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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 95 36
Rank change year-on-year +49 -59 +34
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,982 1,464 5,607
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.15% 3.24% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 3.52% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,474 904 4,352
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% 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 69,167 41,647 89,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 92.28% 81.67%
Number of salaries quoted 47,650 22,422 63,265
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,145
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +59 2,716 £65,000 -3.70% 592
UK excluding London +52 1,983 £60,000 - 528
Work from Home +42 1,295 £60,000 -7.69% 323
London +25 847 £85,000 +3.03% 225
North of England +65 658 £65,000 - 130
South East +77 479 £60,000 - 153
North West +39 353 £65,000 - 70
Midlands +40 291 £55,000 -8.33% 65
South West +35 259 £60,000 -4.00% 50
Yorkshire +80 204 £70,000 +12.00% 41
East of England +47 167 £60,000 +20.00% 49
East Midlands +29 148 £55,000 +15.79% 39
West Midlands +25 142 £55,000 -12.00% 26
North East +11 101 £55,000 +26.44% 19
Scotland -29 66 £60,000 -11.11% 31
Wales -29 42 £60,000 -14.29% 16
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 39
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 27 (0.91%) CMS
2 20 (0.67%) Confluence
3 12 (0.40%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.40%) WordPress
4 10 (0.34%) Apache
4 10 (0.34%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
6 8 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.13%) nginx
9 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.10%) IIS
10 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.067%) EPiServer
Applications
1 6 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Shopify
2 2 (0.067%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.034%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.034%) Magento
3 1 (0.034%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.034%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.034%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 880 (29.51%) AWS
2 807 (27.06%) Azure
3 232 (7.78%) GitHub
4 225 (7.55%) SaaS
5 214 (7.18%) Serverless
6 206 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
7 169 (5.67%) GCP
8 133 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
9 122 (4.09%) Azure AI
10 120 (4.02%) GitHub Copilot
11 108 (3.62%) Amazon S3
12 77 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
13 74 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 71 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
15 50 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
16 47 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
17 42 (1.41%) Figma
17 42 (1.41%) Power Platform
18 34 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
19 30 (1.01%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.45%) Broadband
2 45 (1.51%) Internet
3 8 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.20%) Firewall
4 6 (0.20%) HTTP
4 6 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.17%) DNS
6 4 (0.13%) MQTT
7 3 (0.10%) VPN
8 2 (0.067%) AMQP
8 2 (0.067%) LAN
8 2 (0.067%) VoIP
8 2 (0.067%) WAN
9 1 (0.034%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.034%) Multicast
9 1 (0.034%) SCTP
9 1 (0.034%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.034%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.034%) VoLTE
9 1 (0.034%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 428 (14.35%) MongoDB
2 345 (11.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 193 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
4 138 (4.63%) SQL Server
5 119 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
6 114 (3.82%) NoSQL
7 85 (2.85%) MySQL
8 74 (2.48%) Relational Database
9 59 (1.98%) DynamoDB
10 28 (0.94%) Redis
11 24 (0.80%) Power BI
12 18 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.37%) GIS
14 11 (0.37%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.30%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.23%) MariaDB
16 7 (0.23%) NonStop SQL
17 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 212 (7.11%) Git
2 96 (3.22%) Jenkins
3 61 (2.05%) GitLab
4 58 (1.95%) Cypress.io
5 42 (1.41%) JIRA
6 38 (1.27%) JUnit
7 34 (1.14%) Maven
8 33 (1.11%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 19 (0.64%) Eclipse
10 19 (0.64%) Vite
11 18 (0.60%) Subversion
12 17 (0.57%) Mockito
13 15 (0.50%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.27%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.27%) Storybook
15 8 (0.27%) TeamCity
16 7 (0.23%) Selenium
17 6 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 349 (11.70%) Finance
2 300 (10.06%) Social Skills
3 93 (3.12%) Public Sector
4 83 (2.78%) Games
5 81 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (2.72%) Marketing
6 63 (2.11%) Retail
7 57 (1.91%) Advertising
8 56 (1.88%) Banking
9 49 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.31%) Front Office
10 39 (1.31%) Manufacturing
11 36 (1.21%) Law
12 34 (1.14%) Legal
13 30 (1.01%) Tech for Good
14 21 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (0.64%) Aviation
16 18 (0.60%) Health Technology
17 17 (0.57%) Automotive
18 15 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,784 (59.83%) Developer
2 998 (33.47%) Full-Stack Developer
3 684 (22.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 612 (20.52%) Senior
5 532 (17.84%) Software Engineer
6 494 (16.57%) .NET Developer
7 389 (13.04%) Lead
8 278 (9.32%) Senior Developer
9 246 (8.25%) Software Developer
10 224 (7.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 203 (6.81%) Lead Developer
12 179 (6.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 178 (5.97%) Java Developer
14 175 (5.87%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 149 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
16 126 (4.23%) React Developer
17 116 (3.89%) Java Engineer
18 104 (3.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 103 (3.45%) Python Developer
20 91 (3.05%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 986 (33.07%) React
2 842 (28.24%) .NET
3 560 (18.78%) Node.js
4 449 (15.06%) .NET Core
5 402 (13.48%) ASP.NET
6 388 (13.01%) AngularJS
7 372 (12.47%) ASP.NET Core
8 367 (12.31%) CSS
9 357 (11.97%) HTML
10 337 (11.30%) Vue
11 303 (10.16%) RESTful
12 190 (6.37%) Spring
13 177 (5.94%) Entity Framework
14 166 (5.57%) REST
15 161 (5.40%) Blazor
16 150 (5.03%) Spring Boot
17 144 (4.83%) Next.js
18 138 (4.63%) ASP.NET Web API
19 115 (3.86%) ML.NET
20 100 (3.35%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 252 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 152 (5.10%) Greenfield Project
3 93 (3.12%) Mobile App
4 87 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
5 76 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 58 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 55 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
8 51 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 39 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 35 (1.17%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
13 31 (1.04%) e-Learning
14 29 (0.97%) IoT
15 27 (0.91%) Onboarding
16 19 (0.64%) Virtual Team
17 18 (0.60%) Social Media
18 17 (0.57%) Data Structures
19 16 (0.54%) Algorithms
19 16 (0.54%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.84%) Linux
2 29 (0.97%) Android
3 13 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.34%) Unix
4 10 (0.34%) Windows
5 3 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.034%) AIX
6 1 (0.034%) Debian
6 1 (0.034%) VMS
6 1 (0.034%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 910 (30.52%) Software Engineering
2 772 (25.89%) Agile
3 634 (21.26%) CI/CD
4 598 (20.05%) AI
5 509 (17.07%) DevOps
6 472 (15.83%) Microservices
7 359 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
8 294 (9.86%) Mentoring
9 290 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 252 (8.45%) Machine Learning
11 235 (7.88%) Test Automation
12 182 (6.10%) Scrum
13 179 (6.00%) Containerisation
14 168 (5.63%) Clean Code
15 166 (5.57%) Infrastructure as Code
15 166 (5.57%) TDD
16 159 (5.33%) User Experience
17 144 (4.83%) Computer Science
18 140 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
19 139 (4.66%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 856 (28.71%) JavaScript
2 847 (28.40%) TypeScript
3 783 (26.26%) C#
4 644 (21.60%) SQL
5 574 (19.25%) Python
6 506 (16.97%) Java
7 98 (3.29%) PHP
8 88 (2.95%) Go
9 64 (2.15%) Ruby
10 63 (2.11%) C++
11 32 (1.07%) Bash
12 24 (0.80%) Groovy
13 15 (0.50%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.50%) Rust
14 14 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.44%) Bicep
15 13 (0.44%) Perl
16 9 (0.30%) C
17 8 (0.27%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 195 (6.54%) Security Cleared
2 160 (5.37%) Degree
3 145 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 111 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 20 (0.67%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.17%) PhD
13 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.067%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 1 (0.034%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.034%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.35%) QA
2 53 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 20 (0.67%) WCAG
4 16 (0.54%) GDPR
5 11 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.23%) GRC
7 6 (0.20%) NCSC
8 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.10%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.10%) SLA
10 2 (0.067%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.067%) ITGC
10 2 (0.067%) NIST
11 1 (0.034%) HL7
11 1 (0.034%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.034%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.034%) SOC 2
System Software
1 376 (12.61%) Docker
2 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.10%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.067%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.067%) vSphere
6 1 (0.034%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 276 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 135 (4.53%) Terraform
3 32 (1.07%) Grafana
4 24 (0.80%) Ansible
5 21 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.44%) Podman
7 10 (0.34%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.30%) Kibana
9 5 (0.17%) logstash
9 5 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.13%) Argo
11 2 (0.067%) Nagios
12 1 (0.034%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.034%) Graylog
12 1 (0.034%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.034%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 473 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 64 (2.15%) Google
3 42 (1.41%) Facebook
4 36 (1.21%) Adobe
5 35 (1.17%) OpenAI
6 29 (0.97%) Oracle
7 22 (0.74%) Salesforce
8 20 (0.67%) Foundry
9 19 (0.64%) Palantir
10 15 (0.50%) YouTube
11 14 (0.47%) Apple
12 13 (0.44%) Sony
12 13 (0.44%) Yahoo!
13 12 (0.40%) Splunk
14 9 (0.30%) AppDynamics
14 9 (0.30%) Sitecore
15 8 (0.27%) Databricks
15 8 (0.27%) Dynatrace
16 6 (0.20%) Pega
17 5 (0.17%) Fortinet