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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 125 46
Rank change year-on-year +81 -79 +19
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 530 193 715
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.35% 2.25% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 2.54% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 456 142 540
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,125
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%

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 11,351 7,596 13,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.74% 88.47% 81.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8,102 3,997 9,249
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +66 176 £61,250 +6.52% 33
Hampshire +12 105 £60,000 - 15
Surrey +19 101 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Berkshire +56 87 £65,000 +18.18% 11
Kent +22 58 £50,000 +33.33% 9
Buckinghamshire +24 48 £60,000 +4.35% 10
East Sussex +21 43 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Oxfordshire +3 41 £57,500 -4.17% 12
West Sussex +16 36 £75,000 +30.43% 3
Isle of Wight - 9 £50,000 - 6
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 10 (1.89%) Confluence
2 9 (1.70%) ColdFusion
3 6 (1.13%) WordPress
4 4 (0.75%) CMS
5 2 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.32%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 222 (41.89%) Azure
2 136 (25.66%) AWS
3 84 (15.85%) SaaS
4 72 (13.58%) GitHub
5 65 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (9.81%) GitHub Copilot
7 49 (9.25%) Azure AI
8 16 (3.02%) GCP
9 14 (2.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 14 (2.64%) Power Platform
9 14 (2.64%) Serverless
10 13 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (2.45%) Snowflake
11 10 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (1.32%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.32%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.13%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.53%) Internet
2 5 (0.94%) Broadband
3 4 (0.75%) Hyperconnected
4 3 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) LAN
5 1 (0.19%) VoIP
5 1 (0.19%) VSAN
5 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (28.30%) MongoDB
2 139 (26.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 69 (13.02%) SQL Server
4 58 (10.94%) Elasticsearch
5 32 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.83%) Redis
7 14 (2.64%) Power BI
8 11 (2.08%) MySQL
8 11 (2.08%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.89%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.13%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.57%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (3.77%) Git
2 11 (2.08%) JIRA
3 7 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.32%) JUnit
4 5 (0.94%) Mockito
5 4 (0.75%) GitLab
6 3 (0.57%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.38%) JMeter
7 2 (0.38%) Maven
7 2 (0.38%) Mocha
7 2 (0.38%) Selenium
7 2 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.19%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.19%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.19%) NUnit
8 1 (0.19%) Storybook
8 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (8.30%) Finance
2 43 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 26 (4.91%) Games
3 26 (4.91%) Retail
4 22 (4.15%) Advertising
5 18 (3.40%) Marketing
6 11 (2.08%) Automotive
7 10 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.70%) Aviation
9 8 (1.51%) Legal
10 5 (0.94%) Music Industry
10 5 (0.94%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.75%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.75%) Law
11 4 (0.75%) Legal Technology
11 4 (0.75%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.38%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 400 (75.47%) Developer
2 220 (41.51%) Full-Stack Developer
3 184 (34.72%) .NET Developer
4 78 (14.72%) Software Engineer
5 76 (14.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 72 (13.58%) Lead
7 57 (10.75%) Senior
8 56 (10.57%) Software Developer
9 55 (10.38%) Lead Developer
10 47 (8.87%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (7.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 38 (7.17%) Lead Software Developer
13 28 (5.28%) C# Software Engineer
14 27 (5.09%) .NET Software Engineer
14 27 (5.09%) Senior Developer
15 25 (4.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (4.34%) React Developer
16 23 (4.34%) Web Developer
17 22 (4.15%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 22 (4.15%) Full-Stack Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (49.06%) .NET
2 173 (32.64%) ASP.NET
3 155 (29.25%) .NET Core
3 155 (29.25%) ASP.NET Core
4 145 (27.36%) React
5 139 (26.23%) Node.js
6 101 (19.06%) HTML
7 95 (17.92%) CSS
8 93 (17.55%) Vue
9 67 (12.64%) Blazor
10 64 (12.08%) Entity Framework
11 61 (11.51%) ASP.NET Web API
12 60 (11.32%) AngularJS
13 52 (9.81%) RESTful
14 46 (8.68%) ML.NET
15 36 (6.79%) .NET Framework
16 30 (5.66%) LINQ
17 23 (4.34%) REST
18 19 (3.58%) Ruby on Rails
19 17 (3.21%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
2 21 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (3.02%) Product Ownership
4 9 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (1.70%) IoT
4 9 (1.70%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.32%) Smart Energy
6 6 (1.13%) Blog
6 6 (1.13%) Podcast
6 6 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (0.94%) Digital TV
7 5 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (0.75%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.75%) iPhone
8 4 (0.75%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.75%) Social Network
8 4 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (0.57%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.57%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.70%) Linux
2 5 (0.94%) Windows
3 4 (0.75%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Debian
4 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (30.75%) Agile
2 119 (22.45%) AI
3 106 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 105 (19.81%) CI/CD
4 105 (19.81%) Microservices
5 96 (18.11%) DevOps
6 83 (15.66%) Machine Learning
7 60 (11.32%) TDD
8 48 (9.06%) Scrum
9 46 (8.68%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (8.30%) Multithreading
11 41 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (7.55%) BDD
13 39 (7.36%) Clean Code
13 39 (7.36%) Kanban
14 30 (5.66%) E-Commerce
14 30 (5.66%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (5.66%) Web Development
15 29 (5.47%) OO
16 28 (5.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 236 (44.53%) C#
2 187 (35.28%) JavaScript
3 176 (33.21%) SQL
4 172 (32.45%) TypeScript
5 51 (9.62%) Python
6 28 (5.28%) PHP
7 24 (4.53%) Java
8 19 (3.58%) Ruby
9 6 (1.13%) C++
10 5 (0.94%) Go
11 3 (0.57%) CFML
11 3 (0.57%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.57%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.38%) Bash
12 2 (0.38%) Groovy
13 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (4.72%) Degree
2 22 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.64%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.26%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.51%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.75%) PhD
8 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.40%) QA
2 8 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 81 (15.28%) Docker
2 5 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.02%) Terraform
3 2 (0.38%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.38%) Kibana
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 167 (31.51%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.21%) Google
3 16 (3.02%) Facebook
4 12 (2.26%) YouTube
5 8 (1.51%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.13%) Foundry
7 4 (0.75%) Adobe
8 3 (0.57%) Oracle
9 2 (0.38%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.38%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.38%) Splunk
9 2 (0.38%) WooCommerce