JavaScript Job Trends in Southampton

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 19 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 38 20 82
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 5.57% 6.08% 8.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.09% 21.74% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 38 19 58
10th Percentile £47,500 £30,400 £39,166
25th Percentile £55,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £77,813 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £68,000 £63,750
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £48,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -8.57% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 172 92 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 25.22% 27.96% 34.28%
Number of salaries quoted 138 80 307
10th Percentile £32,750 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,563 £33,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £74,500 £56,563 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,250 £73,750
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JavaScript relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Southampton

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Southampton over the 6 months to 6 July 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Southampton

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) AWS
2 9 (23.68%) SaaS
3 4 (10.53%) Azure
4 3 (7.89%) Power Automate
4 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.89%) PowerApps
4 3 (7.89%) Snowflake
5 2 (5.26%) GCP
5 2 (5.26%) GitHub
5 2 (5.26%) Serverless
6 1 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) Boomi
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) MQTT
1 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) MySQL
2 3 (7.89%) Power BI
2 3 (7.89%) Redis
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Claude Code
2 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.63%) Gatling
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) JMeter
2 1 (2.63%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.63%) Postman
2 1 (2.63%) Selenium
General
1 2 (5.26%) Finance
1 2 (5.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (76.32%) Developer
2 17 (44.74%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (28.95%) Lead
4 8 (21.05%) Lead Developer
4 8 (21.05%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (21.05%) Lead Software Developer
4 8 (21.05%) Software Developer
4 8 (21.05%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 3 (7.89%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Power Platform Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) Performance Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) QA Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) Senior
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (44.74%) Node.js
2 10 (26.32%) REST
3 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.89%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (7.89%) React
3 3 (7.89%) Vue
4 1 (2.63%) Bun
4 1 (2.63%) CSS
4 1 (2.63%) Express.js
4 1 (2.63%) gRPC
4 1 (2.63%) HTML
4 1 (2.63%) Jest
4 1 (2.63%) JSON
4 1 (2.63%) Kafka
4 1 (2.63%) MERN Stack
4 1 (2.63%) Next.js
4 1 (2.63%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.63%) RESTful
4 1 (2.63%) SOAP
4 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) IoT
2 5 (13.16%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.63%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (26.32%) AI
3 9 (23.68%) Software Engineering
4 8 (21.05%) B2B
5 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.79%) Microservices
6 4 (10.53%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (10.53%) DevSecOps
6 4 (10.53%) Machine Learning
6 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (7.89%) API Integration
7 3 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.89%) DevOps
7 3 (7.89%) Domain Models
7 3 (7.89%) Epics
7 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.89%) SOLID
7 3 (7.89%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) TypeScript
2 9 (23.68%) Python
3 7 (18.42%) SQL
4 4 (10.53%) C++
5 3 (7.89%) Java
6 2 (5.26%) PHP
7 1 (2.63%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) Rust
7 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Podman
3 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) Google
2 1 (2.63%) IFS
2 1 (2.63%) NVIDIA
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle