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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 22 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -10 0
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 204 267 338
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 8.93% 7.08% 13.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.45% 22.51% 29.01%
Number of salaries quoted 73 152 278
10th Percentile £30,200 £36,325 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £69,688
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,125 £77,542
North West median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +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 717 1,186 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 31.38% 31.43% 46.03%
Number of salaries quoted 458 628 965
10th Percentile £33,013 £39,888 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,875 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,438 £69,800 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £83,750
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.08% +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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +4 12 £50,000 -4.76% 5
Stockport +9 10 - - 2
Oldham +9 9 - - 2
Bury +4 9 £52,500 +2.44% 4
Cheadle - 8 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 8 - - 4
Sale - 8 - -
Heywood - 6 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Dukinfield - 5 - -
Bolton +11 4 £47,500 +40.74% 25
Wigan - 4 - - 8
Salford +13 3 - - 2
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 (4.41%) Confluence
2 4 (1.96%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.96%) CMS
3 3 (1.47%) IIS
4 2 (0.98%) nginx
4 2 (0.98%) WordPress
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.49%) Apache
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.98%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.49%) InVision
2 1 (0.49%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.49%) Sketch
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) Odoo
2 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 154 (75.49%) AWS
2 140 (68.63%) Azure
3 99 (48.53%) GCP
4 15 (7.35%) Serverless
5 14 (6.86%) GitHub
6 8 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.47%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.47%) Cloudflare
9 3 (1.47%) CloudFront
9 3 (1.47%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.47%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.47%) SaaS
9 3 (1.47%) Vercel
10 2 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.98%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.94%) Internet
2 3 (1.47%) HTTP
3 2 (0.98%) SSH
4 1 (0.49%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.14%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.31%) MySQL
3 10 (4.90%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.92%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.94%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.45%) Redis
8 4 (1.96%) GIS
8 4 (1.96%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.47%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.98%) Big Data
10 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.98%) Power BI
11 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.49%) Cloudera CDH
11 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.49%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (16.18%) Git
2 31 (15.20%) JIRA
3 28 (13.73%) GitLab
3 28 (13.73%) Maven
3 28 (13.73%) Selenium
4 27 (13.24%) Bitbucket
4 27 (13.24%) Cucumber
4 27 (13.24%) SonarQube
4 27 (13.24%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (2.94%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.47%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.47%) Jasmine
6 3 (1.47%) JUnit
6 3 (1.47%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.98%) webpack
8 1 (0.49%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.49%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.49%) Protractor
8 1 (0.49%) Storybook
General
1 109 (53.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 40 (19.61%) Finance
3 28 (13.73%) Banking
4 22 (10.78%) Social Skills
5 20 (9.80%) Retail
6 18 (8.82%) Corporate Banking
6 18 (8.82%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.92%) Marketing
8 6 (2.94%) Multimedia
8 6 (2.94%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.45%) Games
9 5 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.47%) Electronics
10 3 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (0.98%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.98%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.98%) Law
12 1 (0.49%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 116 (56.86%) Software Engineer
2 102 (50.00%) Senior
3 84 (41.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 64 (31.37%) Developer
5 14 (6.86%) Software Developer
6 12 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 12 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 9 (4.41%) .NET Developer
8 7 (3.43%) PHP Developer
9 6 (2.94%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (2.94%) Lead
9 6 (2.94%) Principal Developer
9 6 (2.94%) Trainee
10 5 (2.45%) Java Developer
11 4 (1.96%) Digital Analyst
11 4 (1.96%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 4 (1.96%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 4 (1.96%) Integration Analyst
11 4 (1.96%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (50.98%) Node.js
2 101 (49.51%) .NET
3 80 (39.22%) HTML
4 78 (38.24%) CSS
5 59 (28.92%) React
6 36 (17.65%) Spring
6 36 (17.65%) Spring Boot
7 32 (15.69%) REST
8 31 (15.20%) HTML5
8 31 (15.20%) RESTful
9 30 (14.71%) Kafka
10 29 (14.22%) CSS3
11 28 (13.73%) Redux
12 27 (13.24%) JPA
13 22 (10.78%) Sass
14 21 (10.29%) Jest
15 20 (9.80%) AngularJS
16 9 (4.41%) Hibernate
16 9 (4.41%) JSON
17 8 (3.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 83 (40.69%) Linux Command Line
1 83 (40.69%) Self-Motivation
2 82 (40.20%) Cyberattack
3 29 (14.22%) Product Ownership
4 27 (13.24%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.41%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.96%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.98%) LIMS
7 2 (0.98%) Online Games
7 2 (0.98%) Wiki
8 1 (0.49%) Animation
8 1 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Life Science
8 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Tandem
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (46.08%) Linux
2 4 (1.96%) Windows
2 4 (1.96%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.49%) Android
3 1 (0.49%) CentOS
3 1 (0.49%) Debian
3 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (76.47%) Agile
2 135 (66.18%) Software Engineering
3 128 (62.75%) Microservices
4 123 (60.29%) User Experience
5 118 (57.84%) Mentoring
6 94 (46.08%) Scrum
7 86 (42.16%) Machine Learning
8 85 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 82 (40.20%) Cloud Security
9 82 (40.20%) Data Engineering
10 58 (28.43%) Full-Stack Development
11 53 (25.98%) CI/CD
12 52 (25.49%) DevOps
13 44 (21.57%) Front End Development
14 42 (20.59%) Containerisation
15 37 (18.14%) Test Automation
16 36 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
17 32 (15.69%) SDLC
18 23 (11.27%) Responsive Web Design
19 21 (10.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 125 (61.27%) Java
2 106 (51.96%) Python
3 82 (40.20%) C++
3 82 (40.20%) Go
3 82 (40.20%) Rust
4 55 (26.96%) TypeScript
5 43 (21.08%) SQL
6 19 (9.31%) C#
7 15 (7.35%) PHP
8 4 (1.96%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.47%) R
10 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.49%) Scala
10 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 90 (44.12%) Security Cleared
2 88 (43.14%) AWS Certification
3 86 (42.16%) DV Cleared
4 82 (40.20%) AWS Certified Developer
4 82 (40.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.45%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.98%) Degree
8 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.71%) QA
2 23 (11.27%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.96%) HL7
4 2 (0.98%) GDPR
5 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (21.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.94%) Ansible
3 4 (1.96%) Terraform
4 1 (0.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (13.24%) Solace
2 21 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.45%) Google
4 4 (1.96%) Oracle
5 3 (1.47%) Adobe
5 3 (1.47%) SAP
6 2 (0.98%) IBM
6 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.49%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.49%) iManage
7 1 (0.49%) Pega
7 1 (0.49%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.49%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.49%) WSO2