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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 43 51
Rank change year-on-year -59 +8 +17
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 203 504 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.97% 5.59% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 6.35% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 145 221 343
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & 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 8,270 7,935 7,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.17% 88.05% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,919 3,791 5,460
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 12 January 2026.

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 12 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
Thames Valley -25 109 £60,000 - 183
Berkshire -30 50 £50,000 -20.00% 109
Buckinghamshire -3 36 £60,000 - 35
Hampshire -44 29 £65,000 +18.18% 59
Oxfordshire +9 23 £87,500 +45.83% 39
East Sussex -11 22 £60,000 +20.00% 39
Surrey -22 15 £57,500 -11.54% 55
Sussex +5 9 £75,000 +50.00% 1
Kent -65 8 £70,000 +21.74% 55
West Sussex -21 6 £70,000 - 44
Isle of Wight - 3 £45,000 - 33
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 4 (1.97%) OpenStack
1 4 (1.97%) WordPress
2 2 (0.99%) IIS
3 1 (0.49%) CMS
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.49%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 59 (29.06%) AWS
2 49 (24.14%) Azure
3 21 (10.34%) Serverless
4 19 (9.36%) SaaS
5 16 (7.88%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (7.88%) GCP
6 15 (7.39%) GitHub
7 11 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (4.93%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.46%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.99%) Figma
13 2 (0.99%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.49%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.48%) Internet
2 2 (0.99%) Broadband
3 1 (0.49%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.76%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (8.37%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.90%) MySQL
5 13 (6.40%) NoSQL
6 11 (5.42%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.96%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.96%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.46%) Power BI
9 2 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.99%) GIS
10 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (13.30%) Git
2 19 (9.36%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.90%) JUnit
4 13 (6.40%) JMeter
5 11 (5.42%) Mockito
6 5 (2.46%) git-flow
7 3 (1.48%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.99%) GitLab
8 2 (0.99%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.49%) JIRA
9 1 (0.49%) Postman
9 1 (0.49%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.37%) Aviation
3 16 (7.88%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.90%) Finance
5 12 (5.91%) Marketing
6 6 (2.96%) Law
7 4 (1.97%) Automotive
7 4 (1.97%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.99%) Back Office
8 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.99%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.49%) Banking
9 1 (0.49%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.49%) Games
9 1 (0.49%) Legal
9 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 152 (74.88%) Developer
2 128 (63.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 49 (24.14%) Senior
4 37 (18.23%) .NET Developer
5 36 (17.73%) Senior Developer
6 32 (15.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 32 (15.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (15.76%) Software Engineer
7 28 (13.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 26 (12.81%) React Developer
9 21 (10.34%) Java Developer
10 20 (9.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 16 (7.88%) Senior .NET Developer
12 15 (7.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 15 (7.39%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 15 (7.39%) Python Developer
13 13 (6.40%) Lead
13 13 (6.40%) Web Developer
14 12 (5.91%) Principal Engineer
14 12 (5.91%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (40.89%) .NET
2 80 (39.41%) React
3 34 (16.75%) HTML
4 32 (15.76%) AngularJS
5 26 (12.81%) REST
6 25 (12.32%) CSS
6 25 (12.32%) Node.js
7 24 (11.82%) ASP.NET
8 22 (10.84%) RESTful
9 21 (10.34%) Spring
10 20 (9.85%) Spring Boot
11 19 (9.36%) .NET Framework
12 18 (8.87%) .NET Core
12 18 (8.87%) Vue
13 14 (6.90%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (6.90%) Web Services
14 13 (6.40%) Hibernate
15 12 (5.91%) JSON
15 12 (5.91%) Kafka
16 11 (5.42%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (7.39%) IoT
3 12 (5.91%) Smart Energy
4 8 (3.94%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.48%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.99%) Robotics
9 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.49%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.49%) Social Network
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.99%) Android
1 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.99%) Linux
2 1 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (31.53%) Software Engineering
2 61 (30.05%) CI/CD
3 59 (29.06%) Agile
4 39 (19.21%) DevOps
5 36 (17.73%) Microservices
6 26 (12.81%) Clean Code
7 23 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (9.36%) Web Development
9 18 (8.87%) AI
9 18 (8.87%) Scrum
9 18 (8.87%) SDLC
9 18 (8.87%) TDD
10 16 (7.88%) MVC
11 14 (6.90%) Containerisation
11 14 (6.90%) Machine Learning
11 14 (6.90%) Mentoring
12 13 (6.40%) User Experience
13 12 (5.91%) BDD
13 12 (5.91%) Energy Management
13 12 (5.91%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.99%) C#
2 54 (26.60%) TypeScript
3 46 (22.66%) JavaScript
4 39 (19.21%) Python
5 36 (17.73%) Java
6 33 (16.26%) SQL
7 11 (5.42%) Shell Script
8 9 (4.43%) C++
9 7 (3.45%) Go
10 3 (1.48%) C
10 3 (1.48%) COBOL
11 2 (0.99%) PHP
11 2 (0.99%) Ruby
12 1 (0.49%) Bash
12 1 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (8.37%) Degree
2 16 (7.88%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.48%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.49%) PhD
5 1 (0.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.90%) QA
2 5 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.99%) ECSS
System Software
1 36 (17.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (15.27%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.42%) Kibana
3 6 (2.96%) Terraform
4 4 (1.97%) Ansible
5 2 (0.99%) Grafana
5 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.49%) Argo
6 1 (0.49%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (6.40%) Dynatrace
2 11 (5.42%) Splunk
3 8 (3.94%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.97%) Telerik
5 2 (0.99%) Adobe
5 2 (0.99%) ESRI
5 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.99%) VMware
6 1 (0.49%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.49%) IONA