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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 96 36
Rank change year-on-year +31 -60 +29
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,264 1,258 4,282
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.80% 3.23% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 3.46% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,841 886 3,614
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -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 60,225 36,390 71,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.59% 93.48% 85.33%
Number of salaries quoted 38,460 20,470 53,767
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,372 £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 8 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 8 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 +35 810 £85,000 +6.25% 352
North of England +31 464 £67,500 +14.41% 210
South East +28 381 £60,000 - 173
Midlands +15 249 £55,000 +4.76% 72
North West +18 240 £67,500 +5.88% 112
South West +16 216 £60,000 -4.00% 67
Yorkshire +41 159 £75,000 +36.36% 64
West Midlands +12 130 £60,000 - 27
East of England +32 122 £63,750 +21.43% 67
East Midlands -2 118 £55,000 +15.79% 45
North East +7 65 £60,000 +9.09% 34
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 17 (0.75%) Confluence
2 15 (0.66%) CMS
3 13 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.49%) WordPress
5 9 (0.40%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.35%) Apache
6 8 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.18%) Appian
8 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.18%) IIS
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.13%) Liferay
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.088%) CICS
10 2 (0.088%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.088%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.044%) Magento
2 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 639 (28.22%) AWS
2 445 (19.66%) Azure
3 203 (8.97%) SaaS
4 150 (6.63%) Serverless
5 137 (6.05%) GCP
6 133 (5.87%) GitHub
7 84 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
9 71 (3.14%) Amazon S3
10 44 (1.94%) Figma
11 40 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 35 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (1.55%) GitHub Copilot
15 29 (1.28%) Azure AI
16 26 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 26 (1.15%) Power Platform
17 23 (1.02%) Apigee
18 21 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.52%) Broadband
2 10 (0.44%) HTTP
3 9 (0.40%) Internet
4 6 (0.27%) DNS
5 4 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.13%) Firewall
7 2 (0.088%) DHCP
7 2 (0.088%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.088%) LAN
7 2 (0.088%) VLAN
7 2 (0.088%) WAN
8 1 (0.044%) AMQP
8 1 (0.044%) MQTT
8 1 (0.044%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.044%) TCAP
8 1 (0.044%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.044%) VSAN
8 1 (0.044%) WebEx
8 1 (0.044%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (7.16%) MongoDB
2 141 (6.23%) PostgreSQL
3 103 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 103 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 82 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 63 (2.78%) MySQL
6 50 (2.21%) DynamoDB
7 48 (2.12%) Relational Database
8 32 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (0.88%) Power BI
10 19 (0.84%) Redis
11 14 (0.62%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.40%) GIS
14 8 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.35%) DB2
15 6 (0.27%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.27%) MariaDB
16 4 (0.18%) Big Data
16 4 (0.18%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 164 (7.24%) Git
2 92 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 46 (2.03%) GitLab
4 42 (1.86%) Cypress.io
5 36 (1.59%) JIRA
6 27 (1.19%) Maven
7 22 (0.97%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.84%) JUnit
8 19 (0.84%) Vite
9 17 (0.75%) CircleCI
10 16 (0.71%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.49%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.49%) Mockito
14 9 (0.40%) Selenium
15 7 (0.31%) ESLint
15 7 (0.31%) NUnit
16 6 (0.27%) webpack
17 4 (0.18%) IntelliJ
General
1 257 (11.35%) Social Skills
2 242 (10.69%) Finance
3 69 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (2.83%) Public Sector
5 49 (2.16%) Games
6 47 (2.08%) Banking
7 40 (1.77%) Marketing
8 38 (1.68%) Front Office
9 37 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (1.63%) Retail
10 29 (1.28%) Tech for Good
11 28 (1.24%) Law
12 26 (1.15%) Aviation
13 21 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 21 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (0.84%) Advertising
15 17 (0.75%) Health Technology
16 16 (0.71%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.49%) Legal
18 10 (0.44%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,324 (58.48%) Developer
2 891 (39.36%) Full-Stack Developer
3 567 (25.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 512 (22.61%) Senior
5 419 (18.51%) Software Engineer
6 322 (14.22%) Lead
7 258 (11.40%) Senior Developer
8 214 (9.45%) .NET Developer
9 192 (8.48%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 180 (7.95%) Software Developer
11 174 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 173 (7.64%) Lead Developer
13 147 (6.49%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 144 (6.36%) React Developer
15 136 (6.01%) Java Developer
16 110 (4.86%) Python Developer
17 108 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
18 86 (3.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 85 (3.75%) C# Developer
20 84 (3.71%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 765 (33.79%) React
2 502 (22.17%) .NET
3 431 (19.04%) Node.js
4 243 (10.73%) CSS
5 242 (10.69%) HTML
6 237 (10.47%) AngularJS
7 201 (8.88%) Vue
8 185 (8.17%) .NET Core
9 174 (7.69%) RESTful
10 153 (6.76%) Spring
11 134 (5.92%) REST
12 130 (5.74%) Spring Boot
13 129 (5.70%) ASP.NET
14 115 (5.08%) Next.js
15 89 (3.93%) ASP.NET Core
16 71 (3.14%) GraphQL
17 66 (2.92%) Laravel
18 65 (2.87%) Entity Framework
19 60 (2.65%) Kafka
20 54 (2.39%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 134 (5.92%) Cloud Native
2 106 (4.68%) Greenfield Project
3 72 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
4 69 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 59 (2.61%) Mobile App
6 45 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.55%) AI Agents
8 34 (1.50%) Fixed Income
9 28 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.19%) Low-Code
11 25 (1.10%) IoT
12 22 (0.97%) Video\Live Streaming
13 19 (0.84%) e-Learning
14 18 (0.80%) Smart Energy
15 16 (0.71%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (0.57%) Blog
17 12 (0.53%) Sports Betting
18 11 (0.49%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.06%) Linux
2 19 (0.84%) Android
3 14 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.27%) Windows
5 2 (0.088%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.044%) Unix
6 1 (0.044%) VMS
6 1 (0.044%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 705 (31.14%) Software Engineering
2 471 (20.80%) Agile
3 413 (18.24%) CI/CD
4 378 (16.70%) AI
5 323 (14.27%) DevOps
6 291 (12.85%) Microservices
7 286 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
8 226 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 209 (9.23%) Mentoring
10 181 (7.99%) Test Automation
11 157 (6.93%) User Experience
12 144 (6.36%) Containerisation
13 137 (6.05%) Clean Code
14 129 (5.70%) Web Development
15 126 (5.57%) Machine Learning
16 121 (5.34%) Scrum
17 111 (4.90%) Infrastructure as Code
18 108 (4.77%) TDD
19 107 (4.73%) Computer Science
20 97 (4.28%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 657 (29.02%) TypeScript
2 627 (27.69%) JavaScript
3 474 (20.94%) Python
4 446 (19.70%) C#
5 420 (18.55%) Java
6 320 (14.13%) SQL
7 96 (4.24%) PHP
8 71 (3.14%) Go
9 30 (1.33%) Bash
10 23 (1.02%) Ruby
11 20 (0.88%) C++
12 19 (0.84%) Groovy
13 16 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.53%) Bicep
14 12 (0.53%) C
15 10 (0.44%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.31%) Rust
17 6 (0.27%) R
18 4 (0.18%) PowerShell
19 3 (0.13%) CFML
Qualifications
1 155 (6.85%) Security Cleared
2 117 (5.17%) SC Cleared
3 112 (4.95%) Degree
4 72 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.50%) DV Cleared
6 16 (0.71%) DBS Check
7 12 (0.53%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.22%) PhD
11 3 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.088%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.088%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.044%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.044%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.044%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.044%) MBA
13 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (4.15%) QA
2 34 (1.50%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.49%) GDPR
4 10 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.31%) WCAG
6 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.18%) SLA
7 2 (0.088%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.088%) ITGC
8 1 (0.044%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.044%) PERC
8 1 (0.044%) SOC 2
System Software
1 242 (10.69%) Docker
2 5 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.13%) Firmware
4 2 (0.088%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.088%) vSphere
5 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 159 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 103 (4.55%) Terraform
3 31 (1.37%) Grafana
4 24 (1.06%) Ansible
5 19 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.62%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.57%) Podman
8 8 (0.35%) Argo
9 6 (0.27%) Kibana
10 5 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.18%) logstash
12 3 (0.13%) Nagios
13 1 (0.044%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.044%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 175 (7.73%) Microsoft
2 35 (1.55%) OpenAI
3 32 (1.41%) Adobe
4 31 (1.37%) Google
5 23 (1.02%) Oracle
6 12 (0.53%) Foundry
7 11 (0.49%) Palantir
8 9 (0.40%) Facebook
9 7 (0.31%) Peregrine
9 7 (0.31%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.27%) Pega
11 5 (0.22%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.22%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.22%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.22%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.22%) Splunk
11 5 (0.22%) WooCommerce
12 4 (0.18%) Apple
12 4 (0.18%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.18%) YouTube