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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 60 49
Rank change year-on-year -33 -11 +18
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,368 2,251 2,817
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.30% 4.19% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 4.64% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,101 1,087 2,483
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -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 48,314 48,563 49,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.11% 90.50% 89.97%
Number of salaries quoted 28,431 23,714 37,983
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 10 January 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 10 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
England -28 1,251 £70,000 +7.69% 1,168
UK excluding London -57 730 £62,500 +13.64% 979
London -9 537 £80,000 - 318
Work from Home -27 521 £70,000 +7.69% 637
South East -55 210 £63,750 +6.25% 327
North of England -19 191 £65,000 +18.18% 218
Midlands -31 142 £60,000 +20.00% 126
South West -29 103 £61,250 +2.08% 112
West Midlands -14 80 £55,000 +4.76% 46
North West -23 79 £65,000 +13.04% 102
Yorkshire -29 73 £72,500 +46.46% 78
East Midlands -33 62 £62,500 +47.06% 80
East of England -56 55 £60,000 +33.33% 122
North East +13 39 £55,000 +4.76% 39
Wales -30 12 £50,000 -5.66% 43
Scotland -68 12 £70,000 +33.33% 29
Northern Ireland -14 7 £95,000 +58.33% 17
Channel Islands +3 1 £90,000 -

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 12 (0.88%) Confluence
2 11 (0.80%) CMS
2 11 (0.80%) OpenStack
3 8 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.29%) Appian
5 4 (0.29%) nginx
5 4 (0.29%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.29%) WordPress
6 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.22%) Liferay
7 2 (0.15%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.15%) Drupal
7 2 (0.15%) IIS
7 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.073%) Apache
8 1 (0.073%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.073%) Kentico
8 1 (0.073%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.073%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.15%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 501 (36.62%) AWS
2 424 (30.99%) Azure
3 143 (10.45%) Serverless
4 129 (9.43%) SaaS
5 116 (8.48%) GitHub
6 108 (7.89%) GCP
7 75 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
7 75 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (4.90%) Amazon S3
9 60 (4.39%) Amazon ECS
10 47 (3.44%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
13 27 (1.97%) PaaS
14 26 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (1.75%) Figma
16 21 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.54%) Entra ID
17 18 (1.32%) Azure App Service
18 17 (1.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.66%) Broadband
2 7 (0.51%) HTTP
3 5 (0.37%) Firewall
4 4 (0.29%) WAN
5 3 (0.22%) Internet
5 3 (0.22%) LAN
5 3 (0.22%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.22%) VLAN
5 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.15%) AMQP
6 2 (0.15%) DHCP
6 2 (0.15%) DNS
7 1 (0.073%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.073%) MQTT
7 1 (0.073%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.073%) SSL
7 1 (0.073%) TCAP
7 1 (0.073%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 114 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 95 (6.94%) NoSQL
4 93 (6.80%) MongoDB
5 71 (5.19%) Relational Database
6 60 (4.39%) MySQL
7 51 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 25 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (1.75%) Redis
10 23 (1.68%) DynamoDB
11 22 (1.61%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.73%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.66%) Power BI
16 8 (0.58%) DB2
17 6 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
17 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
18 4 (0.29%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 166 (12.13%) Git
2 77 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 45 (3.29%) Cypress.io
4 41 (3.00%) JIRA
5 28 (2.05%) JUnit
6 26 (1.90%) GitLab
7 21 (1.54%) Mockito
8 17 (1.24%) Maven
9 16 (1.17%) JMeter
9 16 (1.17%) Visual Studio
10 15 (1.10%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.02%) Vite
12 12 (0.88%) Selenium
13 11 (0.80%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.80%) webpack
14 10 (0.73%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.66%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
17 6 (0.44%) CircleCI
17 6 (0.44%) ESLint
General
1 291 (21.27%) Social Skills
2 140 (10.23%) Finance
3 69 (5.04%) Public Sector
4 57 (4.17%) Law
5 50 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (2.92%) Banking
7 38 (2.78%) Marketing
8 30 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (2.12%) Retail
10 24 (1.75%) Investment Banking
11 22 (1.61%) Front Office
11 22 (1.61%) Legal
12 20 (1.46%) Health Technology
12 20 (1.46%) Tech for Good
13 18 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.24%) Aviation
15 15 (1.10%) Games
16 10 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.66%) Telecoms
