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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 42 49
Rank change year-on-year -52 +7 +20
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 236 457 559
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.05% 5.70% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 6.36% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 176 223 499
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £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 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £75,000
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 8,999 7,181 10,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 78.00% 89.62% 86.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,561 3,313 7,972
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £36,875
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 £74,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £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 21 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 21 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 -30 111 £60,000 - 59
Berkshire -36 47 £50,000 -20.63% 15
Buckinghamshire -3 37 £60,000 - 20
Hampshire -34 31 £65,000 +18.18% 18
East Sussex -6 30 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Oxfordshire +2 27 £87,500 +45.83% 24
Surrey -42 25 £57,500 -11.54% 19
Kent -60 13 £70,000 +21.74% 12
Sussex +2 9 £75,000 +50.00%
West Sussex -24 9 £70,000 - 14
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 (1.69%) OpenStack
1 4 (1.69%) WordPress
2 2 (0.85%) CMS
2 2 (0.85%) IIS
3 1 (0.42%) Confluence
3 1 (0.42%) Kentico
Cloud Services
1 53 (22.46%) Azure
2 47 (19.92%) AWS
3 36 (15.25%) SaaS
4 20 (8.47%) Serverless
5 17 (7.20%) GitHub
6 15 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (5.08%) GCP
9 11 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.24%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.97%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.69%) Figma
16 2 (0.85%) OpenShift
17 1 (0.42%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.27%) Broadband
1 3 (1.27%) Internet
2 1 (0.42%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.98%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.93%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.66%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.24%) MySQL
6 9 (3.81%) RDBMS
7 7 (2.97%) Power BI
8 5 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.12%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.85%) GIS
11 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (9.75%) Git
2 17 (7.20%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.51%) JUnit
4 11 (4.66%) JMeter
5 10 (4.24%) Mockito
6 5 (2.12%) git-flow
7 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.85%) GitLab
7 2 (0.85%) PHPUnit
7 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.42%) JIRA
8 1 (0.42%) Postman
8 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (13.56%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.75%) Aviation
3 16 (6.78%) Finance
4 14 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.81%) Health Technology
6 7 (2.97%) Tech for Good
7 6 (2.54%) Marketing
8 3 (1.27%) Back Office
8 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Automotive
9 2 (0.85%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.42%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Games
10 1 (0.42%) Legal
10 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 170 (72.03%) Developer
2 143 (60.59%) Full-Stack Developer
3 46 (19.49%) Senior
4 44 (18.64%) Software Engineer
5 38 (16.10%) .NET Developer
6 33 (13.98%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 33 (13.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 32 (13.56%) React Developer
8 29 (12.29%) Senior Developer
9 26 (11.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (10.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 24 (10.17%) Java Developer
12 21 (8.90%) Lead
13 19 (8.05%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 19 (8.05%) Python Developer
14 16 (6.78%) Senior .NET Developer
15 15 (6.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 15 (6.36%) Principal Engineer
15 15 (6.36%) Principal Software Engineer
16 12 (5.08%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (35.59%) .NET
2 74 (31.36%) React
3 30 (12.71%) HTML
4 27 (11.44%) AngularJS
4 27 (11.44%) REST
5 23 (9.75%) CSS
5 23 (9.75%) Spring
6 22 (9.32%) Spring Boot
7 18 (7.63%) .NET Core
7 18 (7.63%) ASP.NET
7 18 (7.63%) Node.js
8 15 (6.36%) .NET Framework
8 15 (6.36%) Vue
9 14 (5.93%) RESTful
9 14 (5.93%) Web Services
10 12 (5.08%) ASP.NET Core
10 12 (5.08%) Hibernate
10 12 (5.08%) Kafka
11 11 (4.66%) Blazor
11 11 (4.66%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.47%) IoT
2 16 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.36%) Smart Energy
4 9 (3.81%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.97%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.85%) Blog
9 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.85%) Podcast
9 2 (0.85%) Robotics
10 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.42%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.42%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.42%) Social Network
10 1 (0.42%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.27%) Linux
2 2 (0.85%) Android
2 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (34.32%) Software Engineering
2 54 (22.88%) CI/CD
3 52 (22.03%) Agile
4 38 (16.10%) Microservices
5 33 (13.98%) DevOps
6 23 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (9.32%) Clean Code
8 19 (8.05%) AI
9 18 (7.63%) Scrum
9 18 (7.63%) TDD
10 17 (7.20%) MVC
10 17 (7.20%) SDLC
11 15 (6.36%) Energy Management
11 15 (6.36%) Storage Management
12 14 (5.93%) Machine Learning
12 14 (5.93%) SOLID
13 13 (5.51%) Containerisation
13 13 (5.51%) Mentoring
14 11 (4.66%) B2B
14 11 (4.66%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 68 (28.81%) C#
2 64 (27.12%) TypeScript
3 46 (19.49%) Python
4 44 (18.64%) JavaScript
5 41 (17.37%) Java
6 33 (13.98%) SQL
7 9 (3.81%) C++
7 9 (3.81%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.12%) Go
9 3 (1.27%) C
9 3 (1.27%) COBOL
9 3 (1.27%) PHP
10 2 (0.85%) Ruby
11 1 (0.42%) Bash
11 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (6.36%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.93%) Degree
3 8 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.27%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.85%) PhD
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.24%) QA
2 7 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.85%) ECSS
System Software
1 30 (12.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.81%) Kibana
3 7 (2.97%) Terraform
4 4 (1.69%) Ansible
5 2 (0.85%) Grafana
5 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.42%) Argo
6 1 (0.42%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 11 (4.66%) Dynatrace
2 9 (3.81%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.81%) Splunk
3 4 (1.69%) Telerik
4 3 (1.27%) Adobe
5 2 (0.85%) ESRI
5 2 (0.85%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.85%) VMware
6 1 (0.42%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.42%) Salesforce