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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 21 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 220 306 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.31% 7.54% 12.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.68% 24.88% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 86 163 317
10th Percentile £43,250 £33,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,563 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,501 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.28% -8.69% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,625 £74,777 £76,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -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 767 1,230 1,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.47% 30.33% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 465 710 1,030
10th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £83,750
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

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript 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 16 September 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 16 September 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
Altrincham +1 14 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Stockport +7 11 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Cheadle - 11 - -
Bury +2 9 £52,500 +16.67%
Oldham - 9 - -
Sale - 8 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 8 - -
Heywood - 6 - -
Dukinfield - 5 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Wigan - 4 - - 7
Salford +8 3 - - 3
Bolton -3 3 - - 7
JavaScript
North West

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.09%) Confluence
2 6 (2.73%) CMS
2 6 (2.73%) IIS
3 4 (1.82%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.91%) nginx
4 2 (0.91%) WordPress
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.91%) Sketch
3 1 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.45%) InVision
3 1 (0.45%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Magento
2 1 (0.45%) Odoo
2 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 163 (74.09%) AWS
2 134 (60.91%) Azure
3 101 (45.91%) GCP
4 16 (7.27%) Serverless
5 10 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (4.09%) GitHub
7 7 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.82%) Cloudflare
9 4 (1.82%) Firebase
10 3 (1.36%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.36%) CloudFront
10 3 (1.36%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.36%) SaaS
10 3 (1.36%) Vercel
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.91%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.27%) HTTP
2 2 (0.91%) Internet
3 1 (0.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (20.91%) SQL Server
2 25 (11.36%) MySQL
3 18 (8.18%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.09%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.73%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.27%) Redis
8 4 (1.82%) GIS
9 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.36%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.36%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.91%) Power BI
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.45%) Big Data
11 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.45%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (17.73%) JIRA
2 33 (15.00%) Git
3 32 (14.55%) Selenium
4 29 (13.18%) Maven
5 28 (12.73%) GitLab
5 28 (12.73%) SonarQube
5 28 (12.73%) Sonatype Nexus
6 27 (12.27%) Bitbucket
6 27 (12.27%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.18%) JMeter
7 7 (3.18%) JUnit
8 4 (1.82%) Appium
8 4 (1.82%) Fiddler
8 4 (1.82%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.82%) Postman
9 3 (1.36%) Jasmine
9 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.36%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.91%) webpack
General
1 109 (49.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 45 (20.45%) Finance
3 29 (13.18%) Banking
4 23 (10.45%) Social Skills
5 19 (8.64%) Retail
6 18 (8.18%) Corporate Banking
6 18 (8.18%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.64%) Marketing
8 6 (2.73%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.27%) Digital Healthcare
9 5 (2.27%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.82%) Cantonese Language
10 4 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.82%) Games
10 4 (1.82%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.91%) Electronics
12 2 (0.91%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.91%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 126 (57.27%) Software Engineer
2 108 (49.09%) Senior
3 86 (39.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 60 (27.27%) Developer
5 19 (8.64%) Lead
6 15 (6.82%) .NET Developer
6 15 (6.82%) Senior Developer
7 11 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 9 (4.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (4.09%) PHP Developer
9 8 (3.64%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (3.18%) Software Developer
11 6 (2.73%) Analyst
11 6 (2.73%) Digital Analyst
11 6 (2.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (2.73%) Integration Analyst
12 5 (2.27%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 5 (2.27%) Java Engineer
12 5 (2.27%) Principal Developer
12 5 (2.27%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (46.36%) .NET
2 101 (45.91%) Node.js
3 79 (35.91%) HTML
4 77 (35.00%) CSS
5 61 (27.73%) React
6 37 (16.82%) Kafka
7 35 (15.91%) Spring
7 35 (15.91%) Spring Boot
8 32 (14.55%) REST
9 31 (14.09%) RESTful
10 29 (13.18%) Redux
11 28 (12.73%) HTML5
12 27 (12.27%) JPA
13 26 (11.82%) CSS3
13 26 (11.82%) Sass
14 21 (9.55%) AngularJS
14 21 (9.55%) Jest
15 14 (6.36%) JSON
16 10 (4.55%) .NET Core
16 10 (4.55%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 83 (37.73%) Linux Command Line
1 83 (37.73%) Self-Motivation
2 82 (37.27%) Cyberattack
3 39 (17.73%) Product Ownership
4 27 (12.27%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.09%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.27%) LIMS
8 4 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.91%) Online Games
9 2 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.91%) Tandem
9 2 (0.91%) Wiki
10 1 (0.45%) Animation
10 1 (0.45%) CMDB
10 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.45%) Life Science
10 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 99 (45.00%) Linux
2 4 (1.82%) Windows
2 4 (1.82%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.45%) Android
3 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (74.55%) Agile
2 145 (65.91%) Software Engineering
3 134 (60.91%) Microservices
4 132 (60.00%) User Experience
5 117 (53.18%) Mentoring
6 92 (41.82%) Scrum
7 85 (38.64%) Machine Learning
7 85 (38.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 82 (37.27%) Cloud Security
8 82 (37.27%) Data Engineering
9 58 (26.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 57 (25.91%) CI/CD
11 50 (22.73%) DevOps
12 44 (20.00%) Front End Development
13 43 (19.55%) Containerisation
14 39 (17.73%) Performance Optimisation
14 39 (17.73%) Test Automation
15 35 (15.91%) SDLC
16 20 (9.09%) Migration
17 19 (8.64%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 136 (61.82%) Java
2 109 (49.55%) Python
3 83 (37.73%) Go
4 82 (37.27%) C++
4 82 (37.27%) Rust
5 59 (26.82%) TypeScript
6 53 (24.09%) SQL
7 18 (8.18%) C#
7 18 (8.18%) PHP
8 7 (3.18%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.45%) R
9 1 (0.45%) Scala
9 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 87 (39.55%) Security Cleared
2 84 (38.18%) AWS Certification
2 84 (38.18%) DV Cleared
3 82 (37.27%) AWS Certified Developer
3 82 (37.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (3.18%) Degree
5 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.82%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.91%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.91%) QA
2 23 (10.45%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.73%) HL7
4 2 (0.91%) GDPR
4 2 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (23.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.27%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Ansible
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
3 1 (0.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 27 (12.27%) Solace
2 16 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.73%) Oracle
4 5 (2.27%) Adobe
5 4 (1.82%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.36%) Google
7 2 (0.91%) IBM
7 2 (0.91%) SAP
8 1 (0.45%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow