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 £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 October 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 176 196
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 17 39 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.46% 0.61% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.65% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 22
10th Percentile £52,375 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £58,925
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +1.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £71,092
90th Percentile £73,625 £78,750 £95,561
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,750 £80,294
% change year-on-year +9.32% -3.17% +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 3,394 6,024 4,425
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.39% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,229 3,724 3,406
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% -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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +37 9 £62,500 - 1
Bristol +29 4 £62,500 - 3
Dorset +12 3 £60,000 +23.71% 1
Full-Stack Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 October 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 17 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (94.12%) Software Engineering
3 11 (64.71%) Java
4 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
5 9 (52.94%) React
5 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
6 8 (47.06%) Agile
6 8 (47.06%) AWS
7 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
7 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
8 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
9 5 (29.41%) AI
9 5 (29.41%) DevOps
9 5 (29.41%) Machine Learning
9 5 (29.41%) Microservices
9 5 (29.41%) Spring
10 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
10 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (23.53%) Azure
10 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
10 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
10 4 (23.53%) Serverless
10 4 (23.53%) User Experience
11 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
11 3 (17.65%) Coaching
11 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
11 3 (17.65%) Python
11 3 (17.65%) SQL
11 3 (17.65%) 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 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Serverless
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Run
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.76%) Law
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (5.88%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) React
2 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
3 5 (29.41%) Spring
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.88%) D3.js
5 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.88%) LAMP
5 1 (5.88%) PrimeNG
5 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.88%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) RESTful
5 1 (5.88%) RxJS
5 1 (5.88%) Symfony
5 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (94.12%) Software Engineering
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) AI
5 5 (29.41%) DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Machine Learning
5 5 (29.41%) Microservices
6 4 (23.53%) User Experience
7 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (17.65%) Coaching
7 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
8 2 (11.76%) Community of Practice
8 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 2 (11.76%) Operational Stability
8 2 (11.76%) SDLC
9 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) PHP
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Google