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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -37 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 168 231 309
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.29% 9.61% 7.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.00% 29.39% 25.14%
Number of salaries quoted 128 95 171
10th Percentile £39,625 £43,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,813 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,750 £86,000 £73,886
North West median annual salary £54,250 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.58% +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 1,120 786 1,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.28% 32.70% 30.12%
Number of salaries quoted 848 480 734
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 16 £51,000 - 1
Oldham -1 4 £54,250 - 1
Stockport -8 2 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Bolton +5 1 £55,000 -
Altrincham -4 1 £47,500 -13.64%
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 22 (13.10%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.38%) Apache
4 3 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.19%) IIS
6 1 (0.60%) Confluence
6 1 (0.60%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.60%) JBoss
6 1 (0.60%) nginx
6 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.38%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.79%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.60%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.50%) AWS
2 58 (34.52%) Azure
3 32 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 31 (18.45%) Power Automate
5 26 (15.48%) PowerApps
6 22 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (11.31%) Microsoft Copilot
8 16 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (8.93%) GCP
9 15 (8.93%) SaaS
10 14 (8.33%) GitHub
10 14 (8.33%) Serverless
11 9 (5.36%) Copilot Studio
11 9 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (4.76%) npm
12 8 (4.76%) OneDrive
13 7 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (4.17%) OpenShift
14 6 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.79%) AMQP
2 2 (1.19%) HTTP
2 2 (1.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.95%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.36%) MySQL
4 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.38%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.38%) Power BI
7 4 (2.38%) Redis
7 4 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.79%) Big Data
8 3 (1.79%) Chroma
8 3 (1.79%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.79%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.60%) QGIS
9 1 (0.60%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 29 (17.26%) Git
2 20 (11.90%) GitLab
3 17 (10.12%) Maven
4 13 (7.74%) JUnit
4 13 (7.74%) Spock
5 12 (7.14%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.76%) Storybook
7 7 (4.17%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.98%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.98%) JIRA
9 4 (2.38%) IntelliJ
9 4 (2.38%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.19%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.19%) Mocha
10 2 (1.19%) Selenium
10 2 (1.19%) Vite
11 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.60%) gulp
11 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 36 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.88%) Finance
3 19 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.55%) Marketing
5 8 (4.76%) Publishing
6 7 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.57%) Law
8 5 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.98%) Retail
9 4 (2.38%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.79%) Advertising
11 1 (0.60%) Back Office
11 1 (0.60%) Games
11 1 (0.60%) Legal
11 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 84 (50.00%) Developer
2 31 (18.45%) Senior
3 23 (13.69%) Software Engineer
4 22 (13.10%) Lead
5 21 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 18 (10.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 17 (10.12%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 12 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (5.36%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.76%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.17%) Power Platform Developer
12 6 (3.57%) JavaScript Developer
12 6 (3.57%) Junior
12 6 (3.57%) Lead Developer
12 6 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (2.98%) .NET Developer
13 5 (2.98%) Consultant
13 5 (2.98%) PHP Developer
13 5 (2.98%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.98%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (32.74%) HTML
2 50 (29.76%) CSS
3 40 (23.81%) AngularJS
4 37 (22.02%) Node.js
5 32 (19.05%) .NET
6 31 (18.45%) React
7 25 (14.88%) Spring
8 22 (13.10%) REST
9 16 (9.52%) Vue
10 13 (7.74%) HTML5 Canvas
11 12 (7.14%) CSS3
11 12 (7.14%) Spring Boot
11 12 (7.14%) Terraform
12 10 (5.95%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (5.36%) ASP.NET
13 9 (5.36%) HTML5
13 9 (5.36%) SPFx
14 8 (4.76%) GraphQL
14 8 (4.76%) MDX
14 8 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.33%) Private Cloud
4 11 (6.55%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.19%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.19%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.19%) Social Media
8 2 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.60%) CMDB
9 1 (0.60%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.60%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.98%) Linux
2 4 (2.38%) VMS
3 3 (1.79%) CentOS
3 3 (1.79%) Debian
3 3 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.79%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.79%) Windows
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (48.21%) Agile
2 73 (43.45%) CI/CD
3 66 (39.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (37.50%) DevOps
5 59 (35.12%) AI
6 55 (32.74%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (32.14%) Software Engineering
8 50 (29.76%) Microservices
9 47 (27.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (25.60%) Test Automation
11 30 (17.86%) Mentoring
12 27 (16.07%) Scrum
13 25 (14.88%) TDD
14 22 (13.10%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (12.50%) Kanban
15 21 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
16 18 (10.71%) Clean Code
16 18 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
17 17 (10.12%) Code Quality
17 17 (10.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 66 (39.29%) Java
2 56 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 45 (26.79%) SQL
4 43 (25.60%) Python
5 40 (23.81%) C#
6 8 (4.76%) Groovy
6 8 (4.76%) PHP
7 5 (2.98%) Go
8 4 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.79%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.79%) C
9 3 (1.79%) C++
10 1 (0.60%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.60%) Rust
10 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.12%) Degree
3 16 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.38%) MBA
7 3 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.90%) QA
2 17 (10.12%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.76%) WCAG
4 3 (1.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (19.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.17%) Ansible
3 3 (1.79%) Puppet
4 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.60%) Argo
5 1 (0.60%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.12%) Adobe
3 14 (8.33%) Splunk
4 13 (7.74%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.95%) Google
6 5 (2.98%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.38%) Sage
7 4 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.38%) SAP
8 3 (1.79%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.19%) Mistral
9 2 (1.19%) New Relic
9 2 (1.19%) Oracle
10 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.60%) Facebook
10 1 (0.60%) Pega
10 1 (0.60%) Sony
10 1 (0.60%) WSO2