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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 44 54
Rank change year-on-year -56 +10 +15
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 202 499 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.92% 5.54% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 6.28% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 148 222 353
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £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 £73,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 8,407 7,951 8,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.06% 88.32% 87.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,028 3,762 5,832
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,775 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,828 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 17 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 17 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 -29 106 £60,000 - 158
Berkshire -37 45 £50,000 -20.00% 107
Buckinghamshire -5 36 £60,000 - 19
Hampshire -45 28 £65,000 +18.18% 35
Oxfordshire +6 25 £87,500 +45.83% 32
East Sussex -11 24 £60,000 +20.00% 24
Surrey -23 16 £57,500 -11.54% 32
Sussex +5 9 £75,000 +50.00% 3
Kent -65 8 £70,000 +21.74% 35
West Sussex -21 6 £70,000 - 25
Isle of Wight - 3 £45,000 - 17
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 (1.98%) OpenStack
1 4 (1.98%) WordPress
2 2 (0.99%) IIS
3 1 (0.50%) CMS
3 1 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 52 (25.74%) AWS
2 45 (22.28%) Azure
3 22 (10.89%) SaaS
3 22 (10.89%) Serverless
4 17 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (7.92%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (7.92%) GitHub
6 11 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (5.45%) GCP
7 10 (4.95%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.48%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.99%) Figma
12 2 (0.99%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) Internet
2 2 (0.99%) Broadband
3 1 (0.50%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.84%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (7.92%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.93%) MySQL
5 11 (5.45%) RDBMS
6 10 (4.95%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.97%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.48%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.48%) Power BI
9 2 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.99%) GIS
10 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (10.40%) Git
2 19 (9.41%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.93%) JUnit
4 13 (6.44%) JMeter
5 11 (5.45%) Mockito
6 5 (2.48%) git-flow
7 3 (1.49%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.99%) GitLab
8 2 (0.99%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.50%) JIRA
9 1 (0.50%) Postman
9 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (13.86%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.92%) Aviation
2 16 (7.92%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.43%) Finance
4 6 (2.97%) Marketing
5 5 (2.48%) Health Technology
6 3 (1.49%) Automotive
6 3 (1.49%) Tech for Good
7 2 (0.99%) Back Office
7 2 (0.99%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.50%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.50%) Banking
8 1 (0.50%) Games
8 1 (0.50%) Legal
8 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 147 (72.77%) Developer
2 123 (60.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 42 (20.79%) Senior
4 37 (18.32%) .NET Developer
5 36 (17.82%) Software Engineer
6 32 (15.84%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 29 (14.36%) Senior Developer
8 28 (13.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 25 (12.38%) React Developer
9 25 (12.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (10.89%) Java Developer
11 20 (9.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 16 (7.92%) Senior .NET Developer
13 15 (7.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 15 (7.43%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 15 (7.43%) Python Developer
14 14 (6.93%) Lead
15 13 (6.44%) Principal Engineer
15 13 (6.44%) Principal Software Engineer
16 11 (5.45%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (40.10%) .NET
2 74 (36.63%) React
3 32 (15.84%) AngularJS
4 28 (13.86%) HTML
5 27 (13.37%) REST
6 23 (11.39%) ASP.NET
7 22 (10.89%) Spring
8 21 (10.40%) Spring Boot
9 20 (9.90%) .NET Core
10 19 (9.41%) CSS
10 19 (9.41%) Vue
11 18 (8.91%) .NET Framework
12 17 (8.42%) Node.js
13 14 (6.93%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (6.93%) RESTful
13 14 (6.93%) Web Services
14 13 (6.44%) Hibernate
15 12 (5.94%) Blazor
15 12 (5.94%) JSON
15 12 (5.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (7.92%) IoT
3 13 (6.44%) Smart Energy
4 9 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.96%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.97%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.97%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.49%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.49%) Sports Betting
8 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.99%) Robotics
9 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.50%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.50%) Social Network
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.99%) Android
1 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.99%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (33.66%) Software Engineering
2 57 (28.22%) CI/CD
3 55 (27.23%) Agile
4 37 (18.32%) Microservices
5 35 (17.33%) DevOps
6 23 (11.39%) Clean Code
7 20 (9.90%) AI
8 18 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (8.91%) Scrum
8 18 (8.91%) SDLC
8 18 (8.91%) TDD
9 16 (7.92%) Machine Learning
9 16 (7.92%) MVC
10 14 (6.93%) Mentoring
11 13 (6.44%) Computer Science
11 13 (6.44%) Energy Management
11 13 (6.44%) Storage Management
12 12 (5.94%) BDD
12 12 (5.94%) SOLID
13 11 (5.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 67 (33.17%) C#
2 55 (27.23%) TypeScript
3 42 (20.79%) JavaScript
4 40 (19.80%) Python
5 38 (18.81%) Java
6 33 (16.34%) SQL
7 11 (5.45%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.95%) C++
9 7 (3.47%) Go
10 3 (1.49%) C
10 3 (1.49%) COBOL
11 2 (0.99%) PHP
11 2 (0.99%) Ruby
12 1 (0.50%) Bash
12 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (8.91%) Degree
2 17 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.98%) 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 8 (3.96%) QA
2 5 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.99%) ECSS
System Software
1 32 (15.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (12.87%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.45%) Kibana
3 6 (2.97%) Terraform
4 4 (1.98%) Ansible
5 2 (0.99%) Grafana
5 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.50%) Argo
6 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (6.44%) Dynatrace
2 11 (5.45%) Splunk
3 8 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.98%) Telerik
5 2 (0.99%) Adobe
5 2 (0.99%) ESRI
5 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.99%) VMware
6 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.50%) IONA