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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 16 16
Rank change year-on-year -37 0 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 148 296 543
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.44% 13.05% 9.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.51% 34.18% 29.01%
Number of salaries quoted 108 157 418
10th Percentile £34,625 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,938 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year - +14.54% -1.30%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 1,020 866 1,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.80% 38.17% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 817 548 1,483
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,925 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +15.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.04%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 5 £51,000 - 5
Bolton +14 1 £31,500 -33.68% 1
Oldham +3 1 £69,973 -
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 8 (5.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 7 (4.73%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.38%) Apache
4 3 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.03%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.35%) CICS
5 2 (1.35%) JBoss
5 2 (1.35%) nginx
5 2 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.35%) WordPress
6 1 (0.68%) CMS
6 1 (0.68%) Confluence
6 1 (0.68%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.70%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 67 (45.27%) AWS
2 55 (37.16%) Azure
3 18 (12.16%) GitHub
4 17 (11.49%) Serverless
5 12 (8.11%) Power Automate
5 12 (8.11%) Power Platform
6 11 (7.43%) GCP
6 11 (7.43%) PowerApps
7 10 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (5.41%) SaaS
9 7 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.73%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.70%) Copilot Studio
13 3 (2.03%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.05%) Internet
2 3 (2.03%) AMQP
3 2 (1.35%) SSL
4 1 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.43%) MongoDB
1 11 (7.43%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.08%) MySQL
4 8 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.73%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.70%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.03%) Big Data
8 3 (2.03%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.03%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.03%) GIS
8 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.03%) Pinecone
8 3 (2.03%) QGIS
9 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.35%) Db2
9 2 (1.35%) Power BI
9 2 (1.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (23.65%) Git
2 17 (11.49%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.08%) GitLab
4 8 (5.41%) JIRA
5 7 (4.73%) JUnit
5 7 (4.73%) Maven
6 6 (4.05%) Spock
7 4 (2.70%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.03%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.03%) IntelliJ
8 3 (2.03%) Storybook
9 2 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.35%) Postman
9 2 (1.35%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.35%) Selenium
9 2 (1.35%) Subversion
9 2 (1.35%) Vite
10 1 (0.68%) gulp
10 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 26 (17.57%) Finance
1 26 (17.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.78%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.73%) Marketing
4 7 (4.73%) Retail
5 6 (4.05%) Law
5 6 (4.05%) Multimedia
6 5 (3.38%) Advertising
6 5 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.38%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.03%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.03%) French Language
7 3 (2.03%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.03%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.03%) Publishing
7 3 (2.03%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.35%) Games
9 1 (0.68%) Back Office
9 1 (0.68%) Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (43.92%) Developer
2 36 (24.32%) Software Engineer
3 27 (18.24%) Lead
4 24 (16.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (14.19%) Senior
6 15 (10.14%) Java Developer
6 15 (10.14%) Senior Developer
7 12 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (6.76%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (5.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (5.41%) Lead Developer
10 7 (4.73%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.05%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) Graduate
11 6 (4.05%) JavaScript Developer
11 6 (4.05%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 6 (4.05%) Trainee
12 5 (3.38%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 5 (3.38%) Junior
12 5 (3.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (35.81%) CSS
1 53 (35.81%) HTML
2 48 (32.43%) Node.js
3 43 (29.05%) React
4 36 (24.32%) AngularJS
5 30 (20.27%) .NET
6 22 (14.86%) REST
7 21 (14.19%) Spring
8 15 (10.14%) CSS3
8 15 (10.14%) Spring Boot
9 14 (9.46%) Vue
10 13 (8.78%) RESTful
11 12 (8.11%) HTML5
12 8 (5.41%) Web Services
13 7 (4.73%) Next.js
14 5 (3.38%) EDI
14 5 (3.38%) Kafka
14 5 (3.38%) LangChain
14 5 (3.38%) MERN Stack
15 4 (2.70%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.08%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.05%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (4.05%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.35%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.68%) BBC
9 1 (0.68%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.68%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.70%) Windows
2 3 (2.03%) Android
2 3 (2.03%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.03%) CentOS
2 3 (2.03%) Debian
2 3 (2.03%) Linux
2 3 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (45.95%) Agile
2 67 (45.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 55 (37.16%) CI/CD
4 49 (33.11%) Software Engineering
5 40 (27.03%) Microservices
6 36 (24.32%) DevOps
7 34 (22.97%) Scrum
8 33 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (20.95%) AI
9 31 (20.95%) Mentoring
10 29 (19.59%) Test Automation
11 28 (18.92%) TDD
12 22 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (14.86%) Kanban
13 17 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (8.78%) Collaborative Working
14 13 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
14 13 (8.78%) User Experience
15 12 (8.11%) Clean Code
15 12 (8.11%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 58 (39.19%) Java
2 50 (33.78%) Python
2 50 (33.78%) TypeScript
3 33 (22.30%) SQL
4 21 (14.19%) C#
5 7 (4.73%) PHP
6 4 (2.70%) C
6 4 (2.70%) Groovy
7 3 (2.03%) Apex Code
7 3 (2.03%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.03%) R
8 1 (0.68%) Go
8 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.68%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (10.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.76%) Degree
3 8 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.05%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (4.05%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.03%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) MBA
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.43%) QA
2 6 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.70%) SLA
4 3 (2.03%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) HL7
5 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (12.84%) Docker
2 4 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (12.84%) Terraform
2 13 (8.78%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.73%) Ansible
4 3 (2.03%) Puppet
5 2 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.35%) Nagios
5 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.08%) Adobe
3 8 (5.41%) Splunk
4 7 (4.73%) Google
5 6 (4.05%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.38%) Pega
6 5 (3.38%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.70%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.03%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.03%) Oracle
8 3 (2.03%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.35%) Adyen
9 2 (1.35%) New Relic
9 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.35%) WSO2
10 1 (0.68%) Apple
10 1 (0.68%) Facebook
10 1 (0.68%) Sony
10 1 (0.68%) Yahoo!