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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 81 79
Rank change year-on-year +30 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 148 94 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.64% 3.08% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 3.32% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 103 66 198
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £38,334
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,188 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,000 £73,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%

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 4,063 2,833 5,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.35% 92.89% 84.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,648 1,225 4,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +34 66 £65,000 +3.59% 14
Buckinghamshire +13 49 £60,000 - 12
Oxfordshire -6 33 £57,500 -4.17% 14
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 5 (3.38%) WordPress
2 4 (2.70%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (25.00%) AWS
2 25 (16.89%) Azure
3 20 (13.51%) SaaS
4 7 (4.73%) GCP
4 7 (4.73%) GitHub
5 5 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (3.38%) Amazon S3
5 5 (3.38%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (3.38%) Figma
5 5 (3.38%) Serverless
6 4 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.03%) Azure AI
7 3 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.49%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.38%) MySQL
3 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.35%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (12.84%) Git
2 4 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.68%) git-flow
3 1 (0.68%) JUnit
3 1 (0.68%) Postman
3 1 (0.68%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (10.81%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.08%) Retail
3 7 (4.73%) Finance
4 5 (3.38%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.35%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (1.35%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.68%) Automotive
7 1 (0.68%) Aviation
7 1 (0.68%) Games
7 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (56.08%) Developer
2 71 (47.97%) Full-Stack Developer
3 53 (35.81%) Software Engineer
4 48 (32.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 39 (26.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 36 (24.32%) Senior
7 24 (16.22%) Senior Developer
8 23 (15.54%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (12.84%) Principal Engineer
9 19 (12.84%) Principal Software Engineer
10 13 (8.78%) .NET Developer
11 11 (7.43%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (7.43%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 11 (7.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (6.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (5.41%) Java Developer
13 8 (5.41%) Web Developer
14 7 (4.73%) C# Developer
14 7 (4.73%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 6 (4.05%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (27.03%) React
2 33 (22.30%) .NET
3 23 (15.54%) Node.js
4 16 (10.81%) REST
5 12 (8.11%) ASP.NET
6 10 (6.76%) Ruby on Rails
7 9 (6.08%) .NET Framework
8 8 (5.41%) .NET Core
8 8 (5.41%) Blazor
8 8 (5.41%) Web Services
9 7 (4.73%) CSS
9 7 (4.73%) Entity Framework
10 6 (4.05%) Django
10 6 (4.05%) HTML
10 6 (4.05%) Kafka
10 6 (4.05%) Vue
11 5 (3.38%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (3.38%) Redux
11 5 (3.38%) Spring Boot
11 5 (3.38%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.84%) IoT
1 19 (12.84%) Smart Energy
2 7 (4.73%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.38%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.35%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.35%) Robotics
6 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.68%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.68%) Social Network
6 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.38%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (41.22%) Software Engineering
2 19 (12.84%) Agile
2 19 (12.84%) Energy Management
2 19 (12.84%) Storage Management
3 15 (10.14%) CI/CD
4 13 (8.78%) DevOps
5 11 (7.43%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (6.08%) User Experience
6 9 (6.08%) UX Design
7 8 (5.41%) AI
7 8 (5.41%) B2B
7 8 (5.41%) Containerisation
7 8 (5.41%) Microservices
7 8 (5.41%) Scrum
7 8 (5.41%) TDD
7 8 (5.41%) Web Development
8 7 (4.73%) Code Quality
8 7 (4.73%) Test Automation
9 6 (4.05%) Machine Learning
9 6 (4.05%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 40 (27.03%) TypeScript
2 27 (18.24%) C#
3 24 (16.22%) JavaScript
4 16 (10.81%) Python
5 15 (10.14%) SQL
6 14 (9.46%) Java
7 10 (6.76%) Ruby
8 6 (4.05%) C++
9 3 (2.03%) C
9 3 (2.03%) COBOL
10 2 (1.35%) Go
11 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (4.05%) Degree
2 4 (2.70%) Master's Degree
2 4 (2.70%) PhD
3 3 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.35%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.35%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.11%) QA
2 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (8.11%) Docker
2 5 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (6.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.35%) Telerik