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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 40 87
Rank change year-on-year -24 +47 -12
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 112 149 182
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.46% 5.29% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 5.59% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 62 78 163
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,750 £38,691
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

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 3,429 2,664 5,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 75.45% 94.54% 86.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,111 1,214 3,838
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,700 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -25 45 £55,000 -12.70% 35
Buckinghamshire +5 39 £60,000 - 22
Oxfordshire -6 28 £80,000 +33.33% 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 (3.57%) OpenStack
1 4 (3.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 32 (28.57%) AWS
2 24 (21.43%) Azure
3 17 (15.18%) SaaS
4 16 (14.29%) Serverless
5 12 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (9.82%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (8.93%) Amazon S3
7 10 (8.93%) GitHub
8 9 (8.04%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (7.14%) GCP
10 6 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.79%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.79%) Figma
12 2 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.39%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (9.82%) Relational Database
4 10 (8.93%) NoSQL
5 9 (8.04%) MySQL
6 6 (5.36%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.46%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.79%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (16.07%) Git
2 10 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.25%) JUnit
4 6 (5.36%) JMeter
4 6 (5.36%) Mockito
5 5 (4.46%) git-flow
6 2 (1.79%) GitLab
6 2 (1.79%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.89%) Postman
7 1 (0.89%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (16.96%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.82%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.46%) Finance
4 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.68%) Retail
5 2 (1.79%) Automotive
5 2 (1.79%) Aviation
5 2 (1.79%) Digital Healthcare
5 2 (1.79%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 68 (60.71%) Developer
2 55 (49.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 41 (36.61%) Software Engineer
4 30 (26.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 29 (25.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 24 (21.43%) Senior
7 17 (15.18%) .NET Developer
7 17 (15.18%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (15.18%) Principal Software Engineer
8 16 (14.29%) Senior Developer
9 15 (13.39%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 15 (13.39%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (12.50%) Java Developer
11 9 (8.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 7 (6.25%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 7 (6.25%) React Developer
12 7 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
12 7 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 7 (6.25%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (31.25%) .NET
2 23 (20.54%) React
3 21 (18.75%) REST
4 12 (10.71%) HTML
4 12 (10.71%) Spring
4 12 (10.71%) Spring Boot
5 11 (9.82%) .NET Framework
5 11 (9.82%) ASP.NET
5 11 (9.82%) Web Services
6 10 (8.93%) Kafka
7 8 (7.14%) CSS
8 7 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (6.25%) Node.js
9 6 (5.36%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (5.36%) Apache Camel
9 6 (5.36%) Hibernate
9 6 (5.36%) jQuery
9 6 (5.36%) JSON
9 6 (5.36%) WireMock
9 6 (5.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.18%) IoT
1 17 (15.18%) Smart Energy
2 11 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.79%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.79%) Robotics
5 2 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.89%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.89%) Social Network
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 31 (27.68%) Agile
3 27 (24.11%) CI/CD
4 19 (16.96%) Microservices
5 17 (15.18%) Energy Management
5 17 (15.18%) Storage Management
6 16 (14.29%) DevOps
7 12 (10.71%) TDD
8 11 (9.82%) Scrum
8 11 (9.82%) SDLC
9 10 (8.93%) Clean Code
10 9 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (7.14%) AI
11 8 (7.14%) B2B
11 8 (7.14%) MVC
12 7 (6.25%) BDD
12 7 (6.25%) Containerisation
13 6 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (5.36%) Process Management
13 6 (5.36%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.68%) C#
2 23 (20.54%) Java
3 22 (19.64%) JavaScript
4 21 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 18 (16.07%) Python
6 16 (14.29%) SQL
7 8 (7.14%) C++
8 6 (5.36%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.68%) C
9 3 (2.68%) COBOL
10 2 (1.79%) PHP
11 1 (0.89%) Go
11 1 (0.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.36%) Degree
3 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.79%) PhD
5 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.04%) QA
2 5 (4.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.79%) ECSS
System Software
1 17 (15.18%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (13.39%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.36%) Kibana
3 2 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (5.36%) Dynatrace
1 6 (5.36%) Microsoft
1 6 (5.36%) Splunk
2 4 (3.57%) Telerik