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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 29 20
Rank change year-on-year -25 -9 +6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 226 213 716
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.72% 6.40% 7.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.48% 25.45% 26.70%
Number of salaries quoted 194 151 591
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +10.35% -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 1,371 837 2,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.48% 25.15% 28.32%
Number of salaries quoted 970 561 2,091
10th Percentile £33,675 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -9 74 £60,000 - 21
Devon +9 51 £50,000 -4.76% 11
Gloucestershire -45 42 £50,000 -11.11% 11
Somerset -36 32 £31,500 -40.00% 12
Dorset -12 16 £37,500 - 3
Cornwall - 4 £32,000 -
Wiltshire -37 3 £57,500 -4.17% 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 11 (4.87%) Apache
2 6 (2.65%) Confluence
3 4 (1.77%) CMS
3 4 (1.77%) WordPress
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.88%) InDesign
2 2 (0.88%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.44%) Elementor
3 1 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (34.96%) Azure
2 67 (29.65%) AWS
3 25 (11.06%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (9.73%) Power Platform
5 21 (9.29%) GCP
6 18 (7.96%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.64%) SaaS
8 11 (4.87%) OpenShift
9 10 (4.42%) GitHub
9 10 (4.42%) Serverless
10 7 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.21%) Azure AI
11 5 (2.21%) Figma
11 5 (2.21%) Google Play
11 5 (2.21%) npm
12 4 (1.77%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.33%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.54%) VPN
1 8 (3.54%) WAN
2 4 (1.77%) Internet
3 3 (1.33%) Broadband
4 2 (0.88%) AMQP
4 2 (0.88%) Network Security
4 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.44%) DNS
5 1 (0.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.18%) MongoDB
2 19 (8.41%) SQL Server
3 18 (7.96%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (7.52%) MySQL
5 12 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.98%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.65%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.21%) Big Data
8 5 (2.21%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (2.21%) Power BI
9 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.33%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.88%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (0.88%) GIS
10 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.88%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (26.11%) Git
2 19 (8.41%) Subversion
3 17 (7.52%) Eclipse
3 17 (7.52%) GitLab
4 15 (6.64%) Cypress.io
5 14 (6.19%) Jenkins
6 12 (5.31%) JIRA
7 11 (4.87%) JUnit
8 8 (3.54%) Cucumber
9 7 (3.10%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.65%) Robot Framework
10 6 (2.65%) Selenium
10 6 (2.65%) TestRail
11 5 (2.21%) MSI
12 3 (1.33%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.88%) Postman
14 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
14 1 (0.44%) git-flow
14 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 36 (15.93%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.31%) Finance
4 10 (4.42%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.54%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.65%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.65%) Automotive
6 6 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.65%) Retail
7 5 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.77%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.33%) Marketing
9 3 (1.33%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.88%) Local Government
10 2 (0.88%) Military
10 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (53.10%) Developer
2 47 (20.80%) Software Engineer
3 37 (16.37%) Senior
4 30 (13.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (11.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 20 (8.85%) Java Developer
6 20 (8.85%) JavaScript Developer
7 18 (7.96%) Junior
7 18 (7.96%) Junior Developer
7 18 (7.96%) Senior Developer
8 17 (7.52%) Architect
8 17 (7.52%) Junior Java Developer
8 17 (7.52%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (7.08%) .NET Developer
10 15 (6.64%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 15 (6.64%) Software Developer
11 14 (6.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 14 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (5.75%) Analyst
13 11 (4.87%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (36.73%) React
2 53 (23.45%) CSS
2 53 (23.45%) HTML
3 44 (19.47%) RESTful
4 40 (17.70%) .NET
5 32 (14.16%) Node.js
6 27 (11.95%) Vue
7 26 (11.50%) AngularJS
8 24 (10.62%) ASP.NET
8 24 (10.62%) REST
9 21 (9.29%) .NET Core
10 19 (8.41%) Web Services
11 17 (7.52%) J2EE
11 17 (7.52%) Struts
12 16 (7.08%) ASP.NET Core
12 16 (7.08%) Blazor
13 15 (6.64%) .NET Framework
14 14 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (6.19%) Playwright
14 14 (6.19%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.52%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (4.87%) Mobile App
4 9 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.98%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.54%) Client/Server
5 8 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.21%) iPhone
6 5 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.77%) Educational Technology
7 4 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.33%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.88%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.88%) IoT
9 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.06%) Linux
2 21 (9.29%) Windows
3 8 (3.54%) CentOS
4 6 (2.65%) Unix
5 5 (2.21%) Android
6 2 (0.88%) Debian
6 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (45.13%) Full-Stack Development
2 78 (34.51%) Agile
3 72 (31.86%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (28.32%) Software Engineering
5 57 (25.22%) CI/CD
6 46 (20.35%) DevOps
7 34 (15.04%) AI
8 32 (14.16%) Front End Development
9 30 (13.27%) Containerisation
9 30 (13.27%) Microservices
10 27 (11.95%) Test Automation
11 25 (11.06%) Web Development
12 23 (10.18%) Computer Science
12 23 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (9.29%) Scrum
14 20 (8.85%) Collaborative Culture
14 20 (8.85%) LLM
15 18 (7.96%) Machine Learning
16 17 (7.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 102 (45.13%) Python
2 67 (29.65%) C#
3 62 (27.43%) TypeScript
4 61 (26.99%) SQL
5 57 (25.22%) Java
6 35 (15.49%) C++
7 26 (11.50%) PHP
8 17 (7.52%) Perl
9 16 (7.08%) Bash
10 9 (3.98%) Go
10 9 (3.98%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.98%) Rust
11 6 (2.65%) C
12 5 (2.21%) Bicep
13 4 (1.77%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.33%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.33%) R
15 1 (0.44%) Ruby
15 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 33 (14.60%) Degree
3 23 (10.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.19%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.31%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.77%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.33%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.08%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.98%) QA
3 8 (3.54%) WCAG
4 5 (2.21%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.21%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (20.80%) Docker
2 6 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (19.03%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.18%) Terraform
3 16 (7.08%) Ansible
4 14 (6.19%) Grafana
4 14 (6.19%) Kibana
5 13 (5.75%) logstash
6 6 (2.65%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.77%) Podman
8 3 (1.33%) Plesk
9 2 (0.88%) Puppet
10 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (23.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.87%) Google
3 8 (3.54%) Atlassian
3 8 (3.54%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.65%) Splunk
4 6 (2.65%) VMware
5 4 (1.77%) Adobe
6 2 (0.88%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.88%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle