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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 52 81
Rank change year-on-year -9 +29 -5
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 129 131 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.65% 4.85% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 5.15% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 73 74 174
10th Percentile £40,750 £45,750 £38,691
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,188 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,500 £84,625
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 3,618 2,542 5,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 74.40% 94.11% 85.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,275 1,186 3,960
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,406 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,001 £59,508 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.98% +16.68% -2.86%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 March 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 March 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 -17 53 £60,000 -4.76% 24
Buckinghamshire -10 42 £60,000 - 15
Oxfordshire +4 34 £57,500 -4.17% 15
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 (3.10%) OpenStack
1 4 (3.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (31.01%) AWS
2 32 (24.81%) Azure
3 18 (13.95%) SaaS
4 14 (10.85%) Serverless
5 13 (10.08%) GitHub
6 11 (8.53%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (8.53%) GCP
7 9 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (6.98%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (3.88%) Figma
9 3 (2.33%) Azure AI
9 3 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.18%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.75%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.75%) Relational Database
4 9 (6.98%) MySQL
5 5 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.88%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.88%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.55%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 21 (16.28%) Git
2 9 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.65%) JUnit
4 5 (3.88%) git-flow
4 5 (3.88%) JMeter
4 5 (3.88%) Mockito
5 2 (1.55%) GitLab
5 2 (1.55%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.78%) Postman
6 1 (0.78%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.43%) Finance
4 6 (4.65%) Retail
5 5 (3.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.55%) Automotive
6 2 (1.55%) Aviation
6 2 (1.55%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (1.55%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 78 (60.47%) Developer
2 64 (49.61%) Full-Stack Developer
3 47 (36.43%) Software Engineer
4 35 (27.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 34 (26.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 28 (21.71%) Senior
7 20 (15.50%) Principal Engineer
7 20 (15.50%) Principal Software Engineer
7 20 (15.50%) Senior Developer
8 19 (14.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (13.95%) .NET Developer
10 15 (11.63%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 13 (10.08%) Java Developer
12 8 (6.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 7 (5.43%) C# Developer
13 7 (5.43%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 7 (5.43%) React Developer
13 7 (5.43%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (5.43%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 7 (5.43%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (30.23%) .NET
2 29 (22.48%) React
3 24 (18.60%) REST
4 14 (10.85%) ASP.NET
5 13 (10.08%) .NET Framework
5 13 (10.08%) HTML
5 13 (10.08%) Node.js
5 13 (10.08%) Web Services
6 10 (7.75%) CSS
6 10 (7.75%) Kafka
6 10 (7.75%) Spring
6 10 (7.75%) Spring Boot
7 8 (6.20%) .NET Core
8 7 (5.43%) ASP.NET Core
8 7 (5.43%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (5.43%) Blazor
8 7 (5.43%) Django
8 7 (5.43%) Entity Framework
8 7 (5.43%) Vue
9 5 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.50%) IoT
1 20 (15.50%) Smart Energy
2 11 (8.53%) Product Ownership
3 10 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.65%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.88%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.55%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.55%) Robotics
8 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.78%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.78%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.78%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.78%) Social Network
8 1 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (42.64%) Software Engineering
2 32 (24.81%) Agile
3 27 (20.93%) CI/CD
4 20 (15.50%) Energy Management
4 20 (15.50%) Storage Management
5 19 (14.73%) DevOps
6 17 (13.18%) Microservices
7 12 (9.30%) TDD
8 11 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (8.53%) Scrum
9 10 (7.75%) Clean Code
9 10 (7.75%) Containerisation
9 10 (7.75%) SDLC
10 9 (6.98%) AI
10 9 (6.98%) B2B
10 9 (6.98%) User Experience
10 9 (6.98%) UX Design
11 8 (6.20%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (6.20%) MVC
12 7 (5.43%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.91%) C#
2 30 (23.26%) TypeScript
3 27 (20.93%) JavaScript
4 23 (17.83%) Python
5 21 (16.28%) Java
6 19 (14.73%) SQL
7 9 (6.98%) C++
8 5 (3.88%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.10%) Ruby
10 3 (2.33%) C
10 3 (2.33%) COBOL
11 2 (1.55%) Go
11 2 (1.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (5.43%) Degree
2 5 (3.88%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.33%) PhD
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.85%) QA
2 5 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.55%) ECSS
System Software
1 19 (14.73%) Docker
2 5 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (10.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.88%) Kibana
3 3 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (7.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.88%) Dynatrace
2 5 (3.88%) Splunk
3 4 (3.10%) Telerik