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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 44 82
Rank change year-on-year -67 +38 -24
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 185 508 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.79% 5.38% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 6.16% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 127 223 199
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

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 8,460 8,247 6,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 81.64% 87.42% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,046 4,148 4,687
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,750 £39,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -33 101 £60,000 - 51
Berkshire -24 55 £60,000 -4.00% 13
Hampshire -33 31 £65,000 +18.18% 20
Buckinghamshire -16 28 £60,000 +4.35% 22
East Sussex -8 19 £70,000 +40.00% 7
Oxfordshire 0 18 £60,000 +3.00% 16
Surrey -23 16 £57,500 -11.54% 13
West Sussex -23 7 £70,000 +12.00% 15
Kent -65 4 £70,000 +21.74% 21
Isle of Wight - 3 £45,000 - 1
Sussex -1 2 £75,000 +66.67% 2
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 (2.16%) OpenStack
1 4 (2.16%) WordPress
2 2 (1.08%) IIS
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 69 (37.30%) AWS
2 56 (30.27%) Azure
3 24 (12.97%) GCP
3 24 (12.97%) Serverless
4 19 (10.27%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (10.27%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (9.73%) SaaS
6 15 (8.11%) GitHub
7 14 (7.57%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (5.41%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.86%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.24%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.70%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.08%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.54%) Amazon SageMaker
14 1 (0.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.30%) SQL Server
2 27 (14.59%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (10.81%) Relational Database
4 15 (8.11%) MySQL
4 15 (8.11%) NoSQL
5 14 (7.57%) RDBMS
6 6 (3.24%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.70%) Power BI
8 4 (2.16%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.08%) GIS
10 1 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (19.46%) Git
2 23 (12.43%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.19%) JUnit
4 16 (8.65%) JMeter
5 14 (7.57%) Mockito
6 5 (2.70%) git-flow
7 3 (1.62%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.08%) GitLab
8 2 (1.08%) JIRA
8 2 (1.08%) PHPUnit
8 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.27%) Public Sector
3 18 (9.73%) Marketing
4 14 (7.57%) Law
5 12 (6.49%) Aviation
6 9 (4.86%) Finance
7 4 (2.16%) Automotive
8 3 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Back Office
9 2 (1.08%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.54%) Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.54%) Games
10 1 (0.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 136 (73.51%) Developer
2 117 (63.24%) Full-Stack Developer
3 53 (28.65%) Senior
4 42 (22.70%) Senior Developer
5 37 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 29 (15.68%) Software Engineer
7 28 (15.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 26 (14.05%) .NET Developer
9 24 (12.97%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 21 (11.35%) Java Developer
11 19 (10.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 19 (10.27%) React Developer
11 19 (10.27%) Web Developer
12 18 (9.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 15 (8.11%) Full-Stack Web Developer
14 14 (7.57%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 14 (7.57%) Senior Web Developer
15 11 (5.95%) C# Developer
15 11 (5.95%) Software Developer
16 10 (5.41%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (41.62%) React
2 73 (39.46%) .NET
3 47 (25.41%) HTML
4 35 (18.92%) CSS
5 33 (17.84%) Node.js
5 33 (17.84%) RESTful
6 29 (15.68%) AngularJS
6 29 (15.68%) REST
7 28 (15.14%) ASP.NET
8 23 (12.43%) Spring
9 22 (11.89%) Spring Boot
10 19 (10.27%) .NET Framework
11 18 (9.73%) .NET Core
11 18 (9.73%) Vue
12 17 (9.19%) Web Services
13 16 (8.65%) Hibernate
13 16 (8.65%) JSON
14 15 (8.11%) XML
15 14 (7.57%) ActiveMQ
15 14 (7.57%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.35%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.95%) IoT
3 9 (4.86%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.32%) Smart Energy
5 7 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.62%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.08%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.08%) Robotics
9 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.54%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.08%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (38.92%) CI/CD
2 70 (37.84%) Agile
3 54 (29.19%) Software Engineering
4 46 (24.86%) DevOps
5 35 (18.92%) Microservices
6 31 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (14.59%) Clean Code
7 27 (14.59%) Web Development
8 23 (12.43%) TDD
9 22 (11.89%) User Experience
10 21 (11.35%) Containerisation
11 20 (10.81%) Scrum
11 20 (10.81%) SDLC
12 19 (10.27%) Design Patterns
12 19 (10.27%) MVC
13 17 (9.19%) Test Automation
14 15 (8.11%) AI
14 15 (8.11%) UX Design
15 14 (7.57%) BDD
15 14 (7.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 69 (37.30%) C#
2 57 (30.81%) JavaScript
3 51 (27.57%) TypeScript
4 33 (17.84%) Java
4 33 (17.84%) Python
5 32 (17.30%) SQL
6 14 (7.57%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.78%) Go
8 6 (3.24%) C++
9 3 (1.62%) C
9 3 (1.62%) COBOL
9 3 (1.62%) PHP
10 2 (1.08%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (10.27%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.19%) Degree
3 9 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.62%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.89%) QA
2 5 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.08%) ECSS
System Software
1 46 (24.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (22.70%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.57%) Kibana
3 4 (2.16%) Terraform
4 2 (1.08%) Ansible
4 2 (1.08%) Grafana
4 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.54%) Argo
5 1 (0.54%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 16 (8.65%) Dynatrace
2 14 (7.57%) Splunk
3 10 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.16%) Telerik
5 2 (1.08%) ESRI
5 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.08%) VMware
6 1 (0.54%) Databricks
6 1 (0.54%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.54%) IONA
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle