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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 66 40
Rank change year-on-year +7 -26 +11
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 95 121 151
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.02% 3.32% 6.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 3.90% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 44 77 123
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £73,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -4.55%

All Process and 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 2,027 3,106 2,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.82% 85.19% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 1,419 1,881
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -7.65% +8.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +19 4 - -
Altrincham -10 4 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Bolton +3 3 - - 13
Stockport +3 3 - - 1
Wigan - 3 - - 3
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 3
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 14 (14.74%) Confluence
2 3 (3.16%) IIS
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.05%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 61 (64.21%) AWS
2 50 (52.63%) Azure
3 12 (12.63%) GCP
4 10 (10.53%) SaaS
5 9 (9.47%) GitHub
6 6 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.21%) Serverless
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.16%) Vercel
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.11%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.11%) PaaS
10 2 (2.11%) Supabase
11 1 (1.05%) Firebase
11 1 (1.05%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.74%) SQL Server
2 13 (13.68%) MongoDB
2 13 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.37%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.26%) Redis
6 3 (3.16%) Hazelcast
6 3 (3.16%) MySQL
7 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.11%) Data Hub
7 2 (2.11%) SQL CLR
8 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (35.79%) JIRA
2 32 (33.68%) GitLab
3 31 (32.63%) Cucumber
3 31 (32.63%) Selenium
4 27 (28.42%) Bitbucket
4 27 (28.42%) Maven
4 27 (28.42%) SonarQube
4 27 (28.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (12.63%) Git
6 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.16%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.11%) JUnit
8 2 (2.11%) webpack
General
1 43 (45.26%) Finance
2 28 (29.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 27 (28.42%) Banking
4 19 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 18 (18.95%) Corporate Banking
5 18 (18.95%) Investment Banking
5 18 (18.95%) Retail
6 5 (5.26%) Marketing
7 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.11%) Back Office
8 2 (2.11%) Health Technology
8 2 (2.11%) Legal
9 1 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.05%) Electronics
9 1 (1.05%) Games
9 1 (1.05%) Law
9 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (44.21%) Developer
2 39 (41.05%) Software Engineer
3 25 (26.32%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (11.58%) Senior
5 9 (9.47%) Software Developer
6 7 (7.37%) .NET Developer
6 7 (7.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (6.32%) Java Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Lead
8 5 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Principal Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 4 (4.21%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 3 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (61.05%) React
2 49 (51.58%) HTML
3 48 (50.53%) CSS
4 42 (44.21%) Spring
4 42 (44.21%) Spring Boot
5 39 (41.05%) Kafka
6 32 (33.68%) RESTful
7 28 (29.47%) CSS3
7 28 (29.47%) Redux
8 27 (28.42%) HTML5
8 27 (28.42%) JPA
9 25 (26.32%) .NET
10 24 (25.26%) REST
11 20 (21.05%) Jest
12 19 (20.00%) Sass
13 17 (17.89%) AngularJS
14 16 (16.84%) Node.js
15 10 (10.53%) Hibernate
16 8 (8.42%) .NET Framework
16 8 (8.42%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 32 (33.68%) Product Ownership
2 27 (28.42%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (8.42%) Mobile App
4 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.32%) Wiki
5 4 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.11%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.05%) Animation
8 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Android
1 2 (2.11%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.11%) Windows
1 2 (2.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (72.63%) Agile
2 54 (56.84%) CI/CD
2 54 (56.84%) DevOps
2 54 (56.84%) Software Engineering
3 46 (48.42%) Microservices
4 39 (41.05%) Containerisation
5 37 (38.95%) Front End Development
5 37 (38.95%) Test Automation
6 35 (36.84%) Mentoring
7 33 (34.74%) Performance Optimisation
8 32 (33.68%) SDLC
8 32 (33.68%) User Experience
9 23 (24.21%) TDD
10 22 (23.16%) Responsive Web Design
11 21 (22.11%) Clean Code
12 18 (18.95%) Migration
12 18 (18.95%) Strategic Thinking
13 13 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (12.63%) AI
Programming Languages
1 56 (58.95%) JavaScript
2 46 (48.42%) Java
3 45 (47.37%) TypeScript
4 41 (43.16%) SQL
5 24 (25.26%) C#
6 6 (6.32%) Python
7 3 (3.16%) Go
8 2 (2.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (8.42%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) Degree
3 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (28.42%) QA
2 18 (18.95%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.21%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 42 (44.21%) Docker
2 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (37.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.16%) Ansible
3 2 (2.11%) Terraform
4 1 (1.05%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (28.42%) Solace
2 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.16%) Google
4 2 (2.11%) VMware
4 2 (2.11%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.05%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.05%) iManage
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle
5 1 (1.05%) Pega
5 1 (1.05%) SAP
5 1 (1.05%) WSO2