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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 99 45
Rank change year-on-year +51 -54 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,154 1,527 4,233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.14% 3.11% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 3.46% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 951 3,067
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +57 2,862 £65,000 -7.14% 846
UK excluding London +62 2,158 £60,000 - 507
Work from Home +41 1,410 £60,000 -9.23% 304
London +13 838 £85,000 - 433
North of England +69 711 £65,000 +8.33% 163
South East +93 532 £60,000 +4.35% 130
North West +40 384 £65,000 - 102
South West +49 295 £60,000 - 59
Midlands +36 292 £55,000 -8.33% 68
Yorkshire +79 213 £70,000 +16.67% 43
East of England +55 178 £60,000 +26.32% 42
West Midlands +19 151 £60,000 -4.00% 39
East Midlands +22 140 £55,000 +15.79% 29
North East +23 114 £52,000 +8.33% 19
Scotland -20 81 £55,000 -18.52% 33
Wales -32 54 £60,000 -4.00% 8
Northern Ireland -50 20 £70,000 +16.67% 10
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 31 (0.98%) CMS
2 24 (0.76%) Confluence
3 15 (0.48%) WordPress
4 11 (0.35%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.32%) Apache
5 10 (0.32%) ColdFusion
5 10 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) IIS
9 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.095%) DNN
12 3 (0.095%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.095%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 9 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.063%) Elementor
3 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.032%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.032%) Magento
3 1 (0.032%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.032%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 938 (29.74%) Azure
2 921 (29.20%) AWS
3 296 (9.38%) GitHub
4 244 (7.74%) Azure DevOps
5 235 (7.45%) SaaS
6 209 (6.63%) Serverless
7 182 (5.77%) GCP
8 171 (5.42%) GitHub Copilot
9 161 (5.10%) Azure AI
10 126 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (3.30%) Amazon S3
12 84 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 76 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
15 60 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
16 53 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
17 40 (1.27%) Anthropic Claude
18 39 (1.24%) Power Platform
19 36 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
20 33 (1.05%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.87%) Broadband
2 57 (1.81%) Internet
3 8 (0.25%) Firewall
3 8 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.19%) DNS
5 6 (0.19%) HTTP
6 5 (0.16%) MQTT
7 3 (0.095%) LAN
7 3 (0.095%) WAN
8 2 (0.063%) AMQP
8 2 (0.063%) DHCP
8 2 (0.063%) Network Security
8 2 (0.063%) VoIP
8 2 (0.063%) VPN
9 1 (0.032%) Multicast
9 1 (0.032%) SCTP
9 1 (0.032%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.032%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.032%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 534 (16.93%) MongoDB
2 460 (14.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 219 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
4 167 (5.29%) SQL Server
5 158 (5.01%) Elasticsearch
6 112 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.23%) MySQL
8 83 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 68 (2.16%) DynamoDB
10 52 (1.65%) Redis
11 23 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
11 23 (0.73%) Power BI
12 14 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
13 11 (0.35%) GIS
13 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
14 9 (0.29%) Pinecone
14 9 (0.29%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.22%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 5 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 235 (7.45%) Git
2 102 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 70 (2.22%) GitLab
4 53 (1.68%) Cypress.io
5 47 (1.49%) JIRA
6 45 (1.43%) JUnit
7 40 (1.27%) Claude Code
8 31 (0.98%) Maven
9 24 (0.76%) Eclipse
10 23 (0.73%) Subversion
11 20 (0.63%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.51%) Vite
13 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.41%) Mockito
14 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.32%) Spock
15 10 (0.32%) Storybook
16 9 (0.29%) Selenium
17 8 (0.25%) Cucumber
18 7 (0.22%) IntelliJ
General
1 393 (12.46%) Finance
2 297 (9.42%) Social Skills
3 109 (3.46%) Public Sector
4 99 (3.14%) Marketing
5 91 (2.89%) Games
6 75 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (2.35%) Advertising
8 71 (2.25%) Retail
9 58 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 57 (1.81%) Banking
11 41 (1.30%) Front Office
12 36 (1.14%) Law
13 32 (1.01%) Legal
14 31 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 25 (0.79%) Tech for Good
16 19 (0.60%) Automotive
16 19 (0.60%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.51%) Aerospace
18 15 (0.48%) Legal Technology
19 14 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,917 (60.78%) Developer
2 1,015 (32.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 727 (23.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 623 (19.75%) Senior
5 618 (19.59%) .NET Developer
6 548 (17.37%) Software Engineer
7 407 (12.90%) Lead
8 278 (8.81%) Senior Developer
9 263 (8.34%) Software Developer
10 247 (7.83%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 198 (6.28%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 192 (6.09%) Lead Developer
