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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -35 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 171 261 333
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.40% 10.61% 7.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.39% 31.29% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 130 125 202
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +16.28% -6.52%
75th Percentile £78,438 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,500 £73,625
North West median annual salary £53,500 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.55% +11.43% -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 1,111 834 1,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.60% 33.92% 30.07%
Number of salaries quoted 850 527 849
10th Percentile £41,175 £32,750 £39,925
25th Percentile £49,000 £45,750 £45,000
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 £76,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £89,250 £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 2 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 2 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 15 £51,000 - 1
Oldham 0 4 £54,250 - 2
Bolton +16 2 £43,250 -8.95%
Stockport -7 2 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Altrincham -3 1 £47,500 -13.64% 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 21 (12.28%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.75%) Apache
3 3 (1.75%) WordPress
4 2 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.17%) CICS
4 2 (1.17%) IIS
4 2 (1.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.58%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.58%) JBoss
5 1 (0.58%) nginx
5 1 (0.58%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.75%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.75%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.58%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 69 (40.35%) AWS
2 64 (37.43%) Azure
3 31 (18.13%) Power Platform
4 30 (17.54%) Power Automate
5 25 (14.62%) PowerApps
6 21 (12.28%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (10.53%) Microsoft Copilot
9 17 (9.94%) GCP
10 16 (9.36%) GitHub
11 15 (8.77%) SaaS
12 14 (8.19%) Serverless
13 9 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (4.68%) Copilot Studio
14 8 (4.68%) npm
15 7 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (4.09%) OneDrive
16 6 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (3.51%) OpenShift
17 5 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) AMQP
1 2 (1.17%) HTTP
1 2 (1.17%) Internet
1 2 (1.17%) SSL
2 1 (0.58%) DNS
2 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.43%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.85%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.26%) MySQL
4 9 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.09%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.34%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.34%) Power BI
7 4 (2.34%) Redis
7 4 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.75%) Chroma
8 3 (1.75%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.17%) Big Data
9 2 (1.17%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.17%) Db2
9 2 (1.17%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.17%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (20.47%) Git
2 20 (11.70%) GitLab
3 17 (9.94%) Maven
4 16 (9.36%) Jenkins
5 13 (7.60%) JUnit
5 13 (7.60%) Spock
6 8 (4.68%) Storybook
7 7 (4.09%) IntelliJ
8 6 (3.51%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.92%) JIRA
10 4 (2.34%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.34%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.75%) Eclipse
12 2 (1.17%) Claude Code
12 2 (1.17%) Mocha
12 2 (1.17%) Vite
13 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 35 (20.47%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.62%) Finance
3 19 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.43%) Marketing
5 8 (4.68%) Publishing
6 7 (4.09%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.51%) Law
8 5 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.92%) Retail
9 4 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.34%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.75%) Advertising
10 3 (1.75%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.17%) 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 88 (51.46%) Developer
2 30 (17.54%) Senior
3 23 (13.45%) Lead
4 22 (12.87%) Software Engineer
5 21 (12.28%) Senior Developer
6 18 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 17 (9.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (9.36%) Microsoft 365 Developer
9 13 (7.60%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.68%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.09%) Lead Developer
11 7 (4.09%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 6 (3.51%) JavaScript Developer
12 6 (3.51%) Junior
12 6 (3.51%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (3.51%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.92%) .NET Developer
13 5 (2.92%) Lead Software Engineer
13 5 (2.92%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (34.50%) HTML
2 55 (32.16%) CSS
3 43 (25.15%) AngularJS
4 39 (22.81%) Node.js
5 34 (19.88%) React
6 32 (18.71%) .NET
7 25 (14.62%) REST
7 25 (14.62%) Spring
8 16 (9.36%) Vue
9 15 (8.77%) CSS3
10 13 (7.60%) HTML5 Canvas
11 12 (7.02%) HTML5
11 12 (7.02%) Spring Boot
11 12 (7.02%) Terraform
12 11 (6.43%) RESTful
13 10 (5.85%) Microsoft Graph
14 9 (5.26%) ASP.NET
14 9 (5.26%) SPFx
15 8 (4.68%) GraphQL
15 8 (4.68%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (8.77%) Cloud Native
4 14 (8.19%) Private Cloud
5 11 (6.43%) Marketing Technology
6 8 (4.68%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.17%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.17%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.17%) Online Gambling
9 2 (1.17%) Social Media
9 2 (1.17%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.58%) BBC
10 1 (0.58%) CMDB
10 1 (0.58%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
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%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (48.54%) Agile
2 76 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 72 (42.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 67 (39.18%) DevOps
5 59 (34.50%) AI
6 53 (30.99%) Software Engineering
7 52 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (29.24%) Microservices
9 46 (26.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (24.56%) Test Automation
11 30 (17.54%) Scrum
12 29 (16.96%) Mentoring
13 26 (15.20%) TDD
14 22 (12.87%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (12.28%) Kanban
15 21 (12.28%) Translating Business Requirements
16 18 (10.53%) Clean Code
17 17 (9.94%) Code Quality
18 16 (9.36%) Architectural Patterns
18 16 (9.36%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 68 (39.77%) Java
2 58 (33.92%) TypeScript
3 47 (27.49%) SQL
4 44 (25.73%) Python
5 39 (22.81%) C#
6 8 (4.68%) Groovy
6 8 (4.68%) PHP
7 5 (2.92%) Go
8 4 (2.34%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.75%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.75%) C
9 3 (1.75%) C++
9 3 (1.75%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.17%) R
11 1 (0.58%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.58%) Rust
11 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.94%) Degree
3 14 (8.19%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.34%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.34%) MBA
7 3 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.17%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.11%) QA
2 15 (8.77%) Accessibility
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 35 (20.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (12.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.09%) 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 39 (22.81%) 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
6 5 (2.92%) Pega
7 4 (2.34%) Oracle
7 4 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.75%) Sage
8 3 (1.75%) SAP
8 3 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.17%) Mistral
9 2 (1.17%) New Relic
9 2 (1.17%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.17%) WSO2
10 1 (0.58%) Adyen
10 1 (0.58%) Facebook
10 1 (0.58%) YouTube