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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 50 107
Rank change year-on-year -25 +57 -28
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 107 179 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.68% 5.06% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 5.54% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 49 81 58
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,250 £43,988
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

All Process and 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 3,256 3,230 2,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.48% 91.32% 90.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,752 1,524 2,155
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -1.82%

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 25 December 2025.

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 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 -29 56 £60,000 -4.00% 95
Buckinghamshire -12 31 £60,000 +2.13% 46
Oxfordshire +6 20 £70,000 +16.67% 41
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 (3.74%) OpenStack
1 4 (3.74%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 50 (46.73%) AWS
2 32 (29.91%) Azure
3 23 (21.50%) Serverless
4 20 (18.69%) GCP
5 18 (16.82%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (16.82%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (13.08%) SaaS
7 13 (12.15%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (9.35%) Amazon S3
8 10 (9.35%) GitHub
9 9 (8.41%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.67%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.93%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.93%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.69%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (16.82%) Relational Database
3 14 (13.08%) MySQL
4 13 (12.15%) RDBMS
5 12 (11.21%) NoSQL
6 10 (9.35%) SQL Server
7 6 (5.61%) DynamoDB
8 5 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.74%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 30 (28.04%) Git
2 18 (16.82%) Jenkins
3 14 (13.08%) JUnit
4 13 (12.15%) JMeter
4 13 (12.15%) Mockito
5 5 (4.67%) git-flow
6 2 (1.87%) GitLab
6 2 (1.87%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.93%) JIRA
7 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.82%) Public Sector
3 17 (15.89%) Marketing
4 14 (13.08%) Law
5 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Finance
6 2 (1.87%) Automotive
6 2 (1.87%) Aviation
6 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.93%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (0.93%) Games
7 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Legal
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (71.03%) Developer
2 64 (59.81%) Full-Stack Developer
3 35 (32.71%) Senior
4 29 (27.10%) Senior Developer
5 28 (26.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (21.50%) Software Engineer
7 21 (19.63%) Java Developer
8 19 (17.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 18 (16.82%) Web Developer
10 17 (15.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 16 (14.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 15 (14.02%) .NET Developer
13 14 (13.08%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 14 (13.08%) Full-Stack Web Developer
13 14 (13.08%) Senior Web Developer
14 13 (12.15%) Mid-Level Java Developer
15 10 (9.35%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (9.35%) Principal Software Engineer
16 8 (7.48%) React Developer
16 8 (7.48%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (32.71%) React
2 33 (30.84%) HTML
3 29 (27.10%) .NET
4 26 (24.30%) REST
5 23 (21.50%) Node.js
6 22 (20.56%) CSS
7 20 (18.69%) Spring
7 20 (18.69%) Spring Boot
8 19 (17.76%) RESTful
9 16 (14.95%) Web Services
10 13 (12.15%) ActiveMQ
10 13 (12.15%) Apache Camel
10 13 (12.15%) Hibernate
10 13 (12.15%) jQuery
10 13 (12.15%) JSON
10 13 (12.15%) WireMock
10 13 (12.15%) XML
11 11 (10.28%) .NET Framework
11 11 (10.28%) Kafka
12 10 (9.35%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.82%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (9.35%) IoT
2 10 (9.35%) Smart Energy
3 7 (6.54%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.80%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.87%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.87%) Robotics
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.93%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (48.60%) CI/CD
2 51 (47.66%) Agile
3 31 (28.97%) DevOps
3 31 (28.97%) Software Engineering
4 27 (25.23%) Microservices
5 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (17.76%) Containerisation
6 19 (17.76%) TDD
7 18 (16.82%) Web Development
8 17 (15.89%) SDLC
9 16 (14.95%) User Experience
10 15 (14.02%) Design Patterns
11 14 (13.08%) Customer Engagement
11 14 (13.08%) Test Automation
11 14 (13.08%) UX Design
12 13 (12.15%) BDD
12 13 (12.15%) Process Management
12 13 (12.15%) Scrum
12 13 (12.15%) Workflow
13 10 (9.35%) Energy Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (40.19%) JavaScript
2 28 (26.17%) C#
2 28 (26.17%) Java
3 22 (20.56%) TypeScript
4 19 (17.76%) Python
5 14 (13.08%) SQL
6 13 (12.15%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.74%) C++
8 3 (2.80%) C
8 3 (2.80%) COBOL
9 2 (1.87%) Go
9 2 (1.87%) PHP
10 1 (0.93%) Bash
10 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.67%) Degree
3 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.93%) PhD
4 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.69%) QA
2 5 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.87%) ECSS
System Software
1 40 (37.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (34.58%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.15%) Kibana
3 2 (1.87%) Terraform
4 1 (0.93%) Argo
4 1 (0.93%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (12.15%) Dynatrace
1 13 (12.15%) Splunk
2 4 (3.74%) Telerik
3 2 (1.87%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.93%) IONA
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle