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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 45 50
Rank change year-on-year -57 +5 +22
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 217 494 490
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.01% 5.64% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 6.34% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 161 228 444
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
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 8,573 7,797 9,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 79.41% 89.02% 86.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,199 3,594 7,160
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £28,290
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,142 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,835 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% +10.16% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -8.00%

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 30 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 30 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 -29 108 £60,000 - 88
Berkshire -44 45 £50,000 -20.32% 39
Buckinghamshire -14 37 £60,000 - 17
Hampshire -34 29 £65,000 +18.18% 30
East Sussex -7 28 £60,000 +20.00% 19
Oxfordshire +12 26 £87,500 +45.83% 32
Surrey -33 17 £56,250 -13.46% 21
Kent -61 10 £70,000 +21.74% 22
Sussex +2 9 £75,000 +25.00% 3
West Sussex -13 8 £70,000 - 22
Isle of Wight - 6 £45,000 - 14
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 (1.84%) OpenStack
1 4 (1.84%) WordPress
2 2 (0.92%) IIS
3 1 (0.46%) CMS
3 1 (0.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.46%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 49 (22.58%) AWS
2 47 (21.66%) Azure
3 25 (11.52%) SaaS
4 21 (9.68%) Serverless
5 16 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (7.37%) GitHub
6 15 (6.91%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (5.07%) GCP
8 10 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (4.61%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.76%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.38%) Figma
13 2 (0.92%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.38%) Broadband
1 3 (1.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.46%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.21%) SQL Server
2 18 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.91%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.45%) MySQL
5 10 (4.61%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.61%) RDBMS
6 6 (2.76%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.76%) Power BI
7 5 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.30%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.92%) GIS
9 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (9.68%) Git
2 18 (8.29%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.99%) JUnit
4 12 (5.53%) JMeter
5 10 (4.61%) Mockito
6 5 (2.30%) git-flow
7 3 (1.38%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.92%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.92%) GitLab
8 2 (0.92%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.46%) JIRA
9 1 (0.46%) Postman
9 1 (0.46%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (12.90%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.68%) Aviation
3 15 (6.91%) Finance
3 15 (6.91%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.23%) Health Technology
5 6 (2.76%) Marketing
5 6 (2.76%) Tech for Good
6 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.92%) Automotive
7 2 (0.92%) Back Office
7 2 (0.92%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.46%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Banking
8 1 (0.46%) Games
8 1 (0.46%) Legal
8 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 159 (73.27%) Developer
2 135 (62.21%) Full-Stack Developer
3 42 (19.35%) Senior
4 38 (17.51%) .NET Developer
4 38 (17.51%) Software Engineer
5 33 (15.21%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 29 (13.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 29 (13.36%) React Developer
7 27 (12.44%) Senior Developer
8 25 (11.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (11.06%) Java Developer
10 21 (9.68%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 17 (7.83%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 17 (7.83%) Lead
11 17 (7.83%) Python Developer
12 16 (7.37%) Senior .NET Developer
13 15 (6.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 14 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
14 14 (6.45%) Principal Software Engineer
15 12 (5.53%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (38.25%) .NET
2 74 (34.10%) React
3 30 (13.82%) AngularJS
4 29 (13.36%) HTML
5 26 (11.98%) REST
6 23 (10.60%) Spring
7 22 (10.14%) Spring Boot
8 21 (9.68%) CSS
9 20 (9.22%) ASP.NET
10 19 (8.76%) .NET Core
11 18 (8.29%) Vue
12 17 (7.83%) .NET Framework
13 16 (7.37%) Node.js
14 14 (6.45%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (5.99%) RESTful
15 13 (5.99%) Web Services
16 12 (5.53%) Hibernate
16 12 (5.53%) Kafka
17 11 (5.07%) jQuery
17 11 (5.07%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.76%) IoT
2 16 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.45%) Smart Energy
4 9 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.69%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.23%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.38%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.92%) Robotics
11 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.46%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.46%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.46%) Social Network
11 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.92%) Android
1 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.92%) Linux
1 2 (0.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.18%) Software Engineering
2 55 (25.35%) CI/CD
3 53 (24.42%) Agile
4 36 (16.59%) Microservices
5 35 (16.13%) DevOps
6 21 (9.68%) Clean Code
6 21 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (9.22%) AI
8 18 (8.29%) Scrum
8 18 (8.29%) SDLC
9 17 (7.83%) TDD
10 16 (7.37%) Machine Learning
10 16 (7.37%) MVC
11 14 (6.45%) Energy Management
11 14 (6.45%) Mentoring
11 14 (6.45%) SOLID
11 14 (6.45%) Storage Management
12 13 (5.99%) Computer Science
13 11 (5.07%) BDD
14 10 (4.61%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 69 (31.80%) C#
2 58 (26.73%) TypeScript
3 43 (19.82%) JavaScript
4 42 (19.35%) Python
5 40 (18.43%) Java
6 32 (14.75%) SQL
7 10 (4.61%) C++
7 10 (4.61%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.23%) Go
9 3 (1.38%) C
9 3 (1.38%) COBOL
10 2 (0.92%) PHP
10 2 (0.92%) Ruby
11 1 (0.46%) Bash
11 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (7.83%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.37%) Degree
3 9 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.84%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.92%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.69%) QA
2 5 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.92%) ECSS
System Software
1 31 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (11.52%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.61%) Kibana
3 6 (2.76%) Terraform
4 4 (1.84%) Ansible
5 2 (0.92%) Grafana
5 2 (0.92%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.46%) Argo
6 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (5.53%) Dynatrace
2 10 (4.61%) Splunk
3 9 (4.15%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.84%) Telerik
5 3 (1.38%) Adobe
6 2 (0.92%) ESRI
6 2 (0.92%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.92%) VMware
7 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.46%) IONA