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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 66 28
Rank change year-on-year +15 -38 +46
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 131 91 320
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.09% 4.50% 7.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 4.70% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 105 68 251
10th Percentile £51,500 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,438 £42,500
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 £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -

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 3,133 1,937 3,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.87% 95.80% 87.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,105 1,235 3,247
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,425 £30,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 27 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 27 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 -2 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 3 (2.29%) GeoServer
2 2 (1.53%) CICS
2 2 (1.53%) CMS
2 2 (1.53%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.76%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 46 (35.11%) AWS
2 38 (29.01%) Azure
3 17 (12.98%) SaaS
4 11 (8.40%) Serverless
5 7 (5.34%) GCP
6 5 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.53%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.53%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.76%) Apigee
9 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.76%) GitHub
9 1 (0.76%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.76%) Kontent
9 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) HTTP
2 1 (0.76%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.45%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.87%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.58%) MySQL
5 5 (3.82%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.29%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.29%) GIS
6 3 (2.29%) QGIS
7 2 (1.53%) DB2
7 2 (1.53%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.53%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.76%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (14.50%) Git
2 12 (9.16%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.34%) JIRA
4 3 (2.29%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.29%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.29%) JUnit
5 2 (1.53%) GitLab
General
1 25 (19.08%) Finance
2 12 (9.16%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.87%) Social Skills
4 6 (4.58%) Banking
5 4 (3.05%) Advertising
5 4 (3.05%) Retail
6 3 (2.29%) Marketing
7 1 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Electronics
7 1 (0.76%) Local Government
7 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (66.41%) Developer
2 63 (48.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 36 (27.48%) Senior
4 35 (26.72%) Lead
5 30 (22.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 23 (17.56%) Java Developer
7 22 (16.79%) Lead Developer
7 22 (16.79%) Senior Developer
8 21 (16.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 20 (15.27%) Software Engineer
10 15 (11.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (9.92%) Software Developer
12 11 (8.40%) .NET Developer
12 11 (8.40%) Node.js Developer
12 11 (8.40%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (6.87%) Lead .NET Developer
13 9 (6.87%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (6.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 7 (5.34%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 6 (4.58%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (31.30%) .NET
2 39 (29.77%) React
3 36 (27.48%) Node.js
4 21 (16.03%) AngularJS
5 18 (13.74%) CSS
5 18 (13.74%) HTML
5 18 (13.74%) RESTful
6 17 (12.98%) Spring
7 16 (12.21%) Spring Boot
8 13 (9.92%) REST
9 10 (7.63%) Vue
10 9 (6.87%) Kafka
11 7 (5.34%) CSS3
11 7 (5.34%) HTML5
12 6 (4.58%) ASP.NET
12 6 (4.58%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (3.82%) Laravel
14 3 (2.29%) Razor View Engine
14 3 (2.29%) SOAP
14 3 (2.29%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.92%) Cloud Native
1 13 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.40%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.53%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.76%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.76%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Linux
1 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.64%) Agile
1 48 (36.64%) Software Engineering
2 30 (22.90%) CI/CD
3 28 (21.37%) Microservices
4 23 (17.56%) Scrum
5 22 (16.79%) DevOps
6 20 (15.27%) Mentoring
7 18 (13.74%) TDD
8 16 (12.21%) AI
8 16 (12.21%) Kanban
8 16 (12.21%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (11.45%) Architectural Patterns
9 15 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (10.69%) Coaching
11 13 (9.92%) Design Patterns
12 12 (9.16%) Clean Code
13 10 (7.63%) User Experience
14 9 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (6.87%) Product Vision
15 7 (5.34%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 47 (35.88%) JavaScript
2 43 (32.82%) Java
3 30 (22.90%) TypeScript
4 20 (15.27%) C#
5 18 (13.74%) Python
6 13 (9.92%) SQL
7 5 (3.82%) PHP
8 4 (3.05%) Go
8 4 (3.05%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.29%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.76%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (3.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.76%) Degree
4 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.76%) MBA
4 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.53%) QA
2 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (3.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.82%) Ansible
1 5 (3.82%) Terraform
2 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (3.82%) Pega
2 3 (2.29%) Oracle
3 2 (1.53%) WSO2
4 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.76%) Google
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.76%) SAP