Full-Stack Developer Contracts in Manchester

Full-Stack Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in Manchester is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 83 85
Rank change year-on-year +22 +2 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 18 13 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.94% 0.86% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 0.89% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 27
10th Percentile £381 £348 £383
25th Percentile £431 £380 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £563
90th Percentile - £586 £588
North West median daily rate £500 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.67% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in Manchester

Full-Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Developer in Manchester

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Full-Stack Developer contract 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 contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (61.11%) Node.js
3 10 (55.56%) Java
4 9 (50.00%) AWS
5 7 (38.89%) React
5 7 (38.89%) Virgin Media
5 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
5 7 (38.89%) Azure
6 6 (33.33%) Microservices
6 6 (33.33%) Docker
7 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
7 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven Programming
7 5 (27.78%) Camunda
7 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
7 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
7 5 (27.78%) RESTful
7 5 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
8 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
8 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 4 (22.22%) GitLab
9 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
9 3 (16.67%) Express.js
9 3 (16.67%) Git
9 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
9 3 (16.67%) .NET
9 3 (16.67%) Python
9 3 (16.67%) C#

Full-Stack 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 5 (27.78%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (11.11%) GIS
2 2 (11.11%) ObjectStore
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) GitLab
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) Node.js
2 7 (38.89%) React
3 5 (27.78%) RESTful
4 3 (16.67%) .NET
4 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 3 (16.67%) Express.js
5 2 (11.11%) GeoJSON
5 2 (11.11%) Google Maps API
5 2 (11.11%) Leaflet
5 2 (11.11%) MapLibre
5 2 (11.11%) NestJS
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
6 1 (5.56%) Jest
6 1 (5.56%) kraken
6 1 (5.56%) Spring
6 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (33.33%) Microservices
3 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
3 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven Programming
4 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (11.11%) Digital Twin
6 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) RBAC
6 2 (11.11%) SDLC
6 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
6 2 (11.11%) Workflow
7 1 (5.56%) Case Management
7 1 (5.56%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
3 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 3 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Virgin Media
2 2 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) Mapbox
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
27 Full-Stack Developer jobs in the North West