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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 53 67
Rank change year-on-year -57 +14 -6
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,247 2,787 2,095
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.27% 4.40% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 5.09% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 966 1,459 1,867
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,140 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,938 £83,750 £88,125
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £114,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

All Process and 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 46,039 54,754 46,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.81% 86.35% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,176 28,458 35,978
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.31% +4.37% -1.41%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 -55 1,118 £70,000 +7.69% 909
UK excluding London -80 646 £60,000 +9.09% 752
London -11 535 £90,000 +5.88% 310
Work from Home -43 469 £70,000 +7.69% 488
North of England -46 176 £60,000 +4.35% 194
South East -78 170 £60,000 - 246
Midlands -53 103 £60,000 +20.00% 114
North West -22 88 £65,000 +13.04% 101
South West -45 86 £60,000 +9.09% 79
Yorkshire -52 63 £63,750 +15.91% 57
West Midlands -26 61 £60,000 +9.09% 65
East of England -76 45 £60,000 - 66
Scotland -33 42 £67,500 +22.73% 24
East Midlands -57 42 £60,000 +41.18% 49
North East -4 25 £50,000 -16.67% 38
Wales -27 21 £60,000 +9.09% 24
Northern Ireland -21 6 £72,500 +16.00% 9
Channel Islands +5 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 14 (1.12%) CMS
2 10 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.64%) Confluence
3 8 (0.64%) Headless CMS
4 7 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.48%) IIS
5 6 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.40%) nginx
7 4 (0.32%) Appian
7 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.24%) Apache
8 3 (0.24%) Drupal
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.24%) WordPress
9 2 (0.16%) Camunda
9 2 (0.16%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 6 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.24%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.080%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.080%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.080%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (0.80%) Shopify
2 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 504 (40.42%) AWS
2 437 (35.04%) Azure
3 136 (10.91%) SaaS
4 132 (10.59%) Serverless
5 117 (9.38%) GitHub
6 109 (8.74%) GCP
7 73 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
9 53 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
10 51 (4.09%) Amazon S3
11 47 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (2.57%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (2.49%) PaaS
15 27 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (1.92%) Azure App Service
16 24 (1.92%) Entra ID
17 23 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 23 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (1.76%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.64%) HTTP
2 6 (0.48%) Firewall
3 4 (0.32%) WAN
4 3 (0.24%) Broadband
4 3 (0.24%) DNS
4 3 (0.24%) LAN
4 3 (0.24%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.24%) VLAN
4 3 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.16%) AMQP
5 2 (0.16%) DHCP
6 1 (0.080%) Internet
6 1 (0.080%) MQTT
6 1 (0.080%) NAS
6 1 (0.080%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.080%) Network Security
6 1 (0.080%) SAN
6 1 (0.080%) SSL
6 1 (0.080%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (11.23%) SQL Server
2 118 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (7.86%) NoSQL
4 92 (7.38%) MongoDB
5 87 (6.98%) Relational Database
6 68 (5.45%) MySQL
7 47 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (2.73%) RDBMS
9 25 (2.00%) Redis
10 23 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.52%) DynamoDB
12 17 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.96%) Power BI
14 7 (0.56%) Big Data
14 7 (0.56%) NonStop SQL
14 7 (0.56%) Pinecone
15 5 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (0.40%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 170 (13.63%) Git
2 67 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.69%) Cypress.io
4 41 (3.29%) JIRA
5 34 (2.73%) JUnit
6 24 (1.92%) JMeter
6 24 (1.92%) Mockito
7 22 (1.76%) GitLab
8 16 (1.28%) Visual Studio
9 15 (1.20%) webpack
10 13 (1.04%) Maven
11 12 (0.96%) Vite
12 11 (0.88%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.64%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.64%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.56%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.56%) Selenium
15 6 (0.48%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 280 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 209 (16.76%) Finance
3 98 (7.86%) Law
4 68 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 61 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (4.09%) Marketing
7 50 (4.01%) Banking
8 45 (3.61%) Front Office
9 43 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
10 31 (2.49%) Investment Banking
11 28 (2.25%) Legal
11 28 (2.25%) Retail
12 19 (1.52%) Health Technology
13 12 (0.96%) Back Office
13 12 (0.96%) Games
14 11 (0.88%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.88%) Tech for Good
15 10 (0.80%) Advertising
