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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -33 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 135 214 488
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.76% 10.47% 10.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.46% 29.36% 29.26%
Number of salaries quoted 93 185 394
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +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 773 729 1,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.78% 35.67% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 627 562 1,406
10th Percentile £37,200 £38,875 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -0.27%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +17 3 £31,500 -30.00% 2
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 (5.93%) Apache
2 6 (4.44%) WordPress
3 5 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.22%) GeoServer
4 3 (2.22%) nginx
5 2 (1.48%) CICS
5 2 (1.48%) CMS
5 2 (1.48%) JBoss
5 2 (1.48%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.74%) Confluence
6 1 (0.74%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 73 (54.07%) AWS
2 66 (48.89%) Azure
3 21 (15.56%) GitHub
4 17 (12.59%) Serverless
5 15 (11.11%) GCP
6 9 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.44%) SaaS
9 5 (3.70%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.22%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.22%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.48%) Apigee
12 2 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.07%) Internet
2 5 (3.70%) AMQP
3 3 (2.22%) HTTP
4 2 (1.48%) OpenVPN
4 2 (1.48%) SSH
4 2 (1.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.37%) NoSQL
2 13 (9.63%) MySQL
3 9 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.19%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.70%) Big Data
5 5 (3.70%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (3.70%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.96%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.22%) GIS
7 3 (2.22%) QGIS
7 3 (2.22%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.48%) DB2
8 2 (1.48%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 59 (43.70%) Git
2 12 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.67%) JIRA
4 3 (2.22%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.22%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.22%) JUnit
5 2 (1.48%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.48%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.48%) Postman
5 2 (1.48%) Selenium
5 2 (1.48%) Subversion
6 1 (0.74%) GitLab
6 1 (0.74%) gulp
6 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 23 (17.04%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.07%) Multimedia
3 16 (11.85%) Finance
4 13 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.70%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.96%) Advertising
7 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.22%) French Language
7 3 (2.22%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.22%) Law
7 3 (2.22%) Marketing
7 3 (2.22%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.22%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.48%) Electronics
8 2 (1.48%) Games
8 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (45.19%) Developer
2 37 (27.41%) Software Engineer
3 23 (17.04%) Senior
4 22 (16.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 20 (14.81%) Lead
6 19 (14.07%) Trainee
7 18 (13.33%) Senior Developer
8 13 (9.63%) Lead Software Engineer
9 12 (8.89%) Software Developer
10 11 (8.15%) Java Developer
11 10 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 9 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 8 (5.93%) Trainee Developer
13 8 (5.93%) Trainee Software Developer
14 6 (4.44%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 6 (4.44%) PHP Developer
14 6 (4.44%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 5 (3.70%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
15 5 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (48.89%) CSS
1 66 (48.89%) HTML
2 49 (36.30%) React
3 45 (33.33%) Node.js
4 30 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 27 (20.00%) .NET
6 21 (15.56%) REST
7 17 (12.59%) Spring
7 17 (12.59%) Spring Boot
8 16 (11.85%) RESTful
9 12 (8.89%) CSS3
10 11 (8.15%) HTML5
11 9 (6.67%) Vue
12 8 (5.93%) gRPC
12 8 (5.93%) Web Services
13 6 (4.44%) Kafka
13 6 (4.44%) Laravel
13 6 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (3.70%) Material-UI
14 5 (3.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (5.93%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.48%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.48%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.48%) NHS
7 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.93%) Linux
2 5 (3.70%) CentOS
2 5 (3.70%) Debian
2 5 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (3.70%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.22%) Android
3 3 (2.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (46.67%) Agile
2 47 (34.81%) Full-Stack Development
3 45 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 43 (31.85%) Mentoring
5 37 (27.41%) CI/CD
6 29 (21.48%) Microservices
6 29 (21.48%) Scrum
7 25 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (14.81%) TDD
10 19 (14.07%) Kanban
11 16 (11.85%) Collaborative Working
12 15 (11.11%) DevOps
12 15 (11.11%) User Experience
13 14 (10.37%) AI
13 14 (10.37%) Clean Code
13 14 (10.37%) Front End Development
14 12 (8.89%) API Development
14 12 (8.89%) Open Source
14 12 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 53 (39.26%) Python
2 42 (31.11%) Java
3 37 (27.41%) TypeScript
4 23 (17.04%) SQL
5 12 (8.89%) C#
6 11 (8.15%) R
7 9 (6.67%) PHP
8 6 (4.44%) C
9 3 (2.22%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (14.07%) AWS Certification
1 19 (14.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 19 (14.07%) Azure Certification
1 19 (14.07%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (10.37%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.70%) Degree
4 5 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.22%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.70%) QA
2 2 (1.48%) HL7
3 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (10.37%) Docker
2 5 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (11.85%) Terraform
2 14 (10.37%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.67%) Ansible
4 5 (3.70%) Puppet
5 3 (2.22%) cPanel
5 3 (2.22%) Plesk
6 2 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.48%) Nagios
6 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.93%) Google
3 7 (5.19%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.70%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.70%) Pega
4 5 (3.70%) SaltStack
5 3 (2.22%) Oracle
6 2 (1.48%) Adyen
6 2 (1.48%) New Relic
6 2 (1.48%) Splunk
6 2 (1.48%) WSO2
7 1 (0.74%) Adobe
7 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow