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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 61 28
Rank change year-on-year +10 -33 +41
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 136 91 321
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.11% 4.48% 6.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 4.70% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 108 68 250
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £63,438 £53,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -

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 3,219 1,935 4,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.53% 95.37% 87.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,182 1,247 3,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,579 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -5 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 3 (2.21%) GeoServer
1 3 (2.21%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.47%) CICS
2 2 (1.47%) CMS
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.74%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 49 (36.03%) AWS
2 38 (27.94%) Azure
3 16 (11.76%) SaaS
4 12 (8.82%) Serverless
5 8 (5.88%) GCP
6 6 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.47%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.74%) Apigee
10 1 (0.74%) GitHub
10 1 (0.74%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.74%) Kontent
10 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.21%) HTTP
2 1 (0.74%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.35%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.15%) MySQL
5 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.21%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.21%) GIS
6 3 (2.21%) QGIS
7 2 (1.47%) DB2
7 2 (1.47%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (15.44%) Git
2 13 (9.56%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.88%) JIRA
4 3 (2.21%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.21%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.21%) JUnit
5 2 (1.47%) GitLab
General
1 26 (19.12%) Finance
2 13 (9.56%) Public Sector
3 8 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 7 (5.15%) Banking
5 5 (3.68%) Advertising
6 4 (2.94%) Retail
7 3 (2.21%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Electronics
8 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Local Government
8 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (65.44%) Developer
2 66 (48.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 37 (27.21%) Senior
4 34 (25.00%) Lead
5 32 (23.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 24 (17.65%) Java Developer
6 24 (17.65%) Software Engineer
7 23 (16.91%) Senior Developer
8 22 (16.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 22 (16.18%) Lead Developer
9 16 (11.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (8.82%) Software Developer
11 11 (8.09%) .NET Developer
11 11 (8.09%) Node.js Developer
11 11 (8.09%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (7.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 9 (6.62%) Lead .NET Developer
13 9 (6.62%) Lead Software Engineer
14 7 (5.15%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (4.41%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (30.15%) React
2 39 (28.68%) .NET
3 37 (27.21%) Node.js
4 25 (18.38%) AngularJS
5 22 (16.18%) Spring
6 21 (15.44%) Spring Boot
7 18 (13.24%) RESTful
8 17 (12.50%) CSS
8 17 (12.50%) HTML
9 15 (11.03%) REST
10 11 (8.09%) Vue
11 9 (6.62%) Kafka
12 6 (4.41%) CSS3
12 6 (4.41%) HTML5
13 5 (3.68%) ASP.NET
13 5 (3.68%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (3.68%) Laravel
14 3 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
14 3 (2.21%) gRPC
14 3 (2.21%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.09%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.47%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.74%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.74%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Linux
1 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 49 (36.03%) Agile
3 32 (23.53%) Microservices
4 29 (21.32%) CI/CD
5 25 (18.38%) Scrum
6 24 (17.65%) DevOps
7 21 (15.44%) Mentoring
7 21 (15.44%) TDD
8 17 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
8 17 (12.50%) Kanban
9 16 (11.76%) AI
9 16 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (10.29%) Coaching
10 14 (10.29%) Design Patterns
11 13 (9.56%) Clean Code
12 9 (6.62%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (6.62%) Product Vision
12 9 (6.62%) Unit Testing
12 9 (6.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.29%) Java
1 48 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 29 (21.32%) TypeScript
3 19 (13.97%) Python
4 18 (13.24%) C#
5 14 (10.29%) SQL
6 5 (3.68%) PHP
7 4 (2.94%) Go
7 4 (2.94%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.21%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (5.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.74%) Degree
4 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.74%) MBA
4 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.47%) QA
2 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (4.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.41%) Ansible
1 6 (4.41%) Terraform
2 3 (2.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (4.41%) Pega
2 3 (2.21%) Oracle
2 3 (2.21%) WSO2
3 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.74%) Google
3 1 (0.74%) SAP