Full-Stack Development Job Trends in Manchester

Full-Stack Development
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 73 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 -42 +36
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 61 80 184
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.13% 3.00% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 3.20% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 45 47 159
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £67,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £54,424
% change year-on-year +13.04% +5.65% -1.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Full-Stack Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,284 2,498 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.72% 93.66% 90.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,367 1,169 1,842
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Full-Stack Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend in Manchester

Full-Stack Development
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Full-Stack Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in Manchester over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in Manchester

Full-Stack Development
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 Development within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 11 January 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 +9 6 £75,000 - 3
Full-Stack Development
North West

Full-Stack Development
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 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.64%) CMS
1 1 (1.64%) Jupyter
1 1 (1.64%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) AWS
1 29 (47.54%) Azure
2 11 (18.03%) SaaS
3 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.84%) Serverless
4 5 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.28%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.28%) PaaS
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.64%) GCP
8 1 (1.64%) GitHub
8 1 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.64%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) HTTP
2 1 (1.64%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (9.84%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.20%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.64%) MySQL
6 1 (1.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Git
2 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.56%) JIRA
3 4 (6.56%) JUnit
4 2 (3.28%) GitLab
General
1 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Finance
3 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.56%) Marketing
5 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Electronics
5 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.64%) Law
5 1 (1.64%) Legal
5 1 (1.64%) Local Government
5 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (54.10%) Developer
2 18 (29.51%) Full-Stack Developer
2 18 (29.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 17 (27.87%) Senior
4 12 (19.67%) Lead
5 11 (18.03%) Software Engineer
6 8 (13.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (11.48%) Lead Developer
7 7 (11.48%) Software Developer
8 6 (9.84%) .NET Developer
8 6 (9.84%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) C# Developer
9 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) Lead C# Developer
10 4 (6.56%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (6.56%) Java Developer
10 4 (6.56%) Senior C# Software Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Senior Developer
11 3 (4.92%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (49.18%) React
2 27 (44.26%) .NET
3 20 (32.79%) AngularJS
4 17 (27.87%) CSS
4 17 (27.87%) HTML
5 15 (24.59%) RESTful
6 12 (19.67%) Node.js
7 11 (18.03%) Spring
7 11 (18.03%) Spring Boot
8 9 (14.75%) REST
9 8 (13.11%) Kafka
10 6 (9.84%) ASP.NET
10 6 (9.84%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (9.84%) CSS3
10 6 (9.84%) HTML5
11 5 (8.20%) .NET Framework
11 5 (8.20%) Entity Framework
11 5 (8.20%) Vue
12 4 (6.56%) Razor View Engine
12 4 (6.56%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Product Ownership
2 10 (16.39%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.84%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.56%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.64%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.64%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Android
1 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (57.38%) Agile
2 26 (42.62%) CI/CD
3 25 (40.98%) Software Engineering
4 24 (39.34%) Microservices
5 19 (31.15%) DevOps
6 18 (29.51%) Mentoring
7 14 (22.95%) AI
8 12 (19.67%) User Experience
9 11 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (18.03%) Scrum
10 10 (16.39%) Containerisation
11 9 (14.75%) Coaching
11 9 (14.75%) Code Quality
11 9 (14.75%) TDD
11 9 (14.75%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (13.11%) Clean Code
12 8 (13.11%) Design Patterns
12 8 (13.11%) Kanban
12 8 (13.11%) Unit Testing
13 7 (11.48%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 26 (42.62%) JavaScript
2 25 (40.98%) C#
3 23 (37.70%) TypeScript
4 17 (27.87%) Java
5 8 (13.11%) SQL
6 7 (11.48%) Python
7 3 (4.92%) Go
8 1 (1.64%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.64%) PHP
8 1 (1.64%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) Degree
4 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.64%) MBA
4 1 (1.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) GDPR
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Ansible
2 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.28%) Xamarin
3 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.64%) Google
3 1 (1.64%) iManage
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle
3 1 (1.64%) Pega
3 1 (1.64%) SAP
3 1 (1.64%) WSO2