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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 136 64
Rank change year-on-year +88 -72 +17
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 215 68 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.91% 1.77% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 1.97% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 151 32 108
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,250 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +4.26% -21.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,813 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £85,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.94%

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 5,237 3,446 3,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.92% 89.90% 82.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,717 1,453 1,983
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -12.73% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +70 109 £75,000 +66.67% 32
Oxfordshire +3 56 £59,173 -1.38% 33
Buckinghamshire +37 50 £60,000 -15.79% 10
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 2 (0.93%) Confluence
1 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.47%) Apache
2 1 (0.47%) CMS
2 1 (0.47%) IIS
2 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 69 (32.09%) Azure
2 60 (27.91%) AWS
3 24 (11.16%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (7.91%) GitHub
5 12 (5.58%) Azure AI
5 12 (5.58%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (4.65%) SaaS
6 10 (4.65%) Serverless
7 9 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.72%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.79%) GCP
11 5 (2.33%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.33%) PaaS
12 4 (1.86%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.86%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.40%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 3 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.72%) Internet
2 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.42%) SQL Server
2 27 (12.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 24 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (10.23%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.58%) Relational Database
6 11 (5.12%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.72%) MySQL
8 4 (1.86%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.40%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.93%) Power BI
10 2 (0.93%) Redis
10 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (5.58%) Git
2 11 (5.12%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.86%) GitLab
3 4 (1.86%) JUnit
4 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.40%) JMeter
4 3 (1.40%) Mocha
4 3 (1.40%) Mockito
5 2 (0.93%) JIRA
5 2 (0.93%) Maven
5 2 (0.93%) Selenium
5 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) Storybook
General
1 20 (9.30%) Finance
2 15 (6.98%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.51%) Retail
4 12 (5.58%) Automotive
5 10 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.26%) Advertising
7 5 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Law
9 2 (0.93%) Legal
9 2 (0.93%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.47%) Games
10 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 98 (45.58%) Developer
2 59 (27.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 52 (24.19%) Full-Stack Developer
4 50 (23.26%) Senior
4 50 (23.26%) Software Engineer
5 39 (18.14%) .NET Developer
6 28 (13.02%) Senior Developer
7 22 (10.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 17 (7.91%) Lead
9 14 (6.51%) Python Engineer
9 14 (6.51%) Python Software Engineer
10 13 (6.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (5.58%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (5.12%) C# Software Engineer
13 10 (4.65%) .NET Software Engineer
13 10 (4.65%) C# .NET Developer
13 10 (4.65%) C# Developer
13 10 (4.65%) C++ Software Engineer
13 10 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (4.19%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (37.67%) React
2 74 (34.42%) .NET
3 47 (21.86%) Node.js
4 37 (17.21%) ASP.NET
5 36 (16.74%) ASP.NET Core
6 33 (15.35%) .NET Core
7 32 (14.88%) HTML
8 27 (12.56%) CSS
9 23 (10.70%) Blazor
10 20 (9.30%) Ruby on Rails
11 18 (8.37%) REST
12 15 (6.98%) .NET Framework
12 15 (6.98%) Entity Framework
13 11 (5.12%) jQuery
13 11 (5.12%) Spring Boot
13 11 (5.12%) Vue
14 9 (4.19%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (4.19%) ML.NET
15 8 (3.72%) RESTful
15 8 (3.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (1.86%) Cloud Native
3 4 (1.86%) IoT
3 4 (1.86%) Social Network
4 3 (1.40%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.93%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.47%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.47%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.40%) Linux
2 2 (0.93%) Windows
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (24.65%) Agile
2 52 (24.19%) Software Engineering
3 44 (20.47%) CI/CD
4 38 (17.67%) DevOps
5 36 (16.74%) AI
6 27 (12.56%) Microservices
7 22 (10.23%) TDD
8 21 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (9.77%) Scrum
9 20 (9.30%) Machine Learning
10 15 (6.98%) OO
11 13 (6.05%) Containerisation
12 12 (5.58%) Clean Code
12 12 (5.58%) Design Patterns
12 12 (5.58%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (5.12%) LLM
13 11 (5.12%) Test Automation
14 10 (4.65%) Front End Development
14 10 (4.65%) OOP
14 10 (4.65%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 69 (32.09%) C#
2 57 (26.51%) JavaScript
2 57 (26.51%) TypeScript
3 36 (16.74%) SQL
4 33 (15.35%) Python
5 20 (9.30%) Java
5 20 (9.30%) Ruby
6 12 (5.58%) C++
7 4 (1.86%) PHP
8 3 (1.40%) Bash
8 3 (1.40%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.93%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (6.51%) Degree
2 12 (5.58%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.12%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.26%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.79%) PhD
7 5 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.86%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.72%) QA
2 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (15.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.40%) Kibana
3 2 (0.93%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 35 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.26%) Facebook
2 7 (3.26%) YouTube
3 5 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.40%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.40%) Splunk
5 1 (0.47%) Foundry
5 1 (0.47%) HubSpot