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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 22 12
Rank change year-on-year -24 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 119 225 385
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.72% 8.74% 11.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.48% 24.86% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 88 131 336
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £29,375 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,000 £87,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%

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 581 905 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 18.17% 35.15% 40.65%
Number of salaries quoted 492 479 1,166
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +15 3 £31,500 -18.71% 2
Bury - 2 - - 1
Stockport -8 1 - -
Altrincham - 1 - - 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 7 (5.88%) Apache
2 5 (4.20%) nginx
3 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.36%) WordPress
4 3 (2.52%) CMS
5 2 (1.68%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.68%) JBoss
6 1 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.84%) Confluence
6 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.84%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.84%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (58.82%) AWS
2 62 (52.10%) Azure
3 25 (21.01%) GitHub
4 14 (11.76%) Serverless
5 11 (9.24%) GCP
6 8 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.36%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.52%) SaaS
11 2 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.68%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.68%) Datadog
11 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.84%) npm
12 1 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (19.33%) Internet
2 5 (4.20%) HTTP
3 4 (3.36%) AMQP
3 4 (3.36%) SSH
4 2 (1.68%) OpenVPN
4 2 (1.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.92%) MySQL
2 12 (10.08%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.20%) Big Data
5 5 (4.20%) Hadoop
5 5 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.36%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (3.36%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.52%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (48.74%) Git
2 6 (5.04%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.04%) JIRA
3 5 (4.20%) JUnit
4 2 (1.68%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.68%) GitLab
4 2 (1.68%) Selenium
4 2 (1.68%) Subversion
5 1 (0.84%) Maven
5 1 (0.84%) Postman
5 1 (0.84%) Protractor
General
1 27 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.33%) Multimedia
3 14 (11.76%) Finance
4 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.20%) Marketing
6 4 (3.36%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.52%) Electronics
7 3 (2.52%) French Language
7 3 (2.52%) Games
7 3 (2.52%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.52%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.52%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.84%) Automotive
9 1 (0.84%) Law
9 1 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (52.94%) Developer
2 23 (19.33%) Trainee
3 20 (16.81%) Software Developer
4 19 (15.97%) Senior
5 17 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 16 (13.45%) Senior Developer
7 13 (10.92%) Lead
8 12 (10.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 11 (9.24%) Trainee Developer
9 11 (9.24%) Trainee Software Developer
10 10 (8.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (7.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (5.88%) PHP Developer
12 7 (5.88%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 6 (5.04%) Lead Software Engineer
14 5 (4.20%) Cloud Developer
14 5 (4.20%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 5 (4.20%) Java Developer
15 4 (3.36%) .NET Developer
15 4 (3.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (62.18%) CSS
1 74 (62.18%) HTML
2 47 (39.50%) React
3 30 (25.21%) Node.js
4 28 (23.53%) AngularJS
5 21 (17.65%) .NET
5 21 (17.65%) REST
6 14 (11.76%) RESTful
7 13 (10.92%) Spring
7 13 (10.92%) Spring Boot
8 10 (8.40%) CSS3
8 10 (8.40%) HTML5
9 8 (6.72%) gRPC
9 8 (6.72%) Vue
10 7 (5.88%) Laravel
11 6 (5.04%) ASP.NET
11 6 (5.04%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (4.20%) jQuery
12 5 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (4.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.72%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.52%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.52%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.68%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.84%) Life Science
7 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.84%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.08%) Linux
2 4 (3.36%) CentOS
2 4 (3.36%) Debian
2 4 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.36%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.52%) Android
3 3 (2.52%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.68%) Windows
4 2 (1.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (47.90%) Agile
2 44 (36.97%) Mentoring
3 36 (30.25%) CI/CD
4 30 (25.21%) Cybersecurity
5 29 (24.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (24.37%) Software Engineering
6 22 (18.49%) Microservices
6 22 (18.49%) User Experience
7 19 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (15.13%) Containerisation
9 17 (14.29%) DevOps
9 17 (14.29%) Scrum
10 16 (13.45%) AI
11 15 (12.61%) Front End Development
12 14 (11.76%) TDD
13 13 (10.92%) Test Automation
14 12 (10.08%) API Development
14 12 (10.08%) Collaborative Working
14 12 (10.08%) Kanban
15 11 (9.24%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 50 (42.02%) Python
2 38 (31.93%) TypeScript
3 28 (23.53%) Java
4 15 (12.61%) C#
5 14 (11.76%) SQL
6 12 (10.08%) PHP
6 12 (10.08%) R
7 6 (5.04%) C
8 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.84%) Scala
9 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (19.33%) AWS Certification
1 23 (19.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 23 (19.33%) Azure Certification
1 23 (19.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (13.45%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.56%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.36%) Degree
6 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.52%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.84%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.52%) HL7
2 3 (2.52%) QA
System Software
1 16 (13.45%) Docker
2 5 (4.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (10.08%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.40%) Ansible
2 10 (8.40%) Terraform
3 4 (3.36%) Puppet
4 3 (2.52%) cPanel
4 3 (2.52%) Plesk
5 2 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.68%) Nagios
5 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (25.21%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.04%) Atlassian
2 6 (5.04%) Red Hat
3 5 (4.20%) Google
4 4 (3.36%) SaltStack
5 3 (2.52%) Oracle
6 2 (1.68%) Adobe
6 2 (1.68%) New Relic
6 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.68%) Splunk
7 1 (0.84%) iManage
7 1 (0.84%) Pega
7 1 (0.84%) SAP
7 1 (0.84%) WSO2