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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -37 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 133 212 492
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.57% 10.14% 10.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.77% 28.88% 29.44%
Number of salaries quoted 93 184 393
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +14.04% -0.87%
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £51,250 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.87% +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 793 734 1,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.33% 35.12% 34.02%
Number of salaries quoted 634 562 1,404
10th Percentile £36,975 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.04% -0.87%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £80,875
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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
Bolton +16 3 £31,500 -30.00% 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 7 (5.26%) Apache
2 5 (3.76%) WordPress
3 4 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.26%) GeoServer
4 3 (2.26%) nginx
5 2 (1.50%) CICS
5 2 (1.50%) CMS
5 2 (1.50%) JBoss
5 2 (1.50%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.75%) Confluence
6 1 (0.75%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.26%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 68 (51.13%) AWS
2 63 (47.37%) Azure
3 19 (14.29%) GitHub
4 15 (11.28%) Serverless
5 13 (9.77%) GCP
6 7 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.51%) SaaS
8 5 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.76%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.76%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.01%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.01%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.50%) Apigee
11 2 (1.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.78%) Internet
2 4 (3.01%) AMQP
3 3 (2.26%) HTTP
4 2 (1.50%) OpenVPN
4 2 (1.50%) SSH
4 2 (1.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 12 (9.02%) MySQL
3 9 (6.77%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.01%) Big Data
7 4 (3.01%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.01%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.01%) Neo4j
7 4 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.26%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.26%) GIS
8 3 (2.26%) QGIS
9 2 (1.50%) DB2
9 2 (1.50%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.50%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (41.35%) Git
2 11 (8.27%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.77%) JIRA
4 3 (2.26%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.26%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.26%) JUnit
5 2 (1.50%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.50%) Postman
5 2 (1.50%) Selenium
5 2 (1.50%) Subversion
6 1 (0.75%) GitLab
6 1 (0.75%) gulp
6 1 (0.75%) Maven
6 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 22 (16.54%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.78%) Finance
2 17 (12.78%) Multimedia
3 13 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.76%) Law
5 4 (3.01%) Advertising
5 4 (3.01%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.01%) Retail
6 3 (2.26%) French Language
6 3 (2.26%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.26%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (2.26%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.50%) Electronics
7 2 (1.50%) Games
7 2 (1.50%) Marketing
7 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (43.61%) Developer
2 38 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 22 (16.54%) Senior
4 21 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 20 (15.04%) Lead
6 17 (12.78%) Senior Developer
6 17 (12.78%) Trainee
7 13 (9.77%) Lead Software Engineer
8 10 (7.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (7.52%) Java Developer
8 10 (7.52%) Software Developer
9 9 (6.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (6.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (5.26%) Trainee Developer
11 7 (5.26%) Trainee Software Developer
12 6 (4.51%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 5 (3.76%) Cloud Developer
13 5 (3.76%) JavaScript Developer
13 5 (3.76%) Node.js Developer
13 5 (3.76%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (48.12%) CSS
2 63 (47.37%) HTML
3 47 (35.34%) React
4 43 (32.33%) Node.js
5 29 (21.80%) AngularJS
6 27 (20.30%) .NET
7 19 (14.29%) REST
8 16 (12.03%) Spring
8 16 (12.03%) Spring Boot
9 15 (11.28%) RESTful
10 12 (9.02%) CSS3
11 10 (7.52%) HTML5
11 10 (7.52%) Vue
11 10 (7.52%) Web Services
12 7 (5.26%) gRPC
13 6 (4.51%) Kafka
14 5 (3.76%) Laravel
14 5 (3.76%) MERN Stack
14 5 (3.76%) Next.js
14 5 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.78%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.77%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.76%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.50%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.50%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.50%) NHS
8 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.75%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.26%) Linux
2 4 (3.01%) CentOS
2 4 (3.01%) Debian
2 4 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.01%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.26%) Android
3 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (45.86%) Agile
2 46 (34.59%) Full-Stack Development
2 46 (34.59%) Software Engineering
3 40 (30.08%) Mentoring
4 37 (27.82%) CI/CD
5 28 (21.05%) Scrum
6 27 (20.30%) Microservices
7 23 (17.29%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (15.04%) TDD
9 18 (13.53%) Kanban
10 16 (12.03%) User Experience
11 14 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
11 14 (10.53%) DevOps
11 14 (10.53%) Front End Development
12 13 (9.77%) AI
12 13 (9.77%) Clean Code
13 12 (9.02%) Containerisation
13 12 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (9.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (38.35%) Python
2 41 (30.83%) Java
3 38 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 22 (16.54%) SQL
5 13 (9.77%) C#
6 10 (7.52%) R
7 8 (6.02%) PHP
8 7 (5.26%) C
9 3 (2.26%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (12.78%) AWS Certification
1 17 (12.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 17 (12.78%) Azure Certification
1 17 (12.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.76%) Degree
5 4 (3.01%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.26%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.76%) QA
2 3 (2.26%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (10.53%) Docker
2 5 (3.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (11.28%) Terraform
2 13 (9.77%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.26%) Ansible
4 4 (3.01%) Puppet
5 2 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.50%) cPanel
5 2 (1.50%) Nagios
5 2 (1.50%) Plesk
5 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.26%) Google
3 6 (4.51%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.76%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.76%) Pega
5 4 (3.01%) SaltStack
6 3 (2.26%) Oracle
7 2 (1.50%) Adyen
7 2 (1.50%) New Relic
7 2 (1.50%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.50%) Splunk
7 2 (1.50%) WSO2
8 1 (0.75%) Adobe