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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 68 29
Rank change year-on-year +14 -39 +43
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 127 86 303
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.08% 4.02% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 4.20% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 102 65 246
10th Percentile £50,250 £46,250 £37,783
25th Percentile £62,813 £53,750 £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 £81,250
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 3,070 2,047 3,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.35% 95.70% 87.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,036 1,248 3,164
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,125
25th Percentile £41,000 £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 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 21 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 21 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 0 7 £75,000 - 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 (2.36%) GeoServer
2 2 (1.57%) CICS
2 2 (1.57%) CMS
2 2 (1.57%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.79%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 46 (36.22%) AWS
2 38 (29.92%) Azure
3 16 (12.60%) SaaS
4 10 (7.87%) Serverless
5 5 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.94%) GCP
6 4 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.57%) ChatGPT
8 2 (1.57%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.79%) GitHub
9 1 (0.79%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.79%) Kontent
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) HTTP
2 1 (0.79%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.02%) NoSQL
2 9 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.09%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.94%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.94%) MySQL
4 3 (2.36%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (2.36%) GIS
4 3 (2.36%) QGIS
5 2 (1.57%) DB2
5 2 (1.57%) Hazelcast
5 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.79%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (14.17%) Git
2 12 (9.45%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.72%) JIRA
4 3 (2.36%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.36%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.36%) JUnit
5 2 (1.57%) GitLab
General
1 23 (18.11%) Finance
2 12 (9.45%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.51%) Social Skills
4 6 (4.72%) Banking
5 4 (3.15%) Marketing
5 4 (3.15%) Retail
6 3 (2.36%) Advertising
7 1 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Electronics
7 1 (0.79%) Law
7 1 (0.79%) Legal
7 1 (0.79%) Local Government
7 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (65.35%) Developer
2 59 (46.46%) Full-Stack Developer
3 36 (28.35%) Lead
4 32 (25.20%) Senior
5 30 (23.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 22 (17.32%) Lead Developer
7 21 (16.54%) Java Developer
8 20 (15.75%) Senior Developer
9 19 (14.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 19 (14.96%) Software Engineer
10 13 (10.24%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (10.24%) Software Developer
11 11 (8.66%) .NET Developer
12 10 (7.87%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (7.09%) Lead .NET Developer
13 9 (7.09%) Lead Software Engineer
13 9 (7.09%) Node.js Developer
14 8 (6.30%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 7 (5.51%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 6 (4.72%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (32.28%) .NET
2 39 (30.71%) React
3 34 (26.77%) Node.js
4 20 (15.75%) AngularJS
5 18 (14.17%) CSS
5 18 (14.17%) HTML
6 17 (13.39%) RESTful
7 16 (12.60%) Spring
8 15 (11.81%) Spring Boot
9 13 (10.24%) REST
10 9 (7.09%) Kafka
10 9 (7.09%) Vue
11 7 (5.51%) CSS3
11 7 (5.51%) HTML5
12 6 (4.72%) ASP.NET
12 6 (4.72%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (3.94%) Laravel
14 4 (3.15%) Next.js
14 4 (3.15%) Razor View Engine
15 3 (2.36%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.45%) Cloud Native
1 12 (9.45%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.66%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.57%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.79%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.79%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.79%) Linux
1 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (37.80%) Agile
1 48 (37.80%) Software Engineering
2 29 (22.83%) CI/CD
3 28 (22.05%) Microservices
4 22 (17.32%) Scrum
5 20 (15.75%) DevOps
6 19 (14.96%) Mentoring
7 18 (14.17%) TDD
8 16 (12.60%) Kanban
9 15 (11.81%) AI
9 15 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (11.02%) Architectural Patterns
10 14 (11.02%) Coaching
11 13 (10.24%) Design Patterns
12 12 (9.45%) Clean Code
13 11 (8.66%) User Experience
14 8 (6.30%) Code Quality
14 8 (6.30%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (6.30%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 45 (35.43%) JavaScript
2 41 (32.28%) Java
3 31 (24.41%) TypeScript
4 22 (17.32%) C#
5 16 (12.60%) Python
6 12 (9.45%) SQL
7 5 (3.94%) PHP
8 4 (3.15%) Go
8 4 (3.15%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.36%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (3.94%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.79%) Degree
4 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.79%) MBA
4 1 (0.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.94%) Ansible
1 5 (3.94%) Terraform
2 2 (1.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (3.94%) Pega
2 3 (2.36%) Oracle
3 2 (1.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.57%) WSO2
4 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.79%) iManage
4 1 (0.79%) SAP