Backend Developer Jobs in Manchester

Backend Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Backend Developer salary in Manchester is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 December 2024.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 149 228
Rank change year-on-year +11 +79 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 25 9 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.84% 0.38% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.39% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 23 5 16
10th Percentile - £50,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - +42.11%
75th Percentile £56,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £58,250 - £79,375
North West median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% -7.41% +42.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

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

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 2,791 2,283 5,274
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 96.05% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,404 1,664 3,384
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £56,407
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.94% +4.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% +5.00%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Backend Developer in Manchester

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backend Developer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Backend Developer in Manchester

Backend Developer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backend Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Backend Developer in Manchester

Backend Developer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 December 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Altrincham - 2 £52,500 -
Salford - 2 - -
Backend Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2024, Backend Developer 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 permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 19 (76.00%) OOP
2 18 (72.00%) Design Patterns
2 18 (72.00%) Linux
3 17 (68.00%) CSS
3 17 (68.00%) E-Commerce
3 17 (68.00%) Apache
3 17 (68.00%) HTML
3 17 (68.00%) JavaScript
3 17 (68.00%) PHP
3 17 (68.00%) MySQL
3 17 (68.00%) MVC
3 17 (68.00%) LAMP
3 17 (68.00%) Retail
3 17 (68.00%) Software Engineering
3 17 (68.00%) Google
3 17 (68.00%) Web Development
3 17 (68.00%) Symfony
3 17 (68.00%) nginx
3 17 (68.00%) PHPUnit
3 17 (68.00%) GCP
3 17 (68.00%) Datadog
3 17 (68.00%) React
3 17 (68.00%) LEMP Stack
4 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) TDD
5 4 (16.00%) Git
5 4 (16.00%) C#
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (12.00%) .NET

Backend 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 17 (68.00%) Apache
1 17 (68.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) Datadog
1 17 (68.00%) GCP
2 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (68.00%) MySQL
2 2 (8.00%) Redis
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) Power Query
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (68.00%) PHPUnit
2 4 (16.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) NUnit
General
1 17 (68.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (68.00%) CSS
1 17 (68.00%) HTML
1 17 (68.00%) LAMP
1 17 (68.00%) LEMP Stack
1 17 (68.00%) React
1 17 (68.00%) Symfony
2 3 (12.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (12.00%) RESTful
3 2 (8.00%) Jest
3 2 (8.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) MSMQ
4 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) FMCG
1 1 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Android
2 1 (4.00%) CentOS
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) OOP
2 18 (72.00%) Design Patterns
3 17 (68.00%) E-Commerce
3 17 (68.00%) MVC
3 17 (68.00%) Software Engineering
3 17 (68.00%) Web Development
4 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.00%) TDD
6 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (12.00%) DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) Customer Experience
7 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (8.00%) User Experience
8 1 (4.00%) Functional Testing
8 1 (4.00%) Kanban
8 1 (4.00%) Open Source
8 1 (4.00%) Scrum
8 1 (4.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) JavaScript
1 17 (68.00%) PHP
2 4 (16.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.00%) Go
4 1 (4.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) SAP