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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 40 48
Rank change year-on-year -41 +8 +19
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 278 389 651
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.23% 5.59% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 6.21% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 208 209 577
10th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,125 £84,000 £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 9,439 6,266 12,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 75.61% 90.07% 85.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,995 3,262 9,153
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 21 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 21 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 -19 122 £60,000 - 55
Berkshire -20 50 £55,000 -12.70% 22
Buckinghamshire -8 41 £60,000 - 15
Surrey -32 37 £55,000 -15.38% 14
Hampshire -30 36 £65,000 +18.18% 16
East Sussex -1 35 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Oxfordshire -1 31 £68,750 +14.58% 18
Kent -57 17 £70,000 +21.74% 14
West Sussex -27 12 £70,000 - 8
Sussex -3 9 £75,000 +50.00%
Isle of Wight - 8 £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 4 (1.44%) OpenStack
1 4 (1.44%) WordPress
2 2 (0.72%) CMS
2 2 (0.72%) ColdFusion
2 2 (0.72%) Confluence
2 2 (0.72%) IIS
3 1 (0.36%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 68 (24.46%) Azure
2 54 (19.42%) AWS
3 47 (16.91%) SaaS
4 19 (6.83%) GitHub
5 18 (6.47%) GCP
6 16 (5.76%) Serverless
7 13 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.24%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (2.88%) Figma
12 7 (2.52%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.80%) Azure AI
14 5 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
15 3 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.16%) Broadband
2 3 (1.08%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.31%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.68%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.68%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.32%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.24%) MySQL
6 7 (2.52%) Power BI
7 6 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.16%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.80%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.72%) GIS
10 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (10.07%) Git
2 13 (4.68%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.32%) JUnit
4 9 (3.24%) Mockito
5 7 (2.52%) JMeter
6 5 (1.80%) git-flow
7 2 (0.72%) GitLab
7 2 (0.72%) JIRA
7 2 (0.72%) PHPUnit
7 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.36%) NUnit
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (13.31%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.27%) Aviation
3 21 (7.55%) Finance
4 10 (3.60%) Marketing
4 10 (3.60%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.24%) Health Technology
5 9 (3.24%) Tech for Good
6 7 (2.52%) Games
7 5 (1.80%) Retail
8 4 (1.44%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.08%) Back Office
9 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Automotive
10 2 (0.72%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.36%) Advertising
11 1 (0.36%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 195 (70.14%) Developer
2 164 (58.99%) Full-Stack Developer
3 53 (19.06%) Software Engineer
4 47 (16.91%) Senior
5 44 (15.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 41 (14.75%) .NET Developer
7 34 (12.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 34 (12.23%) React Developer
8 33 (11.87%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 30 (10.79%) Senior Developer
10 27 (9.71%) Lead
10 27 (9.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (7.55%) Java Developer
12 20 (7.19%) Python Developer
13 19 (6.83%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 19 (6.83%) Principal Engineer
13 19 (6.83%) Principal Software Engineer
14 15 (5.40%) Senior .NET Developer
15 12 (4.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 11 (3.96%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (34.89%) .NET
2 79 (28.42%) React
3 31 (11.15%) HTML
3 31 (11.15%) REST
4 27 (9.71%) AngularJS
4 27 (9.71%) CSS
5 25 (8.99%) .NET Core
6 24 (8.63%) ASP.NET
6 24 (8.63%) Node.js
7 20 (7.19%) Spring
7 20 (7.19%) Spring Boot
8 19 (6.83%) Vue
9 17 (6.12%) .NET Framework
9 17 (6.12%) RESTful
9 17 (6.12%) Web Services
10 16 (5.76%) ASP.NET Core
11 15 (5.40%) Blazor
12 11 (3.96%) Kafka
13 10 (3.60%) Entity Framework
13 10 (3.60%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.63%) IoT
2 19 (6.83%) Smart Energy
3 17 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.88%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.16%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.80%) Blog
8 5 (1.80%) Podcast
8 5 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.08%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.72%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.72%) Robotics
11 1 (0.36%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.36%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.16%) Linux
2 2 (0.72%) Android
2 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.45%) Software Engineering
2 56 (20.14%) Agile
3 53 (19.06%) CI/CD
4 42 (15.11%) DevOps
5 38 (13.67%) Microservices
6 32 (11.51%) AI
7 24 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (8.27%) Clean Code
9 22 (7.91%) Machine Learning
10 19 (6.83%) Containerisation
10 19 (6.83%) Energy Management
10 19 (6.83%) Storage Management
11 18 (6.47%) MVC
11 18 (6.47%) TDD
12 16 (5.76%) Scrum
12 16 (5.76%) SDLC
13 15 (5.40%) B2B
14 14 (5.04%) Mentoring
14 14 (5.04%) SOLID
14 14 (5.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (27.34%) C#
2 75 (26.98%) TypeScript
3 54 (19.42%) JavaScript
4 51 (18.35%) Python
5 42 (15.11%) SQL
6 38 (13.67%) Java
7 8 (2.88%) C++
8 7 (2.52%) Go
8 7 (2.52%) PHP
9 6 (2.16%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.08%) C
10 3 (1.08%) COBOL
11 2 (0.72%) Ruby
12 1 (0.36%) CFML
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (4.32%) Degree
2 9 (3.24%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.72%) PhD
4 2 (0.72%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.12%) QA
2 10 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.72%) ECSS
System Software
1 33 (11.87%) Docker
2 5 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (8.63%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.52%) Terraform
3 6 (2.16%) Kibana
4 3 (1.08%) Ansible
5 2 (0.72%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.88%) Dynatrace
3 6 (2.16%) Splunk
4 4 (1.44%) Adobe
4 4 (1.44%) Telerik
5 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.72%) ESRI
6 2 (0.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.36%) VMware