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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -33 -3 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 172 233 315
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.35% 9.70% 7.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.25% 29.80% 25.61%
Number of salaries quoted 131 98 175
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £46,875 £51,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,875 £74,554
North West median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% +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 1,128 782 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.41% 32.57% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 856 478 740
10th Percentile £40,875 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £45,375
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 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £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 10 September 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 September 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 16 £51,000 - 1
Oldham -1 4 £54,250 - 1
Bolton +10 2 £43,250 -
Stockport -8 2 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Altrincham -5 1 £47,500 -13.64%
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 22 (12.79%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.33%) Apache
4 3 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.74%) WordPress
5 2 (1.16%) IIS
5 2 (1.16%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.58%) Confluence
6 1 (0.58%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.58%) JBoss
6 1 (0.58%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.33%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.74%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.58%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 67 (38.95%) AWS
2 62 (36.05%) Azure
3 32 (18.60%) Power Platform
4 31 (18.02%) Power Automate
5 26 (15.12%) PowerApps
6 22 (12.79%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (11.05%) Microsoft Copilot
8 16 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (9.30%) GitHub
9 15 (8.72%) GCP
9 15 (8.72%) SaaS
9 15 (8.72%) Serverless
10 9 (5.23%) Copilot Studio
10 9 (5.23%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (4.65%) npm
11 8 (4.65%) OneDrive
12 7 (4.07%) OpenShift
13 6 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.74%) AMQP
2 2 (1.16%) HTTP
2 2 (1.16%) Internet
2 2 (1.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.58%) DNS
3 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.40%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.23%) MySQL
3 9 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.07%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.33%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.33%) Power BI
7 4 (2.33%) Redis
7 4 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.74%) Big Data
8 3 (1.74%) Chroma
8 3 (1.74%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (1.74%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.74%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.58%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (18.60%) Git
2 20 (11.63%) GitLab
3 17 (9.88%) Maven
4 13 (7.56%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.56%) JUnit
4 13 (7.56%) Spock
5 8 (4.65%) Storybook
6 7 (4.07%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.91%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.91%) JIRA
8 4 (2.33%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.33%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.16%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.16%) Mocha
9 2 (1.16%) Selenium
9 2 (1.16%) Vite
10 1 (0.58%) Postman
10 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.58%) Subversion
10 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 36 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.53%) Finance
3 19 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.40%) Marketing
5 8 (4.65%) Publishing
6 7 (4.07%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.49%) Law
8 5 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.91%) Retail
9 4 (2.33%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.33%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.74%) Advertising
11 2 (1.16%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.58%) Back Office
12 1 (0.58%) Games
12 1 (0.58%) Legal
12 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 86 (50.00%) Developer
2 31 (18.02%) Senior
3 23 (13.37%) Software Engineer
4 22 (12.79%) Lead
5 21 (12.21%) Senior Developer
6 18 (10.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 17 (9.88%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 14 (8.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (5.81%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.65%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.07%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (3.49%) JavaScript Developer
12 6 (3.49%) Junior
12 6 (3.49%) Lead Developer
12 6 (3.49%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (2.91%) .NET Developer
13 5 (2.91%) Lead Software Engineer
13 5 (2.91%) PHP Developer
13 5 (2.91%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.91%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (33.14%) HTML
2 52 (30.23%) CSS
3 41 (23.84%) AngularJS
4 39 (22.67%) Node.js
5 32 (18.60%) .NET
5 32 (18.60%) React
6 26 (15.12%) Spring
7 24 (13.95%) REST
8 16 (9.30%) Vue
9 13 (7.56%) HTML5 Canvas
9 13 (7.56%) Spring Boot
9 13 (7.56%) Terraform
10 12 (6.98%) CSS3
11 10 (5.81%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (5.23%) ASP.NET
12 9 (5.23%) HTML5
12 9 (5.23%) SPFx
13 8 (4.65%) MDX
13 8 (4.65%) RESTful
13 8 (4.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.88%) Distributed Systems
1 17 (9.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (9.30%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.14%) Private Cloud
4 11 (6.40%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.74%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.16%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.16%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.16%) Social Media
8 2 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.58%) BBC
9 1 (0.58%) CMDB
9 1 (0.58%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.58%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.91%) Linux
2 4 (2.33%) VMS
3 3 (1.74%) CentOS
3 3 (1.74%) Debian
3 3 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.74%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.74%) Windows
4 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (48.26%) Agile
2 74 (43.02%) CI/CD
3 68 (39.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (37.21%) DevOps
5 59 (34.30%) AI
6 55 (31.98%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (31.40%) Software Engineering
8 51 (29.65%) Microservices
9 48 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (25.00%) Test Automation
11 30 (17.44%) Mentoring
12 28 (16.28%) Scrum
13 26 (15.12%) TDD
14 22 (12.79%) Kanban
14 22 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (12.21%) Translating Business Requirements
16 19 (11.05%) Clean Code
17 18 (10.47%) Collaborative Working
18 17 (9.88%) Code Quality
18 17 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 67 (38.95%) Java
2 57 (33.14%) TypeScript
3 46 (26.74%) SQL
4 45 (26.16%) Python
5 40 (23.26%) C#
6 8 (4.65%) Groovy
6 8 (4.65%) PHP
7 5 (2.91%) Go
8 4 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.74%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.74%) C
9 3 (1.74%) C++
10 2 (1.16%) R
11 1 (0.58%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.58%) Rust
11 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (14.53%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.88%) Degree
3 16 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.33%) MBA
7 3 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.63%) QA
2 17 (9.88%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.65%) WCAG
4 3 (1.74%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (20.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (13.37%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.65%) Ansible
3 3 (1.74%) Puppet
4 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.58%) Argo
5 1 (0.58%) Nagios
Vendors
1 40 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.88%) Adobe
3 14 (8.14%) Splunk
4 13 (7.56%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.81%) Google
6 5 (2.91%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.33%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.33%) Sage
7 4 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.33%) SAP
8 3 (1.74%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.16%) Mistral
9 2 (1.16%) New Relic
9 2 (1.16%) Oracle
9 2 (1.16%) Pega
9 2 (1.16%) WSO2
10 1 (0.58%) Apple
10 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.58%) Yahoo!