Full-Stack Development Job Trends in the South East

Full-Stack Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 43 85
Rank change year-on-year -75 +42 -26
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 173 560 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.77% 5.28% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 6.26% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 118 259 206
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,483
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,491
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.46% +6.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,093 8,944 6,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.84% 84.38% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,943 4,660 4,782
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,725 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +4.59% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend in the South East

Full-Stack Development
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Full-Stack Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in the South East over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the South East

Full-Stack Development
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 Development within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 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
Thames Valley -38 94 £60,000 - 66
Berkshire -23 54 £60,000 -4.00% 29
Hampshire -41 28 £65,000 +8.33% 19
Buckinghamshire -20 22 £60,000 +20.00% 23
Surrey -20 21 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Oxfordshire +8 18 £60,000 - 15
East Sussex -6 17 £70,000 +40.00% 7
West Sussex -23 6 £70,000 +16.18% 14
Isle of Wight - 3 £45,000 - 1
Kent -61 2 £70,000 +12.00% 23
Full-Stack Development
England

Full-Stack Development
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 2 (1.16%) OpenStack
1 2 (1.16%) WordPress
2 1 (0.58%) CMS
2 1 (0.58%) Confluence
2 1 (0.58%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (1.73%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 75 (43.35%) AWS
2 55 (31.79%) Azure
3 26 (15.03%) Serverless
4 24 (13.87%) GCP
5 21 (12.14%) Amazon ECS
5 21 (12.14%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (10.40%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (9.83%) SaaS
8 15 (8.67%) GitHub
9 8 (4.62%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.47%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.89%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.73%) Azure API Management
13 3 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 2 (1.16%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.34%) SQL Server
2 29 (16.76%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (12.72%) Relational Database
4 18 (10.40%) RDBMS
5 16 (9.25%) MySQL
6 14 (8.09%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.47%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.89%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.89%) Power BI
9 2 (1.16%) GIS
10 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (19.65%) Git
2 25 (14.45%) Jenkins
3 21 (12.14%) JUnit
4 20 (11.56%) JMeter
5 18 (10.40%) Mockito
6 5 (2.89%) git-flow
7 3 (1.73%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.16%) GitLab
8 2 (1.16%) JIRA
8 2 (1.16%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.72%) Public Sector
3 18 (10.40%) Marketing
4 14 (8.09%) Law
5 10 (5.78%) Aviation
6 6 (3.47%) Finance
7 4 (2.31%) Automotive
8 3 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Back Office
9 2 (1.16%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.58%) Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Games
10 1 (0.58%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 128 (73.99%) Developer
2 111 (64.16%) Full-Stack Developer
3 50 (28.90%) Senior
4 40 (23.12%) Senior Developer
5 35 (20.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (14.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 25 (14.45%) Software Engineer
7 23 (13.29%) Java Developer
8 22 (12.72%) .NET Developer
9 20 (11.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 20 (11.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 17 (9.83%) Web Developer
11 16 (9.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 15 (8.67%) Full-Stack Web Developer
12 15 (8.67%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 14 (8.09%) React Developer
13 14 (8.09%) Senior Web Developer
14 11 (6.36%) C# Developer
14 11 (6.36%) Software Developer
15 9 (5.20%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (41.04%) React
2 67 (38.73%) .NET
3 51 (29.48%) HTML
4 35 (20.23%) CSS
4 35 (20.23%) RESTful
5 34 (19.65%) Node.js
6 30 (17.34%) AngularJS
6 30 (17.34%) ASP.NET
6 30 (17.34%) REST
7 25 (14.45%) Spring
8 24 (13.87%) Spring Boot
9 20 (11.56%) Hibernate
9 20 (11.56%) JSON
10 19 (10.98%) .NET Core
10 19 (10.98%) Web Services
10 19 (10.98%) XML
11 18 (10.40%) .NET Framework
11 18 (10.40%) ActiveMQ
11 18 (10.40%) jQuery
11 18 (10.40%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.14%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.78%) IoT
3 9 (5.20%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.05%) Smart Energy
6 6 (3.47%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.89%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.73%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.16%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.58%) Robotics
10 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.16%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (43.93%) CI/CD
2 73 (42.20%) Agile
3 47 (27.17%) Software Engineering
4 46 (26.59%) DevOps
5 32 (18.50%) Microservices
6 30 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (16.18%) Web Development
8 26 (15.03%) Clean Code
8 26 (15.03%) TDD
9 25 (14.45%) User Experience
10 22 (12.72%) Containerisation
11 21 (12.14%) MVC
12 20 (11.56%) SDLC
13 19 (10.98%) Design Patterns
14 18 (10.40%) BDD
14 18 (10.40%) Process Management
14 18 (10.40%) Workflow
15 16 (9.25%) Scrum
15 16 (9.25%) Test Automation
16 15 (8.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 67 (38.73%) C#
2 59 (34.10%) JavaScript
3 46 (26.59%) TypeScript
4 36 (20.81%) Java
5 35 (20.23%) Python
5 35 (20.23%) SQL
6 18 (10.40%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.05%) Go
8 6 (3.47%) C++
9 5 (2.89%) PHP
10 3 (1.73%) C
10 3 (1.73%) COBOL
11 2 (1.16%) Ruby
12 1 (0.58%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (11.56%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.40%) Degree
3 9 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.73%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.14%) QA
2 5 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.16%) ECSS
System Software
1 48 (27.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (25.43%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.40%) Kibana
3 4 (2.31%) Terraform
4 2 (1.16%) Ansible
4 2 (1.16%) Grafana
4 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.58%) Argo
5 1 (0.58%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 18 (10.40%) Dynatrace
1 18 (10.40%) Splunk
2 11 (6.36%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.31%) Telerik
4 3 (1.73%) Databricks
5 2 (1.16%) ESRI
5 2 (1.16%) VMware
6 1 (0.58%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.58%) IONA
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle