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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 91 38
Rank change year-on-year +42 -53 +32
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,779 1,456 5,396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.03% 3.29% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 3.55% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,282 902 4,215
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,438 £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 66,839 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45,659 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +51 2,527 £65,000 -3.70% 711
UK excluding London +44 1,805 £60,000 - 515
Work from Home +40 1,153 £60,000 -7.69% 438
London +25 814 £85,000 +6.25% 293
North of England +61 612 £65,000 - 154
South East +63 438 £60,000 - 147
North West +44 327 £65,000 - 85
Midlands +33 274 £55,000 - 54
South West +37 230 £60,000 -4.00% 59
Yorkshire +71 192 £70,000 +16.67% 46
East of England +39 143 £60,000 +20.00% 49
West Midlands +21 141 £55,000 -12.00% 19
East Midlands +15 132 £55,000 +15.79% 35
North East +14 93 £55,000 +15.79% 23
Scotland -37 54 £60,000 -11.11% 30
Wales -37 34 £60,000 -14.29% 18
Northern Ireland - 25 £70,000 - 10
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 24 (0.86%) CMS
2 19 (0.68%) Confluence
3 14 (0.50%) WordPress
4 10 (0.36%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.29%) Apache
6 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
8 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.18%) IIS
10 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.14%) nginx
10 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.072%) Liferay
12 2 (0.072%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.036%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.036%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.036%) Magento
3 1 (0.036%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.036%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 806 (29.00%) AWS
2 655 (23.57%) Azure
3 221 (7.95%) SaaS
4 200 (7.20%) Serverless
5 180 (6.48%) GitHub
6 164 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
7 156 (5.61%) GCP
8 123 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
9 101 (3.63%) Amazon S3
10 80 (2.88%) Azure AI
11 79 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
12 74 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
13 66 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
14 58 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 47 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
16 43 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 41 (1.48%) Figma
18 38 (1.37%) Power Platform
19 32 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
20 24 (0.86%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.63%) Broadband
2 31 (1.12%) Internet
3 6 (0.22%) Firewall
3 6 (0.22%) HTTP
4 5 (0.18%) DNS
4 5 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
6 3 (0.11%) MQTT
6 3 (0.11%) VPN
7 1 (0.036%) AMQP
7 1 (0.036%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.036%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.036%) RTP
7 1 (0.036%) RTSP
7 1 (0.036%) SCTP
7 1 (0.036%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.036%) SS7
7 1 (0.036%) VLAN
7 1 (0.036%) VSAN
7 1 (0.036%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (11.37%) MongoDB
2 224 (8.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 184 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
4 137 (4.93%) SQL Server
5 105 (3.78%) NoSQL
6 77 (2.77%) MySQL
7 74 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
8 66 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 54 (1.94%) DynamoDB
10 23 (0.83%) Power BI
11 22 (0.79%) Redis
12 15 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.40%) GIS
15 8 (0.29%) Pinecone
16 7 (0.25%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.22%) MariaDB
17 6 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 5 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
18 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 197 (7.09%) Git
2 84 (3.02%) Jenkins
3 57 (2.05%) Cypress.io
4 52 (1.87%) GitLab
5 39 (1.40%) JIRA
6 32 (1.15%) Maven
7 31 (1.12%) JUnit
8 26 (0.94%) Claude Code
9 18 (0.65%) SonarQube
10 17 (0.61%) Mockito
11 16 (0.58%) Vite
12 15 (0.54%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.43%) Eclipse
14 11 (0.40%) Subversion
15 10 (0.36%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.36%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.29%) Selenium
17 7 (0.25%) Cucumber
17 7 (0.25%) ESLint
18 6 (0.22%) Storybook
General
1 314 (11.30%) Finance
2 289 (10.40%) Social Skills
3 87 (3.13%) Public Sector
4 75 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (2.55%) Games
6 68 (2.45%) Marketing
7 56 (2.02%) Retail
8 55 (1.98%) Banking
9 50 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (1.48%) Advertising
11 38 (1.37%) Front Office
12 37 (1.33%) Law
13 35 (1.26%) Manufacturing
14 33 (1.19%) Tech for Good
15 29 (1.04%) Legal
16 21 (0.76%) Aviation
16 21 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.68%) Health Technology
18 15 (0.54%) Local Government
19 14 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,623 (58.40%) Developer
2 973 (35.01%) Full-Stack Developer
3 675 (24.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 604 (21.73%) Senior
5 513 (18.46%) Software Engineer
6 373 (13.42%) .NET Developer
7 372 (13.39%) Lead
8 283 (10.18%) Senior Developer
9 234 (8.42%) Software Developer
10 225 (8.10%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 197 (7.09%) Lead Developer
