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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 102 46
Rank change year-on-year +54 -56 +32
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,256 1,476 3,792
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.04% 2.94% 4.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 3.30% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,672 906 2,579
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £49,383
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 78,635 44,750 66,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.41% 89.19% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,192 25,377 43,044
10th Percentile £30,780 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +57 2,957 £65,000 -7.14% 1,098
UK excluding London +73 2,255 £60,000 - 677
Work from Home +49 1,412 £60,000 -11.11% 557
London +6 842 £85,000 - 551
North of England +64 730 £65,000 +8.33% 207
South East +94 558 £60,000 - 157
North West +45 406 £65,000 - 115
South West +58 323 £60,000 - 87
Midlands +38 310 £55,000 -8.33% 81
Yorkshire +76 205 £70,000 +16.67% 61
East of England +58 182 £60,000 +33.33% 69
West Midlands +42 172 £60,000 -7.69% 44
East Midlands +24 138 £55,000 +15.79% 37
North East +15 119 £52,000 +40.07% 33
Scotland -17 91 £56,783 -14.29% 54
Wales -35 56 £60,000 - 11
Northern Ireland -68 10 £70,000 +16.67% 16
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 25 (0.77%) CMS
2 24 (0.74%) Confluence
3 15 (0.46%) WordPress
4 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.28%) Apache
5 9 (0.28%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.28%) IIS
5 9 (0.28%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.092%) DNN
10 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.092%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.092%) Kentico
10 3 (0.092%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.061%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.031%) Magento
3 1 (0.031%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 959 (29.45%) Azure
2 943 (28.96%) AWS
3 324 (9.95%) GitHub
4 253 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
5 249 (7.65%) SaaS
6 201 (6.17%) Serverless
7 192 (5.90%) GCP
8 186 (5.71%) GitHub Copilot
9 169 (5.19%) Azure AI
10 127 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
11 105 (3.22%) Amazon S3
12 86 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 76 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
15 70 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
16 57 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
17 54 (1.66%) Anthropic Claude
18 41 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
19 37 (1.14%) Power Platform
20 32 (0.98%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.84%) Internet
2 51 (1.57%) Broadband
3 17 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.40%) DNS
5 12 (0.37%) Firewall
6 11 (0.34%) HTTP
7 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.15%) MQTT
9 4 (0.12%) VoIP
10 3 (0.092%) DHCP
10 3 (0.092%) LAN
10 3 (0.092%) WAN
11 2 (0.061%) AMQP
11 2 (0.061%) Network Security
11 2 (0.061%) VPN
12 1 (0.031%) Multicast
12 1 (0.031%) SCTP
12 1 (0.031%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
12 1 (0.031%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 533 (16.37%) MongoDB
2 463 (14.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 235 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
4 189 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 159 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
6 112 (3.44%) NoSQL
7 99 (3.04%) MySQL
8 86 (2.64%) Relational Database
9 72 (2.21%) DynamoDB
10 56 (1.72%) Redis
11 28 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.68%) Power BI
13 14 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.37%) GIS
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
17 8 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
18 6 (0.18%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 255 (7.83%) Git
2 107 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 82 (2.52%) GitLab
4 62 (1.90%) Cypress.io
5 61 (1.87%) JUnit
6 46 (1.41%) Claude Code
7 44 (1.35%) JIRA
8 33 (1.01%) Maven
9 30 (0.92%) Eclipse
10 29 (0.89%) Subversion
11 22 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.52%) Mockito
13 16 (0.49%) Vite
14 14 (0.43%) Selenium
14 14 (0.43%) Storybook
15 13 (0.40%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.37%) NUnit
16 12 (0.37%) Spock
17 11 (0.34%) Bitbucket
18 9 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 393 (12.07%) Finance
2 326 (10.01%) Social Skills
3 143 (4.39%) Public Sector
4 106 (3.26%) Marketing
5 88 (2.70%) Games
6 74 (2.27%) Retail
7 73 (2.24%) Advertising
8 70 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 67 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
10 61 (1.87%) Banking
11 41 (1.26%) Law
12 37 (1.14%) Legal
13 35 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 29 (0.89%) Tech for Good
15 28 (0.86%) Financial Institution
16 25 (0.77%) Front Office
17 18 (0.55%) Aerospace
18 17 (0.52%) Legal Technology
19 15 (0.46%) Automotive
20 14 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,946 (59.77%) Developer
2 1,057 (32.46%) Full-Stack Developer
3 768 (23.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 639 (19.63%) Senior
5 604 (18.55%) .NET Developer
6 546 (16.77%) Software Engineer
7 428 (13.14%) Lead
8 291 (8.94%) Software Developer
9 279 (8.57%) Senior Developer
10 245 (7.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 218 (6.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 192 (5.90%) Lead Developer
13 164 (5.04%) Java Developer
13 164 (5.04%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 159 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
15 120 (3.69%) Java Engineer
16 99 (3.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 99 (3.04%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
17 95 (2.92%) Python Engineer
18 94 (2.89%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,058 (32.49%) React
2 984 (30.22%) .NET
3 635 (19.50%) Node.js
4 556 (17.08%) ASP.NET
5 554 (17.01%) .NET Core
6 513 (15.76%) ASP.NET Core
7 441 (13.54%) AngularJS
8 429 (13.18%) CSS
9 410 (12.59%) HTML
10 378 (11.61%) Vue
11 369 (11.33%) RESTful
12 237 (7.28%) Entity Framework
13 222 (6.82%) REST
14 220 (6.76%) Blazor
15 212 (6.51%) Spring
16 187 (5.74%) ASP.NET Web API
17 174 (5.34%) Next.js
18 170 (5.22%) Spring Boot
19 156 (4.79%) ML.NET
20 140 (4.30%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 311 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 160 (4.91%) Greenfield Project
3 115 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 87 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 82 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 77 (2.36%) AI Agents
7 75 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 73 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 50 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
10 35 (1.07%) Low-Code
10 35 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
11 32 (0.98%) e-Learning
11 32 (0.98%) Onboarding
12 28 (0.86%) IoT
13 25 (0.77%) Virtual Team
14 23 (0.71%) Fixed Income
15 21 (0.64%) Social Media
16 20 (0.61%) Digital TV
17 19 (0.58%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.52%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 63 (1.93%) Linux
2 25 (0.77%) Android
3 16 (0.49%) Windows
4 11 (0.34%) Unix
5 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.092%) AIX
8 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.092%) VMS
9 1 (0.031%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (29.12%) Software Engineering
2 924 (28.38%) Agile
3 800 (24.57%) CI/CD
4 746 (22.91%) AI
5 583 (17.91%) Microservices
6 570 (17.51%) DevOps
7 340 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
8 314 (9.64%) Machine Learning
9 303 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 284 (8.72%) Mentoring
11 280 (8.60%) Test Automation
12 222 (6.82%) Scrum
13 200 (6.14%) Clean Code
14 196 (6.02%) TDD
15 189 (5.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 189 (5.80%) Observability
16 179 (5.50%) Technical Leadership
17 178 (5.47%) Multithreading
18 173 (5.31%) Containerisation
19 167 (5.13%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 999 (30.68%) JavaScript
2 941 (28.90%) C#
3 937 (28.78%) TypeScript
4 766 (23.53%) SQL
5 624 (19.16%) Python
6 520 (15.97%) Java
7 96 (2.95%) PHP
8 95 (2.92%) Go
8 95 (2.92%) Ruby
9 74 (2.27%) C++
10 41 (1.26%) Kotlin
11 31 (0.95%) Bash
12 26 (0.80%) Groovy
13 24 (0.74%) Perl
14 18 (0.55%) Rust
15 15 (0.46%) Bicep
16 14 (0.43%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.25%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.21%) C
19 6 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 230 (7.06%) Security Cleared
2 184 (5.65%) Degree
3 166 (5.10%) SC Cleared
4 130 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 23 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 15 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.18%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.092%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.092%) OCP
14 3 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.092%) PhD
15 1 (0.031%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.16%) QA
2 71 (2.18%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.92%) WCAG
4 19 (0.58%) GDPR
5 18 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.25%) NCSC
7 7 (0.21%) GRC
8 6 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.092%) NIST
11 2 (0.061%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.031%) HL7
12 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.031%) ITGC
12 1 (0.031%) SLA
12 1 (0.031%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 471 (14.47%) Docker
2 5 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.12%) Firmware
4 2 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.061%) vSphere
5 1 (0.031%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 356 (10.93%) Kubernetes
2 158 (4.85%) Terraform
3 24 (0.74%) Grafana
4 23 (0.71%) Ansible
5 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.37%) Podman
7 10 (0.31%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.28%) Kibana
9 6 (0.18%) logstash
9 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.092%) Argo
11 2 (0.061%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.061%) Packer
11 2 (0.061%) Puppet
12 1 (0.031%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.031%) Graylog
12 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.031%) Nagios
12 1 (0.031%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 622 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.61%) Google
3 59 (1.81%) Facebook
4 48 (1.47%) OpenAI
5 32 (0.98%) Oracle
6 27 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 24 (0.74%) YouTube
8 20 (0.61%) Splunk
9 18 (0.55%) Apple
10 17 (0.52%) Sony
10 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.49%) Foundry
11 16 (0.49%) Palantir
12 15 (0.46%) Adobe
12 15 (0.46%) AppDynamics
13 11 (0.34%) Databricks
14 10 (0.31%) OneLogin
14 10 (0.31%) Sitecore
15 9 (0.28%) Dynatrace
16 8 (0.25%) New Relic