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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 21 13
Rank change year-on-year -26 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 105 234 266
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.98% 8.17% 12.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.59% 23.49% 27.77%
Number of salaries quoted 86 138 211
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,313 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £64,688 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £86,625 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -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 536 996 958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.32% 34.78% 45.25%
Number of salaries quoted 460 520 783
10th Percentile £34,363 £38,750 £39,350
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,597 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £73,829 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,125 £83,159
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% +1.82%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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
Bury - 4 £52,500 -
Bolton +12 3 £31,500 -10.00% 7
Altrincham - 2 £45,000 -
Stockport -2 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 5 (4.76%) WordPress
2 3 (2.86%) Apache
2 3 (2.86%) Apache Solr
2 3 (2.86%) CMS
2 3 (2.86%) nginx
3 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.95%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.95%) InVision
2 1 (0.95%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.95%) Sketch
2 1 (0.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.95%) Odoo
2 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.95%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (56.19%) AWS
2 50 (47.62%) Azure
3 25 (23.81%) GitHub
4 12 (11.43%) Serverless
5 9 (8.57%) GCP
6 7 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.86%) SaaS
10 2 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.90%) Cloudflare
10 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.90%) npm
10 2 (1.90%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.90%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.10%) Internet
2 4 (3.81%) HTTP
2 4 (3.81%) SSH
3 2 (1.90%) AMQP
3 2 (1.90%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.10%) MySQL
2 12 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.57%) Relational Database
3 9 (8.57%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.86%) Big Data
6 3 (2.86%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.86%) Neo4j
6 3 (2.86%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.90%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.90%) Redis
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.95%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 55 (52.38%) Git
2 7 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.71%) JIRA
4 4 (3.81%) JUnit
5 2 (1.90%) GitLab
6 1 (0.95%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.95%) Maven
6 1 (0.95%) Protractor
6 1 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 25 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.10%) Multimedia
3 9 (8.57%) Finance
4 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.76%) Marketing
6 4 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Electronics
7 3 (2.86%) Games
8 2 (1.90%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.90%) Law
8 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Retail
9 1 (0.95%) Automotive
9 1 (0.95%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.95%) Legal
9 1 (0.95%) Publishing
9 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (61.90%) Developer
2 23 (21.90%) Senior
3 20 (19.05%) Software Developer
4 19 (18.10%) Trainee
5 17 (16.19%) Senior Developer
6 13 (12.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 12 (11.43%) Software Engineer
8 9 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (8.57%) Lead
9 8 (7.62%) PHP Developer
9 8 (7.62%) Trainee Developer
9 8 (7.62%) Trainee Software Developer
10 7 (6.67%) .NET Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 4 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (3.81%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (3.81%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (63.81%) HTML
2 66 (62.86%) CSS
3 39 (37.14%) React
4 25 (23.81%) AngularJS
5 22 (20.95%) .NET
5 22 (20.95%) Node.js
6 16 (15.24%) RESTful
7 15 (14.29%) REST
8 10 (9.52%) Spring
8 10 (9.52%) Spring Boot
9 8 (7.62%) Vue
10 7 (6.67%) .NET Framework
10 7 (6.67%) CSS3
10 7 (6.67%) HTML5
10 7 (6.67%) Laravel
11 6 (5.71%) ASP.NET
11 6 (5.71%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (4.76%) gRPC
12 5 (4.76%) JSON
12 5 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.90%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.90%) NHS
6 2 (1.90%) Online Games
7 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Life Science
7 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (2.86%) Windows
2 3 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.90%) CentOS
3 2 (1.90%) Debian
3 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (45.71%) Agile
2 37 (35.24%) Mentoring
3 36 (34.29%) CI/CD
4 27 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (22.86%) User Experience
6 23 (21.90%) DevOps
6 23 (21.90%) Microservices
7 21 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 21 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 18 (17.14%) Containerisation
9 17 (16.19%) Front End Development
10 16 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (14.29%) AI
12 12 (11.43%) Scrum
13 11 (10.48%) Clean Code
13 11 (10.48%) Code Quality
14 9 (8.57%) API Development
14 9 (8.57%) Performance Optimisation
14 9 (8.57%) TDD
14 9 (8.57%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (34.29%) Python
2 34 (32.38%) TypeScript
3 21 (20.00%) Java
4 19 (18.10%) C#
5 14 (13.33%) PHP
5 14 (13.33%) SQL
6 11 (10.48%) R
7 5 (4.76%) C
8 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.95%) Scala
9 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.95%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (18.10%) AWS Certification
1 19 (18.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 19 (18.10%) Azure Certification
1 19 (18.10%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.71%) DV Cleared
3 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.95%) Degree
5 1 (0.95%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.86%) HL7
2 3 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (20.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) HDFS
2 1 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.62%) Ansible
3 5 (4.76%) Terraform
4 3 (2.86%) cPanel
4 3 (2.86%) Plesk
5 2 (1.90%) Puppet
6 1 (0.95%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.81%) Adobe
2 4 (3.81%) Google
3 3 (2.86%) Oracle
4 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.90%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.90%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.95%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.95%) iManage
5 1 (0.95%) Pega
5 1 (0.95%) SAP
5 1 (0.95%) WSO2