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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -31 +2 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 175 264 350
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.54% 10.61% 7.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.70% 31.24% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 133 127 229
10th Percentile £36,750 £44,000 £37,703
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,200 £75,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 1,115 845 1,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.20% 33.96% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 863 534 921
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £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 16 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 16 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 0 4 £54,250 - 2
Bolton +15 2 £43,250 -8.95% 2
Stockport -5 2 £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 20 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.71%) Apache
3 3 (1.71%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.71%) WordPress
4 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.14%) CICS
4 2 (1.14%) IIS
4 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) JBoss
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
5 1 (0.57%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.29%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 73 (41.71%) AWS
2 67 (38.29%) Azure
3 30 (17.14%) Power Platform
4 29 (16.57%) Power Automate
5 24 (13.71%) PowerApps
6 20 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (10.29%) GCP
7 18 (10.29%) GitHub
7 18 (10.29%) Microsoft Copilot
8 17 (9.71%) Serverless
9 15 (8.57%) SaaS
10 10 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (4.57%) Copilot Studio
11 8 (4.57%) npm
12 7 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.00%) OneDrive
13 6 (3.43%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) AMQP
1 2 (1.14%) HTTP
1 2 (1.14%) Internet
1 2 (1.14%) SSL
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.86%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.14%) MySQL
5 8 (4.57%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.29%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.71%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.71%) GIS
8 3 (1.71%) Pinecone
8 3 (1.71%) Power BI
8 3 (1.71%) QGIS
8 3 (1.71%) Redis
9 2 (1.14%) Big Data
9 2 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.14%) Db2
9 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 34 (19.43%) Git
2 17 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.14%) GitLab
4 14 (8.00%) Maven
5 11 (6.29%) JUnit
5 11 (6.29%) Spock
6 8 (4.57%) Storybook
7 6 (3.43%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.43%) JIRA
8 5 (2.86%) IntelliJ
9 4 (2.29%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.29%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.71%) Eclipse
11 2 (1.14%) Claude Code
11 2 (1.14%) Mocha
11 2 (1.14%) Vite
12 1 (0.57%) gulp
12 1 (0.57%) Postman
12 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 33 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.43%) Finance
3 17 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.29%) Marketing
5 10 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.57%) Publishing
7 7 (4.00%) Law
7 7 (4.00%) Retail
8 5 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.29%) Advertising
10 3 (1.71%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.14%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.57%) Back Office
12 1 (0.57%) Games
12 1 (0.57%) Legal
12 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 86 (49.14%) Developer
2 33 (18.86%) Senior
3 29 (16.57%) Software Engineer
4 27 (15.43%) Lead
5 23 (13.14%) Senior Developer
6 22 (12.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (9.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 16 (9.14%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 14 (8.00%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.14%) Lead Developer
10 8 (4.57%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (4.00%) JavaScript Developer
11 7 (4.00%) Software Developer
12 6 (3.43%) Junior
12 6 (3.43%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (3.43%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.86%) .NET Developer
13 5 (2.86%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (34.29%) HTML
2 56 (32.00%) CSS
3 49 (28.00%) Node.js
4 43 (24.57%) AngularJS
5 37 (21.14%) .NET
6 34 (19.43%) React
7 24 (13.71%) REST
8 23 (13.14%) Spring
9 18 (10.29%) Vue
10 16 (9.14%) CSS3
11 13 (7.43%) HTML5
12 12 (6.86%) HTML5 Canvas
12 12 (6.86%) RESTful
12 12 (6.86%) Spring Boot
13 10 (5.71%) Microsoft Graph
14 9 (5.14%) SPFx
14 9 (5.14%) Web Services
15 8 (4.57%) ASP.NET
15 8 (4.57%) GraphQL
15 8 (4.57%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.14%) Cloud Native
1 16 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
1 16 (9.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (6.86%) Private Cloud
3 11 (6.29%) Marketing Technology
4 8 (4.57%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.14%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.14%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.14%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.14%) Social Media
7 2 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.57%) BBC
8 1 (0.57%) CMDB
8 1 (0.57%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.29%) Windows
2 3 (1.71%) Linux
3 2 (1.14%) CentOS
3 2 (1.14%) Debian
3 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.14%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (49.71%) Agile
2 78 (44.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 74 (42.29%) CI/CD
4 65 (37.14%) DevOps
5 58 (33.14%) Software Engineering
6 57 (32.57%) AI
7 50 (28.57%) Microservices
7 50 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (24.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (22.86%) Test Automation
10 34 (19.43%) Scrum
11 31 (17.71%) Mentoring
12 30 (17.14%) TDD
13 23 (13.14%) Kanban
13 23 (13.14%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
15 19 (10.86%) Clean Code
16 18 (10.29%) Architectural Patterns
16 18 (10.29%) Collaborative Working
17 15 (8.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 69 (39.43%) Java
2 58 (33.14%) TypeScript
3 47 (26.86%) Python
4 43 (24.57%) SQL
5 40 (22.86%) C#
6 7 (4.00%) PHP
7 6 (3.43%) Groovy
8 5 (2.86%) Go
9 3 (1.71%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.71%) C
9 3 (1.71%) C++
9 3 (1.71%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.14%) R
11 1 (0.57%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.57%) Rust
11 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (10.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.71%) Degree
3 11 (6.29%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.43%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.29%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.29%) MBA
7 3 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.43%) QA
2 15 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.57%) WCAG
4 4 (2.29%) SLA
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (17.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.57%) Terraform
3 7 (4.00%) Ansible
4 2 (1.14%) Puppet
5 1 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.57%) Argo
5 1 (0.57%) Nagios
5 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (21.71%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.71%) Adobe
3 12 (6.86%) Splunk
4 11 (6.29%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.71%) Google
6 5 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.86%) Pega
7 4 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.71%) Oracle
8 3 (1.71%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.14%) Adyen
9 2 (1.14%) New Relic
9 2 (1.14%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.14%) WSO2
10 1 (0.57%) Apple
10 1 (0.57%) Facebook
10 1 (0.57%) Sage
10 1 (0.57%) SAP
10 1 (0.57%) Sony