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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -46 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 133 279 498
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.48% 12.86% 10.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.00% 35.36% 29.91%
Number of salaries quoted 92 183 396
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £74,063 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% -

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 831 789 1,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.47% 36.36% 33.63%
Number of salaries quoted 658 559 1,395
10th Percentile £38,325 £39,750 £37,050
25th Percentile £48,813 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.04% -0.87%
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 7 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 7 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 +19 3 £31,500 -30.00% 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 7 (5.26%) Apache
2 5 (3.76%) WordPress
3 4 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.26%) GeoServer
4 3 (2.26%) nginx
5 2 (1.50%) CICS
5 2 (1.50%) CMS
5 2 (1.50%) JBoss
5 2 (1.50%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.75%) Confluence
6 1 (0.75%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.01%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 69 (51.88%) AWS
2 61 (45.86%) Azure
3 19 (14.29%) GitHub
4 15 (11.28%) Serverless
5 13 (9.77%) GCP
6 8 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (4.51%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.51%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.51%) SaaS
9 5 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (3.76%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.01%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.50%) Apigee
12 2 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.03%) Internet
2 4 (3.01%) AMQP
3 3 (2.26%) HTTP
4 2 (1.50%) OpenVPN
4 2 (1.50%) SSH
4 2 (1.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.02%) NoSQL
2 11 (8.27%) MySQL
3 9 (6.77%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.02%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (3.01%) Big Data
8 4 (3.01%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (3.01%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.26%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (2.26%) GIS
9 3 (2.26%) Neo4j
9 3 (2.26%) QGIS
10 2 (1.50%) DB2
10 2 (1.50%) Hazelcast
10 2 (1.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 54 (40.60%) Git
2 13 (9.77%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.77%) JIRA
4 4 (3.01%) JUnit
5 3 (2.26%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.26%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.50%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.50%) Maven
6 2 (1.50%) Postman
6 2 (1.50%) Selenium
6 2 (1.50%) Subversion
7 1 (0.75%) GitLab
7 1 (0.75%) gulp
7 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.75%) Spock
7 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 20 (15.04%) Finance
1 20 (15.04%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.03%) Multimedia
3 12 (9.02%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.51%) Law
5 5 (3.76%) Retail
6 4 (3.01%) Advertising
6 4 (3.01%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.01%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.26%) French Language
7 3 (2.26%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.26%) Marketing
7 3 (2.26%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.26%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.50%) Electronics
8 2 (1.50%) Games
9 1 (0.75%) Back Office
9 1 (0.75%) Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (42.11%) Developer
2 37 (27.82%) Software Engineer
3 22 (16.54%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (16.54%) Senior
4 19 (14.29%) Lead
5 17 (12.78%) Senior Developer
6 16 (12.03%) Trainee
7 12 (9.02%) Java Developer
7 12 (9.02%) Lead Software Engineer
8 9 (6.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (6.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 9 (6.77%) Software Developer
9 8 (6.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.51%) Trainee Developer
10 6 (4.51%) Trainee Software Developer
11 5 (3.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 5 (3.76%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (3.76%) PHP Developer
11 5 (3.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (47.37%) CSS
2 61 (45.86%) HTML
3 45 (33.83%) Node.js
4 44 (33.08%) React
5 29 (21.80%) AngularJS
6 26 (19.55%) .NET
7 20 (15.04%) REST
8 19 (14.29%) Spring
9 18 (13.53%) Spring Boot
10 14 (10.53%) CSS3
10 14 (10.53%) RESTful
11 11 (8.27%) HTML5
12 10 (7.52%) Vue
12 10 (7.52%) Web Services
13 7 (5.26%) gRPC
14 6 (4.51%) Kafka
15 5 (3.76%) EDI
15 5 (3.76%) Laravel
15 5 (3.76%) Next.js
15 5 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.28%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.76%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.76%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.50%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.50%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.50%) NHS
6 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.75%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.26%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) CentOS
2 4 (3.01%) Debian
2 4 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Ubuntu
2 4 (3.01%) Windows
3 3 (2.26%) Android
3 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (45.11%) Agile
2 49 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
3 45 (33.83%) Software Engineering
4 39 (29.32%) CI/CD
5 37 (27.82%) Mentoring
6 30 (22.56%) Scrum
7 28 (21.05%) Microservices
8 22 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (15.79%) TDD
10 19 (14.29%) Kanban
11 17 (12.78%) DevOps
12 16 (12.03%) User Experience
13 15 (11.28%) AI
14 14 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (9.77%) Collaborative Working
16 12 (9.02%) Clean Code
16 12 (9.02%) Containerisation
16 12 (9.02%) Front End Development
16 12 (9.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (37.59%) Python
2 43 (32.33%) Java
3 39 (29.32%) TypeScript
4 21 (15.79%) SQL
5 13 (9.77%) C#
6 10 (7.52%) R
7 7 (5.26%) C
7 7 (5.26%) PHP
8 3 (2.26%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.75%) Groovy
9 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (12.03%) AWS Certification
1 16 (12.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 16 (12.03%) Azure Certification
1 16 (12.03%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.51%) Degree
5 5 (3.76%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.26%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.01%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) HL7
System Software
1 13 (9.77%) Docker
2 5 (3.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (11.28%) Terraform
2 11 (8.27%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.02%) Ansible
4 4 (3.01%) Puppet
5 2 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.50%) cPanel
5 2 (1.50%) Nagios
5 2 (1.50%) Plesk
5 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.26%) Google
3 6 (4.51%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.76%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.76%) Pega
5 4 (3.01%) SaltStack
6 3 (2.26%) Oracle
6 3 (2.26%) Splunk
7 2 (1.50%) Adobe
7 2 (1.50%) Adyen
7 2 (1.50%) New Relic
7 2 (1.50%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.50%) WSO2
8 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics