Developer Jobs in Manchester

Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Developer salary in Manchester is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 12 2
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 1,027 689 1,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 18.32% 15.09% 23.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.31% 16.43% 23.74%
Number of salaries quoted 867 551 970
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 5,318 4,194 5,551
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.85% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,022 2,562 3,594
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,526
25th Percentile £40,988 £43,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,392 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Manchester

Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Developer in Manchester

Developer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Developer in Manchester

Developer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Altrincham +9 30 £55,000 +22.22% 4
Stockport +35 24 £48,000 +1.05% 13
Bolton +22 22 £47,500 +26.67% 4
Salford +23 19 £58,750 +17.50% 4
Rochdale - 8 - - 2
Bury - 3 £45,000 -
Oldham +21 1 £48,000 +1.05%
Cheadle - 1 £43,865 -
Developer
North West

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 322 (31.35%) JavaScript
2 309 (30.09%) C#
3 306 (29.80%) Agile
4 304 (29.60%) .NET
5 293 (28.53%) Azure
6 235 (22.88%) Full Stack Development
7 219 (21.32%) React
8 207 (20.16%) SQL
9 194 (18.89%) HTML
9 194 (18.89%) AWS
10 179 (17.43%) DevOps
11 166 (16.16%) Social Skills
12 164 (15.97%) CSS
13 160 (15.58%) SQL Server
14 155 (15.09%) TDD
15 150 (14.61%) MVC
15 150 (14.61%) AngularJS
16 140 (13.63%) Microsoft
17 137 (13.34%) Node.js
18 127 (12.37%) PHP
19 126 (12.27%) ASP.NET
20 125 (12.17%) TypeScript
21 120 (11.68%) Java
22 115 (11.20%) Software Engineering
23 110 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
24 109 (10.61%) .NET Core
24 109 (10.61%) Vue
25 107 (10.42%) User Experience
25 107 (10.42%) Microservices
26 104 (10.13%) REST

