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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 68 29
Rank change year-on-year -3 -39 +36
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 71 91 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.28% 3.48% 6.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 3.69% 7.51%
Number of salaries quoted 55 55 192
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £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 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.64% +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 2,432 2,467 2,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 78.12% 94.34% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,489 1,164 2,351
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,325 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,988 £42,470
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,548
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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +8 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 (2.82%) CMS
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.41%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) AWS
2 29 (40.85%) Azure
3 13 (18.31%) SaaS
4 6 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.45%) Serverless
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.82%) PaaS
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.41%) GCP
8 1 (1.41%) GitHub
8 1 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.41%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) HTTP
2 1 (1.41%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) NoSQL
2 7 (9.86%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.04%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.23%) MySQL
5 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.41%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (15.49%) Git
2 5 (7.04%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.63%) JIRA
3 4 (5.63%) JUnit
4 2 (2.82%) GitLab
General
1 9 (12.68%) Finance
1 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.63%) Marketing
4 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.41%) Electronics
4 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.41%) Law
4 1 (1.41%) Legal
4 1 (1.41%) Local Government
4 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (53.52%) Developer
2 24 (33.80%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (30.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 20 (28.17%) Senior
5 16 (22.54%) Lead
6 13 (18.31%) Software Engineer
7 9 (12.68%) Lead Developer
7 9 (12.68%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (9.86%) Software Developer
9 6 (8.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 6 (8.45%) Senior Developer
9 6 (8.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (7.04%) .NET Developer
10 5 (7.04%) C# Developer
10 5 (7.04%) Lead C# Developer
11 4 (5.63%) C# Software Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (5.63%) Java Developer
11 4 (5.63%) Senior C# Software Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (47.89%) React
2 28 (39.44%) .NET
3 20 (28.17%) AngularJS
4 18 (25.35%) CSS
4 18 (25.35%) HTML
5 14 (19.72%) RESTful
6 13 (18.31%) Node.js
6 13 (18.31%) Spring
7 12 (16.90%) Spring Boot
8 10 (14.08%) REST
9 8 (11.27%) Kafka
9 8 (11.27%) Vue
10 6 (8.45%) ASP.NET
10 6 (8.45%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (8.45%) CSS3
10 6 (8.45%) HTML5
11 4 (5.63%) .NET Framework
11 4 (5.63%) Entity Framework
11 4 (5.63%) Laravel
11 4 (5.63%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Product Ownership
2 10 (14.08%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.45%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.63%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.41%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.41%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.41%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.41%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Android
1 2 (2.82%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (50.70%) Agile
2 28 (39.44%) Software Engineering
3 25 (35.21%) CI/CD
4 24 (33.80%) Microservices
5 19 (26.76%) DevOps
6 18 (25.35%) Mentoring
7 15 (21.13%) AI
8 13 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (16.90%) User Experience
10 11 (15.49%) Scrum
11 10 (14.08%) Code Quality
11 10 (14.08%) Containerisation
11 10 (14.08%) TDD
11 10 (14.08%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (12.68%) Clean Code
12 9 (12.68%) Coaching
13 8 (11.27%) Design Patterns
13 8 (11.27%) Kanban
13 8 (11.27%) Unit Testing
14 7 (9.86%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 28 (39.44%) JavaScript
2 26 (36.62%) C#
3 25 (35.21%) TypeScript
4 19 (26.76%) Java
5 7 (9.86%) Python
5 7 (9.86%) SQL
6 4 (5.63%) Go
6 4 (5.63%) PHP
7 1 (1.41%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.41%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (11.27%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) Degree
3 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.41%) MBA
4 1 (1.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) GDPR
2 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Ansible
2 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.82%) Xamarin
3 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.41%) Google
3 1 (1.41%) iManage
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle
3 1 (1.41%) Pega
3 1 (1.41%) SAP
3 1 (1.41%) WSO2