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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 18 19
Rank change year-on-year -30 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 179 266 334
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.51% 10.69% 7.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.98% 31.52% 25.83%
Number of salaries quoted 135 129 203
10th Percentile £37,250 £42,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,125 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,000 £73,500
North West median annual salary £54,250 £59,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.44% +12.86% -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 1,120 844 1,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.73% 33.92% 30.03%
Number of salaries quoted 860 535 850
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,900 £39,963
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £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 31 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 31 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 +16 2 £43,250 -8.95%
Stockport -7 2 £70,000 +27.27% 1
Altrincham -2 1 £47,500 -13.64% 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 21 (11.73%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.68%) Apache
3 3 (1.68%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.68%) WordPress
4 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.12%) CICS
4 2 (1.12%) IIS
4 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) JBoss
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.68%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.68%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 74 (41.34%) AWS
2 69 (38.55%) Azure
3 31 (17.32%) Power Platform
4 30 (16.76%) Power Automate
5 25 (13.97%) PowerApps
6 21 (11.73%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (10.06%) GCP
8 18 (10.06%) GitHub
8 18 (10.06%) Microsoft Copilot
9 16 (8.94%) SaaS
9 16 (8.94%) Serverless
10 9 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (4.47%) Copilot Studio
11 8 (4.47%) npm
12 7 (3.91%) OneDrive
13 6 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (3.35%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (3.35%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) AMQP
1 2 (1.12%) HTTP
1 2 (1.12%) Internet
1 2 (1.12%) SSL
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.26%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.15%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.59%) MySQL
3 10 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.59%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.47%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.23%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.23%) Power BI
6 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.68%) Chroma
7 3 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.68%) GIS
7 3 (1.68%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.68%) QGIS
7 3 (1.68%) Redis
8 2 (1.12%) Big Data
8 2 (1.12%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.12%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 37 (20.67%) Git
2 19 (10.61%) GitLab
3 17 (9.50%) Jenkins
4 16 (8.94%) Maven
5 13 (7.26%) JUnit
5 13 (7.26%) Spock
6 8 (4.47%) Storybook
7 7 (3.91%) IntelliJ
8 6 (3.35%) Cypress.io
8 6 (3.35%) JIRA
9 4 (2.23%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.23%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.68%) Eclipse
11 2 (1.12%) Claude Code
11 2 (1.12%) Mocha
11 2 (1.12%) Vite
12 1 (0.56%) gulp
12 1 (0.56%) Postman
12 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 36 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.08%) Finance
3 18 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.15%) Marketing
5 10 (5.59%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.47%) Publishing
7 6 (3.35%) Law
7 6 (3.35%) Retail
8 5 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.23%) Advertising
9 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.68%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.12%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.56%) Back Office
12 1 (0.56%) Games
12 1 (0.56%) Legal
12 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 91 (50.84%) Developer
2 31 (17.32%) Senior
3 26 (14.53%) Lead
3 26 (14.53%) Software Engineer
4 22 (12.29%) Senior Developer
5 20 (11.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (10.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 16 (8.94%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 14 (7.82%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.03%) Software Developer
10 8 (4.47%) Lead Developer
11 7 (3.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (3.91%) JavaScript Developer
11 7 (3.91%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (3.35%) Junior
12 6 (3.35%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.79%) .NET Developer
13 5 (2.79%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (34.08%) HTML
2 57 (31.84%) CSS
3 45 (25.14%) Node.js
4 44 (24.58%) AngularJS
5 36 (20.11%) .NET
6 34 (18.99%) React
7 25 (13.97%) Spring
8 24 (13.41%) REST
9 18 (10.06%) Vue
10 16 (8.94%) CSS3
11 14 (7.82%) Terraform
12 13 (7.26%) HTML5
12 13 (7.26%) HTML5 Canvas
13 12 (6.70%) RESTful
13 12 (6.70%) Spring Boot
14 10 (5.59%) Microsoft Graph
15 9 (5.03%) ASP.NET
15 9 (5.03%) SPFx
16 8 (4.47%) MDX
16 8 (4.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.06%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (7.82%) Cloud Native
3 14 (7.82%) Private Cloud
4 11 (6.15%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (4.47%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.79%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.12%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.12%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.12%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.12%) Social Media
8 2 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.56%) BBC
9 1 (0.56%) CMDB
9 1 (0.56%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.23%) VMS
2 3 (1.68%) Linux
2 3 (1.68%) Windows
3 2 (1.12%) CentOS
3 2 (1.12%) Debian
3 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (49.72%) Agile
2 79 (44.13%) Full-Stack Development
3 78 (43.58%) CI/CD
4 67 (37.43%) DevOps
5 59 (32.96%) AI
6 58 (32.40%) Software Engineering
7 52 (29.05%) Microservices
7 52 (29.05%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (25.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (23.46%) Test Automation
10 35 (19.55%) Scrum
11 31 (17.32%) Mentoring
12 30 (16.76%) TDD
13 25 (13.97%) Kanban
14 23 (12.85%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (11.73%) Translating Business Requirements
16 20 (11.17%) Architectural Patterns
17 19 (10.61%) Clean Code
18 18 (10.06%) Collaborative Working
19 16 (8.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 74 (41.34%) Java
2 59 (32.96%) TypeScript
3 49 (27.37%) Python
4 48 (26.82%) SQL
5 40 (22.35%) C#
6 8 (4.47%) Groovy
6 8 (4.47%) PHP
7 5 (2.79%) Go
8 3 (1.68%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.68%) C
8 3 (1.68%) C++
8 3 (1.68%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.68%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.12%) R
10 1 (0.56%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.56%) Rust
10 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.06%) Degree
3 14 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.35%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.23%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.23%) MBA
7 3 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.17%) QA
2 15 (8.38%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.47%) WCAG
4 3 (1.68%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 34 (18.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.91%) Ansible
3 2 (1.12%) Puppet
4 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.56%) Argo
4 1 (0.56%) Nagios
4 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.50%) Adobe
3 14 (7.82%) Splunk
4 13 (7.26%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.59%) Google
6 5 (2.79%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.79%) Pega
7 4 (2.23%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.68%) Oracle
8 3 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.68%) Sage
8 3 (1.68%) SAP
8 3 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.12%) Mistral
9 2 (1.12%) New Relic
9 2 (1.12%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.12%) WSO2
10 1 (0.56%) Adyen
10 1 (0.56%) Apple
10 1 (0.56%) Facebook