Full-Stack Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Full-Stack Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in the Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 222 210
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 16 21 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.20% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.34% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15 11 11
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £63,875
90th Percentile £69,500 - £77,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 7,125 6,141 5,125
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 94.26% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,333 2,872 4,232
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,950 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% -3.21%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in the Midlands

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 January 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
West Midlands +18 14 £60,000 +14.29% 16
East Midlands +1 2 £60,000 -4.00% 33
Full-Stack Engineer
England

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 8 January 2026, Full-Stack Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (56.25%) Java
3 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) AngularJS
4 5 (31.25%) React
5 4 (25.00%) AI
5 4 (25.00%) AWS
5 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
6 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (18.75%) Azure
6 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
6 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
6 3 (18.75%) Microservices
6 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) Serverless
7 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (12.50%) C#
7 2 (12.50%) Coaching
7 2 (12.50%) DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
7 2 (12.50%) Python
7 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
7 2 (12.50%) Spring
7 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
8 1 (6.25%) Agile
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) AngularJS
1 5 (31.25%) React
2 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
2 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) AI
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
4 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
4 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Coaching
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) Data Modelling
6 1 (6.25%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (6.25%) Open Source
6 1 (6.25%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (6.25%) User Experience
6 1 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Foundry
1 1 (6.25%) Palantir