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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 42 50
Rank change year-on-year -54 +8 +20
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 214 491 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.00% 5.52% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 6.22% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 158 225 423
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £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 8,521 7,889 9,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 79.52% 88.68% 86.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,143 3,659 6,837
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -29 108 £60,000 - 161
Berkshire -35 45 £50,000 -20.32% 93
Buckinghamshire -13 37 £60,000 - 29
Hampshire -34 29 £65,000 +18.18% 46
Oxfordshire +6 26 £87,500 +45.83% 39
East Sussex -13 26 £60,000 +20.00% 34
Surrey -32 16 £55,000 -15.38% 42
Kent -62 10 £70,000 +21.74% 42
Sussex +6 9 £75,000 +36.36% 2
West Sussex -18 8 £70,000 - 38
Isle of Wight - 6 £45,000 - 29
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 (1.87%) OpenStack
1 4 (1.87%) WordPress
2 2 (0.93%) IIS
3 1 (0.47%) CMS
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 49 (22.90%) AWS
2 46 (21.50%) Azure
3 25 (11.68%) SaaS
4 21 (9.81%) Serverless
5 16 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (7.48%) GitHub
6 15 (7.01%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (5.14%) GCP
8 10 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (4.67%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.80%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.40%) Figma
13 2 (0.93%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.47%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.40%) Broadband
1 3 (1.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.47%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.42%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.01%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.54%) MySQL
5 10 (4.67%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.67%) RDBMS
6 6 (2.80%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.80%) Power BI
7 5 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.34%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.93%) GIS
9 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (9.81%) Git
2 18 (8.41%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.07%) JUnit
4 12 (5.61%) JMeter
5 10 (4.67%) Mockito
6 5 (2.34%) git-flow
7 3 (1.40%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.93%) GitLab
8 2 (0.93%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.47%) JIRA
9 1 (0.47%) Postman
9 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (13.55%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.41%) Aviation
3 15 (7.01%) Finance
3 15 (7.01%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.27%) Health Technology
5 6 (2.80%) Marketing
5 6 (2.80%) Tech for Good
6 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.93%) Automotive
7 2 (0.93%) Back Office
7 2 (0.93%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.47%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Banking
8 1 (0.47%) Games
8 1 (0.47%) Legal
8 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 156 (72.90%) Developer
2 131 (61.21%) Full-Stack Developer
3 42 (19.63%) Senior
4 38 (17.76%) Software Engineer
5 37 (17.29%) .NET Developer
6 32 (14.95%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 29 (13.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 28 (13.08%) React Developer
9 27 (12.62%) Senior Developer
10 24 (11.21%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 23 (10.75%) Java Developer
12 21 (9.81%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 17 (7.94%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 17 (7.94%) Lead
13 17 (7.94%) Python Developer
14 16 (7.48%) Senior .NET Developer
15 14 (6.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 14 (6.54%) Principal Engineer
15 14 (6.54%) Principal Software Engineer
16 12 (5.61%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (38.32%) .NET
2 74 (34.58%) React
3 30 (14.02%) AngularJS
4 29 (13.55%) HTML
5 26 (12.15%) REST
6 23 (10.75%) Spring
7 22 (10.28%) Spring Boot
8 21 (9.81%) ASP.NET
8 21 (9.81%) CSS
9 19 (8.88%) .NET Core
10 18 (8.41%) Vue
11 17 (7.94%) .NET Framework
12 16 (7.48%) Node.js
13 14 (6.54%) ASP.NET Core
14 13 (6.07%) RESTful
14 13 (6.07%) Web Services
15 12 (5.61%) Hibernate
15 12 (5.61%) Kafka
16 11 (5.14%) jQuery
16 11 (5.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.41%) IoT
2 16 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.54%) Smart Energy
4 9 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.74%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.27%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.40%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.40%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.93%) Robotics
10 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.47%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.47%) Social Network
10 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.93%) Android
1 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.93%) Linux
1 2 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.64%) Software Engineering
2 55 (25.70%) CI/CD
3 53 (24.77%) Agile
4 36 (16.82%) Microservices
5 35 (16.36%) DevOps
6 22 (10.28%) Clean Code
7 21 (9.81%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (9.35%) AI
9 18 (8.41%) Scrum
9 18 (8.41%) SDLC
10 17 (7.94%) TDD
11 16 (7.48%) Machine Learning
11 16 (7.48%) MVC
12 15 (7.01%) Mentoring
13 14 (6.54%) Energy Management
13 14 (6.54%) Storage Management
14 13 (6.07%) Computer Science
14 13 (6.07%) SOLID
15 11 (5.14%) BDD
16 10 (4.67%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (32.24%) C#
2 58 (27.10%) TypeScript
3 43 (20.09%) JavaScript
4 42 (19.63%) Python
5 39 (18.22%) Java
6 32 (14.95%) SQL
7 10 (4.67%) C++
7 10 (4.67%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.27%) Go
9 3 (1.40%) C
9 3 (1.40%) COBOL
10 2 (0.93%) PHP
10 2 (0.93%) Ruby
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (7.94%) Degree
2 16 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.87%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.47%) PhD
5 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.74%) QA
2 5 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.93%) ECSS
System Software
1 31 (14.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (11.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.67%) Kibana
3 6 (2.80%) Terraform
4 4 (1.87%) Ansible
5 2 (0.93%) Grafana
5 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.47%) Argo
6 1 (0.47%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (5.61%) Dynatrace
2 10 (4.67%) Splunk
3 9 (4.21%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.87%) Telerik
5 3 (1.40%) Adobe
6 2 (0.93%) ESRI
6 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.93%) VMware
7 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.47%) IONA