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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 71 28
Rank change year-on-year +15 -43 +41
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 111 82 273
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.91% 3.54% 6.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 3.70% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 91 57 233
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,250 £37,613
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £84,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -

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 2,861 2,216 3,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.13% 95.68% 88.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,852 1,164 2,861
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,531 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,444 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -9.09%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +3 7 £75,000 - 2
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 2 (1.80%) CMS
1 2 (1.80%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.90%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.94%) AWS
2 33 (29.73%) Azure
3 15 (13.51%) SaaS
4 9 (8.11%) Serverless
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.70%) GCP
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.80%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.80%) GitHub
7 2 (1.80%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.90%) Kontent
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) HTTP
2 1 (0.90%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.61%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.50%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.50%) MySQL
5 2 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.80%) GIS
5 2 (1.80%) QGIS
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.90%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) Git
2 7 (6.31%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.41%) JIRA
4 4 (3.60%) JUnit
5 2 (1.80%) GitLab
General
1 20 (18.02%) Finance
2 10 (9.01%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.31%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.50%) Banking
5 4 (3.60%) Marketing
6 3 (2.70%) Retail
7 2 (1.80%) Advertising
8 1 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Electronics
8 1 (0.90%) Law
8 1 (0.90%) Legal
8 1 (0.90%) Local Government
8 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (62.16%) Developer
2 47 (42.34%) Full-Stack Developer
3 34 (30.63%) Senior
4 33 (29.73%) Lead
5 29 (26.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 20 (18.02%) Lead Developer
6 20 (18.02%) Senior Developer
7 18 (16.22%) Software Engineer
8 14 (12.61%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (11.71%) Software Developer
10 12 (10.81%) Java Developer
11 11 (9.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 11 (9.91%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (9.01%) .NET Developer
13 8 (7.21%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 8 (7.21%) Lead .NET Developer
13 8 (7.21%) Lead Software Engineer
14 6 (5.41%) Lead C# Developer
14 6 (5.41%) Lead Software Developer
14 6 (5.41%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (35.14%) .NET
2 35 (31.53%) React
3 28 (25.23%) Node.js
4 19 (17.12%) AngularJS
5 17 (15.32%) CSS
5 17 (15.32%) HTML
6 15 (13.51%) Spring
7 14 (12.61%) RESTful
7 14 (12.61%) Spring Boot
8 10 (9.01%) REST
8 10 (9.01%) Vue
9 7 (6.31%) Kafka
10 6 (5.41%) ASP.NET
10 6 (5.41%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (5.41%) CSS3
10 6 (5.41%) HTML5
11 5 (4.50%) Laravel
12 4 (3.60%) gRPC
12 4 (3.60%) Razor View Engine
12 4 (3.60%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.01%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.90%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.90%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.90%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Linux
1 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.54%) Software Engineering
2 43 (38.74%) Agile
3 27 (24.32%) Microservices
4 26 (23.42%) CI/CD
5 20 (18.02%) Mentoring
6 18 (16.22%) DevOps
7 17 (15.32%) TDD
8 16 (14.41%) AI
8 16 (14.41%) Scrum
9 15 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (11.71%) Coaching
11 13 (11.71%) Kanban
12 12 (10.81%) Architectural Patterns
12 12 (10.81%) Design Patterns
12 12 (10.81%) User Experience
13 11 (9.91%) Clean Code
14 10 (9.01%) Code Quality
15 8 (7.21%) Containerisation
15 8 (7.21%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (35.14%) JavaScript
2 31 (27.93%) Java
3 30 (27.03%) TypeScript
4 23 (20.72%) C#
5 14 (12.61%) Python
6 7 (6.31%) SQL
7 5 (4.50%) PHP
8 4 (3.60%) Go
9 3 (2.70%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.90%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.90%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (6.31%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.90%) Degree
4 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.90%) MBA
4 1 (0.90%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.70%) Docker
2 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.60%) Ansible
2 3 (2.70%) Terraform
3 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
2 1 (0.90%) Google
2 1 (0.90%) iManage
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle
2 1 (0.90%) Pega
2 1 (0.90%) SAP
2 1 (0.90%) WSO2