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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 16 16
Rank change year-on-year -38 0 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 149 295 524
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.39% 12.59% 9.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.10% 33.91% 27.80%
Number of salaries quoted 109 156 399
10th Percentile £36,000 £43,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £69,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -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 1,057 870 1,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.96% 37.13% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 845 556 1,466
10th Percentile £40,500 £33,875 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 28 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 28 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 9 £51,000 - 1
Bolton +14 1 £31,500 -33.68% 1
Oldham +4 1 £69,973 - 1
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 11 (7.38%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.68%) Apache
4 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.01%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.34%) CICS
5 2 (1.34%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.34%) WordPress
6 1 (0.67%) CMS
6 1 (0.67%) Confluence
6 1 (0.67%) JBoss
6 1 (0.67%) nginx
6 1 (0.67%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.68%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 65 (43.62%) AWS
2 54 (36.24%) Azure
3 19 (12.75%) Serverless
4 17 (11.41%) Power Automate
4 17 (11.41%) Power Platform
5 16 (10.74%) GitHub
6 15 (10.07%) PowerApps
7 12 (8.05%) GCP
8 11 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (6.71%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (6.04%) SaaS
11 7 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (4.03%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.36%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) AMQP
1 3 (2.01%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) Network Security
2 1 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.38%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.04%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.37%) MySQL
5 7 (4.70%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.70%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.68%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.01%) Big Data
8 3 (2.01%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.01%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.01%) GIS
8 3 (2.01%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.01%) Pinecone
8 3 (2.01%) QGIS
9 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.34%) Db2
9 2 (1.34%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (20.13%) Git
2 17 (11.41%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.04%) GitLab
4 8 (5.37%) Maven
5 7 (4.70%) JIRA
6 6 (4.03%) JUnit
6 6 (4.03%) Spock
7 5 (3.36%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.68%) Storybook
9 3 (2.01%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.01%) Eclipse
9 3 (2.01%) IntelliJ
9 3 (2.01%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.34%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.34%) Postman
10 2 (1.34%) Selenium
10 2 (1.34%) Vite
11 1 (0.67%) gulp
11 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 25 (16.78%) Finance
1 25 (16.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.70%) Marketing
4 7 (4.70%) Retail
5 6 (4.03%) Law
6 5 (3.36%) Advertising
6 5 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.36%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.68%) Publishing
8 3 (2.01%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.01%) French Language
8 3 (2.01%) Italian Language
8 3 (2.01%) Multimedia
8 3 (2.01%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (2.01%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.67%) Games
9 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.67%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 65 (43.62%) Developer
2 36 (24.16%) Software Engineer
3 26 (17.45%) Lead
4 24 (16.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (14.77%) Senior
6 16 (10.74%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.07%) Java Developer
8 11 (7.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 8 (5.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (4.70%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.03%) Graduate
12 6 (4.03%) JavaScript Developer
13 5 (3.36%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 5 (3.36%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 5 (3.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) Principal Software Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (33.56%) HTML
2 49 (32.89%) Node.js
3 48 (32.21%) CSS
4 43 (28.86%) React
5 37 (24.83%) AngularJS
6 31 (20.81%) .NET
7 21 (14.09%) REST
8 20 (13.42%) Spring
9 17 (11.41%) Vue
10 14 (9.40%) CSS3
10 14 (9.40%) Spring Boot
11 13 (8.72%) RESTful
12 11 (7.38%) HTML5
13 7 (4.70%) Next.js
13 7 (4.70%) Web Services
14 6 (4.03%) LangChain
14 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Graph
15 5 (3.36%) GraphQL
15 5 (3.36%) MERN Stack
15 5 (3.36%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.75%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (6.04%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.70%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (4.03%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.34%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.34%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.67%) BBC
10 1 (0.67%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.67%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.67%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.68%) Windows
2 3 (2.01%) Android
2 3 (2.01%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.01%) CentOS
2 3 (2.01%) Debian
2 3 (2.01%) Linux
2 3 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (46.98%) Agile
2 67 (44.97%) Full-Stack Development
3 59 (39.60%) CI/CD
4 51 (34.23%) Software Engineering
5 43 (28.86%) DevOps
5 43 (28.86%) Microservices
6 39 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (23.49%) AI
8 32 (21.48%) Scrum
9 31 (20.81%) Test Automation
10 28 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (18.12%) Mentoring
11 27 (18.12%) TDD
12 21 (14.09%) Kanban
13 18 (12.08%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (10.07%) Collaborative Working
15 12 (8.05%) Architectural Patterns
15 12 (8.05%) Workflow
16 11 (7.38%) API Design
16 11 (7.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 59 (39.60%) Java
2 51 (34.23%) TypeScript
3 46 (30.87%) Python
4 33 (22.15%) SQL
5 24 (16.11%) C#
6 7 (4.70%) PHP
7 4 (2.68%) Groovy
8 3 (2.01%) Apex Code
8 3 (2.01%) C
8 3 (2.01%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.34%) Go
9 2 (1.34%) R
10 1 (0.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (10.07%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.38%) Degree
3 7 (4.70%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.03%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.01%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (2.01%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.01%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.34%) MBA
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.72%) QA
2 9 (6.04%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.68%) SLA
3 4 (2.68%) WCAG
4 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (13.42%) Docker
2 3 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (12.75%) Terraform
2 14 (9.40%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.70%) Ansible
4 3 (2.01%) Puppet
5 1 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.67%) Nagios
5 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.38%) Adobe
3 7 (4.70%) Google
3 7 (4.70%) Splunk
4 6 (4.03%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.36%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.36%) Pega
6 4 (2.68%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.01%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.01%) Oracle
7 3 (2.01%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.34%) Adyen
8 2 (1.34%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.34%) WSO2
9 1 (0.67%) Apple
9 1 (0.67%) Facebook
9 1 (0.67%) New Relic
9 1 (0.67%) Sony
9 1 (0.67%) Yahoo!