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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 62 43
Rank change year-on-year -21 -19 +21
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,682 2,009 3,907
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.45% 4.11% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 4.44% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 1,043 3,395
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -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 54,345 45,260 66,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.25% 92.54% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,629 22,226 51,183
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.33%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -21 1,523 £70,000 +7.69% 1,585
UK excluding London -37 912 £62,500 +8.70% 1,314
Work from Home -9 663 £70,000 +7.69% 756
London +6 635 £82,500 +3.13% 490
North of England 0 256 £65,000 +13.04% 300
South East -53 232 £62,500 +4.17% 380
Midlands -8 176 £55,000 +4.76% 164
South West -10 140 £60,000 -4.00% 171
North West -10 116 £70,000 +16.67% 144
West Midlands 0 95 £52,500 - 59
Yorkshire -9 95 £72,500 +46.46% 106
East Midlands -19 80 £55,000 +57.14% 100
East of England -42 65 £60,000 +26.32% 169
North East +14 45 £55,000 +22.22% 50
Northern Ireland -12 20 £70,000 -6.67% 34
Wales -33 13 £52,500 -0.94% 49
Scotland -75 12 £67,500 +22.73% 68
Channel Islands 0 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 17 (1.01%) CMS
2 12 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (0.65%) Confluence
3 11 (0.65%) OpenStack
3 11 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.36%) WordPress
6 5 (0.30%) nginx
7 4 (0.24%) Apache
7 4 (0.24%) Appian
8 3 (0.18%) ColdFusion
8 3 (0.18%) Drupal
8 3 (0.18%) IIS
8 3 (0.18%) Liferay
9 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.059%) Camunda
10 1 (0.059%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.059%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.059%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.059%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 562 (33.41%) AWS
2 415 (24.67%) Azure
3 181 (10.76%) Serverless
4 163 (9.69%) SaaS
5 121 (7.19%) GitHub
6 118 (7.02%) GCP
7 99 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
8 89 (5.29%) Amazon S3
9 71 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
10 65 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (2.26%) Figma
15 29 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.61%) PaaS
17 21 (1.25%) Power Platform
18 19 (1.13%) Entra ID
19 17 (1.01%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.43%) Broadband
2 7 (0.42%) HTTP
3 5 (0.30%) Firewall
4 4 (0.24%) WAN
5 3 (0.18%) Internet
5 3 (0.18%) LAN
5 3 (0.18%) VLAN
6 2 (0.12%) AMQP
6 2 (0.12%) DHCP
6 2 (0.12%) DNS
6 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.12%) VPN
6 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.059%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.059%) MQTT
7 1 (0.059%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.059%) SSL
7 1 (0.059%) TCAP
7 1 (0.059%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (7.07%) SQL Server
3 101 (6.00%) NoSQL
4 91 (5.41%) MongoDB
5 74 (4.40%) Relational Database
6 66 (3.92%) MySQL
7 32 (1.90%) DynamoDB
8 29 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (1.55%) Redis
10 18 (1.07%) RDBMS
11 17 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.71%) Power BI
15 11 (0.65%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.48%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.48%) DB2
17 4 (0.24%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.24%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 163 (9.69%) Git
2 87 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 52 (3.09%) Cypress.io
4 39 (2.32%) JIRA
5 31 (1.84%) GitLab
6 26 (1.55%) JUnit
7 24 (1.43%) Maven
8 20 (1.19%) TeamCity
9 19 (1.13%) Mockito
10 17 (1.01%) Vite
11 15 (0.89%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.71%) JMeter
12 12 (0.71%) Visual Studio
13 11 (0.65%) webpack
14 10 (0.59%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.59%) Selenium
15 9 (0.54%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.36%) ESLint
16 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 277 (16.47%) Social Skills
2 166 (9.87%) Finance
3 72 (4.28%) Public Sector
4 68 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (3.09%) Banking
6 46 (2.73%) Law
7 38 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (2.08%) Front Office
9 33 (1.96%) Retail
10 28 (1.66%) Tech for Good
11 27 (1.61%) Marketing
12 24 (1.43%) Aviation
12 24 (1.43%) Investment Banking
12 24 (1.43%) Legal
13 22 (1.31%) Games
13 22 (1.31%) Health Technology
14 21 (1.25%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.59%) Automotive
16 9 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 943 (56.06%) Developer
2 667 (39.66%) Full-Stack Developer
3 393 (23.37%) Senior
4 387 (23.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 308 (18.31%) Software Engineer
6 234 (13.91%) Lead
7 174 (10.34%) Senior Developer
8 148 (8.80%) .NET Developer
9 135 (8.03%) Java Developer
10 130 (7.73%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 129 (7.67%) React Developer
12 126 (7.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 118 (7.02%) Lead Developer
14 113 (6.72%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 101 (6.00%) Software Developer
16 96 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 95 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
18 81 (4.82%) C# Developer
19 74 (4.40%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 71 (4.22%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 715 (42.51%) React
2 412 (24.49%) .NET
3 319 (18.97%) Node.js
4 226 (13.44%) AngularJS
5 222 (13.20%) HTML
6 206 (12.25%) CSS
7 157 (9.33%) Vue
8 154 (9.16%) Spring
9 141 (8.38%) .NET Core
10 138 (8.20%) REST
11 134 (7.97%) RESTful
12 121 (7.19%) Spring Boot
13 89 (5.29%) Next.js
14 77 (4.58%) .NET Framework
15 75 (4.46%) ASP.NET
16 74 (4.40%) GraphQL
17 69 (4.10%) Kafka
18 60 (3.57%) Entity Framework
19 56 (3.33%) Laravel
19 56 (3.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 140 (8.32%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (3.63%) Mobile App
3 61 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 49 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (1.66%) IoT
7 22 (1.31%) AI Agents
8 19 (1.13%) Fixed Income
9 17 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (0.89%) Management Information System
11 14 (0.83%) Private Cloud
11 14 (0.83%) Smart Energy
12 13 (0.77%) Data Structures
12 13 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (0.71%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.59%) e-Learning
14 10 (0.59%) Hedge funds
14 10 (0.59%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.55%) Linux
2 23 (1.37%) Android
3 22 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.42%) Unix
5 6 (0.36%) Windows
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (32.58%) Software Engineering
2 457 (27.17%) Agile
3 406 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 306 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
5 301 (17.90%) Microservices
6 290 (17.24%) DevOps
7 283 (16.83%) AI
8 213 (12.66%) Mentoring
9 200 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 196 (11.65%) User Experience
11 133 (7.91%) Test Automation
12 125 (7.43%) Containerisation
13 124 (7.37%) Clean Code
14 119 (7.07%) Computer Science
15 114 (6.78%) Scrum
16 105 (6.24%) Front End Development
17 99 (5.89%) TDD
18 96 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
19 94 (5.59%) Collaborative Culture
20 89 (5.29%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 548 (32.58%) JavaScript
2 526 (31.27%) TypeScript
3 389 (23.13%) Java
4 370 (22.00%) C#
5 338 (20.10%) Python
6 258 (15.34%) SQL
7 70 (4.16%) PHP
8 38 (2.26%) Ruby
9 37 (2.20%) Go
10 27 (1.61%) Bash
11 22 (1.31%) Rust
12 20 (1.19%) C++
13 16 (0.95%) C
14 12 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.65%) Groovy
15 11 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.42%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.42%) R
18 6 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 150 (8.92%) Security Cleared
2 119 (7.07%) Degree
3 99 (5.89%) SC Cleared
4 80 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.13%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.54%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.18%) PhD
13 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.059%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.059%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.059%) MBA
14 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.52%) QA
2 65 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.89%) WCAG
4 14 (0.83%) GDPR
5 8 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.36%) SLA
7 5 (0.30%) PERC
8 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.12%) ECSS
9 2 (0.12%) NCSC
9 2 (0.12%) NIST
10 1 (0.059%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.059%) HL7
10 1 (0.059%) ITGC
System Software
1 205 (12.19%) Docker
2 16 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 174 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 99 (5.89%) Terraform
3 28 (1.66%) Ansible
4 24 (1.43%) Grafana
5 17 (1.01%) Kibana
6 13 (0.77%) Argo
7 12 (0.71%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.65%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Nagios
10 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.059%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.059%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.059%) Istio
11 1 (0.059%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.059%) logstash
11 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.059%) Podman
Vendors
1 100 (5.95%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.61%) Oracle
3 26 (1.55%) OpenAI
4 25 (1.49%) Adobe
5 20 (1.19%) Google
6 16 (0.95%) Foundry
7 14 (0.83%) Palantir
8 13 (0.77%) Dynatrace
9 12 (0.71%) Splunk
10 9 (0.54%) Fortinet
10 9 (0.54%) Palo Alto
11 8 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (0.36%) Databricks
12 6 (0.36%) VMware
13 5 (0.30%) Zoho
14 4 (0.24%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.24%) Facebook
14 4 (0.24%) Pega
14 4 (0.24%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.24%) Telerik