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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 61 43
Rank change year-on-year -22 -18 +20
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,678 2,014 3,872
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.46% 4.12% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 4.45% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 1,046 3,373
10th Percentile £45,000 £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 £100,000 £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 54,175 45,213 65,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.32% 92.48% 88.31%
Number of salaries quoted 32,471 22,205 50,855
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 19 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 19 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 1,517 £70,000 +7.69% 940
UK excluding London -39 907 £62,500 +8.70% 765
Work from Home -7 667 £70,000 +7.69% 485
London +5 636 £80,000 - 327
North of England -7 252 £65,000 +13.04% 202
South East -53 231 £62,500 +4.17% 206
Midlands -14 176 £55,000 +4.76% 105
South West -10 139 £60,000 -4.00% 111
North West -15 114 £68,750 +14.58% 102
West Midlands +1 95 £52,500 - 43
Yorkshire -9 93 £72,500 +46.46% 64
East Midlands -26 80 £55,000 +57.14% 62
East of England -48 65 £60,000 +26.32% 77
North East +16 45 £55,000 +22.22% 36
Northern Ireland -12 20 £70,000 -6.67% 17
Wales -35 13 £52,500 -0.94% 21
Scotland -78 13 £67,500 +22.73% 37
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 11 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (0.66%) Confluence
2 11 (0.66%) OpenStack
2 11 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
3 6 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.36%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.36%) WordPress
4 5 (0.30%) nginx
5 4 (0.24%) Apache
5 4 (0.24%) Appian
6 3 (0.18%) ColdFusion
6 3 (0.18%) Drupal
6 3 (0.18%) IIS
6 3 (0.18%) Liferay
7 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.060%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.060%) Kentico
8 1 (0.060%) NServiceBus
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 (0.060%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.060%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 564 (33.61%) AWS
2 421 (25.09%) Azure
3 179 (10.67%) Serverless
4 164 (9.77%) SaaS
5 122 (7.27%) GitHub
6 120 (7.15%) GCP
7 97 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
8 88 (5.24%) Amazon S3
9 72 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (2.26%) Figma
15 29 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.61%) PaaS
17 21 (1.25%) Power Platform
18 20 (1.19%) 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 (0.060%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.060%) MQTT
7 1 (0.060%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.060%) TCAP
7 1 (0.060%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.060%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (7.15%) SQL Server
3 101 (6.02%) NoSQL
4 97 (5.78%) MongoDB
5 73 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 66 (3.93%) MySQL
7 35 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (1.91%) DynamoDB
9 26 (1.55%) Redis
10 20 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (1.07%) RDBMS
12 15 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.72%) Power BI
15 11 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.66%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.48%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.48%) DB2
17 4 (0.24%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 162 (9.65%) Git
2 86 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 52 (3.10%) Cypress.io
4 40 (2.38%) JIRA
5 30 (1.79%) 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 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.72%) JMeter
12 12 (0.72%) Visual Studio
13 11 (0.66%) webpack
14 10 (0.60%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.60%) Selenium
15 9 (0.54%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.36%) ESLint
16 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 276 (16.45%) Social Skills
2 165 (9.83%) Finance
3 71 (4.23%) Public Sector
4 66 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (3.10%) Banking
6 47 (2.80%) Law
7 38 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (2.09%) Front Office
9 33 (1.97%) Retail
10 29 (1.73%) Tech for Good
11 27 (1.61%) Marketing
12 25 (1.49%) Investment Banking
13 24 (1.43%) Aviation
13 24 (1.43%) Legal
14 22 (1.31%) Games
14 22 (1.31%) Health Technology
15 21 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.60%) Automotive
17 9 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 942 (56.14%) Developer
