Full-Stack Development Contracts in Manchester

Full-Stack Development
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Full-Stack Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 58 64
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Full-Stack Development 31 38 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.35% 2.50% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 2.88% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 29 44
10th Percentile £400 £374 £384
25th Percentile £406 £425 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £554 £694 £588
90th Percentile £588 - £638
North West median daily rate £456 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.75% -4.76% +15.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Full-Stack Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Full-Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development in Manchester

Full-Stack Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Development in Manchester

Full-Stack Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Development in Manchester

Full-Stack Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Development in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Full-Stack Development in Manchester

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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 (16.13%) Camunda
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) Serverless
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (19.35%) Relational Database
2 4 (12.90%) ObjectStore
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.45%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (6.45%) GIS
4 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Git
1 6 (19.35%) GitLab
2 2 (6.45%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Selenium
General
1 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (80.65%) Developer
2 18 (58.06%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (29.03%) Java Developer
4 8 (25.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 8 (25.81%) Node.js Developer
5 6 (19.35%) Azure Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Senior
6 4 (12.90%) Senior Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Software Developer
7 3 (9.68%) C# Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (6.45%) GIS Developer
8 2 (6.45%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (6.45%) QA Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) React Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (54.84%) Node.js
2 13 (41.94%) React
3 8 (25.81%) RESTful
4 6 (19.35%) .NET
4 6 (19.35%) AngularJS
5 3 (9.68%) .NET Core
5 3 (9.68%) .NET Framework
5 3 (9.68%) Express.js
6 2 (6.45%) GeoJSON
6 2 (6.45%) Google Maps API
6 2 (6.45%) Leaflet
6 2 (6.45%) MapLibre
6 2 (6.45%) NestJS
6 2 (6.45%) Playwright
6 2 (6.45%) Spring
6 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
7 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
7 1 (3.23%) Jest
7 1 (3.23%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (3.23%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Agile
1 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
1 8 (25.81%) Test Automation
2 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
2 7 (22.58%) Microservices
3 6 (19.35%) Event-Driven
4 5 (16.13%) Event-Driven Programming
5 4 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (12.90%) Digital Twin
5 4 (12.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (12.90%) RBAC
5 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
5 4 (12.90%) Visualisation
6 3 (9.68%) Front End Development
6 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.68%) Scrum
6 3 (9.68%) SDLC
7 2 (6.45%) API Design
7 2 (6.45%) API Testing
7 2 (6.45%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) Java
2 10 (32.26%) JavaScript
3 8 (25.81%) TypeScript
4 6 (19.35%) C#
5 5 (16.13%) Python
6 4 (12.90%) SQL
7 1 (3.23%) Scala
7 1 (3.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Virgin Media
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) Mapbox
4 1 (3.23%) Atlassian