Full-Stack Software Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Full-Stack Software Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - 100
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.24% - 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% - 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,152 981 1,524
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 93.79% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 618 1,101
10th Percentile £311 £313 £306
25th Percentile £381 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -3.55%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £669
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 33 78
10th Percentile £18.26 £15.93 £12.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% +52.94% -47.53%
75th Percentile £59.06 £33.75 £60.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £29.23 £30.00
% change year-on-year +43.48% -2.57% +13.21%

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Full-Stack Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Software Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Full-Stack Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 February 2026, Full-Stack Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Spring

Full-Stack Software Engineer 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce