Full-Stack Development Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 59 46
Rank change year-on-year -57 -13 +41
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 745 1,470 1,888
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.73% 4.11% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 4.61% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 617 620 1,601
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,950 £38,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,725 31,892 32,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.25% 89.15% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 19,447 14,332 24,508
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Full-Stack Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Development
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Full-Stack Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Development
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East -56 202 £63,750 +6.25% 381
North of England -14 197 £65,000 +18.18% 241
Midlands -29 151 £60,000 +20.00% 145
South West -18 109 £61,250 +2.08% 131
West Midlands -5 85 £55,000 +4.76% 53
North West -27 83 £65,000 +8.33% 116
Yorkshire -27 74 £72,500 +46.46% 89
East Midlands -39 66 £61,250 +44.12% 90
East of England -55 56 £60,000 +33.33% 141
North East +13 40 £55,000 - 38
Scotland -64 13 £67,500 +28.57% 45
Wales -30 12 £50,000 -4.76% 48
Northern Ireland -13 7 £95,000 +58.33% 18
Channel Islands +3 1 £90,000 -
Full-Stack Development
UK

Full-Stack Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (1.34%) OpenStack
2 6 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.67%) CMS
4 4 (0.54%) WordPress
5 3 (0.40%) Confluence
6 2 (0.27%) ColdFusion
6 2 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.13%) Kentico
7 1 (0.13%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 262 (35.17%) AWS
2 206 (27.65%) Azure
3 78 (10.47%) Serverless
4 77 (10.34%) SaaS
5 47 (6.31%) Amazon S3
6 46 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
6 46 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (4.16%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (4.16%) GitHub
9 30 (4.03%) GCP
10 19 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.07%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (1.07%) Apigee
13 8 (1.07%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (1.07%) Power Platform
14 7 (0.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.94%) HTTP
2 3 (0.40%) Broadband
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
2 3 (0.40%) Internet
2 3 (0.40%) WAN
3 2 (0.27%) DHCP
3 2 (0.27%) DNS
3 2 (0.27%) LAN
3 2 (0.27%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.27%) VLAN
3 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.13%) MQTT
4 1 (0.13%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.13%) SSL
4 1 (0.13%) TCAP
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (8.86%) SQL Server
2 53 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (5.50%) MySQL
4 39 (5.23%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.62%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.95%) MongoDB
7 16 (2.15%) DynamoDB
8 15 (2.01%) Redis
9 12 (1.61%) RDBMS
10 9 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.81%) Power BI
13 5 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
15 2 (0.27%) CockroachDB
15 2 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.27%) GIS
15 2 (0.27%) InfluxDB
15 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (8.86%) Git
2 46 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.76%) JUnit
4 21 (2.82%) Mockito
5 18 (2.42%) GitLab
5 18 (2.42%) Maven
6 13 (1.74%) Cypress.io
6 13 (1.74%) JMeter
7 11 (1.48%) JIRA
7 11 (1.48%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.07%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.67%) git-flow
9 5 (0.67%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.40%) webpack
11 2 (0.27%) Babel
11 2 (0.27%) Checkstyle
11 2 (0.27%) Gradle
11 2 (0.27%) PHPUnit
11 2 (0.27%) TestNG
General
1 100 (13.42%) Social Skills
2 55 (7.38%) Finance
3 42 (5.64%) Public Sector
4 26 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (2.42%) Marketing
6 16 (2.15%) Aviation
7 15 (2.01%) Games
8 14 (1.88%) Law
9 10 (1.34%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.21%) Health Technology
11 7 (0.94%) Electronics
12 6 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.81%) Tech for Good
13 5 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.67%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.54%) Automotive
14 4 (0.54%) Legal
15 3 (0.40%) Local Government
15 3 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 469 (62.95%) Developer
2 322 (43.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 151 (20.27%) Software Engineer
4 150 (20.13%) Senior
5 122 (16.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 91 (12.21%) .NET Developer
7 86 (11.54%) Lead
