Full-Stack Development Job Trends in England

Full-Stack Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 62 47
Rank change year-on-year -25 -15 +23
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,276 2,051 2,629
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.38% 4.28% 4.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 4.70% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,039 988 2,396
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -5.30%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,416 43,635 47,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.86% 90.97% 89.37%
Number of salaries quoted 26,088 21,348 36,647
10th Percentile £28,748 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Full-Stack Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend in England

Full-Stack Development
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Full-Stack Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in England over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in England

Full-Stack Development
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London -5 546 £81,250 - 338
South East -53 203 £62,500 +4.17% 532
North of England -23 197 £65,000 +18.18% 329
Midlands -23 151 £60,000 +20.00% 219
South West -21 109 £61,250 +2.08% 200
West Midlands -12 85 £55,000 +4.76% 70
North West -27 83 £65,000 +8.33% 142
Yorkshire -25 74 £72,500 +46.46% 133
East Midlands -39 66 £61,250 +50.31% 145
East of England -52 56 £60,000 +33.33% 249
North East +10 40 £55,000 - 56
Full-Stack Development
UK

Full-Stack Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 12 (0.94%) Confluence
2 11 (0.86%) OpenStack
3 9 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.55%) CMS
5 6 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.39%) WordPress
7 4 (0.31%) Appian
8 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.24%) Liferay
8 3 (0.24%) nginx
8 3 (0.24%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.16%) Apache
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
9 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.078%) Camunda
10 1 (0.078%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.078%) Kentico
10 1 (0.078%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.078%) TPMS
Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.16%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 461 (36.13%) AWS
2 367 (28.76%) Azure
3 118 (9.25%) Serverless
4 113 (8.86%) SaaS
5 97 (7.60%) GitHub
6 83 (6.50%) GCP
7 61 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (4.47%) Amazon S3
10 51 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (3.84%) Amazon EKS
12 32 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (1.96%) Figma
14 21 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (1.41%) Power Platform
16 17 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
18 13 (1.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 13 (1.02%) PaaS
19 11 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.71%) Broadband
2 7 (0.55%) HTTP
3 3 (0.24%) Firewall
3 3 (0.24%) Internet
3 3 (0.24%) WAN
4 2 (0.16%) AMQP
4 2 (0.16%) DHCP
4 2 (0.16%) DNS
4 2 (0.16%) LAN
4 2 (0.16%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.16%) VLAN
4 2 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.078%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.078%) MQTT
5 1 (0.078%) TCAP
5 1 (0.078%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (7.76%) SQL Server
2 98 (7.68%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (6.35%) NoSQL
4 77 (6.03%) MongoDB
5 68 (5.33%) Relational Database
6 59 (4.62%) MySQL
7 44 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (1.88%) DynamoDB
8 24 (1.88%) Redis
9 23 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (1.72%) RDBMS
11 16 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.94%) Pinecone
13 10 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.78%) Power BI
14 8 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.63%) DB2
15 6 (0.47%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
17 4 (0.31%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 131 (10.27%) Git
2 81 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 37 (2.90%) Cypress.io
4 36 (2.82%) JIRA
5 29 (2.27%) JUnit
6 28 (2.19%) GitLab
7 22 (1.72%) Mockito
8 18 (1.41%) Maven
9 17 (1.33%) Vite
10 16 (1.25%) JMeter
10 16 (1.25%) Visual Studio
11 15 (1.18%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.94%) Selenium
13 11 (0.86%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.86%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.78%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.78%) webpack
15 8 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
16 6 (0.47%) CircleCI
17 5 (0.39%) ESLint
General
1 243 (19.04%) Social Skills
2 133 (10.42%) Finance
3 65 (5.09%) Public Sector
4 51 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (3.29%) Banking
5 42 (3.29%) Law
6 29 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (1.96%) Investment Banking
7 25 (1.96%) Retail
8 23 (1.80%) Marketing
9 22 (1.72%) Front Office
9 22 (1.72%) Legal
10 20 (1.57%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.49%) Health Technology
12 16 (1.25%) Aviation
13 15 (1.18%) Games
13 15 (1.18%) Tech for Good
