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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 99 47
Rank change year-on-year +51 -52 +23
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,175 1,514 4,053
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.12% 3.07% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 3.42% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,628 940 2,917
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +0.87%

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 74,833 44,225 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.70% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51,638 25,059 48,434
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
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 28 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 28 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 2,882 £65,000 -7.14% 919
UK excluding London +62 2,171 £60,000 - 594
Work from Home +45 1,417 £60,000 -9.23% 391
London +13 847 £85,000 - 432
North of England +71 717 £65,000 +8.33% 171
South East +97 535 £60,000 +4.35% 155
North West +45 389 £65,000 - 98
Midlands +38 295 £55,000 -8.33% 83
South West +49 294 £60,000 - 65
Yorkshire +77 213 £69,653 +16.09% 51
East of England +53 179 £60,000 +33.33% 66
West Midlands +28 155 £60,000 -4.00% 45
East Midlands +21 139 £55,000 +15.79% 38
North East +21 115 £52,000 +19.54% 23
Scotland -18 84 £55,000 -18.52% 35
Wales -37 53 £60,000 -4.00% 14
Northern Ireland -53 19 £70,000 +16.67% 14
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 31 (0.98%) CMS
2 24 (0.76%) Confluence
3 15 (0.47%) WordPress
4 10 (0.31%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.28%) Apache
5 9 (0.28%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.25%) IIS
6 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.13%) nginx
10 3 (0.094%) DNN
10 3 (0.094%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.063%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.031%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.031%) Magento
3 1 (0.031%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.031%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.031%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 944 (29.73%) Azure
2 937 (29.51%) AWS
3 304 (9.57%) GitHub
4 246 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
5 238 (7.50%) SaaS
6 210 (6.61%) Serverless
7 184 (5.80%) GCP
8 177 (5.57%) GitHub Copilot
9 161 (5.07%) Azure AI
10 127 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
11 106 (3.34%) Amazon S3
12 87 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
13 81 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 78 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
15 64 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
16 57 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
17 45 (1.42%) Anthropic Claude
18 39 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
18 39 (1.23%) Power Platform
19 34 (1.07%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.80%) Internet
2 52 (1.64%) Broadband
3 10 (0.31%) Firewall
3 10 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.25%) DNS
5 7 (0.22%) HTTP
5 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
6 5 (0.16%) MQTT
7 3 (0.094%) DHCP
7 3 (0.094%) LAN
7 3 (0.094%) WAN
8 2 (0.063%) AMQP
8 2 (0.063%) Network Security
8 2 (0.063%) VoIP
8 2 (0.063%) VPN
9 1 (0.031%) Multicast
9 1 (0.031%) SCTP
9 1 (0.031%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
9 1 (0.031%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 535 (16.85%) MongoDB
2 460 (14.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 224 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
4 174 (5.48%) SQL Server
5 158 (4.98%) Elasticsearch
6 113 (3.56%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.21%) MySQL
8 85 (2.68%) Relational Database
9 69 (2.17%) DynamoDB
10 52 (1.64%) Redis
11 25 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
12 23 (0.72%) Power BI
13 14 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.38%) GIS
15 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.22%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
18 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 243 (7.65%) Git
2 108 (3.40%) Jenkins
3 73 (2.30%) GitLab
4 56 (1.76%) Cypress.io
5 48 (1.51%) JUnit
6 47 (1.48%) JIRA
7 42 (1.32%) Claude Code
8 34 (1.07%) Maven
9 24 (0.76%) Eclipse
10 23 (0.72%) Subversion
11 22 (0.69%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.54%) Vite
13 15 (0.47%) Mockito
14 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
16 11 (0.35%) Selenium
17 10 (0.31%) Spock
17 10 (0.31%) Storybook
18 8 (0.25%) Cucumber
19 7 (0.22%) NUnit
General
1 400 (12.60%) Finance
2 301 (9.48%) Social Skills
3 111 (3.50%) Public Sector
4 103 (3.24%) Marketing
5 90 (2.83%) Games
6 75 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (2.33%) Advertising
8 71 (2.24%) Retail
9 61 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 60 (1.89%) Banking
11 40 (1.26%) Front Office
11 40 (1.26%) Law
12 33 (1.04%) Legal
12 33 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 25 (0.79%) Tech for Good
14 23 (0.72%) Financial Institution
15 18 (0.57%) Automotive
16 17 (0.54%) Aerospace
17 15 (0.47%) Legal Technology
18 14 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,927 (60.69%) Developer
2 1,022 (32.19%) Full-Stack Developer
3 736 (23.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 623 (19.62%) Senior
5 616 (19.40%) .NET Developer
6 549 (17.29%) Software Engineer
7 406 (12.79%) Lead
8 279 (8.79%) Senior Developer
9 267 (8.41%) Software Developer
10 249 (7.84%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 200 (6.30%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 193 (6.08%) Lead Developer
13 166 (5.23%) Java Developer
14 164 (5.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 153 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
16 118 (3.72%) Java Engineer
17 101 (3.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 97 (3.06%) Python Developer
19 94 (2.96%) React Developer
20 90 (2.83%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,044 (32.88%) React
2 976 (30.74%) .NET
3 630 (19.84%) Node.js
4 551 (17.35%) ASP.NET
5 546 (17.20%) .NET Core
6 509 (16.03%) ASP.NET Core
7 441 (13.89%) AngularJS
8 425 (13.39%) CSS
9 410 (12.91%) HTML
10 388 (12.22%) Vue
11 346 (10.90%) RESTful
12 233 (7.34%) Entity Framework
13 217 (6.83%) Blazor
14 204 (6.43%) Spring
15 201 (6.33%) REST
16 187 (5.89%) ASP.NET Web API
17 163 (5.13%) Spring Boot
18 157 (4.94%) Next.js
19 154 (4.85%) ML.NET
20 137 (4.31%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 297 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 169 (5.32%) Greenfield Project
3 111 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 80 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
5 75 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 73 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 69 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 61 (1.92%) AI Agents
9 49 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.17%) Fixed Income
10 37 (1.17%) Low-Code
11 34 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
12 33 (1.04%) Onboarding
13 30 (0.94%) e-Learning
14 28 (0.88%) IoT
15 25 (0.79%) Virtual Team
16 22 (0.69%) Social Media
17 20 (0.63%) Digital TV
18 19 (0.60%) Algorithms
19 17 (0.54%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 59 (1.86%) Linux
2 23 (0.72%) Android
3 15 (0.47%) Windows
4 9 (0.28%) Unix
5 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.13%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.094%) AIX
7 3 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.063%) VMS
9 1 (0.031%) Debian
9 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 931 (29.32%) Software Engineering
2 924 (29.10%) Agile
3 761 (23.97%) CI/CD
4 700 (22.05%) AI
5 569 (17.92%) Microservices
6 562 (17.70%) DevOps
7 341 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
8 303 (9.54%) Machine Learning
9 297 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 280 (8.82%) Mentoring
11 265 (8.35%) Test Automation
12 221 (6.96%) Scrum
13 197 (6.20%) TDD
14 192 (6.05%) Clean Code
15 182 (5.73%) Infrastructure as Code
16 179 (5.64%) Observability
17 176 (5.54%) Containerisation
17 176 (5.54%) Multithreading
18 160 (5.04%) Technical Leadership
19 154 (4.85%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 981 (30.90%) JavaScript
2 918 (28.91%) C#
3 917 (28.88%) TypeScript
4 756 (23.81%) SQL
5 611 (19.24%) Python
6 514 (16.19%) Java
7 101 (3.18%) PHP
8 97 (3.06%) Go
9 78 (2.46%) Ruby
10 68 (2.14%) C++
11 32 (1.01%) Bash
12 27 (0.85%) Groovy
13 18 (0.57%) Perl
14 17 (0.54%) Rust
15 14 (0.44%) Bicep
16 13 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.41%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.19%) C
17 6 (0.19%) PowerShell
18 5 (0.16%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 214 (6.74%) Security Cleared
2 174 (5.48%) Degree
3 156 (4.91%) SC Cleared
4 124 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 25 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.13%) PhD
13 3 (0.094%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.031%) CCNA
14 1 (0.031%) CCNP
14 1 (0.031%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.031%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.24%) QA
2 67 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.94%) WCAG
4 21 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 20 (0.63%) GDPR
6 7 (0.22%) GRC
6 7 (0.22%) NCSC
7 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.094%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.094%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.063%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.031%) HL7
10 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.031%) ITGC
10 1 (0.031%) NIST
10 1 (0.031%) SLA
10 1 (0.031%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 459 (14.46%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 2 (0.063%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.063%) vSphere
5 1 (0.031%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 350 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 147 (4.63%) Terraform
3 29 (0.91%) Grafana
4 20 (0.63%) Ansible
5 19 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.41%) Podman
7 12 (0.38%) HP Fortify
8 10 (0.31%) Kibana
9 6 (0.19%) logstash
10 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.063%) Argo
12 1 (0.031%) Bugsnag
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%) Packer
12 1 (0.031%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 621 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 83 (2.61%) Google
3 58 (1.83%) Facebook
4 35 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 27 (0.85%) Oracle
6 25 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.69%) YouTube
8 18 (0.57%) Apple
9 17 (0.54%) Palantir
9 17 (0.54%) Sony
9 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.50%) Splunk
11 15 (0.47%) Adobe
11 15 (0.47%) Foundry
12 13 (0.41%) AppDynamics
12 13 (0.41%) Databricks
13 10 (0.31%) Sitecore
14 9 (0.28%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.28%) OneLogin
15 6 (0.19%) Palo Alto