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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -48 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 140 291 514
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.37% 13.48% 9.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.51% 35.23% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 103 153 406
10th Percentile £31,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +14.04% -0.87%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £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 965 826 1,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.32% 38.28% 33.15%
Number of salaries quoted 778 514 1,418
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -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% -

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +18 2 £31,500 -33.68%
Oldham -2 1 £69,973 -
Ashton-under-Lyne -3 1 £51,000 - 3
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 (5.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (4.29%) Apache
3 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.14%) GeoServer
3 3 (2.14%) nginx
3 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.14%) WordPress
4 2 (1.43%) CICS
4 2 (1.43%) Confluence
4 2 (1.43%) JBoss
4 2 (1.43%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.86%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.43%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 65 (46.43%) AWS
2 54 (38.57%) Azure
3 20 (14.29%) GitHub
4 16 (11.43%) Serverless
5 10 (7.14%) GCP
6 9 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.71%) Power Automate
7 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (5.00%) SaaS
9 6 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (4.29%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.14%) Datadog
11 3 (2.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.14%) Internet
2 3 (2.14%) AMQP
3 2 (1.43%) HTTP
3 2 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 9 (6.43%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.43%) MySQL
2 9 (6.43%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.14%) Big Data
5 3 (2.14%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (2.14%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.14%) GIS
5 3 (2.14%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.14%) QGIS
6 2 (1.43%) DB2
6 2 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.43%) Hazelcast
6 2 (1.43%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.43%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (28.57%) Git
2 14 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.14%) JIRA
4 7 (5.00%) Maven
5 6 (4.29%) JUnit
6 5 (3.57%) GitLab
7 4 (2.86%) Spock
8 3 (2.14%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.14%) IntelliJ
8 3 (2.14%) Storybook
9 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.43%) Postman
9 2 (1.43%) Selenium
9 2 (1.43%) Subversion
10 1 (0.71%) gulp
10 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.86%) Finance
3 15 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.14%) Multimedia
6 7 (5.00%) Retail
7 6 (4.29%) Law
7 6 (4.29%) Marketing
8 5 (3.57%) Advertising
8 5 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.86%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.14%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.14%) French Language
10 3 (2.14%) Italian Language
10 3 (2.14%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (2.14%) Publishing
10 3 (2.14%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.43%) Games
12 1 (0.71%) Back Office
12 1 (0.71%) Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (42.14%) Developer
2 35 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 26 (18.57%) Lead
4 23 (16.43%) Full-Stack Developer
5 20 (14.29%) Senior
6 16 (11.43%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.71%) Java Developer
8 11 (7.86%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Trainee
10 8 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (5.71%) Software Developer
11 7 (5.00%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.29%) Graduate
12 6 (4.29%) JavaScript Developer
13 5 (3.57%) Analyst
13 5 (3.57%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 5 (3.57%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 5 (3.57%) Junior
13 5 (3.57%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (42.86%) CSS
2 58 (41.43%) HTML
3 47 (33.57%) Node.js
4 38 (27.14%) React
5 34 (24.29%) AngularJS
6 28 (20.00%) .NET
7 19 (13.57%) Spring
8 18 (12.86%) REST
9 15 (10.71%) CSS3
9 15 (10.71%) RESTful
9 15 (10.71%) Spring Boot
10 12 (8.57%) HTML5
10 12 (8.57%) Vue
11 8 (5.71%) Web Services
12 5 (3.57%) EDI
12 5 (3.57%) gRPC
12 5 (3.57%) Kafka
12 5 (3.57%) Next.js
13 4 (2.86%) GraphQL
13 4 (2.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (2.86%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.43%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.71%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.71%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.86%) Linux
1 4 (2.86%) Windows
2 3 (2.14%) Android
2 3 (2.14%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.14%) CentOS
2 3 (2.14%) Debian
2 3 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (45.71%) Agile
2 63 (45.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 50 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 44 (31.43%) Software Engineering
5 35 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 35 (25.00%) Microservices
6 34 (24.29%) Scrum
7 28 (20.00%) DevOps
7 28 (20.00%) TDD
8 26 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (17.86%) Test Automation
10 22 (15.71%) Kanban
11 21 (15.00%) AI
12 16 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (10.71%) User Experience
14 12 (8.57%) Clean Code
15 11 (7.86%) Collaborative Working
15 11 (7.86%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 54 (38.57%) Java
2 48 (34.29%) Python
3 42 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 28 (20.00%) SQL
5 16 (11.43%) C#
6 8 (5.71%) PHP
7 7 (5.00%) R
8 4 (2.86%) C
8 4 (2.86%) Groovy
9 3 (2.14%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.71%) Go
10 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.71%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (7.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 10 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 10 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (5.71%) Degree
3 8 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) QA
2 5 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.86%) SLA
4 3 (2.14%) WCAG
5 1 (0.71%) HL7
5 1 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (10.71%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (12.14%) Terraform
2 8 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.29%) Ansible
4 3 (2.14%) Puppet
5 2 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.43%) Nagios
5 2 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.43%) Adobe
3 6 (4.29%) Google
3 6 (4.29%) Splunk
4 5 (3.57%) Pega
4 5 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.86%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.86%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.86%) Oracle
5 4 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.14%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.43%) Adyen
7 2 (1.43%) New Relic
7 2 (1.43%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.43%) WSO2
8 1 (0.71%) OpenAI