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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 70 29
Rank change year-on-year +10 -41 +40
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 98 84 271
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.65% 3.58% 6.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 3.74% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 82 57 232
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £37,557
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £84,750
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +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 2,770 2,243 3,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.01% 95.49% 89.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,781 1,150 2,854
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,500 £74,080 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +4 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 (2.04%) CMS
2 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.02%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.02%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.71%) AWS
2 29 (29.59%) Azure
3 13 (13.27%) SaaS
4 6 (6.12%) Serverless
5 4 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.04%) GCP
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.02%) GitHub
8 1 (1.02%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.02%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.08%) HTTP
2 1 (1.02%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.24%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.10%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.08%) MySQL
6 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.02%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Git
2 5 (5.10%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.10%) JIRA
3 4 (4.08%) JUnit
4 2 (2.04%) GitLab
General
1 17 (17.35%) Finance
2 6 (6.12%) Public Sector
2 6 (6.12%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.10%) Banking
4 4 (4.08%) Marketing
5 2 (2.04%) Retail
6 1 (1.02%) Advertising
6 1 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.02%) Electronics
6 1 (1.02%) Law
6 1 (1.02%) Legal
6 1 (1.02%) Local Government
6 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (61.22%) Developer
2 39 (39.80%) Full-Stack Developer
3 30 (30.61%) Lead
4 28 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 28 (28.57%) Senior
5 19 (19.39%) Lead Developer
6 15 (15.31%) Software Engineer
7 14 (14.29%) Senior Developer
8 12 (12.24%) Software Developer
9 10 (10.20%) .NET Developer
9 10 (10.20%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (9.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 9 (9.18%) Java Developer
10 9 (9.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (8.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 8 (8.16%) Lead .NET Developer
12 6 (6.12%) C# Developer
12 6 (6.12%) Lead C# Developer
12 6 (6.12%) Lead Software Engineer
13 5 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (36.73%) .NET
2 34 (34.69%) React
3 21 (21.43%) Node.js
4 19 (19.39%) AngularJS
5 16 (16.33%) CSS
5 16 (16.33%) HTML
6 13 (13.27%) RESTful
6 13 (13.27%) Spring
7 12 (12.24%) Spring Boot
8 10 (10.20%) REST
9 8 (8.16%) Vue
10 7 (7.14%) Kafka
11 6 (6.12%) ASP.NET
11 6 (6.12%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (6.12%) CSS3
11 6 (6.12%) HTML5
12 4 (4.08%) gRPC
12 4 (4.08%) Laravel
12 4 (4.08%) Razor View Engine
12 4 (4.08%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 11 (11.22%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (10.20%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.02%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.02%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.02%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.02%) Linux
1 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (38.78%) Agile
1 38 (38.78%) Software Engineering
2 25 (25.51%) Microservices
3 23 (23.47%) CI/CD
4 19 (19.39%) Mentoring
5 17 (17.35%) DevOps
6 14 (14.29%) AI
7 13 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (13.27%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (12.24%) TDD
8 12 (12.24%) User Experience
9 11 (11.22%) Scrum
10 10 (10.20%) Coaching
10 10 (10.20%) Code Quality
11 9 (9.18%) Containerisation
11 9 (9.18%) Design Patterns
11 9 (9.18%) Kanban
11 9 (9.18%) Unit Testing
12 8 (8.16%) Architectural Patterns
12 8 (8.16%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 31 (31.63%) JavaScript
2 26 (26.53%) TypeScript
3 24 (24.49%) C#
3 24 (24.49%) Java
4 9 (9.18%) Python
5 6 (6.12%) SQL
6 4 (4.08%) Go
6 4 (4.08%) PHP
7 2 (2.04%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.02%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.10%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) Degree
4 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.02%) MBA
4 1 (1.02%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.06%) Docker
2 2 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) Ansible
2 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.02%) Google
2 1 (1.02%) iManage
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle
2 1 (1.02%) Pega
2 1 (1.02%) SAP
2 1 (1.02%) WSO2