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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 74 37
Rank change year-on-year +6 -37 +19
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 65 103 138
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.80% 3.11% 6.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 3.47% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 44 62 112
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £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 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £74,875
North West median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

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 1,952 2,966 2,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.17% 89.50% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 1,400 1,688
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,309
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +5.53%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +3.54%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +15 2 £75,000 -
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 (1.54%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.54%) CMS
1 1 (1.54%) IIS
1 1 (1.54%) Jupyter
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 29 (44.62%) AWS
2 26 (40.00%) Azure
3 11 (16.92%) SaaS
4 6 (9.23%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.23%) Serverless
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.62%) GitHub
7 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.08%) GCP
7 2 (3.08%) PaaS
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.54%) Kontent
8 1 (1.54%) Supabase
8 1 (1.54%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) HTTP
2 1 (1.54%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) NoSQL
1 9 (13.85%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.31%) MongoDB
3 6 (9.23%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.23%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.15%) Redis
5 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.08%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.54%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.54%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.54%) MySQL
6 1 (1.54%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 14 (21.54%) Git
2 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.62%) JIRA
3 3 (4.62%) JUnit
4 2 (3.08%) GitLab
5 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.54%) webpack
General
1 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.92%) Finance
3 5 (7.69%) Marketing
4 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Back Office
5 1 (1.54%) Digital Health
5 1 (1.54%) Electronics
5 1 (1.54%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.54%) Law
5 1 (1.54%) Legal
5 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (61.54%) Developer
2 22 (33.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (21.54%) Senior
4 11 (16.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) Software Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) Software Developer
6 8 (12.31%) .NET Developer
7 7 (10.77%) Lead
7 7 (10.77%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (6.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Principal Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 3 (4.62%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Senior C# Software Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (53.85%) React
2 27 (41.54%) .NET
3 21 (32.31%) CSS
3 21 (32.31%) HTML
4 20 (30.77%) AngularJS
5 17 (26.15%) Node.js
5 17 (26.15%) RESTful
6 12 (18.46%) Spring
6 12 (18.46%) Spring Boot
7 9 (13.85%) Kafka
8 8 (12.31%) CSS3
8 8 (12.31%) REST
9 7 (10.77%) .NET Framework
9 7 (10.77%) Entity Framework
9 7 (10.77%) HTML5
10 6 (9.23%) ASP.NET
10 6 (9.23%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (9.23%) Next.js
11 5 (7.69%) Vue
12 4 (6.15%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.77%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.23%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.08%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.54%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Android
1 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.54%) Unix
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (58.46%) Agile
2 28 (43.08%) CI/CD
3 24 (36.92%) DevOps
3 24 (36.92%) Software Engineering
4 22 (33.85%) Microservices
5 16 (24.62%) Mentoring
6 15 (23.08%) AI
7 13 (20.00%) User Experience
8 12 (18.46%) Clean Code
9 11 (16.92%) Scrum
10 9 (13.85%) Containerisation
10 9 (13.85%) Front End Development
11 8 (12.31%) Architectural Patterns
11 8 (12.31%) Code Quality
11 8 (12.31%) TDD
12 7 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (10.77%) SOLID
12 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (9.23%) Design Patterns
13 6 (9.23%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 28 (43.08%) TypeScript
3 25 (38.46%) C#
4 16 (24.62%) Java
5 11 (16.92%) SQL
6 7 (10.77%) Python
7 4 (6.15%) Go
8 1 (1.54%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.54%) PHP
8 1 (1.54%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.08%) Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.54%) MBA
5 1 (1.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 11 (16.92%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Ansible
1 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.08%) Google
2 2 (3.08%) Xamarin
3 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.54%) iManage
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle
3 1 (1.54%) Pega
3 1 (1.54%) SAP
3 1 (1.54%) VMware
3 1 (1.54%) WSO2