Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in the South East

Full-Stack Developer
England > South East

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the South East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 193 157
Rank change year-on-year +54 -36 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 226 94 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.23% 1.05% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.17% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 205 60 105
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,875 £43,950
25th Percentile £48,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -17.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £66,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 17,332 8,035 12,372
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 89.54% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12,316 4,431 7,341
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the South East

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the South East

Full-Stack Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Hampshire 0 60 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Thames Valley 0 54 £60,000 - 7
Surrey -5 37 £90,000 +56.52% 5
East Sussex +13 26 £60,000 -7.69%
Berkshire +12 26 £75,000 +71.43% 3
Kent -10 20 £45,000 +20.00% 3
Buckinghamshire +15 19 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Isle of Wight - 15 £45,000 - 1
West Sussex -8 12 £90,000 +56.52% 1
Oxfordshire -36 9 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Full-Stack Developer
England

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Full-Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 226 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 108 (47.79%) JavaScript
3 92 (40.71%) TypeScript
4 71 (31.42%) Node.js
5 64 (28.32%) AWS
6 62 (27.43%) SaaS
7 60 (26.55%) .NET
8 57 (25.22%) C#
9 56 (24.78%) SQL Server
10 55 (24.34%) React
11 50 (22.12%) AI
12 34 (15.04%) Azure
12 34 (15.04%) CI/CD
13 33 (14.60%) Agile
14 31 (13.72%) E-Commerce
15 30 (13.27%) Microservices
16 29 (12.83%) Clean Code
17 27 (11.95%) DevOps
17 27 (11.95%) HTML
18 25 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
18 25 (11.06%) Vue
19 24 (10.62%) CSS
20 23 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
21 22 (9.73%) ASP.NET
22 21 (9.29%) MVC
22 21 (9.29%) Web Development
23 20 (8.85%) PHP
23 20 (8.85%) Software Engineering
24 19 (8.41%) Continuous Deployment

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (3.10%) Confluence
2 5 (2.21%) ColdFusion
2 5 (2.21%) WordPress
3 3 (1.33%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (28.32%) AWS
2 62 (27.43%) SaaS
3 34 (15.04%) Azure
4 16 (7.08%) Amazon ECS
4 16 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (7.08%) Snowflake
5 15 (6.64%) Serverless
6 14 (6.19%) GitHub
7 11 (4.87%) Anthropic Claude
7 11 (4.87%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (3.98%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (3.10%) GCP
11 6 (2.65%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (24.78%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (7.08%) Redis
4 11 (4.87%) Power BI
5 10 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.54%) DynamoDB
7 7 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.65%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.65%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.77%) MySQL
10 3 (1.33%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (4.87%) Git
2 7 (3.10%) JIRA
3 6 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.33%) Claude Code
4 3 (1.33%) JMeter
4 3 (1.33%) JUnit
4 3 (1.33%) Mockito
5 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.88%) GitLab
5 2 (0.88%) Maven
5 2 (0.88%) Selenium
5 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.88%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (7.08%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.31%) Retail
3 6 (2.65%) Finance
4 5 (2.21%) Games
5 4 (1.77%) Legal
5 4 (1.77%) Legal Technology
5 4 (1.77%) Public Sector
6 2 (0.88%) Aviation
7 1 (0.44%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.44%) Automotive
7 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (31.42%) Node.js
2 60 (26.55%) .NET
3 55 (24.34%) React
4 27 (11.95%) HTML
5 25 (11.06%) Vue
6 24 (10.62%) CSS
7 22 (9.73%) ASP.NET
8 19 (8.41%) Ruby on Rails
9 17 (7.52%) .NET Framework
9 17 (7.52%) Entity Framework
9 17 (7.52%) jQuery
10 14 (6.19%) REST
11 12 (5.31%) ASP.NET Core
11 12 (5.31%) CSS3
11 12 (5.31%) HTML5
12 11 (4.87%) Next.js
13 10 (4.42%) Ajax
13 10 (4.42%) Redux
14 9 (3.98%) JSON
14 9 (3.98%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (3.10%) Product Ownership
2 4 (1.77%) AI Agents
2 4 (1.77%) Mobile App
3 3 (1.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (0.88%) Educational Technology
4 2 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.44%) Windows
1 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 50 (22.12%) AI
3 34 (15.04%) CI/CD
4 33 (14.60%) Agile
5 31 (13.72%) E-Commerce
6 30 (13.27%) Microservices
7 29 (12.83%) Clean Code
8 27 (11.95%) DevOps
9 25 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (9.29%) MVC
11 21 (9.29%) Web Development
12 20 (8.85%) Software Engineering
13 19 (8.41%) Continuous Deployment
14 18 (7.96%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (7.96%) Front End Development
15 17 (7.52%) Computer Science
16 16 (7.08%) Domain Models
16 16 (7.08%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 108 (47.79%) JavaScript
2 92 (40.71%) TypeScript
3 57 (25.22%) C#
4 20 (8.85%) PHP
5 19 (8.41%) Ruby
6 17 (7.52%) Python
7 9 (3.98%) Java
8 7 (3.10%) SQL
9 3 (1.33%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.88%) Bash
10 2 (0.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 17 (7.52%) Degree
2 16 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.54%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.65%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.77%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.77%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 11 (4.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.33%) Kibana
3 2 (0.88%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 13 (5.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.98%) Google
3 3 (1.33%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.33%) Splunk
4 2 (0.88%) WooCommerce
5 1 (0.44%) OpenAI