8 84 (11.28%) Senior Developer
9 65 (8.72%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 64 (8.59%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 62 (8.32%) C# Developer
12 60 (8.05%) React Developer
13 59 (7.92%) Java Developer
14 58 (7.79%) Software Developer
15 56 (7.52%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 44 (5.91%) Lead Developer
17 37 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
18 35 (4.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 35 (4.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 32 (4.30%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (40.54%) React
2 250 (33.56%) .NET
3 127 (17.05%) AngularJS
4 125 (16.78%) HTML
5 112 (15.03%) CSS
6 108 (14.50%) Node.js
7 91 (12.21%) Spring
8 86 (11.54%) REST
9 77 (10.34%) Spring Boot
10 76 (10.20%) .NET Core
11 66 (8.86%) Vue
12 59 (7.92%) RESTful
13 54 (7.25%) ASP.NET
14 42 (5.64%) .NET Framework
15 31 (4.16%) ASP.NET Core
15 31 (4.16%) Laravel
16 28 (3.76%) Blazor
17 27 (3.62%) Kafka
17 27 (3.62%) Web Services
18 25 (3.36%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
2 48 (6.44%) Cloud Native
3 39 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.49%) Mobile App
5 20 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.55%) IoT
7 15 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.74%) Smart Energy
9 9 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.07%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.07%) Sports Betting
11 7 (0.94%) AI Agents
11 7 (0.94%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.81%) e-Learning
12 6 (0.81%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.81%) Robotics
13 4 (0.54%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (0.40%) Credit Risk
15 2 (0.27%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.61%) Linux
2 9 (1.21%) Android
3 8 (1.07%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.54%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Unix
5 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (36.64%) Software Engineering
2 222 (29.80%) Agile
3 179 (24.03%) CI/CD
4 147 (19.73%) DevOps
5 133 (17.85%) Microservices
6 113 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
7 97 (13.02%) Mentoring
8 88 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (10.74%) AI
10 78 (10.47%) User Experience
11 67 (8.99%) Scrum
12 63 (8.46%) Clean Code
13 55 (7.38%) TDD
14 51 (6.85%) MVC
15 47 (6.31%) Containerisation
16 46 (6.17%) Machine Learning
17 42 (5.64%) Code Quality
17 42 (5.64%) Web Development
18 41 (5.50%) Computer Science
18 41 (5.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 276 (37.05%) JavaScript
2 242 (32.48%) C#
3 185 (24.83%) TypeScript
4 163 (21.88%) Java
5 138 (18.52%) SQL
6 126 (16.91%) Python
7 32 (4.30%) PHP
8 19 (2.55%) Bash
9 14 (1.88%) Go
10 12 (1.61%) C++
11 11 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.34%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.07%) C
13 8 (1.07%) Groovy
14 6 (0.81%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.67%) R
15 5 (0.67%) Ruby
16 4 (0.54%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.54%) XAML
17 3 (0.40%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 62 (8.32%) Security Cleared
2 44 (5.91%) Degree
3 36 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 29 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.61%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.94%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.40%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.27%) PhD
9 1 (0.13%) MBA
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.89%) QA
2 16 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.40%) GDPR
4 2 (0.27%) ECSS
5 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.13%) HL7
5 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.13%) NCSC
5 1 (0.13%) NIST
5 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 96 (12.89%) Docker
2 4 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 72 (9.66%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.89%) Terraform
3 15 (2.01%) Ansible
4 14 (1.88%) Kibana
5 8 (1.07%) HP Fortify
6 5 (0.67%) Grafana
7 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.13%) Argo
9 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.13%) Istio
9 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.13%) logstash
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (4.43%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.22%) Oracle
3 13 (1.74%) Dynatrace
3 13 (1.74%) Splunk
4 8 (1.07%) Google
5 5 (0.67%) VMware
5 5 (0.67%) Zoho
6 4 (0.54%) Adobe
6 4 (0.54%) Pega
6 4 (0.54%) Telerik
6 4 (0.54%) WSO2
7 3 (0.40%) DevExpress
7 3 (0.40%) Foundry
7 3 (0.40%) Peregrine
7 3 (0.40%) SAP
8 2 (0.27%) ESRI
8 2 (0.27%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.27%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.13%) IONA
9 1 (0.13%) Sony