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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 65 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 -34 +40
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 82 92 236
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.47% 3.62% 6.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 3.82% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 66 57 215
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,250 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,750
North West median annual salary £67,500 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.89% +6.82% -

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 2,550 2,411 3,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.88% 94.77% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,582 1,173 2,677
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.51%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +6 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 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.22%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 38 (46.34%) AWS
2 31 (37.80%) Azure
3 12 (14.63%) SaaS
4 6 (7.32%) Serverless
5 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.22%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.22%) GCP
9 1 (1.22%) GitHub
9 1 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.22%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) HTTP
2 1 (1.22%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.41%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.54%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.88%) MySQL
5 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.22%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.22%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (14.63%) Git
2 5 (6.10%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.10%) JIRA
3 4 (4.88%) JUnit
4 2 (2.44%) GitLab
General
1 12 (14.63%) Finance
2 9 (10.98%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.88%) Marketing
5 3 (3.66%) Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Advertising
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Electronics
6 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.22%) Law
6 1 (1.22%) Legal
6 1 (1.22%) Local Government
6 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (52.44%) Developer
2 27 (32.93%) Full-Stack Developer
3 26 (31.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 23 (28.05%) Lead
4 23 (28.05%) Senior
5 17 (20.73%) Software Engineer
6 12 (14.63%) Lead Developer
7 9 (10.98%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) Software Developer
8 8 (9.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (9.76%) Senior Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Java Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) C# Developer
10 6 (7.32%) Lead C# Developer
10 6 (7.32%) Lead Software Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (6.10%) C# Software Engineer
11 5 (6.10%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (43.90%) React
2 32 (39.02%) .NET
3 22 (26.83%) AngularJS
4 18 (21.95%) CSS
4 18 (21.95%) HTML
5 15 (18.29%) Node.js
6 14 (17.07%) Spring
7 13 (15.85%) RESTful
7 13 (15.85%) Spring Boot
8 10 (12.20%) REST
9 9 (10.98%) Vue
10 8 (9.76%) Kafka
11 6 (7.32%) ASP.NET
11 6 (7.32%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (7.32%) CSS3
11 6 (7.32%) HTML5
12 4 (4.88%) gRPC
12 4 (4.88%) Laravel
12 4 (4.88%) Razor View Engine
12 4 (4.88%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 11 (13.41%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.54%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.22%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.22%) Linux
1 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (48.78%) Agile
2 35 (42.68%) Software Engineering
3 27 (32.93%) Microservices
4 25 (30.49%) CI/CD
5 22 (26.83%) Mentoring
6 18 (21.95%) DevOps
7 15 (18.29%) AI
8 14 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (15.85%) TDD
9 13 (15.85%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (14.63%) Coaching
10 12 (14.63%) Scrum
10 12 (14.63%) User Experience
11 11 (13.41%) Containerisation
12 10 (12.20%) Code Quality
12 10 (12.20%) Kanban
12 10 (12.20%) Unit Testing
13 9 (10.98%) Clean Code
13 9 (10.98%) Design Patterns
14 8 (9.76%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 31 (37.80%) JavaScript
2 26 (31.71%) C#
3 25 (30.49%) TypeScript
4 24 (29.27%) Java
5 9 (10.98%) Python
6 6 (7.32%) SQL
7 4 (4.88%) Go
7 4 (4.88%) PHP
8 1 (1.22%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) Degree
3 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.22%) MBA
4 1 (1.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.88%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.88%) Ansible
2 2 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.22%) Google
2 1 (1.22%) iManage
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle
2 1 (1.22%) Pega
2 1 (1.22%) SAP
2 1 (1.22%) WSO2