Full-Stack Development Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Development
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 47 85
Rank change year-on-year -16 +38 -4
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 118 141 182
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.51% 4.99% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.35% 5.31% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 64 75 164
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £38,691
25th Percentile £49,375 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,625 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Full-Stack Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,520 2,655 5,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 74.86% 94.05% 86.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,191 1,193 3,868
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Full-Stack Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Development
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Full-Stack Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the Thames Valley

Full-Stack Development
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 Development within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
Berkshire -28 48 £50,000 -20.63% 19
Buckinghamshire -3 40 £60,000 - 12
Oxfordshire -3 30 £68,750 +14.58% 18
Full-Stack Development
South East

Full-Stack Development
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 4 (3.39%) OpenStack
1 4 (3.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (29.66%) AWS
2 28 (23.73%) Azure
3 17 (14.41%) SaaS
4 15 (12.71%) Serverless
5 12 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (10.17%) GitHub
6 10 (8.47%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (8.47%) GCP
7 9 (7.63%) Amazon S3
7 9 (7.63%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.24%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (3.39%) Figma
11 3 (2.54%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.02%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (9.32%) Relational Database
4 10 (8.47%) NoSQL
5 9 (7.63%) MySQL
6 6 (5.08%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.24%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.54%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 20 (16.95%) Git
2 10 (8.47%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.93%) JUnit
4 6 (5.08%) JMeter
4 6 (5.08%) Mockito
5 5 (4.24%) git-flow
6 2 (1.69%) GitLab
6 2 (1.69%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.85%) Postman
7 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (17.80%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.47%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.08%) Finance
4 4 (3.39%) Manufacturing
4 4 (3.39%) Retail
5 2 (1.69%) Automotive
5 2 (1.69%) Aviation
5 2 (1.69%) Digital Healthcare
5 2 (1.69%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Games
Job Titles
1 71 (60.17%) Developer
2 58 (49.15%) Full-Stack Developer
3 43 (36.44%) Software Engineer
4 32 (27.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 31 (26.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 24 (20.34%) Senior
7 18 (15.25%) Principal Engineer
7 18 (15.25%) Principal Software Engineer
8 17 (14.41%) .NET Developer
9 16 (13.56%) Senior Developer
10 15 (12.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 15 (12.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (11.86%) Java Developer
12 9 (7.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 7 (5.93%) C# Developer
13 7 (5.93%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 7 (5.93%) React Developer
13 7 (5.93%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (5.93%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 7 (5.93%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (31.36%) .NET
2 24 (20.34%) React
2 24 (20.34%) REST
3 13 (11.02%) HTML
3 13 (11.02%) Web Services
4 12 (10.17%) .NET Framework
4 12 (10.17%) ASP.NET
5 11 (9.32%) Spring
5 11 (9.32%) Spring Boot
6 10 (8.47%) Kafka
7 9 (7.63%) CSS
8 8 (6.78%) Node.js
9 7 (5.93%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (5.08%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (5.08%) Apache Camel
10 6 (5.08%) Django
10 6 (5.08%) Hibernate
10 6 (5.08%) jQuery
10 6 (5.08%) JSON
10 6 (5.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.25%) IoT
1 18 (15.25%) Smart Energy
2 11 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.47%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.39%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.69%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) Robotics
7 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.85%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.85%) Social Network
7 1 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (43.22%) Software Engineering
2 31 (26.27%) Agile
3 26 (22.03%) CI/CD
4 18 (15.25%) Energy Management
4 18 (15.25%) Microservices
4 18 (15.25%) Storage Management
5 17 (14.41%) DevOps
6 12 (10.17%) TDD
7 11 (9.32%) Scrum
7 11 (9.32%) SDLC
8 10 (8.47%) Clean Code
8 10 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (7.63%) AI
9 9 (7.63%) Containerisation
10 8 (6.78%) B2B
10 8 (6.78%) MVC
11 7 (5.93%) BDD
11 7 (5.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (5.93%) User Experience
11 7 (5.93%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (27.97%) C#
2 26 (22.03%) JavaScript
3 24 (20.34%) TypeScript
4 22 (18.64%) Java
4 22 (18.64%) Python
5 18 (15.25%) SQL
6 8 (6.78%) C++
7 6 (5.08%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.54%) C
8 3 (2.54%) COBOL
9 2 (1.69%) Go
9 2 (1.69%) PHP
10 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (5.08%) Degree
1 6 (5.08%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.69%) PhD
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.17%) QA
2 5 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.69%) ECSS
System Software
1 19 (16.10%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.08%) Kibana
3 2 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (6.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.08%) Dynatrace
2 6 (5.08%) Splunk
3 4 (3.39%) Telerik