JavaScript Contract Job Trends in Manchester

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring JavaScript skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 46 45
Rank change year-on-year -21 -1 -16
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 57 39 41
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.90% 3.87% 3.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.59% 14.61% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 29
10th Percentile £401 £363 £313
25th Percentile £456 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +34.12% -12.82% -2.50%
75th Percentile £738 £488 £538
90th Percentile £750 £537 £575
North West median daily rate £570 £401 £475
% change year-on-year +42.14% -15.58% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 -
% change year-on-year +9.38% - -

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 538 267 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.39% 26.46% 27.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 189 237
10th Percentile £363 £324 £370
25th Percentile £418 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £545 £550
90th Percentile £700 £625 £650
North West median daily rate £500 £433 £459
% change year-on-year +15.61% -5.72% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 6 12
10th Percentile £29.96 £45.16 -
25th Percentile £49.38 £68.13 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £74.50 £69.69
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% +6.91% +9.31%
75th Percentile £76.00 £87.69 £86.63
90th Percentile £88.50 £91.88 £99.75
North West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% +19.10%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Manchester

JavaScript
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JavaScript.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JavaScript in Manchester

JavaScript
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JavaScript.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (3.51%) CMS
1 2 (3.51%) Confluence
1 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (45.61%) AWS
2 10 (17.54%) Serverless
3 9 (15.79%) Azure
4 3 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.26%) GCP
4 3 (5.26%) GitHub
4 3 (5.26%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.51%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.51%) Slack
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Firewall
1 2 (3.51%) VPN
2 1 (1.75%) DNS
2 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.26%) MySQL
2 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Cucumber
2 6 (10.53%) Git
3 5 (8.77%) JIRA
4 4 (7.02%) Selenium
5 3 (5.26%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.51%) GitLab
6 2 (3.51%) Postman
6 2 (3.51%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.75%) Gatling
7 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.75%) JMeter
7 1 (1.75%) JUnit
7 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (35.09%) Public Sector
2 13 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Military
4 3 (5.26%) Finance
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.75%) Law
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Legal Technology
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (36.84%) Developer
2 16 (28.07%) Lead
3 11 (19.30%) Architect
3 11 (19.30%) Software Engineer
3 11 (19.30%) Technical Architect
4 8 (14.04%) Java Developer
4 8 (14.04%) Lead Architect
4 8 (14.04%) Senior
4 8 (14.04%) Technical Leader
5 7 (12.28%) Lead Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Test Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Angular Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (7.02%) JavaScript Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Software Developer
9 3 (5.26%) React Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Backend Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Customer Service Specialist
10 2 (3.51%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (42.11%) Node.js
2 16 (28.07%) React
3 10 (17.54%) HTML
3 10 (17.54%) Spring
4 9 (15.79%) CSS
4 9 (15.79%) Spring Boot
5 8 (14.04%) AngularJS
6 7 (12.28%) RESTful
7 6 (10.53%) AWS CDK
7 6 (10.53%) Nunjucks
7 6 (10.53%) OAuth
8 5 (8.77%) OpenID
8 5 (8.77%) REST
9 2 (3.51%) .NET
9 2 (3.51%) Playwright
9 2 (3.51%) Vue
10 1 (1.75%) Express.js
10 1 (1.75%) Jest
10 1 (1.75%) PySpark
10 1 (1.75%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.75%) CMDB
5 1 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.75%) NHS
5 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.75%) Replication
5 1 (1.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) Software Engineering
2 22 (38.60%) Agile
3 20 (35.09%) CI/CD
4 19 (33.33%) Microservices
5 16 (28.07%) DevOps
6 13 (22.81%) Test Automation
7 12 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (19.30%) Mentoring
8 11 (19.30%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (17.54%) Code Quality
9 10 (17.54%) SDLC
10 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (14.04%) Roadmaps
12 7 (12.28%) Decision-Making
12 7 (12.28%) Test Strategy
13 6 (10.53%) BDD
13 6 (10.53%) Containerisation
14 5 (8.77%) AI
14 5 (8.77%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) Java
2 16 (28.07%) TypeScript
3 12 (21.05%) Python
4 6 (10.53%) SQL
5 4 (7.02%) Rust
6 2 (3.51%) C#
7 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.51%) Degree
6 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.75%) CCA
7 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.77%) QA
3 2 (3.51%) WCAG
4 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Terraform
2 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) vRealize
3 1 (1.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.75%) Adobe
3 1 (1.75%) Apple
3 1 (1.75%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.75%) OpenText
3 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.75%) VMware