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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 130 67
Rank change year-on-year +82 -63 +26
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 213 69 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.86% 1.83% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 2.03% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 150 32 103
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +2.08% -20.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,813 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £89,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.94%

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 5,293 3,394 4,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.00% 89.79% 83.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 1,469 1,969
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £71,535 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +56 109 £75,000 +66.67% 23
Oxfordshire -1 54 £60,000 - 28
Buckinghamshire +36 50 £60,000 -15.79% 3
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 (0.94%) Confluence
1 2 (0.94%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.47%) Apache
2 1 (0.47%) CMS
2 1 (0.47%) IIS
2 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (31.92%) Azure
2 59 (27.70%) AWS
3 24 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (7.98%) GitHub
5 12 (5.63%) Azure AI
5 12 (5.63%) GitHub Copilot
6 11 (5.16%) SaaS
6 11 (5.16%) Serverless
7 9 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.82%) GCP
11 5 (2.35%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.35%) PaaS
12 4 (1.88%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.88%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.41%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (1.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.76%) Internet
2 2 (0.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.08%) SQL Server
2 27 (12.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 25 (11.74%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (10.33%) MongoDB
5 13 (6.10%) Relational Database
6 11 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.76%) MySQL
8 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.41%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.94%) Power BI
10 2 (0.94%) Redis
10 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (5.63%) Git
2 11 (5.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.88%) GitLab
3 4 (1.88%) JUnit
4 3 (1.41%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.41%) JMeter
4 3 (1.41%) Mocha
4 3 (1.41%) Mockito
5 2 (0.94%) JIRA
5 2 (0.94%) Maven
5 2 (0.94%) Selenium
5 2 (0.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) Storybook
General
1 20 (9.39%) Finance
2 14 (6.57%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.10%) Retail
4 12 (5.63%) Automotive
5 9 (4.23%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.29%) Advertising
7 5 (2.35%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.94%) Law
9 2 (0.94%) Legal
9 2 (0.94%) Social Housing
9 2 (0.94%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.47%) Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 95 (44.60%) Developer
2 59 (27.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 50 (23.47%) Software Engineer
4 49 (23.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 49 (23.00%) Senior
5 39 (18.31%) .NET Developer
6 26 (12.21%) Senior Developer
7 21 (9.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 17 (7.98%) Lead
9 13 (6.10%) Python Engineer
9 13 (6.10%) Python Software Engineer
9 13 (6.10%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 11 (5.16%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (4.69%) .NET Software Engineer
11 10 (4.69%) C# .NET Developer
11 10 (4.69%) C# Developer
11 10 (4.69%) C# Software Engineer
11 10 (4.69%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (37.09%) React
2 73 (34.27%) .NET
3 46 (21.60%) Node.js
4 36 (16.90%) ASP.NET
4 36 (16.90%) ASP.NET Core
5 32 (15.02%) .NET Core
5 32 (15.02%) HTML
6 27 (12.68%) CSS
7 21 (9.86%) Blazor
8 18 (8.45%) REST
8 18 (8.45%) Ruby on Rails
9 14 (6.57%) .NET Framework
9 14 (6.57%) Entity Framework
10 11 (5.16%) jQuery
10 11 (5.16%) Spring Boot
10 11 (5.16%) Vue
11 9 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (4.23%) ML.NET
12 8 (3.76%) RESTful
12 8 (3.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (1.88%) Cloud Native
3 4 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (1.88%) Social Network
4 3 (1.41%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.41%) IoT
4 3 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.94%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.47%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.41%) Linux
2 2 (0.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (24.41%) Agile
1 52 (24.41%) Software Engineering
2 43 (20.19%) CI/CD
3 38 (17.84%) DevOps
4 36 (16.90%) AI
5 27 (12.68%) Microservices
6 21 (9.86%) Scrum
6 21 (9.86%) TDD
7 20 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (8.92%) Machine Learning
9 15 (7.04%) OO
10 13 (6.10%) Containerisation
11 12 (5.63%) Clean Code
11 12 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (5.16%) Design Patterns
12 11 (5.16%) LLM
12 11 (5.16%) Test Automation
13 10 (4.69%) Front End Development
13 10 (4.69%) Translating Business Requirements
14 9 (4.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 68 (31.92%) C#
2 57 (26.76%) JavaScript
3 54 (25.35%) TypeScript
4 37 (17.37%) SQL
5 32 (15.02%) Python
6 21 (9.86%) Java
7 18 (8.45%) Ruby
8 11 (5.16%) C++
9 4 (1.88%) PHP
10 3 (1.41%) Bash
10 3 (1.41%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (6.10%) Degree
2 12 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.16%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.35%) PhD
7 4 (1.88%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.29%) QA
2 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (15.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.41%) Kibana
3 2 (0.94%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 34 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.29%) Facebook
2 7 (3.29%) YouTube
3 5 (2.35%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.41%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.41%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.41%) Splunk
5 1 (0.47%) Foundry
5 1 (0.47%) HubSpot