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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 41 48
Rank change year-on-year -54 +7 +15
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 245 431 603
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.06% 5.79% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 6.43% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 184 215 543
10th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,188 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £74,063 £70,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

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 9,176 6,700 11,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 77.22% 90.05% 85.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,689 3,197 8,412
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -26 114 £60,000 - 91
Berkshire -33 48 £55,000 -12.70% 45
Buckinghamshire -2 37 £60,000 - 21
Hampshire -41 32 £65,000 +18.18% 31
East Sussex -12 31 £60,000 +9.09% 12
Oxfordshire 0 29 £70,000 +16.67% 25
Surrey -43 29 £55,000 -15.38% 36
Kent -61 13 £70,000 +21.74% 22
Sussex +2 9 £75,000 +50.00% 1
West Sussex -28 9 £70,000 - 18
Isle of Wight - 6 £45,000 - 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 4 (1.63%) OpenStack
1 4 (1.63%) WordPress
2 2 (0.82%) CMS
2 2 (0.82%) Confluence
2 2 (0.82%) IIS
3 1 (0.41%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.41%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 58 (23.67%) Azure
2 46 (18.78%) AWS
3 39 (15.92%) SaaS
4 19 (7.76%) Serverless
5 16 (6.53%) GitHub
6 14 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (4.90%) GCP
9 11 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.08%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.86%) Power Platform
14 6 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
16 4 (1.63%) Figma
17 2 (0.82%) Azure AI
17 2 (0.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.22%) Broadband
1 3 (1.22%) Internet
2 1 (0.41%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.49%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.08%) MySQL
6 8 (3.27%) RDBMS
7 7 (2.86%) Power BI
8 5 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.04%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.63%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.82%) GIS
11 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (9.80%) Git
2 16 (6.53%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.31%) JUnit
4 10 (4.08%) JMeter
5 9 (3.67%) Mockito
6 5 (2.04%) git-flow
7 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.82%) GitLab
7 2 (0.82%) JIRA
7 2 (0.82%) PHPUnit
7 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.41%) NUnit
8 1 (0.41%) Postman
8 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (13.06%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.39%) Aviation
3 18 (7.35%) Finance
4 13 (5.31%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.67%) Health Technology
6 8 (3.27%) Tech for Good
7 7 (2.86%) Marketing
8 3 (1.22%) Back Office
8 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.22%) Retail
9 2 (0.82%) Automotive
9 2 (0.82%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.82%) Games
9 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.41%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 177 (72.24%) Developer
2 150 (61.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 46 (18.78%) Software Engineer
4 45 (18.37%) Senior
5 38 (15.51%) .NET Developer
6 34 (13.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 33 (13.47%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 33 (13.47%) React Developer
8 29 (11.84%) Senior Developer
9 27 (11.02%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 26 (10.61%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 23 (9.39%) Java Developer
12 21 (8.57%) Lead
13 19 (7.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 19 (7.76%) Python Developer
14 17 (6.94%) Principal Engineer
14 17 (6.94%) Principal Software Engineer
15 16 (6.53%) Senior .NET Developer
16 14 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 11 (4.49%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (36.33%) .NET
2 74 (30.20%) React
3 30 (12.24%) HTML
4 26 (10.61%) AngularJS
4 26 (10.61%) REST
5 24 (9.80%) CSS
6 22 (8.98%) Spring
7 21 (8.57%) Spring Boot
8 20 (8.16%) .NET Core
8 20 (8.16%) ASP.NET
8 20 (8.16%) Node.js
9 17 (6.94%) .NET Framework
10 16 (6.53%) Vue
11 13 (5.31%) Blazor
11 13 (5.31%) RESTful
11 13 (5.31%) Web Services
12 12 (4.90%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (4.90%) Kafka
13 11 (4.49%) Hibernate
14 10 (4.08%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.98%) IoT
2 17 (6.94%) Smart Energy
3 15 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.67%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.22%) Blog
8 3 (1.22%) Podcast
9 2 (0.82%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.82%) Robotics
10 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.41%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.41%) Social Network
10 1 (0.41%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.22%) Linux
2 2 (0.82%) Android
2 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (33.88%) Software Engineering
2 54 (22.04%) Agile
3 53 (21.63%) CI/CD
4 38 (15.51%) Microservices
5 37 (15.10%) DevOps
6 23 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (8.98%) Clean Code
8 21 (8.57%) AI
9 18 (7.35%) Scrum
10 17 (6.94%) Energy Management
10 17 (6.94%) MVC
10 17 (6.94%) Storage Management
10 17 (6.94%) TDD
11 16 (6.53%) SDLC
12 14 (5.71%) Machine Learning
12 14 (5.71%) SOLID
13 13 (5.31%) Containerisation
13 13 (5.31%) Mentoring
14 12 (4.90%) B2B
15 10 (4.08%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 71 (28.98%) C#
2 66 (26.94%) TypeScript
3 46 (18.78%) JavaScript
4 45 (18.37%) Python
5 40 (16.33%) Java
6 34 (13.88%) SQL
7 8 (3.27%) C++
7 8 (3.27%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.63%) Go
8 4 (1.63%) PHP
9 3 (1.22%) C
9 3 (1.22%) COBOL
10 2 (0.82%) Ruby
11 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (5.31%) Degree
2 12 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.22%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.82%) PhD
6 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.08%) QA
2 8 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.82%) ECSS
System Software
1 29 (11.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.27%) Kibana
3 7 (2.86%) Terraform
4 4 (1.63%) Ansible
5 2 (0.82%) Grafana
5 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (4.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.08%) Dynatrace
3 8 (3.27%) Splunk
4 4 (1.63%) Telerik
5 3 (1.22%) Adobe
6 2 (0.82%) ESRI
6 2 (0.82%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.82%) VMware
7 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.41%) Salesforce