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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 68 41
Rank change year-on-year +3 -27 +11
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 68 118 144
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.84% 3.30% 6.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 3.83% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 47 74 116
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,688 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £72,466
North West median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £50,985
% change year-on-year +13.04% +12.78% -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 2,033 3,082 2,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.96% 86.21% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 1,395 1,806
10th Percentile £28,150 £32,500 £33,858
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,450 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 18 November 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 November 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
Salford +14 2 £75,000 - 1
Altrincham -7 1 £55,000 -4.35% 7
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 3 (4.41%) Confluence
1 3 (4.41%) IIS
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.47%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 34 (50.00%) AWS
2 24 (35.29%) Azure
3 11 (16.18%) SaaS
4 7 (10.29%) GitHub
5 6 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (7.35%) Serverless
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (4.41%) GCP
8 3 (4.41%) Vercel
9 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.94%) PaaS
9 2 (2.94%) Supabase
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.47%) Firebase
10 1 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (13.24%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.29%) NoSQL
3 7 (10.29%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 5 (7.35%) Redis
6 3 (4.41%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.94%) Data Hub
7 2 (2.94%) MySQL
7 2 (2.94%) SQL CLR
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Git
2 4 (5.88%) GitLab
2 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.88%) JIRA
3 3 (4.41%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.94%) Selenium
4 2 (2.94%) webpack
5 1 (1.47%) JUnit
General
1 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Finance
3 6 (8.82%) Marketing
4 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.94%) Back Office
5 2 (2.94%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.47%) Electronics
6 1 (1.47%) Games
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.47%) Law
6 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (60.29%) Developer
2 24 (35.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 13 (19.12%) Software Engineer
4 11 (16.18%) Senior
5 9 (13.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 9 (13.24%) Software Developer
6 7 (10.29%) .NET Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Lead
7 6 (8.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (7.35%) Principal Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 4 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) C# Software Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (51.47%) React
2 26 (38.24%) .NET
3 21 (30.88%) HTML
4 20 (29.41%) CSS
5 17 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 17 (25.00%) Node.js
6 14 (20.59%) RESTful
7 11 (16.18%) Spring
7 11 (16.18%) Spring Boot
8 10 (14.71%) CSS3
9 9 (13.24%) HTML5
9 9 (13.24%) Kafka
10 8 (11.76%) .NET Framework
10 8 (11.76%) Entity Framework
11 7 (10.29%) Next.js
12 6 (8.82%) WebSockets
13 5 (7.35%) ASP.NET
13 5 (7.35%) React Native
13 5 (7.35%) REST
13 5 (7.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 7 (10.29%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.88%) Wiki
5 3 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.41%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.47%) Animation
7 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Android
1 2 (2.94%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.94%) Windows
1 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (58.82%) Agile
2 28 (41.18%) Software Engineering
3 25 (36.76%) CI/CD
3 25 (36.76%) DevOps
4 17 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 17 (25.00%) Microservices
5 13 (19.12%) Clean Code
5 13 (19.12%) User Experience
6 12 (17.65%) AI
7 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (16.18%) TDD
8 10 (14.71%) Front End Development
8 10 (14.71%) Scrum
9 9 (13.24%) Containerisation
10 8 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
10 8 (11.76%) Code Quality
11 7 (10.29%) Software Testing
11 7 (10.29%) Test Automation
12 6 (8.82%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.65%) JavaScript
2 28 (41.18%) TypeScript
3 25 (36.76%) C#
4 15 (22.06%) Java
5 13 (19.12%) SQL
6 6 (8.82%) Python
7 4 (5.88%) Go
8 2 (2.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.41%) Degree
3 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.41%) Ansible
3 2 (2.94%) Terraform
4 1 (1.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.41%) Google
3 2 (2.94%) VMware
3 2 (2.94%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.47%) iManage
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle
4 1 (1.47%) Pega
4 1 (1.47%) SAP
4 1 (1.47%) WSO2