15 10 (0.80%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 732 (58.70%) Developer
2 500 (40.10%) Full-Stack Developer
3 276 (22.13%) Senior
4 246 (19.73%) Software Engineer
5 232 (18.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 175 (14.03%) Lead
7 154 (12.35%) Senior Developer
8 127 (10.18%) .NET Developer
9 108 (8.66%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 102 (8.18%) Java Developer
11 97 (7.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 94 (7.54%) Software Developer
13 76 (6.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 76 (6.09%) Lead Developer
14 74 (5.93%) React Developer
15 63 (5.05%) C# Developer
16 58 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
17 48 (3.85%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 46 (3.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 46 (3.69%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 643 (51.56%) React
2 386 (30.95%) .NET
3 273 (21.89%) Node.js
4 265 (21.25%) HTML
5 264 (21.17%) AngularJS
6 232 (18.60%) CSS
7 176 (14.11%) RESTful
8 160 (12.83%) Vue
9 149 (11.95%) Spring
10 145 (11.63%) .NET Core
11 139 (11.15%) REST
12 122 (9.78%) ASP.NET
13 115 (9.22%) .NET Framework
14 109 (8.74%) GraphQL
15 103 (8.26%) Spring Boot
16 87 (6.98%) Kafka
17 86 (6.90%) Entity Framework
18 78 (6.26%) Next.js
19 70 (5.61%) HTML5
20 60 (4.81%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 141 (11.31%) Cloud Native
2 80 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (2.73%) Mobile App
6 32 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (2.25%) Fixed Income
8 20 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.36%) AI Agents
12 16 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.28%) IoT
13 14 (1.12%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.04%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.04%) Reference Data
15 12 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (0.96%) Hedge funds
15 12 (0.96%) Management Information System
15 12 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.04%) Linux
2 12 (0.96%) Android
2 12 (0.96%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.80%) Windows
4 9 (0.72%) Unix
5 7 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (41.30%) Agile
2 407 (32.64%) CI/CD
2 407 (32.64%) Software Engineering
3 277 (22.21%) DevOps
4 264 (21.17%) Microservices
5 254 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
6 231 (18.52%) AI
7 206 (16.52%) User Experience
8 185 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 171 (13.71%) Mentoring
10 138 (11.07%) Clean Code
11 125 (10.02%) Test Automation
12 123 (9.86%) TDD
13 122 (9.78%) SDLC
14 116 (9.30%) MVC
15 108 (8.66%) Containerisation
15 108 (8.66%) Scrum
16 105 (8.42%) Computer Science
17 104 (8.34%) Front End Development
18 97 (7.78%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 515 (41.30%) JavaScript
2 452 (36.25%) TypeScript
3 385 (30.87%) C#
4 305 (24.46%) Java
5 269 (21.57%) Python
6 264 (21.17%) SQL
7 50 (4.01%) Go
8 49 (3.93%) PHP
9 34 (2.73%) Rust
10 28 (2.25%) Ruby
11 20 (1.60%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.20%) Bash
12 15 (1.20%) C++
12 15 (1.20%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.12%) PowerShell
14 11 (0.88%) Bicep
14 11 (0.88%) C
15 7 (0.56%) Groovy
15 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 112 (8.98%) Security Cleared
2 102 (8.18%) Degree
3 62 (4.97%) SC Cleared
4 60 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.96%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.40%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.40%) MCP
11 3 (0.24%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.16%) CISSP
12 2 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.080%) MBA
13 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.080%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.09%) Accessibility
1 76 (6.09%) QA
2 15 (1.20%) GDPR
3 12 (0.96%) WCAG
4 5 (0.40%) PERC
5 4 (0.32%) SLA
6 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.16%) ECSS
7 2 (0.16%) NIST
7 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.080%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.080%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.080%) GRC
8 1 (0.080%) HL7
8 1 (0.080%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 196 (15.72%) Docker
2 18 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.24%) HDFS
6 2 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 168 (13.47%) Kubernetes
2 81 (6.50%) Terraform
3 24 (1.92%) Kibana
4 19 (1.52%) Ansible
5 11 (0.88%) Grafana
6 9 (0.72%) Argo
6 9 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.32%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.16%) Istio
8 2 (0.16%) Nagios
8 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.080%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.080%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.080%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.080%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.080%) linkerd
9 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 163 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.41%) Oracle
3 25 (2.00%) Dynatrace
3 25 (2.00%) Splunk
4 18 (1.44%) OpenAI
5 14 (1.12%) Google
6 11 (0.88%) Foundry
6 11 (0.88%) Palantir
6 11 (0.88%) VMware
7 10 (0.80%) Apple
8 8 (0.64%) Databricks
8 8 (0.64%) DevExpress
9 7 (0.56%) Facebook
9 7 (0.56%) YouTube
10 6 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.48%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.48%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.40%) Zoho
12 4 (0.32%) Pega
12 4 (0.32%) WSO2