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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 163 199
Rank change year-on-year +7 +36 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 18 40 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.44% 0.66% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.70% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 20
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £49,688 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,375 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,000 £97,290
England median annual salary £86,000 £74,000 £80,294
% change year-on-year +16.22% -7.84% +14.71%

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 3,770 5,739 4,320
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 94.25% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,530 3,542 3,361
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,349 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% -2.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 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
Gloucestershire +32 10 £63,750 - 6
Bristol +25 4 £71,250 +9.62% 7
Dorset -3 3 £60,000 +14.29% 2
Full-Stack Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 West region featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (88.89%) Software Engineering
3 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
3 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
4 10 (55.56%) Java
5 9 (50.00%) React
6 8 (44.44%) Spring Boot
7 7 (38.89%) Agile
7 7 (38.89%) AWS
7 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
7 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
8 6 (33.33%) AI
8 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
8 6 (33.33%) Spring
9 5 (27.78%) DevOps
9 5 (27.78%) Microservices
9 5 (27.78%) User Experience
10 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
10 4 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (22.22%) Coaching
10 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
10 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
10 4 (22.22%) Serverless
11 3 (16.67%) Azure
11 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
11 3 (16.67%) Python
11 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
11 3 (16.67%) Visualisation

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 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 4 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (22.22%) Serverless
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Run
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (5.56%) Games
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) React
2 8 (44.44%) Spring Boot
3 6 (33.33%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.56%) D3.js
5 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.56%) LAMP
5 1 (5.56%) PrimeNG
5 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) RxJS
5 1 (5.56%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (88.89%) Software Engineering
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 6 (33.33%) AI
4 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) Microservices
5 5 (27.78%) User Experience
6 4 (22.22%) Coaching
6 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
8 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (11.11%) Community of Practice
8 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 2 (11.11%) Operational Stability
8 2 (11.11%) SDLC
9 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Engineering
9 1 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Google