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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 204 208
Rank change year-on-year +53 +4 +61
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 18 36 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.52% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.50% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11 11 16
10th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £48,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -12.01% +8.92%
75th Percentile £68,125 £68,750 £84,322
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £97,290
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +28.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,236 7,130 4,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 94.88% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,122 4,624 3,489
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £52,000 £54,590
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -4.74% +9.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Full-Stack Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Engineer 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
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 17 September 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
Gloucestershire +26 9 £62,500 - 5
Bristol +39 5 £60,000 +2.13% 5
Dorset +29 3 £60,000 +34.83% 1
Full-Stack Engineer
England

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Full-Stack Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 18 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (94.44%) Software Engineering
3 13 (72.22%) Java
4 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
5 11 (61.11%) React
6 10 (55.56%) AWS
6 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
7 9 (50.00%) Agile
8 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
8 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
9 6 (33.33%) Azure
9 6 (33.33%) Microservices
9 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
10 5 (27.78%) Spring
10 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
10 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
10 5 (27.78%) DevOps
10 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
10 5 (27.78%) Private Cloud
10 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
10 5 (27.78%) Serverless
11 4 (22.22%) User Experience
11 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
11 4 (22.22%) SQL
12 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
12 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
12 3 (16.67%) Coaching
12 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
3 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (27.78%) Serverless
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.11%) Law
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (5.56%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) React
2 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
3 5 (27.78%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.11%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) Vue
5 1 (5.56%) LAMP
5 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.56%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
1 5 (27.78%) Private Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (94.44%) Software Engineering
3 9 (50.00%) Agile
4 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
5 6 (33.33%) Microservices
6 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (27.78%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
7 4 (22.22%) User Experience
8 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (16.67%) Coaching
8 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
9 2 (11.11%) Code Quality
9 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (11.11%) Open Source
9 2 (11.11%) Operational Stability
9 2 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
9 2 (11.11%) SDLC
9 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes