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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 97 40
Rank change year-on-year +39 -57 +26
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,721 1,373 5,136
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.92% 3.21% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 3.45% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,236 874 4,032
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £84,000 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 68,898 39,816 83,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.92% 93.23% 83.93%
Number of salaries quoted 44,884 20,923 60,289
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,000 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,324 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.29% +2.65% -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 May 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 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 +41 2,471 £67,500 - 684
UK excluding London +37 1,740 £60,000 - 531
Work from Home +37 1,097 £65,000 - 392
London +31 811 £85,000 +6.25% 262
North of England +45 575 £65,000 +8.33% 172
South East +69 433 £60,000 - 144
North West +32 308 £65,000 - 94
Midlands +25 270 £55,000 +4.76% 69
South West +23 223 £60,000 -4.00% 47
Yorkshire +57 183 £70,000 +21.74% 55
East of England +36 143 £60,000 +20.00% 41
West Midlands +11 142 £60,000 - 27
East Midlands +8 127 £55,000 +15.79% 42
North East +7 84 £57,500 +21.05% 23
Scotland -40 52 £60,000 -10.45% 29
Wales -38 26 £57,500 -17.86% 21
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 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 23 (0.85%) CMS
2 18 (0.66%) Confluence
3 15 (0.55%) WordPress
4 10 (0.37%) ColdFusion
4 10 (0.37%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (0.29%) Apache
5 8 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (0.29%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (0.18%) IIS
8 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.11%) Liferay
9 3 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.074%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.22%) Shopify
2 2 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.037%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.037%) Magento
3 1 (0.037%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 779 (28.63%) AWS
2 611 (22.45%) Azure
3 230 (8.45%) SaaS
4 195 (7.17%) Serverless
5 172 (6.32%) GitHub
6 157 (5.77%) GCP
7 154 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
8 118 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
9 102 (3.75%) Amazon S3
10 77 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
11 66 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
12 65 (2.39%) Azure AI
13 64 (2.35%) GitHub Copilot
14 54 (1.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 50 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (1.62%) Figma
17 43 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
18 32 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
19 31 (1.14%) Power Platform
20 25 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.32%) Broadband
2 22 (0.81%) Internet
3 8 (0.29%) HTTP
4 6 (0.22%) Firewall
5 5 (0.18%) DNS
5 5 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
6 3 (0.11%) VPN
7 1 (0.037%) MQTT
7 1 (0.037%) Multicast
7 1 (0.037%) RTP
7 1 (0.037%) RTSP
7 1 (0.037%) SCTP
7 1 (0.037%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.037%) SS7
7 1 (0.037%) TCAP
7 1 (0.037%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.037%) VLAN
7 1 (0.037%) VoLTE
7 1 (0.037%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (9.96%) MongoDB
2 187 (6.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 182 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
4 139 (5.11%) SQL Server
5 112 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 76 (2.79%) MySQL
7 63 (2.32%) Relational Database
8 61 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
9 54 (1.98%) DynamoDB
10 22 (0.81%) Power BI
11 20 (0.74%) Redis
12 16 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.40%) GIS
15 10 (0.37%) Pinecone
16 6 (0.22%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.22%) DB2
16 6 (0.22%) MariaDB
17 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 4 (0.15%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 203 (7.46%) Git
2 97 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 61 (2.24%) Cypress.io
4 53 (1.95%) GitLab
5 37 (1.36%) JIRA
6 35 (1.29%) Maven
7 30 (1.10%) JUnit
8 23 (0.85%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 17 (0.62%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.62%) Mockito
10 17 (0.62%) Vite
11 13 (0.48%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.37%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.33%) Eclipse
14 8 (0.29%) Selenium
14 8 (0.29%) Subversion
15 7 (0.26%) ESLint
15 7 (0.26%) NUnit
General
1 301 (11.06%) Finance
2 297 (10.92%) Social Skills
3 87 (3.20%) Public Sector
4 77 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (2.21%) Games
6 59 (2.17%) Marketing
7 55 (2.02%) Retail
8 54 (1.98%) Banking
9 46 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (1.40%) Law
11 36 (1.32%) Front Office
12 34 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 31 (1.14%) Advertising
13 31 (1.14%) Tech for Good
14 28 (1.03%) Legal
15 23 (0.85%) Aviation
16 21 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.70%) Health Technology
18 15 (0.55%) Investment Banking
19 14 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,592 (58.51%) Developer
2 995 (36.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 655 (24.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 585 (21.50%) Senior
5 503 (18.49%) Software Engineer
6 378 (13.89%) Lead
7 337 (12.39%) .NET Developer
8 279 (10.25%) Senior Developer
9 227 (8.34%) Software Developer
10 221 (8.12%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 197 (7.24%) Lead Developer
12 186 (6.84%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 174 (6.39%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 166 (6.10%) Java Developer
15 136 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
16 133 (4.89%) React Developer
17 104 (3.82%) Python Developer
18 99 (3.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 92 (3.38%) Java Engineer
20 91 (3.34%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 893 (32.82%) React
2 675 (24.81%) .NET
3 498 (18.30%) Node.js
4 314 (11.54%) CSS
5 312 (11.47%) AngularJS
6 304 (11.17%) HTML
7 288 (10.58%) .NET Core
8 272 (10.00%) Vue
9 231 (8.49%) ASP.NET
10 226 (8.31%) RESTful
11 203 (7.46%) ASP.NET Core
12 185 (6.80%) Spring
13 157 (5.77%) REST
14 151 (5.55%) Spring Boot
15 133 (4.89%) Next.js
16 119 (4.37%) Entity Framework
17 95 (3.49%) Blazor
18 80 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
19 74 (2.72%) .NET Framework
19 74 (2.72%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 198 (7.28%) Cloud Native
2 124 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
3 85 (3.12%) Mobile App
4 77 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 76 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
6 50 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 42 (1.54%) AI Agents
8 39 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.25%) Fixed Income
10 32 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.10%) IoT
12 29 (1.07%) Low-Code
13 27 (0.99%) e-Learning
14 25 (0.92%) Onboarding
15 23 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
16 19 (0.70%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.62%) Data Structures
18 14 (0.51%) Algorithms
18 14 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 14 (0.51%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 44 (1.62%) Linux
2 27 (0.99%) Android
3 17 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.26%) Unix
5 6 (0.22%) Windows
6 1 (0.037%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.037%) VMS
6 1 (0.037%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 843 (30.98%) Software Engineering
2 624 (22.93%) Agile
3 539 (19.81%) CI/CD
4 487 (17.90%) AI
5 441 (16.21%) DevOps
6 390 (14.33%) Microservices
7 347 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
8 284 (10.44%) Mentoring
9 268 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 223 (8.20%) Test Automation
11 184 (6.76%) Machine Learning
12 165 (6.06%) Scrum
13 161 (5.92%) Clean Code
14 160 (5.88%) Containerisation
15 158 (5.81%) User Experience
16 142 (5.22%) Infrastructure as Code
16 142 (5.22%) Web Development
17 140 (5.15%) TDD
18 130 (4.78%) Technical Leadership
19 129 (4.74%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 777 (28.56%) JavaScript
2 750 (27.56%) TypeScript
3 607 (22.31%) C#
4 518 (19.04%) Python
5 483 (17.75%) Java
6 470 (17.27%) SQL
7 106 (3.90%) PHP
8 73 (2.68%) Go
9 57 (2.09%) Ruby
10 47 (1.73%) C++
11 33 (1.21%) Bash
12 23 (0.85%) Groovy
13 16 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.55%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.44%) Bicep
16 11 (0.40%) C
17 9 (0.33%) Rust
18 7 (0.26%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.22%) PowerShell
19 6 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 183 (6.73%) Security Cleared
2 138 (5.07%) Degree
3 132 (4.85%) SC Cleared
4 94 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.66%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 13 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.22%) PhD
11 4 (0.15%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.074%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.037%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.037%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.037%) MBA
13 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.71%) QA
2 41 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.48%) GDPR
4 11 (0.40%) WCAG
5 9 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.26%) GRC
7 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.11%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.11%) SLA
9 2 (0.074%) ITGC
9 2 (0.074%) NCSC
9 2 (0.074%) NIST
10 1 (0.037%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.037%) HL7
10 1 (0.037%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.037%) SOC 2
System Software
1 308 (11.32%) Docker
2 5 (0.18%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.15%) Firmware
4 2 (0.074%) vSphere
5 1 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.037%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 215 (7.90%) Kubernetes
2 116 (4.26%) Terraform
3 34 (1.25%) Grafana
4 23 (0.85%) Ansible
5 21 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.48%) Podman
7 12 (0.44%) HP Fortify
8 8 (0.29%) Kibana
9 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.22%) Argo
11 4 (0.15%) logstash
12 3 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.037%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.037%) Graylog
13 1 (0.037%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.037%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 295 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 49 (1.80%) Google
3 36 (1.32%) Adobe
4 33 (1.21%) OpenAI
5 32 (1.18%) Oracle
6 21 (0.77%) Salesforce
7 20 (0.74%) Facebook
8 19 (0.70%) Foundry
9 14 (0.51%) Palantir
10 10 (0.37%) Splunk
11 8 (0.29%) Apple
11 8 (0.29%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.29%) YouTube
12 7 (0.26%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.26%) Sony
12 7 (0.26%) Yahoo!
13 6 (0.22%) Pega
13 6 (0.22%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.22%) WooCommerce
14 5 (0.18%) Databricks