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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 41 81
Rank change year-on-year -103 +40 -27
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 142 566 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.60% 5.05% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 6.20% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 91 265 235
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £73,125 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,750 £80,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

All Process and 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 7,644 9,133 7,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 86.29% 81.45% 93.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,560 4,742 5,084
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 10 November 2025.

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 10 November 2025. 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 -54 74 £61,250 +2.08% 87
Berkshire -43 42 £50,000 -16.67% 36
Hampshire -51 28 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Surrey -9 24 £57,500 -11.54% 38
Oxfordshire +15 20 £60,000 -14.29% 36
Buckinghamshire -30 12 £67,500 +50.84% 16
Kent -54 6 £40,000 -38.46% 22
East Sussex -16 4 £70,000 +40.00% 17
West Sussex -24 2 £71,250 +22.84% 14
Middlesex -14 1 - - 16
Isle of Wight - 1 £42,500 - 4
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 (6.34%) IIS
2 5 (3.52%) CMS
3 4 (2.82%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (2.11%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 83 (58.45%) AWS
2 50 (35.21%) Azure
3 24 (16.90%) Serverless
4 20 (14.08%) GCP
5 19 (13.38%) Amazon ECS
5 19 (13.38%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (12.68%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (11.27%) GitHub
8 12 (8.45%) SaaS
9 7 (4.93%) Cloudflare
10 6 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.52%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.52%) Azure API Management
11 5 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (3.52%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (2.11%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.35%) SQL Server
2 26 (18.31%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (15.49%) MySQL
4 19 (13.38%) Relational Database
5 18 (12.68%) RDBMS
6 13 (9.15%) NoSQL
7 8 (5.63%) MongoDB
8 7 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.52%) DynamoDB
9 5 (3.52%) Power BI
10 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.41%) Redis
12 1 (0.70%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (26.76%) Git
2 22 (15.49%) Jenkins
3 20 (14.08%) JMeter
3 20 (14.08%) JUnit
4 18 (12.68%) Mockito
5 8 (5.63%) TeamCity
6 7 (4.93%) JIRA
6 7 (4.93%) NUnit
7 6 (4.23%) Jasmine
7 6 (4.23%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.82%) git-flow
8 4 (2.82%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (2.11%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.11%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (2.11%) Vite
10 2 (1.41%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.41%) GitLab
10 2 (1.41%) PHPUnit
10 2 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.70%) Spock
General
1 39 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.38%) Public Sector
3 18 (12.68%) Marketing
4 14 (9.86%) Law
5 7 (4.93%) Games
6 5 (3.52%) Back Office
7 4 (2.82%) Advertising
7 4 (2.82%) Automotive
7 4 (2.82%) Aviation
8 3 (2.11%) Finance
9 2 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.41%) Banking
9 2 (1.41%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.70%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.70%) Legal
10 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 109 (76.76%) Developer
2 95 (66.90%) Full-Stack Developer
3 57 (40.14%) Senior
4 48 (33.80%) Senior Developer
5 42 (29.58%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (17.61%) .NET Developer
7 21 (14.79%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 20 (14.08%) Java Developer
9 18 (12.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 16 (11.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 15 (10.56%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 15 (10.56%) Software Engineer
12 14 (9.86%) Full-Stack Web Developer
12 14 (9.86%) Senior Web Developer
12 14 (9.86%) Web Developer
13 10 (7.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 10 (7.04%) Senior .NET Developer
14 9 (6.34%) Software Developer
15 7 (4.93%) React Developer
16 6 (4.23%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (48.59%) .NET
2 68 (47.89%) React
3 58 (40.85%) HTML
4 42 (29.58%) CSS
5 41 (28.87%) RESTful
6 40 (28.17%) AngularJS
7 37 (26.06%) Node.js
8 36 (25.35%) ASP.NET
9 27 (19.01%) REST
9 27 (19.01%) Vue
10 23 (16.20%) Spring
11 22 (15.49%) Spring Boot
12 21 (14.79%) JSON
13 20 (14.08%) Hibernate
14 19 (13.38%) .NET Core
14 19 (13.38%) .NET Framework
14 19 (13.38%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (13.38%) XML
15 18 (12.68%) jQuery
15 18 (12.68%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.38%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.75%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.93%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.52%) IoT
5 5 (3.52%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.52%) Online Games
6 3 (2.11%) Smart Energy
6 3 (2.11%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (56.34%) CI/CD
2 74 (52.11%) Agile
3 39 (27.46%) DevOps
4 33 (23.24%) User Experience
5 32 (22.54%) Microservices
6 30 (21.13%) Web Development
7 29 (20.42%) Software Engineering
8 28 (19.72%) TDD
9 27 (19.01%) MVC
9 27 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (16.90%) Clean Code
11 21 (14.79%) Design Patterns
11 21 (14.79%) Test Automation
12 20 (14.08%) Scrum
13 19 (13.38%) BDD
13 19 (13.38%) SDLC
13 19 (13.38%) UX Design
14 18 (12.68%) Containerisation
14 18 (12.68%) Process Management
14 18 (12.68%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 70 (49.30%) C#
2 67 (47.18%) JavaScript
3 40 (28.17%) SQL
4 39 (27.46%) TypeScript
5 36 (25.35%) Java
6 30 (21.13%) Python
7 18 (12.68%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.23%) C++
9 5 (3.52%) Go
9 5 (3.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.70%) Bash
10 1 (0.70%) C
10 1 (0.70%) Groovy
10 1 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (14.08%) Degree
1 20 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.49%) QA
2 6 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.41%) ECSS
System Software
1 45 (31.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (28.17%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.68%) Kibana
3 10 (7.04%) Terraform
4 3 (2.11%) Grafana
5 2 (1.41%) Ansible
5 2 (1.41%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.70%) Argo
6 1 (0.70%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.68%) Dynatrace
2 18 (12.68%) Splunk
3 7 (4.93%) Rollbar
4 5 (3.52%) Databricks
5 3 (2.11%) Telerik
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle
6 2 (1.41%) VMware
7 1 (0.70%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.70%) IONA