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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 48 78
Rank change year-on-year -9 +30 -38
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 122 120 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.53% 3.69% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.03% 4.37% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17 44 80
10th Percentile £58,000 £36,550 £42,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £43,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,531 £67,070
90th Percentile £84,500 £70,000 £81,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +7.14%

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 2,425 2,744 2,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.08% 84.33% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,053 1,308 1,866
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,782 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 28 October 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 28 October 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 -2 66 £66,250 +3.92% 8
Lanarkshire +2 19 - - 7
Edinburgh -28 6 £76,250 +45.24% 10
Renfrewshire -9 4 - -
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
Fife +8 2 - - 2
West Lothian +5 2 - - 2
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Aberdeen +8 1 £55,000 - 3
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 & 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 49 (40.16%) Confluence
2 8 (6.56%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.28%) Camunda
3 4 (3.28%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 78 (63.93%) AWS
2 64 (52.46%) Azure
3 51 (41.80%) GCP
4 18 (14.75%) GitHub
5 8 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.92%) SaaS
8 4 (3.28%) Azure AI
8 4 (3.28%) ChatGPT
8 4 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.46%) Dagster
9 3 (2.46%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.46%) Prefect
10 1 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.82%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (41.80%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.20%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.20%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.56%) Big Data
3 8 (6.56%) Hadoop
4 7 (5.74%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (4.10%) Apache Hive
6 5 (4.10%) HBase
6 5 (4.10%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.10%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (45.08%) Maven
2 50 (40.98%) Bitbucket
2 50 (40.98%) JIRA
3 49 (40.16%) Cucumber
3 49 (40.16%) GitLab
3 49 (40.16%) Selenium
3 49 (40.16%) SonarQube
3 49 (40.16%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (4.92%) JUnit
5 5 (4.10%) Gradle
5 5 (4.10%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.82%) Git
6 1 (0.82%) Snyk
General
1 103 (84.43%) Finance
2 98 (80.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 68 (55.74%) Banking
4 49 (40.16%) Law
5 29 (23.77%) Marketing
6 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.38%) Legal
6 9 (7.38%) Social Skills
7 4 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.28%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.82%) Games
8 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 111 (90.98%) Software Engineer
2 54 (44.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 52 (42.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 41 (33.61%) Java Engineer
5 39 (31.97%) Java Software Engineer
6 16 (13.11%) Developer
7 14 (11.48%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (10.66%) Java Developer
8 13 (10.66%) Lead
9 12 (9.84%) Lead Software Engineer
10 11 (9.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 11 (9.02%) Software Developer
11 9 (7.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 9 (7.38%) Java Software Developer
12 8 (6.56%) Senior
12 8 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (5.74%) .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (5.74%) C# Software Engineer
13 7 (5.74%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (5.74%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (81.15%) Spring
2 92 (75.41%) React
3 82 (67.21%) Spring Boot
4 69 (56.56%) Kafka
5 58 (47.54%) JPA
6 56 (45.90%) Hibernate
7 52 (42.62%) CSS
8 51 (41.80%) HTML
9 49 (40.16%) Redux
10 28 (22.95%) AngularJS
11 20 (16.39%) RESTful
12 10 (8.20%) .NET
12 10 (8.20%) REST
13 8 (6.56%) .NET Core
13 8 (6.56%) Blazor
13 8 (6.56%) Web Services
14 6 (4.92%) Vue
15 4 (3.28%) OpenAPI
15 4 (3.28%) Swagger
15 4 (3.28%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 49 (40.16%) Enterprise Software
1 49 (40.16%) Product Ownership
2 29 (23.77%) Algorithms
3 15 (12.30%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.74%) Reference Data
6 5 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.28%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (3.28%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.82%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.10%) Unix
2 1 (0.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (93.44%) Software Engineering
2 110 (90.16%) Agile
3 106 (86.89%) CI/CD
4 98 (80.33%) SDLC
5 78 (63.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (51.64%) DevOps
6 63 (51.64%) Microservices
7 62 (50.82%) Containerisation
8 58 (47.54%) Test Automation
9 56 (45.90%) TDD
10 53 (43.44%) Front End Development
11 49 (40.16%) Clean Code
11 49 (40.16%) Performance Optimisation
12 47 (38.52%) Operational Stability
13 31 (25.41%) Community of Practice
14 28 (22.95%) Visualisation
15 25 (20.49%) AI
16 21 (17.21%) Machine Learning
17 18 (14.75%) Decision-Making
18 17 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 102 (83.61%) Java
2 82 (67.21%) SQL
3 60 (49.18%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.38%) Python
4 9 (7.38%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.56%) C#
6 5 (4.10%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.28%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.82%) C++
8 1 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (2.46%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (40.16%) QA
2 1 (0.82%) GRC
System Software
1 61 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (4.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 70 (57.38%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.56%) Terraform
3 1 (0.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 49 (40.16%) Solace
2 17 (13.93%) Oracle
3 10 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.10%) Cloudera
4 5 (4.10%) Databricks
4 5 (4.10%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.10%) Splunk
5 1 (0.82%) IBM
5 1 (0.82%) Ping Identity