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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 43 49
Rank change year-on-year -48 +6 +21
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 233 465 547
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.05% 5.69% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 6.35% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 177 221 497
10th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £73,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £76,000
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 8,913 7,319 10,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 78.34% 89.54% 86.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,501 3,319 7,880
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £27,965
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -28 110 £60,000 - 63
Berkshire -35 46 £50,000 -20.63% 17
Buckinghamshire -13 38 £60,000 - 21
Hampshire -30 31 £65,000 +18.18% 16
East Sussex -8 30 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Oxfordshire -1 26 £87,500 +45.83% 25
Surrey -35 25 £66,250 +1.92% 25
Kent -62 12 £70,000 +21.74% 11
Sussex +6 9 £75,000 +50.00%
West Sussex -27 8 £70,000 - 11
Isle of Wight - 6 £45,000 - 5
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 (1.72%) OpenStack
1 4 (1.72%) WordPress
2 2 (0.86%) CMS
2 2 (0.86%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 51 (21.89%) Azure
2 47 (20.17%) AWS
3 35 (15.02%) SaaS
4 20 (8.58%) Serverless
5 16 (6.87%) GitHub
6 15 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (4.29%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.29%) GCP
10 9 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.00%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (1.29%) Figma
15 2 (0.86%) OpenShift
16 1 (0.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.29%) Broadband
1 3 (1.29%) Internet
2 1 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.59%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.01%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.72%) MySQL
5 10 (4.29%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.86%) RDBMS
7 7 (3.00%) Power BI
8 5 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.15%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.72%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.86%) GIS
11 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (9.44%) Git
2 17 (7.30%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.15%) JUnit
4 11 (4.72%) JMeter
5 9 (3.86%) Mockito
6 5 (2.15%) git-flow
7 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.86%) GitLab
7 2 (0.86%) PHPUnit
7 2 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.43%) JIRA
8 1 (0.43%) Postman
8 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (12.88%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.87%) Aviation
3 15 (6.44%) Finance
4 14 (6.01%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.43%) Health Technology
6 7 (3.00%) Marketing
6 7 (3.00%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.29%) Back Office
7 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.86%) Automotive
8 2 (0.86%) Digital Healthcare
8 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.43%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Games
9 1 (0.43%) Legal
9 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 170 (72.96%) Developer
2 143 (61.37%) Full-Stack Developer
3 45 (19.31%) Senior
4 42 (18.03%) Software Engineer
5 39 (16.74%) .NET Developer
6 34 (14.59%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 32 (13.73%) React Developer
8 31 (13.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 29 (12.45%) Senior Developer
10 26 (11.16%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (10.30%) Java Developer
12 23 (9.87%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 20 (8.58%) Lead
14 19 (8.15%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 19 (8.15%) Python Developer
15 16 (6.87%) Senior .NET Developer
16 15 (6.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 14 (6.01%) Principal Engineer
17 14 (6.01%) Principal Software Engineer
18 12 (5.15%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (36.48%) .NET
2 74 (31.76%) React
3 30 (12.88%) HTML
4 28 (12.02%) AngularJS
5 26 (11.16%) REST
6 23 (9.87%) CSS
7 22 (9.44%) Spring
8 21 (9.01%) Spring Boot
9 19 (8.15%) .NET Core
10 18 (7.73%) ASP.NET
10 18 (7.73%) Node.js
11 16 (6.87%) .NET Framework
11 16 (6.87%) Vue
12 13 (5.58%) RESTful
13 12 (5.15%) ASP.NET Core
13 12 (5.15%) Blazor
13 12 (5.15%) Kafka
13 12 (5.15%) Web Services
14 11 (4.72%) Hibernate
14 11 (4.72%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.15%) IoT
2 16 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.01%) Smart Energy
4 9 (3.86%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.00%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.86%) Blog
9 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.86%) Podcast
9 2 (0.86%) Robotics
10 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.43%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.43%) Social Network
10 1 (0.43%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.86%) Android
1 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.86%) Linux
1 2 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (33.91%) Software Engineering
2 55 (23.61%) CI/CD
3 52 (22.32%) Agile
4 37 (15.88%) Microservices
5 34 (14.59%) DevOps
6 23 (9.87%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (9.44%) Clean Code
8 21 (9.01%) AI
9 18 (7.73%) Scrum
10 17 (7.30%) MVC
10 17 (7.30%) SDLC
10 17 (7.30%) TDD
11 16 (6.87%) Machine Learning
12 14 (6.01%) Energy Management
12 14 (6.01%) SOLID
12 14 (6.01%) Storage Management
13 13 (5.58%) Mentoring
14 11 (4.72%) B2B
14 11 (4.72%) Computer Science
14 11 (4.72%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 69 (29.61%) C#
2 63 (27.04%) TypeScript
3 45 (19.31%) Python
4 43 (18.45%) JavaScript
5 39 (16.74%) Java
6 33 (14.16%) SQL
7 9 (3.86%) C++
7 9 (3.86%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.15%) Go
9 3 (1.29%) C
9 3 (1.29%) COBOL
9 3 (1.29%) PHP
10 2 (0.86%) Ruby
11 1 (0.43%) Bash
11 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (6.44%) Degree
1 15 (6.44%) Security Cleared
2 8 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.86%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.86%) PhD
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.86%) QA
2 7 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.86%) ECSS
System Software
1 29 (12.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (10.73%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.86%) Kibana
3 7 (3.00%) Terraform
4 4 (1.72%) Ansible
5 2 (0.86%) Grafana
5 2 (0.86%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Argo
6 1 (0.43%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 11 (4.72%) Dynatrace
2 9 (3.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.86%) Splunk
3 4 (1.72%) Telerik
4 3 (1.29%) Adobe
5 2 (0.86%) ESRI
5 2 (0.86%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.86%) VMware
6 1 (0.43%) HubSpot