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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -36 -3 -7
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 172 223 307
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.29% 9.48% 7.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.22% 29.07% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 131 89 166
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.63% -6.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,500 £76,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 1,130 767 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.04% 32.60% 30.42%
Number of salaries quoted 847 465 714
10th Percentile £40,950 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -2.65%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 18 £47,500 - 1
Oldham -2 4 £54,250 - 1
Stockport -9 2 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Bolton 0 1 £55,000 - 1
Altrincham -4 1 £47,500 -13.64% 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 25 (14.53%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.33%) Apache
4 3 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.16%) IIS
6 1 (0.58%) CMS
6 1 (0.58%) Confluence
6 1 (0.58%) JBoss
6 1 (0.58%) Kentico
6 1 (0.58%) nginx
6 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.58%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.33%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.74%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.58%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 63 (36.63%) AWS
2 60 (34.88%) Azure
3 35 (20.35%) Power Platform
4 34 (19.77%) Power Automate
5 29 (16.86%) PowerApps
6 25 (14.53%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (12.21%) Microsoft Copilot
8 17 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (8.72%) GCP
9 15 (8.72%) SaaS
10 14 (8.14%) GitHub
11 13 (7.56%) Serverless
12 11 (6.40%) Copilot Studio
13 10 (5.81%) OneDrive
14 9 (5.23%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (4.65%) npm
16 7 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (4.07%) OpenShift
17 6 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
18 5 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.74%) AMQP
2 2 (1.16%) HTTP
2 2 (1.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.58%) DNS
3 1 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.56%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.81%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.23%) MySQL
4 8 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.07%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.33%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.33%) Power BI
8 4 (2.33%) Redis
8 4 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.74%) Big Data
9 3 (1.74%) Chroma
9 3 (1.74%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.74%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.74%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.58%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 28 (16.28%) Git
2 20 (11.63%) GitLab
3 17 (9.88%) Maven
4 13 (7.56%) JUnit
4 13 (7.56%) Spock
5 11 (6.40%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.65%) Cypress.io
6 8 (4.65%) Storybook
7 5 (2.91%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.33%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.33%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.74%) JIRA
9 3 (1.74%) Selenium
10 2 (1.16%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.16%) Mocha
10 2 (1.16%) Postman
10 2 (1.16%) Vite
11 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.58%) gulp
11 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 37 (21.51%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.53%) Finance
3 18 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.40%) Marketing
5 8 (4.65%) Publishing
6 6 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.49%) Law
7 5 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.91%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.91%) Retail
8 4 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.16%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Back Office
10 1 (0.58%) Games
10 1 (0.58%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 89 (51.74%) Developer
2 32 (18.60%) Senior
3 22 (12.79%) Senior Developer
4 21 (12.21%) Lead
4 21 (12.21%) Software Engineer
5 19 (11.05%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 18 (10.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 11 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (5.81%) Software Developer
9 8 (4.65%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.07%) Power Platform Developer
11 6 (3.49%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.49%) JavaScript Developer
11 6 (3.49%) Junior
11 6 (3.49%) Lead Developer
11 6 (3.49%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) Consultant
12 5 (2.91%) PHP Developer
12 5 (2.91%) Technical Leader
12 5 (2.91%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (33.14%) HTML
2 50 (29.07%) CSS
3 39 (22.67%) AngularJS
4 35 (20.35%) Node.js
5 32 (18.60%) React
6 31 (18.02%) .NET
7 24 (13.95%) REST
7 24 (13.95%) Spring
8 15 (8.72%) Vue
9 14 (8.14%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (6.98%) CSS3
11 11 (6.40%) Microsoft Graph
11 11 (6.40%) Spring Boot
11 11 (6.40%) Terraform
12 10 (5.81%) SPFx
13 9 (5.23%) ASP.NET
13 9 (5.23%) HTML5
14 8 (4.65%) GraphQL
14 8 (4.65%) MDX
15 7 (4.07%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.14%) Private Cloud
4 11 (6.40%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.16%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.16%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.16%) Social Media
8 2 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.58%) BBC
9 1 (0.58%) CMDB
9 1 (0.58%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.58%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.91%) Linux
2 4 (2.33%) VMS
3 3 (1.74%) CentOS
3 3 (1.74%) Debian
3 3 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.74%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.74%) Windows
4 1 (0.58%) Android
4 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (47.09%) Agile
2 71 (41.28%) CI/CD
3 64 (37.21%) DevOps
3 64 (37.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 59 (34.30%) AI
5 57 (33.14%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (31.40%) Software Engineering
7 50 (29.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (27.91%) Microservices
9 44 (25.58%) Test Automation
10 30 (17.44%) Mentoring
11 24 (13.95%) Scrum
12 23 (13.37%) TDD
12 23 (13.37%) Translating Business Requirements
13 22 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (11.05%) Collaborative Working
14 19 (11.05%) Kanban
15 18 (10.47%) Clean Code
16 17 (9.88%) Code Quality
16 17 (9.88%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 64 (37.21%) Java
2 60 (34.88%) TypeScript
3 44 (25.58%) SQL
4 43 (25.00%) Python
5 40 (23.26%) C#
6 8 (4.65%) Groovy
6 8 (4.65%) PHP
7 5 (2.91%) Go
8 4 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.74%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.74%) C
9 3 (1.74%) C++
10 1 (0.58%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.58%) Rust
10 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.88%) Degree
3 16 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.23%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.33%) MBA
7 3 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.79%) QA
2 19 (11.05%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.65%) WCAG
4 3 (1.74%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (19.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (12.79%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.07%) Ansible
3 3 (1.74%) Puppet
4 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.58%) Argo
5 1 (0.58%) Nagios
Vendors
1 41 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.88%) Adobe
3 14 (8.14%) Splunk
4 13 (7.56%) AppDynamics
5 10 (5.81%) Google
6 5 (2.91%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.33%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.33%) Sage
7 4 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.33%) SAP
8 3 (1.74%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.16%) Mistral
9 2 (1.16%) New Relic
9 2 (1.16%) Oracle
10 1 (0.58%) Apple
10 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.58%) Pega
10 1 (0.58%) Sony
10 1 (0.58%) Yahoo!