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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 101 46
Rank change year-on-year +52 -55 +26
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,248 1,491 3,827
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.11% 3.01% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 3.36% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,670 916 2,636
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 76,763 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.58% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,880 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +58 2,944 £65,000 -7.14% 1,322
UK excluding London +72 2,226 £60,000 - 686
Work from Home +49 1,430 £60,000 -11.11% 631
London +10 859 £85,000 - 740
North of England +71 727 £65,000 +8.33% 201
South East +100 546 £60,000 - 169
North West +42 398 £65,000 - 120
South West +65 309 £60,000 - 86
Midlands +37 306 £55,000 -8.33% 93
Yorkshire +72 210 £70,000 +16.67% 61
East of England +55 183 £60,000 +33.33% 68
West Midlands +28 167 £60,000 -5.88% 47
East Midlands +27 138 £55,000 +15.79% 46
North East +20 119 £52,000 +19.54% 20
Scotland -18 87 £55,000 -18.52% 42
Wales -28 54 £60,000 - 15
Northern Ireland -61 19 £70,000 +16.67% 17
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 25 (0.77%) CMS
1 25 (0.77%) Confluence
2 15 (0.46%) WordPress
3 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
4 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (0.28%) Apache
4 9 (0.28%) ColdFusion
4 9 (0.28%) IIS
4 9 (0.28%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.092%) DNN
9 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.092%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
9 3 (0.092%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.062%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.031%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.031%) Magento
3 1 (0.031%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 957 (29.46%) Azure
2 945 (29.09%) AWS
3 317 (9.76%) GitHub
4 251 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
5 244 (7.51%) SaaS
6 205 (6.31%) Serverless
7 191 (5.88%) GCP
8 182 (5.60%) GitHub Copilot
9 166 (5.11%) Azure AI
10 125 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
11 105 (3.23%) Amazon S3
12 85 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 77 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
15 67 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
16 57 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
17 53 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
18 41 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
19 36 (1.11%) Power Platform
20 32 (0.99%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 58 (1.79%) Internet
2 51 (1.57%) Broadband
3 12 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.34%) Firewall
5 9 (0.28%) DNS
6 8 (0.25%) HTTP
7 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.15%) MQTT
9 3 (0.092%) DHCP
9 3 (0.092%) LAN
9 3 (0.092%) VoIP
9 3 (0.092%) WAN
10 2 (0.062%) AMQP
10 2 (0.062%) Network Security
10 2 (0.062%) VPN
11 1 (0.031%) Multicast
11 1 (0.031%) SCTP
11 1 (0.031%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.031%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 534 (16.44%) MongoDB
2 463 (14.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 227 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
4 179 (5.51%) SQL Server
5 158 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
6 109 (3.36%) NoSQL
7 95 (2.92%) MySQL
8 84 (2.59%) Relational Database
9 68 (2.09%) DynamoDB
10 55 (1.69%) Redis
11 27 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.68%) Power BI
13 14 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.37%) GIS
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
17 8 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
18 6 (0.18%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 246 (7.57%) Git
2 108 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 78 (2.40%) GitLab
4 59 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 58 (1.79%) JUnit
6 47 (1.45%) Claude Code
7 46 (1.42%) JIRA
8 35 (1.08%) Maven
9 27 (0.83%) Eclipse
10 26 (0.80%) Subversion
11 22 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.52%) Mockito
12 17 (0.52%) Vite
13 14 (0.43%) Selenium
14 13 (0.40%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.37%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.37%) Spock
16 10 (0.31%) NUnit
16 10 (0.31%) Storybook
17 8 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 407 (12.53%) Finance
2 319 (9.82%) Social Skills
3 129 (3.97%) Public Sector
4 105 (3.23%) Marketing
5 90 (2.77%) Games
6 73 (2.25%) Advertising
6 73 (2.25%) Retail
7 70 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
8 69 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 62 (1.91%) Banking
10 44 (1.35%) Law
11 40 (1.23%) Front Office
12 35 (1.08%) Legal
12 35 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 28 (0.86%) Tech for Good
14 26 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 17 (0.52%) Aerospace
15 17 (0.52%) Automotive
16 16 (0.49%) Legal Technology
17 14 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,947 (59.94%) Developer
2 1,044 (32.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 770 (23.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 639 (19.67%) Senior
5 611 (18.81%) .NET Developer
6 559 (17.21%) Software Engineer
7 420 (12.93%) Lead
8 279 (8.59%) Senior Developer
9 278 (8.56%) Software Developer
10 252 (7.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 210 (6.47%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 198 (6.10%) Lead Developer
13 167 (5.14%) Java Developer
14 166 (5.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 159 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
16 123 (3.79%) Java Engineer
17 99 (3.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 96 (2.96%) Python Developer
19 95 (2.92%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
19 95 (2.92%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,057 (32.54%) React
2 982 (30.23%) .NET
3 635 (19.55%) Node.js
4 553 (17.03%) .NET Core
4 553 (17.03%) ASP.NET
5 510 (15.70%) ASP.NET Core
6 449 (13.82%) AngularJS
7 425 (13.08%) CSS
8 409 (12.59%) HTML
9 382 (11.76%) Vue
10 358 (11.02%) RESTful
11 232 (7.14%) Entity Framework
12 220 (6.77%) Blazor
13 213 (6.56%) Spring
14 211 (6.50%) REST
15 186 (5.73%) ASP.NET Web API
16 170 (5.23%) Spring Boot
17 163 (5.02%) Next.js
18 156 (4.80%) ML.NET
19 136 (4.19%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 317 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 167 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
3 113 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 86 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 74 (2.28%) Mobile App
7 72 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 70 (2.16%) AI Agents
9 53 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.14%) Fixed Income
11 36 (1.11%) Low-Code
12 35 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
13 33 (1.02%) Onboarding
14 31 (0.95%) e-Learning
15 28 (0.86%) IoT
16 26 (0.80%) Virtual Team
17 21 (0.65%) Social Media
18 20 (0.62%) Digital TV
19 19 (0.58%) Algorithms
20 17 (0.52%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 59 (1.82%) Linux
2 24 (0.74%) Android
3 16 (0.49%) Windows
4 10 (0.31%) Unix
5 8 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.092%) AIX
8 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.092%) VMS
9 2 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.031%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 960 (29.56%) Software Engineering
2 936 (28.82%) Agile
3 784 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 723 (22.26%) AI
5 580 (17.86%) Microservices
6 571 (17.58%) DevOps
7 341 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
8 307 (9.45%) Machine Learning
9 305 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 280 (8.62%) Mentoring
11 273 (8.41%) Test Automation
12 222 (6.83%) Scrum
13 197 (6.07%) TDD
14 196 (6.03%) Clean Code
15 190 (5.85%) Infrastructure as Code
16 187 (5.76%) Observability
17 179 (5.51%) Containerisation
18 178 (5.48%) Multithreading
19 171 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
20 162 (4.99%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 1,000 (30.79%) JavaScript
2 931 (28.66%) C#
3 930 (28.63%) TypeScript
4 762 (23.46%) SQL
5 625 (19.24%) Python
6 531 (16.35%) Java
7 99 (3.05%) Go
8 97 (2.99%) PHP
9 87 (2.68%) Ruby
10 71 (2.19%) C++
11 31 (0.95%) Bash
12 26 (0.80%) Groovy
13 24 (0.74%) Kotlin
14 21 (0.65%) Perl
15 17 (0.52%) Rust
16 15 (0.46%) Bicep
17 14 (0.43%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.22%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.18%) C
20 5 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 225 (6.93%) Security Cleared
2 182 (5.60%) Degree
3 164 (5.05%) SC Cleared
4 128 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 23 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.12%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.12%) PhD
14 3 (0.092%) OCP
14 3 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.062%) ICAEW
15 2 (0.062%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.031%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.17%) QA
2 70 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 31 (0.95%) WCAG
4 22 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 20 (0.62%) GDPR
6 8 (0.25%) NCSC
7 7 (0.22%) GRC
8 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.092%) NIST
9 3 (0.092%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.092%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.062%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.031%) HL7
11 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.031%) ITGC
11 1 (0.031%) SLA
11 1 (0.031%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 470 (14.47%) Docker
2 5 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.12%) Firmware
4 2 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.062%) vSphere
5 1 (0.031%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 363 (11.18%) Kubernetes
2 156 (4.80%) Terraform
3 31 (0.95%) Grafana
4 21 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.62%) Ansible
6 12 (0.37%) Podman
7 10 (0.31%) HP Fortify
7 10 (0.31%) Kibana
8 6 (0.18%) logstash
9 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.062%) Argo
11 1 (0.031%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.031%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.031%) Graylog
11 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.031%) Nagios
11 1 (0.031%) Packer
11 1 (0.031%) Puppet
11 1 (0.031%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 623 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 83 (2.56%) Google
3 59 (1.82%) Facebook
4 40 (1.23%) OpenAI
5 30 (0.92%) Oracle
6 26 (0.80%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.71%) YouTube
8 19 (0.58%) Splunk
9 18 (0.55%) Apple
10 17 (0.52%) Foundry
10 17 (0.52%) Palantir
10 17 (0.52%) Sony
10 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
11 15 (0.46%) Adobe
11 15 (0.46%) AppDynamics
12 13 (0.40%) Databricks
13 10 (0.31%) Dynatrace
13 10 (0.31%) OneLogin
13 10 (0.31%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.18%) Fortinet