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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 62 43
Rank change year-on-year -22 -19 +21
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,684 1,991 3,942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.45% 4.10% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 4.43% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 1,038 3,419
10th Percentile £46,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -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 54,494 44,927 66,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.19% 92.59% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32,685 22,191 51,489
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,448
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -19 1,527 £70,000 +7.69% 923
UK excluding London -38 919 £62,500 +8.70% 759
Work from Home -10 664 £70,000 +7.69% 473
London +7 632 £83,375 +2.62% 314
North of England -4 255 £66,250 +15.22% 201
South East -52 236 £62,500 +4.17% 203
Midlands -6 179 £55,000 +4.76% 105
South West 0 141 £60,000 -4.00% 110
North West -13 115 £70,000 +16.67% 100
West Midlands -9 96 £52,500 - 43
Yorkshire -7 95 £72,500 +46.46% 66
East Midlands -22 82 £55,000 +57.14% 62
East of England -42 65 £60,000 +23.08% 76
North East +11 45 £55,000 +22.22% 35
Northern Ireland -15 20 £70,000 -6.67% 17
Wales -32 13 £52,500 -0.94% 23
Scotland -65 12 £67,500 +22.73% 33
Channel Islands 0 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 17 (1.01%) CMS
2 12 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (0.65%) Confluence
3 11 (0.65%) OpenStack
3 11 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.36%) WordPress
6 5 (0.30%) nginx
7 4 (0.24%) Apache
7 4 (0.24%) Appian
8 3 (0.18%) ColdFusion
8 3 (0.18%) Drupal
8 3 (0.18%) IIS
8 3 (0.18%) Liferay
9 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.059%) Camunda
10 1 (0.059%) Kentico
Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.059%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.059%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 562 (33.37%) AWS
2 419 (24.88%) Azure
3 180 (10.69%) Serverless
4 166 (9.86%) SaaS
5 121 (7.19%) GitHub
6 120 (7.13%) GCP
7 97 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
8 88 (5.23%) Amazon S3
9 70 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
10 65 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
13 41 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
14 39 (2.32%) Figma
15 30 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (1.60%) PaaS
18 21 (1.25%) Power Platform
19 19 (1.13%) Entra ID
20 17 (1.01%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.43%) Broadband
2 7 (0.42%) HTTP
3 5 (0.30%) Firewall
4 4 (0.24%) WAN
5 3 (0.18%) Internet
5 3 (0.18%) LAN
5 3 (0.18%) VLAN
6 2 (0.12%) AMQP
6 2 (0.12%) DHCP
6 2 (0.12%) DNS
6 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.12%) VPN
6 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.059%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.059%) MQTT
7 1 (0.059%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.059%) TCAP
7 1 (0.059%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.059%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (7.60%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (7.07%) SQL Server
3 102 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 92 (5.46%) MongoDB
5 73 (4.33%) Relational Database
6 66 (3.92%) MySQL
7 32 (1.90%) DynamoDB
8 29 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (1.54%) Redis
10 17 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (1.01%) RDBMS
11 14 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.71%) Power BI
13 11 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.65%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.48%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.48%) DB2
15 4 (0.24%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.24%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 163 (9.68%) Git
2 87 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 52 (3.09%) Cypress.io
4 39 (2.32%) JIRA
5 31 (1.84%) GitLab
6 27 (1.60%) JUnit
7 24 (1.43%) Maven
8 20 (1.19%) Mockito
8 20 (1.19%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.01%) Vite
10 15 (0.89%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.71%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.71%) JMeter
11 12 (0.71%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.65%) webpack
13 10 (0.59%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.59%) Selenium
14 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
15 6 (0.36%) ESLint
15 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 278 (16.51%) Social Skills
2 166 (9.86%) Finance
3 72 (4.28%) Public Sector
4 66 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (3.09%) Banking
6 44 (2.61%) Law
7 38 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (2.02%) Front Office
9 33 (1.96%) Retail
10 28 (1.66%) Tech for Good
11 26 (1.54%) Marketing
12 24 (1.43%) Aviation
12 24 (1.43%) Health Technology
12 24 (1.43%) Investment Banking
13 23 (1.37%) Legal
14 22 (1.31%) Games
15 21 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.59%) Automotive
17 9 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 941 (55.88%) Developer
2 662 (39.31%) Full-Stack Developer
3 395 (23.46%) Senior
