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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 104 43
Rank change year-on-year +52 -61 +22
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 427 209 803
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.95% 2.66% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 2.94% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 359 165 646
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -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 10,400 7,107 13,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.76% 90.55% 83.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,081 3,378 9,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,650 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 May 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 May 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 +53 161 £60,000 - 43
Berkshire +49 75 £65,000 +3.17% 20
Hampshire -8 69 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Surrey +8 67 £55,000 -15.38% 18
Buckinghamshire +23 50 £60,000 - 12
East Sussex +15 48 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Kent -5 43 £46,250 +2.78% 10
Oxfordshire -3 36 £57,500 -4.17% 11
West Sussex +3 22 £72,500 -23.68% 8
Sussex - 9 £75,000 - 1
Isle of Wight - 6 £45,000 - 1
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 9 (2.11%) ColdFusion
2 8 (1.87%) Confluence
3 7 (1.64%) WordPress
4 5 (1.17%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.70%) IIS
6 2 (0.47%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 113 (26.46%) Azure
2 90 (21.08%) AWS
3 77 (18.03%) SaaS
4 36 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (6.79%) GitHub
6 16 (3.75%) Azure AI
7 15 (3.51%) GCP
8 14 (3.28%) GitHub Copilot
9 13 (3.04%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.87%) Figma
11 8 (1.87%) Serverless
12 7 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.94%) PaaS
14 4 (0.94%) Snowflake
15 3 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.34%) Internet
2 6 (1.41%) Broadband
3 2 (0.47%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.23%) DHCP
4 1 (0.23%) DNS
4 1 (0.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (12.41%) MongoDB
1 53 (12.41%) SQL Server
2 43 (10.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 26 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (3.04%) Power BI
6 9 (2.11%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.64%) MySQL
8 6 (1.41%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.94%) Redis
10 3 (0.70%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.47%) GIS
12 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (5.85%) Git
2 8 (1.87%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.87%) JIRA
3 7 (1.64%) JUnit
4 5 (1.17%) Mockito
5 2 (0.47%) JMeter
5 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.23%) NUnit
6 1 (0.23%) Postman
6 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (10.07%) Social Skills
2 38 (8.90%) Finance
3 21 (4.92%) Aviation
4 14 (3.28%) Games
5 13 (3.04%) Retail
6 12 (2.81%) Marketing
7 9 (2.11%) Tech for Good
8 8 (1.87%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.41%) Advertising
9 6 (1.41%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.41%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.17%) Automotive
11 3 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.23%) Back Office
13 1 (0.23%) Law
13 1 (0.23%) Legal
13 1 (0.23%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 318 (74.47%) Developer
2 232 (54.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 86 (20.14%) .NET Developer
4 82 (19.20%) Software Engineer
5 64 (14.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 64 (14.99%) Senior
6 46 (10.77%) Lead
7 44 (10.30%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 38 (8.90%) Senior Developer
9 37 (8.67%) React Developer
10 35 (8.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 35 (8.20%) Software Developer
11 33 (7.73%) Lead Developer
12 26 (6.09%) .NET Software Engineer
13 25 (5.85%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 24 (5.62%) C# Software Engineer
14 24 (5.62%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 22 (5.15%) C# Developer
15 22 (5.15%) Lead Software Developer
16 21 (4.92%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (39.58%) .NET
2 109 (25.53%) React
3 74 (17.33%) Node.js
4 64 (14.99%) ASP.NET
5 60 (14.05%) .NET Core
6 57 (13.35%) HTML
7 54 (12.65%) CSS
8 49 (11.48%) ASP.NET Core
9 48 (11.24%) Vue
10 37 (8.67%) AngularJS
11 31 (7.26%) RESTful
12 25 (5.85%) Blazor
12 25 (5.85%) Entity Framework
13 24 (5.62%) REST
14 21 (4.92%) ASP.NET Web API
15 16 (3.75%) CSS3
15 16 (3.75%) HTML5
15 16 (3.75%) Spring
16 15 (3.51%) jQuery
16 15 (3.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.22%) IoT
2 17 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (3.51%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.51%) Smart Energy
4 11 (2.58%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.41%) Blog
7 6 (1.41%) Podcast
8 5 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (0.94%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.94%) Robotics
10 3 (0.70%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.70%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (0.70%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.47%) Digital TV
11 2 (0.47%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.47%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.41%) Linux
2 3 (0.70%) Android
2 3 (0.70%) Windows
3 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (29.04%) Software Engineering
2 69 (16.16%) Agile
3 65 (15.22%) DevOps
4 62 (14.52%) AI
5 58 (13.58%) Microservices
6 55 (12.88%) CI/CD
7 47 (11.01%) Machine Learning
8 32 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (7.49%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (6.56%) TDD
10 27 (6.32%) Clean Code
10 27 (6.32%) SDLC
10 27 (6.32%) Web Development
11 24 (5.62%) User Experience
12 23 (5.39%) E-Commerce
12 23 (5.39%) MVC
13 22 (5.15%) Scrum
14 20 (4.68%) SOLID
15 19 (4.45%) Data Modelling
15 19 (4.45%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 135 (31.62%) C#
2 124 (29.04%) TypeScript
3 107 (25.06%) JavaScript
4 85 (19.91%) SQL
5 58 (13.58%) Python
6 32 (7.49%) Java
7 17 (3.98%) PHP
8 9 (2.11%) Ruby
9 6 (1.41%) C++
10 4 (0.94%) Go
11 3 (0.70%) C
11 3 (0.70%) CFML
11 3 (0.70%) COBOL
12 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (3.28%) Degree
2 11 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.34%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.87%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.94%) PhD
6 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.98%) QA
2 6 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 41 (9.60%) Docker
2 5 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.58%) Terraform
3 3 (0.70%) Ansible
4 2 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 55 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (1.64%) Salesforce
3 6 (1.41%) Adobe
3 6 (1.41%) Foundry
4 4 (0.94%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.94%) Facebook
5 3 (0.70%) Google
5 3 (0.70%) YouTube
6 2 (0.47%) ESRI
6 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.47%) Splunk
6 2 (0.47%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle