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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 138 67
Rank change year-on-year +92 -71 +18
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 213 69 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.88% 1.83% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 2.03% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 150 32 108
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £61,250 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% +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 5,239 3,391 3,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.86% 89.83% 82.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,711 1,461 1,988
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -11.82% -
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 24 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 24 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 +69 109 £75,000 +66.67% 30
Oxfordshire +2 54 £60,000 - 32
Buckinghamshire +38 50 £60,000 -15.79% 9
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 (0.94%) Confluence
1 2 (0.94%) 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 (2.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (31.92%) Azure
2 59 (27.70%) AWS
3 24 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (7.98%) GitHub
5 12 (5.63%) Azure AI
5 12 (5.63%) GitHub Copilot
6 11 (5.16%) Serverless
7 10 (4.69%) SaaS
8 9 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.82%) GCP
12 5 (2.35%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.35%) PaaS
13 4 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.88%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
14 3 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.76%) Internet
2 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.55%) SQL Server
2 27 (12.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 25 (11.74%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (10.33%) MongoDB
5 13 (6.10%) Relational Database
6 11 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.76%) MySQL
8 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.41%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.94%) Power BI
10 2 (0.94%) Redis
10 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (5.63%) Git
2 11 (5.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.88%) GitLab
3 4 (1.88%) JUnit
4 3 (1.41%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.41%) JMeter
4 3 (1.41%) Mocha
4 3 (1.41%) Mockito
5 2 (0.94%) JIRA
5 2 (0.94%) Maven
5 2 (0.94%) Selenium
5 2 (0.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) Storybook
General
1 21 (9.86%) Finance
2 14 (6.57%) Retail
2 14 (6.57%) Social Skills
3 12 (5.63%) Automotive
4 9 (4.23%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.29%) Advertising
6 5 (2.35%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.94%) Law
8 2 (0.94%) Legal
8 2 (0.94%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.47%) Banking
9 1 (0.47%) Games
9 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 96 (45.07%) Developer
2 59 (27.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 50 (23.47%) Full-Stack Developer
3 50 (23.47%) Senior
4 49 (23.00%) Software Engineer
5 39 (18.31%) .NET Developer
6 27 (12.68%) Senior Developer
7 21 (9.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 17 (7.98%) Lead
9 13 (6.10%) Python Engineer
9 13 (6.10%) Python Software Engineer
9 13 (6.10%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 12 (5.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (4.69%) .NET Software Engineer
11 10 (4.69%) C# .NET Developer
11 10 (4.69%) C# Developer
11 10 (4.69%) C# Software Engineer
11 10 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) C++ Software Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (37.56%) React
2 74 (34.74%) .NET
3 47 (22.07%) Node.js
4 37 (17.37%) ASP.NET
5 36 (16.90%) ASP.NET Core
6 33 (15.49%) .NET Core
7 32 (15.02%) HTML
8 27 (12.68%) CSS
9 22 (10.33%) Blazor
10 19 (8.92%) Ruby on Rails
11 18 (8.45%) REST
12 15 (7.04%) .NET Framework
12 15 (7.04%) Entity Framework
13 12 (5.63%) Vue
14 11 (5.16%) jQuery
14 11 (5.16%) Spring Boot
15 9 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (4.23%) ML.NET
16 8 (3.76%) RESTful
16 8 (3.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (1.88%) Cloud Native
3 4 (1.88%) Social Network
4 3 (1.41%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.41%) IoT
4 3 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.94%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.47%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.41%) Linux
2 2 (0.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (24.88%) Agile
2 51 (23.94%) Software Engineering
3 43 (20.19%) CI/CD
4 39 (18.31%) DevOps
5 36 (16.90%) AI
6 27 (12.68%) Microservices
7 21 (9.86%) Scrum
7 21 (9.86%) TDD
8 20 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (8.92%) Machine Learning
10 15 (7.04%) OO
11 13 (6.10%) Containerisation
12 12 (5.63%) Clean Code
12 12 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (5.16%) Design Patterns
13 11 (5.16%) LLM
13 11 (5.16%) Test Automation
14 10 (4.69%) Front End Development
14 10 (4.69%) Translating Business Requirements
15 9 (4.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 69 (32.39%) C#
2 56 (26.29%) JavaScript
3 55 (25.82%) TypeScript
4 36 (16.90%) SQL
5 32 (15.02%) Python
6 20 (9.39%) Java
7 19 (8.92%) Ruby
8 11 (5.16%) C++
9 4 (1.88%) PHP
10 3 (1.41%) Bash
10 3 (1.41%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (6.10%) Degree
2 12 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.16%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.35%) PhD
7 4 (1.88%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.29%) QA
2 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (15.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.41%) Kibana
3 2 (0.94%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 35 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.29%) Facebook
2 7 (3.29%) YouTube
3 5 (2.35%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.41%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.41%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.41%) Splunk
5 1 (0.47%) Foundry
5 1 (0.47%) HubSpot