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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 45 67
Rank change year-on-year -57 +22 -4
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 200 508 280
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.93% 5.49% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 6.26% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 136 225 239
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,750 £78,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 8,378 8,110 6,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.85% 87.72% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,956 3,982 4,915
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £44,253 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 1 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 1 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 -26 109 £60,000 - 63
Berkshire -25 57 £55,000 -12.00% 20
Buckinghamshire -13 32 £60,000 - 20
Hampshire -42 30 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Oxfordshire +9 20 £70,000 +16.67% 23
East Sussex -10 20 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Surrey -21 17 £57,500 -11.54% 20
Sussex +4 7 £75,000 +57.89% 1
West Sussex -23 6 £70,000 +5.66% 14
Kent -67 6 £70,000 +21.74% 20
Isle of Wight - 3 £45,000 - 1
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 (2.00%) OpenStack
1 4 (2.00%) WordPress
2 2 (1.00%) IIS
3 1 (0.50%) CMS
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 69 (34.50%) AWS
2 55 (27.50%) Azure
3 24 (12.00%) GCP
4 22 (11.00%) Serverless
5 20 (10.00%) SaaS
6 17 (8.50%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (8.50%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (7.00%) GitHub
8 12 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.50%) Power Platform
14 2 (1.00%) Figma
14 2 (1.00%) OpenShift
15 1 (0.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.00%) Broadband
1 2 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (9.00%) Relational Database
4 14 (7.00%) MySQL
5 13 (6.50%) NoSQL
6 12 (6.00%) RDBMS
7 6 (3.00%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.50%) Power BI
9 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.00%) GIS
11 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (17.50%) Git
2 20 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.50%) JUnit
4 14 (7.00%) JMeter
5 12 (6.00%) Mockito
6 5 (2.50%) git-flow
7 3 (1.50%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.00%) GitLab
8 2 (1.00%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.50%) JIRA
9 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.00%) Marketing
3 17 (8.50%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.50%) Aviation
5 14 (7.00%) Law
6 12 (6.00%) Finance
7 5 (2.50%) Automotive
8 4 (2.00%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Back Office
9 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.50%) Games
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 149 (74.50%) Developer
2 128 (64.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 58 (29.00%) Senior
4 44 (22.00%) Senior Developer
5 40 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (15.50%) .NET Developer
6 31 (15.50%) Software Engineer
7 29 (14.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 28 (14.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 24 (12.00%) React Developer
10 22 (11.00%) Java Developer
11 20 (10.00%) Web Developer
12 19 (9.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 16 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 16 (8.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
14 15 (7.50%) Senior Web Developer
15 14 (7.00%) Senior .NET Developer
16 13 (6.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
16 13 (6.50%) Python Developer
17 12 (6.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (42.00%) React
2 78 (39.00%) .NET
3 44 (22.00%) HTML
4 34 (17.00%) CSS
4 34 (17.00%) Node.js
5 31 (15.50%) AngularJS
5 31 (15.50%) RESTful
6 27 (13.50%) REST
7 26 (13.00%) ASP.NET
8 22 (11.00%) Spring
9 21 (10.50%) Spring Boot
10 19 (9.50%) .NET Framework
11 18 (9.00%) Vue
12 16 (8.00%) .NET Core
13 15 (7.50%) Web Services
14 14 (7.00%) Hibernate
15 13 (6.50%) JSON
16 12 (6.00%) ActiveMQ
16 12 (6.00%) Apache Camel
16 12 (6.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.50%) IoT
3 10 (5.00%) Smart Energy
4 8 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.50%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.50%) Sports Betting
9 2 (1.00%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.00%) Robotics
10 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.50%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.00%) Android
1 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.00%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 66 (33.00%) Agile
3 60 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 46 (23.00%) DevOps
5 34 (17.00%) Microservices
6 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (14.50%) Web Development
8 28 (14.00%) Clean Code
9 23 (11.50%) User Experience
10 22 (11.00%) Containerisation
11 19 (9.50%) Design Patterns
11 19 (9.50%) TDD
12 18 (9.00%) MVC
12 18 (9.00%) Scrum
12 18 (9.00%) SDLC
13 17 (8.50%) AI
13 17 (8.50%) Test Automation
13 17 (8.50%) UX Design
14 15 (7.50%) Mentoring
15 14 (7.00%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 68 (34.00%) C#
2 54 (27.00%) JavaScript
3 53 (26.50%) TypeScript
4 37 (18.50%) Python
5 35 (17.50%) Java
6 32 (16.00%) SQL
7 12 (6.00%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.50%) C++
8 7 (3.50%) Go
9 3 (1.50%) C
9 3 (1.50%) COBOL
10 2 (1.00%) PHP
10 2 (1.00%) Ruby
11 1 (0.50%) Bash
11 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (9.00%) Degree
2 17 (8.50%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.50%) PhD
5 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.00%) QA
2 5 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.00%) ECSS
System Software
1 44 (22.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.00%) Kibana
3 6 (3.00%) Terraform
4 4 (2.00%) Ansible
5 2 (1.00%) Grafana
5 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.50%) Argo
6 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 14 (7.00%) Dynatrace
2 12 (6.00%) Splunk
3 6 (3.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.00%) Telerik
5 2 (1.00%) Adobe
5 2 (1.00%) ESRI
5 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.00%) VMware
6 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.50%) IONA