Full-Stack Development Job Trends in Scotland

Full-Stack Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 43 83
Rank change year-on-year -2 +40 -54
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 135 250 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.29% 5.80% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 6.77% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 24 67 74
10th Percentile £51,500 £40,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,750 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £66,438
90th Percentile £83,725 £71,500 £79,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,296 3,695 2,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.90% 85.65% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,003 1,596 1,991
10th Percentile £26,794 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,489 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Full-Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development in Scotland

Full-Stack Development
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Full-Stack Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in Scotland

Full-Stack Development
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
Glasgow +6 71 £67,500 +3.85% 14
Lanarkshire +1 19 - - 7
Edinburgh -26 12 £67,500 +8.00% 14
Fife +11 4 £47,500 - 1
Renfrewshire -1 4 - -
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +11 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Aberdeen +15 1 £55,000 - 4
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Full-Stack Development
UK

Full-Stack Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (36.30%) Confluence
2 8 (5.93%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.96%) Camunda
3 4 (2.96%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 85 (62.96%) AWS
2 70 (51.85%) Azure
3 55 (40.74%) GCP
4 19 (14.07%) GitHub
5 9 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.19%) SaaS
8 4 (2.96%) Azure AI
8 4 (2.96%) ChatGPT
8 4 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.22%) Dagster
9 3 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.22%) Prefect
10 2 (1.48%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.48%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (1.48%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.48%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (37.78%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.89%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.93%) Big Data
4 8 (5.93%) Hadoop
5 7 (5.19%) Oracle Database
5 7 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (4.44%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.70%) Apache Hive
7 5 (3.70%) HBase
7 5 (3.70%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (40.74%) Maven
2 50 (37.04%) Bitbucket
2 50 (37.04%) GitLab
2 50 (37.04%) JIRA
3 49 (36.30%) Cucumber
3 49 (36.30%) Selenium
3 49 (36.30%) SonarQube
3 49 (36.30%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (5.19%) JUnit
5 6 (4.44%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.70%) Gradle
7 4 (2.96%) Git
8 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.74%) Postman
8 1 (0.74%) Snyk
8 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
General
1 107 (79.26%) Finance
2 99 (73.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 71 (52.59%) Banking
4 49 (36.30%) Law
5 29 (21.48%) Marketing
6 10 (7.41%) Social Skills
7 9 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.67%) Legal
8 4 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.96%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.48%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 117 (86.67%) Software Engineer
2 55 (40.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 53 (39.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 41 (30.37%) Java Engineer
5 39 (28.89%) Java Software Engineer
6 21 (15.56%) Developer
7 18 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (10.37%) Java Developer
8 14 (10.37%) Lead
9 13 (9.63%) Senior
10 12 (8.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 12 (8.89%) Lead Software Engineer
10 12 (8.89%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (8.89%) Software Developer
11 9 (6.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 9 (6.67%) Java Software Developer
12 8 (5.93%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (5.93%) C# Software Engineer
12 8 (5.93%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (5.93%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (74.81%) Spring
2 96 (71.11%) React
3 83 (61.48%) Spring Boot
4 70 (51.85%) Kafka
5 58 (42.96%) JPA
6 56 (41.48%) Hibernate
7 54 (40.00%) CSS
8 52 (38.52%) HTML
9 49 (36.30%) Redux
10 30 (22.22%) AngularJS
11 23 (17.04%) RESTful
12 14 (10.37%) .NET
13 10 (7.41%) REST
14 9 (6.67%) .NET Core
14 9 (6.67%) Blazor
15 8 (5.93%) Web Services
16 7 (5.19%) Vue
17 4 (2.96%) JDBC
17 4 (2.96%) SOAP
17 4 (2.96%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 49 (36.30%) Enterprise Software
1 49 (36.30%) Product Ownership
2 32 (23.70%) Algorithms
3 15 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.19%) Reference Data
6 5 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.96%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (2.96%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.74%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) Unix
2 2 (1.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (90.37%) Software Engineering
2 115 (85.19%) Agile
3 110 (81.48%) CI/CD
4 99 (73.33%) SDLC
5 79 (58.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 70 (51.85%) DevOps
7 68 (50.37%) Microservices
8 65 (48.15%) Containerisation
9 61 (45.19%) Test Automation
10 57 (42.22%) TDD
11 55 (40.74%) Front End Development
12 49 (36.30%) Clean Code
12 49 (36.30%) Performance Optimisation
13 48 (35.56%) Operational Stability
14 32 (23.70%) Community of Practice
15 29 (21.48%) Visualisation
16 27 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
17 22 (16.30%) Machine Learning
18 20 (14.81%) Decision-Making
19 19 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 107 (79.26%) Java
2 86 (63.70%) SQL
3 63 (46.67%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.89%) C#
4 12 (8.89%) Python
4 12 (8.89%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.96%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.74%) C++
7 1 (0.74%) PHP
7 1 (0.74%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (3.70%) Degree
2 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (36.30%) QA
2 1 (0.74%) GRC
System Software
1 65 (48.15%) Docker
2 5 (3.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 75 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.67%) Terraform
3 2 (1.48%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (36.30%) Solace
2 17 (12.59%) Oracle
3 10 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.19%) Dynatrace
4 7 (5.19%) Splunk
5 5 (3.70%) Cloudera
5 5 (3.70%) Databricks
6 3 (2.22%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.74%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.74%) IBM