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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 38 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 -14
Contract jobs citing JavaScript 49 60 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 5.49% 4.14% 5.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.50% 13.92% 19.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 36 83
10th Percentile £373 £363 £325
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% +7.89%
75th Percentile £470 £538 £594
90th Percentile £537 £575 £638
North West median daily rate £435 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -8.42% -11.63% +13.16%

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 297 431 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 33.26% 29.72% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 336 430
10th Percentile £375 £350 £349
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £600
90th Percentile £625 £625 £675
North West median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 4
10th Percentile £68.70 £52.50 £38.95
25th Percentile £70.50 £57.50 £39.63
Median hourly rate £79.00 £70.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +60.00% +184.74%
75th Percentile £86.63 £77.75 £53.06
90th Percentile £87.90 £82.80 £60.83
North West median hourly rate £74.50 £48.43 £44.05
% change year-on-year +53.83% +9.96% +31.48%

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 9 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 9 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 - 8
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 1 (2.04%) CMS
1 1 (2.04%) Headless CMS
1 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.98%) AWS
2 8 (16.33%) Azure
3 6 (12.24%) GitHub
4 5 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (10.20%) Serverless
5 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.12%) Power Automate
6 3 (6.12%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.08%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (4.08%) dbt
7 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) DHCP
1 1 (2.04%) DNS
1 1 (2.04%) HTTP
1 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) ObjectStore
2 3 (6.12%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (6.12%) GIS
3 2 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.04%) MySQL
4 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (22.45%) Git
2 6 (12.24%) GitLab
2 6 (12.24%) Jasmine
2 6 (12.24%) Mocha
3 5 (10.20%) Babel
3 5 (10.20%) gulp
3 5 (10.20%) webpack
4 4 (8.16%) Grunt
4 4 (8.16%) Subversion
5 2 (4.08%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.08%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.08%) REST Assured
5 2 (4.08%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.04%) Balsamiq
6 1 (2.04%) JIRA
6 1 (2.04%) Postman
6 1 (2.04%) Selenium
6 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.12%) Finance
2 3 (6.12%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (55.10%) Developer
2 16 (32.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 15 (30.61%) Senior
4 9 (18.37%) Senior Software Engineer
4 9 (18.37%) Software Engineer
5 8 (16.33%) JavaScript Developer
6 6 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Software Developer
7 5 (10.20%) AWS Software Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) React Developer
7 5 (10.20%) Senior Developer
8 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Software Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 2 (4.08%) GIS Developer
10 2 (4.08%) QA Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (57.14%) Node.js
2 24 (48.98%) React
3 16 (32.65%) CSS
3 16 (32.65%) HTML
4 11 (22.45%) .NET
4 11 (22.45%) RESTful
5 10 (20.41%) HTML5
6 8 (16.33%) AngularJS
6 8 (16.33%) REST
7 5 (10.20%) jQuery
7 5 (10.20%) Mustache
7 5 (10.20%) Sass
8 4 (8.16%) Playwright
9 3 (6.12%) Express.js
9 3 (6.12%) Jest
10 2 (4.08%) GeoJSON
10 2 (4.08%) Google Maps API
10 2 (4.08%) Leaflet
10 2 (4.08%) MapLibre
10 2 (4.08%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Unix
3 3 (6.12%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Agile
2 16 (32.65%) Front End Development
2 16 (32.65%) Test Automation
3 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
4 10 (20.41%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (18.37%) User Experience
6 7 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (12.24%) CI/CD
7 6 (12.24%) Code Quality
7 6 (12.24%) Responsive Web Design
7 6 (12.24%) Web Accessibility
8 5 (10.20%) API Development
8 5 (10.20%) B2B
8 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
8 5 (10.20%) Continuous Deployment
8 5 (10.20%) Digital Twin
8 5 (10.20%) Visualisation
8 5 (10.20%) Web Design
9 4 (8.16%) RBAC
9 4 (8.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) TypeScript
2 10 (20.41%) Java
3 7 (14.29%) Python
4 4 (8.16%) C#
4 4 (8.16%) SQL
5 2 (4.08%) Bash
5 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.04%) Perl
6 1 (2.04%) Scala
6 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.04%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 6 (12.24%) QA
2 6 (12.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Google
2 2 (4.08%) Mapbox
2 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow