Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in Manchester

Full-Stack Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in Manchester is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 133 95
Rank change year-on-year +22 -38 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 28 21 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.81% 0.83% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.88% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 22 16 77
10th Percentile £52,625 £40,625 £38,750
25th Percentile £56,563 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £70,938 £58,438 £66,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £61,875 £71,250
North West median annual salary £66,250 £55,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +20.45% +7.32% -6.82%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 3,090 2,375 3,436
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 94.06% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,074 1,190 2,875
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,959 £29,106
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in Manchester

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in Manchester

Full-Stack 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 Full-Stack Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
Salford - 1 £80,000 - 2
Full-Stack Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 14 February 2026, Full-Stack Developer 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 permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 12 (42.86%) AWS
3 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
4 10 (35.71%) React
5 9 (32.14%) Agile
5 9 (32.14%) AngularJS
5 9 (32.14%) Java
6 8 (28.57%) Node.js
7 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (21.43%) .NET
8 6 (21.43%) CSS
8 6 (21.43%) DevOps
8 6 (21.43%) HTML
8 6 (21.43%) Microservices
8 6 (21.43%) Spring
8 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
8 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
8 6 (21.43%) Vue
9 5 (17.86%) AI
9 5 (17.86%) Azure
9 5 (17.86%) Clean Code
9 5 (17.86%) Git
9 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
9 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
9 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
9 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
9 5 (17.86%) Serverless
10 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (14.29%) Amazon EKS

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Serverless
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (10.71%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (3.57%) Kontent
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.71%) MySQL
3 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (10.71%) Banking
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Advertising
3 1 (3.57%) Law
3 1 (3.57%) Legal
3 1 (3.57%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) React
2 9 (32.14%) AngularJS
3 8 (28.57%) Node.js
4 6 (21.43%) .NET
4 6 (21.43%) CSS
4 6 (21.43%) HTML
4 6 (21.43%) Spring
4 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 6 (21.43%) Vue
5 4 (14.29%) Laravel
5 4 (14.29%) REST
6 3 (10.71%) Kafka
7 2 (7.14%) CSS3
7 2 (7.14%) Express.js
7 2 (7.14%) hapi
7 2 (7.14%) HTML5
7 2 (7.14%) NestJS
8 1 (3.57%) Apache Camel
8 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (3.57%) HTML5 Boilerplate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (32.14%) Agile
3 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (21.43%) DevOps
4 6 (21.43%) Microservices
5 5 (17.86%) AI
5 5 (17.86%) Clean Code
5 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
6 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) BDD
7 3 (10.71%) Code Quality
7 3 (10.71%) Front End Development
7 3 (10.71%) Kanban
7 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.71%) Scrum
7 3 (10.71%) TDD
7 3 (10.71%) Technology Transformation
8 2 (7.14%) API Development
8 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
2 9 (32.14%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 4 (14.29%) C#
4 4 (14.29%) PHP
4 4 (14.29%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) Python
6 2 (7.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Google
1 1 (3.57%) iManage
1 1 (3.57%) Pega
1 1 (3.57%) WSO2