Full-Stack Development Job Trends

Full-Stack Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 97 39
Rank change year-on-year +52 -58 +31
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,059 1,531 5,279
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.16% 3.24% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 3.55% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,544 961 4,057
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +14.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71,140 43,093 86,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 91.19% 82.11%
Number of salaries quoted 49,140 23,729 61,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% - -9.09%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Salary Trend

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

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

Full-Stack Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 July 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
England +54 2,777 £65,000 -7.14% 903
UK excluding London +59 2,058 £60,000 - 600
Work from Home +47 1,371 £60,000 -9.23% 498
London +16 843 £85,000 - 410
North of England +59 680 £65,000 - 175
South East +90 499 £60,000 - 166
North West +33 362 £65,000 - 100
Midlands +40 289 £55,000 -6.38% 77
South West +43 275 £60,000 - 61
Yorkshire +75 209 £70,000 +16.67% 50
East of England +52 174 £60,000 +20.00% 62
East Midlands +29 145 £55,000 +15.79% 37
West Midlands +20 143 £57,500 -8.00% 40
North East +17 109 £55,000 +14.58% 26
Scotland -27 72 £55,000 -18.52% 35
Wales -26 50 £60,000 -7.69% 13
Northern Ireland -23 24 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Full-Stack Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 29 (0.95%) CMS
2 21 (0.69%) Confluence
3 14 (0.46%) WordPress
4 11 (0.36%) Apache
4 11 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.33%) ColdFusion
5 10 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.13%) IIS
10 4 (0.13%) nginx
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.098%) DNN
11 3 (0.098%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.065%) Elementor
4 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Shopify
2 2 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.033%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.033%) Magento
3 1 (0.033%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.033%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 911 (29.78%) AWS
2 887 (29.00%) Azure
3 262 (8.56%) GitHub
4 233 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
4 233 (7.62%) SaaS
5 216 (7.06%) Serverless
6 181 (5.92%) GCP
7 148 (4.84%) Azure AI
8 146 (4.77%) GitHub Copilot
9 131 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (3.43%) Amazon S3
11 78 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
11 78 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 71 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
13 55 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
14 51 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
15 40 (1.31%) Power Platform
16 35 (1.14%) Figma
17 33 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
18 32 (1.05%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.16%) Broadband
2 52 (1.70%) Internet
3 8 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
4 7 (0.23%) Firewall
4 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.16%) DNS
5 5 (0.16%) HTTP
5 5 (0.16%) MQTT
6 3 (0.098%) LAN
6 3 (0.098%) VPN
6 3 (0.098%) WAN
7 2 (0.065%) AMQP
7 2 (0.065%) Network Security
7 2 (0.065%) VoIP
8 1 (0.033%) DHCP
8 1 (0.033%) FTP
8 1 (0.033%) Multicast
8 1 (0.033%) SCTP
8 1 (0.033%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.033%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 491 (16.05%) MongoDB
2 414 (13.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 197 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
4 148 (4.84%) SQL Server
5 143 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
6 110 (3.60%) NoSQL
7 95 (3.11%) MySQL
8 77 (2.52%) Relational Database
9 62 (2.03%) DynamoDB
10 38 (1.24%) Redis
11 24 (0.78%) Power BI
12 18 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.36%) GIS
14 10 (0.33%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
15 9 (0.29%) NonStop SQL
15 9 (0.29%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.23%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 213 (6.96%) Git
2 99 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 61 (1.99%) GitLab
4 56 (1.83%) Cypress.io
5 44 (1.44%) JIRA
6 37 (1.21%) JUnit
7 36 (1.18%) Claude Code
8 32 (1.05%) Maven
9 21 (0.69%) Eclipse
9 21 (0.69%) SonarQube
10 20 (0.65%) Subversion
11 17 (0.56%) Vite
12 15 (0.49%) CircleCI
13 14 (0.46%) Mockito
14 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.29%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.26%) Storybook
16 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
17 6 (0.20%) MLflow
17 6 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 371 (12.13%) Finance
2 297 (9.71%) Social Skills
3 101 (3.30%) Public Sector
4 89 (2.91%) Games
5 86 (2.81%) Marketing
6 80 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
7 68 (2.22%) Retail
8 67 (2.19%) Advertising
9 56 (1.83%) Banking
10 54 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (1.27%) Front Office
12 36 (1.18%) Law
13 35 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 32 (1.05%) Legal
15 26 (0.85%) Tech for Good
16 18 (0.59%) Automotive
17 16 (0.52%) Aviation
17 16 (0.52%) Financial Institution
18 15 (0.49%) Aerospace
19 14 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,851 (60.51%) Developer
2 1,002 (32.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 681 (22.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 608 (19.88%) Senior
5 562 (18.37%) .NET Developer
6 541 (17.69%) Software Engineer
