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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 23 13
Rank change year-on-year -24 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 107 226 270
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.87% 8.24% 11.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.08% 24.49% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 85 131 217
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,408
25th Percentile £29,750 £45,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,250 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%

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 533 923 977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 19.28% 33.65% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 455 483 803
10th Percentile £33,675 £38,750 £37,316
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% -
75th Percentile £74,033 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,300 £87,250 £82,548
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 1 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 1 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 -10.00% 19
Bury - 2 - - 7
Altrincham - 2 £45,000 - 7
Stockport -4 1 - - 8
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 5 (4.67%) Apache
1 5 (4.67%) WordPress
2 4 (3.74%) nginx
3 3 (2.80%) Apache Solr
3 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.80%) CMS
4 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) JBoss
4 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.93%) InVision
2 1 (0.93%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.93%) Sketch
2 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.93%) Odoo
2 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.93%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (57.01%) AWS
2 56 (52.34%) Azure
3 24 (22.43%) GitHub
4 12 (11.21%) Serverless
5 10 (9.35%) GCP
6 7 (6.54%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.80%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.80%) SaaS
11 2 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.87%) Cloudflare
11 2 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.87%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.87%) Twilio
12 1 (0.93%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.56%) Internet
2 5 (4.67%) HTTP
3 4 (3.74%) SSH
4 3 (2.80%) AMQP
5 2 (1.87%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.89%) MySQL
2 14 (13.08%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.54%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.54%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.74%) Big Data
6 4 (3.74%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.80%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.80%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.80%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (55.14%) Git
2 7 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.61%) JIRA
4 5 (4.67%) JUnit
5 2 (1.87%) GitLab
6 1 (0.93%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.93%) Maven
6 1 (0.93%) Protractor
6 1 (0.93%) Selenium
6 1 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 24 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.56%) Multimedia
3 10 (9.35%) Finance
4 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.67%) Games
5 5 (4.67%) Marketing
6 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.80%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.80%) Electronics
8 2 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Law
8 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Retail
9 1 (0.93%) Automotive
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.93%) Publishing
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (60.75%) Developer
2 22 (20.56%) Trainee
3 21 (19.63%) Senior
4 20 (18.69%) Software Developer
5 17 (15.89%) Senior Developer
6 13 (12.15%) Software Engineer
7 12 (11.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (9.35%) Lead
8 10 (9.35%) Trainee Developer
8 10 (9.35%) Trainee Software Developer
9 8 (7.48%) .NET Developer
9 8 (7.48%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.48%) PHP Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 5 (4.67%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.67%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (3.74%) Games Developer
12 4 (3.74%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (67.29%) HTML
2 71 (66.36%) CSS
3 37 (34.58%) React
4 27 (25.23%) AngularJS
5 23 (21.50%) .NET
6 21 (19.63%) Node.js
7 17 (15.89%) REST
8 16 (14.95%) RESTful
9 12 (11.21%) Spring
9 12 (11.21%) Spring Boot
10 8 (7.48%) .NET Framework
10 8 (7.48%) CSS3
10 8 (7.48%) HTML5
11 7 (6.54%) gRPC
12 6 (5.61%) ASP.NET
12 6 (5.61%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (5.61%) Vue
13 5 (4.67%) jQuery
13 5 (4.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.21%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.61%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.80%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.87%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.87%) NHS
6 2 (1.87%) Online Games
7 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.93%) Life Science
7 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.21%) Linux
2 3 (2.80%) CentOS
2 3 (2.80%) Debian
2 3 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.80%) Ubuntu
2 3 (2.80%) Windows
2 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (46.73%) Agile
2 41 (38.32%) Mentoring
3 36 (33.64%) CI/CD
4 27 (25.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (22.43%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (21.50%) User Experience
7 22 (20.56%) DevOps
7 22 (20.56%) Software Engineering
8 21 (19.63%) Microservices
9 19 (17.76%) Containerisation
10 16 (14.95%) Front End Development
11 15 (14.02%) AI
11 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (13.08%) Scrum
13 13 (12.15%) Clean Code
14 11 (10.28%) TDD
15 10 (9.35%) API Development
15 10 (9.35%) Kanban
16 9 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
16 9 (8.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (38.32%) Python
2 32 (29.91%) TypeScript
3 24 (22.43%) Java
4 20 (18.69%) C#
5 15 (14.02%) SQL
6 12 (11.21%) R
7 11 (10.28%) PHP
8 5 (4.67%) C
9 3 (2.80%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.93%) Scala
10 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (20.56%) AWS Certification
1 22 (20.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 22 (20.56%) Azure Certification
1 22 (20.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) DV Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) Degree
5 1 (0.93%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.80%) HL7
3 1 (0.93%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (18.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.41%) Ansible
3 5 (4.67%) Terraform
4 3 (2.80%) cPanel
4 3 (2.80%) Plesk
4 3 (2.80%) Puppet
5 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.93%) Grafana
5 1 (0.93%) Nagios
5 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.67%) Google
3 4 (3.74%) Adobe
3 4 (3.74%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.80%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.80%) Oracle
4 3 (2.80%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.93%) iManage
6 1 (0.93%) New Relic
6 1 (0.93%) Pega
6 1 (0.93%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) WSO2