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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 53 107
Rank change year-on-year -27 +54 -25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 100 178 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.54% 4.94% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 5.43% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 45 80 57
10th Percentile £41,000 £44,150 £43,650
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £76,500 £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 3,233 3,277 2,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.26% 90.98% 92.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,732 1,561 2,117
10th Percentile £28,775 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,320
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%

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 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 18 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 -30 54 £60,000 -4.00% 39
Buckinghamshire -18 28 £60,000 +4.35% 36
Oxfordshire +4 18 £60,000 +3.00% 22
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 (4.00%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 50 (50.00%) AWS
2 32 (32.00%) Azure
3 24 (24.00%) Serverless
4 20 (20.00%) GCP
5 19 (19.00%) Amazon ECS
5 19 (19.00%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (14.00%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (12.00%) SaaS
8 10 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 10 (10.00%) GitHub
9 9 (9.00%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.00%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (1.00%) Azure AKS
12 1 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.00%) Azure Event Grid
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.00%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (19.00%) Relational Database
3 14 (14.00%) MySQL
3 14 (14.00%) RDBMS
4 13 (13.00%) NoSQL
5 10 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.00%) DynamoDB
7 5 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.00%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 30 (30.00%) Git
2 19 (19.00%) Jenkins
3 15 (15.00%) JUnit
4 14 (14.00%) JMeter
4 14 (14.00%) Mockito
5 5 (5.00%) git-flow
6 2 (2.00%) GitLab
6 2 (2.00%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.00%) JIRA
7 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.00%) Public Sector
3 17 (17.00%) Marketing
4 14 (14.00%) Law
5 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.00%) Finance
6 1 (1.00%) Automotive
6 1 (1.00%) Aviation
6 1 (1.00%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.00%) Games
6 1 (1.00%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.00%) Legal
6 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (72.00%) Developer
2 62 (62.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 34 (34.00%) Senior
4 29 (29.00%) Senior Developer
5 27 (27.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (20.00%) Java Developer
6 20 (20.00%) Software Engineer
7 18 (18.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 17 (17.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 17 (17.00%) Web Developer
9 16 (16.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 14 (14.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
10 14 (14.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 14 (14.00%) Senior Web Developer
11 13 (13.00%) .NET Developer
12 12 (12.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 8 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (8.00%) Principal Software Engineer
14 7 (7.00%) C# Developer
14 7 (7.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (34.00%) HTML
2 33 (33.00%) React
3 27 (27.00%) .NET
3 27 (27.00%) REST
4 23 (23.00%) Node.js
5 22 (22.00%) CSS
6 21 (21.00%) Spring
6 21 (21.00%) Spring Boot
7 19 (19.00%) RESTful
8 17 (17.00%) Web Services
9 14 (14.00%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (14.00%) Apache Camel
9 14 (14.00%) Hibernate
9 14 (14.00%) jQuery
9 14 (14.00%) JSON
9 14 (14.00%) WireMock
9 14 (14.00%) XML
10 11 (11.00%) .NET Framework
10 11 (11.00%) Kafka
11 10 (10.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.00%) IoT
2 8 (8.00%) Smart Energy
3 6 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.00%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.00%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.00%) Robotics
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.00%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (53.00%) CI/CD
2 52 (52.00%) Agile
3 32 (32.00%) DevOps
4 29 (29.00%) Microservices
5 28 (28.00%) Software Engineering
6 23 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (20.00%) TDD
8 18 (18.00%) Containerisation
8 18 (18.00%) SDLC
9 17 (17.00%) Web Development
10 16 (16.00%) User Experience
11 15 (15.00%) Design Patterns
12 14 (14.00%) BDD
12 14 (14.00%) Customer Engagement
12 14 (14.00%) Process Management
12 14 (14.00%) Test Automation
12 14 (14.00%) UX Design
12 14 (14.00%) Workflow
13 13 (13.00%) Scrum
14 9 (9.00%) AI
Programming Languages
1 44 (44.00%) JavaScript
2 28 (28.00%) C#
3 26 (26.00%) Java
4 21 (21.00%) TypeScript
5 19 (19.00%) Python
6 14 (14.00%) Shell Script
7 13 (13.00%) SQL
8 3 (3.00%) C
8 3 (3.00%) C++
8 3 (3.00%) COBOL
9 2 (2.00%) Go
9 2 (2.00%) PHP
10 1 (1.00%) Bash
10 1 (1.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.00%) Degree
3 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.00%) QA
2 5 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.00%) ECSS
System Software
1 41 (41.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (38.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.00%) Kibana
3 2 (2.00%) Terraform
4 1 (1.00%) Argo
4 1 (1.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 14 (14.00%) Dynatrace
1 14 (14.00%) Splunk
2 4 (4.00%) Telerik
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.00%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.00%) IONA
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle