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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 96 37
Rank change year-on-year +34 -59 +28
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,392 1,281 4,271
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.95% 3.29% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.52% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,960 864 3,610
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +9.58% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,875 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.87% +9.17% -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 59,806 36,392 71,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.87% 93.41% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 39,236 20,177 53,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £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% -10.10%

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 15 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 15 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 +37 815 £85,000 +6.25% 370
North of England +43 516 £67,500 +12.50% 226
South East +47 421 £60,000 - 178
North West +35 272 £65,000 - 114
Midlands +14 262 £55,000 +4.76% 81
South West +19 221 £60,000 -4.00% 73
Yorkshire +42 170 £75,000 +30.43% 77
West Midlands +11 138 £60,000 - 28
East of England +44 137 £60,000 +20.00% 68
East Midlands +4 123 £55,000 +15.79% 53
North East +11 74 £60,000 +14.29% 35
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 19 (0.79%) Confluence
2 16 (0.67%) CMS
3 11 (0.46%) WordPress
4 10 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.42%) OpenStack
5 9 (0.38%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.33%) Apache
6 8 (0.33%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.17%) IIS
10 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.13%) Appian
10 3 (0.13%) Liferay
10 3 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.084%) CICS
11 2 (0.084%) Headless CMS
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
1 665 (27.80%) AWS
2 509 (21.28%) Azure
3 201 (8.40%) SaaS
4 154 (6.44%) Serverless
5 149 (6.23%) GitHub
6 131 (5.48%) GCP
7 121 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
8 83 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
9 73 (3.05%) Amazon S3
10 53 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
11 51 (2.13%) Azure AI
12 46 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 45 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
14 43 (1.80%) Figma
15 39 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (1.51%) Amazon SQS
18 26 (1.09%) Power Platform
19 25 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
20 23 (0.96%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.38%) Broadband
2 19 (0.79%) 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
1 211 (8.82%) MongoDB
2 147 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 141 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
4 108 (4.52%) SQL Server
5 99 (4.14%) NoSQL
6 63 (2.63%) MySQL
7 54 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 52 (2.17%) DynamoDB
9 50 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (0.84%) Power BI
11 18 (0.75%) Redis
12 12 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.46%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.42%) GIS
15 8 (0.33%) DB2
16 6 (0.25%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.17%) Big Data
17 4 (0.17%) BigQuery
17 4 (0.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 175 (7.32%) Git
2 95 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 51 (2.13%) GitLab
4 41 (1.71%) Cypress.io
5 37 (1.55%) JIRA
6 32 (1.34%) Maven
7 25 (1.05%) JUnit
8 22 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 17 (0.71%) Claude Code
9 17 (0.71%) Vite
10 15 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 15 (0.63%) Mockito
11 14 (0.59%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.54%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.46%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.38%) Selenium
15 7 (0.29%) ESLint
15 7 (0.29%) NUnit
16 6 (0.25%) webpack
17 5 (0.21%) Storybook
General
1 266 (11.12%) Finance
2 257 (10.74%) Social Skills
3 76 (3.18%) Public Sector
4 69 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (2.30%) Games
6 46 (1.92%) Banking
6 46 (1.92%) Marketing
7 40 (1.67%) Retail
8 38 (1.59%) Front Office
9 36 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (1.17%) Tech for Good
11 26 (1.09%) Law
12 24 (1.00%) Advertising
12 24 (1.00%) Aviation
13 23 (0.96%) Manufacturing
14 21 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.67%) Health Technology
16 15 (0.63%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.50%) Legal
18 11 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,397 (58.40%) Developer
2 897 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 602 (25.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 529 (22.12%) Senior
5 446 (18.65%) Software Engineer
6 337 (14.09%) Lead
7 275 (11.50%) .NET Developer
