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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 64 45
Rank change year-on-year -14 -19 +19
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,837 1,877 4,214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.54% 4.05% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 4.34% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,486 1,063 3,616
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £46,250
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -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 56,779 43,287 71,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.47% 93.48% 87.85%
Number of salaries quoted 34,177 22,512 54,463
10th Percentile £29,262 £32,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,875 £80,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 7 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 7 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 -12 1,663 £70,000 +7.69% 1,042
UK excluding London -25 1,015 £62,500 +8.70% 820
Work from Home -6 724 £70,000 +7.69% 614
London +12 678 £85,000 +6.25% 390
North of England +28 295 £70,000 +21.74% 192
South East -49 249 £62,500 +4.17% 218
Midlands +11 196 £55,000 +4.76% 105
South West +7 151 £60,000 -4.00% 131
North West +6 145 £70,000 +16.67% 91
West Midlands +4 107 £52,500 - 43
Yorkshire 0 106 £71,250 +42.50% 70
East Midlands -15 88 £55,000 +57.14% 61
East of England -35 73 £60,000 +9.09% 106
North East +13 44 £55,000 +22.22% 32
Northern Ireland -9 26 £70,000 +16.67% 13
Scotland -71 14 £67,500 +22.73% 44
Wales -38 13 £52,500 -19.23% 22
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 15 (0.82%) CMS
2 13 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (0.60%) Confluence
3 11 (0.60%) OpenStack
3 11 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.33%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.33%) WordPress
6 5 (0.27%) nginx
7 4 (0.22%) Apache
7 4 (0.22%) Appian
7 4 (0.22%) ColdFusion
8 3 (0.16%) Drupal
8 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.16%) IIS
8 3 (0.16%) Liferay
9 2 (0.11%) CICS
9 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.11%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Shopify
2 1 (0.054%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.054%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 599 (32.61%) AWS
2 438 (23.84%) Azure
3 185 (10.07%) SaaS
4 180 (9.80%) Serverless
5 136 (7.40%) GCP
6 124 (6.75%) GitHub
7 99 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
8 88 (4.79%) Amazon S3
9 69 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
11 54 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
12 44 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
13 38 (2.07%) Figma
14 30 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (1.42%) PaaS
17 21 (1.14%) Entra ID
18 20 (1.09%) Power Platform
19 16 (0.87%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.31%) Broadband
2 7 (0.38%) HTTP
3 5 (0.27%) Firewall
4 4 (0.22%) WAN
5 3 (0.16%) Internet
5 3 (0.16%) LAN
5 3 (0.16%) VLAN
6 2 (0.11%) AMQP
6 2 (0.11%) DHCP
6 2 (0.11%) DNS
6 2 (0.11%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.11%) VPN
6 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.054%) MQTT
7 1 (0.054%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.054%) SSL
7 1 (0.054%) TCAP
7 1 (0.054%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.054%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (6.70%) SQL Server
3 104 (5.66%) NoSQL
4 100 (5.44%) MongoDB
5 73 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 65 (3.54%) MySQL
7 33 (1.80%) DynamoDB
8 28 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 27 (1.47%) Redis
10 17 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.82%) RDBMS
12 13 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.65%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.65%) Power BI
14 10 (0.54%) DB2
15 8 (0.44%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.27%) GIS
17 4 (0.22%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 172 (9.36%) Git
2 95 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 51 (2.78%) Cypress.io
4 36 (1.96%) JIRA
5 33 (1.80%) GitLab
6 27 (1.47%) JUnit
7 24 (1.31%) Maven
8 20 (1.09%) TeamCity
9 19 (1.03%) Mockito
10 16 (0.87%) SonarQube
10 16 (0.87%) Vite
11 12 (0.65%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.60%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.54%) webpack
14 9 (0.49%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.49%) JMeter
14 9 (0.49%) Selenium
15 8 (0.44%) CircleCI
16 7 (0.38%) ESLint
17 5 (0.27%) git-flow
General
1 286 (15.57%) Social Skills
2 195 (10.62%) Finance
3 76 (4.14%) Public Sector
4 68 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (2.83%) Banking
6 45 (2.45%) Law
7 44 (2.40%) Front Office
8 41 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (2.12%) Retail
10 30 (1.63%) Marketing
10 30 (1.63%) Tech for Good
11 26 (1.42%) Games
12 24 (1.31%) Aviation
12 24 (1.31%) Health Technology
12 24 (1.31%) Legal
12 24 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.20%) Investment Banking
14 21 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.49%) Automotive
15 9 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,032 (56.18%) Developer
2 726 (39.52%) Full-Stack Developer
