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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -34 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 157 285 405
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.41% 11.39% 8.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.62% 32.80% 26.73%
Number of salaries quoted 119 147 283
10th Percentile £38,250 £43,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -2.65%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £78,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 1,074 869 1,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.51% 34.72% 31.36%
Number of salaries quoted 843 557 1,125
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £38,084
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 26 July 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 July 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
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 14 £51,000 - 2
Bolton +14 2 £43,250 -8.95%
Oldham +2 2 £62,111 - 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 17 (10.83%) SharePoint
2 13 (8.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.55%) Apache
4 3 (1.91%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.27%) CICS
5 2 (1.27%) JBoss
5 2 (1.27%) nginx
5 2 (1.27%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.27%) WordPress
6 1 (0.64%) Confluence
6 1 (0.64%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.55%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 71 (45.22%) AWS
2 59 (37.58%) Azure
3 24 (15.29%) Power Automate
3 24 (15.29%) Power Platform
4 21 (13.38%) PowerApps
5 17 (10.83%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (10.83%) Serverless
6 16 (10.19%) GitHub
6 16 (10.19%) Microsoft Copilot
7 14 (8.92%) GCP
8 13 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (7.01%) SaaS
10 8 (5.10%) Copilot Studio
10 8 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (5.10%) npm
11 7 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (4.46%) OneDrive
12 6 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) AMQP
1 2 (1.27%) Internet
1 2 (1.27%) SSL
2 1 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.01%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.37%) MySQL
2 10 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.37%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.73%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.73%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.55%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.91%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.91%) GIS
6 3 (1.91%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.91%) QGIS
7 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.27%) Big Data
7 2 (1.27%) Db2
7 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.27%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.27%) Power BI
7 2 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (19.11%) Git
2 16 (10.19%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.28%) Maven
4 12 (7.64%) GitLab
5 9 (5.73%) JUnit
5 9 (5.73%) Spock
6 8 (5.10%) Storybook
7 7 (4.46%) JIRA
8 5 (3.18%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.55%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.55%) IntelliJ
9 4 (2.55%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.91%) Eclipse
11 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.27%) Claude Code
11 2 (1.27%) Subversion
11 2 (1.27%) Vite
12 1 (0.64%) Postman
12 1 (0.64%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 29 (18.47%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.29%) Finance
3 16 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.64%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.10%) Publishing
6 7 (4.46%) Marketing
6 7 (4.46%) Retail
7 6 (3.82%) Law
8 5 (3.18%) Advertising
8 5 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.18%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.27%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.64%) Back Office
10 1 (0.64%) Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 73 (46.50%) Developer
2 33 (21.02%) Software Engineer
3 30 (19.11%) Senior
4 27 (17.20%) Lead
5 23 (14.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (14.01%) Senior Developer
7 15 (9.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 15 (9.55%) Java Developer
7 15 (9.55%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 10 (6.37%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (4.46%) Lead Developer
11 6 (3.82%) JavaScript Developer
11 6 (3.82%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.18%) Architect
12 5 (3.18%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 5 (3.18%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 5 (3.18%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 5 (3.18%) Junior
12 5 (3.18%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (34.39%) HTML
2 50 (31.85%) CSS
3 47 (29.94%) Node.js
4 43 (27.39%) AngularJS
5 35 (22.29%) React
6 32 (20.38%) .NET
7 22 (14.01%) Spring
8 18 (11.46%) REST
8 18 (11.46%) Vue
9 15 (9.55%) CSS3
10 13 (8.28%) RESTful
10 13 (8.28%) Spring Boot
11 12 (7.64%) HTML5
12 9 (5.73%) HTML5 Canvas
12 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (5.73%) Web Services
13 8 (5.10%) GraphQL
13 8 (5.10%) MDX
13 8 (5.10%) SPFx
14 7 (4.46%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.55%) Cloud Native
1 15 (9.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (8.92%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.37%) Private Cloud
4 9 (5.73%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.27%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.27%) Social Media
9 1 (0.64%) BBC
9 1 (0.64%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.64%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.64%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.55%) Windows
2 2 (1.27%) CentOS
2 2 (1.27%) Debian
2 2 (1.27%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (47.13%) Agile
1 74 (47.13%) Full-Stack Development
2 65 (41.40%) CI/CD
3 53 (33.76%) DevOps
3 53 (33.76%) Software Engineering
4 49 (31.21%) AI
5 46 (29.30%) Microservices
6 44 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (24.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (21.66%) Test Automation
9 32 (20.38%) Scrum
10 31 (19.75%) TDD
11 29 (18.47%) Mentoring
12 23 (14.65%) Kanban
13 22 (14.01%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (11.46%) Collaborative Working
15 17 (10.83%) Architectural Patterns
16 16 (10.19%) Clean Code
16 16 (10.19%) Translating Business Requirements
17 14 (8.92%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 66 (42.04%) Java
2 55 (35.03%) TypeScript
3 46 (29.30%) Python
4 32 (20.38%) SQL
5 30 (19.11%) C#
6 7 (4.46%) PHP
7 5 (3.18%) Groovy
8 3 (1.91%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.91%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.27%) C
9 2 (1.27%) Go
9 2 (1.27%) R
10 1 (0.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (8.28%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.64%) Degree
3 6 (3.82%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.18%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.55%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.55%) MBA
6 3 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.55%) Accessibility
2 14 (8.92%) QA
3 8 (5.10%) WCAG
4 4 (2.55%) SLA
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (14.65%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (8.28%) Kubernetes
1 13 (8.28%) Terraform
2 6 (3.82%) Ansible
3 2 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.27%) Nagios
3 2 (1.27%) Puppet
3 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.83%) Adobe
3 11 (7.01%) Splunk
4 9 (5.73%) AppDynamics
5 8 (5.10%) Google
6 5 (3.18%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.18%) Pega
7 4 (2.55%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.91%) Oracle
9 2 (1.27%) Adyen
9 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.27%) New Relic
9 2 (1.27%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.27%) WSO2
10 1 (0.64%) Apple
10 1 (0.64%) Facebook
10 1 (0.64%) Sony
10 1 (0.64%) Yahoo!