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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 16 17
Rank change year-on-year -33 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 161 286 391
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.43% 11.39% 8.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.66% 32.95% 27.13%
Number of salaries quoted 122 148 269
10th Percentile £38,875 £43,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,813 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £81,875 £78,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £97,528 £76,500
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 1,098 868 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.57% 34.57% 30.52%
Number of salaries quoted 860 558 1,063
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £38,069
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -3.08%

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 July 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 July 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 14 £51,000 - 2
Oldham +2 3 £54,250 - 1
Bolton +13 2 £43,250 -8.95%
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 17 (10.56%) SharePoint
2 13 (8.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.48%) Apache
4 3 (1.86%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.24%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.24%) CICS
5 2 (1.24%) JBoss
5 2 (1.24%) nginx
5 2 (1.24%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.24%) WordPress
6 1 (0.62%) Confluence
6 1 (0.62%) IIS
6 1 (0.62%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.48%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 70 (43.48%) AWS
2 60 (37.27%) Azure
3 25 (15.53%) Power Automate
3 25 (15.53%) Power Platform
4 21 (13.04%) PowerApps
5 17 (10.56%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (10.56%) Serverless
6 16 (9.94%) GitHub
6 16 (9.94%) Microsoft Copilot
7 15 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (8.70%) GCP
9 11 (6.83%) SaaS
10 9 (5.59%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (4.97%) Copilot Studio
11 8 (4.97%) npm
12 7 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.35%) OneDrive
13 6 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.48%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.24%) AMQP
1 2 (1.24%) Internet
1 2 (1.24%) SSL
2 1 (0.62%) HTTP
2 1 (0.62%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.45%) MongoDB
2 11 (6.83%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.21%) MySQL
3 10 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.59%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.59%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.48%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.86%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.86%) GIS
7 3 (1.86%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.86%) QGIS
8 2 (1.24%) Big Data
8 2 (1.24%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.24%) Db2
8 2 (1.24%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.24%) Power BI
8 2 (1.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (19.25%) Git
2 16 (9.94%) Jenkins
3 14 (8.70%) GitLab
3 14 (8.70%) Maven
4 11 (6.83%) JUnit
4 11 (6.83%) Spock
5 8 (4.97%) Storybook
6 7 (4.35%) JIRA
7 5 (3.11%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.11%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.48%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.48%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.86%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.24%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.24%) Subversion
10 2 (1.24%) Vite
11 1 (0.62%) Postman
11 1 (0.62%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 29 (18.01%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.15%) Finance
3 16 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.83%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.59%) Marketing
6 8 (4.97%) Publishing
7 7 (4.35%) Law
7 7 (4.35%) Retail
8 5 (3.11%) Advertising
8 5 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.11%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.24%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.62%) Back Office
10 1 (0.62%) Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
10 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 77 (47.83%) Developer
2 31 (19.25%) Senior
2 31 (19.25%) Software Engineer
3 26 (16.15%) Lead
4 23 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (13.66%) Senior Developer
6 16 (9.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 15 (9.32%) Java Developer
7 15 (9.32%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 9 (5.59%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (4.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (4.35%) Lead Developer
11 6 (3.73%) JavaScript Developer
11 6 (3.73%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.11%) .NET Developer
12 5 (3.11%) Architect
12 5 (3.11%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 5 (3.11%) Junior
12 5 (3.11%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (34.16%) HTML
2 51 (31.68%) CSS
3 47 (29.19%) Node.js
4 44 (27.33%) AngularJS
5 36 (22.36%) React
6 34 (21.12%) .NET
7 24 (14.91%) Spring
8 19 (11.80%) REST
9 18 (11.18%) Vue
10 15 (9.32%) CSS3
11 13 (8.07%) RESTful
11 13 (8.07%) Spring Boot
12 12 (7.45%) HTML5
13 9 (5.59%) HTML5 Canvas
13 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (5.59%) Web Services
14 8 (4.97%) GraphQL
14 8 (4.97%) MDX
14 8 (4.97%) SPFx
15 7 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (9.32%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (7.45%) Private Cloud
4 10 (6.21%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.48%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.24%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.24%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.24%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.24%) Social Media
9 1 (0.62%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.62%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.62%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.62%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.62%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.48%) Windows
2 2 (1.24%) CentOS
2 2 (1.24%) Debian
2 2 (1.24%) Linux
2 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.24%) Ubuntu
2 2 (1.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (48.45%) Agile
2 77 (47.83%) Full-Stack Development
3 68 (42.24%) CI/CD
4 57 (35.40%) DevOps
5 54 (33.54%) Software Engineering
6 51 (31.68%) AI
7 48 (29.81%) Microservices
8 44 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (24.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (22.36%) Test Automation
11 34 (21.12%) Scrum
12 31 (19.25%) TDD
13 28 (17.39%) Mentoring
14 24 (14.91%) Kanban
15 21 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (11.80%) Architectural Patterns
17 18 (11.18%) Collaborative Working
18 17 (10.56%) Clean Code
18 17 (10.56%) Translating Business Requirements
19 14 (8.70%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 67 (41.61%) Java
2 57 (35.40%) TypeScript
3 45 (27.95%) Python
4 35 (21.74%) SQL
5 33 (20.50%) C#
6 7 (4.35%) PHP
7 6 (3.73%) Groovy
8 3 (1.86%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.86%) Go
8 3 (1.86%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.24%) C
9 2 (1.24%) R
10 1 (0.62%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (8.07%) Degree
1 13 (8.07%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.73%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.11%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.48%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.48%) MBA
5 3 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.32%) Accessibility
2 14 (8.70%) QA
3 8 (4.97%) WCAG
4 4 (2.48%) SLA
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 25 (15.53%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (8.07%) Kubernetes
1 13 (8.07%) Terraform
2 6 (3.73%) Ansible
3 2 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.24%) Nagios
3 2 (1.24%) Puppet
3 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (19.88%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.56%) Adobe
3 13 (8.07%) Splunk
4 11 (6.83%) AppDynamics
5 8 (4.97%) Google
6 5 (3.11%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.11%) Pega
7 4 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.86%) Oracle
8 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.24%) Adyen
9 2 (1.24%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.24%) New Relic
9 2 (1.24%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.24%) WSO2
10 1 (0.62%) Apple
10 1 (0.62%) Facebook
10 1 (0.62%) Sony
10 1 (0.62%) Yahoo!