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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 62 41
Rank change year-on-year -14 -21 +23
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 327 264 773
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.32% 3.86% 4.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 4.29% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 263 189 636
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.84% -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -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 10,304 6,151 13,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 73.13% 89.87% 84.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6,609 3,314 9,866
10th Percentile £29,790 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,339
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +17 148 £60,000 - 51
Berkshire +7 61 £61,250 -2.00% 17
Buckinghamshire +5 51 £60,000 - 17
Surrey -18 49 £55,000 -15.38% 13
East Sussex +1 41 £60,000 +9.09% 13
Hampshire -43 37 £65,000 +18.18% 23
Oxfordshire -7 36 £63,750 +6.25% 17
Kent -41 21 £50,000 -2.44% 13
West Sussex -23 14 £70,000 - 9
Sussex -2 9 £75,000 +50.00% 2
Isle of Wight - 7 £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 7 (2.14%) ColdFusion
2 4 (1.22%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.22%) WordPress
3 2 (0.61%) Confluence
3 2 (0.61%) IIS
4 1 (0.31%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 68 (20.80%) Azure
2 62 (18.96%) SaaS
3 60 (18.35%) AWS
4 16 (4.89%) GCP
5 15 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (4.28%) GitHub
7 9 (2.75%) Serverless
8 8 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (2.45%) Figma
8 8 (2.45%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (1.83%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (1.53%) Azure AI
10 5 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.61%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.83%) Broadband
2 3 (0.92%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.93%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.98%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.06%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.45%) Power BI
5 8 (2.45%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.53%) MySQL
8 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.61%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.61%) GIS
8 2 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (8.26%) Git
2 8 (2.45%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.14%) JUnit
4 5 (1.53%) Mockito
5 2 (0.61%) git-flow
5 2 (0.61%) GitLab
5 2 (0.61%) JIRA
5 2 (0.61%) JMeter
6 1 (0.31%) NUnit
6 1 (0.31%) Postman
6 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (11.31%) Social Skills
2 24 (7.34%) Aviation
3 21 (6.42%) Finance
4 10 (3.06%) Marketing
5 9 (2.75%) Tech for Good
6 8 (2.45%) Games
6 8 (2.45%) Health Technology
7 7 (2.14%) Retail
8 6 (1.83%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.53%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.92%) Automotive
10 3 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Back Office
11 2 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 231 (70.64%) Developer
2 194 (59.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 68 (20.80%) Software Engineer
4 59 (18.04%) Senior
5 56 (17.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 47 (14.37%) .NET Developer
7 41 (12.54%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 39 (11.93%) Senior Developer
9 37 (11.31%) React Developer
10 36 (11.01%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 33 (10.09%) Lead
12 31 (9.48%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 20 (6.12%) Principal Engineer
13 20 (6.12%) Principal Software Engineer
13 20 (6.12%) Python Developer
14 19 (5.81%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 18 (5.50%) C# Developer
15 18 (5.50%) Java Developer
15 18 (5.50%) Lead Developer
16 17 (5.20%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (32.72%) .NET
2 84 (25.69%) React
3 40 (12.23%) Node.js
4 33 (10.09%) HTML
5 32 (9.79%) CSS
6 26 (7.95%) REST
7 25 (7.65%) .NET Core
8 24 (7.34%) AngularJS
9 23 (7.03%) ASP.NET
10 22 (6.73%) Vue
11 17 (5.20%) RESTful
12 16 (4.89%) .NET Framework
13 15 (4.59%) ASP.NET Core
13 15 (4.59%) Spring
13 15 (4.59%) Spring Boot
14 14 (4.28%) Blazor
15 13 (3.98%) Web Services
16 12 (3.67%) Entity Framework
17 9 (2.75%) React Native
17 9 (2.75%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.34%) IoT
2 20 (6.12%) Smart Energy
3 14 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.14%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.83%) Blog
7 6 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.83%) Podcast
8 5 (1.53%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.92%) Augmented Reality
9 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.92%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.61%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.61%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.61%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.61%) Android
2 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 48 (14.68%) Agile
3 44 (13.46%) CI/CD
4 40 (12.23%) DevOps
5 37 (11.31%) AI
6 36 (11.01%) Microservices
7 27 (8.26%) Machine Learning
8 26 (7.95%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (6.12%) Clean Code
9 20 (6.12%) Energy Management
9 20 (6.12%) MVC
9 20 (6.12%) Storage Management
10 19 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (5.81%) SDLC
11 18 (5.50%) Containerisation
11 18 (5.50%) Web Development
12 17 (5.20%) User Experience
13 15 (4.59%) E-Commerce
13 15 (4.59%) Scrum
13 15 (4.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 90 (27.52%) TypeScript
2 81 (24.77%) C#
3 61 (18.65%) JavaScript
4 52 (15.90%) Python
5 47 (14.37%) SQL
6 34 (10.40%) Java
7 10 (3.06%) PHP
8 9 (2.75%) C++
8 9 (2.75%) Ruby
9 6 (1.83%) Go
10 3 (0.92%) C
10 3 (0.92%) COBOL
11 2 (0.61%) CFML
11 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (3.36%) Degree
2 9 (2.75%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.83%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.92%) PhD
6 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.59%) QA
2 11 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.61%) ECSS
System Software
1 27 (8.26%) Docker
2 5 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.14%) Terraform
3 2 (0.61%) Ansible
3 2 (0.61%) Kibana
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (5.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.53%) Adobe
3 4 (1.22%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.22%) Telerik
4 3 (0.92%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.61%) ESRI
5 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.61%) Splunk