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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 101 46
Rank change year-on-year +53 -55 +24
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,170 1,525 4,127
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.14% 3.09% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.45% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,624 950 2,979
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 74,528 44,262 72,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.78% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51,427 25,101 49,118
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +57 2,876 £65,000 -7.14% 806
UK excluding London +62 2,168 £60,000 - 488
Work from Home +46 1,419 £60,000 -9.23% 309
London +10 844 £85,000 - 416
North of England +68 716 £65,000 +8.33% 140
South East +89 533 £60,000 +4.35% 133
North West +41 388 £65,000 - 83
Midlands +40 295 £55,000 -8.33% 67
South West +51 294 £60,000 - 54
Yorkshire +80 213 £69,653 +16.09% 40
East of England +52 178 £60,000 +33.33% 44
West Midlands +30 154 £60,000 -4.00% 38
East Midlands +15 140 £55,000 +15.79% 29
North East +19 115 £52,000 +19.54% 18
Scotland -18 83 £55,000 -18.52% 32
Wales -33 54 £60,000 -4.00% 10
Northern Ireland -50 20 £70,000 +16.67% 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 31 (0.98%) CMS
2 24 (0.76%) Confluence
3 15 (0.47%) WordPress
4 11 (0.35%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.32%) Apache
5 10 (0.32%) ColdFusion
5 10 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) IIS
9 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.13%) nginx
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.095%) DNN
12 3 (0.095%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.063%) Elementor
3 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.032%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.032%) Magento
3 1 (0.032%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.032%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 942 (29.72%) Azure
2 934 (29.46%) AWS
3 303 (9.56%) GitHub
4 246 (7.76%) Azure DevOps
5 236 (7.44%) SaaS
6 210 (6.62%) Serverless
7 183 (5.77%) GCP
8 176 (5.55%) GitHub Copilot
9 161 (5.08%) Azure AI
10 127 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
11 105 (3.31%) Amazon S3
12 85 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 77 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
15 63 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
16 56 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
17 42 (1.32%) Anthropic Claude
18 39 (1.23%) Power Platform
19 36 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
20 34 (1.07%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.86%) Broadband
2 57 (1.80%) Internet
3 10 (0.32%) Firewall
3 10 (0.32%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.25%) DNS
5 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.19%) HTTP
7 5 (0.16%) MQTT
8 3 (0.095%) DHCP
8 3 (0.095%) LAN
8 3 (0.095%) WAN
9 2 (0.063%) AMQP
9 2 (0.063%) Network Security
9 2 (0.063%) VoIP
9 2 (0.063%) VPN
10 1 (0.032%) Multicast
10 1 (0.032%) SCTP
10 1 (0.032%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.032%) VoLTE
10 1 (0.032%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 534 (16.85%) MongoDB
2 460 (14.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 223 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
4 171 (5.39%) SQL Server
5 158 (4.98%) Elasticsearch
6 112 (3.53%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.22%) MySQL
8 85 (2.68%) Relational Database
9 69 (2.18%) DynamoDB
10 52 (1.64%) Redis
11 23 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
11 23 (0.73%) Power BI
12 14 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
13 11 (0.35%) GIS
13 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
14 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
14 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.22%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 238 (7.51%) Git
2 107 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 73 (2.30%) GitLab
4 55 (1.74%) Cypress.io
5 47 (1.48%) JIRA
5 47 (1.48%) JUnit
6 41 (1.29%) Claude Code
7 33 (1.04%) Maven
8 24 (0.76%) Eclipse
9 23 (0.73%) Subversion
10 22 (0.69%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.54%) Vite
12 14 (0.44%) Mockito
13 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
14 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.32%) Selenium
15 10 (0.32%) Spock
15 10 (0.32%) Storybook
16 8 (0.25%) Cucumber
17 7 (0.22%) NUnit
General
1 393 (12.40%) Finance
2 300 (9.46%) Social Skills
3 111 (3.50%) Public Sector
4 100 (3.15%) Marketing
5 91 (2.87%) Games
6 75 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (2.33%) Advertising
8 71 (2.24%) Retail
9 59 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 58 (1.83%) Banking
11 41 (1.29%) Front Office
12 39 (1.23%) Law
13 33 (1.04%) Legal
14 32 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 25 (0.79%) Tech for Good
16 21 (0.66%) Financial Institution
17 18 (0.57%) Automotive
18 17 (0.54%) Aerospace
19 15 (0.47%) Legal Technology
20 14 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,923 (60.66%) Developer
2 1,021 (32.21%) Full-Stack Developer
3 730 (23.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 625 (19.72%) Senior
5 617 (19.46%) .NET Developer
6 548 (17.29%) Software Engineer
7 410 (12.93%) Lead
8 279 (8.80%) Senior Developer
9 265 (8.36%) Software Developer
10 246 (7.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 199 (6.28%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 193 (6.09%) Lead Developer