13 163 (5.17%) Java Developer
13 163 (5.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 154 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
15 119 (3.77%) Java Engineer
16 98 (3.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 98 (3.11%) Python Developer
17 97 (3.08%) React Developer
18 92 (2.92%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,032 (32.72%) React
2 970 (30.75%) .NET
3 623 (19.75%) Node.js
4 544 (17.25%) ASP.NET
5 543 (17.22%) .NET Core
6 505 (16.01%) ASP.NET Core
7 435 (13.79%) AngularJS
8 422 (13.38%) CSS
9 407 (12.90%) HTML
10 385 (12.21%) Vue
11 343 (10.88%) RESTful
12 230 (7.29%) Entity Framework
13 214 (6.79%) Blazor
14 200 (6.34%) Spring
15 191 (6.06%) REST
16 185 (5.87%) ASP.NET Web API
17 160 (5.07%) Spring Boot
18 154 (4.88%) ML.NET
19 153 (4.85%) Next.js
20 133 (4.22%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 290 (9.19%) Cloud Native
2 171 (5.42%) Greenfield Project
3 109 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
4 80 (2.54%) Mobile App
5 77 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 74 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 58 (1.84%) AI Agents
9 48 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.20%) Fixed Income
10 38 (1.20%) Low-Code
11 33 (1.05%) Onboarding
11 33 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
12 30 (0.95%) IoT
13 29 (0.92%) e-Learning
14 22 (0.70%) Social Media
14 22 (0.70%) Virtual Team
15 20 (0.63%) Digital TV
16 19 (0.60%) Algorithms
17 17 (0.54%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.74%) Linux
2 23 (0.73%) Android
3 14 (0.44%) Windows
4 8 (0.25%) Unix
5 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.095%) AIX
7 3 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.095%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.063%) VMS
9 1 (0.032%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (29.55%) Software Engineering
2 910 (28.85%) Agile
3 742 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 687 (21.78%) AI
5 559 (17.72%) DevOps
6 558 (17.69%) Microservices
7 345 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
8 298 (9.45%) Machine Learning
9 292 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 279 (8.85%) Mentoring
11 260 (8.24%) Test Automation
12 219 (6.94%) Scrum
13 196 (6.21%) TDD
14 185 (5.87%) Clean Code
15 175 (5.55%) Infrastructure as Code
15 175 (5.55%) Observability
16 174 (5.52%) Multithreading
17 173 (5.49%) Containerisation
18 156 (4.95%) Technical Leadership
19 150 (4.76%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 965 (30.60%) JavaScript
2 911 (28.88%) C#
3 908 (28.79%) TypeScript
4 750 (23.78%) SQL
5 604 (19.15%) Python
6 509 (16.14%) Java
7 102 (3.23%) PHP
8 94 (2.98%) Go
9 77 (2.44%) Ruby
10 67 (2.12%) C++
11 29 (0.92%) Bash
12 26 (0.82%) Groovy
13 18 (0.57%) Perl
13 18 (0.57%) Rust
14 15 (0.48%) Bicep
15 13 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.19%) C
17 6 (0.19%) PowerShell
18 5 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 209 (6.63%) Security Cleared
2 165 (5.23%) Degree
3 151 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 118 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 21 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.29%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.13%) PhD
14 3 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.032%) CCNA
15 1 (0.032%) CCNP
15 1 (0.032%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.032%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.17%) QA
2 67 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.95%) WCAG
4 21 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 19 (0.60%) GDPR
6 7 (0.22%) GRC
6 7 (0.22%) NCSC
7 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.095%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.095%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.063%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.032%) HL7
10 1 (0.032%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.032%) ITGC
10 1 (0.032%) SLA
10 1 (0.032%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 446 (14.14%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.095%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.063%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.063%) vSphere
6 1 (0.032%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 340 (10.78%) Kubernetes
2 141 (4.47%) Terraform
3 29 (0.92%) Grafana
4 19 (0.60%) Ansible
4 19 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.41%) Podman
6 11 (0.35%) HP Fortify
7 10 (0.32%) Kibana
8 6 (0.19%) logstash
9 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.063%) Argo
11 1 (0.032%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.032%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.032%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.032%) Graylog
11 1 (0.032%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.032%) Nagios
11 1 (0.032%) Packer
11 1 (0.032%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 615 (19.50%) Microsoft
2 83 (2.63%) Google
3 58 (1.84%) Facebook
4 35 (1.11%) OpenAI
5 26 (0.82%) Oracle
6 25 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.70%) Adobe
8 21 (0.67%) YouTube
9 18 (0.57%) Apple
10 17 (0.54%) Palantir
10 17 (0.54%) Sony
10 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
11 15 (0.48%) Foundry
11 15 (0.48%) Splunk
12 13 (0.41%) AppDynamics
12 13 (0.41%) Databricks
13 10 (0.32%) Sitecore
14 9 (0.29%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.29%) OneLogin
15 6 (0.19%) Palo Alto