JavaScript Job Trends in Manchester

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring JavaScript skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 25 20
Rank change year-on-year -41 -5 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 171 201 293
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.24% 8.51% 7.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.03% 26.91% 24.25%
Number of salaries quoted 126 70 159
10th Percentile £39,875 £29,825 £36,850
25th Percentile £45,313 £47,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £60,000 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +14.28% -12.50%
75th Percentile £78,438 £74,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £79,000 £84,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,138 747 1,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 14.88% 31.63% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 828 457 645
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £69,800
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,200 £80,000
North West median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% +4.55% -

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

JavaScript job vacancy trend in Manchester

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JavaScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JavaScript

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Manchester over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Manchester

JavaScript
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 22 £44,000 - 2
Oldham -2 4 £54,250 - 1
Stockport -8 2 £70,000 - 1
Bolton -3 1 £55,000 +15.79% 3
Altrincham -3 1 £47,500 -5.00% 4
JavaScript
North West

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 29 (16.96%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.58%) CMS
5 1 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.58%) JBoss
5 1 (0.58%) Kentico
5 1 (0.58%) nginx
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.58%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.34%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.75%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (35.67%) AWS
2 57 (33.33%) Azure
3 38 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 37 (21.64%) Power Automate
5 32 (18.71%) PowerApps
6 29 (16.96%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (14.62%) Microsoft Copilot
8 17 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (8.77%) Copilot Studio
10 14 (8.19%) GCP
10 14 (8.19%) GitHub
10 14 (8.19%) OneDrive
11 13 (7.60%) SaaS
12 9 (5.26%) Serverless
13 8 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (4.68%) npm
14 6 (3.51%) OpenShift
15 5 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (2.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) AMQP
1 2 (1.17%) HTTP
1 2 (1.17%) SSL
2 1 (0.58%) DNS
2 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.60%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.68%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.51%) MySQL
3 6 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.51%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.92%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.34%) Neo4j
5 4 (2.34%) Power BI
5 4 (2.34%) Redis
6 3 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.75%) Chroma
6 3 (1.75%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.17%) Big Data
7 2 (1.17%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.17%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.58%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (14.62%) Git
2 20 (11.70%) GitLab
3 17 (9.94%) Maven
4 13 (7.60%) JUnit
4 13 (7.60%) Spock
5 10 (5.85%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.68%) Cypress.io
6 8 (4.68%) Storybook
7 5 (2.92%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.34%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.34%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.75%) Selenium
10 2 (1.17%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.17%) JIRA
10 2 (1.17%) Mocha
10 2 (1.17%) Postman
10 2 (1.17%) Vite
11 1 (0.58%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 33 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.54%) Finance
3 17 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.19%) Marketing
5 9 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.68%) Publishing
7 5 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.92%) Law
7 5 (2.92%) Retail
8 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.34%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.75%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Back Office
10 1 (0.58%) Games
10 1 (0.58%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 86 (50.29%) Developer
2 32 (18.71%) Senior
3 23 (13.45%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 20 (11.70%) Senior Developer
5 19 (11.11%) Lead
6 18 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 15 (8.77%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.26%) Software Developer
9 7 (4.09%) Consultant
9 7 (4.09%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.09%) Junior
9 7 (4.09%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (3.51%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.51%) Lead Developer
10 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Developer
10 6 (3.51%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (2.92%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 5 (2.92%) Technical Leader
11 5 (2.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (33.92%) HTML
2 50 (29.24%) CSS
3 35 (20.47%) AngularJS
4 30 (17.54%) .NET
4 30 (17.54%) Node.js
5 29 (16.96%) React
6 25 (14.62%) REST
7 20 (11.70%) Spring
8 14 (8.19%) HTML5 Canvas
8 14 (8.19%) Vue
9 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Graph
10 10 (5.85%) CSS3
10 10 (5.85%) SPFx
10 10 (5.85%) Terraform
11 9 (5.26%) ASP.NET
12 8 (4.68%) GraphQL
12 8 (4.68%) MDX
13 7 (4.09%) HTML5
13 7 (4.09%) Spring Boot
14 6 (3.51%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (8.19%) Marketing Technology
2 14 (8.19%) Private Cloud
3 13 (7.60%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.43%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.34%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.17%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.17%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.17%) Social Media
7 2 (1.17%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.58%) BBC
8 1 (0.58%) CMDB
8 1 (0.58%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.58%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.58%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.34%) Linux
1 4 (2.34%) VMS
2 3 (1.75%) Windows
3 2 (1.17%) CentOS
3 2 (1.17%) Debian
3 2 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.17%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.58%) Android
4 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (48.54%) Agile
2 69 (40.35%) CI/CD
3 64 (37.43%) AI
4 63 (36.84%) DevOps
5 58 (33.92%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (32.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 53 (30.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (30.99%) Software Engineering
8 45 (26.32%) Microservices
9 42 (24.56%) Test Automation
10 28 (16.37%) Translating Business Requirements
11 26 (15.20%) Mentoring
12 22 (12.87%) Collaborative Working
12 22 (12.87%) TDD
13 21 (12.28%) Data Protection
13 21 (12.28%) Scrum
13 21 (12.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (11.70%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (11.11%) Observability
16 18 (10.53%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 65 (38.01%) TypeScript
2 64 (37.43%) Java
3 49 (28.65%) Python
4 41 (23.98%) SQL
5 39 (22.81%) C#
6 8 (4.68%) Groovy
7 6 (3.51%) PHP
8 5 (2.92%) Go
8 5 (2.92%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.75%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.75%) C
9 3 (1.75%) C++
10 1 (0.58%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.58%) Rust
10 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.87%) Degree
3 15 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.09%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.34%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.34%) MBA
7 3 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.45%) Accessibility
2 20 (11.70%) QA
3 8 (4.68%) WCAG
4 3 (1.75%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (19.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (12.28%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.92%) Ansible
3 2 (1.17%) Puppet
3 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.58%) Argo
4 1 (0.58%) Nagios
Vendors
1 46 (26.90%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.94%) Adobe
3 14 (8.19%) Splunk
4 13 (7.60%) AppDynamics
5 9 (5.26%) Google
6 5 (2.92%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.34%) Sage
7 4 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.34%) SAP
8 3 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.17%) Mistral
9 2 (1.17%) New Relic
9 2 (1.17%) Oracle
9 2 (1.17%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.58%) Apple
10 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.58%) Facebook
10 1 (0.58%) Sony
10 1 (0.58%) Yahoo!