Backend Developer Jobs in Manchester

Backend Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Backend Developer salary in Manchester is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 218 235
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 13 25 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.25% 0.50% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.55% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 8
10th Percentile £31,000 £51,125 £44,625
25th Percentile £46,563 £63,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,688 £67,500
90th Percentile - £82,500 £69,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £67,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% +28.57% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,853 4,545 5,496
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 91.58% 97.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,746 2,666 3,695
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,017 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Manchester

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Backend Developer in Manchester

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in Manchester

Backend Developer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Altrincham - 2 £50,000 -
Backend Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Backend 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 Backend Developer in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) .NET
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) TDD
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 3 (23.08%) Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Node.js
3 3 (23.08%) Kafka
3 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 3 (23.08%) Docker
3 3 (23.08%) React
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
3 3 (23.08%) Terraform
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
4 2 (15.38%) Health Technology

Backend 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Serverless
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (15.38%) SaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
1 3 (23.08%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (15.38%) DocumentDB
2 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) PHPUnit
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Health Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) Node.js
2 3 (23.08%) React
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) LAMP
3 1 (7.69%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (7.69%) MSMQ
3 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) TDD
2 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
3 2 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (15.38%) OOP
4 1 (7.69%) API Development
4 1 (7.69%) Coaching
4 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
4 1 (7.69%) Fintech
4 1 (7.69%) Pair Programming
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
4 1 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Google