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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 130 67
Rank change year-on-year +83 -63 +10
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 195 68 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.85% 1.80% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 2.00% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 125 31 138
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £38,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £88,250
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 4,814 3,405 4,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.38% 90.08% 81.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,391 1,465 2,565
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -6.76% -4.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £81,454
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -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 21 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 21 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 +67 93 £70,000 +55.56% 16
Buckinghamshire +38 53 £60,000 -14.29% 8
Oxfordshire +2 49 £57,500 -4.17% 10
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 (1.03%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) Apache
2 1 (0.51%) CMS
2 1 (0.51%) IIS
2 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (3.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 71 (36.41%) Azure
2 58 (29.74%) AWS
3 21 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (10.77%) GitHub
4 14 (7.18%) Azure AI
5 12 (6.15%) GitHub Copilot
6 11 (5.64%) SaaS
7 9 (4.62%) GCP
8 8 (4.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (3.59%) Serverless
10 5 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.56%) PaaS
11 4 (2.05%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (2.05%) Figma
11 4 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.05%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.54%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.54%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.56%) Internet
2 1 (0.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.36%) Azure SQL Database
2 23 (11.79%) MongoDB
2 23 (11.79%) SQL Server
3 18 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.62%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.10%) MySQL
7 4 (2.05%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.03%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.03%) Power BI
8 2 (1.03%) Redis
8 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.64%) Git
2 9 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.05%) GitLab
4 3 (1.54%) JUnit
5 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.03%) JIRA
5 2 (1.03%) JMeter
5 2 (1.03%) Maven
5 2 (1.03%) Mocha
5 2 (1.03%) Mockito
5 2 (1.03%) Selenium
5 2 (1.03%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.51%) Storybook
General
1 22 (11.28%) Finance
2 18 (9.23%) Retail
2 18 (9.23%) Social Skills
3 11 (5.64%) Manufacturing
4 7 (3.59%) Advertising
5 6 (3.08%) Automotive
6 4 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.05%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.03%) Law
7 2 (1.03%) Legal
7 2 (1.03%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 91 (46.67%) Developer
2 63 (32.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 55 (28.21%) Full-Stack Developer
4 54 (27.69%) Software Engineer
5 36 (18.46%) Senior
6 35 (17.95%) .NET Developer
7 32 (16.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 19 (9.74%) Senior Developer
9 17 (8.72%) Lead
10 15 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.64%) C# Software Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) .NET Software Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) Python Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) Python Software Engineer
14 8 (4.10%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
15 7 (3.59%) Azure Software Engineer
15 7 (3.59%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 6 (3.08%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (37.95%) React
2 66 (33.85%) .NET
3 47 (24.10%) Node.js
4 37 (18.97%) .NET Core
5 36 (18.46%) ASP.NET
6 32 (16.41%) ASP.NET Core
7 29 (14.87%) HTML
8 26 (13.33%) Blazor
9 25 (12.82%) CSS
10 15 (7.69%) Ruby on Rails
11 14 (7.18%) Entity Framework
12 13 (6.67%) .NET Framework
12 13 (6.67%) REST
12 13 (6.67%) Vue
13 9 (4.62%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (4.62%) Django
13 9 (4.62%) ML.NET
13 9 (4.62%) Spring Boot
14 8 (4.10%) RESTful
15 7 (3.59%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.08%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.56%) IoT
3 5 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.56%) Smart Energy
4 4 (2.05%) Social Network
4 4 (2.05%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (1.54%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.03%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (1.03%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.51%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.08%) Linux
2 2 (1.03%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (28.21%) Software Engineering
2 52 (26.67%) Agile
3 39 (20.00%) DevOps
4 36 (18.46%) CI/CD
5 28 (14.36%) AI
6 23 (11.79%) Microservices
7 21 (10.77%) Machine Learning
7 21 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (10.26%) TDD
9 19 (9.74%) Scrum
10 16 (8.21%) OO
11 15 (7.69%) Containerisation
12 12 (6.15%) Clean Code
12 12 (6.15%) Design Patterns
12 12 (6.15%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (5.64%) Test Automation
13 11 (5.64%) User Experience
14 10 (5.13%) OOP
14 10 (5.13%) Translating Business Requirements
15 9 (4.62%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 62 (31.79%) C#
2 58 (29.74%) TypeScript
3 53 (27.18%) JavaScript
4 36 (18.46%) SQL
5 33 (16.92%) Python
6 15 (7.69%) Ruby
7 11 (5.64%) Java
8 7 (3.59%) C++
9 2 (1.03%) Bash
9 2 (1.03%) Groovy
9 2 (1.03%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.51%) Go
10 1 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (5.64%) Degree
1 11 (5.64%) SC Cleared
1 11 (5.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 5 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.05%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 3 (1.54%) PhD
6 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (16.41%) Docker
2 4 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.03%) HP Fortify
2 2 (1.03%) Kibana
Vendors
1 41 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.59%) Facebook
2 7 (3.59%) YouTube
3 5 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.54%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.03%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.03%) Splunk
6 1 (0.51%) Foundry
6 1 (0.51%) HubSpot