3 440 (23.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 429 (23.35%) Senior
5 345 (18.78%) Software Engineer
6 261 (14.21%) Lead
7 195 (10.62%) Senior Developer
8 160 (8.71%) .NET Developer
9 150 (8.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 147 (8.00%) Java Developer
11 140 (7.62%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 137 (7.46%) Lead Developer
13 131 (7.13%) React Developer
14 123 (6.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 111 (6.04%) Software Developer
16 99 (5.39%) Senior Software Engineer
17 98 (5.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 85 (4.63%) C# Developer
19 81 (4.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 71 (3.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 749 (40.77%) React
2 434 (23.63%) .NET
3 363 (19.76%) Node.js
4 235 (12.79%) AngularJS
5 230 (12.52%) HTML
6 216 (11.76%) CSS
7 167 (9.09%) Vue
8 157 (8.55%) Spring
9 142 (7.73%) REST
10 139 (7.57%) .NET Core
10 139 (7.57%) RESTful
11 124 (6.75%) Spring Boot
12 97 (5.28%) Next.js
13 88 (4.79%) GraphQL
14 84 (4.57%) Kafka
15 81 (4.41%) ASP.NET
16 79 (4.30%) .NET Framework
17 61 (3.32%) Entity Framework
18 60 (3.27%) Laravel
19 55 (2.99%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 147 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 68 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
4 64 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 60 (3.27%) Mobile App
6 49 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (1.69%) IoT
8 30 (1.63%) Fixed Income
9 21 (1.14%) AI Agents
9 21 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (0.93%) Smart Energy
12 15 (0.82%) Management Information System
12 15 (0.82%) Private Cloud
13 13 (0.71%) Data Structures
13 13 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (0.65%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.60%) Low-Code
16 10 (0.54%) Blog
16 10 (0.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.58%) Linux
2 23 (1.25%) Android
3 21 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.33%) Unix
4 6 (0.33%) Windows
5 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 614 (33.42%) Software Engineering
2 488 (26.57%) Agile
3 418 (22.75%) CI/CD
4 313 (17.04%) DevOps
5 307 (16.71%) Microservices
6 304 (16.55%) AI
7 300 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
8 224 (12.19%) Mentoring
9 206 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 196 (10.67%) User Experience
11 143 (7.78%) Test Automation
12 130 (7.08%) Containerisation
13 123 (6.70%) Clean Code
14 121 (6.59%) Scrum
15 120 (6.53%) Computer Science
16 102 (5.55%) Front End Development
17 101 (5.50%) Technical Leadership
18 100 (5.44%) TDD
19 98 (5.33%) Collaborative Culture
20 91 (4.95%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 587 (31.95%) JavaScript
2 573 (31.19%) TypeScript
3 420 (22.86%) Java
4 388 (21.12%) C#
5 376 (20.47%) Python
6 267 (14.53%) SQL
7 75 (4.08%) PHP
8 49 (2.67%) Go
9 39 (2.12%) Ruby
10 26 (1.42%) Bash
11 21 (1.14%) Rust
12 19 (1.03%) C++
13 17 (0.93%) C
14 15 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.60%) Groovy
16 9 (0.49%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.38%) R
18 6 (0.33%) PowerShell
18 6 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 150 (8.17%) Security Cleared
2 119 (6.48%) Degree
3 104 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 81 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.18%) DV Cleared
6 16 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.49%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.16%) PhD
11 2 (0.11%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.054%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.054%) MBA
12 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (4.35%) QA
2 56 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.60%) GDPR
4 10 (0.54%) WCAG
5 9 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.33%) SLA
7 5 (0.27%) PERC
8 4 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.11%) ECSS
10 2 (0.11%) HL7
10 2 (0.11%) NCSC
10 2 (0.11%) NIST
11 1 (0.054%) GRC
11 1 (0.054%) ITGC
11 1 (0.054%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 218 (11.87%) Docker
2 15 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 175 (9.53%) Kubernetes
2 103 (5.61%) Terraform
3 29 (1.58%) Ansible
4 26 (1.42%) Grafana
5 15 (0.82%) Kibana
5 15 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.60%) Argo
6 11 (0.60%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.16%) Nagios
7 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.054%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.054%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.054%) Istio
9 1 (0.054%) logstash
9 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.054%) Podman
9 1 (0.054%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 109 (5.93%) Microsoft
2 29 (1.58%) Oracle
3 28 (1.52%) OpenAI
4 25 (1.36%) Adobe
5 22 (1.20%) Google
6 16 (0.87%) Foundry
7 15 (0.82%) Palantir
8 11 (0.60%) Fortinet
8 11 (0.60%) Palo Alto
9 10 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (0.54%) Dynatrace
9 10 (0.54%) Splunk
10 7 (0.38%) Pega
11 6 (0.33%) Databricks
11 6 (0.33%) VMware
12 5 (0.27%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.27%) Zoho
13 4 (0.22%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.22%) Facebook
13 4 (0.22%) WSO2