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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -51 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 135 287 507
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.32% 13.45% 9.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.55% 35.48% 29.56%
Number of salaries quoted 98 152 402
10th Percentile £29,750 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £65,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +13.54% -0.43%
75th Percentile £79,375 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.17% +7.73% -

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 928 809 1,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.96% 37.91% 33.28%
Number of salaries quoted 747 501 1,412
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -7.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,500 £95,000 £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 26 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 26 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 +22 3 £31,500 -33.68% 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 (5.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (4.44%) Apache
3 4 (2.96%) WordPress
4 3 (2.22%) 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%) Confluence
5 2 (1.48%) JBoss
5 2 (1.48%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.74%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.96%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.48%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 65 (48.15%) AWS
2 55 (40.74%) Azure
3 22 (16.30%) GitHub
4 15 (11.11%) Serverless
5 10 (7.41%) GCP
6 7 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.19%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (5.19%) Power Automate
6 7 (5.19%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.44%) SaaS
8 5 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (3.70%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.22%) Datadog
10 3 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.89%) Internet
2 3 (2.22%) AMQP
3 2 (1.48%) HTTP
3 2 (1.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.41%) NoSQL
1 10 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.67%) MySQL
3 8 (5.93%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.19%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.22%) Big Data
6 3 (2.22%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.22%) GIS
6 3 (2.22%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.22%) QGIS
7 2 (1.48%) DB2
7 2 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.48%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.48%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (32.59%) Git
2 15 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.41%) JIRA
4 6 (4.44%) JUnit
4 6 (4.44%) Maven
5 5 (3.70%) GitLab
6 4 (2.96%) Spock
7 3 (2.22%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.22%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.48%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.48%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.48%) Postman
8 2 (1.48%) Selenium
8 2 (1.48%) Storybook
8 2 (1.48%) Subversion
9 1 (0.74%) gulp
9 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 23 (17.04%) Finance
2 22 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.89%) Multimedia
5 6 (4.44%) Law
5 6 (4.44%) Retail
6 5 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.70%) Marketing
7 4 (2.96%) Advertising
7 4 (2.96%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.22%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.22%) French Language
8 3 (2.22%) Italian Language
8 3 (2.22%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (2.22%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.48%) Games
9 2 (1.48%) Publishing
10 1 (0.74%) Back Office
10 1 (0.74%) Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (42.22%) Developer
2 34 (25.19%) Software Engineer
3 24 (17.78%) Full-Stack Developer
4 23 (17.04%) Lead
5 19 (14.07%) Senior
6 16 (11.85%) Java Developer
7 15 (11.11%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.89%) Trainee
9 11 (8.15%) Lead Software Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 8 (5.93%) Software Developer
12 6 (4.44%) Graduate
12 6 (4.44%) JavaScript Developer
13 5 (3.70%) Analyst
13 5 (3.70%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 5 (3.70%) PHP Developer
13 5 (3.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 4 (2.96%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 4 (2.96%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (44.44%) CSS
2 58 (42.96%) HTML
3 48 (35.56%) Node.js
4 37 (27.41%) React
5 35 (25.93%) AngularJS
6 27 (20.00%) .NET
7 20 (14.81%) Spring
8 18 (13.33%) REST
9 16 (11.85%) RESTful
9 16 (11.85%) Spring Boot
10 15 (11.11%) CSS3
11 12 (8.89%) HTML5
11 12 (8.89%) Vue
12 8 (5.93%) Web Services
13 5 (3.70%) EDI
13 5 (3.70%) gRPC
13 5 (3.70%) Kafka
13 5 (3.70%) Next.js
14 4 (2.96%) NestJS
14 4 (2.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.70%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (2.96%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.22%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.48%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.74%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.74%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.96%) Linux
1 4 (2.96%) Windows
2 3 (2.22%) Android
2 3 (2.22%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.22%) CentOS
2 3 (2.22%) Debian
2 3 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (45.93%) Full-Stack Development
2 60 (44.44%) Agile
3 49 (36.30%) CI/CD
4 42 (31.11%) Software Engineering
5 36 (26.67%) Microservices
6 35 (25.93%) Mentoring
7 32 (23.70%) Scrum
8 27 (20.00%) TDD
9 26 (19.26%) DevOps
10 23 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (17.04%) Test Automation
11 22 (16.30%) Kanban
12 20 (14.81%) AI
13 16 (11.85%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (10.37%) User Experience
15 12 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (8.89%) Web Development
16 11 (8.15%) Collaborative Working
16 11 (8.15%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 53 (39.26%) Java
2 50 (37.04%) Python
3 38 (28.15%) TypeScript
4 25 (18.52%) SQL
5 13 (9.63%) C#
6 8 (5.93%) R
7 7 (5.19%) PHP
8 4 (2.96%) C
8 4 (2.96%) Groovy
9 3 (2.22%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.48%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (8.89%) AWS Certification
1 12 (8.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 12 (8.89%) Azure Certification
1 12 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.93%) Degree
3 8 (5.93%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.96%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.22%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.44%) QA
2 5 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.96%) SLA
4 2 (1.48%) WCAG
5 1 (0.74%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (11.85%) Docker
2 4 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (11.85%) Terraform
2 8 (5.93%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.19%) Ansible
4 3 (2.22%) Puppet
5 2 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.48%) Nagios
5 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.93%) Adobe
3 6 (4.44%) Google
3 6 (4.44%) Splunk
4 5 (3.70%) Pega
4 5 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.96%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.96%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.96%) Oracle
6 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.22%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.48%) Adyen
7 2 (1.48%) New Relic
7 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.48%) WSO2
8 1 (0.74%) OpenAI