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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 16 16
Rank change year-on-year -35 0 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 147 295 543
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.41% 12.98% 9.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.30% 34.18% 28.70%
Number of salaries quoted 107 156 418
10th Percentile £34,500 £43,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year - +16.59% -3.04%
75th Percentile £82,500 £79,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £56,250 £60,000 £54,424
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.25% -1.05%

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 1,028 863 1,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.85% 37.98% 31.96%
Number of salaries quoted 822 545 1,498
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 18 June 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 18 June 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 7 £51,000 - 4
Bolton +15 1 £31,500 -33.68%
Oldham +3 1 £69,973 - 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 9 (6.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 9 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.72%) Apache
3 3 (2.04%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.36%) CICS
4 2 (1.36%) JBoss
4 2 (1.36%) nginx
4 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.36%) WordPress
5 1 (0.68%) CMS
5 1 (0.68%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.72%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 65 (44.22%) AWS
2 54 (36.73%) Azure
3 18 (12.24%) GitHub
4 16 (10.88%) Serverless
5 14 (9.52%) Power Automate
5 14 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 13 (8.84%) PowerApps
7 10 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (6.80%) GCP
8 9 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (5.44%) SaaS
10 7 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (3.40%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (2.72%) npm
13 4 (2.72%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.08%) Internet
2 2 (1.36%) AMQP
2 2 (1.36%) SSL
3 1 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.48%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.80%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.76%) MySQL
3 7 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.04%) GIS
5 3 (2.04%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.04%) Pinecone
5 3 (2.04%) QGIS
6 2 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.36%) Big Data
6 2 (1.36%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.36%) Db2
6 2 (1.36%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.36%) Hazelcast
6 2 (1.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (23.81%) Git
2 17 (11.56%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.12%) GitLab
4 8 (5.44%) JIRA
4 8 (5.44%) Maven
5 7 (4.76%) JUnit
6 6 (4.08%) Spock
7 4 (2.72%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.72%) Storybook
8 3 (2.04%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.04%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.36%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.36%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.36%) Postman
9 2 (1.36%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.36%) Selenium
9 2 (1.36%) Subversion
9 2 (1.36%) Vite
10 1 (0.68%) gulp
10 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 26 (17.69%) Finance
1 26 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.84%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.76%) Marketing
4 7 (4.76%) Retail
5 6 (4.08%) Law
5 6 (4.08%) Multimedia
6 5 (3.40%) Advertising
6 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.40%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.72%) Publishing
8 3 (2.04%) French Language
8 3 (2.04%) Italian Language
8 3 (2.04%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (2.04%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.36%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Back Office
10 1 (0.68%) Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Games
Job Titles
1 66 (44.90%) Developer
2 34 (23.13%) Software Engineer
3 26 (17.69%) Lead
4 24 (16.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (14.97%) Senior
6 16 (10.88%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.20%) Java Developer
8 12 (8.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (5.44%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 7 (4.76%) Lead Developer
11 7 (4.76%) Software Developer
12 6 (4.08%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 6 (4.08%) Graduate
12 6 (4.08%) JavaScript Developer
12 6 (4.08%) Trainee
13 5 (3.40%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 5 (3.40%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 5 (3.40%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (36.73%) HTML
2 53 (36.05%) CSS
3 47 (31.97%) Node.js
4 41 (27.89%) React
5 35 (23.81%) AngularJS
6 29 (19.73%) .NET
7 20 (13.61%) REST
7 20 (13.61%) Spring
8 15 (10.20%) CSS3
9 14 (9.52%) Spring Boot
9 14 (9.52%) Vue
10 13 (8.84%) RESTful
11 12 (8.16%) HTML5
12 7 (4.76%) Next.js
12 7 (4.76%) Web Services
13 5 (3.40%) EDI
13 5 (3.40%) GraphQL
13 5 (3.40%) Kafka
13 5 (3.40%) LangChain
13 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.12%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (4.08%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (4.08%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.72%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.36%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.36%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.68%) BBC
10 1 (0.68%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.68%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.72%) Windows
2 3 (2.04%) Android
2 3 (2.04%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.36%) CentOS
3 2 (1.36%) Debian
3 2 (1.36%) Linux
3 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (46.26%) Agile
1 68 (46.26%) Full-Stack Development
2 57 (38.78%) CI/CD
3 47 (31.97%) Software Engineering
4 39 (26.53%) Microservices
5 38 (25.85%) DevOps
6 35 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (22.45%) Scrum
8 32 (21.77%) AI
9 30 (20.41%) Mentoring
9 30 (20.41%) Test Automation
10 27 (18.37%) TDD
11 24 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (14.29%) Kanban
13 17 (11.56%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (8.84%) Collaborative Working
15 12 (8.16%) Architectural Patterns
15 12 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
15 12 (8.16%) User Experience
16 11 (7.48%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 57 (38.78%) Java
2 49 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 48 (32.65%) Python
4 31 (21.09%) SQL
5 21 (14.29%) C#
6 7 (4.76%) PHP
7 4 (2.72%) Groovy
8 3 (2.04%) Apex Code
8 3 (2.04%) C
8 3 (2.04%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.04%) R
9 1 (0.68%) Go
9 1 (0.68%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (8.84%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.80%) Degree
3 6 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 6 (4.08%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.08%) DV Cleared
3 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.40%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.04%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) MBA
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.48%) QA
2 8 (5.44%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.72%) SLA
3 4 (2.72%) WCAG
4 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (12.24%) Docker
2 4 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (12.24%) Terraform
2 11 (7.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.08%) Ansible
4 2 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.36%) Nagios
4 2 (1.36%) Puppet
4 2 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.80%) Adobe
3 8 (5.44%) Splunk
4 6 (4.08%) AppDynamics
4 6 (4.08%) Google
5 5 (3.40%) Pega
6 4 (2.72%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.72%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.72%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.04%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.04%) Oracle
8 2 (1.36%) Adyen
8 2 (1.36%) New Relic
8 2 (1.36%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.36%) WSO2
9 1 (0.68%) Apple
9 1 (0.68%) Facebook
9 1 (0.68%) Sony
9 1 (0.68%) Yahoo!