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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 49 60
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 -19
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 99 160 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.18% 3.94% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 4.76% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 46 86 117
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £54,625 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £75,000
North West median annual salary £66,250 £60,000 £50,985
% change year-on-year +10.42% +17.68% -7.30%

All Process and 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 2,117 3,364 2,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.32% 82.78% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 1,787 2,067
10th Percentile £28,975 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,994 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,125 £83,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +4.76%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Full-Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
Altrincham -6 6 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Salford +13 5 - - 2
Stockport +3 3 - - 1
Bolton -4 3 - - 2
Oldham - 3 - - 1
Sale - 3 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - -
Wigan - 3 - - 3
Full-Stack Development
North West

Full-Stack Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (14.14%) Confluence
2 9 (9.09%) IIS
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 60 (60.61%) AWS
2 47 (47.47%) Azure
3 12 (12.12%) GCP
4 10 (10.10%) GitHub
5 8 (8.08%) SaaS
6 6 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.04%) Firebase
8 3 (3.03%) Vercel
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.02%) PaaS
9 2 (2.02%) Serverless
9 2 (2.02%) Supabase
10 1 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.01%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.01%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (43.43%) SQL Server
2 15 (15.15%) MongoDB
3 14 (14.14%) NoSQL
4 13 (13.13%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.05%) Redis
6 3 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.03%) Data Hub
6 3 (3.03%) Hazelcast
6 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.03%) SQL CLR
7 2 (2.02%) MySQL
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (37.37%) JIRA
2 32 (32.32%) GitLab
3 31 (31.31%) Cucumber
3 31 (31.31%) Selenium
4 27 (27.27%) Bitbucket
4 27 (27.27%) Maven
4 27 (27.27%) SonarQube
4 27 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 17 (17.17%) Git
6 5 (5.05%) JUnit
7 3 (3.03%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.03%) JMeter
8 2 (2.02%) webpack
General
1 47 (47.47%) Finance
2 28 (28.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 27 (27.27%) Banking
4 18 (18.18%) Corporate Banking
4 18 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 18 (18.18%) Retail
4 18 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.04%) Marketing
6 3 (3.03%) Back Office
7 2 (2.02%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.01%) Games
8 1 (1.01%) Legal
8 1 (1.01%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (45.45%) Developer
2 41 (41.41%) Software Engineer
3 20 (20.20%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (17.17%) Senior
5 15 (15.15%) .NET Developer
6 10 (10.10%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) Java Developer
9 7 (7.07%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 6 (6.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (6.06%) Java Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) Lead
11 5 (5.05%) Principal Developer
12 4 (4.04%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 4 (4.04%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (4.04%) Lead .NET Developer
12 4 (4.04%) Lead Developer
12 4 (4.04%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (4.04%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (57.58%) React
2 52 (52.53%) HTML
3 51 (51.52%) CSS
4 44 (44.44%) Kafka
5 42 (42.42%) Spring
5 42 (42.42%) Spring Boot
6 32 (32.32%) RESTful
7 28 (28.28%) .NET
7 28 (28.28%) Redux
8 27 (27.27%) JPA
9 24 (24.24%) CSS3
9 24 (24.24%) REST
10 23 (23.23%) AngularJS
10 23 (23.23%) HTML5
11 22 (22.22%) Sass
12 20 (20.20%) Jest
13 15 (15.15%) Node.js
14 13 (13.13%) .NET Core
15 9 (9.09%) Hibernate
16 7 (7.07%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 36 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 27 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (11.11%) Mobile App
4 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 6 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (6.06%) Wiki
6 4 (4.04%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.01%) Animation
9 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Windows
1 3 (3.03%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.02%) Android
2 2 (2.02%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (66.67%) Agile
2 58 (58.59%) Software Engineering
3 55 (55.56%) DevOps
4 54 (54.55%) CI/CD
5 48 (48.48%) Microservices
6 42 (42.42%) Containerisation
7 39 (39.39%) SDLC
8 38 (38.38%) Test Automation
9 35 (35.35%) Front End Development
9 35 (35.35%) Mentoring
10 33 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
11 32 (32.32%) User Experience
12 25 (25.25%) TDD
13 18 (18.18%) Clean Code
13 18 (18.18%) Migration
13 18 (18.18%) Responsive Web Design
13 18 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
14 14 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (12.12%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 60 (60.61%) JavaScript
2 50 (50.51%) Java
3 45 (45.45%) SQL
3 45 (45.45%) TypeScript
4 24 (24.24%) C#
5 10 (10.10%) Python
6 1 (1.01%) Go
6 1 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.04%) Degree
3 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.27%) QA
2 18 (18.18%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.04%) GDPR
4 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 51 (51.52%) Docker
2 3 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (40.40%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.04%) Terraform
3 1 (1.01%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (27.27%) Solace
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.04%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.03%) Google
4 3 (3.03%) VMware
5 2 (2.02%) Xamarin