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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -37 -4 -5
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 134 212 495
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.67% 10.24% 10.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.18% 28.73% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 94 182 396
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.54% -0.43%
75th Percentile £73,438 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 780 738 1,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.54% 35.65% 34.49%
Number of salaries quoted 629 563 1,403
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £80,000
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 22 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 22 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 +20 3 £31,500 -30.00%
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 (5.22%) Apache
2 6 (4.48%) WordPress
3 4 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.24%) GeoServer
4 3 (2.24%) nginx
5 2 (1.49%) CICS
5 2 (1.49%) CMS
5 2 (1.49%) JBoss
5 2 (1.49%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.75%) Confluence
6 1 (0.75%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.49%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.49%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 71 (52.99%) AWS
2 65 (48.51%) Azure
3 21 (15.67%) GitHub
4 15 (11.19%) Serverless
5 14 (10.45%) GCP
6 7 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.48%) SaaS
8 5 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.99%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.99%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.99%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.24%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.49%) Apigee
11 2 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.18%) Internet
2 4 (2.99%) AMQP
3 3 (2.24%) HTTP
4 2 (1.49%) OpenVPN
4 2 (1.49%) SSH
4 2 (1.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.45%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.96%) MySQL
3 9 (6.72%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.48%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.73%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.99%) Big Data
6 4 (2.99%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.99%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.99%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.24%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.24%) GIS
7 3 (2.24%) QGIS
7 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.49%) DB2
8 2 (1.49%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.49%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (43.28%) Git
2 11 (8.21%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.72%) JIRA
4 3 (2.24%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.24%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.24%) JUnit
5 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.49%) Postman
5 2 (1.49%) Selenium
5 2 (1.49%) 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 (16.42%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.18%) Multimedia
3 16 (11.94%) Finance
4 13 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.99%) Advertising
6 4 (2.99%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.99%) Law
7 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.24%) French Language
7 3 (2.24%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.24%) Marketing
7 3 (2.24%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.24%) Retail
7 3 (2.24%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.49%) Electronics
8 2 (1.49%) Games
8 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (44.03%) Developer
2 38 (28.36%) Software Engineer
3 23 (17.16%) Senior
4 21 (15.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 20 (14.93%) Lead
6 19 (14.18%) Trainee
7 18 (13.43%) Senior Developer
8 13 (9.70%) Lead Software Engineer
9 11 (8.21%) Software Developer
10 10 (7.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (7.46%) Java Developer
11 9 (6.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (5.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 8 (5.97%) Trainee Developer
12 8 (5.97%) Trainee Software Developer
13 6 (4.48%) PHP Developer
13 6 (4.48%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 5 (3.73%) Cloud Developer
14 5 (3.73%) Node.js Developer
14 5 (3.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (49.25%) CSS
2 65 (48.51%) HTML
3 48 (35.82%) React
4 43 (32.09%) Node.js
5 28 (20.90%) AngularJS
6 27 (20.15%) .NET
7 18 (13.43%) REST
8 16 (11.94%) Spring
8 16 (11.94%) Spring Boot
9 15 (11.19%) RESTful
10 12 (8.96%) CSS3
11 10 (7.46%) HTML5
11 10 (7.46%) Vue
12 9 (6.72%) Web Services
13 7 (5.22%) gRPC
14 6 (4.48%) Kafka
14 6 (4.48%) Laravel
15 5 (3.73%) MERN Stack
15 5 (3.73%) Next.js
15 5 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.69%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.72%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (5.97%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.24%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.24%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.49%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.49%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.49%) NHS
7 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.22%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) CentOS
2 4 (2.99%) Debian
2 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.24%) Android
3 3 (2.24%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (45.52%) Agile
2 46 (34.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 46 (34.33%) Software Engineering
3 43 (32.09%) Mentoring
4 37 (27.61%) CI/CD
5 28 (20.90%) Scrum
6 27 (20.15%) Microservices
7 25 (18.66%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (14.93%) TDD
10 18 (13.43%) Kanban
11 15 (11.19%) Collaborative Working
12 14 (10.45%) Clean Code
12 14 (10.45%) DevOps
12 14 (10.45%) Front End Development
12 14 (10.45%) User Experience
13 13 (9.70%) AI
14 12 (8.96%) Containerisation
14 12 (8.96%) Technical Leadership
15 11 (8.21%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 53 (39.55%) Python
2 41 (30.60%) Java
3 38 (28.36%) TypeScript
4 22 (16.42%) SQL
5 12 (8.96%) C#
6 11 (8.21%) R
7 9 (6.72%) PHP
8 7 (5.22%) C
9 3 (2.24%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (14.18%) AWS Certification
1 19 (14.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 19 (14.18%) Azure Certification
1 19 (14.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.46%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.73%) Degree
5 4 (2.99%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.24%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.73%) QA
2 2 (1.49%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (10.45%) Docker
2 5 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (11.19%) Terraform
2 13 (9.70%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.22%) Ansible
4 4 (2.99%) Puppet
5 3 (2.24%) cPanel
5 3 (2.24%) Plesk
6 2 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.49%) Nagios
6 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.22%) Google
3 6 (4.48%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.73%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.73%) Pega
5 4 (2.99%) SaltStack
6 3 (2.24%) Oracle
7 2 (1.49%) Adyen
7 2 (1.49%) New Relic
7 2 (1.49%) Splunk
7 2 (1.49%) WSO2
8 1 (0.75%) Adobe
8 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow