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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 50 68
Rank change year-on-year -65 +18 -11
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,225 2,954 2,137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.28% 4.40% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 5.18% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 936 1,572 1,915
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £98,750 £114,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.34% +2.40%

All Process and 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 45,560 57,007 47,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.92% 84.85% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 29,760 36,892
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.19%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -66 1,082 £70,000 +7.69% 924
UK excluding London -88 644 £60,000 +9.09% 773
London -21 522 £90,000 +5.88% 318
Work from Home -42 478 £67,500 +8.00% 488
North of England -48 172 £60,000 +4.35% 139
South East -84 163 £60,000 - 289
Midlands -73 96 £60,000 +20.00% 125
North West -28 92 £65,000 +13.04% 73
South West -50 79 £60,000 +9.09% 98
Scotland -32 58 £67,500 +22.73% 26
West Midlands -26 57 £60,000 +9.09% 74
Yorkshire -51 56 £61,250 +11.36% 47
East of England -76 46 £52,000 -20.00% 70
East Midlands -60 39 £62,500 +47.06% 51
Wales -26 25 £60,000 +9.09% 27
North East -6 24 £50,000 -14.89% 21
Northern Ireland -17 6 £72,500 +11.54% 3
Channel Islands +5 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 18 (1.47%) CMS
2 12 (0.98%) IIS
3 11 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.73%) Headless CMS
5 8 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.57%) Confluence
7 6 (0.49%) nginx
8 5 (0.41%) Apache
9 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.33%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.24%) Camunda
10 3 (0.24%) Drupal
10 3 (0.24%) WordPress
11 2 (0.16%) Appian
11 2 (0.16%) ColdFusion
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.082%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.24%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.082%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 12 (0.98%) Shopify
2 3 (0.24%) Magento
3 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 511 (41.71%) AWS
2 442 (36.08%) Azure
3 129 (10.53%) SaaS
4 126 (10.29%) Serverless
5 117 (9.55%) GitHub
6 108 (8.82%) GCP
7 72 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
10 47 (3.84%) Amazon S3
11 44 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
12 43 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (2.53%) PaaS
14 25 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
15 24 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (1.96%) Azure App Service
15 24 (1.96%) Power Platform
16 23 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 23 (1.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.49%) Firewall
1 6 (0.49%) HTTP
2 4 (0.33%) WAN
3 3 (0.24%) Broadband
3 3 (0.24%) DNS
3 3 (0.24%) LAN
3 3 (0.24%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.24%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.24%) VLAN
3 3 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.16%) AMQP
4 2 (0.16%) DHCP
5 1 (0.082%) FTP
5 1 (0.082%) Internet
5 1 (0.082%) NAS
5 1 (0.082%) Network Security
5 1 (0.082%) SAN
5 1 (0.082%) SNMP
5 1 (0.082%) SSL
5 1 (0.082%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 121 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (7.67%) MongoDB
3 94 (7.67%) NoSQL
4 89 (7.27%) Relational Database
5 77 (6.29%) MySQL
6 50 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 35 (2.86%) RDBMS
8 29 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (2.29%) Redis
10 18 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (1.47%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.06%) Power BI
12 11 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.82%) Big Data
14 8 (0.65%) NonStop SQL
14 8 (0.65%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (0.49%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 185 (15.10%) Git
2 59 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.76%) Cypress.io
4 45 (3.67%) JIRA
5 34 (2.78%) JUnit
6 25 (2.04%) Mockito
7 24 (1.96%) JMeter
8 21 (1.71%) GitLab
9 18 (1.47%) webpack
10 17 (1.39%) Visual Studio
11 15 (1.22%) Vite
12 14 (1.14%) Maven
13 13 (1.06%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.73%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.65%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.57%) CircleCI
16 7 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
17 5 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
17 5 (0.41%) Storybook
General
1 285 (23.27%) Social Skills
2 231 (18.86%) Finance
3 117 (9.55%) Law
4 84 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (5.39%) Public Sector
6 61 (4.98%) Banking
7 58 (4.73%) Marketing
8 47 (3.84%) Front Office
9 44 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
10 35 (2.86%) Investment Banking
11 31 (2.53%) Legal
12 29 (2.37%) Retail
13 18 (1.47%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.39%) Games
15 16 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.06%) Back Office
16 13 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.90%) Advertising
17 11 (0.90%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 721 (58.86%) Developer
2 486 (39.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 269 (21.96%) Senior
4 259 (21.14%) Software Engineer
5 222 (18.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 178 (14.53%) Lead
7 157 (12.82%) Senior Developer
8 125 (10.20%) .NET Developer
9 109 (8.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 104 (8.49%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 98 (8.00%) Java Developer
12 93 (7.59%) Software Developer
13 75 (6.12%) Lead Developer
14 73 (5.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 69 (5.63%) React Developer
16 63 (5.14%) C# Developer
17 59 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
18 57 (4.65%) Java Engineer
19 50 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
20 46 (3.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 627 (51.18%) React
2 398 (32.49%) .NET
3 279 (22.78%) AngularJS
3 279 (22.78%) HTML
4 250 (20.41%) Node.js
5 243 (19.84%) CSS
6 185 (15.10%) RESTful
7 177 (14.45%) Vue
8 152 (12.41%) Spring
9 148 (12.08%) .NET Core
10 140 (11.43%) REST
11 127 (10.37%) ASP.NET
12 117 (9.55%) .NET Framework
13 108 (8.82%) GraphQL
14 105 (8.57%) Spring Boot
15 90 (7.35%) Kafka
16 85 (6.94%) Entity Framework
17 79 (6.45%) HTML5
18 78 (6.37%) Next.js
19 65 (5.31%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 147 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 77 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.02%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.53%) Fixed Income
5 31 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (2.29%) Algorithms
7 27 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 20 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.39%) AI Agents
11 16 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.22%) Reference Data
13 14 (1.14%) Hedge funds
13 14 (1.14%) IoT
13 14 (1.14%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.22%) Linux
2 12 (0.98%) Android
2 12 (0.98%) Apple iOS
2 12 (0.98%) Unix
3 10 (0.82%) Windows
4 7 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (44.90%) Agile
2 427 (34.86%) CI/CD
3 414 (33.80%) Software Engineering
4 283 (23.10%) DevOps
5 262 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
6 254 (20.73%) Microservices
7 234 (19.10%) AI
8 206 (16.82%) User Experience
9 191 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 181 (14.78%) Mentoring
11 142 (11.59%) SDLC
12 139 (11.35%) Clean Code
13 130 (10.61%) TDD
14 126 (10.29%) Test Automation
15 122 (9.96%) MVC
16 115 (9.39%) Computer Science
17 111 (9.06%) Scrum
18 109 (8.90%) Containerisation
19 106 (8.65%) Front End Development
20 102 (8.33%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 523 (42.69%) JavaScript
2 445 (36.33%) TypeScript
3 396 (32.33%) C#
4 310 (25.31%) Java
5 284 (23.18%) SQL
6 267 (21.80%) Python
7 55 (4.49%) PHP
8 49 (4.00%) Go
9 37 (3.02%) Rust
10 25 (2.04%) Ruby
11 21 (1.71%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.31%) C++
12 16 (1.31%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.22%) PowerShell
14 14 (1.14%) Bash
15 11 (0.90%) Bicep
15 11 (0.90%) C
16 10 (0.82%) VB.NET
17 8 (0.65%) Groovy
17 8 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (9.39%) Degree
2 107 (8.73%) Security Cleared
3 68 (5.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (4.90%) SC Cleared
5 36 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.49%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.41%) MCP
11 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.16%) CISSP
14 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.37%) QA
2 74 (6.04%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.31%) GDPR
4 12 (0.98%) WCAG
5 5 (0.41%) PERC
6 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.16%) ECSS
7 2 (0.16%) NIST
7 2 (0.16%) SLA
7 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.082%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.082%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.082%) GRC
8 1 (0.082%) HL7
8 1 (0.082%) MiFID
System Software
1 197 (16.08%) Docker
2 17 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.33%) HDFS
6 2 (0.16%) Firmware
7 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 173 (14.12%) Kubernetes
2 91 (7.43%) Terraform
3 24 (1.96%) Kibana
4 16 (1.31%) Ansible
5 12 (0.98%) Grafana
6 8 (0.65%) Argo
6 8 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.24%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.16%) Istio
8 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.082%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.082%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.082%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.082%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.082%) linkerd
9 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.082%) Nagios
Vendors
1 178 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.86%) Oracle
3 28 (2.29%) Splunk
4 27 (2.20%) Dynatrace
5 16 (1.31%) Google
6 15 (1.22%) OpenAI
7 11 (0.90%) DevExpress
7 11 (0.90%) Foundry
7 11 (0.90%) Palantir
7 11 (0.90%) VMware
8 10 (0.82%) Apple
8 10 (0.82%) Databricks
9 7 (0.57%) Facebook
9 7 (0.57%) YouTube
10 6 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.49%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.49%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.41%) Rollbar
11 5 (0.41%) Zoho
12 4 (0.33%) Cloudera