Full-Stack Developer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Full-Stack Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in Manchester is £401, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 76 77
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 12 9 26
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.18% 0.77% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 0.81% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 23
10th Percentile £312 £375 £315
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% +23.53% -22.73%
75th Percentile £420 £550 £488
90th Percentile £501 £563 £528
North West median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -22.02%

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 938 1,106 1,544
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.13% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 640 1,134
10th Percentile £300 £319 £285
25th Percentile £393 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -2.75% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £656 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 36 66
10th Percentile £13.27 £15.92 £14.88
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.81 £16.68
Median hourly rate £22.32 £33.75 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% +75.32% -3.75%
75th Percentile £31.40 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £61.13 £73.00 £68.13
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £31.77
% change year-on-year -28.16% +10.17% +37.50%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Full-Stack Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies 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 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Developer in Manchester

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, Full-Stack Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (66.67%) AWS
3 7 (58.33%) Node.js
4 6 (50.00%) Java
4 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (41.67%) Docker
6 4 (33.33%) GitLab
6 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
6 4 (33.33%) SQL
6 4 (33.33%) Agile
7 3 (25.00%) Clean Code
7 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
7 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (25.00%) React
7 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
7 3 (25.00%) Terraform
7 3 (25.00%) Jest
7 3 (25.00%) Spring
7 3 (25.00%) Express.js
7 3 (25.00%) Microservices
7 3 (25.00%) REST
8 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
8 2 (16.67%) YAML
8 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
8 2 (16.67%) SaaS
8 2 (16.67%) Bash
8 2 (16.67%) DevOps
8 2 (16.67%) Ansible

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (16.67%) npm
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) Slack
3 1 (8.33%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Node.js
2 3 (25.00%) Express.js
2 3 (25.00%) Jest
2 3 (25.00%) React
2 3 (25.00%) REST
2 3 (25.00%) Spring
2 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 2 (16.67%) Kafka
3 2 (16.67%) Middleware
3 2 (16.67%) Nunjucks
3 2 (16.67%) Vue
3 2 (16.67%) YAML
4 1 (8.33%) CSS
4 1 (8.33%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) HTML5
4 1 (8.33%) JPA
4 1 (8.33%) Laravel
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 2 (16.67%) OOP
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 1 (8.33%) B2B
6 1 (8.33%) Change Management
6 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
6 1 (8.33%) ITIL
6 1 (8.33%) OO
6 1 (8.33%) Pair Programming
6 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (8.33%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (16.67%) WCAG
3 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft