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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 42 45
Rank change year-on-year -38 +3 +20
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 290 356 681
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.26% 5.32% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 5.91% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 221 204 594
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £79,250
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 9,621 6,020 12,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 75.08% 89.97% 85.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,144 3,238 9,395
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,063 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,268
England median annual salary £55,040 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.27% +9.09% -12.00%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -8 129 £60,000 - 54
Berkshire -17 53 £60,000 -4.76% 24
Buckinghamshire -11 42 £60,000 - 15
Surrey -37 40 £55,000 -15.38% 14
East Sussex -1 36 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Hampshire -27 35 £65,000 +18.18% 16
Oxfordshire -2 34 £57,500 -4.17% 15
Kent -58 19 £70,000 +36.59% 12
West Sussex -30 12 £70,000 - 10
Sussex -4 9 £75,000 +50.00% 2
Isle of Wight - 8 £45,000 - 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 4 (1.38%) ColdFusion
1 4 (1.38%) OpenStack
1 4 (1.38%) WordPress
2 2 (0.69%) IIS
3 1 (0.34%) CMS
3 1 (0.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 71 (24.48%) Azure
2 58 (20.00%) AWS
3 50 (17.24%) SaaS
4 18 (6.21%) GCP
4 18 (6.21%) GitHub
5 15 (5.17%) Serverless
6 14 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (3.10%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (2.76%) Figma
9 8 (2.76%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.72%) Azure AI
10 5 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.07%) Broadband
2 3 (1.03%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.10%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.48%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.48%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.79%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.10%) MySQL
6 8 (2.76%) Power BI
7 7 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.72%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.72%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.69%) GIS
10 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (9.31%) Git
2 11 (3.79%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.45%) JUnit
4 8 (2.76%) Mockito
5 5 (1.72%) git-flow
5 5 (1.72%) JMeter
6 2 (0.69%) GitLab
6 2 (0.69%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.34%) JIRA
7 1 (0.34%) NUnit
7 1 (0.34%) Postman
7 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (13.45%) Social Skills
2 23 (7.93%) Aviation
3 22 (7.59%) Finance
4 9 (3.10%) Health Technology
4 9 (3.10%) Marketing
4 9 (3.10%) Public Sector
4 9 (3.10%) Tech for Good
5 8 (2.76%) Games
6 6 (2.07%) Retail
7 5 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.03%) Back Office
8 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Automotive
9 2 (0.69%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Advertising
10 1 (0.34%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 207 (71.38%) Developer
2 173 (59.66%) Full-Stack Developer
3 56 (19.31%) Software Engineer
4 50 (17.24%) Senior
5 44 (15.17%) .NET Developer
5 44 (15.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 35 (12.07%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 35 (12.07%) React Developer
7 33 (11.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 33 (11.38%) Senior Developer
8 30 (10.34%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (9.31%) Lead
10 20 (6.90%) Java Developer
10 20 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
10 20 (6.90%) Principal Software Engineer
10 20 (6.90%) Python Developer
11 19 (6.55%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 15 (5.17%) Senior .NET Developer
13 13 (4.48%) C# Developer
14 12 (4.14%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (35.52%) .NET
2 83 (28.62%) React
3 33 (11.38%) HTML
4 30 (10.34%) CSS
4 30 (10.34%) REST
5 29 (10.00%) Node.js
6 26 (8.97%) .NET Core
6 26 (8.97%) AngularJS
7 25 (8.62%) ASP.NET
8 21 (7.24%) Vue
9 19 (6.55%) Spring Boot
10 18 (6.21%) .NET Framework
10 18 (6.21%) Spring
11 17 (5.86%) ASP.NET Core
11 17 (5.86%) Blazor
11 17 (5.86%) RESTful
12 16 (5.52%) Web Services
13 12 (4.14%) Entity Framework
14 10 (3.45%) Kafka
15 8 (2.76%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.62%) IoT
2 20 (6.90%) Smart Energy
3 17 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.76%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.72%) Blog
8 5 (1.72%) Podcast
8 5 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.03%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.69%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.69%) Robotics
11 1 (0.34%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.72%) Linux
2 2 (0.69%) Android
2 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (33.45%) Software Engineering
2 55 (18.97%) Agile
3 52 (17.93%) CI/CD
4 44 (15.17%) DevOps
5 39 (13.45%) Microservices
6 35 (12.07%) AI
7 26 (8.97%) Machine Learning
8 25 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (7.93%) Clean Code
10 20 (6.90%) Energy Management
10 20 (6.90%) Storage Management
11 19 (6.55%) MVC
11 19 (6.55%) TDD
12 18 (6.21%) Containerisation
13 16 (5.52%) Scrum
13 16 (5.52%) SDLC
14 15 (5.17%) B2B
14 15 (5.17%) User Experience
15 14 (4.83%) Data Modelling
15 14 (4.83%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 81 (27.93%) C#
2 78 (26.90%) TypeScript
3 56 (19.31%) JavaScript
4 52 (17.93%) Python
5 44 (15.17%) SQL
6 36 (12.41%) Java
7 9 (3.10%) C++
7 9 (3.10%) PHP
8 7 (2.41%) Go
9 5 (1.72%) Ruby
9 5 (1.72%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.03%) C
10 3 (1.03%) COBOL
11 1 (0.34%) CFML
11 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (4.48%) Degree
2 8 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (2.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.03%) PhD
4 2 (0.69%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.21%) QA
2 10 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.69%) ECSS
System Software
1 31 (10.69%) Docker
2 5 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.76%) Terraform
3 5 (1.72%) Kibana
4 2 (0.69%) Ansible
4 2 (0.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (6.55%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.41%) Dynatrace
3 5 (1.72%) Splunk
4 4 (1.38%) Adobe
4 4 (1.38%) Telerik
5 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.69%) ESRI
6 2 (0.69%) ServiceNow