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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 64 44
Rank change year-on-year +29 -20 +20
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 283 112 209
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.10% 4.49% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.49% 4.93% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 228 57 128
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £80,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +6.98%

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 5,157 2,271 3,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.75% 90.99% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,045 1,317 2,329
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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
Cheadle - 8 £55,000 -
Bolton +16 3 £65,000 +36.84% 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 9 (3.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.06%) GeoServer
3 2 (0.71%) CICS
3 2 (0.71%) IIS
3 2 (0.71%) nginx
3 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.35%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (28.27%) AWS
2 43 (15.19%) Azure
3 21 (7.42%) SaaS
4 19 (6.71%) Serverless
5 18 (6.36%) GCP
6 15 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (5.30%) GitHub
7 8 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.12%) npm
10 5 (1.77%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.77%) PaaS
11 4 (1.41%) Vercel
12 3 (1.06%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (1.06%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.71%) Azure AI
13 2 (0.71%) Cloud Functions
13 2 (0.71%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.41%) Firewall
1 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.06%) HTTP
3 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.01%) NoSQL
2 16 (5.65%) MongoDB
3 15 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.30%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.47%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.12%) MySQL
8 4 (1.41%) Redis
9 3 (1.06%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.06%) GIS
9 3 (1.06%) QGIS
10 2 (0.71%) Db2
10 2 (0.71%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.71%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (8.13%) Git
2 19 (6.71%) GitLab
3 17 (6.01%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.89%) JUnit
4 11 (3.89%) Spock
5 8 (2.83%) Maven
6 5 (1.77%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.41%) JIRA
7 4 (1.41%) Storybook
7 4 (1.41%) Vite
8 3 (1.06%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.35%) Mocha
9 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 47 (16.61%) Finance
2 23 (8.13%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.71%) Marketing
4 17 (6.01%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.47%) Retail
6 5 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.41%) Advertising
7 4 (1.41%) Publishing
8 3 (1.06%) Banking
9 2 (0.71%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.35%) Games
10 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Local Government
10 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (47.00%) Developer
2 92 (32.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 82 (28.98%) Full-Stack Developer
3 82 (28.98%) Senior
4 64 (22.61%) Software Engineer
5 63 (22.26%) Lead
6 36 (12.72%) Senior Developer
7 33 (11.66%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 32 (11.31%) Java Engineer
9 28 (9.89%) .NET Developer
10 25 (8.83%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 23 (8.13%) Java Developer
12 22 (7.77%) Software Developer
13 20 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (7.07%) Technical Leader
14 19 (6.71%) Lead Developer
15 17 (6.01%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (5.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 16 (5.65%) Technical Engineer
17 15 (5.30%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (21.91%) Node.js
2 57 (20.14%) .NET
3 56 (19.79%) React
4 43 (15.19%) AngularJS
5 42 (14.84%) Spring
6 33 (11.66%) Vue
7 27 (9.54%) CSS
8 22 (7.77%) HTML
9 21 (7.42%) Spring Boot
10 17 (6.01%) ASP.NET
10 17 (6.01%) Next.js
11 15 (5.30%) RESTful
12 14 (4.95%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (4.59%) .NET Core
13 13 (4.59%) REST
14 12 (4.24%) Entity Framework
15 10 (3.53%) FastAPI
15 10 (3.53%) React Native
16 8 (2.83%) CSS3
16 8 (2.83%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.72%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.24%) Mobile App
3 12 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.89%) Private Cloud
5 10 (3.53%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.06%) Online Gambling
8 3 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.71%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.35%) BBC
10 1 (0.35%) Blog
10 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.12%) Linux
2 2 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (41.34%) Software Engineering
2 73 (25.80%) Microservices
3 68 (24.03%) CI/CD
4 56 (19.79%) Agile
5 53 (18.73%) DevOps
6 49 (17.31%) AI
7 41 (14.49%) Test Automation
8 32 (11.31%) Mentoring
8 32 (11.31%) TDD
9 29 (10.25%) Scrum
10 28 (9.89%) Architectural Patterns
10 28 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (8.13%) Clean Code
12 22 (7.77%) Front End Development
13 21 (7.42%) Kanban
14 20 (7.07%) Design Patterns
15 19 (6.71%) Observability
15 19 (6.71%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (6.01%) Software Architecture
17 15 (5.30%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 89 (31.45%) Java
2 78 (27.56%) JavaScript
3 73 (25.80%) TypeScript
4 50 (17.67%) Python
5 39 (13.78%) SQL
6 29 (10.25%) C#
7 12 (4.24%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.18%) Go
8 9 (3.18%) Ruby
9 6 (2.12%) Groovy
10 5 (1.77%) PHP
11 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.71%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.35%) Bicep
13 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (10.60%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.18%) Degree
4 6 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.77%) QA
2 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.41%) WCAG
3 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (7.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (6.71%) Terraform
2 9 (3.18%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.77%) Ansible
4 1 (0.35%) Argo
Vendors
1 16 (5.65%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.30%) Splunk
3 12 (4.24%) Adobe
4 11 (3.89%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.77%) New Relic
5 5 (1.77%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.77%) Pega
6 4 (1.41%) Google
7 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle
8 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) WSO2
9 1 (0.35%) Apple
9 1 (0.35%) Facebook
9 1 (0.35%) Sony
9 1 (0.35%) Yahoo!