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (2.63%) CMS
2 18 (1.75%) Apache
3 17 (1.66%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.56%) WordPress
5 13 (1.27%) OpenEdge
6 9 (0.88%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.49%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.49%) Confluence
7 5 (0.49%) IIS
8 4 (0.39%) SAS
8 4 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.29%) Drupal
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.097%) Jetty
11 1 (0.097%) Kentico
11 1 (0.097%) Mendix
11 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.68%) Photoshop
3 4 (0.39%) Maya
4 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 28 (2.73%) Magento
2 10 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.78%) Shopify
4 6 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.19%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.097%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.097%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 293 (28.53%) Azure
2 194 (18.89%) AWS
3 78 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
4 66 (6.43%) Power Platform
5 63 (6.13%) SaaS
6 61 (5.94%) Serverless
7 47 (4.58%) Azure Logic Apps
8 44 (4.28%) Azure Functions
9 41 (3.99%) Azure Service Bus
10 39 (3.80%) Azure API Management
11 36 (3.51%) IBM Cloud
12 34 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
13 21 (2.04%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.95%) GCP
15 19 (1.85%) PowerApps
16 18 (1.75%) Google Play
17 16 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
18 15 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
19 13 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 11 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.53%) Internet
2 4 (0.39%) Wireless
3 3 (0.29%) Bluetooth
3 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.19%) Broadband
4 2 (0.19%) Mobile Broadband
4 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.097%) DNS
5 1 (0.097%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.097%) Firewall
5 1 (0.097%) HTTP
5 1 (0.097%) RS-232
5 1 (0.097%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.097%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (15.58%) SQL Server
2 95 (9.25%) MySQL
3 80 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
4 78 (7.59%) MongoDB
5 69 (6.72%) NoSQL
6 56 (5.45%) Relational Database
7 47 (4.58%) Power BI
8 37 (3.60%) DB2
9 23 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 22 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (2.04%) Tableau
12 14 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (1.27%) Power Query
14 11 (1.07%) Redis
15 10 (0.97%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.88%) GIS
16 9 (0.88%) Oracle Database
16 9 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
17 8 (0.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 84 (8.18%) Git
2 18 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 15 (1.46%) GitLab
4 12 (1.17%) Appium
4 12 (1.17%) JIRA
5 9 (0.88%) Jasmine
5 9 (0.88%) NUnit
6 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (0.39%) MSTest
8 4 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.39%) Xcode
9 3 (0.29%) Maven
10 2 (0.19%) GDB
10 2 (0.19%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.19%) PHPUnit
10 2 (0.19%) Storybook
General
1 166 (16.16%) Social Skills
2 89 (8.67%) Finance
3 56 (5.45%) Public Sector
4 42 (4.09%) Law
5 39 (3.80%) Games
6 38 (3.70%) Retail
7 31 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (2.92%) Marketing
9 27 (2.63%) Legal
10 22 (2.14%) Automotive
11 21 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.85%) Health Technology
13 16 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.07%) Tech for Good
15 10 (0.97%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.78%) Banking
16 8 (0.78%) Military
17 7 (0.68%) Back Office
17 7 (0.68%) Music Industry
18 6 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (29.60%) .NET
2 219 (21.32%) React
3 194 (18.89%) HTML
4 164 (15.97%) CSS
5 150 (14.61%) AngularJS
6 137 (13.34%) Node.js
7 126 (12.27%) ASP.NET
8 109 (10.61%) .NET Core
8 109 (10.61%) Vue
9 104 (10.13%) REST
10 89 (8.67%) Laravel
11 86 (8.37%) .NET Framework
12 71 (6.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 67 (6.52%) ASP.NET Web API
13 67 (6.52%) Web Services
14 63 (6.13%) jQuery
15 62 (6.04%) Entity Framework
16 59 (5.74%) ASP.NET MVC
17 55 (5.36%) RESTful
18 48 (4.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (3.80%) Mobile App
2 39 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 38 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 37 (3.60%) Blockchain
5 36 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 35 (3.41%) Data Structures
7 19 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
8 18 (1.75%) Cloud Native
9 16 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.17%) PropTech
11 11 (1.07%) Private Cloud
12 9 (0.88%) IoT
12 9 (0.88%) Social Media
13 8 (0.78%) iPhone
14 7 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.68%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.58%) BBC
16 5 (0.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 92 (8.96%) Linux
2 84 (8.18%) Windows
3 70 (6.82%) Apple iOS
4 67 (6.52%) Android
5 13 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.49%) Unix
7 4 (0.39%) VMS
8 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Vista
10 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (29.80%) Agile
2 235 (22.88%) Full Stack Development
3 179 (17.43%) DevOps
4 155 (15.09%) TDD
5 150 (14.61%) MVC
6 115 (11.20%) Software Engineering
7 110 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
8 107 (10.42%) Microservices
8 107 (10.42%) User Experience
9 102 (9.93%) Design Patterns
10 98 (9.54%) Scrum
11 84 (8.18%) Mentoring
12 77 (7.50%) OOP
13 75 (7.30%) Web Development
14 74 (7.21%) CI/CD
15 63 (6.13%) Front End Development
15 63 (6.13%) MVVM
16 61 (5.94%) Business Intelligence
17 59 (5.74%) Clean Code
18 58 (5.65%) OO
Programming Languages
1 322 (31.35%) JavaScript
2 309 (30.09%) C#
3 207 (20.16%) SQL
4 127 (12.37%) PHP
5 125 (12.17%) TypeScript
6 120 (11.68%) Java
7 91 (8.86%) Python
8 48 (4.67%) C++
9 34 (3.31%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 19 (1.85%) Go
11 18 (1.75%) Swift
12 15 (1.46%) C
13 14 (1.36%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.27%) Delphi
15 11 (1.07%) Objective-C
15 11 (1.07%) Ruby
16 9 (0.88%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.88%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 83 (8.08%) Degree
2 42 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (2.73%) Security Cleared
4 22 (2.14%) SC Cleared
5 10 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 6 (0.58%) HND
8 4 (0.39%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.29%) BC Cleared
9 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.19%) PhD
11 1 (0.097%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.097%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.48%) QA
2 8 (0.78%) GDPR
3 6 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.097%) NIST
4 1 (0.097%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 67 (6.52%) Docker
2 3 (0.29%) Firmware
3 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.097%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.097%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.51%) Terraform
3 4 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.097%) Kiali
4 1 (0.097%) Kibana
4 1 (0.097%) Plesk
Vendors
1 140 (13.63%) Microsoft
2 41 (3.99%) IBM
3 36 (3.51%) Red Hat
4 33 (3.21%) Oracle
5 28 (2.73%) Google
6 20 (1.95%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.75%) Facebook
8 16 (1.56%) Adobe
9 13 (1.27%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.68%) Apple
10 7 (0.68%) Progress
11 6 (0.58%) Actuate
11 6 (0.58%) Civica
11 6 (0.58%) Intapp
11 6 (0.58%) Sony
11 6 (0.58%) Twitter
11 6 (0.58%) Yahoo!
12 5 (0.49%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.49%) Sitecore
12 5 (0.49%) YouTube