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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 43 78
Rank change year-on-year -114 +35 -24
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 147 557 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.64% 4.91% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 6.03% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 93 264 241
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,725 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
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 7,871 9,237 7,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 87.83% 81.44% 93.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,352 4,866 5,151
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 -56 73 £62,500 +8.70% 191
Berkshire -39 41 £50,000 -16.67% 132
Hampshire -56 30 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Surrey -1 25 £57,500 -11.54% 37
Oxfordshire +12 20 £62,500 -16.67% 31
Buckinghamshire -36 12 £70,000 +60.92% 28
Kent -53 8 £37,500 -42.31% 23
East Sussex -21 5 £70,000 +40.00% 7
West Sussex -24 2 £71,250 +22.84% 16
Middlesex -20 1 - - 15
Isle of Wight - 1 £42,500 - 3
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 11 (7.48%) IIS
2 9 (6.12%) Confluence
3 5 (3.40%) CMS
3 5 (3.40%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.68%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (2.04%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 96 (65.31%) AWS
2 55 (37.41%) Azure
3 28 (19.05%) GCP
4 23 (15.65%) Serverless
5 18 (12.24%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (12.24%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (11.56%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (9.52%) GitHub
7 14 (9.52%) SaaS
8 9 (6.12%) Cloudflare
9 6 (4.08%) Azure API Management
9 6 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (3.40%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.04%) npm
12 3 (2.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (29.93%) SQL Server
2 27 (18.37%) MySQL
3 25 (17.01%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (12.24%) Relational Database
5 17 (11.56%) RDBMS
6 12 (8.16%) NoSQL
7 9 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (5.44%) MongoDB
9 5 (3.40%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.04%) Power BI
12 2 (1.36%) Redis
13 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (25.17%) Git
2 21 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 19 (12.93%) JMeter
3 19 (12.93%) JUnit
4 17 (11.56%) Mockito
5 15 (10.20%) JIRA
6 11 (7.48%) Bitbucket
7 10 (6.80%) Cucumber
7 10 (6.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (6.80%) TeamCity
8 9 (6.12%) NUnit
9 8 (5.44%) GitLab
9 8 (5.44%) Jasmine
9 8 (5.44%) Maven
9 8 (5.44%) Selenium
9 8 (5.44%) SonarQube
10 6 (4.08%) Visual Studio
11 4 (2.72%) git-flow
11 4 (2.72%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (2.72%) PHPUnit
General
1 37 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.24%) Marketing
2 18 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 14 (9.52%) Finance
3 14 (9.52%) Law
4 10 (6.80%) Banking
5 8 (5.44%) Games
5 8 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.72%) Advertising
6 4 (2.72%) Back Office
7 3 (2.04%) Automotive
7 3 (2.04%) Aviation
8 2 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.68%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (74.83%) Developer
2 97 (65.99%) Full-Stack Developer
3 58 (39.46%) Senior
4 50 (34.01%) Senior Developer
5 44 (29.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (12.93%) .NET Developer
6 19 (12.93%) Java Developer
6 19 (12.93%) Software Engineer
7 17 (11.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (10.20%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 14 (9.52%) Full-Stack Web Developer
9 14 (9.52%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 14 (9.52%) Senior Web Developer
9 14 (9.52%) Web Developer
10 12 (8.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (6.12%) Software Developer
12 8 (5.44%) C# Developer
12 8 (5.44%) Senior .NET Developer
13 6 (4.08%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 6 (4.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (53.74%) React
2 69 (46.94%) .NET
3 67 (45.58%) HTML
4 52 (35.37%) CSS
5 45 (30.61%) RESTful
6 41 (27.89%) AngularJS
7 38 (25.85%) Node.js
8 36 (24.49%) ASP.NET
9 30 (20.41%) Spring
10 29 (19.73%) Spring Boot
11 27 (18.37%) Hibernate
12 26 (17.69%) Vue
13 24 (16.33%) REST
14 20 (13.61%) JSON
15 19 (12.93%) jQuery
16 18 (12.24%) ActiveMQ
16 18 (12.24%) XML
17 17 (11.56%) Apache Camel
17 17 (11.56%) Web Services
17 17 (11.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.61%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 13 (8.84%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.76%) Mobile App
6 6 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.40%) Online Games
8 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.04%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.36%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.68%) 3D Graphics
10 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.68%) IoT
10 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.36%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (57.82%) CI/CD
2 78 (53.06%) Agile
3 45 (30.61%) DevOps
4 38 (25.85%) Microservices
4 38 (25.85%) TDD
5 35 (23.81%) User Experience
6 33 (22.45%) Software Engineering
7 32 (21.77%) Web Development
8 29 (19.73%) Test Automation
9 28 (19.05%) Clean Code
10 27 (18.37%) MVC
11 26 (17.69%) SDLC
12 25 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (16.33%) Containerisation
14 23 (15.65%) Design Patterns
15 19 (12.93%) UX Design
16 18 (12.24%) BDD
17 17 (11.56%) Mentoring
17 17 (11.56%) Process Management
17 17 (11.56%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 78 (53.06%) JavaScript
2 69 (46.94%) C#
3 46 (31.29%) SQL
4 42 (28.57%) Java
5 39 (26.53%) TypeScript
6 28 (19.05%) Python
7 17 (11.56%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.44%) PHP
9 5 (3.40%) Go
10 4 (2.72%) C++
11 2 (1.36%) Ruby
12 1 (0.68%) Bash
12 1 (0.68%) C
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 19 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.56%) Degree
3 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.41%) QA
2 4 (2.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 52 (35.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (31.29%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.56%) Kibana
3 11 (7.48%) Terraform
4 2 (1.36%) Ansible
4 2 (1.36%) Grafana
4 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.68%) Argo
5 1 (0.68%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.56%) Dynatrace
2 17 (11.56%) Splunk
3 9 (6.12%) Rollbar
4 8 (5.44%) Solace
5 6 (4.08%) Databricks
6 2 (1.36%) Oracle
6 2 (1.36%) VMware
7 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.68%) IONA
7 1 (0.68%) Telerik