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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 46 96
Rank change year-on-year -29 +50 -14
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 108 181 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.58% 5.33% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 5.78% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 59 81 114
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
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 3,337 3,129 4,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 79.68% 92.16% 87.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,846 1,350 3,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £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 £76,190 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,625 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

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 25 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 25 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 -35 45 £50,000 -20.32% 93
Buckinghamshire -13 37 £60,000 - 29
Oxfordshire +6 26 £87,500 +45.83% 39
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 (3.70%) OpenStack
1 4 (3.70%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.41%) AWS
2 20 (18.52%) Azure
2 20 (18.52%) Serverless
3 16 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (12.96%) SaaS
6 10 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (9.26%) Amazon S3
6 10 (9.26%) GitHub
7 9 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.56%) GCP
9 5 (4.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.93%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.93%) Azure AI
12 1 (0.93%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
1 15 (13.89%) Relational Database
2 14 (12.96%) MySQL
2 14 (12.96%) SQL Server
3 10 (9.26%) NoSQL
3 10 (9.26%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.63%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.63%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (14.81%) Git
2 14 (12.96%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.19%) JUnit
4 10 (9.26%) JMeter
4 10 (9.26%) Mockito
5 5 (4.63%) git-flow
6 2 (1.85%) GitLab
6 2 (1.85%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.93%) Postman
7 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (15.74%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (2.78%) Finance
3 3 (2.78%) Marketing
4 2 (1.85%) Automotive
4 2 (1.85%) Aviation
4 2 (1.85%) Digital Healthcare
4 2 (1.85%) Health Technology
4 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.93%) Games
5 1 (0.93%) Legal
5 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (63.89%) Developer
2 55 (50.93%) Full-Stack Developer
3 31 (28.70%) Software Engineer
4 26 (24.07%) Senior
5 22 (20.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 20 (18.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 18 (16.67%) .NET Developer
7 18 (16.67%) Java Developer
8 17 (15.74%) Senior Developer
9 15 (13.89%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 15 (13.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (12.96%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (12.96%) Principal Software Engineer
11 13 (12.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (9.26%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 8 (7.41%) Senior .NET Developer
13 8 (7.41%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 7 (6.48%) C# Developer
14 7 (6.48%) React Developer
14 7 (6.48%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (32.41%) .NET
2 23 (21.30%) REST
3 21 (19.44%) React
4 16 (14.81%) HTML
4 16 (14.81%) Spring
4 16 (14.81%) Spring Boot
5 13 (12.04%) Web Services
6 11 (10.19%) .NET Framework
6 11 (10.19%) ASP.NET
7 10 (9.26%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (9.26%) Apache Camel
7 10 (9.26%) Hibernate
7 10 (9.26%) jQuery
7 10 (9.26%) JSON
7 10 (9.26%) Kafka
7 10 (9.26%) WireMock
7 10 (9.26%) XML
8 8 (7.41%) CSS
8 8 (7.41%) Node.js
9 7 (6.48%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (12.96%) IoT
2 14 (12.96%) Smart Energy
3 7 (6.48%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.78%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.78%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.85%) Robotics
6 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.93%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.93%) Social Network
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.11%) Software Engineering
2 34 (31.48%) Agile
2 34 (31.48%) CI/CD
3 23 (21.30%) Microservices
4 16 (14.81%) DevOps
5 15 (13.89%) SDLC
5 15 (13.89%) TDD
6 14 (12.96%) Energy Management
6 14 (12.96%) Storage Management
7 12 (11.11%) Scrum
8 11 (10.19%) AI
8 11 (10.19%) BDD
9 10 (9.26%) Process Management
9 10 (9.26%) Workflow
10 9 (8.33%) Clean Code
11 8 (7.41%) Machine Learning
11 8 (7.41%) MVC
11 8 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (6.48%) B2B
13 6 (5.56%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.70%) C#
2 28 (25.93%) JavaScript
3 27 (25.00%) Java
4 22 (20.37%) TypeScript
5 19 (17.59%) Python
6 16 (14.81%) SQL
7 10 (9.26%) Shell Script
8 7 (6.48%) C++
9 3 (2.78%) C
9 3 (2.78%) COBOL
10 2 (1.85%) Go
10 2 (1.85%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) Bash
11 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.93%) PhD
4 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) QA
2 5 (4.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.85%) ECSS
System Software
1 24 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.26%) Kibana
3 2 (1.85%) Terraform
4 1 (0.93%) Argo
4 1 (0.93%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 10 (9.26%) Dynatrace
1 10 (9.26%) Splunk
2 4 (3.70%) Telerik
3 3 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.93%) IONA