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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 75 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 -33 +23
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,022 1,493 4,668
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.56% 3.65% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 3.92% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,626 1,013 3,815
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.04% +8.18% -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 60,590 38,104 77,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.71% 93.07% 86.51%
Number of salaries quoted 37,239 22,363 57,730
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.83%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +1 1,828 £70,000 +7.69% 848
UK excluding London -7 1,168 £62,500 +5.04% 635
Work from Home +10 796 £70,000 +7.69% 458
London +15 692 £84,375 +5.47% 329
North of England +29 355 £67,500 +17.39% 161
South East -36 292 £60,000 - 175
Midlands +26 207 £55,000 +4.76% 86
North West +13 174 £70,000 +12.00% 83
South West +15 170 £60,000 -4.00% 100
Yorkshire +29 130 £70,000 +40.00% 54
West Midlands +24 108 £55,000 +4.76% 43
East Midlands -9 98 £55,000 +22.22% 43
East of England -32 86 £60,000 +9.09% 63
North East +18 51 £55,000 +22.22% 24
Northern Ireland -10 26 £70,000 - 5
Scotland -58 21 £61,710 -1.26% 34
Wales -43 13 £51,250 -24.07% 18
Channel Islands - 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 14 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (0.69%) CMS
2 12 (0.59%) OpenStack
3 10 (0.49%) Confluence
3 10 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (0.40%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.30%) ColdFusion
6 6 (0.30%) WordPress
7 5 (0.25%) Apache
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.20%) Appian
8 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.20%) nginx
9 3 (0.15%) IIS
9 3 (0.15%) Liferay
10 2 (0.099%) CICS
10 2 (0.099%) Drupal
10 2 (0.099%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.099%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Shopify
2 1 (0.049%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.049%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 639 (31.60%) AWS
2 458 (22.65%) Azure
3 201 (9.94%) SaaS
4 191 (9.45%) Serverless
5 152 (7.52%) GCP
6 134 (6.63%) GitHub
7 107 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
8 93 (4.60%) Amazon S3
9 79 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
10 66 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (2.57%) Amazon SQS
11 52 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
12 40 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (1.98%) Figma
13 36 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (1.24%) PaaS
16 24 (1.19%) Entra ID
17 23 (1.14%) Power Platform
18 19 (0.94%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.78%) Broadband
2 6 (0.30%) HTTP
3 4 (0.20%) Firewall
3 4 (0.20%) Internet
4 3 (0.15%) WAN
5 2 (0.099%) AMQP
5 2 (0.099%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.099%) LAN
5 2 (0.099%) VLAN
5 2 (0.099%) VPN
6 1 (0.049%) DHCP
6 1 (0.049%) DNS
6 1 (0.049%) MQTT
6 1 (0.049%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.049%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.049%) SSL
6 1 (0.049%) TCAP
6 1 (0.049%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.049%) WebEx
6 1 (0.049%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (6.23%) SQL Server
3 123 (6.08%) MongoDB
4 117 (5.79%) NoSQL
5 73 (3.61%) MySQL
6 64 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 42 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 40 (1.98%) DynamoDB
9 24 (1.19%) Redis
10 18 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.74%) Power BI
12 12 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.59%) Pinecone
13 10 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.49%) DB2
13 10 (0.49%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.40%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.35%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.30%) GIS
Development Applications
1 178 (8.80%) Git
2 98 (4.85%) Jenkins
3 59 (2.92%) Cypress.io
4 36 (1.78%) JIRA
5 35 (1.73%) GitLab
6 25 (1.24%) Maven
7 21 (1.04%) JUnit
8 19 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 18 (0.89%) TeamCity
10 15 (0.74%) Mockito
11 14 (0.69%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.69%) Vite
12 10 (0.49%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.49%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.49%) webpack
13 9 (0.45%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.45%) Selenium
14 7 (0.35%) ESLint
15 5 (0.25%) NUnit
15 5 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 288 (14.24%) Social Skills
2 210 (10.39%) Finance
3 78 (3.86%) Public Sector
4 71 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (2.67%) Banking
6 47 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (2.18%) Retail
8 42 (2.08%) Front Office
9 39 (1.93%) Law
10 35 (1.73%) Marketing
11 33 (1.63%) Games
12 32 (1.58%) Tech for Good
13 26 (1.29%) Aviation
13 26 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.09%) Health Technology
15 21 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (0.94%) Investment Banking
16 19 (0.94%) Legal
17 14 (0.69%) Advertising
18 11 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,170 (57.86%) Developer
2 821 (40.60%) Full-Stack Developer
3 474 (23.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 465 (23.00%) Senior
5 369 (18.25%) Software Engineer
6 287 (14.19%) Lead
7 216 (10.68%) Senior Developer
8 183 (9.05%) .NET Developer
9 158 (7.81%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 158 (7.81%) Lead Developer
10 154 (7.62%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 152 (7.52%) Java Developer
12 137 (6.78%) React Developer
13 133 (6.58%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 128 (6.33%) Software Developer
15 104 (5.14%) Senior Software Engineer
16 99 (4.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 91 (4.50%) C# Developer
18 87 (4.30%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 84 (4.15%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 776 (38.38%) React
2 462 (22.85%) .NET
3 411 (20.33%) Node.js
4 253 (12.51%) HTML
5 245 (12.12%) CSS
6 231 (11.42%) AngularJS
7 193 (9.55%) Vue
8 157 (7.76%) .NET Core
9 156 (7.72%) Spring
10 155 (7.67%) RESTful
11 146 (7.22%) REST
12 127 (6.28%) Spring Boot
13 98 (4.85%) Next.js
14 95 (4.70%) ASP.NET
15 82 (4.06%) GraphQL
16 79 (3.91%) .NET Framework
17 70 (3.46%) Kafka
18 65 (3.21%) Laravel
19 63 (3.12%) Entity Framework
20 58 (2.87%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 153 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 80 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
3 74 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (3.02%) Mobile App
6 49 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (1.63%) IoT
8 30 (1.48%) Fixed Income
9 22 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.04%) AI Agents
11 20 (0.99%) Smart Energy
12 19 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (0.84%) Low-Code
14 16 (0.79%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.69%) Onboarding
16 13 (0.64%) Management Information System
16 13 (0.64%) Private Cloud
17 12 (0.59%) Blog
18 11 (0.54%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.43%) Linux
2 25 (1.24%) Android
3 22 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.25%) Unix
5 4 (0.20%) Windows
6 1 (0.049%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.049%) VMS
6 1 (0.049%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.049%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 643 (31.80%) Software Engineering
2 503 (24.88%) Agile
3 431 (21.32%) CI/CD
4 337 (16.67%) DevOps
5 330 (16.32%) AI
6 322 (15.92%) Microservices
7 299 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
8 229 (11.33%) Mentoring
9 224 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 181 (8.95%) User Experience
11 175 (8.65%) Test Automation
12 136 (6.73%) Containerisation
13 133 (6.58%) Clean Code
14 131 (6.48%) Scrum
15 122 (6.03%) Computer Science
16 113 (5.59%) Machine Learning
17 106 (5.24%) Technical Leadership
18 104 (5.14%) TDD
19 103 (5.09%) Front End Development
20 100 (4.95%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 639 (31.60%) JavaScript
2 598 (29.57%) TypeScript
3 428 (21.17%) Java
4 415 (20.52%) Python
5 402 (19.88%) C#
6 304 (15.03%) SQL
7 88 (4.35%) PHP
8 55 (2.72%) Go
9 46 (2.27%) Ruby
10 26 (1.29%) Bash
11 21 (1.04%) C++
12 17 (0.84%) C
12 17 (0.84%) Kotlin
13 16 (0.79%) Rust
14 13 (0.64%) Groovy
14 13 (0.64%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.45%) Bicep
16 7 (0.35%) R
17 6 (0.30%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (7.32%) Security Cleared
2 125 (6.18%) Degree
3 105 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 84 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.89%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.40%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.20%) PhD
13 2 (0.099%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.099%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.049%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.049%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.049%) MBA
14 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (4.40%) QA
2 55 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.64%) GDPR
4 10 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.35%) WCAG
6 6 (0.30%) GRC
6 6 (0.30%) SLA
7 5 (0.25%) PERC
8 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.099%) ECSS
9 2 (0.099%) HL7
9 2 (0.099%) ITGC
9 2 (0.099%) NCSC
9 2 (0.099%) NIST
10 1 (0.049%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 226 (11.18%) Docker
2 10 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.15%) Firmware
4 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.099%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 169 (8.36%) Kubernetes
2 108 (5.34%) Terraform
3 28 (1.38%) Ansible
3 28 (1.38%) Grafana
4 16 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.64%) HP Fortify
6 11 (0.54%) Argo
6 11 (0.54%) Kibana
7 7 (0.35%) Podman
8 3 (0.15%) Nagios
8 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.049%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.049%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.049%) logstash
9 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.049%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 134 (6.63%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.34%) Google
3 26 (1.29%) Adobe
3 26 (1.29%) OpenAI
3 26 (1.29%) Oracle
4 15 (0.74%) Foundry
5 14 (0.69%) Palantir
6 9 (0.45%) Fortinet
6 9 (0.45%) Palo Alto
7 8 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.40%) Pega
7 8 (0.40%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.35%) Dynatrace
8 7 (0.35%) Splunk
9 6 (0.30%) Databricks
9 6 (0.30%) Facebook
10 5 (0.25%) WSO2
10 5 (0.25%) Zoho
11 4 (0.20%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.20%) ServiceNow