Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the Thames Valley is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 129 147
Rank change year-on-year +21 +18 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 64 50 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.60% 1.41% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 1.59% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 25 23 27
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,750 £40,575
25th Percentile £43,750 £44,125 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,700 £87,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 3,684 3,136 3,092
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 88.66% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,121 1,617 2,301
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,911 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +10.09% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Developer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Berkshire +10 41 £66,250 +6.00% 14
Buckinghamshire +11 20 £56,250 +25.70% 14
Oxfordshire +17 3 £70,000 - 8
Full-Stack Developer
South East

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 64 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 43 (67.19%) Agile
3 42 (65.63%) CI/CD
4 38 (59.38%) AWS
5 37 (57.81%) JavaScript
6 33 (51.56%) HTML
7 32 (50.00%) Docker
8 31 (48.44%) Kubernetes
9 28 (43.75%) Azure
9 28 (43.75%) React
10 27 (42.19%) Git
11 26 (40.63%) C#
11 26 (40.63%) DevOps
12 25 (39.06%) .NET
12 25 (39.06%) REST
13 23 (35.94%) Microservices
14 22 (34.38%) CSS
15 21 (32.81%) Serverless
16 20 (31.25%) GCP
16 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (31.25%) QA
17 19 (29.69%) Node.js
18 18 (28.13%) PostgreSQL
19 17 (26.56%) Containerisation
19 17 (26.56%) Java
19 17 (26.56%) Relational Database
19 17 (26.56%) RESTful
19 17 (26.56%) TDD
20 16 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
20 16 (25.00%) Amazon EKS

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (4.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 38 (59.38%) AWS
2 28 (43.75%) Azure
3 21 (32.81%) Serverless
4 20 (31.25%) GCP
5 16 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (20.31%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 8 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (10.94%) SaaS
9 5 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (7.81%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (7.81%) GitHub
10 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.13%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (26.56%) Relational Database
3 13 (20.31%) RDBMS
4 11 (17.19%) NoSQL
5 8 (12.50%) MySQL
6 7 (10.94%) SQL Server
7 6 (9.38%) DynamoDB
8 5 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 27 (42.19%) Git
2 16 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 14 (21.88%) JUnit
4 13 (20.31%) JMeter
4 13 (20.31%) Mockito
5 5 (7.81%) git-flow
6 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Law
2 14 (21.88%) Marketing
2 14 (21.88%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.69%) Finance
4 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Automotive
5 1 (1.56%) Aviation
5 1 (1.56%) Legal
5 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (51.56%) HTML
2 28 (43.75%) React
3 25 (39.06%) .NET
3 25 (39.06%) REST
4 22 (34.38%) CSS
5 19 (29.69%) Node.js
6 17 (26.56%) RESTful
7 16 (25.00%) Spring
7 16 (25.00%) Spring Boot
8 15 (23.44%) Web Services
9 13 (20.31%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (20.31%) Apache Camel
9 13 (20.31%) Hibernate
9 13 (20.31%) jQuery
9 13 (20.31%) JSON
9 13 (20.31%) WireMock
9 13 (20.31%) XML
10 10 (15.63%) .NET Framework
11 9 (14.06%) ASP.NET
12 8 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.56%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.13%) Robotics
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.56%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 43 (67.19%) Agile
3 42 (65.63%) CI/CD
4 26 (40.63%) DevOps
5 23 (35.94%) Microservices
6 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (26.56%) Containerisation
7 17 (26.56%) TDD
8 16 (25.00%) SDLC
9 15 (23.44%) User Experience
10 14 (21.88%) Customer Engagement
10 14 (21.88%) Design Patterns
10 14 (21.88%) Test Automation
10 14 (21.88%) UX Design
10 14 (21.88%) Web Development
11 13 (20.31%) BDD
11 13 (20.31%) Process Management
11 13 (20.31%) Workflow
12 8 (12.50%) MVC
12 8 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (57.81%) JavaScript
2 26 (40.63%) C#
3 17 (26.56%) Java
4 14 (21.88%) Python
5 13 (20.31%) Shell Script
5 13 (20.31%) TypeScript
6 10 (15.63%) SQL
7 3 (4.69%) C
7 3 (4.69%) COBOL
8 1 (1.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.56%) Degree
2 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (31.25%) QA
2 5 (7.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (48.44%) Kubernetes
2 13 (20.31%) Kibana
3 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Dynatrace
1 13 (20.31%) Splunk
2 4 (6.25%) Telerik
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.56%) IONA