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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 102 46
Rank change year-on-year +53 -56 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,262 1,478 3,812
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.11% 2.98% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 3.33% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,682 906 2,622
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 7 August 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 August 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 +58 2,959 £65,000 -7.14% 1,313
UK excluding London +73 2,235 £60,000 - 683
Work from Home +47 1,427 £60,000 -11.11% 565
London +10 864 £85,000 - 740
North of England +70 730 £65,000 +8.33% 190
South East +98 548 £60,000 - 169
North West +48 401 £65,000 - 112
South West +65 313 £60,000 - 86
Midlands +37 309 £55,000 -8.33% 91
Yorkshire +76 210 £70,000 +16.67% 59
East of England +50 182 £60,000 +33.33% 66
West Midlands +30 170 £60,000 -5.88% 48
East Midlands +27 138 £55,000 +15.79% 43
North East +19 119 £52,000 +19.54% 20
Scotland -14 88 £55,000 -18.52% 51
Wales -36 55 £60,000 - 16
Northern Ireland -62 15 £70,000 +16.67% 19
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 25 (0.77%) CMS
1 25 (0.77%) Confluence
2 15 (0.46%) WordPress
3 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
4 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (0.28%) Apache
4 9 (0.28%) ColdFusion
4 9 (0.28%) IIS
4 9 (0.28%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.092%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.092%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.092%) Kentico
10 3 (0.092%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.061%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.031%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.031%) Magento
3 1 (0.031%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 958 (29.37%) Azure
2 950 (29.12%) AWS
3 318 (9.75%) GitHub
4 251 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 249 (7.63%) SaaS
6 209 (6.41%) Serverless
7 192 (5.89%) GCP
8 183 (5.61%) GitHub Copilot
9 166 (5.09%) Azure AI
10 127 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
11 106 (3.25%) Amazon S3
12 86 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (2.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 77 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
15 68 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
16 58 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
17 53 (1.62%) Anthropic Claude
18 41 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
19 36 (1.10%) Power Platform
20 32 (0.98%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.81%) Internet
2 51 (1.56%) Broadband
3 12 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.34%) Firewall
5 9 (0.28%) DNS
6 8 (0.25%) HTTP
7 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.15%) MQTT
9 4 (0.12%) VoIP
10 3 (0.092%) DHCP
10 3 (0.092%) LAN
10 3 (0.092%) WAN
11 2 (0.061%) AMQP
11 2 (0.061%) Network Security
11 2 (0.061%) VPN
12 1 (0.031%) Multicast
12 1 (0.031%) SCTP
12 1 (0.031%) Software-Defined Radio
12 1 (0.031%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 533 (16.34%) MongoDB
2 463 (14.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 229 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 181 (5.55%) SQL Server
5 158 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
6 109 (3.34%) NoSQL
7 96 (2.94%) MySQL
8 83 (2.54%) Relational Database
9 70 (2.15%) DynamoDB
10 56 (1.72%) Redis
11 28 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.67%) Power BI
13 14 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.37%) GIS
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
17 8 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
18 6 (0.18%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 248 (7.60%) Git
2 108 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 78 (2.39%) GitLab
4 59 (1.81%) Cypress.io
4 59 (1.81%) JUnit
5 47 (1.44%) Claude Code
6 46 (1.41%) JIRA
7 35 (1.07%) Maven
8 28 (0.86%) Eclipse
9 27 (0.83%) Subversion
10 22 (0.67%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.52%) Mockito
11 17 (0.52%) Vite
12 14 (0.43%) Selenium
13 13 (0.40%) CircleCI
14 12 (0.37%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.37%) Spock
15 10 (0.31%) NUnit
15 10 (0.31%) Storybook
16 8 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 410 (12.57%) Finance
2 317 (9.72%) Social Skills
3 134 (4.11%) Public Sector
4 105 (3.22%) Marketing
5 89 (2.73%) Games
6 74 (2.27%) Retail
7 73 (2.24%) Advertising
8 71 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 68 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
10 62 (1.90%) Banking
11 45 (1.38%) Law
12 39 (1.20%) Front Office
13 37 (1.13%) Legal
14 35 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 29 (0.89%) Tech for Good
16 26 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.52%) Aerospace
17 17 (0.52%) Automotive
17 17 (0.52%) Legal Technology
18 14 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,959 (60.06%) Developer
2 1,052 (32.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 768 (23.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 644 (19.74%) Senior
5 611 (18.73%) .NET Developer
6 555 (17.01%) Software Engineer
7 427 (13.09%) Lead
8 283 (8.68%) Senior Developer
9 279 (8.55%) Software Developer
10 249 (7.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 212 (6.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 201 (6.16%) Lead Developer
13 168 (5.15%) Java Developer
