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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 41 84
Rank change year-on-year -85 +43 -28
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 158 572 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.69% 5.08% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 6.19% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 107 271 218
10th Percentile £43,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

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 7,943 9,239 7,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.75% 82.01% 93.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,799 4,809 4,955
10th Percentile £27,350 £33,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £56,252 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% +2.28% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,230
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 -41 84 £60,000 - 83
Berkshire -36 48 £60,000 - 35
Hampshire -49 29 £60,000 -4.00% 23
Surrey -9 23 £57,500 -11.54% 37
Oxfordshire +13 21 £60,000 - 37
Buckinghamshire -16 15 £65,000 +45.25% 13
East Sussex -10 9 £70,000 +40.00% 15
Kent -59 5 £42,500 -29.17% 25
West Sussex -25 3 £70,000 +20.69% 18
Isle of Wight - 3 £45,000 - 2
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 6 (3.80%) IIS
2 4 (2.53%) CMS
3 3 (1.90%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) Kentico
4 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 83 (52.53%) AWS
2 54 (34.18%) Azure
3 24 (15.19%) GCP
3 24 (15.19%) Serverless
4 19 (12.03%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (12.03%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (11.39%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (10.13%) GitHub
7 15 (9.49%) SaaS
8 7 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.80%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.16%) Azure API Management
10 5 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (3.16%) Cloudflare
10 5 (3.16%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.27%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (22.15%) SQL Server
2 28 (17.72%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (13.29%) MySQL
4 20 (12.66%) Relational Database
5 18 (11.39%) RDBMS
6 14 (8.86%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.80%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.80%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.16%) Power BI
9 2 (1.27%) GIS
10 1 (0.63%) Redis
10 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (24.05%) Git
2 22 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 20 (12.66%) JMeter
3 20 (12.66%) JUnit
4 18 (11.39%) Mockito
5 5 (3.16%) git-flow
5 5 (3.16%) JIRA
5 5 (3.16%) NUnit
5 5 (3.16%) TeamCity
5 5 (3.16%) Visual Studio
6 4 (2.53%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.27%) GitLab
7 2 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.27%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.27%) Vite
General
1 42 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.03%) Public Sector
3 18 (11.39%) Marketing
4 14 (8.86%) Law
5 7 (4.43%) Aviation
6 5 (3.16%) Games
7 4 (2.53%) Automotive
7 4 (2.53%) Back Office
8 3 (1.90%) Finance
9 2 (1.27%) Advertising
9 2 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.63%) Legal
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 119 (75.32%) Developer
2 102 (64.56%) Full-Stack Developer
3 57 (36.08%) Senior
4 46 (29.11%) Senior Developer
5 40 (25.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 26 (16.46%) .NET Developer
7 22 (13.92%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 21 (13.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 20 (12.66%) Java Developer
10 18 (11.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 18 (11.39%) Software Engineer
11 15 (9.49%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 15 (9.49%) Web Developer
12 14 (8.86%) Full-Stack Web Developer
12 14 (8.86%) Senior Web Developer
13 13 (8.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 11 (6.96%) Software Developer
15 10 (6.33%) Senior .NET Developer
16 8 (5.06%) React Developer
17 7 (4.43%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (45.57%) .NET
2 70 (44.30%) React
3 58 (36.71%) HTML
4 42 (26.58%) CSS
5 41 (25.95%) RESTful
6 36 (22.78%) AngularJS
7 35 (22.15%) ASP.NET
7 35 (22.15%) Node.js
8 27 (17.09%) REST
9 25 (15.82%) Vue
10 23 (14.56%) Spring
11 22 (13.92%) Spring Boot
12 21 (13.29%) .NET Framework
13 20 (12.66%) .NET Core
13 20 (12.66%) Hibernate
13 20 (12.66%) JSON
14 19 (12.03%) XML
15 18 (11.39%) ActiveMQ
15 18 (11.39%) jQuery
15 18 (11.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.03%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.06%) IoT
4 7 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.16%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.16%) Smart Energy
7 4 (2.53%) Online Games
8 3 (1.90%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.27%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (51.90%) CI/CD
2 77 (48.73%) Agile
3 44 (27.85%) DevOps
4 36 (22.78%) Software Engineering
5 31 (19.62%) Microservices
6 30 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (18.99%) User Experience
7 29 (18.35%) Web Development
8 26 (16.46%) Clean Code
8 26 (16.46%) MVC
8 26 (16.46%) TDD
9 20 (12.66%) Design Patterns
10 19 (12.03%) Containerisation
10 19 (12.03%) Scrum
10 19 (12.03%) Test Automation
11 18 (11.39%) BDD
11 18 (11.39%) Process Management
11 18 (11.39%) SDLC
11 18 (11.39%) UX Design
11 18 (11.39%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 73 (46.20%) C#
2 65 (41.14%) JavaScript
3 45 (28.48%) TypeScript
4 40 (25.32%) SQL
5 36 (22.78%) Java
6 33 (20.89%) Python
7 18 (11.39%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.43%) Go
9 6 (3.80%) C++
10 5 (3.16%) PHP
11 2 (1.27%) Ruby
12 1 (0.63%) Bash
12 1 (0.63%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (12.66%) Degree
1 20 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.90%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.92%) QA
2 7 (4.43%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.27%) ECSS
System Software
1 45 (28.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (25.95%) Kubernetes
2 18 (11.39%) Kibana
3 8 (5.06%) Terraform
4 2 (1.27%) Ansible
4 2 (1.27%) Grafana
4 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.63%) Argo
5 1 (0.63%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 18 (11.39%) Dynatrace
1 18 (11.39%) Splunk
2 17 (10.76%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.16%) Databricks
3 5 (3.16%) Rollbar
4 4 (2.53%) Telerik
5 2 (1.27%) ESRI
5 2 (1.27%) VMware
6 1 (0.63%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.63%) IONA
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle