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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 73 41
Rank change year-on-year +10 -32 +16
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 68 111 144
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.90% 3.12% 6.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 3.54% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 49 67 117
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £79,250 £80,000 £74,250
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 1,977 3,135 2,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.42% 88.24% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,262 1,465 1,744
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,054
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,988 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.65% +6.83%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +3.55%

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 29 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 29 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 +15 2 £75,000 -
Altrincham -5 1 £55,000 -4.35% 1
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 (2.94%) IIS
2 1 (1.47%) CMS
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.47%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 33 (48.53%) AWS
2 27 (39.71%) Azure
3 11 (16.18%) SaaS
4 6 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.82%) Serverless
5 4 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (5.88%) GitHub
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.41%) GCP
7 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.94%) PaaS
7 2 (2.94%) Supabase
7 2 (2.94%) Vercel
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.47%) Firebase
8 1 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.47%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.76%) 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%) MySQL
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.47%) Data Hub
8 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.47%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 14 (20.59%) Git
2 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.41%) JIRA
4 2 (2.94%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.94%) GitLab
4 2 (2.94%) JUnit
5 1 (1.47%) webpack
General
1 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Finance
3 6 (8.82%) Marketing
4 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.94%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Back Office
6 1 (1.47%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.47%) Electronics
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 44 (64.71%) Developer
2 25 (36.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (17.65%) Senior
4 11 (16.18%) Software Engineer
5 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 9 (13.24%) Software Developer
7 8 (11.76%) .NET Developer
7 8 (11.76%) Lead
8 6 (8.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (8.82%) Senior Developer
9 5 (7.35%) Principal Developer
10 4 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (5.88%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) C# Software Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) Lead Developer
11 3 (4.41%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (54.41%) React
2 28 (41.18%) .NET
3 22 (32.35%) CSS
3 22 (32.35%) HTML
4 19 (27.94%) AngularJS
4 19 (27.94%) Node.js
5 16 (23.53%) RESTful
6 11 (16.18%) Spring
6 11 (16.18%) Spring Boot
7 9 (13.24%) CSS3
8 8 (11.76%) HTML5
8 8 (11.76%) Kafka
9 7 (10.29%) .NET Framework
9 7 (10.29%) Entity Framework
9 7 (10.29%) Next.js
10 6 (8.82%) ASP.NET
10 6 (8.82%) REST
11 5 (7.35%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (7.35%) Vue
11 5 (7.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 7 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.29%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Android
1 2 (2.94%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.47%) Unix
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
2 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (57.35%) Agile
2 26 (38.24%) CI/CD
3 25 (36.76%) Software Engineering
4 24 (35.29%) DevOps
5 19 (27.94%) Microservices
6 16 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 14 (20.59%) AI
8 13 (19.12%) User Experience
9 12 (17.65%) Clean Code
10 11 (16.18%) Front End Development
10 11 (16.18%) Scrum
11 9 (13.24%) Architectural Patterns
11 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (11.76%) Containerisation
12 8 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (11.76%) TDD
13 7 (10.29%) Code Quality
13 7 (10.29%) Software Testing
14 6 (8.82%) Kanban
14 6 (8.82%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (45.59%) JavaScript
2 28 (41.18%) TypeScript
3 26 (38.24%) C#
4 15 (22.06%) Java
5 12 (17.65%) SQL
6 7 (10.29%) Python
7 4 (5.88%) Go
8 1 (1.47%) 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%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.88%) Ansible
3 2 (2.94%) Terraform
4 1 (1.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.41%) Google
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%) VMware
4 1 (1.47%) WSO2