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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 56 74
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 -33
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 69 113 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.53% 3.42% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 4.00% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 16 38 83
10th Percentile £60,000 £36,950 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,188 £43,188 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £70,375 £91,934
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

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 2,348 2,825 2,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 86.20% 85.58% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,121 1,318 1,792
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,063 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,958 £82,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Full-Stack Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend 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 21 November 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 21 November 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 +4 64 £67,500 +10.20% 17
Edinburgh -34 5 £85,000 +61.90% 17
Full-Stack Development
UK

Full-Stack Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (10.14%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.80%) Camunda
2 4 (5.80%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.13%) AWS
2 18 (26.09%) GitHub
3 14 (20.29%) Azure
4 8 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (10.14%) SaaS
6 4 (5.80%) Azure AI
6 4 (5.80%) ChatGPT
6 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (4.35%) Dagster
7 3 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (4.35%) Prefect
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.45%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.49%) NoSQL
2 9 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.14%) Big Data
3 7 (10.14%) Hadoop
3 7 (10.14%) Oracle Database
4 6 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (7.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (7.25%) MongoDB
5 5 (7.25%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.80%) Apache Hive
6 4 (5.80%) HBase
7 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) JUnit
2 5 (7.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.25%) Maven
3 4 (5.80%) Gradle
4 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.45%) Git
4 1 (1.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.45%) Snyk
General
1 52 (75.36%) Finance
2 48 (69.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 48 (69.57%) Law
3 28 (40.58%) Marketing
4 18 (26.09%) Banking
5 9 (13.04%) Legal
5 9 (13.04%) Social Skills
6 8 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (5.80%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (84.06%) Software Engineer
2 53 (76.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 51 (73.91%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 39 (56.52%) Java Engineer
5 38 (55.07%) Java Software Engineer
6 15 (21.74%) Developer
7 14 (20.29%) Lead
8 13 (18.84%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (17.39%) Lead Software Engineer
10 11 (15.94%) Java Developer
11 10 (14.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 10 (14.49%) Software Developer
12 8 (11.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 8 (11.59%) Java Software Developer
13 7 (10.14%) .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (10.14%) C# Software Engineer
13 7 (10.14%) Senior
13 7 (10.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (10.14%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 7 (10.14%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (68.12%) Spring
2 43 (62.32%) React
3 31 (44.93%) Spring Boot
4 29 (42.03%) AngularJS
5 20 (28.99%) RESTful
6 19 (27.54%) Kafka
7 11 (15.94%) .NET
8 9 (13.04%) REST
9 8 (11.59%) .NET Core
9 8 (11.59%) Blazor
9 8 (11.59%) JPA
9 8 (11.59%) Web Services
10 7 (10.14%) Hibernate
10 7 (10.14%) Vue
11 4 (5.80%) JDBC
11 4 (5.80%) OpenAPI
11 4 (5.80%) SOAP
11 4 (5.80%) Swagger
11 4 (5.80%) WSDL
12 3 (4.35%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (42.03%) Algorithms
2 15 (21.74%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.14%) Reference Data
4 4 (5.80%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (5.80%) Fixed Income
4 4 (5.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (89.86%) Software Engineering
2 59 (85.51%) Agile
3 56 (81.16%) CI/CD
4 48 (69.57%) SDLC
5 46 (66.67%) Operational Stability
6 31 (44.93%) Community of Practice
7 29 (42.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (40.58%) Visualisation
9 24 (34.78%) AI
10 20 (28.99%) Machine Learning
11 17 (24.64%) Decision-Making
12 15 (21.74%) Microservices
12 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (20.29%) DevOps
14 12 (17.39%) Containerisation
15 11 (15.94%) Risk Management
16 8 (11.59%) OO
16 8 (11.59%) Test Automation
17 7 (10.14%) Application Security
17 7 (10.14%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 49 (71.01%) Java
2 31 (44.93%) SQL
3 11 (15.94%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.04%) C#
4 9 (13.04%) Python
4 9 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.80%) PL/SQL
5 4 (5.80%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.45%) C++
6 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (15.94%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (27.54%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.59%) Terraform
3 1 (1.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (24.64%) Oracle
2 10 (14.49%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.25%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.25%) Splunk
4 4 (5.80%) Cloudera
4 4 (5.80%) Databricks
5 1 (1.45%) IBM