JavaScript Contracts in Manchester

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring JavaScript skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JavaScript over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 35 30
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 -17
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 59 64 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 6.37% 4.22% 6.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.47% 14.22% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 88
10th Percentile £372 £363 £325
25th Percentile £400 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £470 £538 £588
90th Percentile £518 £575 £638
North West median daily rate £445 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -6.32% -9.52% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

JavaScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 303 450 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.72% 29.66% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 355 442
10th Percentile £375 £343 £339
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £600
90th Percentile £622 £620 £675
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile £68.38 - £39.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £52.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +55.56% +192.87%
75th Percentile £84.69 £81.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.13 £82.90 £59.10
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Manchester

JavaScript
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for JavaScript in Manchester

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Manchester

JavaScript
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for JavaScript in Manchester

JavaScript
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockport - 6 £400 - 29
JavaScript
North West

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (16.95%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) CMS
2 1 (1.69%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) AWS
2 13 (22.03%) Power Platform
3 12 (20.34%) Power Automate
3 12 (20.34%) PowerApps
4 10 (16.95%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (13.56%) Azure
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub
7 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (8.47%) Serverless
8 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.39%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (3.39%) dbt
9 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) DHCP
1 1 (1.69%) DNS
1 1 (1.69%) HTTP
1 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) ObjectStore
2 3 (5.08%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (5.08%) GIS
3 2 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.69%) MySQL
4 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Git
2 7 (11.86%) GitLab
3 6 (10.17%) Jasmine
3 6 (10.17%) Mocha
4 5 (8.47%) Babel
4 5 (8.47%) gulp
4 5 (8.47%) webpack
5 4 (6.78%) Grunt
5 4 (6.78%) Subversion
6 3 (5.08%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.39%) REST Assured
7 2 (3.39%) Selenium
7 2 (3.39%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.69%) Balsamiq
8 1 (1.69%) Postman
8 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (18.64%) Public Sector
2 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Finance
4 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (61.02%) Developer
2 16 (27.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 15 (25.42%) Senior
4 13 (22.03%) Software Developer
5 9 (15.25%) Microsoft 365 Developer
5 9 (15.25%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Software Engineer
6 8 (13.56%) JavaScript Developer
7 6 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) React Developer
8 5 (8.47%) Senior Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (5.08%) Senior Software Developer
11 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 2 (3.39%) GIS Developer
11 2 (3.39%) QA Engineer
11 2 (3.39%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 2 (3.39%) Test Engineer
11 2 (3.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (50.85%) React
2 28 (47.46%) Node.js
3 25 (42.37%) CSS
3 25 (42.37%) HTML
4 11 (18.64%) .NET
4 11 (18.64%) RESTful
5 10 (16.95%) HTML5
6 9 (15.25%) AngularJS
7 8 (13.56%) REST
8 6 (10.17%) SPFx
9 5 (8.47%) jQuery
9 5 (8.47%) Mustache
9 5 (8.47%) Sass
10 4 (6.78%) Playwright
11 3 (5.08%) Express.js
11 3 (5.08%) Jest
12 2 (3.39%) AWS CDK
12 2 (3.39%) Google Maps API
12 2 (3.39%) MapLibre
12 2 (3.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Unix
3 3 (5.08%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.59%) Agile
2 17 (28.81%) Front End Development
2 17 (28.81%) Test Automation
3 13 (22.03%) Software Engineering
3 13 (22.03%) Web Development
4 10 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (15.25%) User Experience
6 8 (13.56%) Task Automation
7 7 (11.86%) CI/CD
7 7 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (10.17%) Code Quality
8 6 (10.17%) Responsive Web Design
8 6 (10.17%) Web Accessibility
9 5 (8.47%) API Development
9 5 (8.47%) B2B
9 5 (8.47%) Containerisation
9 5 (8.47%) Continuous Deployment
9 5 (8.47%) Digital Twin
9 5 (8.47%) Visualisation
9 5 (8.47%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.68%) TypeScript
2 11 (18.64%) PowerShell
3 10 (16.95%) Java
4 7 (11.86%) Python
5 4 (6.78%) C#
5 4 (6.78%) SQL
6 2 (3.39%) Bash
7 1 (1.69%) Perl
7 1 (1.69%) Scala
7 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.69%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.17%) QA
2 6 (10.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.39%) Google
2 2 (3.39%) Mapbox
2 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow