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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 93 36
Rank change year-on-year +30 -57 +30
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,371 1,291 4,280
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.95% 3.30% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.54% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,945 879 3,622
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +9.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

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 59,545 36,509 71,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.99% 93.39% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,042 20,550 53,849
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +42 814 £85,000 +6.25% 319
North of England +34 498 £67,500 +14.41% 184
South East +49 416 £60,000 - 180
North West +17 262 £65,000 +1.96% 96
Midlands +6 259 £55,000 +4.76% 77
South West +18 224 £60,000 -4.00% 67
Yorkshire +40 163 £75,000 +36.36% 56
East of England +44 138 £61,250 +16.67% 69
West Midlands +8 135 £60,000 - 29
East Midlands +2 123 £55,000 +15.79% 47
North East +10 73 £60,000 +9.09% 32
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 18 (0.76%) Confluence
2 16 (0.67%) CMS
3 13 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.51%) WordPress
5 9 (0.38%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.34%) Apache
6 8 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.17%) Appian
9 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.17%) IIS
10 3 (0.13%) Liferay
10 3 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.084%) CICS
11 2 (0.084%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.084%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.084%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.042%) Magento
2 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.042%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 670 (28.26%) AWS
2 516 (21.76%) Azure
3 206 (8.69%) SaaS
4 155 (6.54%) GitHub
5 149 (6.28%) Serverless
6 137 (5.78%) GCP
7 114 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
9 71 (2.99%) Amazon S3
10 53 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
11 51 (2.15%) Azure AI
12 43 (1.81%) Figma
13 42 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
14 40 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
15 39 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 37 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
17 35 (1.48%) Amazon SQS
18 28 (1.18%) Power Platform
19 23 (0.97%) Apigee
20 21 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.40%) Broadband
2 19 (0.80%) Internet
3 9 (0.38%) HTTP
4 6 (0.25%) DNS
5 5 (0.21%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.13%) Firewall
6 3 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.084%) DHCP
7 2 (0.084%) LAN
7 2 (0.084%) VLAN
7 2 (0.084%) WAN
8 1 (0.042%) AMQP
8 1 (0.042%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.042%) TCAP
8 1 (0.042%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.042%) VSAN
8 1 (0.042%) WebEx
8 1 (0.042%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (9.07%) MongoDB
2 147 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
3 140 (5.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 113 (4.77%) SQL Server
5 104 (4.39%) NoSQL
6 65 (2.74%) MySQL
7 53 (2.24%) Relational Database
8 50 (2.11%) DynamoDB
8 50 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (0.93%) Power BI
10 21 (0.89%) Redis
11 14 (0.59%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.42%) GIS
14 8 (0.34%) DB2
15 6 (0.25%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.25%) MariaDB
16 4 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 171 (7.21%) Git
2 95 (4.01%) Jenkins
3 51 (2.15%) GitLab
4 41 (1.73%) Cypress.io
5 36 (1.52%) JIRA
6 30 (1.27%) Maven
7 22 (0.93%) JUnit
7 22 (0.93%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.80%) Vite
9 17 (0.72%) CircleCI
10 16 (0.67%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.59%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.55%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.55%) Mockito
13 11 (0.46%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.38%) Selenium
15 7 (0.30%) ESLint
15 7 (0.30%) NUnit
16 6 (0.25%) webpack
17 4 (0.17%) Storybook
General
1 265 (11.18%) Social Skills
2 255 (10.75%) Finance
3 70 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (2.83%) Public Sector
5 55 (2.32%) Games
6 47 (1.98%) Banking
7 46 (1.94%) Marketing
8 42 (1.77%) Retail
9 38 (1.60%) Front Office
10 36 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.18%) Law
11 28 (1.18%) Tech for Good
12 26 (1.10%) Aviation
13 24 (1.01%) Advertising
14 23 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (0.72%) Health Technology
17 16 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 12 (0.51%) Legal
19 11 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,404 (59.22%) Developer
2 903 (38.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 585 (24.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 518 (21.85%) Senior
5 432 (18.22%) Software Engineer
6 332 (14.00%) Lead
7 276 (11.64%) .NET Developer
8 262 (11.05%) Senior Developer
9 196 (8.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 190 (8.01%) Software Developer
11 178 (7.51%) Lead Developer
12 176 (7.42%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 149 (6.28%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 144 (6.07%) React Developer
15 142 (5.99%) Java Developer
16 109 (4.60%) Python Developer
16 109 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
17 91 (3.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 87 (3.67%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
19 85 (3.58%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 802 (33.83%) React
2 579 (24.42%) .NET
3 456 (19.23%) Node.js
4 273 (11.51%) CSS
5 267 (11.26%) HTML
6 261 (11.01%) AngularJS
7 244 (10.29%) .NET Core
8 229 (9.66%) Vue
9 197 (8.31%) RESTful
10 193 (8.14%) ASP.NET
11 162 (6.83%) Spring
12 158 (6.66%) ASP.NET Core
13 139 (5.86%) REST
14 133 (5.61%) Spring Boot
15 118 (4.98%) Next.js
16 90 (3.80%) Entity Framework
17 75 (3.16%) Blazor
18 69 (2.91%) GraphQL
19 67 (2.83%) Laravel
20 61 (2.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 140 (5.90%) Cloud Native
2 121 (5.10%) Greenfield Project
3 73 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 67 (2.83%) Mobile App
6 47 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.48%) AI Agents
8 34 (1.43%) Fixed Income
9 33 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 23 (0.97%) IoT
12 22 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
13 18 (0.76%) e-Learning
14 17 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (0.72%) Smart Energy
15 16 (0.67%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (0.55%) Blog
17 12 (0.51%) Algorithms
17 12 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.05%) Linux
2 23 (0.97%) Android
3 14 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.25%) Windows
5 2 (0.084%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.042%) Unix
6 1 (0.042%) VMS
6 1 (0.042%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 725 (30.58%) Software Engineering
2 521 (21.97%) Agile
3 451 (19.02%) CI/CD
4 416 (17.55%) AI
5 359 (15.14%) DevOps
6 318 (13.41%) Microservices
7 293 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
8 230 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 221 (9.32%) Mentoring
10 189 (7.97%) Test Automation
11 155 (6.54%) User Experience
12 153 (6.45%) Machine Learning
13 146 (6.16%) Containerisation
14 144 (6.07%) Clean Code
15 130 (5.48%) Scrum
15 130 (5.48%) Web Development
16 118 (4.98%) TDD
17 117 (4.93%) Infrastructure as Code
18 112 (4.72%) Computer Science
19 100 (4.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 685 (28.89%) TypeScript
2 654 (27.58%) JavaScript
3 518 (21.85%) C#
4 482 (20.33%) Python
5 433 (18.26%) Java
6 381 (16.07%) SQL
7 98 (4.13%) PHP
8 71 (2.99%) Go
9 31 (1.31%) Bash
10 26 (1.10%) Ruby
11 21 (0.89%) C++
12 20 (0.84%) Groovy
13 16 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.55%) C
15 12 (0.51%) Bicep
15 12 (0.51%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.34%) Rust
17 6 (0.25%) R
18 4 (0.17%) PowerShell
19 3 (0.13%) CFML
Qualifications
1 163 (6.87%) Security Cleared
2 123 (5.19%) SC Cleared
3 117 (4.93%) Degree
4 77 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
7 12 (0.51%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.21%) PhD
11 3 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.084%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.084%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.042%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.042%) MBA
13 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.92%) QA
2 33 (1.39%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.42%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.42%) GDPR
4 7 (0.30%) WCAG
5 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.17%) SLA
6 2 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.084%) ITGC
7 1 (0.042%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.042%) SOC 2
System Software
1 271 (11.43%) Docker
2 5 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.13%) Firmware
4 2 (0.084%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.084%) vSphere
5 1 (0.042%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 182 (7.68%) Kubernetes
2 106 (4.47%) Terraform
3 30 (1.27%) Grafana
4 25 (1.05%) Ansible
5 18 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.59%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.55%) Podman
8 8 (0.34%) Argo
9 6 (0.25%) Kibana
10 5 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.17%) logstash
12 3 (0.13%) Nagios
13 1 (0.042%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.042%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 234 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 38 (1.60%) Google
3 36 (1.52%) OpenAI
4 32 (1.35%) Adobe
5 24 (1.01%) Oracle
6 14 (0.59%) Facebook
7 12 (0.51%) Foundry
7 12 (0.51%) Palantir
8 10 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.30%) Peregrine
10 6 (0.25%) AppDynamics
10 6 (0.25%) Apple
10 6 (0.25%) Pega
10 6 (0.25%) Splunk
10 6 (0.25%) YouTube
11 5 (0.21%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.21%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.21%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.21%) WooCommerce
12 4 (0.17%) Yahoo!