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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 60 75
Rank change year-on-year -41 +15 -29
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 42 107 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.52% 3.42% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 3.89% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 12 38 81
10th Percentile £60,000 £36,950 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,938 £43,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £79,688 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,125 £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 2,313 2,754 2,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 83.74% 87.90% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,149 1,268 1,757
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £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 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,121 £82,878
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 2 December 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 2 December 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 38 £67,500 +17.39% 9
Edinburgh -35 4 £53,250 +1.43% 13
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 4 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) Camunda
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) AWS
2 11 (26.19%) GitHub
3 9 (21.43%) Azure
4 8 (19.05%) SaaS
5 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.14%) Azure AI
6 3 (7.14%) ChatGPT
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.76%) GCP
7 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.38%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (2.38%) Dagster
8 1 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.38%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.90%) MongoDB
2 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.52%) Big Data
3 4 (9.52%) Hadoop
4 3 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (7.14%) Apache Hive
4 3 (7.14%) HBase
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database
4 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.14%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) JUnit
1 4 (9.52%) Maven
2 3 (7.14%) Gradle
2 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 28 (66.67%) Finance
2 25 (59.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 25 (59.52%) Law
3 15 (35.71%) Marketing
4 10 (23.81%) Banking
5 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
6 4 (9.52%) Legal
7 3 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (4.76%) Private Banking
9 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (78.57%) Software Engineer
2 30 (71.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 28 (66.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 22 (52.38%) Java Engineer
5 21 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 11 (26.19%) Developer
7 9 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (19.05%) Java Developer
8 8 (19.05%) Lead
9 7 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (16.67%) Software Developer
10 5 (11.90%) .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (11.90%) C# Software Engineer
10 5 (11.90%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 5 (11.90%) Java Software Developer
11 4 (9.52%) Senior
11 4 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 4 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (66.67%) React
1 28 (66.67%) Spring
2 17 (40.48%) AngularJS
2 17 (40.48%) Spring Boot
3 13 (30.95%) RESTful
4 11 (26.19%) Kafka
5 7 (16.67%) .NET
6 6 (14.29%) .NET Core
6 6 (14.29%) REST
7 5 (11.90%) Blazor
7 5 (11.90%) Hibernate
7 5 (11.90%) JPA
8 4 (9.52%) Vue
8 4 (9.52%) Web Services
9 2 (4.76%) CSS
9 2 (4.76%) JDBC
9 2 (4.76%) OpenAPI
9 2 (4.76%) SOAP
9 2 (4.76%) Swagger
9 2 (4.76%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (35.71%) Algorithms
2 8 (19.05%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (7.14%) Reference Data
5 2 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (4.76%) Fixed Income
5 2 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (88.10%) Software Engineering
2 35 (83.33%) Agile
3 32 (76.19%) CI/CD
4 25 (59.52%) SDLC
5 23 (54.76%) Operational Stability
6 15 (35.71%) Community of Practice
6 15 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (33.33%) AI
7 14 (33.33%) Visualisation
8 11 (26.19%) Machine Learning
8 11 (26.19%) Microservices
9 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (21.43%) Decision-Making
10 9 (21.43%) DevOps
11 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 7 (16.67%) Risk Management
11 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 6 (14.29%) Design Patterns
12 6 (14.29%) OO
13 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) Java
2 19 (45.24%) SQL
3 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (14.29%) C#
4 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 4 (9.52%) Python
6 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Oracle
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.14%) Cloudera
3 3 (7.14%) Databricks
3 3 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) IBM