7 404 (13.21%) Lead
8 271 (8.86%) Senior Developer
9 254 (8.30%) Software Developer
10 227 (7.42%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 203 (6.64%) Lead Developer
12 182 (5.95%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 173 (5.66%) Java Developer
14 167 (5.46%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 151 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
16 117 (3.82%) Java Engineer
17 114 (3.73%) React Developer
18 103 (3.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 100 (3.27%) Python Developer
20 91 (2.97%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,019 (33.31%) React
2 910 (29.75%) .NET
3 603 (19.71%) Node.js
4 509 (16.64%) .NET Core
5 480 (15.69%) ASP.NET
6 447 (14.61%) ASP.NET Core
7 419 (13.70%) AngularJS
8 394 (12.88%) CSS
9 382 (12.49%) HTML
10 372 (12.16%) Vue
11 325 (10.62%) RESTful
12 202 (6.60%) Entity Framework
13 193 (6.31%) Spring
14 192 (6.28%) Blazor
15 171 (5.59%) REST
16 164 (5.36%) ASP.NET Web API
17 153 (5.00%) Spring Boot
18 142 (4.64%) Next.js
19 141 (4.61%) ML.NET
20 109 (3.56%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 270 (8.83%) Cloud Native
2 162 (5.30%) Greenfield Project
3 90 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 74 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 68 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 59 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
7 49 (1.60%) AI Agents
8 45 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (1.24%) Low-Code
10 37 (1.21%) Fixed Income
11 32 (1.05%) e-Learning
11 32 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
12 29 (0.95%) IoT
12 29 (0.95%) Onboarding
13 22 (0.72%) Virtual Team
14 21 (0.69%) Social Media
15 20 (0.65%) Digital TV
16 18 (0.59%) Algorithms
17 17 (0.56%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.80%) Linux
2 27 (0.88%) Android
3 11 (0.36%) Windows
4 10 (0.33%) Unix
5 8 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.098%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.098%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.065%) AIX
8 1 (0.033%) Debian
8 1 (0.033%) VMS
8 1 (0.033%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (30.14%) Software Engineering
2 846 (27.66%) Agile
3 686 (22.43%) CI/CD
4 638 (20.86%) AI
5 539 (17.62%) DevOps
6 511 (16.70%) Microservices
7 357 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
8 296 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 288 (9.41%) Mentoring
10 283 (9.25%) Machine Learning
11 245 (8.01%) Test Automation
12 197 (6.44%) Scrum
13 182 (5.95%) TDD
14 179 (5.85%) Clean Code
15 173 (5.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 172 (5.62%) Containerisation
17 158 (5.17%) Multithreading
18 152 (4.97%) Technical Leadership
19 150 (4.90%) Observability
20 148 (4.84%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 908 (29.68%) JavaScript
2 882 (28.83%) TypeScript
3 856 (27.98%) C#
4 707 (23.11%) SQL
5 582 (19.03%) Python
6 508 (16.61%) Java
7 101 (3.30%) PHP
8 94 (3.07%) Go
9 66 (2.16%) C++
10 65 (2.12%) Ruby
11 31 (1.01%) Bash
12 25 (0.82%) Groovy
13 18 (0.59%) Rust
14 15 (0.49%) Perl
15 14 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.42%) Bicep
16 13 (0.42%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.26%) C
18 6 (0.20%) PowerShell
18 6 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 212 (6.93%) Security Cleared
2 166 (5.43%) Degree
3 156 (5.10%) SC Cleared
4 117 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 20 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 17 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 11 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.13%) PhD
14 3 (0.098%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.065%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 1 (0.033%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.033%) CCNA
16 1 (0.033%) CCNP
16 1 (0.033%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.30%) QA
2 59 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 25 (0.82%) WCAG
4 17 (0.56%) GDPR
5 15 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.23%) GRC
6 7 (0.23%) NCSC
7 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.098%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.098%) SLA
9 2 (0.065%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.065%) ITGC
9 2 (0.065%) NIST
10 1 (0.033%) HL7
10 1 (0.033%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.033%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.033%) SOC 2
System Software
1 407 (13.31%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.098%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.065%) vSphere
6 1 (0.033%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 305 (9.97%) Kubernetes
2 143 (4.67%) Terraform
3 32 (1.05%) Grafana
4 22 (0.72%) Ansible
5 19 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.42%) Podman
7 11 (0.36%) HP Fortify
8 10 (0.33%) Kibana
9 6 (0.20%) logstash
10 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.13%) Argo
12 2 (0.065%) Nagios
13 1 (0.033%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.033%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.033%) Graylog
13 1 (0.033%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.033%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 553 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 71 (2.32%) Google
3 52 (1.70%) Facebook
4 33 (1.08%) OpenAI
5 29 (0.95%) Adobe
6 26 (0.85%) Oracle
7 22 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 20 (0.65%) Palantir
9 19 (0.62%) YouTube
10 18 (0.59%) Foundry
11 17 (0.56%) Apple
12 16 (0.52%) Sony
12 16 (0.52%) Yahoo!
13 10 (0.33%) Databricks
13 10 (0.33%) Sitecore
13 10 (0.33%) Splunk
14 9 (0.29%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.26%) Dynatrace
16 7 (0.23%) OneLogin
17 6 (0.20%) Palo Alto