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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 20 12
Rank change year-on-year -28 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 117 227 363
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.76% 8.68% 11.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.35% 25.19% 28.16%
Number of salaries quoted 88 133 312
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £29,375 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,313
90th Percentile £77,875 £87,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -11.80%

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 575 901 1,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 18.47% 34.46% 40.37%
Number of salaries quoted 488 478 1,083
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,084
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.69% -1.67%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +15 3 £31,500 -18.71% 5
Bury - 2 - - 3
Stockport -6 1 - - 5
Altrincham - 1 - - 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 (5.13%) Apache
2 4 (3.42%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.42%) nginx
2 4 (3.42%) WordPress
3 3 (2.56%) CMS
4 2 (1.71%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.85%) JBoss
5 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.85%) InVision
1 1 (0.85%) Sketch
1 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (57.26%) AWS
2 60 (51.28%) Azure
3 25 (21.37%) GitHub
4 14 (11.97%) Serverless
5 11 (9.40%) GCP
6 8 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.42%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.56%) SaaS
11 2 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.71%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.85%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.85%) Figma
12 1 (0.85%) npm
12 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (19.66%) Internet
2 5 (4.27%) HTTP
3 4 (3.42%) AMQP
3 4 (3.42%) SSH
4 2 (1.71%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.11%) MySQL
2 12 (10.26%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.98%) MongoDB
3 7 (5.98%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.27%) Big Data
5 5 (4.27%) Hadoop
5 5 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.27%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.42%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (3.42%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.56%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (48.72%) Git
2 6 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.13%) JIRA
3 5 (4.27%) JUnit
4 2 (1.71%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.71%) GitLab
4 2 (1.71%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.85%) Maven
5 1 (0.85%) Postman
5 1 (0.85%) Protractor
5 1 (0.85%) Subversion
General
1 27 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.66%) Multimedia
3 14 (11.97%) Finance
4 7 (5.98%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.27%) Marketing
6 4 (3.42%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Electronics
7 3 (2.56%) French Language
7 3 (2.56%) Games
7 3 (2.56%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.56%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.56%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.71%) Law
8 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Automotive
9 1 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 64 (54.70%) Developer
2 23 (19.66%) Trainee
3 20 (17.09%) Software Developer
4 19 (16.24%) Senior
5 16 (13.68%) Senior Developer
6 15 (12.82%) Software Engineer
7 13 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 11 (9.40%) Lead
8 11 (9.40%) Trainee Developer
8 11 (9.40%) Trainee Software Developer
9 10 (8.55%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (5.98%) PHP Developer
10 7 (5.98%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 5 (4.27%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (3.42%) .NET Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Cloud Developer
12 4 (3.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (63.25%) CSS
1 74 (63.25%) HTML
2 47 (40.17%) React
3 29 (24.79%) Node.js
4 27 (23.08%) AngularJS
5 21 (17.95%) REST
6 20 (17.09%) .NET
7 13 (11.11%) RESTful
7 13 (11.11%) Spring
7 13 (11.11%) Spring Boot
8 8 (6.84%) CSS3
8 8 (6.84%) gRPC
8 8 (6.84%) HTML5
8 8 (6.84%) Vue
9 7 (5.98%) Laravel
10 6 (5.13%) ASP.NET
10 6 (5.13%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (4.27%) jQuery
11 5 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (4.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.53%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.84%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.71%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.71%) NHS
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.85%) Life Science
7 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.26%) Linux
2 4 (3.42%) CentOS
2 4 (3.42%) Debian
2 4 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.42%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.56%) Android
3 3 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.71%) Windows
4 2 (1.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (48.72%) Agile
2 43 (36.75%) Mentoring
3 36 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 30 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (23.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 22 (18.80%) Microservices
7 22 (18.80%) User Experience
8 19 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.38%) Containerisation
10 17 (14.53%) DevOps
10 17 (14.53%) Scrum
11 15 (12.82%) AI
11 15 (12.82%) Front End Development
12 13 (11.11%) TDD
12 13 (11.11%) Test Automation
13 12 (10.26%) Collaborative Working
14 11 (9.40%) API Development
14 11 (9.40%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (9.40%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 48 (41.03%) Python
2 37 (31.62%) TypeScript
3 27 (23.08%) Java
4 15 (12.82%) C#
5 14 (11.97%) SQL
6 12 (10.26%) PHP
6 12 (10.26%) R
7 6 (5.13%) C
8 3 (2.56%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.85%) Scala
9 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (19.66%) AWS Certification
1 23 (19.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 23 (19.66%) Azure Certification
1 23 (19.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (14.53%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.84%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.42%) Degree
6 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.56%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.98%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.56%) HL7
3 2 (1.71%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (13.68%) Docker
2 4 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.55%) Ansible
2 10 (8.55%) Terraform
3 4 (3.42%) Puppet
4 3 (2.56%) cPanel
4 3 (2.56%) Plesk
5 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.85%) Nagios
5 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.27%) Atlassian
2 5 (4.27%) Google
2 5 (4.27%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.42%) SaltStack
4 3 (2.56%) Adobe
4 3 (2.56%) Oracle
5 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.85%) iManage
6 1 (0.85%) New Relic
6 1 (0.85%) Pega
6 1 (0.85%) SAP
6 1 (0.85%) Splunk
6 1 (0.85%) WSO2