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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 68 30
Rank change year-on-year +18 -38 +38
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 154 85 324
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.91% 4.03% 6.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 4.23% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 125 68 241
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £38,066
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £43,750
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 £82,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -

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 3,846 2,008 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.69% 95.30% 86.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,640 1,299 3,401
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.50% -5.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £69,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -10 7 £75,000 -
Cheadle - 1 £34,500 - 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 3 (1.95%) GeoServer
2 2 (1.30%) CICS
2 2 (1.30%) CMS
2 2 (1.30%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.65%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 45 (29.22%) AWS
2 37 (24.03%) Azure
3 16 (10.39%) SaaS
4 10 (6.49%) Serverless
5 9 (5.84%) GCP
6 5 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.60%) GitHub
8 3 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.30%) Apigee
9 2 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.30%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.65%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.65%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.65%) Kontent
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.95%) HTTP
2 1 (0.65%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.74%) NoSQL
2 9 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.90%) MySQL
3 6 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.95%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (1.95%) GIS
5 3 (1.95%) QGIS
6 2 (1.30%) DB2
6 2 (1.30%) Hazelcast
6 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (11.69%) Git
2 11 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.19%) JIRA
4 3 (1.95%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.95%) GitLab
4 3 (1.95%) IntelliJ
4 3 (1.95%) JUnit
5 2 (1.30%) Vite
General
1 27 (17.53%) Finance
2 12 (7.79%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.55%) Banking
4 6 (3.90%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.25%) Advertising
6 4 (2.60%) Marketing
6 4 (2.60%) Retail
7 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.65%) Local Government
7 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 91 (59.09%) Developer
2 66 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 46 (29.87%) Senior
4 41 (26.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 38 (24.68%) Software Engineer
6 37 (24.03%) Lead
7 29 (18.83%) Senior Developer
8 23 (14.94%) Lead Developer
9 22 (14.29%) Java Developer
10 20 (12.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 18 (11.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (11.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 14 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
14 12 (7.79%) .NET Developer
14 12 (7.79%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 11 (7.14%) Software Developer
16 10 (6.49%) Lead .NET Developer
17 9 (5.84%) Lead Software Engineer
18 7 (4.55%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 7 (4.55%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (25.32%) Node.js
2 38 (24.68%) .NET
2 38 (24.68%) React
3 24 (15.58%) AngularJS
4 20 (12.99%) Spring
5 18 (11.69%) CSS
5 18 (11.69%) Spring Boot
6 15 (9.74%) RESTful
6 15 (9.74%) Vue
7 14 (9.09%) HTML
8 12 (7.79%) REST
9 6 (3.90%) CSS3
9 6 (3.90%) Kafka
10 4 (2.60%) Laravel
10 4 (2.60%) Next.js
11 3 (1.95%) gRPC
11 3 (1.95%) HTML5
11 3 (1.95%) J2EE
11 3 (1.95%) OpenLayers
11 3 (1.95%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.44%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.30%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.30%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.30%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.65%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.65%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Linux
1 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (45.45%) Software Engineering
2 41 (26.62%) Agile
3 31 (20.13%) Microservices
4 27 (17.53%) CI/CD
5 24 (15.58%) TDD
6 23 (14.94%) Scrum
7 21 (13.64%) DevOps
8 18 (11.69%) Mentoring
9 17 (11.04%) AI
9 17 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (11.04%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (9.74%) Architectural Patterns
11 14 (9.09%) Kanban
12 13 (8.44%) Coaching
13 12 (7.79%) Design Patterns
14 10 (6.49%) Product Vision
15 9 (5.84%) Clean Code
15 9 (5.84%) Unit Testing
16 8 (5.19%) Front End Development
16 8 (5.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 48 (31.17%) Java
2 47 (30.52%) JavaScript
3 29 (18.83%) TypeScript
4 21 (13.64%) Python
5 16 (10.39%) C#
6 12 (7.79%) SQL
7 4 (2.60%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.60%) PHP
8 3 (1.95%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.30%) Go
10 1 (0.65%) Bicep
10 1 (0.65%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (7.79%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.19%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.30%) Degree
3 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.65%) MBA
4 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.95%) QA
2 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.25%) Terraform
2 4 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.95%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (3.25%) Pega
2 2 (1.30%) Adobe
2 2 (1.30%) Google
2 2 (1.30%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.30%) Oracle
2 2 (1.30%) WSO2