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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 16 17
Rank change year-on-year -35 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 163 280 371
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.44% 11.14% 8.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.91% 32.48% 27.24%
Number of salaries quoted 124 142 247
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +17.12% -3.48%
75th Percentile £80,625 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,525 £78,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

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 1,093 862 1,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.37% 34.30% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 851 553 981
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £38,084
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +5.04% -0.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,850 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -3.93%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 - 1
Oldham +1 3 £54,250 - 1
Bolton +15 2 £43,250 -8.95% 1
Stockport -9 1 £70,000 +27.27% 4
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 19 (11.66%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.84%) Apache
3 3 (1.84%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.23%) CICS
4 2 (1.23%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.23%) WordPress
5 1 (0.61%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) IIS
5 1 (0.61%) JBoss
5 1 (0.61%) nginx
5 1 (0.61%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.45%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 70 (42.94%) AWS
2 63 (38.65%) Azure
3 27 (16.56%) Power Automate
3 27 (16.56%) Power Platform
4 23 (14.11%) PowerApps
5 19 (11.66%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (11.04%) Microsoft Copilot
7 17 (10.43%) GitHub
7 17 (10.43%) Serverless
8 16 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (9.82%) GCP
9 13 (7.98%) SaaS
10 9 (5.52%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (4.91%) Copilot Studio
11 8 (4.91%) npm
12 7 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.29%) OneDrive
13 6 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) AMQP
1 2 (1.23%) Internet
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) Network Security
2 1 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.36%) MongoDB
1 12 (7.36%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.52%) MySQL
2 9 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.52%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.91%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.45%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.84%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.84%) GIS
6 3 (1.84%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.84%) QGIS
6 3 (1.84%) Redis
7 2 (1.23%) Big Data
7 2 (1.23%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.23%) Db2
7 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (19.02%) Git
2 16 (9.82%) Jenkins
3 14 (8.59%) GitLab
3 14 (8.59%) Maven
4 11 (6.75%) JUnit
4 11 (6.75%) Spock
5 8 (4.91%) Storybook
6 6 (3.68%) JIRA
7 5 (3.07%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.07%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.45%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.45%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.84%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.23%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.23%) Vite
11 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.61%) gulp
11 1 (0.61%) Postman
11 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 31 (19.02%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.95%) Finance
3 17 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.75%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.52%) Marketing
6 8 (4.91%) Publishing
7 7 (4.29%) Law
7 7 (4.29%) Retail
8 5 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.07%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.45%) Advertising
10 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.23%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.61%) Back Office
12 1 (0.61%) Legal
12 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 78 (47.85%) Developer
2 32 (19.63%) Senior
3 31 (19.02%) Software Engineer
4 26 (15.95%) Lead
5 23 (14.11%) Senior Developer
6 22 (13.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (9.82%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 15 (9.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 14 (8.59%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.52%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (4.91%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 6 (3.68%) JavaScript Developer
13 6 (3.68%) Junior
13 6 (3.68%) Technical Leader
14 5 (3.07%) .NET Developer
14 5 (3.07%) Architect
14 5 (3.07%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
14 5 (3.07%) Software Developer
14 5 (3.07%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (33.74%) HTML
2 51 (31.29%) CSS
3 47 (28.83%) Node.js
4 43 (26.38%) AngularJS
5 35 (21.47%) .NET
6 34 (20.86%) React
7 23 (14.11%) Spring
8 21 (12.88%) REST
9 18 (11.04%) Vue
10 14 (8.59%) CSS3
11 12 (7.36%) RESTful
11 12 (7.36%) Spring Boot
12 11 (6.75%) HTML5
12 11 (6.75%) HTML5 Canvas
13 10 (6.13%) Microsoft Graph
14 9 (5.52%) SPFx
14 9 (5.52%) Web Services
15 8 (4.91%) GraphQL
15 8 (4.91%) MDX
16 7 (4.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
1 16 (9.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (9.20%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.36%) Private Cloud
4 10 (6.13%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (4.91%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.23%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.23%) Social Media
9 1 (0.61%) CMDB
9 1 (0.61%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.61%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.61%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.45%) Windows
2 2 (1.23%) CentOS
2 2 (1.23%) Debian
2 2 (1.23%) Linux
2 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
2 2 (1.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (49.08%) Agile
2 75 (46.01%) Full-Stack Development
3 69 (42.33%) CI/CD
4 61 (37.42%) DevOps
5 57 (34.97%) Software Engineering
6 54 (33.13%) AI
7 48 (29.45%) Microservices
8 47 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (25.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (23.31%) Test Automation
11 34 (20.86%) Scrum
12 31 (19.02%) TDD
13 30 (18.40%) Mentoring
14 24 (14.72%) Kanban
15 23 (14.11%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (11.66%) Translating Business Requirements
17 18 (11.04%) Architectural Patterns
17 18 (11.04%) Collaborative Working
18 17 (10.43%) Clean Code
19 15 (9.20%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 67 (41.10%) Java
2 57 (34.97%) TypeScript
3 45 (27.61%) Python
4 36 (22.09%) C#
4 36 (22.09%) SQL
5 7 (4.29%) PHP
6 6 (3.68%) Groovy
7 3 (1.84%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.84%) Go
7 3 (1.84%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.23%) C
8 2 (1.23%) R
9 1 (0.61%) C++
9 1 (0.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (9.20%) Degree
2 14 (8.59%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.07%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.45%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.45%) MBA
6 3 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.43%) QA
2 15 (9.20%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.91%) WCAG
4 4 (2.45%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (15.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (8.59%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.98%) Terraform
3 6 (3.68%) Ansible
4 2 (1.23%) Puppet
5 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.61%) Nagios
5 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.43%) Adobe
3 12 (7.36%) Splunk
4 11 (6.75%) AppDynamics
5 9 (5.52%) Google
6 5 (3.07%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.07%) Pega
7 4 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.84%) Oracle
8 3 (1.84%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.84%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.23%) Adyen
9 2 (1.23%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.23%) WSO2
10 1 (0.61%) Apple
10 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.61%) Facebook
10 1 (0.61%) New Relic
10 1 (0.61%) Sony
10 1 (0.61%) Yahoo!