (3.74%) Tester
12 7 (3.74%) Trainee Developer
13 6 (3.21%) Administrator
13 6 (3.21%) Automation Tester
13 6 (3.21%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (39.57%) HTML
2 71 (37.97%) CSS
3 53 (28.34%) React
4 28 (14.97%) AngularJS
5 25 (13.37%) .NET
6 17 (9.09%) Node.js
7 16 (8.56%) Playwright
7 16 (8.56%) Spring
7 16 (8.56%) Vue
8 15 (8.02%) REST
8 15 (8.02%) Spring Boot
9 14 (7.49%) ASP.NET
10 13 (6.95%) RESTful
11 8 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.28%) MERN Stack
12 7 (3.74%) .NET Framework
12 7 (3.74%) HTML5
12 7 (3.74%) Sass
12 7 (3.74%) Symfony
12 7 (3.74%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.02%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.28%) Educational Technology
3 7 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.14%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.60%) Graphic Design
5 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.53%) IoT
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.53%) Motion Graphics
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.53%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.49%) Linux
2 5 (2.67%) Windows
3 4 (2.14%) Unix
4 3 (1.60%) CentOS
5 1 (0.53%) Debian
5 1 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (33.16%) Agile
2 57 (30.48%) Software Engineering
3 51 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 45 (24.06%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 32 (17.11%) DevOps
7 31 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (15.51%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (12.83%) Front End Development
10 22 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 22 (11.76%) Test Automation
11 17 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (9.09%) Microservices
12 16 (8.56%) Scrum
13 15 (8.02%) MVC
14 14 (7.49%) API Development
14 14 (7.49%) Computer Science
15 12 (6.42%) Unit Testing
15 12 (6.42%) Web Development
16 11 (5.88%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 83 (44.39%) Python
2 62 (33.16%) TypeScript
3 53 (28.34%) Java
4 45 (24.06%) C#
5 28 (14.97%) PHP
5 28 (14.97%) SQL
6 14 (7.49%) R
7 13 (6.95%) C
8 9 (4.81%) C++
9 7 (3.74%) Bash
10 6 (3.21%) Go
10 6 (3.21%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.14%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.14%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.60%) Rust
12 3 (1.60%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.07%) VB
14 1 (0.53%) Perl
14 1 (0.53%) Ruby
14 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 32 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.37%) Degree
3 23 (12.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 22 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 21 (11.23%) Azure Certification
5 21 (11.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (10.70%) DV Cleared
7 10 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (4.81%) ISTQB
9 7 (3.74%) SC Cleared
10 5 (2.67%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.53%) OCA
12 1 (0.53%) OCP
12 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.63%) QA
2 10 (5.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (20.32%) Docker
2 5 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.81%) Kibana
2 9 (4.81%) Terraform
3 7 (3.74%) Ansible
4 6 (3.21%) Grafana
5 5 (2.67%) logstash
6 3 (1.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.07%) Podman
7 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.07%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.53%) Argo
8 1 (0.53%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.53%) Puppet
8 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.95%) Oracle
3 8 (4.28%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.67%) Adobe
5 4 (2.14%) SAP
5 4 (2.14%) Splunk
6 3 (1.60%) Google
6 3 (1.60%) IFS
6 3 (1.60%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.07%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.07%) VMware
8 1 (0.53%) BMC
8 1 (0.53%) Remedy
8 1 (0.53%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.53%) Siemens