Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in the South West

Full-Stack Developer
England > South West

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the South West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 124 151
Rank change year-on-year -8 +27 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 76 26 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.02% 0.98% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.06% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 64 26 131
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.74% +5.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £74,375 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 7,004 2,457 8,350
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 92.37% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,779 1,643 6,383
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £65,473 £68,114 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.74%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in the South West

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the South West

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the South West

Full-Stack Developer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Developer within the South West region over the 6 months to 21 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
Gloucestershire -6 19 £55,000 -16.98%
Bristol -11 19 £60,000 - 5
Devon - 15 £50,000 -
Dorset -14 10 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Somerset -23 9 £70,000 +55.56% 2
Wiltshire -15 3 £57,500 -19.30%
Full-Stack Developer
England

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 21 April 2026, Full-Stack Developer 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 West region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 29 (38.16%) JavaScript
3 21 (27.63%) Web Development
4 18 (23.68%) TypeScript
5 17 (22.37%) AWS
5 17 (22.37%) Laravel
5 17 (22.37%) PHP
6 15 (19.74%) Agile
6 15 (19.74%) React
7 13 (17.11%) CSS
7 13 (17.11%) HTML
8 12 (15.79%) Vue
9 11 (14.47%) Python
10 10 (13.16%) C#
10 10 (13.16%) CRM
10 10 (13.16%) Docker
10 10 (13.16%) Java
10 10 (13.16%) Node.js
11 9 (11.84%) AngularJS
11 9 (11.84%) CI/CD
11 9 (11.84%) MySQL
11 9 (11.84%) Software Engineering
11 9 (11.84%) Spring
12 8 (10.53%) .NET
12 8 (10.53%) Microservices
12 8 (10.53%) SaaS
12 8 (10.53%) Spring Boot
13 7 (9.21%) API Development
13 7 (9.21%) DevOps
13 7 (9.21%) E-Commerce

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (5.26%) CMS
2 2 (2.63%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.63%) nginx
2 2 (2.63%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.37%) AWS
2 8 (10.53%) SaaS
3 6 (7.89%) Azure
4 4 (5.26%) DigitalOcean
5 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.95%) Serverless
6 2 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.32%) Figma
7 1 (1.32%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) MySQL
2 5 (6.58%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.32%) DB2
5 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Git
2 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.32%) JIRA
2 1 (1.32%) Maven
2 1 (1.32%) MSTest
2 1 (1.32%) NUnit
General
1 4 (5.26%) Publishing
2 2 (2.63%) Health Technology
2 2 (2.63%) Tech for Good
3 1 (1.32%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.32%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.37%) Laravel
2 15 (19.74%) React
3 13 (17.11%) CSS
3 13 (17.11%) HTML
4 12 (15.79%) Vue
5 10 (13.16%) Node.js
6 9 (11.84%) AngularJS
6 9 (11.84%) Spring
7 8 (10.53%) .NET
7 8 (10.53%) Spring Boot
8 5 (6.58%) .NET Core
9 4 (5.26%) .NET Framework
9 4 (5.26%) React Native
9 4 (5.26%) REST
10 3 (3.95%) ASP.NET
10 3 (3.95%) Jest
10 3 (3.95%) jQuery
10 3 (3.95%) RESTful
10 3 (3.95%) Sass
10 3 (3.95%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (7.89%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.32%) IoT
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 21 (27.63%) Web Development
3 15 (19.74%) Agile
4 10 (13.16%) CRM
5 9 (11.84%) CI/CD
5 9 (11.84%) Software Engineering
6 8 (10.53%) Microservices
7 7 (9.21%) API Development
7 7 (9.21%) DevOps
7 7 (9.21%) E-Commerce
7 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (7.89%) Containerisation
9 5 (6.58%) Clean Code
9 5 (6.58%) Code Quality
9 5 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (5.26%) Front End Development
10 4 (5.26%) Roadmaps
10 4 (5.26%) Test Automation
11 3 (3.95%) API Integration
11 3 (3.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (38.16%) JavaScript
2 18 (23.68%) TypeScript
3 17 (22.37%) PHP
4 11 (14.47%) Python
5 10 (13.16%) C#
5 10 (13.16%) Java
6 7 (9.21%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.32%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (13.16%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.32%) Grafana
2 1 (1.32%) Kibana
2 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (5.26%) Peregrine