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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -47 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 127 304 506
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.23% 13.61% 10.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.13% 36.02% 29.89%
Number of salaries quoted 90 169 401
10th Percentile £29,675 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £79,375 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 899 844 1,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.80% 37.80% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 718 543 1,395
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,850 £36,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £49,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.04% -5.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £80,750
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 21 May 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 21 May 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
Bolton +21 3 £31,500 -30.00% 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 6 (4.72%) Apache
2 4 (3.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (3.15%) WordPress
3 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.36%) GeoServer
3 3 (2.36%) nginx
4 2 (1.57%) CICS
4 2 (1.57%) CMS
4 2 (1.57%) JBoss
4 2 (1.57%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.79%) Confluence
5 1 (0.79%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.15%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 61 (48.03%) AWS
2 53 (41.73%) Azure
3 18 (14.17%) GitHub
4 15 (11.81%) Serverless
5 10 (7.87%) GCP
6 7 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (4.72%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.72%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.72%) SaaS
8 5 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.94%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (3.94%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.36%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.57%) Datadog
11 2 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.45%) Internet
2 3 (2.36%) AMQP
2 3 (2.36%) HTTP
3 2 (1.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.66%) NoSQL
2 9 (7.09%) MySQL
3 8 (6.30%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.30%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.51%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.36%) Big Data
6 3 (2.36%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.36%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.36%) GIS
6 3 (2.36%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.36%) QGIS
7 2 (1.57%) DB2
7 2 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.57%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.57%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (34.65%) Git
2 15 (11.81%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.09%) JIRA
4 7 (5.51%) JUnit
5 5 (3.94%) GitLab
5 5 (3.94%) Maven
6 4 (3.15%) Spock
7 3 (2.36%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.36%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.57%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.57%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.57%) Postman
8 2 (1.57%) Selenium
8 2 (1.57%) Subversion
9 1 (0.79%) gulp
9 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.79%) Storybook
9 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 23 (18.11%) Finance
2 18 (14.17%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.81%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.45%) Multimedia
5 10 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.72%) Law
7 5 (3.94%) Retail
8 4 (3.15%) Advertising
8 4 (3.15%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.36%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.36%) French Language
9 3 (2.36%) Italian Language
9 3 (2.36%) Marketing
9 3 (2.36%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (2.36%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.57%) Games
11 1 (0.79%) Back Office
11 1 (0.79%) Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (40.94%) Developer
2 34 (26.77%) Software Engineer
3 24 (18.90%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (15.75%) Lead
5 18 (14.17%) Senior
6 15 (11.81%) Java Developer
7 14 (11.02%) Senior Developer
8 12 (9.45%) Trainee
9 11 (8.66%) Lead Software Engineer
10 10 (7.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (7.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 7 (5.51%) Software Developer
13 6 (4.72%) Graduate
14 5 (3.94%) Analyst
14 5 (3.94%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
14 5 (3.94%) JavaScript Developer
14 5 (3.94%) PHP Developer
14 5 (3.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 4 (3.15%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 4 (3.15%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (44.09%) CSS
2 54 (42.52%) HTML
3 44 (34.65%) Node.js
4 36 (28.35%) React
5 32 (25.20%) AngularJS
6 26 (20.47%) .NET
7 21 (16.54%) Spring
8 19 (14.96%) REST
9 17 (13.39%) Spring Boot
10 16 (12.60%) RESTful
11 15 (11.81%) CSS3
12 12 (9.45%) HTML5
13 10 (7.87%) Vue
14 8 (6.30%) Web Services
15 6 (4.72%) gRPC
15 6 (4.72%) Kafka
16 5 (3.94%) EDI
16 5 (3.94%) Next.js
17 4 (3.15%) OAuth2
17 4 (3.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.24%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.51%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.15%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.36%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.36%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.57%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.57%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.15%) Linux
1 4 (3.15%) Windows
2 3 (2.36%) Android
2 3 (2.36%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.36%) CentOS
2 3 (2.36%) Debian
2 3 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (46.46%) Full-Stack Development
2 58 (45.67%) Agile
3 44 (34.65%) CI/CD
4 42 (33.07%) Software Engineering
5 34 (26.77%) Microservices
6 33 (25.98%) Scrum
7 32 (25.20%) Mentoring
8 24 (18.90%) TDD
9 22 (17.32%) DevOps
9 22 (17.32%) Kanban
10 20 (15.75%) AI
10 20 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (14.96%) Test Automation
12 16 (12.60%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (10.24%) User Experience
14 12 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (9.45%) Web Development
15 10 (7.87%) Clean Code
15 10 (7.87%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 49 (38.58%) Java
2 48 (37.80%) Python
3 36 (28.35%) TypeScript
4 23 (18.11%) SQL
5 12 (9.45%) C#
6 8 (6.30%) R
7 7 (5.51%) PHP
8 4 (3.15%) C
8 4 (3.15%) Groovy
9 3 (2.36%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (9.45%) AWS Certification
1 12 (9.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 12 (9.45%) Azure Certification
1 12 (9.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.30%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.51%) Degree
5 4 (3.15%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.36%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.94%) QA
2 4 (3.15%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.15%) SLA
3 1 (0.79%) HL7
3 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (11.02%) Docker
2 4 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (12.60%) Terraform
2 7 (5.51%) Ansible
2 7 (5.51%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.36%) Puppet
4 2 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.57%) Nagios
4 2 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.72%) Google
2 6 (4.72%) Splunk
3 5 (3.94%) Adobe
3 5 (3.94%) Pega
3 5 (3.94%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.15%) AppDynamics
4 4 (3.15%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.36%) Oracle
5 3 (2.36%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.57%) Adyen
6 2 (1.57%) New Relic
6 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.57%) WSO2