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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 44 47
Rank change year-on-year -49 +3 +24
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 226 478 545
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.05% 5.58% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 6.25% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 171 223 498
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £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 8,737 7,642 10,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 79.24% 89.19% 86.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,318 3,485 7,665
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,205 £55,440
% change year-on-year -11.58% +12.20% -11.30%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -22 109 £60,000 - 54
Berkshire -38 45 £50,000 -20.00% 16
Buckinghamshire -4 37 £60,000 - 14
Hampshire -34 31 £65,000 +18.18% 22
East Sussex -7 30 £60,000 +20.00% 12
Oxfordshire +2 27 £80,000 +33.33% 24
Surrey -38 19 £56,250 -13.46% 20
Kent -64 12 £70,000 +21.74% 18
Sussex +6 9 £75,000 +36.36% 2
West Sussex -20 8 £70,000 - 13
Isle of Wight - 6 £45,000 - 5
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 (1.77%) OpenStack
1 4 (1.77%) WordPress
2 2 (0.88%) CMS
2 2 (0.88%) IIS
3 1 (0.44%) Confluence
3 1 (0.44%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.68%) Azure
2 48 (21.24%) AWS
3 26 (11.50%) SaaS
4 20 (8.85%) Serverless
5 16 (7.08%) GitHub
6 15 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (4.87%) GCP
9 10 (4.42%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.10%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (1.33%) Figma
15 2 (0.88%) OpenShift
16 1 (0.44%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.33%) Broadband
1 3 (1.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.04%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.19%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.75%) MySQL
5 10 (4.42%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.98%) RDBMS
7 7 (3.10%) Power BI
8 5 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.21%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.21%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.88%) GIS
10 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (9.73%) Git
2 17 (7.52%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.31%) JUnit
4 11 (4.87%) JMeter
5 9 (3.98%) Mockito
6 5 (2.21%) git-flow
7 3 (1.33%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.88%) GitLab
8 2 (0.88%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.44%) JIRA
9 1 (0.44%) Postman
9 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (13.27%) Social Skills
2 23 (10.18%) Aviation
3 15 (6.64%) Finance
4 14 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.10%) Health Technology
5 7 (3.10%) Marketing
6 6 (2.65%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.33%) Back Office
7 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.88%) Automotive
8 2 (0.88%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.44%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Games
9 1 (0.44%) Legal
9 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 167 (73.89%) Developer
2 142 (62.83%) Full-Stack Developer
3 45 (19.91%) Senior
4 39 (17.26%) .NET Developer
4 39 (17.26%) Software Engineer
5 34 (15.04%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 31 (13.72%) React Developer
7 30 (13.27%) Senior Developer
8 29 (12.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 27 (11.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 24 (10.62%) Java Developer
11 21 (9.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 19 (8.41%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 19 (8.41%) Python Developer
13 16 (7.08%) Lead
13 16 (7.08%) Senior .NET Developer
14 15 (6.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 14 (6.19%) Principal Engineer
15 14 (6.19%) Principal Software Engineer
16 12 (5.31%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (37.61%) .NET
2 76 (33.63%) React
3 30 (13.27%) AngularJS
3 30 (13.27%) HTML
4 26 (11.50%) REST
5 23 (10.18%) CSS
6 22 (9.73%) Spring
7 21 (9.29%) Spring Boot
8 20 (8.85%) ASP.NET
9 19 (8.41%) .NET Core
10 18 (7.96%) Vue
11 17 (7.52%) .NET Framework
12 15 (6.64%) Node.js
13 14 (6.19%) ASP.NET Core
14 13 (5.75%) RESTful
15 12 (5.31%) Blazor
15 12 (5.31%) Kafka
15 12 (5.31%) Web Services
16 11 (4.87%) Hibernate
16 11 (4.87%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.41%) IoT
2 15 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.19%) Smart Energy
4 9 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.54%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.88%) Robotics
10 2 (0.88%) Sports Betting
11 1 (0.44%) Blog
11 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.44%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.44%) Podcast
11 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.44%) Social Network
11 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.88%) Android
1 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.88%) Linux
1 2 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (33.19%) Software Engineering
2 54 (23.89%) CI/CD
3 52 (23.01%) Agile
4 35 (15.49%) DevOps
4 35 (15.49%) Microservices
5 23 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (9.73%) Clean Code
7 21 (9.29%) AI
8 18 (7.96%) Scrum
9 17 (7.52%) Machine Learning
9 17 (7.52%) MVC
9 17 (7.52%) SDLC
9 17 (7.52%) TDD
10 14 (6.19%) Energy Management
10 14 (6.19%) Mentoring
10 14 (6.19%) SOLID
10 14 (6.19%) Storage Management
11 13 (5.75%) Computer Science
12 10 (4.42%) BDD
12 10 (4.42%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 71 (31.42%) C#
2 60 (26.55%) TypeScript
3 45 (19.91%) Python
4 43 (19.03%) JavaScript
5 40 (17.70%) Java
6 33 (14.60%) SQL
7 11 (4.87%) C++
8 9 (3.98%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.10%) Go
10 3 (1.33%) C
10 3 (1.33%) COBOL
10 3 (1.33%) PHP
11 2 (0.88%) Ruby
12 1 (0.44%) Bash
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (7.52%) Degree
1 17 (7.52%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.77%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.88%) PhD
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.98%) QA
2 6 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.88%) ECSS
System Software
1 29 (12.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.98%) Kibana
3 7 (3.10%) Terraform
4 4 (1.77%) Ansible
5 2 (0.88%) Grafana
5 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.44%) Argo
6 1 (0.44%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 11 (4.87%) Dynatrace
2 9 (3.98%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.98%) Splunk
3 4 (1.77%) Telerik
4 3 (1.33%) Adobe
5 2 (0.88%) ESRI
5 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.88%) VMware
6 1 (0.44%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.44%) IONA