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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 97 44
Rank change year-on-year +51 -53 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,147 1,544 4,662
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.17% 3.15% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 3.50% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 962 3,466
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +14.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £78,750
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 73,194 44,164 80,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 90.07% 82.10%
Number of salaries quoted 50,654 24,819 55,696
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +54 2,860 £65,000 -7.14% 538
UK excluding London +64 2,150 £60,000 - 378
Work from Home +44 1,421 £60,000 -9.23% 208
London +13 842 £85,000 - 248
North of England +62 714 £65,000 +8.33% 106
South East +81 530 £60,000 - 116
North West +42 385 £65,000 - 58
Midlands +35 292 £55,000 -8.33% 49
South West +53 290 £60,000 - 40
Yorkshire +77 215 £70,000 +16.67% 29
East of England +52 174 £60,000 +20.00% 36
West Midlands +25 148 £60,000 -2.04% 22
East Midlands +31 143 £55,000 +15.79% 27
North East +21 114 £52,000 +8.33% 20
Scotland -23 79 £55,000 -18.52% 24
Wales -31 54 £60,000 -4.00% 8
Northern Ireland -43 22 £70,000 +16.67% 4
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 32 (1.02%) CMS
2 23 (0.73%) Confluence
3 15 (0.48%) WordPress
4 11 (0.35%) Apache
4 11 (0.35%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.32%) ColdFusion
5 10 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) IIS
9 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.095%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.095%) Kentico
12 3 (0.095%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.064%) Elementor
3 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.032%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.064%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.032%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.032%) Magento
3 1 (0.032%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 933 (29.65%) Azure
2 922 (29.30%) AWS
3 291 (9.25%) GitHub
4 244 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
5 232 (7.37%) SaaS
6 213 (6.77%) Serverless
7 184 (5.85%) GCP
8 169 (5.37%) GitHub Copilot
9 161 (5.12%) Azure AI
10 129 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
11 105 (3.34%) Amazon S3
12 82 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 81 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
14 75 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
15 59 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
16 54 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
17 39 (1.24%) Power Platform
18 36 (1.14%) Anthropic Claude
18 36 (1.14%) Figma
19 35 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.10%) Broadband
2 57 (1.81%) Internet
3 8 (0.25%) Firewall
3 8 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.19%) DNS
5 6 (0.19%) HTTP
6 5 (0.16%) MQTT
7 3 (0.095%) LAN
7 3 (0.095%) WAN
8 2 (0.064%) AMQP
8 2 (0.064%) DHCP
8 2 (0.064%) Network Security
8 2 (0.064%) VoIP
8 2 (0.064%) VPN
9 1 (0.032%) Multicast
9 1 (0.032%) SCTP
9 1 (0.032%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.032%) VoLTE
9 1 (0.032%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 536 (17.03%) MongoDB
2 460 (14.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 206 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
4 166 (5.27%) SQL Server
5 158 (5.02%) Elasticsearch
6 113 (3.59%) NoSQL
7 101 (3.21%) MySQL
8 81 (2.57%) Relational Database
9 66 (2.10%) DynamoDB
10 48 (1.53%) Redis
11 23 (0.73%) Power BI
12 21 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
14 11 (0.35%) GIS
14 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
15 9 (0.29%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.29%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.22%) MariaDB
17 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 5 (0.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 228 (7.24%) Git
2 103 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 68 (2.16%) GitLab
4 55 (1.75%) Cypress.io
5 45 (1.43%) JIRA
6 42 (1.33%) JUnit
7 40 (1.27%) Claude Code
8 33 (1.05%) Maven
9 23 (0.73%) Eclipse
10 22 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 22 (0.70%) Subversion
11 17 (0.54%) Vite
12 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.41%) Mockito
13 11 (0.35%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.29%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.29%) Spock
15 8 (0.25%) Storybook
16 7 (0.22%) Selenium
16 7 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 382 (12.14%) Finance
2 301 (9.56%) Social Skills
3 109 (3.46%) Public Sector
4 97 (3.08%) Marketing
5 92 (2.92%) Games
6 77 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (2.35%) Advertising
8 72 (2.29%) Retail
9 56 (1.78%) Banking
10 53 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (1.30%) Front Office
12 36 (1.14%) Law
13 32 (1.02%) Legal
14 31 (0.99%) Manufacturing
15 26 (0.83%) Tech for Good
16 20 (0.64%) Automotive
17 18 (0.57%) Financial Institution
18 16 (0.51%) Aerospace
19 15 (0.48%) Legal Technology
20 14 (0.44%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,924 (61.14%) Developer
2 1,024 (32.54%) Full-Stack Developer
3 711 (22.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 617 (19.61%) .NET Developer
5 611 (19.42%) Senior
6 534 (16.97%) Software Engineer
7 417 (13.25%) Lead
8 276 (8.77%) Senior Developer