13 166 (5.24%) Java Developer
14 164 (5.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 153 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
16 118 (3.72%) Java Engineer
17 101 (3.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 98 (3.09%) Python Developer
19 96 (3.03%) React Developer
20 91 (2.87%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,044 (32.93%) React
2 974 (30.73%) .NET
3 629 (19.84%) Node.js
4 549 (17.32%) ASP.NET
5 546 (17.22%) .NET Core
6 508 (16.03%) ASP.NET Core
7 440 (13.88%) AngularJS
8 423 (13.34%) CSS
9 408 (12.87%) HTML
10 386 (12.18%) Vue
11 345 (10.88%) RESTful
12 232 (7.32%) Entity Framework
13 217 (6.85%) Blazor
14 202 (6.37%) Spring
15 197 (6.21%) REST
16 185 (5.84%) ASP.NET Web API
17 163 (5.14%) Spring Boot
18 154 (4.86%) ML.NET
18 154 (4.86%) Next.js
19 136 (4.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 295 (9.31%) Cloud Native
2 168 (5.30%) Greenfield Project
3 111 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 80 (2.52%) Mobile App
5 78 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 74 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 65 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 59 (1.86%) AI Agents
9 50 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.20%) Fixed Income
10 38 (1.20%) Low-Code
11 33 (1.04%) Onboarding
11 33 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
12 29 (0.91%) e-Learning
13 27 (0.85%) IoT
14 23 (0.73%) Virtual Team
15 22 (0.69%) Social Media
16 20 (0.63%) Digital TV
17 19 (0.60%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.54%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 58 (1.83%) Linux
2 23 (0.73%) Android
3 15 (0.47%) Windows
4 9 (0.28%) Unix
5 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.13%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.095%) AIX
7 3 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.063%) VMS
9 1 (0.032%) Debian
9 1 (0.032%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 938 (29.59%) Software Engineering
2 920 (29.02%) Agile
3 753 (23.75%) CI/CD
4 693 (21.86%) AI
5 564 (17.79%) Microservices
6 562 (17.73%) DevOps
7 347 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
8 301 (9.50%) Machine Learning
9 298 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 286 (9.02%) Mentoring
11 264 (8.33%) Test Automation
12 221 (6.97%) Scrum
13 197 (6.21%) TDD
14 187 (5.90%) Clean Code
15 181 (5.71%) Infrastructure as Code
16 178 (5.62%) Observability
17 177 (5.58%) Containerisation
18 174 (5.49%) Multithreading
19 160 (5.05%) Technical Leadership
20 152 (4.79%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 971 (30.63%) JavaScript
2 916 (28.90%) C#
3 915 (28.86%) TypeScript
4 754 (23.79%) SQL
5 611 (19.27%) Python
6 513 (16.18%) Java
7 101 (3.19%) PHP
8 96 (3.03%) Go
9 77 (2.43%) Ruby
10 68 (2.15%) C++
11 31 (0.98%) Bash
12 27 (0.85%) Groovy
13 18 (0.57%) Perl
13 18 (0.57%) Rust
14 15 (0.47%) Bicep
15 13 (0.41%) Kotlin
15 13 (0.41%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.19%) C
16 6 (0.19%) PowerShell
17 5 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 214 (6.75%) Security Cleared
2 168 (5.30%) Degree
3 156 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 121 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 22 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.13%) PhD
15 3 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.032%) CCNA
16 1 (0.032%) CCNP
16 1 (0.032%) Cisco Certification
16 1 (0.032%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.22%) QA
2 67 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.95%) WCAG
4 21 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 20 (0.63%) GDPR
6 7 (0.22%) GRC
6 7 (0.22%) NCSC
7 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.095%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.095%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.063%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.032%) HL7
10 1 (0.032%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.032%) ITGC
10 1 (0.032%) NIST
10 1 (0.032%) SLA
10 1 (0.032%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 456 (14.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 2 (0.063%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.063%) vSphere
5 1 (0.032%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 346 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 146 (4.61%) Terraform
3 30 (0.95%) Grafana
4 20 (0.63%) Ansible
4 20 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.41%) Podman
6 12 (0.38%) HP Fortify
7 10 (0.32%) Kibana
8 6 (0.19%) logstash
9 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.063%) Argo
11 1 (0.032%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.032%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.032%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.032%) Graylog
11 1 (0.032%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.032%) Nagios
11 1 (0.032%) Packer
11 1 (0.032%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 621 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 83 (2.62%) Google
3 58 (1.83%) Facebook
4 35 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 27 (0.85%) Oracle
6 25 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.69%) Adobe
7 22 (0.69%) YouTube
8 18 (0.57%) Apple
9 17 (0.54%) Palantir
9 17 (0.54%) Sony
9 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.50%) Splunk
11 15 (0.47%) Foundry
12 13 (0.41%) AppDynamics
12 13 (0.41%) Databricks
13 10 (0.32%) Sitecore
14 9 (0.28%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.28%) OneLogin
15 6 (0.19%) Palo Alto