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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 21 14
Rank change year-on-year -14 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 137 266 319
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.58% 7.34% 13.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.09% 22.70% 28.33%
Number of salaries quoted 79 147 261
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +0.40%
75th Percentile £72,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £84,250 £77,542
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +1.73%

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 682 1,172 1,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.78% 32.33% 46.38%
Number of salaries quoted 496 604 930
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,829 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £84,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.08% +0.08%

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 8 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 8 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 +2 6 £52,500 -8.70% 8
Altrincham -1 6 £50,000 -4.76% 11
Stockport +3 4 - - 7
Oldham +8 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 14
Bolton +9 2 £47,500 +40.74% 45
Cheadle - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - - 13
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Salford +11 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 4 (2.92%) Apache Solr
1 4 (2.92%) CMS
2 3 (2.19%) WordPress
3 2 (1.46%) nginx
4 1 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.73%) IIS
4 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.46%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.73%) InVision
2 1 (0.73%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.73%) Sketch
2 1 (0.73%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.73%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.73%) Odoo
2 1 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 87 (63.50%) AWS
2 77 (56.20%) Azure
3 38 (27.74%) GCP
4 19 (13.87%) GitHub
5 14 (10.22%) Serverless
6 7 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.38%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.19%) Cloudflare
9 3 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.19%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.19%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.19%) SaaS
9 3 (2.19%) Vercel
10 2 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.46%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.46%) npm
10 2 (1.46%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.03%) Internet
2 3 (2.19%) HTTP
3 2 (1.46%) SSH
4 1 (0.73%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.41%) MySQL
1 17 (12.41%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.84%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.84%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.11%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.65%) Redis
7 4 (2.92%) GIS
8 3 (2.19%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.46%) Big Data
9 2 (1.46%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.46%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.46%) Power BI
9 2 (1.46%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.73%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.73%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (28.47%) Git
2 13 (9.49%) JIRA
3 11 (8.03%) GitLab
4 10 (7.30%) Maven
4 10 (7.30%) Selenium
5 9 (6.57%) Bitbucket
5 9 (6.57%) Cucumber
5 9 (6.57%) SonarQube
5 9 (6.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (4.38%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.19%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.19%) JUnit
8 2 (1.46%) webpack
9 1 (0.73%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.73%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.73%) Protractor
General
1 38 (27.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 27 (19.71%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.06%) Finance
4 11 (8.03%) Multimedia
4 11 (8.03%) Retail
5 9 (6.57%) Banking
5 9 (6.57%) Corporate Banking
5 9 (6.57%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.11%) Marketing
6 7 (5.11%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.65%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.92%) Games
9 3 (2.19%) Electronics
9 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.46%) Law
11 1 (0.73%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (48.91%) Developer
2 49 (35.77%) Senior
3 48 (35.04%) Software Engineer
4 31 (22.63%) Senior Software Engineer
5 17 (12.41%) Software Developer
6 14 (10.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 14 (10.22%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.03%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (8.03%) Trainee
8 8 (5.84%) PHP Developer
9 6 (4.38%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.38%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (4.38%) Lead
9 6 (4.38%) Principal Developer
9 6 (4.38%) Trainee Developer
9 6 (4.38%) Trainee Software Developer
10 4 (2.92%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 4 (2.92%) Java Developer
11 3 (2.19%) Java Engineer
11 3 (2.19%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (48.91%) HTML
2 65 (47.45%) CSS
3 52 (37.96%) Node.js
4 47 (34.31%) .NET
5 45 (32.85%) React
6 23 (16.79%) REST
6 23 (16.79%) RESTful
7 21 (15.33%) AngularJS
8 20 (14.60%) CSS3
8 20 (14.60%) HTML5
9 18 (13.14%) Spring
9 18 (13.14%) Spring Boot
10 12 (8.76%) Jest
10 12 (8.76%) Kafka
11 11 (8.03%) Sass
12 10 (7.30%) Redux
13 9 (6.57%) JPA
13 9 (6.57%) Vue
14 7 (5.11%) Laravel
14 7 (5.11%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (21.90%) Linux Command Line
1 30 (21.90%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (21.17%) Cyberattack
3 12 (8.76%) Product Ownership
4 11 (8.03%) Cloud Native
5 9 (6.57%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.92%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.46%) Online Games
8 2 (1.46%) Wiki
9 1 (0.73%) Animation
9 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.73%) Life Science
9 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.73%) Tandem
9 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (29.93%) Linux
2 4 (2.92%) Windows
2 4 (2.92%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.73%) CentOS
3 1 (0.73%) Debian
3 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (62.77%) Agile
2 64 (46.72%) Mentoring
2 64 (46.72%) Software Engineering
3 61 (44.53%) User Experience
4 57 (41.61%) Microservices
5 41 (29.93%) Scrum
6 39 (28.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 38 (27.74%) CI/CD
8 33 (24.09%) DevOps
8 33 (24.09%) Machine Learning
9 32 (23.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 29 (21.17%) Cloud Security
10 29 (21.17%) Data Engineering
11 27 (19.71%) Front End Development
12 25 (18.25%) Containerisation
13 20 (14.60%) Test Automation
14 19 (13.87%) Performance Optimisation
15 16 (11.68%) AI
16 15 (10.95%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (10.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 60 (43.80%) Python
2 56 (40.88%) Java
3 45 (32.85%) TypeScript
4 29 (21.17%) C++
4 29 (21.17%) Go
4 29 (21.17%) Rust
5 24 (17.52%) SQL
6 17 (12.41%) C#
6 17 (12.41%) PHP
7 5 (3.65%) R
8 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.73%) C
9 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.73%) Scala
9 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.73%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 40 (29.20%) AWS Certification
2 39 (28.47%) Security Cleared
3 34 (24.82%) DV Cleared
4 29 (21.17%) AWS Certified Developer
4 29 (21.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (8.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 11 (8.03%) Azure Certification
5 11 (8.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.65%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.46%) Degree
9 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.95%) Accessibility
2 12 (8.76%) QA
3 2 (1.46%) GDPR
3 2 (1.46%) HL7
4 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (20.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (12.41%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.38%) Ansible
3 4 (2.92%) Terraform
4 1 (0.73%) cPanel
4 1 (0.73%) Grafana
4 1 (0.73%) Plesk
4 1 (0.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.57%) Solace
3 5 (3.65%) Google
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle
5 3 (2.19%) Adobe
5 3 (2.19%) SAP
6 2 (1.46%) IBM
6 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.73%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.73%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.73%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.73%) iManage
7 1 (0.73%) Pega
7 1 (0.73%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.73%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.73%) WSO2