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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 48 100
Rank change year-on-year -21 +52 -9
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 114 177 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.82% 5.13% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 5.60% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 53 81 76
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,000 £87,500 £83,125
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 3,257 3,161 3,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.66% 91.62% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,745 1,440 2,325
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,750 £76,002 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +9.43% -3.64%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -23 57 £55,000 -12.00% 94
Buckinghamshire -11 35 £60,000 - 20
Oxfordshire +9 22 £70,000 +16.67% 33
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 (3.51%) OpenStack
1 4 (3.51%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 49 (42.98%) AWS
2 32 (28.07%) Azure
3 22 (19.30%) Serverless
4 20 (17.54%) GCP
5 17 (14.91%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (14.91%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (12.28%) SaaS
7 12 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (8.77%) Amazon S3
9 9 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (7.89%) GitHub
10 6 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.39%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.88%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.88%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (14.91%) Relational Database
3 14 (12.28%) MySQL
4 12 (10.53%) RDBMS
4 12 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 11 (9.65%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.26%) DynamoDB
7 5 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.63%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 30 (26.32%) Git
2 16 (14.04%) Jenkins
3 13 (11.40%) JUnit
4 12 (10.53%) JMeter
4 12 (10.53%) Mockito
5 5 (4.39%) git-flow
6 2 (1.75%) GitLab
6 2 (1.75%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.91%) Marketing
2 17 (14.91%) Public Sector
3 14 (12.28%) Law
4 3 (2.63%) Finance
5 2 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.75%) Automotive
5 2 (1.75%) Aviation
5 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.88%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (0.88%) Games
6 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.88%) Legal
6 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (69.30%) Developer
2 68 (59.65%) Full-Stack Developer
3 39 (34.21%) Senior
4 31 (27.19%) Senior Developer
5 30 (26.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (23.68%) Software Engineer
7 21 (18.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 20 (17.54%) Web Developer
9 19 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 19 (16.67%) Java Developer
10 16 (14.04%) .NET Developer
10 16 (14.04%) Full-Stack Web Developer
10 16 (14.04%) Senior Web Developer
11 15 (13.16%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 15 (13.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 12 (10.53%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 12 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (10.53%) Principal Software Engineer
13 8 (7.02%) React Developer
13 8 (7.02%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (30.70%) React
2 32 (28.07%) .NET
2 32 (28.07%) HTML
3 25 (21.93%) REST
4 23 (20.18%) Node.js
5 22 (19.30%) CSS
6 18 (15.79%) RESTful
6 18 (15.79%) Spring
6 18 (15.79%) Spring Boot
7 15 (13.16%) Web Services
8 12 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
8 12 (10.53%) Apache Camel
8 12 (10.53%) Hibernate
8 12 (10.53%) jQuery
8 12 (10.53%) JSON
8 12 (10.53%) WireMock
8 12 (10.53%) XML
9 11 (9.65%) .NET Framework
10 10 (8.77%) ASP.NET
10 10 (8.77%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.91%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (10.53%) IoT
2 12 (10.53%) Smart Energy
3 7 (6.14%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.63%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.75%) Robotics
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.88%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (43.86%) CI/CD
2 49 (42.98%) Agile
3 34 (29.82%) Software Engineering
4 30 (26.32%) DevOps
5 25 (21.93%) Microservices
6 21 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (17.54%) Web Development
8 19 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 17 (14.91%) TDD
10 16 (14.04%) SDLC
10 16 (14.04%) User Experience
11 15 (13.16%) Design Patterns
12 14 (12.28%) Customer Engagement
12 14 (12.28%) Test Automation
12 14 (12.28%) UX Design
13 12 (10.53%) BDD
13 12 (10.53%) Process Management
13 12 (10.53%) Scrum
13 12 (10.53%) Storage Management
13 12 (10.53%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 42 (36.84%) JavaScript
2 28 (24.56%) C#
3 26 (22.81%) Java
4 22 (19.30%) TypeScript
5 18 (15.79%) Python
6 13 (11.40%) SQL
7 12 (10.53%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.51%) C++
9 3 (2.63%) C
9 3 (2.63%) COBOL
10 2 (1.75%) Go
10 2 (1.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.88%) Bash
11 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.39%) Degree
3 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.88%) PhD
4 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.54%) QA
2 5 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.75%) ECSS
System Software
1 39 (34.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.53%) Kibana
3 2 (1.75%) Terraform
4 1 (0.88%) Argo
4 1 (0.88%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (10.53%) Dynatrace
1 12 (10.53%) Splunk
2 4 (3.51%) Telerik
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.88%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.88%) IONA