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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 148 47
Rank change year-on-year +101 -101 +21
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 557 152 564
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.03% 1.69% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 1.92% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 482 102 323
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

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 13,160 7,905 10,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.65% 88.09% 80.89%
Number of salaries quoted 9,412 4,223 5,876
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +79 209 £65,000 +6.12% 82
Hampshire +22 111 £60,000 - 45
Berkshire +66 102 £75,000 +66.67% 34
Surrey +24 92 £65,000 - 37
Oxfordshire +1 56 £57,923 -3.46% 35
Kent +20 53 £52,500 +40.00% 19
Buckinghamshire +38 51 £60,000 -15.79% 13
East Sussex +26 40 £60,000 -7.69% 11
West Sussex +11 31 £75,000 +30.43% 15
Isle of Wight - 19 £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 9 (1.62%) Confluence
2 7 (1.26%) ColdFusion
3 6 (1.08%) WordPress
4 3 (0.54%) CMS
5 2 (0.36%) Apache
5 2 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 215 (38.60%) Azure
2 143 (25.67%) AWS
3 89 (15.98%) SaaS
4 76 (13.64%) GitHub
5 69 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (9.69%) GitHub Copilot
7 47 (8.44%) Azure AI
8 18 (3.23%) Serverless
9 16 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (2.87%) Anthropic Claude
9 16 (2.87%) Power Platform
9 16 (2.87%) Snowflake
10 14 (2.51%) GCP
10 14 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (1.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.62%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.62%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.67%) Internet
2 4 (0.72%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.36%) Broadband
5 1 (0.18%) DHCP
5 1 (0.18%) DNS
5 1 (0.18%) LAN
5 1 (0.18%) VoIP
5 1 (0.18%) VSAN
5 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (25.49%) MongoDB
2 135 (24.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 87 (15.62%) SQL Server
4 58 (10.41%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (3.23%) Redis
7 14 (2.51%) MySQL
7 14 (2.51%) Power BI
8 13 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.80%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.44%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.54%) Spatial Data
12 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (4.13%) Git
2 10 (1.80%) Jenkins
2 10 (1.80%) JIRA
3 6 (1.08%) Selenium
4 5 (0.90%) GitLab
5 4 (0.72%) JUnit
6 3 (0.54%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.54%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.54%) JMeter
6 3 (0.54%) Mocha
6 3 (0.54%) Mockito
6 3 (0.54%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.36%) Maven
7 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.36%) Storybook
8 1 (0.18%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.18%) ESLint
8 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (7.18%) Social Skills
2 38 (6.82%) Finance
3 29 (5.21%) Games
4 24 (4.31%) Retail
5 21 (3.77%) Advertising
6 14 (2.51%) Automotive
7 13 (2.33%) Marketing
8 10 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.44%) Legal
10 6 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.08%) Public Sector
11 5 (0.90%) Music Industry
12 4 (0.72%) Law
12 4 (0.72%) Legal Technology
13 2 (0.36%) Aviation
13 2 (0.36%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.18%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.18%) Local Government
14 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 411 (73.79%) Developer
2 226 (40.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 192 (34.47%) .NET Developer
4 87 (15.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 80 (14.36%) Software Developer
6 78 (14.00%) Lead
7 74 (13.29%) Software Engineer
8 68 (12.21%) Senior
9 60 (10.77%) Lead Developer
10 56 (10.05%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 47 (8.44%) Lead Software Developer
12 37 (6.64%) Senior Developer
13 35 (6.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 31 (5.57%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 30 (5.39%) C# Developer
16 28 (5.03%) C# Software Engineer
17 27 (4.85%) .NET Software Engineer
18 24 (4.31%) C# .NET Developer
18 24 (4.31%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 22 (3.95%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (49.19%) .NET
2 178 (31.96%) ASP.NET
3 163 (29.26%) ASP.NET Core
4 159 (28.55%) React
5 153 (27.47%) Node.js
6 146 (26.21%) .NET Core
7 107 (19.21%) HTML
8 100 (17.95%) CSS
9 96 (17.24%) Vue
10 67 (12.03%) Blazor
11 66 (11.85%) Entity Framework
12 62 (11.13%) ASP.NET Web API
13 57 (10.23%) AngularJS
14 47 (8.44%) RESTful
15 44 (7.90%) ML.NET
16 42 (7.54%) .NET Framework
17 31 (5.57%) REST
18 29 (5.21%) LINQ
19 28 (5.03%) Ruby on Rails
20 21 (3.77%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.36%) Greenfield Project
2 24 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (2.87%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.15%) AI Agents
5 9 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.44%) IoT
6 8 (1.44%) Mobile App
7 5 (0.90%) Cloud Native
7 5 (0.90%) Digital TV
8 4 (0.72%) iPhone
8 4 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (0.72%) Social Network
9 2 (0.36%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.36%) Blog
9 2 (0.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.36%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.36%) Podcast
9 2 (0.36%) Robotics
9 2 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.36%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.44%) Linux
2 4 (0.72%) Android
2 4 (0.72%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Debian
3 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.18%) Unix
3 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (30.16%) Agile
2 127 (22.80%) AI
3 114 (20.47%) CI/CD
4 108 (19.39%) Microservices
5 103 (18.49%) Software Engineering
6 99 (17.77%) DevOps
7 74 (13.29%) Machine Learning
8 56 (10.05%) TDD
9 55 (9.87%) Problem-Solving
10 49 (8.80%) Scrum
11 45 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (7.90%) Clean Code
13 42 (7.54%) Multithreading
14 40 (7.18%) BDD
15 39 (7.00%) Kanban
16 36 (6.46%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (6.28%) SDLC
18 33 (5.92%) E-Commerce
19 29 (5.21%) OO
19 29 (5.21%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 261 (46.86%) C#
2 206 (36.98%) JavaScript
3 178 (31.96%) TypeScript
4 168 (30.16%) SQL
5 51 (9.16%) Python
6 28 (5.03%) Ruby
7 26 (4.67%) PHP
8 21 (3.77%) Java
9 10 (1.80%) C++
10 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.54%) Bash
11 3 (0.54%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.36%) CFML
12 2 (0.36%) Go
12 2 (0.36%) Groovy
13 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (5.21%) Degree
2 24 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (2.87%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.80%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.90%) PhD
8 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.33%) QA
2 4 (0.72%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 83 (14.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.54%) Kibana
3 2 (0.36%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 157 (28.19%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.23%) Google
3 16 (2.87%) Facebook
4 12 (2.15%) YouTube
5 6 (1.08%) Foundry
6 5 (0.90%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.72%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.54%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.54%) Oracle
8 3 (0.54%) Splunk
9 2 (0.36%) Adobe
9 2 (0.36%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.18%) HubSpot