9 259 (8.23%) Software Developer
10 238 (7.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 195 (6.20%) Lead Developer
12 188 (5.97%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 169 (5.37%) Java Developer
14 164 (5.21%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 147 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
16 120 (3.81%) Java Engineer
17 104 (3.30%) React Developer
18 102 (3.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 100 (3.18%) Python Developer
20 90 (2.86%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,042 (33.11%) React
2 961 (30.54%) .NET
3 628 (19.96%) Node.js
4 543 (17.25%) ASP.NET
5 541 (17.19%) .NET Core
6 503 (15.98%) ASP.NET Core
7 434 (13.79%) AngularJS
8 421 (13.38%) CSS
9 408 (12.96%) HTML
10 388 (12.33%) Vue
11 344 (10.93%) RESTful
12 230 (7.31%) Entity Framework
13 211 (6.70%) Blazor
14 199 (6.32%) Spring
15 185 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
16 180 (5.72%) REST
17 160 (5.08%) Spring Boot
18 154 (4.89%) ML.NET
19 149 (4.73%) Next.js
20 132 (4.19%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 282 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 170 (5.40%) Greenfield Project
3 105 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
4 88 (2.80%) Mobile App
5 74 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 62 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 55 (1.75%) AI Agents
9 48 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.21%) Fixed Income
10 38 (1.21%) Low-Code
11 33 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
12 31 (0.99%) Onboarding
13 29 (0.92%) e-Learning
14 28 (0.89%) IoT
15 22 (0.70%) Social Media
16 20 (0.64%) Digital TV
16 20 (0.64%) Virtual Team
17 18 (0.57%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.54%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.75%) Linux
2 23 (0.73%) Android
3 14 (0.44%) Windows
4 8 (0.25%) Unix
5 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.095%) AIX
7 3 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.095%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.064%) VMS
9 1 (0.032%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (29.30%) Software Engineering
2 900 (28.60%) Agile
3 726 (23.07%) CI/CD
4 674 (21.42%) AI
5 556 (17.67%) DevOps
6 552 (17.54%) Microservices
7 353 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
8 296 (9.41%) Machine Learning
9 295 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 290 (9.22%) Mentoring
11 254 (8.07%) Test Automation
12 215 (6.83%) Scrum
13 195 (6.20%) TDD
14 182 (5.78%) Clean Code
15 177 (5.62%) Infrastructure as Code
16 172 (5.47%) Multithreading
17 168 (5.34%) Containerisation
18 166 (5.27%) Observability
19 158 (5.02%) Technical Leadership
20 149 (4.73%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 961 (30.54%) JavaScript
2 907 (28.82%) TypeScript
3 905 (28.76%) C#
4 752 (23.90%) SQL
5 601 (19.10%) Python
6 514 (16.33%) Java
7 107 (3.40%) PHP
8 94 (2.99%) Go
9 73 (2.32%) Ruby
10 65 (2.07%) C++
11 31 (0.99%) Bash
12 27 (0.86%) Groovy
13 19 (0.60%) Rust
14 17 (0.54%) Perl
15 14 (0.44%) Bicep
15 14 (0.44%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.22%) C
18 6 (0.19%) PowerShell
19 5 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 209 (6.64%) Security Cleared
2 164 (5.21%) Degree
3 151 (4.80%) SC Cleared
4 117 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 21 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 18 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
12 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.13%) PhD
15 3 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.032%) CCNA
16 1 (0.032%) CCNP
16 1 (0.032%) Cisco Certification
16 1 (0.032%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (3.15%) QA
2 65 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.95%) WCAG
4 19 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 18 (0.57%) GDPR
6 7 (0.22%) GRC
6 7 (0.22%) NCSC
7 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.095%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.064%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.064%) ITGC
9 2 (0.064%) SLA
10 1 (0.032%) HL7
10 1 (0.032%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.032%) NIST
10 1 (0.032%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.032%) SOC 2
System Software
1 437 (13.89%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.064%) vSphere
5 1 (0.032%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 333 (10.58%) Kubernetes
2 142 (4.51%) Terraform
3 31 (0.99%) Grafana
4 20 (0.64%) Ansible
4 20 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.41%) Podman
6 12 (0.38%) HP Fortify
7 10 (0.32%) Kibana
8 6 (0.19%) logstash
9 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.064%) Argo
10 2 (0.064%) Nagios
11 1 (0.032%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.032%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.032%) Graylog
11 1 (0.032%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.032%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 616 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 84 (2.67%) Google
3 58 (1.84%) Facebook
4 33 (1.05%) OpenAI
5 29 (0.92%) Adobe
6 24 (0.76%) Oracle
7 22 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.67%) YouTube
9 19 (0.60%) Palantir
10 18 (0.57%) Apple
11 17 (0.54%) Foundry
11 17 (0.54%) Sony
11 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
12 14 (0.44%) Splunk
13 12 (0.38%) AppDynamics
13 12 (0.38%) Databricks
14 10 (0.32%) Sitecore
15 9 (0.29%) OneLogin
16 8 (0.25%) Dynatrace
17 6 (0.19%) Palo Alto