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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 94 42
Rank change year-on-year +21 -52 +24
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,278 1,324 4,906
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.60% 3.17% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 3.41% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,848 1,028 3,899
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% +8.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year +8.33% +8.75% -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 65,992 38,867 81,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.91% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,690 22,673 59,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 21 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 21 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 +22 2,063 £70,000 +7.69% 805
UK excluding London +18 1,356 £65,000 +8.33% 604
Work from Home +26 869 £70,000 +7.69% 381
London +25 748 £85,000 +6.25% 313
North of England +43 416 £70,000 +21.74% 149
South East -9 330 £60,000 - 177
Midlands +33 235 £55,000 +4.76% 74
North West +29 208 £70,000 +12.00% 68
South West +9 200 £60,000 -4.00% 78
Yorkshire +28 152 £75,000 +42.86% 53
West Midlands +23 122 £55,000 -2.22% 32
East Midlands -10 112 £55,000 +15.79% 42
East of England +10 110 £68,750 +25.00% 70
North East +3 56 £60,000 +17.07% 28
Scotland -39 30 £60,000 -11.11% 30
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 15
Wales -44 15 £51,250 -26.79% 17
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 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (0.61%) CMS
2 12 (0.53%) Confluence
3 9 (0.40%) ColdFusion
3 9 (0.40%) OpenStack
4 8 (0.35%) Apache
4 8 (0.35%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.31%) WordPress
6 6 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Appian
8 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.18%) nginx
9 3 (0.13%) IIS
9 3 (0.13%) Liferay
10 2 (0.088%) CICS
10 2 (0.088%) Drupal
10 2 (0.088%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.088%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.044%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.044%) Magento
2 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 684 (30.03%) AWS
2 446 (19.58%) Azure
3 220 (9.66%) SaaS
4 194 (8.52%) Serverless
5 162 (7.11%) GCP
6 127 (5.58%) GitHub
7 117 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
8 100 (4.39%) Amazon S3
9 80 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
11 59 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
12 51 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (1.93%) Figma
14 40 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
17 26 (1.14%) Entra ID
18 24 (1.05%) Power Platform
19 23 (1.01%) PaaS
20 21 (0.92%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.84%) Broadband
2 9 (0.40%) HTTP
3 5 (0.22%) Firewall
4 4 (0.18%) DNS
4 4 (0.18%) Internet
5 3 (0.13%) VPN
5 3 (0.13%) WAN
6 2 (0.088%) AMQP
6 2 (0.088%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.088%) LAN
6 2 (0.088%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.088%) VLAN
7 1 (0.044%) MQTT
7 1 (0.044%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.044%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.044%) SSL
7 1 (0.044%) TCAP
7 1 (0.044%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.044%) WebEx
7 1 (0.044%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (5.62%) MongoDB
3 123 (5.40%) SQL Server
4 122 (5.36%) NoSQL
5 64 (2.81%) MySQL
6 52 (2.28%) Relational Database
7 49 (2.15%) DynamoDB
8 37 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (0.97%) Redis
10 18 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (0.70%) Power BI
12 14 (0.61%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.35%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.35%) DB2
16 6 (0.26%) GIS
16 6 (0.26%) MariaDB
17 5 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
17 5 (0.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 178 (7.81%) Git
2 95 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 63 (2.77%) Cypress.io
4 41 (1.80%) GitLab
5 35 (1.54%) JIRA
6 27 (1.19%) Maven
7 23 (1.01%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.83%) CircleCI
8 19 (0.83%) JUnit
9 15 (0.66%) Vite
10 14 (0.61%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.57%) Mockito
12 11 (0.48%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.48%) Claude Code
12 11 (0.48%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.35%) webpack
14 7 (0.31%) ESLint
14 7 (0.31%) NUnit
14 7 (0.31%) Selenium
15 4 (0.18%) IntelliJ
General
1 279 (12.25%) Social Skills
2 237 (10.40%) Finance
3 74 (3.25%) Public Sector
4 68 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (2.37%) Banking
6 52 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (1.89%) Retail
8 39 (1.71%) Front Office
9 38 (1.67%) Law
10 37 (1.62%) Marketing
11 32 (1.40%) Tech for Good
12 31 (1.36%) Games
13 28 (1.23%) Aviation
14 24 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (0.88%) Health Technology
17 19 (0.83%) Investment Banking
18 18 (0.79%) Legal
19 15 (0.66%) Advertising
20 12 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,307 (57.37%) Developer
2 921 (40.43%) Full-Stack Developer
3 555 (24.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 523 (22.96%) Senior
5 428 (18.79%) Software Engineer
6 337 (14.79%) Lead
7 250 (10.97%) Senior Developer
8 184 (8.08%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 183 (8.03%) Lead Developer
10 179 (7.86%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 173 (7.59%) .NET Developer
12 161 (7.07%) Software Developer
13 146 (6.41%) Java Developer
13 146 (6.41%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 142 (6.23%) React Developer
15 122 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
16 99 (4.35%) Python Developer
17 93 (4.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 90 (3.95%) C# Developer
19 85 (3.73%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 826 (36.26%) React
2 461 (20.24%) .NET
3 444 (19.49%) Node.js
4 239 (10.49%) HTML
5 235 (10.32%) AngularJS
5 235 (10.32%) CSS
6 196 (8.60%) Vue
7 160 (7.02%) Spring
8 157 (6.89%) RESTful
9 149 (6.54%) .NET Core
10 140 (6.15%) REST
11 130 (5.71%) Spring Boot
12 117 (5.14%) Next.js
13 85 (3.73%) ASP.NET
14 80 (3.51%) GraphQL
15 72 (3.16%) .NET Framework
16 67 (2.94%) Laravel
17 65 (2.85%) React Native
18 64 (2.81%) Kafka
19 59 (2.59%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 167 (7.33%) Cloud Native
2 94 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
3 77 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 64 (2.81%) Mobile App
5 57 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 48 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.49%) IoT
8 33 (1.45%) Fixed Income
9 27 (1.19%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (0.88%) e-Learning
11 20 (0.88%) Smart Energy
12 18 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (0.70%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.70%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.66%) Onboarding
15 14 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (0.57%) Blog
16 13 (0.57%) Podcast
17 11 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.27%) Linux
2 24 (1.05%) Android
3 21 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.22%) Unix
5 3 (0.13%) Windows
6 1 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.044%) VMS
6 1 (0.044%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.044%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 725 (31.83%) Software Engineering
2 506 (22.21%) Agile
3 442 (19.40%) CI/CD
4 355 (15.58%) AI
5 354 (15.54%) DevOps
6 315 (13.83%) Microservices
7 310 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
8 244 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 235 (10.32%) Mentoring
10 186 (8.17%) Test Automation
11 172 (7.55%) User Experience
12 148 (6.50%) Containerisation
13 142 (6.23%) Clean Code
14 141 (6.19%) Scrum
15 129 (5.66%) Web Development
16 119 (5.22%) Technical Leadership
17 118 (5.18%) Computer Science
18 109 (4.78%) Infrastructure as Code
19 107 (4.70%) Machine Learning
20 100 (4.39%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 669 (29.37%) TypeScript
2 667 (29.28%) JavaScript
3 460 (20.19%) Python
4 448 (19.67%) Java
5 408 (17.91%) C#
6 306 (13.43%) SQL
7 95 (4.17%) PHP
8 57 (2.50%) Go
9 52 (2.28%) Ruby
10 30 (1.32%) Bash
11 23 (1.01%) C++
12 17 (0.75%) C
13 16 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.61%) Groovy
15 13 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.48%) Bicep
16 11 (0.48%) Rust
17 6 (0.26%) R
17 6 (0.26%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 166 (7.29%) Security Cleared
2 122 (5.36%) Degree
3 119 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 79 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.58%) DV Cleared
6 19 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 10 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.18%) PhD
12 2 (0.088%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.044%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.044%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.044%) MBA
13 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.52%) QA
2 48 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.48%) GDPR
4 10 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.31%) GRC
6 6 (0.26%) SLA
6 6 (0.26%) WCAG
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.13%) PERC
9 2 (0.088%) ECSS
9 2 (0.088%) HL7
9 2 (0.088%) ITGC
9 2 (0.088%) NCSC
9 2 (0.088%) NIST
10 1 (0.044%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.044%) SOC 2
System Software
1 237 (10.40%) Docker
2 9 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 169 (7.42%) Kubernetes
2 114 (5.00%) Terraform
3 33 (1.45%) Grafana
4 27 (1.19%) Ansible
5 19 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.61%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.57%) Podman
8 10 (0.44%) Argo
8 10 (0.44%) Kibana
9 6 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.18%) logstash
11 3 (0.13%) Nagios
12 1 (0.044%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.044%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.044%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 140 (6.15%) Microsoft
2 33 (1.45%) Google
3 28 (1.23%) Adobe
4 27 (1.19%) OpenAI
4 27 (1.19%) Oracle
5 11 (0.48%) Foundry
6 10 (0.44%) Palantir
6 10 (0.44%) Salesforce
7 8 (0.35%) Dynatrace
8 7 (0.31%) Fortinet
8 7 (0.31%) Palo Alto
8 7 (0.31%) Peregrine
9 6 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.26%) Databricks
10 5 (0.22%) Facebook
10 5 (0.22%) Pega
10 5 (0.22%) Splunk
10 5 (0.22%) Zoho
11 4 (0.18%) DevExpress
11 4 (0.18%) ServiceNow