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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 105 77
Rank change year-on-year +51 -28 +5
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 158 82 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.77% 2.44% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 2.60% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 111 55 196
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,125 £69,375
90th Percentile £87,500 £71,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 4,101 3,151 5,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.02% 93.58% 83.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,820 1,178 3,933
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,800 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 30 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 30 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 +55 76 £65,000 +4.00% 15
Buckinghamshire +23 46 £60,000 - 8
Oxfordshire -3 36 £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 3 (1.90%) OpenStack
1 3 (1.90%) WordPress
2 1 (0.63%) Apache
2 1 (0.63%) CMS
2 1 (0.63%) IIS
2 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 47 (29.75%) AWS
2 46 (29.11%) Azure
3 18 (11.39%) SaaS
4 14 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (6.96%) GitHub
6 7 (4.43%) Azure AI
7 6 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.16%) Figma
8 5 (3.16%) GCP
8 5 (3.16%) PaaS
8 5 (3.16%) Serverless
9 4 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) Broadband
1 1 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.29%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (6.96%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.43%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.53%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.90%) MySQL
9 2 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (1.27%) Power BI
9 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (9.49%) Git
2 5 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.27%) JMeter
3 2 (1.27%) JUnit
3 2 (1.27%) Mockito
4 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.63%) Postman
4 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (12.03%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.76%) Finance
3 13 (8.23%) Retail
4 7 (4.43%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.53%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.90%) Advertising
7 2 (1.27%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.27%) Law
7 2 (1.27%) Legal
7 2 (1.27%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Automotive
8 1 (0.63%) Aviation
8 1 (0.63%) Games
8 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 89 (56.33%) Developer
2 66 (41.77%) Full-Stack Developer
3 54 (34.18%) Software Engineer
4 44 (27.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 35 (22.15%) Senior
6 31 (19.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 22 (13.92%) Senior Developer
8 21 (13.29%) .NET Developer
8 21 (13.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (8.23%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (8.23%) Principal Software Engineer
10 12 (7.59%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (6.96%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 11 (6.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (6.33%) C# Software Engineer
13 8 (5.06%) .NET Software Engineer
13 8 (5.06%) Java Developer
14 7 (4.43%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 7 (4.43%) Node.js Developer
15 6 (3.80%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (31.65%) React
2 49 (31.01%) .NET
3 29 (18.35%) Node.js
4 21 (13.29%) .NET Core
5 19 (12.03%) ASP.NET
6 16 (10.13%) Blazor
6 16 (10.13%) REST
7 14 (8.86%) ASP.NET Core
7 14 (8.86%) HTML
8 10 (6.33%) CSS
8 10 (6.33%) Web Services
9 9 (5.70%) .NET Framework
9 9 (5.70%) Ruby on Rails
10 8 (5.06%) Entity Framework
10 8 (5.06%) RESTful
10 8 (5.06%) Vue
10 8 (5.06%) WebSockets
11 7 (4.43%) Django
11 7 (4.43%) Redux
12 5 (3.16%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.23%) IoT
1 13 (8.23%) Smart Energy
2 7 (4.43%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.16%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.90%) Social Network
6 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.27%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.27%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.63%) Robotics
7 1 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.16%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.71%) Software Engineering
2 31 (19.62%) Agile
3 24 (15.19%) DevOps
4 20 (12.66%) CI/CD
5 16 (10.13%) Microservices
5 16 (10.13%) Scrum
5 16 (10.13%) TDD
6 13 (8.23%) Energy Management
6 13 (8.23%) Storage Management
7 12 (7.59%) Machine Learning
7 12 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (6.96%) AI
9 10 (6.33%) Clean Code
10 9 (5.70%) User Experience
10 9 (5.70%) UX Design
11 8 (5.06%) Code Quality
11 8 (5.06%) Containerisation
11 8 (5.06%) Design Patterns
12 7 (4.43%) SDLC
12 7 (4.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (29.11%) TypeScript
2 41 (25.95%) C#
3 33 (20.89%) JavaScript
4 26 (16.46%) SQL
5 19 (12.03%) Python
6 12 (7.59%) Java
7 9 (5.70%) Ruby
8 6 (3.80%) C++
9 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.63%) Go
10 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (7.59%) Degree
2 9 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.16%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.16%) PhD
4 4 (2.53%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.53%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.23%) QA
2 2 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (10.76%) Docker
2 5 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.16%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.90%) Facebook
3 3 (1.90%) YouTube
4 2 (1.27%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.27%) Splunk
5 1 (0.63%) Foundry
5 1 (0.63%) OpenAI