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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 97 36
Rank change year-on-year +34 -61 +30
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,293 1,262 4,279
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.84% 3.24% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.47% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,871 888 3,620
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £80,000
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 60,055 36,381 71,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.36% 93.39% 85.24%
Number of salaries quoted 38,771 20,528 53,796
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £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% -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 9 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 9 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 +32 811 £85,000 +6.25% 315
North of England +32 477 £67,500 +14.41% 191
South East +34 390 £60,000 - 164
Midlands +9 252 £55,000 +4.76% 71
North West +15 246 £65,000 +1.96% 102
South West +18 216 £60,000 -4.00% 68
Yorkshire +40 162 £75,000 +36.36% 57
West Midlands +3 129 £60,000 - 24
East of England +40 125 £65,000 +30.00% 67
East Midlands +4 122 £55,000 +15.79% 47
North East 0 69 £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 17 (0.74%) Confluence
2 16 (0.70%) CMS
3 13 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.52%) WordPress
5 9 (0.39%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.39%) 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 (0.17%) Appian
8 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.17%) IIS
8 4 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.13%) Liferay
9 3 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.087%) CICS
10 2 (0.087%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.087%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.087%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.044%) Magento
2 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.044%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 652 (28.43%) AWS
2 467 (20.37%) Azure
3 205 (8.94%) SaaS
4 150 (6.54%) Serverless
5 140 (6.11%) GitHub
6 137 (5.97%) GCP
7 93 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
9 71 (3.10%) Amazon S3
10 43 (1.88%) Figma
11 41 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (1.70%) GitHub Copilot
13 37 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 35 (1.53%) Amazon SQS
15 34 (1.48%) Azure AI
16 32 (1.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 27 (1.18%) Power Platform
18 23 (1.00%) Apigee
19 21 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.49%) Broadband
2 10 (0.44%) HTTP
2 10 (0.44%) Internet
3 6 (0.26%) DNS
4 4 (0.17%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.13%) Firewall
6 2 (0.087%) DHCP
6 2 (0.087%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.087%) LAN
6 2 (0.087%) VLAN
6 2 (0.087%) WAN
7 1 (0.044%) AMQP
7 1 (0.044%) MQTT
7 1 (0.044%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.044%) TCAP
7 1 (0.044%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.044%) VSAN
7 1 (0.044%) WebEx
7 1 (0.044%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (7.63%) MongoDB
2 145 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 106 (4.62%) SQL Server
4 104 (4.54%) NoSQL
5 99 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 63 (2.75%) MySQL
7 50 (2.18%) DynamoDB
7 50 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 35 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (0.92%) Power BI
10 20 (0.87%) Redis
11 14 (0.61%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.44%) GIS
14 9 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.35%) DB2
16 6 (0.26%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.26%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 166 (7.24%) Git
2 93 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 47 (2.05%) GitLab
4 42 (1.83%) Cypress.io
5 36 (1.57%) JIRA
6 27 (1.18%) Maven
7 22 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.83%) JUnit
8 19 (0.83%) Vite
9 17 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 16 (0.70%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.61%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.48%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.48%) Mockito
14 9 (0.39%) Selenium
15 7 (0.31%) ESLint
15 7 (0.31%) NUnit
16 6 (0.26%) webpack
17 4 (0.17%) IntelliJ
General
1 259 (11.30%) Social Skills
2 242 (10.55%) Finance
3 71 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (2.83%) Public Sector
5 51 (2.22%) Games
6 47 (2.05%) Banking
7 43 (1.88%) Marketing
8 39 (1.70%) Retail
9 38 (1.66%) Front Office
9 38 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (1.22%) Law
10 28 (1.22%) Tech for Good
11 26 (1.13%) Aviation
12 22 (0.96%) Advertising
12 22 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 21 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (0.74%) Health Technology
15 16 (0.70%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.52%) Legal
17 10 (0.44%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,349 (58.83%) Developer
2 897 (39.12%) Full-Stack Developer
3 570 (24.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 513 (22.37%) Senior
5 420 (18.32%) Software Engineer
6 324 (14.13%) Lead
7 260 (11.34%) Senior Developer
8 231 (10.07%) .NET Developer
9 191 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 184 (8.02%) Software Developer
11 175 (7.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 174 (7.59%) Lead Developer
13 147 (6.41%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 144 (6.28%) React Developer
15 137 (5.97%) Java Developer
16 110 (4.80%) Python Developer
17 108 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
18 87 (3.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 85 (3.71%) C# Developer
19 85 (3.71%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 773 (33.71%) React
2 524 (22.85%) .NET
3 439 (19.15%) Node.js
4 257 (11.21%) CSS
5 254 (11.08%) HTML
6 246 (10.73%) AngularJS
7 208 (9.07%) Vue
8 203 (8.85%) .NET Core
9 181 (7.89%) RESTful
10 153 (6.67%) Spring
11 147 (6.41%) ASP.NET
12 136 (5.93%) REST
13 130 (5.67%) Spring Boot
14 117 (5.10%) Next.js
15 107 (4.67%) ASP.NET Core
16 76 (3.31%) Entity Framework
17 71 (3.10%) GraphQL
18 66 (2.88%) Laravel
19 60 (2.62%) Kafka
20 56 (2.44%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 137 (5.97%) Cloud Native
2 109 (4.75%) Greenfield Project
3 72 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
4 70 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 61 (2.66%) Mobile App
6 45 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.53%) AI Agents
8 34 (1.48%) Fixed Income
9 32 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.18%) Low-Code
11 24 (1.05%) IoT
12 22 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
13 18 (0.78%) e-Learning
14 17 (0.74%) Smart Energy
15 16 (0.70%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (0.57%) Blog
17 12 (0.52%) Algorithms
17 12 (0.52%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.05%) Linux
2 19 (0.83%) Android
3 14 (0.61%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.26%) Windows
5 2 (0.087%) 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
1 707 (30.83%) Software Engineering
2 486 (21.19%) Agile
3 426 (18.58%) CI/CD
4 388 (16.92%) AI
5 332 (14.48%) DevOps
6 298 (13.00%) Microservices
7 289 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
8 225 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 212 (9.25%) Mentoring
10 185 (8.07%) Test Automation
11 156 (6.80%) User Experience
12 145 (6.32%) Containerisation
13 139 (6.06%) Clean Code
14 132 (5.76%) Machine Learning
15 129 (5.63%) Web Development
16 122 (5.32%) Scrum
17 113 (4.93%) Infrastructure as Code
17 113 (4.93%) TDD
18 109 (4.75%) Computer Science
19 98 (4.27%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 667 (29.09%) TypeScript
2 633 (27.61%) JavaScript
3 480 (20.93%) Python
4 466 (20.32%) C#
5 422 (18.40%) Java
6 340 (14.83%) SQL
7 97 (4.23%) PHP
8 71 (3.10%) Go
9 30 (1.31%) Bash
10 25 (1.09%) Ruby
11 21 (0.92%) C++
12 19 (0.83%) Groovy
13 16 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.57%) C
15 12 (0.52%) Bicep
16 10 (0.44%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.31%) Rust
18 6 (0.26%) R
19 4 (0.17%) PowerShell
20 3 (0.13%) CFML
Qualifications
1 155 (6.76%) Security Cleared
2 117 (5.10%) SC Cleared
3 114 (4.97%) Degree
4 74 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 15 (0.65%) DBS Check
7 12 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.22%) PhD
11 3 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.087%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.087%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.087%) 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 93 (4.06%) QA
2 34 (1.48%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.48%) GDPR
4 10 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.31%) WCAG
6 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.17%) SLA
7 2 (0.087%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.087%) ITGC
8 1 (0.044%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.044%) PERC
8 1 (0.044%) SOC 2
System Software
1 250 (10.90%) Docker
2 5 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.13%) Firmware
4 2 (0.087%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.087%) vSphere
5 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 164 (7.15%) Kubernetes
2 104 (4.54%) Terraform
3 31 (1.35%) Grafana
4 24 (1.05%) Ansible
5 19 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.61%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.57%) Podman
8 8 (0.35%) Argo
9 6 (0.26%) Kibana
10 5 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.17%) logstash
12 3 (0.13%) Nagios
13 1 (0.044%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.044%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 193 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 36 (1.57%) OpenAI
3 33 (1.44%) Adobe
4 31 (1.35%) Google
5 22 (0.96%) Oracle
6 12 (0.52%) Foundry
7 11 (0.48%) Facebook
7 11 (0.48%) Palantir
8 7 (0.31%) Peregrine
8 7 (0.31%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.26%) Pega
9 6 (0.26%) YouTube
10 5 (0.22%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.22%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.22%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.22%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.22%) Splunk
10 5 (0.22%) WooCommerce
11 4 (0.17%) Apple
11 4 (0.17%) DevExpress