Full-Stack Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Full-Stack Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 July 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
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 84 113
Rank change year-on-year +4 +29 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 2 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.20% 0.60% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.63% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £490
25th Percentile - £313 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -30.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile - £463 £556
90th Percentile - £530 £560
North West median daily rate £400 £400 £525
% change year-on-year - -23.81% -16.00%

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 914 1,274 1,751
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 95.29% 96.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 850 1,294
10th Percentile £281 £306 £304
25th Percentile £385 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £671 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 71 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.25 £14.39
25th Percentile £13.27 £15.56 £16.29
Median hourly rate £21.10 £33.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.06% +73.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £72.50 £58.50
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £29.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -2.54% +11.32% +6.00%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Engineer in Manchester

Full-Stack Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Full-Stack Engineer in Manchester

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 20 July 2025, Full-Stack Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (50.00%) SPARQL
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Software Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Neptune
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design

Full-Stack Engineer 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) SPARQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian