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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 62 59
Rank change year-on-year -65 -3 -6
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 12 89 184
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.44% 3.30% 6.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 3.58% 6.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9 29 93
10th Percentile £55,650 £35,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £63,250 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £74,051 £91,934
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Process & 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 2,202 2,489 2,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 80.93% 92.29% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,077 1,065 1,739
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -8.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,344 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 1 January 2026.

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 1 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
Glasgow -5 7 £67,500 +35.00% 48
Edinburgh -44 5 £70,000 +27.27% 56
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) SaaS
2 5 (41.67%) GitHub
3 4 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
5 1 (8.33%) ChatGPT
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 2 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Java Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) React Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Product Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) React
2 7 (58.33%) AngularJS
3 6 (50.00%) .NET
4 5 (41.67%) .NET Core
4 5 (41.67%) RESTful
5 4 (33.33%) Spring
6 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (25.00%) Entity Framework
6 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
7 2 (16.67%) Blazor
7 2 (16.67%) Vue
8 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
8 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (8.33%) Next.js
8 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (25.00%) OO
5 3 (25.00%) OOP
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (25.00%) Web Development
6 2 (16.67%) Application Security
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Micro Frontends
6 2 (16.67%) Wealth Management
7 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) C#
3 4 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft