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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 16 16
Rank change year-on-year -35 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 155 295 482
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.45% 11.91% 8.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.57% 33.52% 26.66%
Number of salaries quoted 112 156 356
10th Percentile £36,500 £43,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,188 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £83,438 £78,750 £69,063
90th Percentile £99,750 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 1,064 880 1,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.81% 35.54% 32.55%
Number of salaries quoted 840 566 1,377
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,875 £37,050
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
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% -3.69%

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 10 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 10 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 10 £47,500 - 2
Bolton +13 1 £31,500 -33.68% 1
Oldham +5 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 12 (7.74%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.58%) Apache
4 3 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.94%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.29%) CICS
5 2 (1.29%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.29%) WordPress
6 1 (0.65%) CMS
6 1 (0.65%) Confluence
6 1 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.65%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.58%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 71 (45.81%) AWS
2 55 (35.48%) Azure
3 19 (12.26%) Serverless
4 18 (11.61%) Power Automate
4 18 (11.61%) Power Platform
5 16 (10.32%) PowerApps
6 15 (9.68%) GitHub
7 13 (8.39%) GCP
8 12 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (7.10%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (6.45%) SaaS
11 7 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (4.52%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.87%) OneDrive
13 5 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.94%) AMQP
2 2 (1.29%) Internet
3 1 (0.65%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.10%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.45%) MySQL
2 10 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.81%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.81%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.16%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.23%) Neo4j
5 5 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.94%) Big Data
6 3 (1.94%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.94%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.94%) GIS
6 3 (1.94%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.94%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.94%) QGIS
7 2 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.29%) Db2
7 2 (1.29%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (18.71%) Git
2 17 (10.97%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.10%) GitLab
4 9 (5.81%) Maven
5 8 (5.16%) JUnit
5 8 (5.16%) Spock
6 7 (4.52%) JIRA
7 6 (3.87%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.58%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.58%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.58%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.58%) Storybook
9 3 (1.94%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.29%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.29%) Postman
10 2 (1.29%) Selenium
10 2 (1.29%) Vite
11 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.65%) Mocha
11 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 27 (17.42%) Finance
1 27 (17.42%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.74%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.52%) Marketing
4 7 (4.52%) Retail
5 6 (3.87%) Law
6 5 (3.23%) Advertising
6 5 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.58%) Publishing
8 3 (1.94%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.94%) French Language
8 3 (1.94%) Italian Language
8 3 (1.94%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (1.94%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.29%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.65%) Back Office
10 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.65%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 66 (42.58%) Developer
2 36 (23.23%) Software Engineer
3 27 (17.42%) Lead
4 25 (16.13%) Senior
5 24 (15.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (11.61%) Senior Developer
7 15 (9.68%) Java Developer
8 14 (9.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (7.10%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 10 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 7 (4.52%) Lead Developer
13 6 (3.87%) Graduate
13 6 (3.87%) JavaScript Developer
14 5 (3.23%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 5 (3.23%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
14 5 (3.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 5 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
14 5 (3.23%) Principal Software Engineer
14 5 (3.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (31.61%) HTML
2 48 (30.97%) Node.js
3 46 (29.68%) CSS
4 43 (27.74%) React
5 40 (25.81%) AngularJS
6 32 (20.65%) .NET
7 22 (14.19%) Spring
8 21 (13.55%) REST
9 20 (12.90%) Vue
10 14 (9.03%) CSS3
10 14 (9.03%) Spring Boot
11 13 (8.39%) RESTful
12 11 (7.10%) HTML5
13 9 (5.81%) Web Services
14 7 (4.52%) Next.js
15 6 (3.87%) Kafka
15 6 (3.87%) LangChain
15 6 (3.87%) Laravel
15 6 (3.87%) MERN Stack
15 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (5.81%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.16%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (5.16%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.94%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.94%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.29%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.29%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.65%) BBC
9 1 (0.65%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.58%) Windows
2 3 (1.94%) Android
2 3 (1.94%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.94%) CentOS
2 3 (1.94%) Debian
2 3 (1.94%) Linux
2 3 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (46.45%) Agile
1 72 (46.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 59 (38.06%) CI/CD
3 53 (34.19%) Software Engineering
4 47 (30.32%) Microservices
5 46 (29.68%) DevOps
6 42 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (25.81%) AI
8 34 (21.94%) Scrum
9 33 (21.29%) Test Automation
10 31 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (18.06%) TDD
12 27 (17.42%) Mentoring
13 23 (14.84%) Kanban
14 19 (12.26%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (11.61%) Collaborative Working
16 15 (9.68%) Architectural Patterns
17 13 (8.39%) API Design
18 12 (7.74%) API Integration
18 12 (7.74%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 63 (40.65%) Java
2 54 (34.84%) TypeScript
3 47 (30.32%) Python
4 33 (21.29%) SQL
5 24 (15.48%) C#
6 9 (5.81%) PHP
7 5 (3.23%) Groovy
8 3 (1.94%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.94%) C
8 3 (1.94%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.29%) Go
9 2 (1.29%) R
10 1 (0.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (10.32%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.74%) Degree
3 7 (4.52%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.87%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.94%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.94%) MBA
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.39%) QA
2 10 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.58%) SLA
3 4 (2.58%) WCAG
4 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (14.84%) Docker
2 3 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (10.97%) Terraform
2 15 (9.68%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.52%) Ansible
4 3 (1.94%) Puppet
5 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.65%) Nagios
5 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.74%) Adobe
3 9 (5.81%) Splunk
4 8 (5.16%) AppDynamics
5 7 (4.52%) Google
6 5 (3.23%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.23%) Pega
7 4 (2.58%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.94%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.94%) Oracle
8 3 (1.94%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.29%) Adyen
9 2 (1.29%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.29%) WSO2
10 1 (0.65%) Apple
10 1 (0.65%) Facebook
10 1 (0.65%) New Relic
10 1 (0.65%) Sony
10 1 (0.65%) Yahoo!