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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 59 49
Rank change year-on-year -34 -10 +17
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,381 2,273 2,838
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.30% 4.25% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 4.68% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,124 1,104 2,500
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,938 £48,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -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 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -26 1,262 £70,000 +7.69% 1,366
UK excluding London -62 726 £62,500 +13.64% 1,206
London -8 549 £80,000 -3.03% 318
Work from Home -30 530 £70,000 +7.69% 706
South East -60 201 £62,500 +4.17% 394
North of England -27 194 £65,000 +18.18% 252
Midlands -35 146 £60,000 +20.00% 150
South West -18 104 £62,500 +4.17% 144
West Midlands -15 83 £55,000 +4.76% 48
North West -22 81 £65,000 +13.04% 116
Yorkshire -24 73 £72,500 +46.46% 95
East Midlands -40 63 £62,500 +47.06% 99
East of England -56 54 £60,000 +33.33% 163
North East +20 40 £55,000 - 43
Wales -27 12 £50,000 -5.21% 54
Scotland -66 10 £70,000 +33.33% 46
Northern Ireland -16 7 £95,000 +58.33% 24
Channel Islands +3 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 12 (0.87%) Confluence
2 11 (0.80%) CMS
2 11 (0.80%) OpenStack
3 8 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.29%) Appian
5 4 (0.29%) nginx
5 4 (0.29%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.29%) WordPress
6 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.22%) Liferay
7 2 (0.14%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.14%) Drupal
7 2 (0.14%) IIS
7 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.072%) Apache
8 1 (0.072%) Kentico
8 1 (0.072%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.072%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 497 (35.99%) AWS
2 410 (29.69%) Azure
3 146 (10.57%) Serverless
4 136 (9.85%) SaaS
5 118 (8.54%) GitHub
6 98 (7.10%) GCP
7 76 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
8 73 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
9 67 (4.85%) Amazon S3
10 60 (4.34%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (1.96%) PaaS
15 26 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (1.81%) Figma
17 21 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (1.45%) Entra ID
19 18 (1.30%) Azure App Service
20 17 (1.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.65%) Broadband
2 7 (0.51%) HTTP
3 3 (0.22%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) Internet
3 3 (0.22%) WAN
4 2 (0.14%) AMQP
4 2 (0.14%) DHCP
4 2 (0.14%) DNS
4 2 (0.14%) LAN
4 2 (0.14%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.14%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.14%) VLAN
4 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.072%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.072%) MQTT
5 1 (0.072%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.072%) SSL
5 1 (0.072%) TCAP
5 1 (0.072%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 118 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
3 99 (7.17%) NoSQL
4 96 (6.95%) MongoDB
5 71 (5.14%) Relational Database
6 60 (4.34%) MySQL
7 51 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 25 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (1.74%) DynamoDB
9 24 (1.74%) Redis
10 22 (1.59%) RDBMS
11 15 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.87%) Pinecone
14 9 (0.65%) Power BI
15 8 (0.58%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.58%) DB2
16 6 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
17 4 (0.29%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 151 (10.93%) Git
2 79 (5.72%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.33%) Cypress.io
4 40 (2.90%) JIRA
5 29 (2.10%) JUnit
6 27 (1.96%) GitLab
7 22 (1.59%) Mockito
8 18 (1.30%) Maven
9 17 (1.23%) Vite
10 16 (1.16%) JMeter
10 16 (1.16%) Visual Studio
11 14 (1.01%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.87%) Selenium
13 11 (0.80%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.72%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.72%) webpack
15 9 (0.65%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.58%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
17 5 (0.36%) git-flow
General
1 277 (20.06%) Social Skills
2 143 (10.35%) Finance
3 69 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 50 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (3.19%) Law
6 42 (3.04%) Banking
7 30 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (1.96%) Retail
9 25 (1.81%) Investment Banking
10 24 (1.74%) Marketing
11 22 (1.59%) Front Office
11 22 (1.59%) Legal
12 20 (1.45%) Health Technology
12 20 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.45%) Tech for Good
13 17 (1.23%) Aviation
14 15 (1.09%) Games
15 9 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.65%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 779 (56.41%) Developer
2 533 (38.60%) Full-Stack Developer
3 308 (22.30%) Senior
4 305 (22.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 234 (16.94%) Software Engineer
6 182 (13.18%) Lead
7 146 (10.57%) .NET Developer
8 139 (10.07%) Senior Developer
9 115 (8.33%) Java Developer
10 107 (7.75%) React Developer
11 101 (7.31%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 96 (6.95%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 92 (6.66%) Lead Developer
14 87 (6.30%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 85 (6.15%) Software Developer
16 84 (6.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 76 (5.50%) Senior Software Engineer
18 73 (5.29%) C# Developer
19 58 (4.20%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 54 (3.91%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 647 (46.85%) React
2 400 (28.96%) .NET
3 271 (19.62%) Node.js
4 232 (16.80%) AngularJS
5 217 (15.71%) HTML
6 194 (14.05%) CSS
7 149 (10.79%) RESTful
7 149 (10.79%) Vue
8 144 (10.43%) Spring
9 143 (10.35%) .NET Core
10 136 (9.85%) REST
11 105 (7.60%) Spring Boot
12 103 (7.46%) ASP.NET
13 94 (6.81%) .NET Framework
14 79 (5.72%) Next.js
15 74 (5.36%) Entity Framework
16 64 (4.63%) GraphQL
17 61 (4.42%) HTML5
18 55 (3.98%) Kafka
19 53 (3.84%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.69%) Cloud Native
2 71 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 47 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
5 46 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 45 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (1.67%) AI Agents
8 20 (1.45%) IoT
9 16 (1.16%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (0.94%) Smart Energy
13 12 (0.87%) Data Structures
13 12 (0.87%) Private Cloud
14 11 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (0.80%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.72%) Hedge funds
15 10 (0.72%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.72%) Reference Data
16 8 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.74%) Android
2 23 (1.67%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.09%) Linux
4 5 (0.36%) Unix
5 4 (0.29%) Windows
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (31.06%) Software Engineering
2 424 (30.70%) Agile
3 368 (26.65%) CI/CD
4 287 (20.78%) Microservices
5 265 (19.19%) DevOps
6 261 (18.90%) AI
7 259 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 182 (13.18%) User Experience
9 181 (13.11%) Mentoring
10 177 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 122 (8.83%) Clean Code
12 120 (8.69%) Scrum
13 115 (8.33%) Computer Science
14 107 (7.75%) Test Automation
15 105 (7.60%) MVC
16 104 (7.53%) Front End Development
16 104 (7.53%) TDD
17 103 (7.46%) Containerisation
18 90 (6.52%) Code Quality
18 90 (6.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 483 (34.97%) JavaScript
2 471 (34.11%) TypeScript
3 383 (27.73%) C#
4 327 (23.68%) Java
5 277 (20.06%) Python
6 265 (19.19%) SQL
7 53 (3.84%) PHP
8 36 (2.61%) Ruby
9 26 (1.88%) Go
10 23 (1.67%) Rust
11 21 (1.52%) Bash
12 17 (1.23%) C++
13 15 (1.09%) C
14 13 (0.94%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.80%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.65%) Groovy
17 7 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.51%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.51%) R
17 7 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (9.27%) Security Cleared
2 112 (8.11%) Degree
3 78 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 70 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (3.04%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (0.51%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.29%) MCP
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.14%) PhD
12 1 (0.072%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.072%) MBA
12 1 (0.072%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.36%) QA
2 68 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.01%) WCAG
4 12 (0.87%) GDPR
5 5 (0.36%) PERC
6 4 (0.29%) SLA
7 2 (0.14%) ECSS
8 1 (0.072%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.072%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.072%) HL7
8 1 (0.072%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.072%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 181 (13.11%) Docker
2 17 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 149 (10.79%) Kubernetes
2 84 (6.08%) Terraform
3 23 (1.67%) Ansible
4 16 (1.16%) Kibana
5 13 (0.94%) Argo
6 10 (0.72%) Grafana
7 8 (0.58%) HP Fortify
8 6 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.072%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.072%) Istio
10 1 (0.072%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.072%) Nagios
Vendors
1 108 (7.82%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.03%) OpenAI
3 24 (1.74%) Oracle
4 17 (1.23%) Google
5 16 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.01%) Foundry
7 13 (0.94%) Splunk
8 12 (0.87%) Palantir
9 11 (0.80%) Adobe
10 7 (0.51%) Facebook
11 6 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.43%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.43%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.43%) YouTube
12 5 (0.36%) VMware
12 5 (0.36%) Zoho
13 4 (0.29%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.29%) SAP
13 4 (0.29%) Telerik
13 4 (0.29%) WSO2