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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -34 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 131 217 476
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.24% 10.00% 10.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.44% 27.43% 29.38%
Number of salaries quoted 94 176 391
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,063 £48,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £97,528 £80,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 674 791 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.66% 36.43% 36.93%
Number of salaries quoted 565 559 1,373
10th Percentile £37,050 £38,750 £36,900
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +11.61% -5.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £94,500 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +22 4 £31,500 -30.00% 1
Stockport -12 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 7 (5.34%) Apache
2 6 (4.58%) WordPress
3 4 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.29%) nginx
5 2 (1.53%) CICS
5 2 (1.53%) CMS
5 2 (1.53%) GeoServer
5 2 (1.53%) JBoss
5 2 (1.53%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.76%) Confluence
6 1 (0.76%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
1 1 (0.76%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 75 (57.25%) AWS
2 69 (52.67%) Azure
3 24 (18.32%) GitHub
4 16 (12.21%) Serverless
5 13 (9.92%) GCP
6 9 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (5.34%) SaaS
9 6 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.53%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.53%) Datadog
13 2 (1.53%) Power Automate
13 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.03%) Internet
2 4 (3.05%) AMQP
2 4 (3.05%) HTTP
3 3 (2.29%) SSH
4 2 (1.53%) OpenVPN
4 2 (1.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.16%) NoSQL
2 11 (8.40%) MySQL
3 8 (6.11%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.11%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.58%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.05%) Big Data
6 4 (3.05%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (3.05%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.05%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.29%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.53%) DB2
8 2 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.53%) GIS
8 2 (1.53%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.53%) QGIS
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 60 (45.80%) Git
2 13 (9.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.34%) JIRA
4 3 (2.29%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.29%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.29%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.29%) JUnit
5 2 (1.53%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.53%) GitLab
5 2 (1.53%) Postman
5 2 (1.53%) Selenium
5 2 (1.53%) Subversion
6 1 (0.76%) Protractor
6 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 23 (17.56%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.03%) Multimedia
3 16 (12.21%) Finance
4 12 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.05%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.05%) Marketing
6 3 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.29%) Electronics
6 3 (2.29%) French Language
6 3 (2.29%) Games
6 3 (2.29%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.29%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.29%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (2.29%) Retail
6 3 (2.29%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.53%) Advertising
7 2 (1.53%) Law
7 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 65 (49.62%) Developer
2 27 (20.61%) Software Engineer
3 21 (16.03%) Trainee
4 20 (15.27%) Senior
5 19 (14.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (13.74%) Lead
7 17 (12.98%) Senior Developer
7 17 (12.98%) Software Developer
8 12 (9.16%) Java Developer
9 11 (8.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 10 (7.63%) Lead Software Engineer
11 9 (6.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (6.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 9 (6.87%) Trainee Developer
11 9 (6.87%) Trainee Software Developer
12 7 (5.34%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 5 (3.82%) Cloud Developer
13 5 (3.82%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Lead Developer
14 4 (3.05%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (51.91%) CSS
1 68 (51.91%) HTML
2 49 (37.40%) React
3 42 (32.06%) Node.js
4 30 (22.90%) AngularJS
5 26 (19.85%) .NET
6 21 (16.03%) REST
7 18 (13.74%) RESTful
8 15 (11.45%) Spring
8 15 (11.45%) Spring Boot
9 11 (8.40%) CSS3
9 11 (8.40%) HTML5
10 8 (6.11%) Vue
11 7 (5.34%) gRPC
11 7 (5.34%) Web Services
12 6 (4.58%) ASP.NET
12 6 (4.58%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (4.58%) Kafka
13 5 (3.82%) MERN Stack
13 5 (3.82%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.98%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.11%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.53%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.53%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.53%) NHS
6 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.87%) Linux
2 4 (3.05%) CentOS
2 4 (3.05%) Debian
2 4 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.05%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.29%) Android
3 3 (2.29%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.53%) Windows
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (51.15%) Agile
2 42 (32.06%) Full-Stack Development
2 42 (32.06%) Mentoring
3 41 (31.30%) CI/CD
4 38 (29.01%) Software Engineering
5 27 (20.61%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (20.61%) Scrum
6 26 (19.85%) Microservices
7 20 (15.27%) TDD
8 19 (14.50%) DevOps
8 19 (14.50%) User Experience
9 18 (13.74%) Kanban
10 17 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (11.45%) AI
11 15 (11.45%) Front End Development
12 14 (10.69%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (9.92%) Containerisation
14 12 (9.16%) API Development
14 12 (9.16%) Clean Code
14 12 (9.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 52 (39.69%) Python
2 44 (33.59%) TypeScript
3 39 (29.77%) Java
4 19 (14.50%) SQL
5 17 (12.98%) C#
6 12 (9.16%) R
7 8 (6.11%) PHP
8 6 (4.58%) C
9 4 (3.05%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.53%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (16.03%) AWS Certification
1 21 (16.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 21 (16.03%) Azure Certification
1 21 (16.03%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (10.69%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.87%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.82%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.05%) Degree
6 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.05%) QA
3 2 (1.53%) HL7
4 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (11.45%) Docker
2 5 (3.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (10.69%) Terraform
2 13 (9.92%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.63%) Ansible
4 4 (3.05%) Puppet
5 3 (2.29%) cPanel
5 3 (2.29%) Plesk
6 2 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.53%) Nagios
6 2 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.58%) Atlassian
2 6 (4.58%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.82%) Google
3 5 (3.82%) Oracle
3 5 (3.82%) Pega
4 4 (3.05%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.53%) New Relic
5 2 (1.53%) Splunk
5 2 (1.53%) WSO2
6 1 (0.76%) Adobe
6 1 (0.76%) Adyen
6 1 (0.76%) iManage
6 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.76%) SAP