Full-Stack Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Full-Stack Engineer
England > South East

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 239 252
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 19 68 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.21% 0.60% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.63% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9 21 20
10th Percentile £52,000 - £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% +3.11% -19.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £72,939
England median annual salary £90,000 £74,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +21.62% -12.94% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 8,378 10,810 7,382
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 95.82% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,187 6,037 5,288
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,925
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.31% -2.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,455 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.17% -

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in the South East

Full-Stack Engineer
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 Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 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 -3 9 £93,750 +36.36% 23
Oxfordshire +36 8 £125,000 +85.19% 11
Hampshire +26 7 £70,000 - 1
East Sussex +20 2 £80,000 - 1
Berkshire +2 1 £62,500 -7.41% 11
Full-Stack Engineer
England

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, Full-Stack Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (57.89%) Software Engineering
3 7 (36.84%) AWS
3 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) GitHub
4 6 (31.58%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (31.58%) Java
4 6 (31.58%) React
4 6 (31.58%) TypeScript
5 5 (26.32%) Agile
5 5 (26.32%) Energy Management
5 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (26.32%) Python
5 5 (26.32%) Storage Management
6 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
6 4 (21.05%) Spring
7 3 (15.79%) Azure
7 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
7 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (15.79%) CSS
7 3 (15.79%) Degree
7 3 (15.79%) Docker
7 3 (15.79%) HTML
7 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
7 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
7 3 (15.79%) Observability
8 2 (10.53%) AI
8 2 (10.53%) Ansible
8 2 (10.53%) C++
8 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) GitHub
2 6 (31.58%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
2 2 (10.53%) JMeter
2 2 (10.53%) JUnit
2 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Automotive
2 1 (5.26%) Aviation
2 1 (5.26%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (5.26%) Games
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) React
2 4 (21.05%) Spring
3 3 (15.79%) CSS
3 3 (15.79%) HTML
4 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
4 2 (10.53%) Kafka
4 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.26%) Django
5 1 (5.26%) LangGraph
5 1 (5.26%) ModSecurity
5 1 (5.26%) Node.js
5 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) IoT
1 5 (26.32%) Smart Energy
2 3 (15.79%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (57.89%) Software Engineering
3 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Energy Management
4 5 (26.32%) Storage Management
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.79%) Observability
6 2 (10.53%) AI
6 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.53%) Data Management
6 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
6 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
6 2 (10.53%) Microservices
6 2 (10.53%) OO
6 2 (10.53%) OOP
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Java
1 6 (31.58%) TypeScript
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) C++
4 2 (10.53%) SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ECSS
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.26%) Argo
3 1 (5.26%) Kubeflow
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) VMware