Full-Stack Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Full-Stack Engineer
England > South West

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in the South West is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 157 186
Rank change year-on-year +1 +29 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 84 17 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.79% 0.47% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.51% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 57 10 10
10th Percentile £59,500 £52,375 £48,975
25th Percentile - £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +3.95%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £70,625
90th Percentile £96,000 £73,625 £78,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

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 9,827 3,332 6,242
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.99% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,744 2,160 3,856
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,575 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +8.18% -2.70% -5.79%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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 West.

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in the South West

Full-Stack Engineer
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 Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Bristol -8 39 £70,000 +12.00% 7
Gloucestershire -52 22 £95,000 +52.00% 10
Devon - 9 £75,000 - 1
Dorset -1 8 £100,000 +66.67%
Wiltshire - 5 £90,000 -
Full-Stack Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 2026, 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 West region featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 66 (78.57%) Software Engineering
3 21 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 20 (23.81%) Agile
5 19 (22.62%) Java
6 18 (21.43%) CI/CD
7 15 (17.86%) JavaScript
8 14 (16.67%) AI
8 14 (16.67%) Microservices
9 13 (15.48%) DV Cleared
10 12 (14.29%) Kubernetes
10 12 (14.29%) Python
10 12 (14.29%) React
11 11 (13.10%) Test Automation
11 11 (13.10%) TypeScript
12 10 (11.90%) DevOps
12 10 (11.90%) Spring
12 10 (11.90%) Spring Boot
13 9 (10.71%) Azure
13 9 (10.71%) C#
13 9 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
14 8 (9.52%) Analytics
15 7 (8.33%) .NET
15 7 (8.33%) AWS
15 7 (8.33%) Containerisation
15 7 (8.33%) Docker
15 7 (8.33%) Kotlin
16 6 (7.14%) Event-Driven
16 6 (7.14%) Generative AI
16 6 (7.14%) GitLab

Full-Stack Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (10.71%) Azure
2 7 (8.33%) AWS
3 5 (5.95%) GCP
4 4 (4.76%) GitHub
4 4 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.38%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.19%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) HTTP
1 1 (1.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) GIS
1 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.19%) Chroma
2 1 (1.19%) Pinecone
2 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (7.14%) GitLab
2 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.19%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.19%) Git
3 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.19%) Vite
General
1 11 (13.10%) Finance
2 5 (5.95%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.38%) Banking
3 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.38%) Law
3 2 (2.38%) Local Government
3 2 (2.38%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) React
2 10 (11.90%) Spring
2 10 (11.90%) Spring Boot
3 7 (8.33%) .NET
4 6 (7.14%) Vue
5 5 (5.95%) REST
6 4 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.76%) Node.js
6 4 (4.76%) RESTful
7 3 (3.57%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.57%) WPF
8 2 (2.38%) CSS
8 2 (2.38%) HTML
8 2 (2.38%) JSF
8 2 (2.38%) PrimeFaces
9 1 (1.19%) Celery
9 1 (1.19%) Handlebars
9 1 (1.19%) Jinja
9 1 (1.19%) pytest
9 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.19%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 66 (78.57%) Software Engineering
3 20 (23.81%) Agile
4 18 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 14 (16.67%) AI
5 14 (16.67%) Microservices
6 11 (13.10%) Test Automation
7 10 (11.90%) DevOps
8 9 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (9.52%) Analytics
10 7 (8.33%) Containerisation
11 6 (7.14%) Event-Driven
11 6 (7.14%) Generative AI
11 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (7.14%) Observability
12 5 (5.95%) API Development
12 5 (5.95%) Architectural Patterns
12 5 (5.95%) Clean Code
12 5 (5.95%) Collaborative Culture
12 5 (5.95%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.62%) Java
2 15 (17.86%) JavaScript
3 12 (14.29%) Python
4 11 (13.10%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.71%) C#
6 7 (8.33%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.57%) SQL
8 1 (1.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.48%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (2.38%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.19%) Mistral