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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 119 79
Rank change year-on-year +72 -40 -17
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 188 71 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.89% 1.99% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 2.21% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 122 34 135
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £50,625 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +2.17% -20.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £89,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

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 4,612 3,217 4,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.93% 90.16% 81.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,203 1,424 2,823
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,828 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,198
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.21% -5.10%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +62 91 £65,000 +44.44% 19
Buckinghamshire +28 53 £60,000 +4.35% 10
Oxfordshire 0 44 £57,500 -4.17% 18
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 (1.06%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) Apache
2 1 (0.53%) CMS
2 1 (0.53%) IIS
2 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (3.72%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 69 (36.70%) Azure
2 60 (31.91%) AWS
3 19 (10.11%) GitHub
4 18 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (7.45%) SaaS
6 12 (6.38%) Azure AI
7 10 (5.32%) GitHub Copilot
8 9 (4.79%) GCP
9 8 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.72%) Serverless
11 5 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.66%) Figma
11 5 (2.66%) PaaS
12 3 (1.60%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.06%) Apigee
13 2 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) Internet
2 1 (0.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 23 (12.23%) MongoDB
3 20 (10.64%) SQL Server
4 17 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.26%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.72%) MySQL
8 4 (2.13%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.06%) Power BI
9 2 (1.06%) Redis
9 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.85%) Git
2 8 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.13%) GitLab
4 3 (1.60%) JUnit
5 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.06%) JIRA
5 2 (1.06%) JMeter
5 2 (1.06%) Maven
5 2 (1.06%) Mocha
5 2 (1.06%) Mockito
5 2 (1.06%) Selenium
5 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 22 (11.70%) Finance
2 17 (9.04%) Retail
2 17 (9.04%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.38%) Manufacturing
4 7 (3.72%) Advertising
5 6 (3.19%) Automotive
6 4 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.13%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.06%) Law
7 2 (1.06%) Legal
7 2 (1.06%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 87 (46.28%) Developer
2 62 (32.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 58 (30.85%) Software Engineer
4 55 (29.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (18.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 34 (18.09%) .NET Developer
7 32 (17.02%) Senior
8 15 (7.98%) Senior Developer
8 15 (7.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (6.38%) C# Software Engineer
9 12 (6.38%) Lead
10 11 (5.85%) Python Engineer
11 10 (5.32%) .NET Software Engineer
11 10 (5.32%) Python Software Engineer
11 10 (5.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (4.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (3.72%) Azure Software Engineer
13 7 (3.72%) Node.js Developer
13 7 (3.72%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (35.64%) React
2 62 (32.98%) .NET
3 44 (23.40%) Node.js
4 37 (19.68%) .NET Core
5 34 (18.09%) ASP.NET
6 30 (15.96%) ASP.NET Core
7 27 (14.36%) Blazor
8 26 (13.83%) HTML
9 22 (11.70%) CSS
10 15 (7.98%) Ruby on Rails
11 13 (6.91%) Vue
12 12 (6.38%) Entity Framework
12 12 (6.38%) REST
13 11 (5.85%) .NET Framework
14 10 (5.32%) Django
15 9 (4.79%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (4.79%) ML.NET
16 8 (4.26%) RESTful
16 8 (4.26%) Spring Boot
16 8 (4.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (3.72%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.19%) IoT
2 6 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.19%) Smart Energy
3 5 (2.66%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (2.13%) Social Network
5 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.06%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.53%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.19%) Linux
2 2 (1.06%) Windows
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (31.38%) Software Engineering
2 51 (27.13%) Agile
3 35 (18.62%) DevOps
4 33 (17.55%) CI/CD
5 24 (12.77%) AI
6 23 (12.23%) Microservices
7 21 (11.17%) TDD
8 20 (10.64%) Machine Learning
9 19 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (10.11%) Scrum
10 16 (8.51%) Containerisation
10 16 (8.51%) OO
11 13 (6.91%) Clean Code
11 13 (6.91%) Design Patterns
12 12 (6.38%) User Experience
13 11 (5.85%) OOP
14 10 (5.32%) UX Design
15 9 (4.79%) Multithreading
15 9 (4.79%) Test Automation
16 8 (4.26%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (31.91%) TypeScript
2 58 (30.85%) C#
3 47 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 36 (19.15%) SQL
5 29 (15.43%) Python
6 15 (7.98%) Ruby
7 10 (5.32%) Java
8 8 (4.26%) C++
9 2 (1.06%) Bash
9 2 (1.06%) Groovy
9 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.53%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (6.38%) Degree
2 10 (5.32%) SC Cleared
2 10 (5.32%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.19%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.13%) PhD
6 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.98%) QA
2 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (17.02%) Docker
2 5 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (12.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.66%) Terraform
3 2 (1.06%) HP Fortify
3 2 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 41 (21.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.72%) Facebook
2 7 (3.72%) YouTube
3 5 (2.66%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.06%) Splunk
5 1 (0.53%) Foundry
5 1 (0.53%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.53%) OpenAI