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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 42 81
Rank change year-on-year -101 +39 -25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 150 571 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.64% 5.09% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 6.22% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 98 271 225
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £74,688 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

All Process and 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 7,808 9,186 7,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 85.43% 81.82% 93.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,692 4,783 5,034
10th Percentile £27,250 £33,025 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £43,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 -48 80 £61,250 +2.08% 97
Berkshire -40 45 £50,000 -16.67% 44
Hampshire -57 27 £60,000 -7.69% 25
Surrey -13 23 £57,500 -11.54% 36
Oxfordshire +15 21 £60,000 -4.00% 37
Buckinghamshire -18 14 £67,500 +50.84% 18
East Sussex -12 7 £75,000 +50.00% 15
Kent -52 6 £40,000 -36.00% 25
West Sussex -26 2 £71,250 +22.84% 17
Isle of Wight - 2 £43,750 - 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 8 (5.33%) IIS
2 5 (3.33%) CMS
3 4 (2.67%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) Kentico
4 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.00%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 83 (55.33%) AWS
2 52 (34.67%) Azure
3 24 (16.00%) Serverless
4 22 (14.67%) GCP
5 19 (12.67%) Amazon ECS
5 19 (12.67%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (11.33%) GitHub
8 14 (9.33%) SaaS
9 7 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.00%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (4.00%) Cloudflare
11 5 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.33%) Azure API Management
11 5 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (3.33%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.00%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 27 (18.00%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (14.67%) MySQL
4 19 (12.67%) Relational Database
5 18 (12.00%) RDBMS
6 14 (9.33%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 6 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (4.00%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.33%) Power BI
9 1 (0.67%) Redis
9 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (25.33%) Git
2 22 (14.67%) Jenkins
3 20 (13.33%) JMeter
3 20 (13.33%) JUnit
4 18 (12.00%) Mockito
5 6 (4.00%) JIRA
5 6 (4.00%) NUnit
5 6 (4.00%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.00%) Visual Studio
6 5 (3.33%) git-flow
6 5 (3.33%) Jasmine
7 3 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (2.00%) Vite
8 2 (1.33%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.33%) GitLab
8 2 (1.33%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.67%) Public Sector
3 18 (12.00%) Marketing
4 14 (9.33%) Law
5 6 (4.00%) Aviation
5 6 (4.00%) Games
6 5 (3.33%) Back Office
7 4 (2.67%) Automotive
8 3 (2.00%) Advertising
8 3 (2.00%) Finance
9 2 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Banking
9 2 (1.33%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.67%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.67%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (75.33%) Developer
2 98 (65.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 58 (38.67%) Senior
4 47 (31.33%) Senior Developer
5 41 (27.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (18.00%) .NET Developer
7 23 (15.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 20 (13.33%) Java Developer
9 19 (12.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 18 (12.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 16 (10.67%) Software Engineer
12 15 (10.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 15 (10.00%) Web Developer
13 14 (9.33%) Full-Stack Web Developer
13 14 (9.33%) Senior Web Developer
14 11 (7.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 11 (7.33%) Senior .NET Developer
15 10 (6.67%) Software Developer
16 8 (5.33%) React Developer
17 6 (4.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (46.67%) .NET
2 67 (44.67%) React
3 59 (39.33%) HTML
4 42 (28.00%) CSS
5 40 (26.67%) RESTful
6 37 (24.67%) AngularJS
7 35 (23.33%) ASP.NET
8 34 (22.67%) Node.js
9 27 (18.00%) REST
10 26 (17.33%) Vue
11 24 (16.00%) Spring
12 23 (15.33%) Spring Boot
13 21 (14.00%) .NET Framework
14 20 (13.33%) Hibernate
14 20 (13.33%) JSON
15 19 (12.67%) .NET Core
15 19 (12.67%) XML
16 18 (12.00%) ActiveMQ
16 18 (12.00%) jQuery
16 18 (12.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.67%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.67%) IoT
4 7 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.33%) Online Games
6 5 (3.33%) Smart Energy
7 3 (2.00%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (54.67%) CI/CD
2 75 (50.00%) Agile
3 41 (27.33%) DevOps
4 32 (21.33%) Microservices
4 32 (21.33%) User Experience
5 30 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 29 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (19.33%) Web Development
7 27 (18.00%) TDD
8 26 (17.33%) Clean Code
8 26 (17.33%) MVC
9 20 (13.33%) Design Patterns
9 20 (13.33%) Scrum
9 20 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 19 (12.67%) BDD
10 19 (12.67%) UX Design
11 18 (12.00%) Containerisation
11 18 (12.00%) Process Management
11 18 (12.00%) SDLC
11 18 (12.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 72 (48.00%) C#
2 65 (43.33%) JavaScript
3 42 (28.00%) TypeScript
4 39 (26.00%) SQL
5 36 (24.00%) Java
6 31 (20.67%) Python
7 18 (12.00%) Shell Script
8 7 (4.67%) Go
9 6 (4.00%) C++
10 5 (3.33%) PHP
11 2 (1.33%) Ruby
12 1 (0.67%) Bash
12 1 (0.67%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (14.00%) Degree
2 20 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.67%) QA
2 7 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.33%) ECSS
System Software
1 44 (29.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (27.33%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.00%) Kibana
3 9 (6.00%) Terraform
4 2 (1.33%) Ansible
4 2 (1.33%) Grafana
4 2 (1.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.67%) Argo
5 1 (0.67%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 18 (12.00%) Dynatrace
1 18 (12.00%) Microsoft
1 18 (12.00%) Splunk
2 6 (4.00%) Rollbar
3 5 (3.33%) Databricks
4 4 (2.67%) Telerik
5 2 (1.33%) VMware
6 1 (0.67%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.67%) IONA
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle