Junior Developer Job Trends in Manchester

Junior Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Junior Developer salary in Manchester is £34,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 183 168
Rank change year-on-year +30 -15 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 3 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.13% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £30,625 - £28,000
25th Percentile £31,563 £29,000 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,750 £32,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -27.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £37,563 £37,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £38,275 £38,250 -
North West median annual salary £32,500 £30,000 £38,750
% change year-on-year +8.33% -22.58% +3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 2,146 3,831 2,669
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 94.45% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 2,190 2,147
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £34,400
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Junior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in Manchester

Junior Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for Junior Developer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Junior Developer job vacancies in Manchester

Junior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Junior Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Junior Developer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Electron
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 1 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VBA
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
2 1 (33.33%) Laravel

Junior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Games
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Electron
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Laravel
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (33.33%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
2 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) API Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Coaching
1 1 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
1 1 (33.33%) VBA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Facebook
2 1 (33.33%) Google
10 Junior Developer jobs in the North West