12 184 (6.62%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 179 (6.44%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 170 (6.12%) Java Developer
15 146 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
16 129 (4.64%) React Developer
17 116 (4.17%) Java Engineer
18 105 (3.78%) Python Developer
19 97 (3.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 90 (3.24%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 901 (32.42%) React
2 715 (25.73%) .NET
3 502 (18.06%) Node.js
4 331 (11.91%) AngularJS
5 323 (11.62%) .NET Core
6 320 (11.51%) CSS
7 311 (11.19%) HTML
8 288 (10.36%) Vue
9 269 (9.68%) ASP.NET
10 246 (8.85%) RESTful
11 242 (8.71%) ASP.NET Core
12 189 (6.80%) Spring
13 159 (5.72%) REST
14 146 (5.25%) Spring Boot
15 132 (4.75%) Entity Framework
16 129 (4.64%) Next.js
17 110 (3.96%) Blazor
18 88 (3.17%) ASP.NET Web API
19 75 (2.70%) .NET Framework
20 74 (2.66%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 224 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 131 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
3 84 (3.02%) Mobile App
4 77 (2.77%) Product Ownership
5 76 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 50 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 47 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 43 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (1.37%) Low-Code
10 37 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 34 (1.22%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.15%) e-Learning
12 32 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
13 29 (1.04%) IoT
14 26 (0.94%) Onboarding
15 19 (0.68%) Virtual Team
16 16 (0.58%) Data Structures
16 16 (0.58%) Management Information System
17 14 (0.50%) Algorithms
17 14 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 48 (1.73%) Linux
2 25 (0.90%) Android
3 14 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.29%) Unix
5 7 (0.25%) Windows
6 2 (0.072%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.036%) AIX
7 1 (0.036%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.036%) VMS
7 1 (0.036%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 862 (31.02%) Software Engineering
2 653 (23.50%) Agile
3 557 (20.04%) CI/CD
4 523 (18.82%) AI
5 448 (16.12%) DevOps
6 399 (14.36%) Microservices
7 338 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
8 287 (10.33%) Mentoring
9 273 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 228 (8.20%) Test Automation
11 204 (7.34%) Machine Learning
12 164 (5.90%) Containerisation
13 159 (5.72%) Scrum
14 157 (5.65%) Clean Code
15 154 (5.54%) Infrastructure as Code
15 154 (5.54%) User Experience
16 145 (5.22%) TDD
17 137 (4.93%) Web Development
18 132 (4.75%) Technical Leadership
19 130 (4.68%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 781 (28.10%) JavaScript
2 755 (27.17%) TypeScript
3 653 (23.50%) C#
4 539 (19.40%) Python
5 505 (18.17%) SQL
6 502 (18.06%) Java
7 100 (3.60%) PHP
8 84 (3.02%) Go
9 57 (2.05%) Ruby
10 51 (1.84%) C++
11 31 (1.12%) Bash
12 21 (0.76%) Groovy
13 16 (0.58%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.54%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.40%) Bicep
16 10 (0.36%) C
16 10 (0.36%) Rust
17 8 (0.29%) Perl
18 7 (0.25%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 184 (6.62%) Security Cleared
2 141 (5.07%) Degree
3 135 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 96 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.54%) DBS Check
8 14 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.18%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.18%) PhD
12 2 (0.072%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.036%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.036%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (3.49%) QA
2 45 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.50%) GDPR
3 14 (0.50%) WCAG
4 10 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.25%) GRC
6 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.11%) NCSC
7 3 (0.11%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.11%) SLA
8 2 (0.072%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (0.072%) ITGC
8 2 (0.072%) NIST
9 1 (0.036%) HL7
9 1 (0.036%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.036%) SOC 2
System Software
1 310 (11.16%) Docker
2 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.11%) Firmware
4 2 (0.072%) vSphere
5 1 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.036%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 221 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 118 (4.25%) Terraform
3 32 (1.15%) Grafana
4 21 (0.76%) Ansible
5 20 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.47%) Podman
7 9 (0.32%) HP Fortify
8 8 (0.29%) Kibana
9 6 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.14%) logstash
11 3 (0.11%) Argo
12 2 (0.072%) Nagios
13 1 (0.036%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.036%) Graylog
13 1 (0.036%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.036%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 341 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 52 (1.87%) Google
3 35 (1.26%) Adobe
4 30 (1.08%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.08%) Oracle
5 25 (0.90%) Facebook
6 22 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 19 (0.68%) Foundry
8 15 (0.54%) Palantir
9 10 (0.36%) Dynatrace
9 10 (0.36%) Splunk
10 9 (0.32%) Apple
10 9 (0.32%) YouTube
11 8 (0.29%) Sony
11 8 (0.29%) Yahoo!
12 7 (0.25%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.25%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.22%) Databricks
13 6 (0.22%) Pega
14 5 (0.18%) WooCommerce