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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -47 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 140 298 518
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.33% 13.48% 9.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.40% 34.98% 29.57%
Number of salaries quoted 103 160 409
10th Percentile £31,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +14.04% -0.87%
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 972 852 1,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.20% 38.55% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 784 538 1,429
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,600 £36,650
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
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 1 June 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 June 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 +16 2 £31,500 -33.68% 9
Oldham -2 1 £69,973 -
Ashton-under-Lyne -3 1 £51,000 - 6
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 8 (5.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (4.29%) Apache
3 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.14%) GeoServer
3 3 (2.14%) nginx
3 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.14%) WordPress
4 2 (1.43%) CICS
4 2 (1.43%) Confluence
4 2 (1.43%) JBoss
4 2 (1.43%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.86%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.43%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 66 (47.14%) AWS
2 54 (38.57%) Azure
3 20 (14.29%) GitHub
4 17 (12.14%) Serverless
5 10 (7.14%) GCP
6 9 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.71%) Power Automate
7 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (5.00%) SaaS
9 6 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (4.29%) PowerApps
10 5 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.14%) Datadog
12 3 (2.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.14%) Internet
2 3 (2.14%) AMQP
3 2 (1.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.43%) MySQL
1 9 (6.43%) NoSQL
1 9 (6.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.71%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (2.14%) Big Data
4 3 (2.14%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (2.14%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (2.14%) GIS
4 3 (2.14%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.14%) QGIS
5 2 (1.43%) DB2
5 2 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.43%) Hazelcast
5 2 (1.43%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.43%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (28.57%) Git
2 15 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.43%) JIRA
4 7 (5.00%) Maven
5 5 (3.57%) GitLab
5 5 (3.57%) JUnit
6 4 (2.86%) Spock
7 3 (2.14%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.14%) IntelliJ
7 3 (2.14%) Storybook
8 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.43%) Postman
8 2 (1.43%) Selenium
8 2 (1.43%) Subversion
9 1 (0.71%) gulp
9 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.14%) Finance
3 15 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.14%) Multimedia
6 7 (5.00%) Retail
7 6 (4.29%) Law
7 6 (4.29%) Marketing
8 5 (3.57%) Advertising
8 5 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.86%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.14%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.14%) French Language
10 3 (2.14%) Italian Language
10 3 (2.14%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (2.14%) Publishing
10 3 (2.14%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.43%) Games
12 1 (0.71%) Back Office
12 1 (0.71%) Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (42.86%) Developer
2 35 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 26 (18.57%) Lead
4 24 (17.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 20 (14.29%) Senior
6 16 (11.43%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.71%) Java Developer
8 11 (7.86%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Trainee
10 9 (6.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 8 (5.71%) Software Developer
12 7 (5.00%) Lead Developer
13 6 (4.29%) Graduate
13 6 (4.29%) JavaScript Developer
14 5 (3.57%) Analyst
14 5 (3.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 5 (3.57%) Junior
14 5 (3.57%) PHP Developer
14 5 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (42.14%) CSS
2 57 (40.71%) HTML
3 48 (34.29%) Node.js
4 38 (27.14%) React
5 33 (23.57%) AngularJS
6 28 (20.00%) .NET
7 19 (13.57%) Spring
8 18 (12.86%) REST
9 15 (10.71%) CSS3
9 15 (10.71%) Spring Boot
10 14 (10.00%) RESTful
11 12 (8.57%) HTML5
11 12 (8.57%) Vue
12 8 (5.71%) Web Services
13 5 (3.57%) EDI
13 5 (3.57%) Next.js
14 4 (2.86%) GraphQL
14 4 (2.86%) gRPC
14 4 (2.86%) NestJS
14 4 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.86%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.43%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.43%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.71%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.71%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.86%) Linux
1 4 (2.86%) Windows
2 3 (2.14%) Android
2 3 (2.14%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.14%) CentOS
2 3 (2.14%) Debian
2 3 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (45.00%) Agile
1 63 (45.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 49 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 44 (31.43%) Software Engineering
4 35 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 35 (25.00%) Microservices
5 33 (23.57%) Scrum
6 29 (20.71%) DevOps
7 28 (20.00%) TDD
8 26 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (17.86%) Test Automation
10 22 (15.71%) Kanban
11 20 (14.29%) AI
12 16 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (10.00%) User Experience
15 12 (8.57%) Clean Code
16 11 (7.86%) Collaborative Working
16 11 (7.86%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 54 (38.57%) Java
2 48 (34.29%) Python
3 41 (29.29%) TypeScript
4 28 (20.00%) SQL
5 16 (11.43%) C#
6 8 (5.71%) PHP
7 7 (5.00%) R
8 4 (2.86%) C
8 4 (2.86%) Groovy
9 3 (2.14%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.71%) Go
10 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.71%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (7.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 10 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 10 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (5.71%) Degree
3 8 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) QA
2 5 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.86%) SLA
4 3 (2.14%) WCAG
5 1 (0.71%) HL7
5 1 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (10.71%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (12.14%) Terraform
2 8 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.00%) Ansible
4 3 (2.14%) Puppet
5 2 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.43%) Nagios
5 2 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.43%) Adobe
3 6 (4.29%) Google
3 6 (4.29%) Splunk
4 5 (3.57%) Pega
4 5 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.86%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.86%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.86%) Oracle
5 4 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.14%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.43%) Adyen
7 2 (1.43%) New Relic
7 2 (1.43%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.43%) WSO2
8 1 (0.71%) OpenAI