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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 61 53
Rank change year-on-year -36 -8 +15
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,352 2,266 2,598
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.26% 4.17% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 4.63% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,084 1,100 2,273
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +1.56% -1.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £111,250
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 48,581 48,989 48,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.32% 90.25% 90.41%
Number of salaries quoted 28,539 24,001 36,978
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 7 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 7 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 -30 1,242 £70,000 +7.69% 1,321
UK excluding London -66 713 £62,500 +13.64% 1,131
London -8 542 £80,000 - 323
Work from Home -28 512 £70,000 +7.69% 753
South East -55 207 £65,000 +8.33% 368
North of England -31 186 £65,000 +18.18% 243
Midlands -33 142 £60,000 +20.00% 142
South West -22 103 £60,000 - 130
West Midlands -15 80 £55,000 +4.76% 54
North West -24 76 £65,000 +13.04% 115
Yorkshire -24 71 £71,250 +43.94% 85
East Midlands -33 62 £62,500 +47.06% 85
East of England -51 50 £60,000 +29.73% 158
North East +13 39 £55,000 +4.76% 44
Scotland -73 12 £70,000 +33.33% 34
Wales -29 10 £45,000 -15.09% 51
Northern Ireland -12 5 £95,000 +58.33% 25
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 (0.89%) Confluence
2 11 (0.81%) CMS
2 11 (0.81%) OpenStack
3 8 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.37%) WordPress
6 4 (0.30%) Appian
6 4 (0.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.22%) Liferay
8 2 (0.15%) ColdFusion
8 2 (0.15%) Drupal
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
8 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.074%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.074%) Apache
9 1 (0.074%) Kentico
9 1 (0.074%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.074%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.15%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 497 (36.76%) AWS
2 420 (31.07%) Azure
3 144 (10.65%) Serverless
4 128 (9.47%) SaaS
5 113 (8.36%) GitHub
6 106 (7.84%) GCP
7 73 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
9 66 (4.88%) Amazon S3
10 60 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (2.14%) PaaS
14 26 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (1.92%) Figma
15 22 (1.63%) Entra ID
16 20 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (1.48%) Azure App Service
17 17 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.74%) Broadband
2 8 (0.59%) HTTP
3 5 (0.37%) Firewall
4 4 (0.30%) WAN
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
6 2 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.074%) MQTT
7 1 (0.074%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.074%) SSL
7 1 (0.074%) TCAP
7 1 (0.074%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (9.17%) SQL Server
2 114 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (7.25%) NoSQL
4 85 (6.29%) MongoDB
5 71 (5.25%) Relational Database
6 62 (4.59%) MySQL
7 44 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (1.78%) Redis
9 23 (1.70%) DynamoDB
9 23 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (1.70%) RDBMS
10 15 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.74%) Pinecone
13 9 (0.67%) Power BI
14 8 (0.59%) DB2
15 6 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
16 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 169 (12.50%) Git
2 78 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.40%) Cypress.io
4 41 (3.03%) JIRA
5 29 (2.14%) JUnit
6 28 (2.07%) GitLab
7 22 (1.63%) Mockito
8 17 (1.26%) JMeter
8 17 (1.26%) Maven
9 16 (1.18%) Visual Studio
10 15 (1.11%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.04%) Vite
12 12 (0.89%) Selenium
12 12 (0.89%) webpack
13 11 (0.81%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.81%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.67%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
16 7 (0.52%) CircleCI
17 6 (0.44%) Storybook
General
1 288 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 140 (10.36%) Finance
3 70 (5.18%) Public Sector
4 57 (4.22%) Law
5 49 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (2.96%) Banking
7 38 (2.81%) Marketing
8 30 (2.22%) Retail
9 26 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.78%) Investment Banking
11 23 (1.70%) Front Office
12 22 (1.63%) Legal
13 19 (1.41%) Health Technology
13 19 (1.41%) Tech for Good
14 18 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.18%) Aviation
16 15 (1.11%) Games
17 10 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.67%) Telecoms
19 8 (0.59%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 770 (56.95%) Developer
2 534 (39.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 312 (23.08%) Senior
