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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 22 11
Rank change year-on-year -24 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 112 223 306
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.77% 8.35% 12.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.51% 24.81% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 88 130 253
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £29,375 £45,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -0.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £64,063 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% -8.26%

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 574 899 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 19.33% 33.66% 41.42%
Number of salaries quoted 489 479 879
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,482 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +4.35% -3.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +14 3 £31,500 -18.71% 5
Bury - 2 - - 1
Stockport -5 1 - - 10
Altrincham - 1 - - 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 6 (5.36%) Apache
2 5 (4.46%) WordPress
3 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.57%) nginx
4 2 (1.79%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.79%) CMS
5 1 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.89%) Confluence
5 1 (0.89%) JBoss
5 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.89%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.89%) InVision
2 1 (0.89%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.89%) Sketch
2 1 (0.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.89%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.89%) Odoo
2 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (56.25%) AWS
2 57 (50.89%) Azure
3 25 (22.32%) GitHub
4 13 (11.61%) Serverless
5 11 (9.82%) GCP
6 8 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.57%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.68%) SaaS
11 2 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.79%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.79%) Twilio
12 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.89%) Datadog
12 1 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (20.54%) Internet
2 5 (4.46%) HTTP
3 4 (3.57%) AMQP
3 4 (3.57%) SSH
4 2 (1.79%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.29%) MySQL
2 14 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.46%) Big Data
5 5 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.46%) Hadoop
5 5 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.57%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.68%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.68%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (52.68%) Git
2 8 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.36%) JIRA
4 5 (4.46%) JUnit
5 2 (1.79%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.79%) GitLab
5 2 (1.79%) Selenium
6 1 (0.89%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.89%) Maven
6 1 (0.89%) Postman
6 1 (0.89%) Protractor
6 1 (0.89%) Subversion
General
1 24 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.54%) Multimedia
3 11 (9.82%) Finance
4 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.46%) Games
5 5 (4.46%) Marketing
6 4 (3.57%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Electronics
8 2 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Law
8 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Retail
9 1 (0.89%) Automotive
9 1 (0.89%) Legal
9 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.89%) Publishing
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (58.04%) Developer
2 23 (20.54%) Trainee
3 21 (18.75%) Senior
4 20 (17.86%) Software Developer
5 17 (15.18%) Senior Developer
6 14 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 13 (11.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 11 (9.82%) Trainee Developer
8 11 (9.82%) Trainee Software Developer
9 10 (8.93%) Lead
10 8 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (7.14%) PHP Developer
11 7 (6.25%) .NET Developer
11 7 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 6 (5.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (4.46%) Java Developer
13 5 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
14 4 (3.57%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 4 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 4 (3.57%) Games Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (65.18%) CSS
1 73 (65.18%) HTML
2 42 (37.50%) React
3 27 (24.11%) AngularJS
4 26 (23.21%) Node.js
5 21 (18.75%) .NET
6 20 (17.86%) REST
7 15 (13.39%) RESTful
8 13 (11.61%) Spring
8 13 (11.61%) Spring Boot
9 8 (7.14%) CSS3
9 8 (7.14%) gRPC
9 8 (7.14%) HTML5
10 7 (6.25%) .NET Framework
11 6 (5.36%) ASP.NET
11 6 (5.36%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (5.36%) Vue
12 5 (4.46%) jQuery
12 5 (4.46%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.68%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.79%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.79%) NHS
6 2 (1.79%) Online Games
7 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.89%) Life Science
7 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.71%) Linux
2 4 (3.57%) CentOS
2 4 (3.57%) Debian
2 4 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.57%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.79%) Windows
3 2 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (50.00%) Agile
2 41 (36.61%) Mentoring
3 37 (33.04%) CI/CD
4 26 (23.21%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (22.32%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 23 (20.54%) User Experience
8 22 (19.64%) Microservices
9 21 (18.75%) DevOps
10 19 (16.96%) Containerisation
11 16 (14.29%) Front End Development
11 16 (14.29%) Scrum
12 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (12.50%) AI
14 12 (10.71%) Clean Code
15 11 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
15 11 (9.82%) Kanban
15 11 (9.82%) TDD
16 10 (8.93%) API Development
16 10 (8.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (38.39%) Python
2 33 (29.46%) TypeScript
3 25 (22.32%) Java
4 19 (16.96%) C#
5 14 (12.50%) SQL
6 12 (10.71%) R
7 11 (9.82%) PHP
8 5 (4.46%) C
9 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.89%) Scala
10 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (20.54%) AWS Certification
1 23 (20.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 23 (20.54%) Azure Certification
1 23 (20.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.89%) Degree
5 1 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.68%) HL7
3 2 (1.79%) QA
4 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (16.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (11.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.93%) Ansible
2 10 (8.93%) Terraform
3 4 (3.57%) Puppet
4 3 (2.68%) cPanel
4 3 (2.68%) Plesk
5 1 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.89%) Grafana
5 1 (0.89%) Nagios
5 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.36%) Google
3 5 (4.46%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.57%) Adobe
4 4 (3.57%) SaltStack
5 3 (2.68%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle
6 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.89%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.89%) iManage
7 1 (0.89%) New Relic
7 1 (0.89%) Pega
7 1 (0.89%) SAP
7 1 (0.89%) Splunk
7 1 (0.89%) WSO2