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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 98 36
Rank change year-on-year +52 -62 +35
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,988 1,462 5,509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.15% 3.23% 5.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 3.50% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,479 902 4,272
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,479 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £76,250
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 69,638 41,796 87,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.33% 92.22% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48,019 22,539 62,354
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £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% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 25 June 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 25 June 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 2,716 £65,000 -5.13% 573
UK excluding London +54 1,986 £60,000 - 519
Work from Home +47 1,299 £60,000 -7.69% 283
London +22 849 £85,000 +3.03% 188
North of England +69 659 £65,000 - 130
South East +77 478 £60,000 - 153
North West +39 355 £65,000 - 69
Midlands +44 287 £55,000 -6.38% 69
South West +38 262 £60,000 -2.04% 57
Yorkshire +81 203 £70,000 +5.66% 40
East of England +51 167 £60,000 +20.00% 56
East Midlands +19 146 £55,000 +15.79% 38
West Midlands +21 140 £55,000 -12.00% 31
North East +11 101 £55,000 +26.44% 22
Scotland -29 68 £60,000 -11.11% 35
Wales -29 45 £60,000 -14.29% 20
Northern Ireland - 25 £70,000 - 5
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 28 (0.94%) CMS
2 20 (0.67%) Confluence
3 13 (0.44%) WordPress
4 11 (0.37%) Apache
4 11 (0.37%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.33%) ColdFusion
6 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
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%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.067%) EPiServer
Applications
1 5 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.033%) Elementor
2 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.17%) Shopify
2 2 (0.067%) 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
1 892 (29.85%) AWS
2 813 (27.21%) Azure
3 239 (8.00%) GitHub
4 230 (7.70%) SaaS
5 212 (7.10%) Serverless
6 208 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
7 174 (5.82%) GCP
8 134 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
9 124 (4.15%) Azure AI
10 123 (4.12%) GitHub Copilot
11 109 (3.65%) Amazon S3
12 80 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
13 73 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 72 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
15 55 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
16 50 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 43 (1.44%) Figma
18 42 (1.41%) Power Platform
19 35 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
20 31 (1.04%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.44%) Broadband
2 45 (1.51%) Internet
3 8 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
4 7 (0.23%) Firewall
4 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.17%) DNS
5 5 (0.17%) HTTP
5 5 (0.17%) MQTT
6 3 (0.10%) LAN
6 3 (0.10%) VPN
6 3 (0.10%) WAN
7 2 (0.067%) AMQP
7 2 (0.067%) Network Security
7 2 (0.067%) VoIP
8 1 (0.033%) Multicast
8 1 (0.033%) SCTP
8 1 (0.033%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.033%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.033%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.033%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 432 (14.46%) MongoDB
2 347 (11.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 199 (6.66%) PostgreSQL
4 142 (4.75%) SQL Server
5 120 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
6 111 (3.71%) NoSQL
7 90 (3.01%) MySQL
8 76 (2.54%) Relational Database
9 62 (2.07%) DynamoDB
10 32 (1.07%) Redis
11 24 (0.80%) Power BI
12 18 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.37%) GIS
13 11 (0.37%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (0.30%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.23%) MariaDB
16 7 (0.23%) NonStop SQL
17 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 211 (7.06%) Git
2 100 (3.35%) Jenkins
3 63 (2.11%) GitLab
4 59 (1.97%) Cypress.io
5 41 (1.37%) JIRA
6 38 (1.27%) JUnit
7 36 (1.20%) Claude Code
8 34 (1.14%) Maven
9 22 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 20 (0.67%) Eclipse
11 19 (0.64%) Subversion
11 19 (0.64%) Vite
12 16 (0.54%) Mockito
13 15 (0.50%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.30%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.27%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.23%) Selenium
17 7 (0.23%) Storybook
18 6 (0.20%) MLflow
General
1 351 (11.75%) Finance
2 300 (10.04%) Social Skills
3 96 (3.21%) Public Sector
4 83 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (2.78%) Games
5 79 (2.64%) Marketing
6 63 (2.11%) Retail
7 59 (1.97%) Advertising
8 56 (1.87%) Banking
9 51 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.31%) Front Office
11 37 (1.24%) Manufacturing
12 36 (1.20%) Law
13 33 (1.10%) Legal
14 30 (1.00%) Tech for Good
15 21 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (0.60%) Aviation
16 18 (0.60%) Health Technology
17 17 (0.57%) Automotive
18 15 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,783 (59.67%) Developer
2 1,000 (33.47%) Full-Stack Developer
3 680 (22.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 616 (20.62%) Senior
5 539 (18.04%) Software Engineer
6 493 (16.50%) .NET Developer
7 393 (13.15%) Lead
8 274 (9.17%) Senior Developer
9 246 (8.23%) Software Developer
10 226 (7.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 203 (6.79%) Lead Developer
12 183 (6.12%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 180 (6.02%) Java Developer
14 172 (5.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 155 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
16 120 (4.02%) React Developer
17 117 (3.92%) Java Engineer
18 106 (3.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 100 (3.35%) Python Developer
20 92 (3.08%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 985 (32.97%) React
2 839 (28.08%) .NET
3 569 (19.04%) Node.js
4 450 (15.06%) .NET Core
5 407 (13.62%) ASP.NET
6 389 (13.02%) AngularJS
7 376 (12.58%) ASP.NET Core
8 368 (12.32%) CSS
9 358 (11.98%) HTML
10 341 (11.41%) Vue
11 303 (10.14%) RESTful
12 195 (6.53%) Spring
13 178 (5.96%) Entity Framework
14 167 (5.59%) REST
15 162 (5.42%) Blazor
16 156 (5.22%) Spring Boot
17 143 (4.79%) Next.js
18 138 (4.62%) ASP.NET Web API
19 117 (3.92%) ML.NET
20 98 (3.28%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 257 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 150 (5.02%) Greenfield Project
3 93 (3.11%) Mobile App
4 86 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 75 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 60 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 56 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
8 51 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 42 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 36 (1.20%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.07%) e-Learning
12 32 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
13 29 (0.97%) IoT
14 28 (0.94%) Onboarding
15 19 (0.64%) Virtual Team
16 18 (0.60%) Social Media
17 17 (0.57%) Algorithms
17 17 (0.57%) Data Structures
17 17 (0.57%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 56 (1.87%) Linux
2 28 (0.94%) Android
3 12 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.33%) Unix
4 10 (0.33%) Windows
5 3 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.067%) AIX
7 1 (0.033%) Debian
7 1 (0.033%) VMS
7 1 (0.033%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (30.72%) Software Engineering
2 777 (26.00%) Agile
3 645 (21.59%) CI/CD
4 605 (20.25%) AI
5 513 (17.17%) DevOps
6 480 (16.06%) Microservices
7 365 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
8 293 (9.81%) Mentoring
9 289 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 256 (8.57%) Machine Learning
11 235 (7.86%) Test Automation
12 184 (6.16%) Scrum
13 178 (5.96%) Containerisation
14 171 (5.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 170 (5.69%) Clean Code
16 167 (5.59%) TDD
17 156 (5.22%) User Experience
18 146 (4.89%) Computer Science
19 144 (4.82%) Observability
20 140 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 861 (28.82%) JavaScript
2 853 (28.55%) TypeScript
3 783 (26.20%) C#
4 642 (21.49%) SQL
5 575 (19.24%) Python
6 511 (17.10%) Java
7 100 (3.35%) PHP
8 91 (3.05%) Go
9 67 (2.24%) Ruby
10 65 (2.18%) C++
11 33 (1.10%) Bash
12 25 (0.84%) Groovy
13 18 (0.60%) Rust
14 15 (0.50%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.47%) Perl
15 14 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.40%) Bicep
17 9 (0.30%) C
18 7 (0.23%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 202 (6.76%) Security Cleared
2 160 (5.35%) Degree
3 150 (5.02%) SC Cleared
4 113 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 20 (0.67%) Master's Degree
7 17 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 11 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.13%) PhD
14 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.067%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 1 (0.033%) CCNA
16 1 (0.033%) CCNP
16 1 (0.033%) Cisco Certification
16 1 (0.033%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (3.31%) QA
2 55 (1.84%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.74%) WCAG
4 16 (0.54%) GDPR
5 12 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.23%) GRC
7 6 (0.20%) NCSC
8 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.10%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.10%) SLA
10 2 (0.067%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.067%) ITGC
10 2 (0.067%) NIST
11 1 (0.033%) HL7
11 1 (0.033%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.033%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.033%) SOC 2
System Software
1 383 (12.82%) Docker
2 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.10%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.067%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.067%) vSphere
6 1 (0.033%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 279 (9.34%) Kubernetes
2 141 (4.72%) Terraform
3 33 (1.10%) Grafana
4 25 (0.84%) Ansible
5 20 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.44%) Podman
7 11 (0.37%) HP Fortify
8 10 (0.33%) Kibana
9 6 (0.20%) logstash
10 5 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.13%) Argo
12 2 (0.067%) 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
1 477 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 62 (2.07%) Google
3 43 (1.44%) Facebook
4 36 (1.20%) Adobe
5 34 (1.14%) OpenAI
6 29 (0.97%) Oracle
7 22 (0.74%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.70%) Palantir
9 20 (0.67%) Foundry
10 16 (0.54%) YouTube
11 14 (0.47%) Apple
12 13 (0.44%) Sony
12 13 (0.44%) Yahoo!
13 11 (0.37%) Splunk
14 9 (0.30%) AppDynamics
14 9 (0.30%) Databricks
14 9 (0.30%) Sitecore
15 8 (0.27%) Dynatrace
16 7 (0.23%) OneLogin
17 6 (0.20%) Palo Alto