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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -49 +2 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 131 299 498
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.45% 13.60% 9.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.61% 36.96% 29.84%
Number of salaries quoted 93 179 395
10th Percentile £28,400 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

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 839 809 1,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.66% 36.79% 33.49%
Number of salaries quoted 667 563 1,396
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.04% -1.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £80,000
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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +20 3 £31,500 -30.00% 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 6 (4.58%) Apache
2 5 (3.82%) WordPress
3 3 (2.29%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.29%) GeoServer
3 3 (2.29%) nginx
4 2 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.53%) CICS
4 2 (1.53%) CMS
4 2 (1.53%) JBoss
4 2 (1.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.76%) Confluence
5 1 (0.76%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.05%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.53%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 65 (49.62%) AWS
2 58 (44.27%) Azure
3 18 (13.74%) GitHub
4 14 (10.69%) Serverless
5 12 (9.16%) GCP
6 7 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (4.58%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.58%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.58%) SaaS
8 5 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (3.82%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.29%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.53%) Datadog
11 2 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.69%) Internet
2 3 (2.29%) AMQP
2 3 (2.29%) HTTP
3 2 (1.53%) SSL
4 1 (0.76%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.76%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.16%) NoSQL
2 11 (8.40%) MySQL
3 8 (6.11%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.11%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (2.29%) Big Data
7 3 (2.29%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.29%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.29%) GIS
7 3 (2.29%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.29%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.29%) QGIS
8 2 (1.53%) DB2
8 2 (1.53%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (38.93%) Git
2 13 (9.92%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.87%) JIRA
4 5 (3.82%) JUnit
5 3 (2.29%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.29%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.29%) Maven
6 2 (1.53%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.53%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.53%) GitLab
6 2 (1.53%) Postman
6 2 (1.53%) Selenium
6 2 (1.53%) Spock
6 2 (1.53%) Subversion
7 1 (0.76%) gulp
7 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 21 (16.03%) Finance
2 20 (15.27%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.69%) Multimedia
4 13 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Law
7 5 (3.82%) Retail
8 4 (3.05%) Advertising
8 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.05%) Marketing
9 3 (2.29%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.29%) French Language
9 3 (2.29%) Italian Language
9 3 (2.29%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (2.29%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.53%) Games
11 1 (0.76%) Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (42.75%) Developer
2 36 (27.48%) Software Engineer
3 23 (17.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 21 (16.03%) Senior
5 20 (15.27%) Lead
6 17 (12.98%) Senior Developer
7 14 (10.69%) Trainee
8 13 (9.92%) Java Developer
9 12 (9.16%) Lead Software Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 8 (6.11%) Software Developer
12 7 (5.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (4.58%) PHP Developer
14 5 (3.82%) Analyst
14 5 (3.82%) Graduate
14 5 (3.82%) JavaScript Developer
14 5 (3.82%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 5 (3.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.82%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (47.33%) CSS
2 60 (45.80%) HTML
3 43 (32.82%) Node.js
4 42 (32.06%) React
5 29 (22.14%) AngularJS
6 26 (19.85%) .NET
7 19 (14.50%) REST
7 19 (14.50%) Spring
8 17 (12.98%) Spring Boot
9 15 (11.45%) RESTful
10 14 (10.69%) CSS3
11 11 (8.40%) HTML5
12 10 (7.63%) Vue
12 10 (7.63%) Web Services
13 6 (4.58%) gRPC
13 6 (4.58%) Kafka
14 5 (3.82%) EDI
14 5 (3.82%) Laravel
14 5 (3.82%) Next.js
15 4 (3.05%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.69%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.11%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (5.34%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.58%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.53%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.53%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.53%) NHS
8 2 (1.53%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.82%) Linux
2 4 (3.05%) Windows
3 3 (2.29%) Android
3 3 (2.29%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.29%) CentOS
3 3 (2.29%) Debian
3 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.04%) Agile
2 52 (39.69%) Full-Stack Development
3 44 (33.59%) Software Engineering
4 40 (30.53%) CI/CD
5 36 (27.48%) Mentoring
6 30 (22.90%) Microservices
6 30 (22.90%) Scrum
7 23 (17.56%) TDD
8 22 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (14.50%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (14.50%) Kanban
10 18 (13.74%) DevOps
11 16 (12.21%) AI
12 15 (11.45%) User Experience
13 14 (10.69%) Test Automation
14 12 (9.16%) Clean Code
14 12 (9.16%) Collaborative Working
14 12 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (9.16%) Front End Development
15 11 (8.40%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.40%) Python
2 44 (33.59%) Java
3 38 (29.01%) TypeScript
4 23 (17.56%) SQL
5 13 (9.92%) C#
6 9 (6.87%) R
7 8 (6.11%) PHP
8 6 (4.58%) C
9 3 (2.29%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.53%) Groovy
11 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (10.69%) AWS Certification
1 14 (10.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 14 (10.69%) Azure Certification
1 14 (10.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.87%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.58%) Degree
5 4 (3.05%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.29%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.82%) QA
2 4 (3.05%) SLA
3 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (10.69%) Docker
2 5 (3.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (10.69%) Terraform
2 10 (7.63%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.34%) Ansible
4 3 (2.29%) Puppet
5 2 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.53%) cPanel
5 2 (1.53%) Nagios
5 2 (1.53%) Plesk
5 2 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.58%) Google
3 5 (3.82%) Atlassian
3 5 (3.82%) Pega
3 5 (3.82%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.05%) Splunk
5 3 (2.29%) Adobe
5 3 (2.29%) Oracle
5 3 (2.29%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.53%) Adyen
6 2 (1.53%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.53%) New Relic
6 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.53%) WSO2