4 392 (23.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 310 (18.41%) Software Engineer
6 234 (13.90%) Lead
7 174 (10.33%) Senior Developer
8 149 (8.85%) .NET Developer
9 134 (7.96%) Java Developer
10 132 (7.84%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 128 (7.60%) React Developer
12 126 (7.48%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 119 (7.07%) Lead Developer
14 114 (6.77%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 102 (6.06%) Software Developer
16 95 (5.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 95 (5.64%) Senior Software Engineer
17 81 (4.81%) C# Developer
18 75 (4.45%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 70 (4.16%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 715 (42.46%) React
2 410 (24.35%) .NET
3 320 (19.00%) Node.js
4 225 (13.36%) AngularJS
5 222 (13.18%) HTML
6 206 (12.23%) CSS
7 158 (9.38%) Vue
8 154 (9.14%) Spring
9 140 (8.31%) REST
10 138 (8.19%) .NET Core
11 134 (7.96%) RESTful
12 122 (7.24%) Spring Boot
13 90 (5.34%) Next.js
14 76 (4.51%) .NET Framework
14 76 (4.51%) ASP.NET
15 73 (4.33%) GraphQL
16 68 (4.04%) Kafka
17 58 (3.44%) Entity Framework
18 57 (3.38%) Laravel
19 55 (3.27%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 140 (8.31%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.56%) Mobile App
5 58 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (1.72%) IoT
8 22 (1.31%) AI Agents
9 19 (1.13%) Fixed Income
10 17 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (0.89%) Smart Energy
12 14 (0.83%) Management Information System
12 14 (0.83%) Private Cloud
13 13 (0.77%) Data Structures
13 13 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (0.71%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.59%) e-Learning
15 10 (0.59%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.53%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.60%) Linux
2 22 (1.31%) Android
3 21 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.42%) Unix
5 6 (0.36%) Windows
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (32.78%) Software Engineering
2 457 (27.14%) Agile
3 404 (23.99%) CI/CD
4 302 (17.93%) Microservices
4 302 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
5 292 (17.34%) DevOps
6 282 (16.75%) AI
7 214 (12.71%) Mentoring
8 201 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 195 (11.58%) User Experience
10 135 (8.02%) Test Automation
11 126 (7.48%) Containerisation
12 124 (7.36%) Clean Code
13 119 (7.07%) Computer Science
14 115 (6.83%) Scrum
15 104 (6.18%) Front End Development
16 99 (5.88%) TDD
17 97 (5.76%) Technical Leadership
18 95 (5.64%) Collaborative Culture
19 93 (5.52%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 547 (32.48%) JavaScript
2 529 (31.41%) TypeScript
3 390 (23.16%) Java
4 371 (22.03%) C#
5 340 (20.19%) Python
6 258 (15.32%) SQL
7 71 (4.22%) PHP
8 38 (2.26%) Ruby
9 37 (2.20%) Go
10 27 (1.60%) Bash
11 22 (1.31%) Rust
12 20 (1.19%) C++
13 16 (0.95%) C
14 12 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.65%) Groovy
15 11 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.42%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.42%) R
18 6 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 150 (8.91%) Security Cleared
2 119 (7.07%) Degree
3 99 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 80 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.13%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.53%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.18%) PhD
13 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.059%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.059%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.059%) MBA
14 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.63%) QA
2 62 (3.68%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.71%) GDPR
3 12 (0.71%) WCAG
4 8 (0.48%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.36%) SLA
6 5 (0.30%) PERC
7 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.12%) ECSS
8 2 (0.12%) NCSC
8 2 (0.12%) NIST
9 1 (0.059%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.059%) HL7
9 1 (0.059%) ITGC
System Software
1 208 (12.35%) Docker
2 16 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 175 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 99 (5.88%) Terraform
3 28 (1.66%) Ansible
4 24 (1.43%) Grafana
5 17 (1.01%) Kibana
6 13 (0.77%) Argo
7 12 (0.71%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.65%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Nagios
10 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.059%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.059%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.059%) Istio
11 1 (0.059%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.059%) logstash
11 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.059%) Podman
Vendors
1 100 (5.94%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.60%) Oracle
3 26 (1.54%) OpenAI
4 25 (1.48%) Adobe
5 20 (1.19%) Google
6 16 (0.95%) Foundry
7 14 (0.83%) Palantir
8 13 (0.77%) Dynatrace
9 12 (0.71%) Splunk
10 9 (0.53%) Fortinet
10 9 (0.53%) Palo Alto
11 8 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (0.36%) Databricks
12 6 (0.36%) VMware
13 5 (0.30%) Zoho
14 4 (0.24%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.24%) Facebook
14 4 (0.24%) Pega
14 4 (0.24%) Telerik
14 4 (0.24%) WSO2