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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 101 37
Rank change year-on-year +40 -64 +31
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,424 1,273 4,327
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.95% 3.24% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.47% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,992 854 3,641
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% +10.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,125 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.90% +10.17% -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 60,622 36,670 71,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.76% 93.39% 84.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39,997 20,119 53,763
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £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 £73,410
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -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 21 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 21 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 +35 820 £85,000 +6.25% 292
North of England +45 547 £67,500 +12.50% 182
South East +53 425 £60,000 - 158
North West +39 288 £65,000 - 100
Midlands +19 261 £55,000 +4.76% 65
South West +16 218 £60,000 -4.00% 62
Yorkshire +55 179 £72,500 +26.09% 57
West Midlands -4 141 £60,000 +2.13% 26
East of England +46 138 £61,250 +22.50% 59
East Midlands +5 119 £55,000 +15.79% 39
North East +9 80 £60,000 +14.29% 25
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 (0.78%) Confluence
2 18 (0.74%) CMS
3 13 (0.54%) WordPress
4 10 (0.41%) OpenStack
5 9 (0.37%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.29%) Apache
8 6 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.17%) IIS
10 3 (0.12%) Liferay
10 3 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.083%) CICS
11 2 (0.083%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.083%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Shopify
2 1 (0.041%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.041%) Magento
2 1 (0.041%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 675 (27.85%) AWS
2 519 (21.41%) Azure
3 201 (8.29%) SaaS
4 157 (6.48%) Serverless
5 148 (6.11%) GitHub
6 129 (5.32%) GCP
7 122 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
9 74 (3.05%) Amazon S3
10 53 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
11 51 (2.10%) Azure AI
12 50 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
13 48 (1.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 43 (1.77%) Figma
15 41 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
17 37 (1.53%) Amazon SQS
18 27 (1.11%) Power Platform
19 25 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
20 24 (0.99%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.35%) Broadband
2 19 (0.78%) Internet
3 9 (0.37%) HTTP
4 5 (0.21%) DNS
5 4 (0.17%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.12%) Firewall
6 3 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.041%) AMQP
7 1 (0.041%) DHCP
7 1 (0.041%) LAN
7 1 (0.041%) TCAP
7 1 (0.041%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.041%) VLAN
7 1 (0.041%) VSAN
7 1 (0.041%) WAN
7 1 (0.041%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (8.66%) MongoDB
2 149 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 148 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
4 113 (4.66%) SQL Server
5 97 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 66 (2.72%) MySQL
7 53 (2.19%) DynamoDB
7 53 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 50 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (0.87%) Power BI
10 15 (0.62%) Redis
11 12 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (0.45%) GIS
13 10 (0.41%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.33%) DB2
15 6 (0.25%) MariaDB
16 4 (0.17%) Big Data
16 4 (0.17%) BigQuery
16 4 (0.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 177 (7.30%) Git
2 95 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 52 (2.15%) GitLab
4 41 (1.69%) Cypress.io
5 35 (1.44%) JIRA
6 34 (1.40%) Maven
7 28 (1.16%) JUnit
8 22 (0.91%) SonarQube
9 19 (0.78%) Claude Code
10 17 (0.70%) Mockito
10 17 (0.70%) Vite
11 15 (0.62%) CircleCI
12 14 (0.58%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.54%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.45%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.37%) Selenium
16 7 (0.29%) ESLint
16 7 (0.29%) NUnit
17 6 (0.25%) webpack
18 5 (0.21%) Storybook
General
1 274 (11.30%) Finance
2 264 (10.89%) Social Skills
3 79 (3.26%) Public Sector
4 71 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (2.27%) Games
6 48 (1.98%) Marketing
7 46 (1.90%) Banking
8 41 (1.69%) Retail
9 38 (1.57%) Front Office
10 34 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (1.07%) Tech for Good
12 25 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 24 (0.99%) Advertising
13 24 (0.99%) Law
14 23 (0.95%) Aviation
15 21 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.66%) Health Technology
17 15 (0.62%) Investment Banking
17 15 (0.62%) Legal
18 12 (0.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,412 (58.25%) Developer
2 910 (37.54%) Full-Stack Developer
3 615 (25.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 532 (21.95%) Senior
5 458 (18.89%) Software Engineer
6 342 (14.11%) Lead
7 285 (11.76%) .NET Developer
8 254 (10.48%) Senior Developer
9 204 (8.42%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 202 (8.33%) Software Developer
11 181 (7.47%) Lead Developer
12 171 (7.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 164 (6.77%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 151 (6.23%) Java Developer
15 138 (5.69%) React Developer
16 120 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
17 108 (4.46%) Python Developer
18 96 (3.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 88 (3.63%) Java Engineer
19 88 (3.63%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 788 (32.51%) React
2 603 (24.88%) .NET
3 440 (18.15%) Node.js
4 275 (11.34%) CSS
5 269 (11.10%) HTML
6 266 (10.97%) AngularJS
7 241 (9.94%) .NET Core
8 237 (9.78%) Vue
9 196 (8.09%) RESTful
10 187 (7.71%) ASP.NET
11 176 (7.26%) Spring
12 159 (6.56%) ASP.NET Core
13 141 (5.82%) Spring Boot
14 140 (5.78%) REST
15 119 (4.91%) Next.js
16 89 (3.67%) Entity Framework
17 76 (3.14%) Blazor
18 68 (2.81%) GraphQL
19 63 (2.60%) Laravel
20 60 (2.48%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 143 (5.90%) Cloud Native
2 121 (4.99%) Greenfield Project
3 72 (2.97%) Product Ownership
4 71 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (2.93%) Mobile App
5 48 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (1.53%) AI Agents
7 34 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (1.40%) Fixed Income
8 29 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.11%) Low-Code
10 22 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
11 21 (0.87%) e-Learning
11 21 (0.87%) IoT
12 17 (0.70%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (0.62%) Smart Energy
15 14 (0.58%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.54%) Blog
17 12 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.11%) Linux
2 21 (0.87%) Android
3 12 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.21%) Windows
5 1 (0.041%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.041%) VMS
5 1 (0.041%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (31.19%) Software Engineering
2 522 (21.53%) Agile
3 447 (18.44%) CI/CD
4 428 (17.66%) AI
5 361 (14.89%) DevOps
6 317 (13.08%) Microservices
7 300 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (9.98%) Mentoring
9 236 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 192 (7.92%) Test Automation
11 159 (6.56%) Machine Learning
12 153 (6.31%) User Experience
13 145 (5.98%) Clean Code
14 143 (5.90%) Containerisation
15 135 (5.57%) Scrum
16 129 (5.32%) TDD
17 126 (5.20%) Web Development
18 119 (4.91%) Infrastructure as Code
19 110 (4.54%) Computer Science
20 105 (4.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 680 (28.05%) TypeScript
2 656 (27.06%) JavaScript
3 535 (22.07%) C#
4 486 (20.05%) Python
5 451 (18.61%) Java
6 390 (16.09%) SQL
7 97 (4.00%) PHP
8 67 (2.76%) Go
9 33 (1.36%) Bash
10 32 (1.32%) C++
11 25 (1.03%) Ruby
12 23 (0.95%) Groovy
13 16 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.58%) C
14 14 (0.58%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.50%) Bicep
16 9 (0.37%) Rust
17 6 (0.25%) R
18 5 (0.21%) PowerShell
19 4 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 164 (6.77%) Security Cleared
2 125 (5.16%) SC Cleared
3 118 (4.87%) Degree
4 78 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.40%) DV Cleared
6 15 (0.62%) DBS Check
7 13 (0.54%) AWS Certification
7 13 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.25%) PhD
9 3 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.12%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.041%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.041%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.041%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.041%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.041%) MBA
10 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.84%) QA
2 29 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.45%) GDPR
4 9 (0.37%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.37%) WCAG
5 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.083%) ITGC
6 2 (0.083%) SLA
7 1 (0.041%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.041%) SOC 2
System Software
1 271 (11.18%) Docker
2 5 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.083%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.083%) vSphere
5 1 (0.041%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.041%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 180 (7.43%) Kubernetes
2 102 (4.21%) Terraform
3 32 (1.32%) Grafana
4 20 (0.83%) Ansible
4 20 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.58%) HP Fortify
6 13 (0.54%) Podman
7 8 (0.33%) Kibana
8 5 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.17%) Argo
9 4 (0.17%) logstash
10 3 (0.12%) Nagios
11 1 (0.041%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.041%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 233 (9.61%) Microsoft
2 38 (1.57%) Google
3 33 (1.36%) Adobe
3 33 (1.36%) OpenAI
4 29 (1.20%) Oracle
5 19 (0.78%) Foundry
6 14 (0.58%) Facebook
6 14 (0.58%) Palantir
6 14 (0.58%) Salesforce
7 9 (0.37%) Splunk
8 7 (0.29%) AppDynamics
8 7 (0.29%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.25%) Apple
9 6 (0.25%) Pega
9 6 (0.25%) Peregrine
9 6 (0.25%) WooCommerce
9 6 (0.25%) YouTube
10 5 (0.21%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.21%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.17%) CrowdStrike