4 287 (21.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 223 (16.49%) Software Engineer
6 175 (12.94%) Lead
7 152 (11.24%) Senior Developer
8 139 (10.28%) .NET Developer
9 112 (8.28%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 111 (8.21%) Java Developer
11 105 (7.77%) React Developer
12 92 (6.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 84 (6.21%) Lead Developer
14 82 (6.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 81 (5.99%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 81 (5.99%) Software Developer
16 71 (5.25%) C# Developer
17 70 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
18 59 (4.36%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 52 (3.85%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 643 (47.56%) React
2 400 (29.59%) .NET
3 281 (20.78%) Node.js
4 239 (17.68%) HTML
5 233 (17.23%) AngularJS
6 215 (15.90%) CSS
7 157 (11.61%) RESTful
8 149 (11.02%) Vue
9 141 (10.43%) .NET Core
10 139 (10.28%) Spring
11 138 (10.21%) REST
12 102 (7.54%) Spring Boot
13 101 (7.47%) .NET Framework
13 101 (7.47%) ASP.NET
14 76 (5.62%) Entity Framework
15 74 (5.47%) Next.js
16 66 (4.88%) GraphQL
17 63 (4.66%) HTML5
18 55 (4.07%) Kafka
19 53 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 123 (9.10%) Cloud Native
2 74 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 44 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
6 43 (3.18%) Mobile App
7 20 (1.48%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.41%) IoT
9 15 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 12 (0.89%) Data Structures
11 12 (0.89%) Onboarding
11 12 (0.89%) Private Cloud
11 12 (0.89%) Smart Energy
12 11 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (0.81%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.74%) Hedge funds
13 10 (0.74%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.59%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.48%) Android
1 20 (1.48%) Apple iOS
2 16 (1.18%) Linux
3 6 (0.44%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Windows
5 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (31.58%) Agile
2 412 (30.47%) Software Engineering
3 375 (27.74%) CI/CD
4 277 (20.49%) Microservices
5 274 (20.27%) DevOps
6 268 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
7 243 (17.97%) AI
8 197 (14.57%) User Experience
9 175 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 175 (12.94%) Mentoring
10 128 (9.47%) Clean Code
11 117 (8.65%) Scrum
11 117 (8.65%) Test Automation
12 114 (8.43%) Computer Science
13 111 (8.21%) Containerisation
14 106 (7.84%) MVC
15 103 (7.62%) Front End Development
16 102 (7.54%) TDD
17 93 (6.88%) Code Quality
18 89 (6.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 494 (36.54%) JavaScript
2 452 (33.43%) TypeScript
3 380 (28.11%) C#
4 313 (23.15%) Java
5 265 (19.60%) Python
6 255 (18.86%) SQL
7 54 (3.99%) PHP
8 35 (2.59%) Ruby
9 26 (1.92%) Go
10 24 (1.78%) Rust
11 22 (1.63%) Bash
12 15 (1.11%) C++
13 14 (1.04%) C
13 14 (1.04%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.81%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.74%) Groovy
16 8 (0.59%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.52%) Bicep
17 7 (0.52%) R
18 6 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 123 (9.10%) Security Cleared
2 113 (8.36%) Degree
3 72 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 71 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.37%) MCP
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.15%) PhD
11 1 (0.074%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.074%) MBA
11 1 (0.074%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (6.36%) QA
2 69 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.04%) WCAG
4 12 (0.89%) GDPR
5 5 (0.37%) PERC
6 4 (0.30%) SLA
7 2 (0.15%) ECSS
8 1 (0.074%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.074%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.074%) HL7
8 1 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.074%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 191 (14.13%) Docker
2 19 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 159 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 78 (5.77%) Terraform
3 22 (1.63%) Ansible
4 17 (1.26%) Kibana
5 12 (0.89%) Grafana
6 11 (0.81%) Argo
7 8 (0.59%) HP Fortify
8 7 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.074%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.074%) Istio
10 1 (0.074%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.074%) Nagios
Vendors
1 106 (7.84%) Microsoft
2 25 (1.85%) OpenAI
3 23 (1.70%) Oracle
4 17 (1.26%) Dynatrace
4 17 (1.26%) Google
5 14 (1.04%) Foundry
5 14 (1.04%) Splunk
6 12 (0.89%) Palantir
7 11 (0.81%) Adobe
8 6 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (0.44%) Facebook
8 6 (0.44%) Fortinet
8 6 (0.44%) Palo Alto
8 6 (0.44%) VMware
8 6 (0.44%) YouTube
9 5 (0.37%) DevExpress
9 5 (0.37%) Zoho
10 4 (0.30%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.30%) Telerik
10 4 (0.30%) WSO2