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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 59 44
Rank change year-on-year -20 -15 +20
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 314 286 731
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.28% 4.23% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 4.70% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 248 195 629
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
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 10,121 6,087 13,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 73.51% 90.07% 84.62%
Number of salaries quoted 6,503 3,270 9,716
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 12 April 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 12 April 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 +5 142 £60,000 - 54
Berkshire +5 59 £60,000 -2.04% 21
Buckinghamshire +6 48 £60,000 - 13
Surrey -21 46 £55,000 -15.38% 14
East Sussex -2 38 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Hampshire -30 37 £65,000 +18.18% 18
Oxfordshire -6 35 £57,500 -4.17% 20
Kent -49 20 £70,000 +36.59% 11
West Sussex -27 14 £70,000 - 9
Sussex -2 9 £75,000 +50.00% 2
Isle of Wight - 7 £45,000 - 1
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 5 (1.59%) ColdFusion
2 4 (1.27%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.27%) WordPress
3 2 (0.64%) Confluence
3 2 (0.64%) IIS
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 69 (21.97%) Azure
2 61 (19.43%) SaaS
3 59 (18.79%) AWS
4 17 (5.41%) GCP
5 15 (4.78%) GitHub
6 14 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.50%) Serverless
8 9 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.55%) Figma
9 8 (2.55%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.23%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.59%) Azure AI
11 5 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.91%) Broadband
2 3 (0.96%) Internet
3 1 (0.32%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.10%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.14%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.50%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.87%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.55%) Power BI
7 7 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.23%) MySQL
8 3 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.96%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.96%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.64%) GIS
Development Applications
1 28 (8.92%) Git
2 9 (2.87%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.55%) JUnit
4 6 (1.91%) Mockito
5 3 (0.96%) git-flow
5 3 (0.96%) JMeter
6 2 (0.64%) GitLab
6 2 (0.64%) JIRA
7 1 (0.32%) NUnit
7 1 (0.32%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.32%) Postman
7 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (11.78%) Social Skills
2 23 (7.32%) Aviation
3 21 (6.69%) Finance
4 10 (3.18%) Marketing
5 9 (2.87%) Tech for Good
6 8 (2.55%) Games
6 8 (2.55%) Health Technology
7 7 (2.23%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.23%) Retail
8 5 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.96%) Automotive
9 3 (0.96%) Back Office
9 3 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.32%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (71.02%) Developer
2 186 (59.24%) Full-Stack Developer
3 65 (20.70%) Software Engineer
4 56 (17.83%) Senior
5 51 (16.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 47 (14.97%) .NET Developer
7 39 (12.42%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 37 (11.78%) Senior Developer
9 36 (11.46%) React Developer
10 34 (10.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 32 (10.19%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 32 (10.19%) Lead
12 20 (6.37%) Principal Engineer
12 20 (6.37%) Principal Software Engineer
12 20 (6.37%) Python Developer
13 19 (6.05%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 17 (5.41%) C# Developer
14 17 (5.41%) Java Developer
14 17 (5.41%) Lead Developer
15 15 (4.78%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (33.44%) .NET
2 84 (26.75%) React
3 38 (12.10%) Node.js
4 34 (10.83%) HTML
5 32 (10.19%) CSS
6 27 (8.60%) REST
7 26 (8.28%) .NET Core
8 25 (7.96%) AngularJS
9 24 (7.64%) ASP.NET
10 23 (7.32%) Vue
11 18 (5.73%) RESTful
12 16 (5.10%) .NET Framework
12 16 (5.10%) ASP.NET Core
12 16 (5.10%) Spring
12 16 (5.10%) Spring Boot
13 15 (4.78%) Blazor
14 14 (4.46%) Web Services
15 12 (3.82%) Entity Framework
16 8 (2.55%) ASP.NET MVC
16 8 (2.55%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.96%) IoT
2 20 (6.37%) Smart Energy
3 15 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.23%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.91%) Blog
6 6 (1.91%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.91%) Podcast
7 5 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (0.96%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.96%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.96%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.64%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.64%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.59%) Linux
2 2 (0.64%) Android
2 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (33.12%) Software Engineering
2 51 (16.24%) Agile
3 47 (14.97%) CI/CD
4 40 (12.74%) DevOps
5 37 (11.78%) Microservices
6 36 (11.46%) AI
7 26 (8.28%) Machine Learning
8 25 (7.96%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (7.01%) Clean Code
10 20 (6.37%) Energy Management
10 20 (6.37%) MVC
10 20 (6.37%) Storage Management
11 18 (5.73%) Containerisation
11 18 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (5.41%) SDLC
13 16 (5.10%) Scrum
13 16 (5.10%) TDD
13 16 (5.10%) User Experience
13 16 (5.10%) Web Development
14 15 (4.78%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 88 (28.03%) TypeScript
2 82 (26.11%) C#
3 61 (19.43%) JavaScript
4 51 (16.24%) Python
5 47 (14.97%) SQL
6 33 (10.51%) Java
7 9 (2.87%) C++
7 9 (2.87%) PHP
8 7 (2.23%) Ruby
9 6 (1.91%) Go
10 3 (0.96%) C
10 3 (0.96%) COBOL
10 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.32%) CFML
11 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (3.50%) Degree
2 7 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.91%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.96%) PhD
5 2 (0.64%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.10%) QA
2 11 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.64%) ECSS
System Software
1 28 (8.92%) Docker
2 5 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (6.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.23%) Terraform
3 3 (0.96%) Kibana
4 2 (0.64%) Ansible
4 2 (0.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.59%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.27%) Adobe
3 4 (1.27%) Telerik
4 3 (0.96%) Salesforce
4 3 (0.96%) Splunk
5 2 (0.64%) ESRI
5 2 (0.64%) ServiceNow