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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 49 69
Rank change year-on-year -107 +20 -23
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 150 560 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.68% 4.32% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 5.32% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 102 321 293
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,875 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £92,500
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 7,879 10,518 8,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 87.99% 81.06% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,220 5,884 5,767
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,688 £41,216 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Full-Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -72 69 £61,250 +2.08% 59
Berkshire -28 37 £45,000 -21.74% 33
Hampshire -58 32 £60,000 -7.69% 18
Surrey +48 31 £65,000 +13.04% 25
Oxfordshire +5 22 £60,000 -7.69% 11
Buckinghamshire -57 10 £71,250 +29.55% 15
Kent -30 9 £37,500 -42.31% 23
East Sussex -17 4 £65,000 +30.00% 8
Middlesex -3 2 - - 14
West Sussex -9 1 £57,500 -0.86% 12
Full-Stack Development
England

Full-Stack Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (8.67%) IIS
2 8 (5.33%) Confluence
3 7 (4.67%) Umbraco
4 4 (2.67%) CMS
5 1 (0.67%) Drupal
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.00%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 95 (63.33%) AWS
2 56 (37.33%) Azure
3 24 (16.00%) GCP
4 19 (12.67%) Serverless
5 17 (11.33%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (10.67%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (7.33%) Cloudflare
8 10 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (6.00%) Azure API Management
9 9 (6.00%) SaaS
10 8 (5.33%) GitHub
11 3 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.00%) Google Workspace
11 3 (2.00%) npm
12 2 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 1 (0.67%) Azure App Service
13 1 (0.67%) Azure Event Grid
13 1 (0.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 26 (17.33%) MySQL
3 23 (15.33%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (11.33%) Relational Database
5 16 (10.67%) RDBMS
6 11 (7.33%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (6.67%) MongoDB
8 7 (4.67%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.33%) Redis
10 1 (0.67%) Big Data
10 1 (0.67%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 38 (25.33%) Git
2 19 (12.67%) Jenkins
3 17 (11.33%) JMeter
3 17 (11.33%) JUnit
4 16 (10.67%) Mockito
5 14 (9.33%) JIRA
6 12 (8.00%) TeamCity
7 11 (7.33%) Bitbucket
7 11 (7.33%) NUnit
8 10 (6.67%) Jasmine
9 9 (6.00%) Cucumber
9 9 (6.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (5.33%) GitLab
10 8 (5.33%) Maven
10 8 (5.33%) Selenium
10 8 (5.33%) SonarQube
11 4 (2.67%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (2.67%) Visual Studio
12 3 (2.00%) PHPUnit
12 3 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.00%) Marketing
2 18 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 16 (10.67%) Finance
4 14 (9.33%) Law
5 9 (6.00%) Banking
6 8 (5.33%) Games
6 8 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.67%) Advertising
8 3 (2.00%) Automotive
8 3 (2.00%) Back Office
9 2 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Aviation
9 2 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.67%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.67%) Electronics
10 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.67%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (72.00%) Developer
2 93 (62.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 64 (42.67%) Senior
4 54 (36.00%) Senior Developer
5 43 (28.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (16.67%) Software Engineer
7 17 (11.33%) Java Developer
8 15 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 15 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 14 (9.33%) .NET Developer
9 14 (9.33%) Full-Stack Web Developer
9 14 (9.33%) Senior Web Developer
9 14 (9.33%) Web Developer
10 11 (7.33%) C# Developer
11 10 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 10 (6.67%) Software Developer
12 9 (6.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 9 (6.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 8 (5.33%) Senior .NET Developer
14 7 (4.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (52.67%) React
2 71 (47.33%) .NET
3 62 (41.33%) HTML
4 48 (32.00%) RESTful
5 47 (31.33%) CSS
6 40 (26.67%) Node.js
7 39 (26.00%) AngularJS
8 36 (24.00%) ASP.NET
9 28 (18.67%) Spring
9 28 (18.67%) Spring Boot
10 25 (16.67%) Hibernate
11 21 (14.00%) REST
12 20 (13.33%) jQuery
12 20 (13.33%) Vue
13 18 (12.00%) JSON
13 18 (12.00%) XML
14 17 (11.33%) ActiveMQ
15 16 (10.67%) Apache Camel
15 16 (10.67%) Web Services
15 16 (10.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.00%) Mobile App
5 8 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.33%) Online Games
7 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.00%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.00%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.33%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.67%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.67%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.00%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 75 (50.00%) Agile
3 41 (27.33%) TDD
4 39 (26.00%) Software Engineering
4 39 (26.00%) User Experience
5 38 (25.33%) DevOps
6 34 (22.67%) Microservices
6 34 (22.67%) Web Development
7 29 (19.33%) Test Automation
8 26 (17.33%) MVC
9 24 (16.00%) Design Patterns
9 24 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (15.33%) Containerisation
11 20 (13.33%) Clean Code
11 20 (13.33%) UX Design
12 19 (12.67%) Mentoring
12 19 (12.67%) SDLC
13 17 (11.33%) BDD
14 16 (10.67%) Process Management
14 16 (10.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 85 (56.67%) JavaScript
2 69 (46.00%) C#
3 46 (30.67%) Java
3 46 (30.67%) SQL
4 34 (22.67%) TypeScript
5 33 (22.00%) Python
6 16 (10.67%) Shell Script
7 9 (6.00%) PHP
8 4 (2.67%) C++
8 4 (2.67%) Go
9 2 (1.33%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.67%) Bash
10 1 (0.67%) Bicep
10 1 (0.67%) C
10 1 (0.67%) Groovy
10 1 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (10.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.00%) Degree
3 7 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.67%) QA
2 3 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (35.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (32.67%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.67%) Kibana
3 12 (8.00%) Terraform
4 1 (0.67%) Ansible
4 1 (0.67%) Argo
4 1 (0.67%) Grafana
4 1 (0.67%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.67%) Dynatrace
2 16 (10.67%) Splunk
3 11 (7.33%) Rollbar
4 10 (6.67%) Databricks
5 8 (5.33%) Solace
6 2 (1.33%) Oracle
7 1 (0.67%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.67%) IONA
7 1 (0.67%) SAP
7 1 (0.67%) VMware