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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 69 29
Rank change year-on-year +17 -40 +44
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 119 89 278
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.09% 3.74% 6.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 3.91% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 96 64 238
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +4.26% +2.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,250
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 2,885 2,277 3,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.86% 95.67% 88.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,873 1,237 2,990
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £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 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £53,928 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.28% +7.86% -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 7 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 7 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 (1.68%) CICS
1 2 (1.68%) CMS
1 2 (1.68%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.84%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.84%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 44 (36.97%) AWS
2 36 (30.25%) Azure
3 16 (13.45%) SaaS
4 9 (7.56%) Serverless
5 6 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.04%) GCP
6 4 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.68%) ChatGPT
8 2 (1.68%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.68%) GitHub
8 2 (1.68%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.84%) Kontent
9 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) HTTP
2 1 (0.84%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 8 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.72%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.20%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.20%) MySQL
4 2 (1.68%) DB2
4 2 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.68%) GIS
4 2 (1.68%) Hazelcast
4 2 (1.68%) QGIS
4 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.84%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (14.29%) Git
2 10 (8.40%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.04%) JIRA
4 4 (3.36%) JUnit
5 3 (2.52%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.52%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.68%) GitLab
General
1 22 (18.49%) Finance
2 10 (8.40%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.20%) Banking
5 4 (3.36%) Marketing
6 3 (2.52%) Retail
7 2 (1.68%) Advertising
8 1 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.84%) Electronics
8 1 (0.84%) Law
8 1 (0.84%) Legal
8 1 (0.84%) Local Government
8 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (63.87%) Developer
2 53 (44.54%) Full-Stack Developer
3 34 (28.57%) Lead
3 34 (28.57%) Senior
4 30 (25.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 21 (17.65%) Lead Developer
6 20 (16.81%) Senior Developer
7 18 (15.13%) Software Engineer
8 17 (14.29%) Java Developer
9 15 (12.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 14 (11.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (10.92%) Software Developer
12 11 (9.24%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (8.40%) .NET Developer
14 8 (6.72%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 8 (6.72%) Lead .NET Developer
14 8 (6.72%) Lead Software Engineer
15 7 (5.88%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 7 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
16 6 (5.04%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (32.77%) .NET
1 39 (32.77%) React
2 30 (25.21%) Node.js
3 22 (18.49%) AngularJS
4 20 (16.81%) CSS
4 20 (16.81%) HTML
5 17 (14.29%) RESTful
6 15 (12.61%) Spring
7 14 (11.76%) Spring Boot
8 12 (10.08%) REST
9 10 (8.40%) Kafka
9 10 (8.40%) Vue
10 9 (7.56%) CSS3
10 9 (7.56%) HTML5
11 6 (5.04%) ASP.NET
11 6 (5.04%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (4.20%) Laravel
13 4 (3.36%) gRPC
13 4 (3.36%) Razor View Engine
13 4 (3.36%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (10.08%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.24%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.68%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.84%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.84%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.84%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.84%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.84%) Linux
1 1 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.66%) Agile
2 45 (37.82%) Software Engineering
3 29 (24.37%) CI/CD
4 27 (22.69%) Microservices
5 21 (17.65%) DevOps
6 20 (16.81%) Mentoring
7 19 (15.97%) Scrum
8 17 (14.29%) TDD
9 16 (13.45%) AI
10 15 (12.61%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (10.92%) Coaching
12 13 (10.92%) Kanban
13 12 (10.08%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (10.08%) Design Patterns
13 12 (10.08%) User Experience
14 11 (9.24%) Clean Code
15 10 (8.40%) Code Quality
16 8 (6.72%) Containerisation
16 8 (6.72%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (36.13%) JavaScript
2 36 (30.25%) Java
3 32 (26.89%) TypeScript
4 23 (19.33%) C#
5 14 (11.76%) Python
6 10 (8.40%) SQL
7 5 (4.20%) PHP
8 4 (3.36%) Go
9 3 (2.52%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.84%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.84%) Degree
4 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.84%) MBA
4 1 (0.84%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Ansible
2 3 (2.52%) Terraform
3 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (3.36%) Pega
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.84%) Google
4 1 (0.84%) iManage
4 1 (0.84%) SAP
4 1 (0.84%) WSO2