2 662 (39.45%) Full-Stack Developer
3 391 (23.30%) Senior
4 384 (22.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 306 (18.24%) Software Engineer
6 231 (13.77%) Lead
7 172 (10.25%) Senior Developer
8 153 (9.12%) .NET Developer
9 134 (7.99%) Java Developer
10 130 (7.75%) React Developer
11 128 (7.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 125 (7.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 116 (6.91%) Lead Developer
14 113 (6.73%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 101 (6.02%) Software Developer
16 95 (5.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 95 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
17 81 (4.83%) C# Developer
18 74 (4.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 70 (4.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 714 (42.55%) React
2 416 (24.79%) .NET
3 320 (19.07%) Node.js
4 231 (13.77%) AngularJS
5 224 (13.35%) HTML
6 206 (12.28%) CSS
7 159 (9.48%) Vue
8 153 (9.12%) Spring
9 147 (8.76%) .NET Core
10 137 (8.16%) REST
10 137 (8.16%) RESTful
11 119 (7.09%) Spring Boot
12 87 (5.18%) Next.js
13 81 (4.83%) .NET Framework
13 81 (4.83%) ASP.NET
14 74 (4.41%) GraphQL
15 68 (4.05%) Kafka
16 65 (3.87%) Entity Framework
17 57 (3.40%) HTML5
17 57 (3.40%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 141 (8.40%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.58%) Mobile App
5 57 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.67%) IoT
8 22 (1.31%) AI Agents
9 20 (1.19%) Fixed Income
10 18 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (0.89%) Management Information System
13 14 (0.83%) Private Cloud
13 14 (0.83%) Smart Energy
14 13 (0.77%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (0.72%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.60%) e-Learning
16 10 (0.60%) Hedge funds
16 10 (0.60%) 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
1 545 (32.48%) Software Engineering
2 463 (27.59%) Agile
3 406 (24.20%) CI/CD
4 307 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
5 305 (18.18%) Microservices
6 288 (17.16%) DevOps
7 283 (16.87%) AI
8 213 (12.69%) Mentoring
9 199 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 197 (11.74%) User Experience
11 131 (7.81%) Test Automation
12 124 (7.39%) Clean Code
13 122 (7.27%) Containerisation
14 120 (7.15%) Computer Science
15 118 (7.03%) Scrum
16 104 (6.20%) TDD
17 102 (6.08%) Front End Development
18 95 (5.66%) Technical Leadership
19 94 (5.60%) Collaborative Culture
20 90 (5.36%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 551 (32.84%) JavaScript
2 530 (31.59%) TypeScript
3 387 (23.06%) Java
4 377 (22.47%) C#
5 336 (20.02%) Python
6 264 (15.73%) SQL
7 70 (4.17%) PHP
8 38 (2.26%) Ruby
9 37 (2.21%) Go
10 27 (1.61%) Bash
11 22 (1.31%) Rust
12 20 (1.19%) C++
13 16 (0.95%) C
14 12 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.66%) Groovy
15 11 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.48%) PowerShell
18 7 (0.42%) R
19 6 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 148 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 119 (7.09%) Degree
3 98 (5.84%) SC Cleared
4 80 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.13%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.66%) 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 (0.060%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.060%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.060%) MBA
14 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.53%) QA
2 66 (3.93%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.89%) WCAG
4 14 (0.83%) GDPR
5 7 (0.42%) 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 (0.060%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.060%) HL7
10 1 (0.060%) ITGC
System Software
1 203 (12.10%) 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 (0.060%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 173 (10.31%) Kubernetes
2 99 (5.90%) Terraform
3 28 (1.67%) Ansible
4 23 (1.37%) Grafana
5 17 (1.01%) Kibana
6 13 (0.77%) Argo
7 11 (0.66%) HP Fortify
7 11 (0.66%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Nagios
9 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.060%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.060%) Istio
10 1 (0.060%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.060%) logstash
10 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.060%) Podman
Vendors
1 107 (6.38%) 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 (0.72%) 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%) Facebook
13 5 (0.30%) Zoho
14 4 (0.24%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.24%) Pega
14 4 (0.24%) Telerik
14 4 (0.24%) WSO2