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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 23 13
Rank change year-on-year -25 -10 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 102 263 303
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.26% 7.36% 12.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.44% 22.42% 28.08%
Number of salaries quoted 82 144 246
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £39,375
25th Percentile £44,750 £42,500 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,250 £67,500 £69,688
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,875 £77,542
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

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 585 1,173 1,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 24.45% 32.81% 45.66%
Number of salaries quoted 488 599 888
10th Percentile £33,125 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £84,017
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 18 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 18 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 0 4 £52,500 -8.70% 8
Altrincham -3 3 £50,000 -4.76% 10
Bolton +12 1 £47,500 +40.74% 12
Stockport 0 1 - - 7
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 (3.92%) Apache Solr
1 4 (3.92%) CMS
2 3 (2.94%) WordPress
3 2 (1.96%) Apache
3 2 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.96%) nginx
4 1 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.98%) IIS
4 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.98%) InVision
2 1 (0.98%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.98%) Sketch
2 1 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.98%) Odoo
2 1 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.98%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (51.96%) AWS
2 41 (40.20%) Azure
3 21 (20.59%) GitHub
4 15 (14.71%) Serverless
5 8 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (7.84%) GCP
6 6 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.94%) Cloudflare
7 3 (2.94%) SaaS
7 3 (2.94%) Vercel
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.96%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.96%) Supabase
8 2 (1.96%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.75%) Internet
2 4 (3.92%) SSH
3 2 (1.96%) AMQP
3 2 (1.96%) HTTP
3 2 (1.96%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.65%) MySQL
2 9 (8.82%) MongoDB
2 9 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.84%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.84%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.86%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.90%) Redis
7 3 (2.94%) Big Data
7 3 (2.94%) GIS
7 3 (2.94%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.94%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.96%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.98%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.98%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.98%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 44 (43.14%) Git
2 6 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.94%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.94%) JIRA
4 2 (1.96%) GitLab
4 2 (1.96%) JUnit
4 2 (1.96%) webpack
5 1 (0.98%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.98%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.98%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.98%) Maven
5 1 (0.98%) Protractor
5 1 (0.98%) Selenium
General
1 28 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.75%) Finance
2 13 (12.75%) Multimedia
3 7 (6.86%) Marketing
3 7 (6.86%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.90%) Electronics
4 5 (4.90%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.92%) Games
6 3 (2.94%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.96%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.96%) Law
7 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.98%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.98%) Legal
8 1 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (66.67%) Developer
2 21 (20.59%) Senior
3 18 (17.65%) Software Developer
4 15 (14.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 14 (13.73%) Senior Developer
6 13 (12.75%) Trainee
7 12 (11.76%) Software Engineer
8 11 (10.78%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.84%) PHP Developer
10 7 (6.86%) Lead
10 7 (6.86%) Trainee Developer
10 7 (6.86%) Trainee Software Developer
11 6 (5.88%) .NET Developer
11 6 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
11 6 (5.88%) Principal Developer
12 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 4 (3.92%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Java Developer
13 3 (2.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 3 (2.94%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (58.82%) HTML
2 58 (56.86%) CSS
3 39 (38.24%) React
4 26 (25.49%) Node.js
5 21 (20.59%) AngularJS
6 19 (18.63%) .NET
7 14 (13.73%) REST
8 13 (12.75%) RESTful
9 11 (10.78%) CSS3
9 11 (10.78%) HTML5
10 9 (8.82%) Spring
10 9 (8.82%) Spring Boot
10 9 (8.82%) Vue
11 7 (6.86%) Laravel
11 7 (6.86%) Next.js
12 6 (5.88%) .NET Framework
12 6 (5.88%) jQuery
12 6 (5.88%) React Native
12 6 (5.88%) WebSockets
13 5 (4.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.92%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.96%) Online Games
5 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.96%) Wiki
6 1 (0.98%) Animation
6 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Life Science
6 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Tandem
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.71%) Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Windows
2 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.96%) CentOS
3 2 (1.96%) Debian
3 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (49.02%) Agile
2 29 (28.43%) CI/CD
2 29 (28.43%) Full-Stack Development
2 29 (28.43%) Mentoring
3 26 (25.49%) Software Engineering
4 22 (21.57%) DevOps
5 21 (20.59%) User Experience
6 20 (19.61%) Microservices
7 19 (18.63%) Front End Development
8 17 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 17 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (14.71%) AI
11 12 (11.76%) Scrum
12 11 (10.78%) Performance Optimisation
13 9 (8.82%) Code Quality
13 9 (8.82%) Test Automation
14 8 (7.84%) Clean Code
14 8 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (7.84%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 38 (37.25%) TypeScript
2 32 (31.37%) Python
3 18 (17.65%) C#
4 17 (16.67%) Java
5 16 (15.69%) PHP
6 15 (14.71%) SQL
7 6 (5.88%) R
8 3 (2.94%) C
9 2 (1.96%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.98%) Scala
10 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.98%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) AWS Certification
1 13 (12.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 13 (12.75%) Azure Certification
1 13 (12.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.96%) Degree
6 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.94%) QA
3 2 (1.96%) GDPR
3 2 (1.96%) HL7
4 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (19.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) HDFS
2 1 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.86%) Ansible
3 5 (4.90%) Terraform
4 2 (1.96%) Puppet
5 1 (0.98%) cPanel
5 1 (0.98%) Grafana
5 1 (0.98%) Plesk
Vendors
1 26 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.88%) Google
3 4 (3.92%) Oracle
4 3 (2.94%) Adobe
4 3 (2.94%) SAP
5 2 (1.96%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.96%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.98%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.98%) iManage
6 1 (0.98%) Pega
6 1 (0.98%) WSO2