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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 21 12
Rank change year-on-year -23 -9 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 119 227 347
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.88% 8.60% 11.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.52% 24.97% 28.75%
Number of salaries quoted 91 134 295
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £45,063 £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 £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -11.80%

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 580 909 1,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 18.89% 34.42% 40.61%
Number of salaries quoted 494 488 1,015
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,969 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +4.35% -3.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,375 £87,500 £80,750
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 23 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 23 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 +15 3 £31,500 -18.71% 9
Bury - 2 - - 2
Stockport -5 1 - - 10
Altrincham - 1 - - 2
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 (5.04%) Apache
2 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.36%) nginx
2 4 (3.36%) WordPress
3 3 (2.52%) CMS
4 2 (1.68%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.84%) Confluence
5 1 (0.84%) JBoss
5 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.84%) InVision
1 1 (0.84%) Sketch
1 1 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.84%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.84%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (58.82%) AWS
2 60 (50.42%) Azure
3 25 (21.01%) GitHub
4 14 (11.76%) Serverless
5 11 (9.24%) GCP
6 8 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.36%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.52%) SaaS
12 2 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.68%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.68%) Twilio
13 1 (0.84%) Datadog
13 1 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (19.33%) Internet
2 5 (4.20%) HTTP
3 4 (3.36%) AMQP
3 4 (3.36%) SSH
4 2 (1.68%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.84%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.76%) MySQL
2 13 (10.92%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (5.04%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.20%) Big Data
5 5 (4.20%) Hadoop
5 5 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.36%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (3.36%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.52%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (48.74%) Git
2 7 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.04%) JIRA
4 5 (4.20%) JUnit
5 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.68%) GitLab
5 2 (1.68%) Selenium
6 1 (0.84%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.84%) Maven
6 1 (0.84%) Postman
6 1 (0.84%) Protractor
6 1 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 26 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.33%) Multimedia
3 14 (11.76%) Finance
4 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.20%) Marketing
6 4 (3.36%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.36%) Games
7 3 (2.52%) Electronics
8 2 (1.68%) French Language
8 2 (1.68%) Italian Language
8 2 (1.68%) Law
8 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.68%) Portuguese Language
8 2 (1.68%) Retail
8 2 (1.68%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.84%) Legal
9 1 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (55.46%) Developer
2 23 (19.33%) Trainee
3 21 (17.65%) Senior
4 20 (16.81%) Software Developer
5 17 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 16 (13.45%) Software Engineer
7 13 (10.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 11 (9.24%) Lead
8 11 (9.24%) Trainee Developer
8 11 (9.24%) Trainee Software Developer
9 10 (8.40%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) PHP Developer
10 7 (5.88%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 6 (5.04%) .NET Developer
12 5 (4.20%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 5 (4.20%) Java Developer
12 5 (4.20%) Lead Software Engineer
13 4 (3.36%) Cloud Developer
13 4 (3.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (62.18%) CSS
1 74 (62.18%) HTML
2 48 (40.34%) React
3 29 (24.37%) Node.js
4 28 (23.53%) AngularJS
5 22 (18.49%) .NET
6 21 (17.65%) REST
7 15 (12.61%) RESTful
8 13 (10.92%) Spring
8 13 (10.92%) Spring Boot
9 8 (6.72%) CSS3
9 8 (6.72%) gRPC
9 8 (6.72%) HTML5
9 8 (6.72%) Vue
10 7 (5.88%) Laravel
11 6 (5.04%) .NET Framework
11 6 (5.04%) ASP.NET
11 6 (5.04%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (5.04%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (4.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.72%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.52%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.68%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.68%) NHS
6 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.84%) Life Science
7 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.84%) Online Games
7 1 (0.84%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.08%) Linux
2 4 (3.36%) CentOS
2 4 (3.36%) Debian
2 4 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.36%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.68%) Android
3 2 (1.68%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.68%) Windows
3 2 (1.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (49.58%) Agile
2 44 (36.97%) Mentoring
3 38 (31.93%) CI/CD
4 29 (24.37%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (24.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 24 (20.17%) Microservices
7 22 (18.49%) User Experience
8 20 (16.81%) DevOps
9 19 (15.97%) Containerisation
10 18 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (14.29%) Scrum
12 16 (13.45%) Front End Development
13 15 (12.61%) AI
14 13 (10.92%) TDD
15 12 (10.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (10.08%) Test Automation
16 11 (9.24%) API Development
16 11 (9.24%) Clean Code
16 11 (9.24%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 47 (39.50%) Python
2 37 (31.09%) TypeScript
3 27 (22.69%) Java
4 18 (15.13%) C#
5 15 (12.61%) SQL
6 12 (10.08%) PHP
6 12 (10.08%) R
7 6 (5.04%) C
8 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.84%) Scala
9 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (19.33%) AWS Certification
1 23 (19.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 23 (19.33%) Azure Certification
1 23 (19.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.56%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.72%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.52%) Degree
6 2 (1.68%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.84%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.52%) HL7
3 2 (1.68%) QA
4 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (15.13%) Docker
2 4 (3.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.24%) Terraform
3 10 (8.40%) Ansible
4 4 (3.36%) Puppet
5 3 (2.52%) cPanel
5 3 (2.52%) Plesk
6 1 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.84%) Grafana
6 1 (0.84%) Nagios
6 1 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (25.21%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.20%) Atlassian
2 5 (4.20%) Google
2 5 (4.20%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.36%) SaltStack
4 3 (2.52%) Adobe
4 3 (2.52%) Oracle
5 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.84%) iManage
6 1 (0.84%) New Relic
6 1 (0.84%) Pega
6 1 (0.84%) SAP
6 1 (0.84%) Splunk
6 1 (0.84%) WSO2