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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 86 42
Rank change year-on-year +13 -44 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,113 1,405 4,713
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.59% 3.43% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% 3.68% 6.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,702 1,009 3,828
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year +5.93% +6.94% -4.05%

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 62,259 38,133 78,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.22% 93.03% 86.30%
Number of salaries quoted 38,393 22,512 58,144
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,184
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,487 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% +8.50% -7.94%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +14 1,915 £70,000 +7.69% 848
UK excluding London +8 1,241 £62,500 +5.93% 635
Work from Home +15 820 £70,000 +7.69% 458
London +16 710 £85,000 +6.25% 329
North of England +37 380 £67,500 +17.39% 161
South East -26 308 £60,000 - 175
Midlands +31 219 £55,000 +8.37% 86
North West +17 190 £70,000 +14.29% 83
South West +16 181 £60,000 -4.00% 100
Yorkshire +25 136 £71,250 +42.50% 54
West Midlands +37 116 £55,000 +4.76% 43
East Midlands -5 102 £55,000 +22.22% 43
East of England -15 94 £60,000 +14.29% 63
North East +13 54 £55,000 +22.22% 24
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 5
Scotland -49 23 £60,000 -4.00% 34
Wales -42 14 £52,500 -22.22% 18
Channel Islands - 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 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (0.66%) CMS
2 13 (0.62%) OpenStack
3 10 (0.47%) Confluence
4 9 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (0.38%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.33%) Apache
6 7 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.33%) ColdFusion
7 6 (0.28%) WordPress
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.19%) Appian
9 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.14%) IIS
10 3 (0.14%) Liferay
11 2 (0.095%) CICS
11 2 (0.095%) Drupal
11 2 (0.095%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.095%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.095%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.19%) Shopify
2 1 (0.047%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.047%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 657 (31.09%) AWS
2 462 (21.86%) Azure
3 210 (9.94%) SaaS
4 196 (9.28%) Serverless
5 158 (7.48%) GCP
6 132 (6.25%) GitHub
7 110 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
8 94 (4.45%) Amazon S3
9 81 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
10 66 (3.12%) Amazon ECS
11 55 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
12 52 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (1.99%) Figma
14 39 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
15 37 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (1.28%) Entra ID
18 25 (1.18%) PaaS
19 24 (1.14%) Power Platform
20 19 (0.90%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.66%) Broadband
2 7 (0.33%) HTTP
3 4 (0.19%) Firewall
3 4 (0.19%) Internet
4 3 (0.14%) WAN
5 2 (0.095%) AMQP
5 2 (0.095%) DNS
5 2 (0.095%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.095%) LAN
5 2 (0.095%) VLAN
5 2 (0.095%) VPN
6 1 (0.047%) DHCP
6 1 (0.047%) MQTT
6 1 (0.047%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.047%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.047%) SSL
6 1 (0.047%) TCAP
6 1 (0.047%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.047%) WebEx
6 1 (0.047%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (5.92%) MongoDB
2 125 (5.92%) SQL Server
3 117 (5.54%) NoSQL
4 74 (3.50%) MySQL
5 65 (3.08%) Relational Database
6 44 (2.08%) DynamoDB
7 43 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (1.14%) Redis
9 20 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (0.76%) Power BI
11 12 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (0.57%) Pinecone
12 10 (0.47%) DB2
12 10 (0.47%) RDBMS
13 9 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.38%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.33%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.28%) GIS
Development Applications
1 179 (8.47%) Git
2 101 (4.78%) Jenkins
3 56 (2.65%) Cypress.io
4 37 (1.75%) GitLab
5 35 (1.66%) JIRA
6 26 (1.23%) Maven
7 21 (0.99%) JUnit
7 21 (0.99%) SonarQube
8 18 (0.85%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.71%) Mockito
10 13 (0.62%) CircleCI
10 13 (0.62%) Vite
11 12 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.52%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.43%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.43%) Selenium
14 8 (0.38%) Visual Studio
14 8 (0.38%) webpack
15 7 (0.33%) ESLint
15 7 (0.33%) NUnit
General
1 288 (13.63%) Social Skills
2 221 (10.46%) Finance
3 79 (3.74%) Public Sector
4 71 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (2.70%) Banking
6 49 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (2.04%) Retail
8 41 (1.94%) Front Office
9 38 (1.80%) Law
9 38 (1.80%) Marketing
10 33 (1.56%) Games
11 32 (1.51%) Tech for Good
12 27 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.23%) Aviation
14 21 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (0.95%) Health Technology
15 20 (0.95%) Investment Banking
16 18 (0.85%) Legal
17 15 (0.71%) Advertising
18 12 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,224 (57.93%) Developer
2 857 (40.56%) Full-Stack Developer
3 503 (23.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 492 (23.28%) Senior
5 387 (18.32%) Software Engineer
6 301 (14.25%) Lead
7 235 (11.12%) Senior Developer
8 180 (8.52%) .NET Developer
9 168 (7.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 167 (7.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 165 (7.81%) Lead Developer
12 154 (7.29%) Java Developer
13 143 (6.77%) Software Developer
14 137 (6.48%) React Developer
14 137 (6.48%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 111 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
16 99 (4.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 94 (4.45%) Python Developer
18 92 (4.35%) C# Developer
19 85 (4.02%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 788 (37.29%) React
2 463 (21.91%) .NET
3 420 (19.88%) Node.js
4 252 (11.93%) HTML
5 243 (11.50%) CSS
6 231 (10.93%) AngularJS
7 194 (9.18%) Vue
8 158 (7.48%) RESTful
9 157 (7.43%) Spring
10 154 (7.29%) .NET Core
11 150 (7.10%) REST
12 128 (6.06%) Spring Boot
13 104 (4.92%) Next.js
14 96 (4.54%) ASP.NET
15 79 (3.74%) GraphQL
16 78 (3.69%) .NET Framework
17 69 (3.27%) Kafka
18 65 (3.08%) Laravel
19 63 (2.98%) Entity Framework
20 61 (2.89%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 158 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 85 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
3 75 (3.55%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.08%) Mobile App
5 63 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
6 49 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (1.56%) IoT
8 31 (1.47%) Fixed Income
9 25 (1.18%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (0.95%) Smart Energy
12 19 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (0.80%) Data Structures
13 17 (0.80%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (0.71%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.62%) Blog
15 13 (0.62%) e-Learning
15 13 (0.62%) Podcast
15 13 (0.62%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.37%) Linux
2 26 (1.23%) Android
3 23 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.19%) Unix
4 4 (0.19%) Windows
5 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.047%) VMS
5 1 (0.047%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.047%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (31.76%) Software Engineering
2 511 (24.18%) Agile
3 441 (20.87%) CI/CD
4 352 (16.66%) DevOps
5 344 (16.28%) AI
6 325 (15.38%) Microservices
7 307 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
8 230 (10.88%) Mentoring
9 228 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 185 (8.76%) Test Automation
11 180 (8.52%) User Experience
12 140 (6.63%) Scrum
13 136 (6.44%) Clean Code
13 136 (6.44%) Containerisation
14 123 (5.82%) Computer Science
15 111 (5.25%) Machine Learning
16 110 (5.21%) Technical Leadership
16 110 (5.21%) Web Development
17 106 (5.02%) Infrastructure as Code
18 103 (4.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 657 (31.09%) JavaScript
2 624 (29.53%) TypeScript
3 438 (20.73%) Python
4 436 (20.63%) Java
5 403 (19.07%) C#
6 308 (14.58%) SQL
7 90 (4.26%) PHP
8 54 (2.56%) Go
9 46 (2.18%) Ruby
10 28 (1.33%) Bash
11 21 (0.99%) C++
12 18 (0.85%) Kotlin
13 17 (0.80%) C
14 13 (0.62%) Groovy
14 13 (0.62%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.62%) Rust
15 11 (0.52%) Bicep
16 6 (0.28%) R
16 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (7.24%) Security Cleared
2 124 (5.87%) Degree
3 108 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 83 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.70%) DV Cleared
6 19 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.52%) DBS Check
8 9 (0.43%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.19%) PhD
12 2 (0.095%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.047%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.047%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.047%) MBA
13 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (4.54%) QA
2 53 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.62%) GDPR
4 10 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.33%) GRC
5 7 (0.33%) WCAG
6 6 (0.28%) SLA
7 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.19%) PERC
8 2 (0.095%) ECSS
8 2 (0.095%) HL7
8 2 (0.095%) ITGC
8 2 (0.095%) NCSC
8 2 (0.095%) NIST
9 1 (0.047%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.047%) SOC 2
System Software
1 231 (10.93%) Docker
2 10 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.14%) Firmware
4 3 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.095%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 170 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 115 (5.44%) Terraform
3 31 (1.47%) Ansible
4 30 (1.42%) Grafana
5 16 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.62%) HP Fortify
7 12 (0.57%) Kibana
8 10 (0.47%) Argo
9 7 (0.33%) Podman
10 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.14%) logstash
11 3 (0.14%) Nagios
12 1 (0.047%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.047%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.047%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 143 (6.77%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.33%) Oracle
3 27 (1.28%) Adobe
4 26 (1.23%) Google
4 26 (1.23%) OpenAI
5 14 (0.66%) Foundry
6 13 (0.62%) Palantir
7 9 (0.43%) Fortinet
7 9 (0.43%) Palo Alto
7 9 (0.43%) Pega
8 8 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (0.38%) Dynatrace
8 8 (0.38%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.33%) Splunk
10 6 (0.28%) Databricks
10 6 (0.28%) Facebook
10 6 (0.28%) WSO2
11 5 (0.24%) Zoho
12 4 (0.19%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.19%) DevExpress