14 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.63%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 704 (55.17%) Developer
2 492 (38.56%) Full-Stack Developer
3 289 (22.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 275 (21.55%) Senior
5 229 (17.95%) Software Engineer
6 155 (12.15%) Lead
7 125 (9.80%) .NET Developer
8 122 (9.56%) Senior Developer
9 110 (8.62%) Java Developer
10 102 (7.99%) React Developer
11 91 (7.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 87 (6.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 80 (6.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 78 (6.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 76 (5.96%) Software Developer
16 73 (5.72%) Lead Developer
17 71 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
18 66 (5.17%) C# Developer
19 59 (4.62%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 53 (4.15%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 582 (45.61%) React
2 363 (28.45%) .NET
3 238 (18.65%) Node.js
4 208 (16.30%) AngularJS
5 206 (16.14%) HTML
6 184 (14.42%) CSS
7 136 (10.66%) REST
8 135 (10.58%) .NET Core
8 135 (10.58%) Vue
9 134 (10.50%) Spring
10 119 (9.33%) RESTful
11 103 (8.07%) Spring Boot
12 92 (7.21%) ASP.NET
13 71 (5.56%) .NET Framework
14 70 (5.49%) Next.js
15 61 (4.78%) GraphQL
16 55 (4.31%) HTML5
17 53 (4.15%) Entity Framework
18 52 (4.08%) Kafka
19 47 (3.68%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 71 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 48 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
6 40 (3.13%) Mobile App
7 22 (1.72%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.41%) IoT
9 16 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.02%) Smart Energy
11 12 (0.94%) Data Structures
11 12 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (0.94%) Private Cloud
12 11 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (0.78%) Hedge funds
13 10 (0.78%) Reference Data
14 9 (0.71%) Onboarding
14 9 (0.71%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.57%) Android
2 19 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.02%) Linux
4 3 (0.24%) Unix
4 3 (0.24%) Windows
5 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (31.90%) Software Engineering
2 376 (29.47%) Agile
3 332 (26.02%) CI/CD
4 249 (19.51%) Microservices
5 245 (19.20%) AI
6 237 (18.57%) DevOps
7 231 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
8 169 (13.24%) User Experience
9 162 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 149 (11.68%) Mentoring
11 115 (9.01%) Clean Code
12 102 (7.99%) Containerisation
13 97 (7.60%) Scrum
14 95 (7.45%) Computer Science
15 92 (7.21%) TDD
16 89 (6.97%) Test Automation
17 86 (6.74%) Machine Learning
18 85 (6.66%) SDLC
19 82 (6.43%) Front End Development
20 81 (6.35%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 453 (35.50%) JavaScript
2 429 (33.62%) TypeScript
3 350 (27.43%) C#
4 306 (23.98%) Java
5 259 (20.30%) Python
6 232 (18.18%) SQL
7 51 (4.00%) PHP
8 24 (1.88%) Rust
9 22 (1.72%) Go
10 21 (1.65%) Bash
10 21 (1.65%) Ruby
11 16 (1.25%) C++
12 13 (1.02%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.71%) C
13 9 (0.71%) Groovy
13 9 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.55%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.55%) R
15 6 (0.47%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.39%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 122 (9.56%) Security Cleared
2 94 (7.37%) Degree
3 77 (6.03%) SC Cleared
4 55 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 7 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (0.47%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.31%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.31%) MCP
10 2 (0.16%) PhD
11 1 (0.078%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.078%) MBA
11 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (4.78%) QA
2 56 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.86%) WCAG
4 9 (0.71%) GDPR
5 5 (0.39%) PERC
6 4 (0.31%) SLA
7 2 (0.16%) ECSS
8 1 (0.078%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.078%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.078%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 177 (13.87%) Docker
2 4 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.24%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 145 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 76 (5.96%) Terraform
3 22 (1.72%) Ansible
4 17 (1.33%) Kibana
5 12 (0.94%) Grafana
6 11 (0.86%) Argo
7 8 (0.63%) HP Fortify
8 6 (0.47%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.078%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.078%) Istio
10 1 (0.078%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.078%) logstash
10 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.078%) Nagios
Vendors
1 87 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.19%) OpenAI
3 22 (1.72%) Oracle
4 16 (1.25%) Dynatrace
5 15 (1.18%) Google
6 14 (1.10%) Foundry
7 13 (1.02%) Splunk
8 12 (0.94%) Palantir
9 11 (0.86%) Adobe
10 6 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.47%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.47%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.39%) Facebook
11 5 (0.39%) VMware
11 5 (0.39%) YouTube
11 5 (0.39%) Zoho
12 4 (0.31%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.31%) Pega
12 4 (0.31%) Telerik
12 4 (0.31%) WSO2