Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in Manchester

Full-Stack Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in Manchester is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 141 103
Rank change year-on-year +38 -38 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 84 19 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.24% 0.76% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 0.83% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 77 17 57
10th Percentile £48,500 £51,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.64% +6.82% +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 6,381 2,292 4,290
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 91.57% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,024 1,378 2,968
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,125 £83,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -
Bolton - 1 £55,000 - 1
Full-Stack Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 6 August 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 84 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 25 (29.76%) Node.js
2 25 (29.76%) React
3 22 (26.19%) JavaScript
3 22 (26.19%) TypeScript
4 20 (23.81%) AWS
4 20 (23.81%) Java
5 17 (20.24%) CI/CD
5 17 (20.24%) Microservices
6 15 (17.86%) DevOps
7 14 (16.67%) Python
8 12 (14.29%) Git
8 12 (14.29%) Relational Database
8 12 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 12 (14.29%) SQL
9 11 (13.10%) AI
9 11 (13.10%) Azure
9 11 (13.10%) NoSQL
10 10 (11.90%) Agile
11 9 (10.71%) AngularJS
11 9 (10.71%) Front End Development
11 9 (10.71%) Spring
11 9 (10.71%) Spring Boot
11 9 (10.71%) Vue
12 8 (9.52%) Clean Code
12 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (9.52%) RESTful
12 8 (9.52%) Scrum
12 8 (9.52%) Serverless
13 7 (8.33%) Amazon ECS

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 (2.38%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.19%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.81%) AWS
2 11 (13.10%) Azure
3 8 (9.52%) Serverless
4 7 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (7.14%) GCP
6 4 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (3.57%) GitHub
7 3 (3.57%) SaaS
8 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.19%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.19%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.19%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 11 (13.10%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (8.33%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.57%) MySQL
6 1 (1.19%) Db2
6 1 (1.19%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (14.29%) Git
2 7 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.76%) JIRA
4 2 (2.38%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.38%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.19%) GitLab
5 1 (1.19%) Vite
General
1 9 (10.71%) Finance
2 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.76%) Advertising
3 4 (4.76%) Banking
3 4 (4.76%) Retail
4 3 (3.57%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.19%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.76%) Node.js
1 25 (29.76%) React
2 9 (10.71%) AngularJS
2 9 (10.71%) Spring
2 9 (10.71%) Spring Boot
2 9 (10.71%) Vue
3 8 (9.52%) RESTful
4 7 (8.33%) CSS
4 7 (8.33%) FastAPI
4 7 (8.33%) HTML
5 6 (7.14%) Flask
5 6 (7.14%) REST
6 3 (3.57%) Next.js
7 2 (2.38%) Apache Camel
7 2 (2.38%) CSS3
7 2 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.38%) Express.js
7 2 (2.38%) HTML5
7 2 (2.38%) Kafka
7 2 (2.38%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.19%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (20.24%) CI/CD
2 17 (20.24%) Microservices
3 15 (17.86%) DevOps
4 12 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 11 (13.10%) AI
6 10 (11.90%) Agile
7 9 (10.71%) Front End Development
8 8 (9.52%) Clean Code
8 8 (9.52%) Scrum
9 6 (7.14%) Biomedicine
9 6 (7.14%) Observability
9 6 (7.14%) Product Vision
9 6 (7.14%) TDD
10 5 (5.95%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (4.76%) Architectural Patterns
11 4 (4.76%) Event-Driven
11 4 (4.76%) Generative AI
11 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.19%) JavaScript
1 22 (26.19%) TypeScript
2 20 (23.81%) Java
3 14 (16.67%) Python
4 12 (14.29%) SQL
5 5 (5.95%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.57%) PHP
7 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.19%) Bicep
8 1 (1.19%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (2.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.95%) Terraform
2 4 (4.76%) Ansible
3 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (4.76%) Pega
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.38%) WSO2
3 1 (1.19%) Google
3 1 (1.19%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle