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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 92 42
Rank change year-on-year +28 -50 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,607 1,476 5,022
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.88% 3.36% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 3.60% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,131 992 3,966
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 66,871 40,971 82,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.97% 93.32% 85.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,937 22,765 59,727
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Top 19 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 11 May 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 +31 2,361 £70,000 +6.06% 854
UK excluding London +23 1,613 £60,000 - 623
Work from Home +27 1,042 £65,000 - 474
London +37 815 £85,000 +6.25% 335
North of England +31 492 £67,500 +14.41% 204
South East +46 413 £60,000 - 160
Midlands +6 259 £55,000 +4.76% 73
North West +13 257 £65,000 +1.96% 108
South West +16 222 £60,000 -4.00% 71
Yorkshire +40 163 £75,000 +36.36% 64
East of England +44 138 £61,250 +16.67% 67
West Midlands +8 134 £60,000 - 24
East Midlands +1 124 £55,000 +15.79% 49
North East +6 72 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Scotland -46 46 £60,000 -6.98% 34
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 5
Wales -33 24 £52,500 -25.00% 16
Isle of Man - 2 £35,000 - 1
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 22 (0.84%) CMS
2 18 (0.69%) Confluence
3 14 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.46%) WordPress
5 11 (0.42%) ColdFusion
6 9 (0.35%) Apache
6 9 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.15%) Appian
10 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.15%) IIS
10 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Liferay
11 3 (0.12%) nginx
12 2 (0.077%) CICS
12 2 (0.077%) Drupal
12 2 (0.077%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.077%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.15%) Shopify
2 1 (0.038%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.038%) Magento
2 1 (0.038%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.038%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 751 (28.81%) AWS
2 568 (21.79%) Azure
3 233 (8.94%) SaaS
4 187 (7.17%) Serverless
5 170 (6.52%) GitHub
6 164 (6.29%) GCP
7 132 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
8 113 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
9 97 (3.72%) Amazon S3
10 66 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
11 59 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
12 56 (2.15%) GitHub Copilot
13 54 (2.07%) Azure AI
14 50 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
15 43 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
15 43 (1.65%) Figma
16 40 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 29 (1.11%) Power Platform
18 26 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
19 23 (0.88%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.30%) Broadband
2 19 (0.73%) Internet
3 10 (0.38%) HTTP
4 6 (0.23%) DNS
4 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.19%) Firewall
6 3 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.077%) DHCP
7 2 (0.077%) LAN
7 2 (0.077%) VLAN
7 2 (0.077%) VPN
7 2 (0.077%) WAN
8 1 (0.038%) AMQP
8 1 (0.038%) MQTT
8 1 (0.038%) Multicast
8 1 (0.038%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.038%) SSL
8 1 (0.038%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.038%) VSAN
8 1 (0.038%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (9.59%) MongoDB
2 180 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 129 (4.95%) SQL Server
5 119 (4.56%) NoSQL
6 71 (2.72%) MySQL
7 57 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 51 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
9 50 (1.92%) DynamoDB
10 22 (0.84%) Redis
11 21 (0.81%) Power BI
12 14 (0.54%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.38%) GIS
15 8 (0.31%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.31%) DB2
16 6 (0.23%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.15%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 188 (7.21%) Git
2 102 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 64 (2.45%) Cypress.io
4 51 (1.96%) GitLab
5 39 (1.50%) JIRA
6 30 (1.15%) Maven
7 23 (0.88%) SonarQube
8 20 (0.77%) JUnit
9 19 (0.73%) CircleCI
9 19 (0.73%) Vite
10 16 (0.61%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.54%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.46%) Mockito
13 11 (0.42%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.35%) Selenium
15 7 (0.27%) ESLint
15 7 (0.27%) NUnit
16 6 (0.23%) webpack
17 4 (0.15%) Storybook
General
1 284 (10.89%) Social Skills
2 276 (10.59%) Finance
3 75 (2.88%) Public Sector
4 73 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (2.22%) Games
6 54 (2.07%) Banking
7 51 (1.96%) Retail
8 48 (1.84%) Marketing
9 47 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.50%) Law
11 38 (1.46%) Front Office
12 34 (1.30%) Tech for Good
13 28 (1.07%) Aviation
14 26 (1.00%) Advertising
14 26 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 22 (0.84%) Legal
16 21 (0.81%) Health Technology
16 21 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (0.61%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,539 (59.03%) Developer
2 995 (38.17%) Full-Stack Developer
3 621 (23.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 572 (21.94%) Senior
5 462 (17.72%) Software Engineer
6 373 (14.31%) Lead
7 293 (11.24%) .NET Developer
8 282 (10.82%) Senior Developer
9 205 (7.86%) Software Developer
10 203 (7.79%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 198 (7.59%) Lead Developer
12 192 (7.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 162 (6.21%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 149 (5.72%) Java Developer
15 144 (5.52%) React Developer
16 125 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
17 111 (4.26%) Python Developer
18 94 (3.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 89 (3.41%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
20 87 (3.34%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 894 (34.29%) React
2 613 (23.51%) .NET
3 507 (19.45%) Node.js
4 295 (11.32%) CSS
5 293 (11.24%) AngularJS
6 290 (11.12%) HTML
7 260 (9.97%) .NET Core
8 250 (9.59%) Vue
9 217 (8.32%) RESTful
10 205 (7.86%) ASP.NET
11 170 (6.52%) Spring
12 168 (6.44%) ASP.NET Core
13 146 (5.60%) REST
14 143 (5.49%) Spring Boot
15 129 (4.95%) Next.js
16 106 (4.07%) Entity Framework
17 80 (3.07%) Blazor
18 76 (2.92%) GraphQL
19 71 (2.72%) .NET Framework
20 70 (2.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 192 (7.36%) Cloud Native
2 123 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
3 77 (2.95%) Mobile App
4 75 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 72 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
6 49 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 36 (1.38%) AI Agents
7 36 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (1.30%) Fixed Income
9 32 (1.23%) Low-Code
10 30 (1.15%) IoT
11 22 (0.84%) e-Learning
11 22 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
12 20 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (0.77%) Onboarding
13 17 (0.65%) Smart Energy
14 16 (0.61%) Data Structures
14 16 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 16 (0.61%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.50%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.30%) Linux
2 29 (1.11%) Android
3 20 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.23%) Windows
5 5 (0.19%) Unix
6 2 (0.077%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.038%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.038%) VMS
7 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (30.61%) Software Engineering
2 587 (22.52%) Agile
3 517 (19.83%) CI/CD
4 450 (17.26%) AI
5 416 (15.96%) DevOps
6 374 (14.35%) Microservices
7 319 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 255 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 254 (9.74%) Mentoring
10 212 (8.13%) Test Automation
11 166 (6.37%) User Experience
12 162 (6.21%) Machine Learning
13 158 (6.06%) Containerisation
14 155 (5.95%) Scrum
15 148 (5.68%) Clean Code
16 142 (5.45%) Web Development
17 139 (5.33%) Infrastructure as Code
18 127 (4.87%) Technical Leadership
19 122 (4.68%) Computer Science
20 119 (4.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 741 (28.42%) JavaScript
2 740 (28.39%) TypeScript
3 554 (21.25%) C#
4 513 (19.68%) Python
5 460 (17.64%) Java
6 423 (16.23%) SQL
7 102 (3.91%) PHP
8 72 (2.76%) Go
9 55 (2.11%) Ruby
10 32 (1.23%) Bash
11 27 (1.04%) C++
12 19 (0.73%) Groovy
13 16 (0.61%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.58%) C
15 13 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.46%) Bicep
17 8 (0.31%) Rust
18 6 (0.23%) R
18 6 (0.23%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 176 (6.75%) Security Cleared
2 128 (4.91%) SC Cleared
3 127 (4.87%) Degree
4 84 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 17 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.61%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.19%) PhD
12 2 (0.077%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.038%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.038%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.038%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.038%) MBA
13 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.87%) QA
2 44 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.38%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.38%) GDPR
4 7 (0.27%) GRC
4 7 (0.27%) WCAG
5 6 (0.23%) SLA
6 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.077%) HL7
7 2 (0.077%) ITGC
7 2 (0.077%) NCSC
7 2 (0.077%) NIST
8 1 (0.038%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.038%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.038%) SOC 2
System Software
1 293 (11.24%) Docker
2 7 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.15%) Firmware
5 2 (0.077%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.077%) vSphere
6 1 (0.038%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 203 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 122 (4.68%) Terraform
3 33 (1.27%) Grafana
4 30 (1.15%) Ansible
5 20 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.54%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.50%) Podman
8 10 (0.38%) Argo
9 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.23%) Kibana
11 4 (0.15%) logstash
12 3 (0.12%) Nagios
13 1 (0.038%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.038%) Graylog
13 1 (0.038%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 260 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 46 (1.76%) Google
3 36 (1.38%) OpenAI
4 32 (1.23%) Adobe
5 26 (1.00%) Oracle
6 16 (0.61%) Facebook
7 12 (0.46%) Foundry
7 12 (0.46%) Palantir
7 12 (0.46%) Salesforce
8 8 (0.31%) Apple
9 7 (0.27%) Peregrine
10 6 (0.23%) Databricks
10 6 (0.23%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.23%) Pega
10 6 (0.23%) Sony
10 6 (0.23%) Splunk
10 6 (0.23%) Yahoo!
10 6 (0.23%) YouTube
11 5 (0.19%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.19%) WooCommerce