Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in Manchester

Full-Stack Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in Manchester is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 148 101
Rank change year-on-year +54 -47 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 83 18 128
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.36% 0.79% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 0.87% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 77 18 83
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,875 £71,250
North West median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% - +4.76%

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 5,740 2,074 5,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 91.29% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,523 1,203 4,286
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,550 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,157 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 -
Salford - 1 £80,000 -
Full-Stack Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 18 June 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 83 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 25 (30.12%) Node.js
3 24 (28.92%) JavaScript
3 24 (28.92%) React
4 23 (27.71%) AWS
5 22 (26.51%) Java
6 21 (25.30%) TypeScript
7 18 (21.69%) Microservices
8 17 (20.48%) CI/CD
9 15 (18.07%) DevOps
10 14 (16.87%) Python
10 14 (16.87%) Software Engineering
11 13 (15.66%) Git
11 13 (15.66%) SQL
12 12 (14.46%) NoSQL
12 12 (14.46%) Relational Database
12 12 (14.46%) Vue
13 11 (13.25%) AI
13 11 (13.25%) Azure
14 10 (12.05%) Agile
14 10 (12.05%) AngularJS
14 10 (12.05%) Spring
14 10 (12.05%) Spring Boot
15 9 (10.84%) Clean Code
15 9 (10.84%) CSS
15 9 (10.84%) Front End Development
15 9 (10.84%) HTML
15 9 (10.84%) RESTful
16 8 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
16 8 (9.64%) Scrum

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 (2.41%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.20%) CICS
2 1 (1.20%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.71%) AWS
2 11 (13.25%) Azure
3 8 (9.64%) Serverless
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (7.23%) GCP
5 6 (7.23%) SaaS
6 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.61%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.41%) GitHub
9 1 (1.20%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) NoSQL
1 12 (14.46%) Relational Database
2 8 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.43%) RDBMS
4 5 (6.02%) MySQL
5 1 (1.20%) Db2
5 1 (1.20%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (15.66%) Git
2 7 (8.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.02%) JIRA
4 2 (2.41%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.41%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.20%) GitLab
5 1 (1.20%) Vite
General
1 9 (10.84%) Finance
2 6 (7.23%) Banking
3 5 (6.02%) Advertising
4 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.82%) Retail
5 3 (3.61%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.20%) Local Government
7 1 (1.20%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (30.12%) Node.js
2 24 (28.92%) React
3 12 (14.46%) Vue
4 10 (12.05%) AngularJS
4 10 (12.05%) Spring
4 10 (12.05%) Spring Boot
5 9 (10.84%) CSS
5 9 (10.84%) HTML
5 9 (10.84%) RESTful
6 7 (8.43%) FastAPI
7 6 (7.23%) Flask
7 6 (7.23%) REST
8 4 (4.82%) Laravel
9 3 (3.61%) .NET
10 2 (2.41%) CSS3
10 2 (2.41%) HTML5
10 2 (2.41%) J2EE
10 2 (2.41%) SOAP
10 2 (2.41%) Symfony
10 2 (2.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (21.69%) Microservices
3 17 (20.48%) CI/CD
4 15 (18.07%) DevOps
5 14 (16.87%) Software Engineering
6 11 (13.25%) AI
7 10 (12.05%) Agile
8 9 (10.84%) Clean Code
8 9 (10.84%) Front End Development
9 8 (9.64%) Scrum
10 6 (7.23%) Biomedicine
10 6 (7.23%) Observability
10 6 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (7.23%) Product Vision
10 6 (7.23%) TDD
11 5 (6.02%) Architectural Patterns
11 5 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (4.82%) Event-Driven
12 4 (4.82%) Generative AI
12 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.92%) JavaScript
2 22 (26.51%) Java
3 21 (25.30%) TypeScript
4 14 (16.87%) Python
5 13 (15.66%) SQL
6 6 (7.23%) PHP
7 4 (4.82%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.61%) C#
9 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (2.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.20%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (4.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.02%) Terraform
2 4 (4.82%) Ansible
3 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (4.82%) Pega
2 2 (2.41%) WSO2
3 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle