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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 22 13
Rank change year-on-year -28 -9 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 123 221 430
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.44% 8.97% 11.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.16% 24.97% 29.29%
Number of salaries quoted 90 143 359
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,813 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,750 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%

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 610 885 1,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 17.08% 35.93% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 520 507 1,238
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -7.19%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,625 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,625 £93,750 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -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 22 February 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 22 February 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
Bolton +15 3 £31,500 -18.71% 1
Bury - 2 - - 2
Stockport -10 1 - -
Altrincham - 1 - - 2
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 7 (5.69%) Apache
2 5 (4.07%) nginx
3 4 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.25%) WordPress
4 3 (2.44%) CMS
5 2 (1.63%) JBoss
6 1 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.81%) Confluence
6 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.81%) Magento
2 1 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (57.72%) AWS
2 62 (50.41%) Azure
3 25 (20.33%) GitHub
4 14 (11.38%) Serverless
5 11 (8.94%) GCP
6 8 (6.50%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (6.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.25%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.44%) SaaS
10 2 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.63%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.63%) Datadog
10 2 (1.63%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.63%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.81%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 23 (18.70%) Internet
2 5 (4.07%) HTTP
3 4 (3.25%) AMQP
3 4 (3.25%) SSH
4 2 (1.63%) OpenVPN
4 2 (1.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.57%) MySQL
1 13 (10.57%) NoSQL
2 7 (5.69%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.88%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.07%) Big Data
4 5 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.07%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.25%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (3.25%) Neo4j
5 4 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.44%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 58 (47.15%) Git
2 7 (5.69%) JIRA
3 6 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.07%) JUnit
5 2 (1.63%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.63%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.63%) GitLab
5 2 (1.63%) Selenium
5 2 (1.63%) Subversion
6 1 (0.81%) Maven
6 1 (0.81%) Postman
6 1 (0.81%) Protractor
General
1 25 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.70%) Multimedia
3 16 (13.01%) Finance
4 8 (6.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.07%) Marketing
6 4 (3.25%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Electronics
7 3 (2.44%) French Language
7 3 (2.44%) Games
7 3 (2.44%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.44%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.44%) Retail
7 3 (2.44%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.63%) Law
8 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Automotive
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 62 (50.41%) Developer
2 23 (18.70%) Trainee
3 21 (17.07%) Software Engineer
4 20 (16.26%) Software Developer
5 19 (15.45%) Senior
6 16 (13.01%) Senior Developer
7 14 (11.38%) Lead
8 12 (9.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 11 (8.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (8.94%) Trainee Developer
9 11 (8.94%) Trainee Software Developer
10 10 (8.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (5.69%) PHP Developer
11 7 (5.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 6 (4.88%) Java Developer
13 5 (4.07%) Cloud Developer
13 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 5 (4.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 4 (3.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (59.35%) CSS
1 73 (59.35%) HTML
2 50 (40.65%) React
3 31 (25.20%) Node.js
4 28 (22.76%) AngularJS
5 22 (17.89%) REST
6 21 (17.07%) .NET
7 15 (12.20%) RESTful
8 14 (11.38%) Spring
8 14 (11.38%) Spring Boot
9 10 (8.13%) CSS3
9 10 (8.13%) HTML5
10 8 (6.50%) gRPC
10 8 (6.50%) Vue
11 7 (5.69%) Laravel
12 6 (4.88%) ASP.NET
12 6 (4.88%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (4.88%) Web Services
13 5 (4.07%) NestJS
13 5 (4.07%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.44%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.63%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.63%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.63%) NHS
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.81%) Life Science
6 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.94%) Linux
2 4 (3.25%) CentOS
2 4 (3.25%) Debian
2 4 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.25%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.44%) Android
3 3 (2.44%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.63%) Windows
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (48.78%) Agile
2 44 (35.77%) Mentoring
3 36 (29.27%) CI/CD
4 31 (25.20%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (24.39%) Software Engineering
6 29 (23.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (19.51%) Microservices
8 22 (17.89%) User Experience
9 19 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (15.45%) Scrum
10 17 (13.82%) Containerisation
10 17 (13.82%) DevOps
11 15 (12.20%) AI
11 15 (12.20%) Front End Development
11 15 (12.20%) TDD
12 13 (10.57%) Kanban
13 12 (9.76%) API Development
13 12 (9.76%) Collaborative Working
13 12 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (9.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (40.65%) Python
2 41 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 29 (23.58%) Java
4 16 (13.01%) SQL
5 15 (12.20%) C#
6 12 (9.76%) R
7 11 (8.94%) PHP
8 6 (4.88%) C
9 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.81%) Scala
10 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (18.70%) AWS Certification
1 23 (18.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 23 (18.70%) Azure Certification
1 23 (18.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (13.01%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.69%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.44%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.44%) Degree
6 1 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.44%) HL7
2 3 (2.44%) QA
3 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (12.20%) Docker
2 5 (4.07%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.81%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.94%) Terraform
3 9 (7.32%) Ansible
4 4 (3.25%) Puppet
5 3 (2.44%) cPanel
5 3 (2.44%) Plesk
6 2 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.63%) Nagios
6 2 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.88%) Atlassian
2 6 (4.88%) Red Hat
3 5 (4.07%) Google
4 4 (3.25%) SaltStack
5 3 (2.44%) Oracle
6 2 (1.63%) Adobe
6 2 (1.63%) New Relic
6 2 (1.63%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.63%) Splunk
7 1 (0.81%) Adyen
7 1 (0.81%) iManage
7 1 (0.81%) Pega
7 1 (0.81%) SAP
7 1 (0.81%) WSO2