18 8 (0.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 777 (56.80%) Developer
2 535 (39.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 316 (23.10%) Senior
4 295 (21.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 229 (16.74%) Software Engineer
6 179 (13.08%) Lead
7 150 (10.96%) Senior Developer
8 145 (10.60%) .NET Developer
9 112 (8.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 111 (8.11%) Java Developer
11 106 (7.75%) React Developer
12 95 (6.94%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 88 (6.43%) Lead Developer
14 86 (6.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 81 (5.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 81 (5.92%) Software Developer
16 74 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
17 71 (5.19%) C# Developer
18 58 (4.24%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 53 (3.87%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 653 (47.73%) React
2 402 (29.39%) .NET
3 283 (20.69%) Node.js
4 232 (16.96%) HTML
5 230 (16.81%) AngularJS
6 209 (15.28%) CSS
7 160 (11.70%) RESTful
8 149 (10.89%) Vue
9 143 (10.45%) .NET Core
10 140 (10.23%) Spring
11 135 (9.87%) REST
12 103 (7.53%) ASP.NET
13 102 (7.46%) Spring Boot
14 94 (6.87%) .NET Framework
15 77 (5.63%) Next.js
16 74 (5.41%) Entity Framework
17 63 (4.61%) GraphQL
18 62 (4.53%) HTML5
19 55 (4.02%) Kafka
20 52 (3.80%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 123 (8.99%) Cloud Native
2 72 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.29%) Mobile App
4 45 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
5 44 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (1.54%) AI Agents
7 19 (1.39%) IoT
8 16 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (0.88%) Data Structures
11 12 (0.88%) Private Cloud
11 12 (0.88%) Smart Energy
12 11 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (0.80%) Onboarding
12 11 (0.80%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.73%) Hedge funds
13 10 (0.73%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.61%) Android
2 21 (1.54%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.10%) Linux
4 5 (0.37%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Windows
5 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (31.73%) Agile
2 420 (30.70%) Software Engineering
3 381 (27.85%) CI/CD
4 280 (20.47%) Microservices
5 279 (20.39%) DevOps
6 271 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
7 251 (18.35%) AI
8 195 (14.25%) User Experience
9 180 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 178 (13.01%) Mentoring
11 126 (9.21%) Clean Code
12 118 (8.63%) Scrum
13 116 (8.48%) Test Automation
14 114 (8.33%) Computer Science
15 113 (8.26%) Containerisation
16 103 (7.53%) Front End Development
16 103 (7.53%) MVC
17 102 (7.46%) TDD
18 90 (6.58%) Code Quality
18 90 (6.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 491 (35.89%) JavaScript
2 459 (33.55%) TypeScript
3 383 (28.00%) C#
4 317 (23.17%) Java
5 268 (19.59%) Python
6 259 (18.93%) SQL
7 54 (3.95%) PHP
8 35 (2.56%) Ruby
9 25 (1.83%) Go
10 23 (1.68%) Rust
11 21 (1.54%) Bash
12 16 (1.17%) C++
13 14 (1.02%) C
14 13 (0.95%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.80%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.66%) Groovy
17 7 (0.51%) PowerShell
18 6 (0.44%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.44%) R
18 6 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (8.92%) Security Cleared
2 112 (8.19%) Degree
3 72 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 71 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.29%) MCP
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.15%) PhD
11 1 (0.073%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.073%) MBA
11 1 (0.073%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.29%) QA
2 68 (4.97%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.02%) WCAG
4 12 (0.88%) GDPR
5 5 (0.37%) PERC
6 4 (0.29%) SLA
7 2 (0.15%) ECSS
8 1 (0.073%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.073%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.073%) HL7
8 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.073%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 192 (14.04%) Docker
2 18 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 160 (11.70%) Kubernetes
2 80 (5.85%) Terraform
3 23 (1.68%) Ansible
4 16 (1.17%) Kibana
5 11 (0.80%) Argo
5 11 (0.80%) Grafana
6 8 (0.58%) HP Fortify
7 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.073%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.073%) Istio
9 1 (0.073%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.073%) Nagios
Vendors
1 111 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 26 (1.90%) OpenAI
3 24 (1.75%) Oracle
4 19 (1.39%) Google
5 16 (1.17%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.02%) Foundry
7 13 (0.95%) Splunk
8 12 (0.88%) Palantir
9 11 (0.80%) Adobe
10 7 (0.51%) Facebook
11 6 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.44%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.44%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.44%) VMware
11 6 (0.44%) YouTube
12 5 (0.37%) DevExpress
12 5 (0.37%) Zoho
13 4 (0.29%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.29%) Telerik
13 4 (0.29%) WSO2