8 255 (10.66%) Senior Developer
9 199 (8.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 195 (8.15%) Software Developer
11 178 (7.44%) Lead Developer
12 172 (7.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 161 (6.73%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 144 (6.02%) Java Developer
15 139 (5.81%) React Developer
16 118 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
17 108 (4.52%) Python Developer
18 92 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 87 (3.64%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
20 85 (3.55%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 789 (32.98%) React
2 585 (24.46%) .NET
3 452 (18.90%) Node.js
4 268 (11.20%) CSS
5 264 (11.04%) HTML
6 258 (10.79%) AngularJS
7 244 (10.20%) .NET Core
8 231 (9.66%) Vue
9 198 (8.28%) RESTful
10 189 (7.90%) ASP.NET
11 165 (6.90%) Spring
12 157 (6.56%) ASP.NET Core
13 135 (5.64%) REST
14 134 (5.60%) Spring Boot
15 117 (4.89%) Next.js
16 90 (3.76%) Entity Framework
17 76 (3.18%) Blazor
18 69 (2.88%) GraphQL
19 64 (2.68%) Laravel
20 60 (2.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 140 (5.85%) Cloud Native
2 124 (5.18%) Greenfield Project
3 72 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
4 70 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 67 (2.80%) Mobile App
6 47 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.46%) AI Agents
8 34 (1.42%) Fixed Income
9 33 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (1.13%) Low-Code
11 22 (0.92%) IoT
11 22 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
12 19 (0.79%) e-Learning
13 16 (0.67%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (0.63%) Smart Energy
15 13 (0.54%) Blog
15 13 (0.54%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.50%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.05%) Linux
2 21 (0.88%) Android
3 12 (0.50%) 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
1 739 (30.89%) Software Engineering
2 519 (21.70%) Agile
3 447 (18.69%) CI/CD
4 415 (17.35%) AI
5 361 (15.09%) DevOps
6 313 (13.09%) Microservices
7 291 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
8 231 (9.66%) Mentoring
9 230 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 190 (7.94%) Test Automation
11 154 (6.44%) Machine Learning
11 154 (6.44%) User Experience
12 142 (5.94%) Clean Code
12 142 (5.94%) Containerisation
13 133 (5.56%) Scrum
14 126 (5.27%) Web Development
15 123 (5.14%) TDD
16 116 (4.85%) Infrastructure as Code
17 109 (4.56%) Computer Science
18 104 (4.35%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 680 (28.43%) TypeScript
2 656 (27.42%) JavaScript
3 523 (21.86%) C#
4 480 (20.07%) Python
5 442 (18.48%) Java
6 384 (16.05%) SQL
7 95 (3.97%) PHP
8 68 (2.84%) Go
9 31 (1.30%) Bash
10 28 (1.17%) C++
11 22 (0.92%) Ruby
12 21 (0.88%) Groovy
13 16 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.54%) C
15 12 (0.50%) Bicep
15 12 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.33%) Rust
17 6 (0.25%) R
18 4 (0.17%) PowerShell
18 4 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 160 (6.69%) Security Cleared
2 120 (5.02%) SC Cleared
3 115 (4.81%) Degree
4 75 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
7 12 (0.50%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.21%) PhD
10 3 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.13%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.084%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.042%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.042%) MBA
12 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (3.93%) QA
2 29 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.42%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.42%) GDPR
4 8 (0.33%) WCAG
5 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.13%) SLA
7 2 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.084%) ITGC
8 1 (0.042%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.042%) SOC 2
System Software
1 264 (11.04%) 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
1 176 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 103 (4.31%) Terraform
3 30 (1.25%) Grafana
4 23 (0.96%) Ansible
5 18 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.59%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.54%) Podman
8 8 (0.33%) Kibana
9 5 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.17%) Argo
10 4 (0.17%) logstash
11 3 (0.13%) Nagios
12 1 (0.042%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.042%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 232 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 38 (1.59%) Google
3 33 (1.38%) Adobe
3 33 (1.38%) OpenAI
4 24 (1.00%) Oracle
5 18 (0.75%) Foundry
6 14 (0.59%) Facebook
7 12 (0.50%) Palantir
8 10 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 9 (0.38%) Splunk
10 7 (0.29%) AppDynamics
10 7 (0.29%) Dynatrace
10 7 (0.29%) Peregrine
11 6 (0.25%) Apple
11 6 (0.25%) Pega
11 6 (0.25%) YouTube
12 5 (0.21%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.21%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.21%) WooCommerce
13 4 (0.17%) CrowdStrike