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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -36 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 167 258 332
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.34% 10.56% 7.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.11% 31.27% 25.74%
Number of salaries quoted 129 122 201
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,500 £84,875 £73,750
North West median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.96% +9.52% -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 1,105 825 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.49% 33.76% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 847 519 843
10th Percentile £40,950 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,000 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,750 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 15 £51,000 - 2
Oldham -1 4 £54,250 - 1
Bolton +16 2 £43,250 -8.95%
Stockport -7 2 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Altrincham -3 1 £47,500 -13.64% 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 21 (12.57%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.80%) Apache
3 3 (1.80%) WordPress
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.20%) IIS
4 2 (1.20%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.60%) JBoss
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.80%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.80%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.60%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 66 (39.52%) AWS
2 61 (36.53%) Azure
3 31 (18.56%) Power Platform
4 30 (17.96%) Power Automate
5 25 (14.97%) PowerApps
6 21 (12.57%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (10.78%) Microsoft Copilot
8 16 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (9.58%) GitHub
9 14 (8.38%) GCP
9 14 (8.38%) SaaS
9 14 (8.38%) Serverless
10 9 (5.39%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (4.79%) Copilot Studio
11 8 (4.79%) npm
12 7 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (4.19%) OneDrive
13 6 (3.59%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (3.59%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) AMQP
1 2 (1.20%) HTTP
1 2 (1.20%) Internet
1 2 (1.20%) SSL
2 1 (0.60%) DNS
2 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.59%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.39%) MySQL
3 9 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.79%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.40%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.40%) Power BI
7 4 (2.40%) Redis
7 4 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.80%) Chroma
8 3 (1.80%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.20%) Big Data
9 2 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.60%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 32 (19.16%) Git
2 20 (11.98%) GitLab
3 17 (10.18%) Maven
4 13 (7.78%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.78%) JUnit
4 13 (7.78%) Spock
5 8 (4.79%) Storybook
6 6 (3.59%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.99%) JIRA
8 4 (2.40%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.40%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.40%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.20%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.20%) Mocha
9 2 (1.20%) Vite
10 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.60%) Postman
10 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.60%) Selenium
10 1 (0.60%) Subversion
General
1 35 (20.96%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.97%) Finance
3 19 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.59%) Marketing
5 8 (4.79%) Publishing
6 7 (4.19%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.59%) Law
8 5 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.99%) Retail
9 4 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.80%) Advertising
10 3 (1.80%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.20%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.60%) Back Office
12 1 (0.60%) Games
12 1 (0.60%) Legal
12 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 84 (50.30%) Developer
2 30 (17.96%) Senior
3 22 (13.17%) Lead
3 22 (13.17%) Software Engineer
4 21 (12.57%) Senior Developer
5 18 (10.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 16 (9.58%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 14 (8.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (5.99%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.79%) Software Developer
10 7 (4.19%) Power Platform Developer
11 6 (3.59%) JavaScript Developer
11 6 (3.59%) Junior
11 6 (3.59%) Lead Developer
11 6 (3.59%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (2.99%) .NET Developer
12 5 (2.99%) Lead Software Engineer
12 5 (2.99%) PHP Developer
12 5 (2.99%) Technical Leader
12 5 (2.99%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (33.53%) HTML
2 52 (31.14%) CSS
3 40 (23.95%) AngularJS
4 38 (22.75%) Node.js
5 32 (19.16%) .NET
6 31 (18.56%) React
7 25 (14.97%) Spring
8 23 (13.77%) REST
9 16 (9.58%) Vue
10 13 (7.78%) HTML5 Canvas
11 12 (7.19%) CSS3
11 12 (7.19%) Spring Boot
11 12 (7.19%) Terraform
12 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (5.39%) ASP.NET
13 9 (5.39%) HTML5
13 9 (5.39%) SPFx
14 8 (4.79%) MDX
14 8 (4.79%) RESTful
14 8 (4.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.18%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (8.98%) Cloud Native
4 14 (8.38%) Private Cloud
5 11 (6.59%) Marketing Technology
6 8 (4.79%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.80%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.20%) Online Gambling
9 2 (1.20%) Social Media
9 2 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.60%) BBC
10 1 (0.60%) CMDB
10 1 (0.60%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.60%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.40%) Linux
1 4 (2.40%) VMS
2 3 (1.80%) Windows
3 2 (1.20%) CentOS
3 2 (1.20%) Debian
3 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (47.90%) Agile
2 73 (43.71%) CI/CD
3 68 (40.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (38.32%) DevOps
5 59 (35.33%) AI
6 53 (31.74%) Software Engineering
7 52 (31.14%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (29.94%) Microservices
9 46 (27.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (25.15%) Test Automation
11 29 (17.37%) Mentoring
12 27 (16.17%) Scrum
13 26 (15.57%) TDD
14 22 (13.17%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (12.57%) Kanban
16 20 (11.98%) Translating Business Requirements
17 18 (10.78%) Clean Code
18 17 (10.18%) Code Quality
19 16 (9.58%) Architectural Patterns
19 16 (9.58%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 65 (38.92%) Java
2 57 (34.13%) TypeScript
3 44 (26.35%) Python
3 44 (26.35%) SQL
4 39 (23.35%) C#
5 8 (4.79%) Groovy
5 8 (4.79%) PHP
6 5 (2.99%) Go
7 3 (1.80%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.80%) C
7 3 (1.80%) C++
7 3 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.20%) R
9 1 (0.60%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.60%) Rust
9 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.18%) Degree
3 14 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.59%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.40%) MBA
7 3 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.38%) QA
2 15 (8.98%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.79%) WCAG
4 3 (1.80%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (20.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (13.17%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.19%) Ansible
3 2 (1.20%) Puppet
3 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.60%) Argo
4 1 (0.60%) Nagios
Vendors
1 39 (23.35%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.18%) Adobe
3 14 (8.38%) Splunk
4 13 (7.78%) AppDynamics
5 9 (5.39%) Google
6 5 (2.99%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.80%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.80%) Sage
8 3 (1.80%) SAP
8 3 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.20%) Mistral
9 2 (1.20%) New Relic
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle
9 2 (1.20%) Pega
9 2 (1.20%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.20%) WSO2
10 1 (0.60%) Apple
10 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.60%) Yahoo!