13 168 (5.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 159 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
15 122 (3.74%) Java Engineer
16 99 (3.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 97 (2.97%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 95 (2.91%) Python Developer
19 93 (2.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,065 (32.65%) React
2 985 (30.20%) .NET
3 636 (19.50%) Node.js
4 556 (17.04%) .NET Core
5 554 (16.98%) ASP.NET
6 511 (15.67%) ASP.NET Core
7 449 (13.76%) AngularJS
8 428 (13.12%) CSS
9 411 (12.60%) HTML
10 384 (11.77%) Vue
11 361 (11.07%) RESTful
12 233 (7.14%) Entity Framework
13 220 (6.74%) Blazor
14 212 (6.50%) Spring
15 211 (6.47%) REST
16 186 (5.70%) ASP.NET Web API
17 169 (5.18%) Spring Boot
18 166 (5.09%) Next.js
19 156 (4.78%) ML.NET
20 137 (4.20%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 315 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 167 (5.12%) Greenfield Project
3 113 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
4 87 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 80 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 74 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 72 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 70 (2.15%) AI Agents
9 53 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.10%) Fixed Income
10 36 (1.10%) Low-Code
11 35 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
12 32 (0.98%) Onboarding
13 31 (0.95%) e-Learning
14 28 (0.86%) IoT
15 26 (0.80%) Virtual Team
16 21 (0.64%) Social Media
17 20 (0.61%) Digital TV
18 19 (0.58%) Algorithms
19 17 (0.52%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 60 (1.84%) Linux
2 24 (0.74%) Android
3 16 (0.49%) Windows
4 10 (0.31%) Unix
5 8 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.092%) AIX
8 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.092%) VMS
9 2 (0.061%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.031%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 958 (29.37%) Software Engineering
2 940 (28.82%) Agile
3 787 (24.13%) CI/CD
4 726 (22.26%) AI
5 582 (17.84%) Microservices
6 573 (17.57%) DevOps
7 340 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
8 308 (9.44%) Machine Learning
9 306 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 281 (8.61%) Mentoring
11 273 (8.37%) Test Automation
12 223 (6.84%) Scrum
13 199 (6.10%) Clean Code
14 197 (6.04%) TDD
15 189 (5.79%) Infrastructure as Code
16 187 (5.73%) Observability
17 179 (5.49%) Multithreading
18 178 (5.46%) Containerisation
19 173 (5.30%) Technical Leadership
20 162 (4.97%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 1,006 (30.84%) JavaScript
2 935 (28.66%) TypeScript
3 932 (28.57%) C#
4 764 (23.42%) SQL
5 623 (19.10%) Python
6 530 (16.25%) Java
7 99 (3.03%) Go
7 99 (3.03%) PHP
8 92 (2.82%) Ruby
9 71 (2.18%) C++
10 31 (0.95%) Bash
11 30 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 26 (0.80%) Groovy
13 22 (0.67%) Perl
14 17 (0.52%) Rust
15 15 (0.46%) Bicep
16 14 (0.43%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.21%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.18%) C
19 5 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 226 (6.93%) Security Cleared
2 183 (5.61%) Degree
3 165 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 130 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.13%) DV Cleared
6 23 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 15 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.12%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.092%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.092%) OCP
14 3 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.092%) PhD
15 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.031%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.13%) QA
2 71 (2.18%) Accessibility
3 31 (0.95%) WCAG
4 21 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.64%) GDPR
5 8 (0.25%) NCSC
6 7 (0.21%) GRC
7 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.092%) NIST
8 3 (0.092%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.092%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.061%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.031%) HL7
10 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.031%) ITGC
10 1 (0.031%) SLA
10 1 (0.031%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 469 (14.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.12%) Firmware
4 2 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.061%) vSphere
5 1 (0.031%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 362 (11.10%) Kubernetes
2 156 (4.78%) Terraform
3 29 (0.89%) Grafana
4 21 (0.64%) Ansible
5 19 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.37%) Podman
7 10 (0.31%) HP Fortify
7 10 (0.31%) Kibana
8 6 (0.18%) logstash
9 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.061%) Argo
10 2 (0.061%) Bugsnag
10 2 (0.061%) Packer
11 1 (0.031%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.031%) Graylog
11 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.031%) Nagios
11 1 (0.031%) Puppet
11 1 (0.031%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 624 (19.13%) Microsoft
2 83 (2.54%) Google
3 59 (1.81%) Facebook
4 41 (1.26%) OpenAI
5 31 (0.95%) Oracle
6 26 (0.80%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.71%) YouTube
8 19 (0.58%) Splunk
9 18 (0.55%) Apple
10 17 (0.52%) Foundry
10 17 (0.52%) Palantir
10 17 (0.52%) Sony
10 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
11 15 (0.46%) Adobe
11 15 (0.46%) AppDynamics
12 13 (0.40%) Databricks
13 10 (0.31%) Dynatrace
13 10 (0.31%) OneLogin
13 10 (0.31%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.18%) Fortinet