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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 23 14
Rank change year-on-year -19 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 110 273 291
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.66% 7.60% 12.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.13% 23.16% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 90 153 236
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,813 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,000 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

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 575 1,179 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 24.33% 32.81% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 486 621 856
10th Percentile £33,125 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,251 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,987 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £84,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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
Bury +1 4 £52,500 -8.70%
Altrincham 0 3 £50,000 - 2
Bolton +16 2 £39,500 +12.86% 7
Stockport +1 1 - - 7
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 5 (4.55%) CMS
1 5 (4.55%) WordPress
2 4 (3.64%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.82%) Apache
3 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.82%) nginx
4 1 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.91%) IIS
4 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.91%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.91%) InVision
2 1 (0.91%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.91%) Sketch
2 1 (0.91%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.91%) Odoo
2 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.91%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (50.91%) AWS
2 47 (42.73%) Azure
3 23 (20.91%) GitHub
4 14 (12.73%) Serverless
5 10 (9.09%) GCP
6 7 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.73%) Cloudflare
8 3 (2.73%) SaaS
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.82%) npm
9 2 (1.82%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.82%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.64%) Internet
2 4 (3.64%) SSH
3 3 (2.73%) HTTP
4 2 (1.82%) AMQP
4 2 (1.82%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.27%) MySQL
2 10 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.18%) SQL Server
4 8 (7.27%) MongoDB
4 8 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.27%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.55%) Redis
7 3 (2.73%) Big Data
7 3 (2.73%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.73%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.82%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.82%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.82%) GIS
8 2 (1.82%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.82%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.91%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 53 (48.18%) Git
2 7 (6.36%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.64%) JIRA
4 3 (2.73%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.73%) JUnit
5 2 (1.82%) GitLab
5 2 (1.82%) webpack
6 1 (0.91%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.91%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.91%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.91%) Maven
6 1 (0.91%) Protractor
6 1 (0.91%) Selenium
General
1 29 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.64%) Multimedia
3 12 (10.91%) Finance
4 7 (6.36%) Marketing
5 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.73%) Electronics
7 3 (2.73%) Games
7 3 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.82%) Law
8 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Retail
9 1 (0.91%) Automotive
9 1 (0.91%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.91%) Legal
9 1 (0.91%) Publishing
9 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (67.27%) Developer
2 24 (21.82%) Senior
3 19 (17.27%) Software Developer
4 17 (15.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 17 (15.45%) Senior Developer
5 15 (13.64%) Trainee
6 12 (10.91%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (10.91%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) PHP Developer
8 8 (7.27%) Lead
8 8 (7.27%) Trainee Developer
8 8 (7.27%) Trainee Software Developer
9 7 (6.36%) .NET Developer
10 6 (5.45%) Principal Developer
11 5 (4.55%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (3.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (3.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 3 (2.73%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 3 (2.73%) PHP WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (62.73%) HTML
2 68 (61.82%) CSS
3 45 (40.91%) React
4 26 (23.64%) Node.js
5 25 (22.73%) AngularJS
6 22 (20.00%) .NET
7 15 (13.64%) REST
7 15 (13.64%) RESTful
8 11 (10.00%) CSS3
9 10 (9.09%) HTML5
10 9 (8.18%) Spring
10 9 (8.18%) Spring Boot
10 9 (8.18%) Vue
11 8 (7.27%) Laravel
12 7 (6.36%) .NET Framework
12 7 (6.36%) Next.js
13 6 (5.45%) ASP.NET
13 6 (5.45%) jQuery
13 6 (5.45%) React Native
14 5 (4.55%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.73%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.82%) NHS
5 2 (1.82%) Online Games
5 2 (1.82%) Wiki
6 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.91%) Life Science
6 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Tandem
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.64%) Linux
2 4 (3.64%) Windows
2 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.82%) CentOS
3 2 (1.82%) Debian
3 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (46.36%) Agile
2 33 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 33 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 32 (29.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 26 (23.64%) Software Engineering
5 24 (21.82%) DevOps
5 24 (21.82%) Microservices
6 23 (20.91%) User Experience
7 22 (20.00%) Front End Development
8 19 (17.27%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (15.45%) AI
10 17 (15.45%) Containerisation
11 13 (11.82%) Scrum
12 12 (10.91%) Performance Optimisation
13 11 (10.00%) Clean Code
14 10 (9.09%) Code Quality
15 9 (8.18%) API Development
15 9 (8.18%) TDD
15 9 (8.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.36%) TypeScript
2 33 (30.00%) Python
3 20 (18.18%) C#
4 18 (16.36%) Java
5 16 (14.55%) PHP
5 16 (14.55%) SQL
6 7 (6.36%) R
7 4 (3.64%) C
8 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.91%) Scala
9 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.91%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (13.64%) AWS Certification
1 15 (13.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 15 (13.64%) Azure Certification
1 15 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.82%) Degree
7 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.91%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.73%) QA
3 2 (1.82%) GDPR
3 2 (1.82%) HL7
4 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (20.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) HDFS
2 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.27%) Ansible
3 5 (4.55%) Terraform
4 3 (2.73%) cPanel
4 3 (2.73%) Plesk
5 2 (1.82%) Puppet
6 1 (0.91%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (24.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.45%) Google
3 3 (2.73%) Adobe
4 2 (1.82%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.82%) Oracle
4 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.82%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.91%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.91%) iManage
5 1 (0.91%) Pega
5 1 (0.91%) SAP
5 1 (0.91%) WSO2