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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 91 36
Rank change year-on-year +45 -55 +34
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,966 1,463 5,612
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.15% 3.25% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 3.52% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,459 904 4,357
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £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 £80,125 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £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 68,936 41,540 89,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 92.39% 81.68%
Number of salaries quoted 47,487 22,330 63,275
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,824 £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 £92,000
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 21 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 21 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 +55 2,700 £65,000 -3.70% 603
UK excluding London +52 1,969 £60,000 - 534
Work from Home +43 1,279 £60,000 -7.69% 328
London +23 845 £85,000 +3.03% 232
North of England +65 656 £65,000 - 132
South East +79 475 £60,000 - 154
North West +39 351 £65,000 - 73
Midlands +47 291 £55,000 -8.33% 64
South West +39 255 £60,000 -4.00% 50
Yorkshire +77 204 £70,000 +12.00% 39
East of England +47 163 £60,000 +20.00% 51
East Midlands +22 148 £55,000 +15.79% 38
West Midlands +17 142 £55,000 -12.00% 26
North East +15 101 £55,000 +26.44% 20
Scotland -36 66 £60,000 -11.11% 32
Wales -35 42 £60,000 -14.29% 17
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 39
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 26 (0.88%) CMS
2 20 (0.67%) Confluence
3 12 (0.40%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.40%) WordPress
4 10 (0.34%) Apache
4 10 (0.34%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.13%) nginx
10 3 (0.10%) IIS
10 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.10%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.067%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Shopify
2 2 (0.067%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.034%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.034%) Magento
3 1 (0.034%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.034%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.034%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 870 (29.33%) AWS
2 794 (26.77%) Azure
3 227 (7.65%) GitHub
4 226 (7.62%) SaaS
5 211 (7.11%) Serverless
6 205 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
7 167 (5.63%) GCP
8 131 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
9 119 (4.01%) Azure AI
10 116 (3.91%) GitHub Copilot
11 106 (3.57%) Amazon S3
12 77 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
13 73 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 70 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
15 50 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
16 47 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
17 42 (1.42%) Figma
17 42 (1.42%) Power Platform
18 34 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
19 29 (0.98%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.46%) Broadband
2 44 (1.48%) Internet
3 7 (0.24%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.20%) Firewall
4 6 (0.20%) HTTP
4 6 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.17%) DNS
6 4 (0.13%) MQTT
7 3 (0.10%) VPN
8 2 (0.067%) AMQP
8 2 (0.067%) LAN
8 2 (0.067%) VoIP
8 2 (0.067%) WAN
9 1 (0.034%) DHCP
9 1 (0.034%) FTP
9 1 (0.034%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.034%) Network Security
9 1 (0.034%) SCTP
9 1 (0.034%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.034%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 418 (14.09%) MongoDB
2 334 (11.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 191 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
4 137 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 114 (3.84%) NoSQL
6 113 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
7 85 (2.87%) MySQL
8 74 (2.49%) Relational Database
9 58 (1.96%) DynamoDB
10 28 (0.94%) Redis
11 24 (0.81%) Power BI
12 17 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.37%) GIS
14 11 (0.37%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.30%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.24%) MariaDB
16 7 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
17 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 211 (7.11%) Git
2 96 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 61 (2.06%) GitLab
4 58 (1.96%) Cypress.io
5 42 (1.42%) JIRA
6 37 (1.25%) JUnit
7 34 (1.15%) Maven
8 33 (1.11%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.71%) SonarQube
10 19 (0.64%) Vite
11 18 (0.61%) Eclipse
12 17 (0.57%) Mockito
12 17 (0.57%) Subversion
13 15 (0.51%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.27%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.27%) Storybook
15 8 (0.27%) TeamCity
16 7 (0.24%) Selenium
17 6 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 346 (11.67%) Finance
2 299 (10.08%) Social Skills
3 93 (3.14%) Public Sector
4 83 (2.80%) Games
5 81 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (2.73%) Marketing
6 63 (2.12%) Retail
7 56 (1.89%) Advertising
7 56 (1.89%) Banking
8 49 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.31%) Front Office
10 38 (1.28%) Manufacturing
11 36 (1.21%) Law
12 34 (1.15%) Legal
13 30 (1.01%) Tech for Good
14 21 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (0.64%) Aviation
16 18 (0.61%) Health Technology
17 17 (0.57%) Automotive
18 15 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,774 (59.81%) Developer
2 998 (33.65%) Full-Stack Developer
3 682 (22.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 612 (20.63%) Senior
5 529 (17.84%) Software Engineer
6 484 (16.32%) .NET Developer
7 387 (13.05%) Lead
8 279 (9.41%) Senior Developer
9 246 (8.29%) Software Developer
10 223 (7.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 204 (6.88%) Lead Developer
12 179 (6.04%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 178 (6.00%) Java Developer
14 176 (5.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 148 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
16 127 (4.28%) React Developer
17 116 (3.91%) Java Engineer
18 103 (3.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 103 (3.47%) Python Developer
19 92 (3.10%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 978 (32.97%) React
2 831 (28.02%) .NET
3 553 (18.64%) Node.js
4 438 (14.77%) .NET Core
5 391 (13.18%) ASP.NET
6 383 (12.91%) AngularJS
7 364 (12.27%) CSS
8 361 (12.17%) ASP.NET Core
9 355 (11.97%) HTML
10 331 (11.16%) Vue
11 299 (10.08%) RESTful
12 190 (6.41%) Spring
13 174 (5.87%) Entity Framework
14 166 (5.60%) REST
15 157 (5.29%) Blazor
16 150 (5.06%) Spring Boot
17 141 (4.75%) Next.js
18 132 (4.45%) ASP.NET Web API
19 112 (3.78%) ML.NET
20 96 (3.24%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 250 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 150 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
3 91 (3.07%) Mobile App
4 86 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 76 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 58 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 55 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 51 (1.72%) AI Agents
9 39 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.28%) Low-Code
11 35 (1.18%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
13 31 (1.05%) e-Learning
14 29 (0.98%) IoT
15 27 (0.91%) Onboarding
16 19 (0.64%) Virtual Team
17 18 (0.61%) Social Media
18 17 (0.57%) Data Structures
19 16 (0.54%) Algorithms
20 15 (0.51%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 54 (1.82%) Linux
2 28 (0.94%) Android
3 13 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.34%) Unix
4 10 (0.34%) Windows
5 3 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.034%) AIX
6 1 (0.034%) Debian
6 1 (0.034%) VMS
6 1 (0.034%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 905 (30.51%) Software Engineering
2 761 (25.66%) Agile
3 630 (21.24%) CI/CD
4 593 (19.99%) AI
5 507 (17.09%) DevOps
6 465 (15.68%) Microservices
7 356 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 292 (9.84%) Mentoring
9 289 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 248 (8.36%) Machine Learning
11 235 (7.92%) Test Automation
12 178 (6.00%) Containerisation
13 177 (5.97%) Scrum
14 167 (5.63%) Clean Code
15 164 (5.53%) Infrastructure as Code
16 162 (5.46%) TDD
17 159 (5.36%) User Experience
18 143 (4.82%) Computer Science
19 139 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
19 139 (4.69%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 851 (28.69%) JavaScript
2 839 (28.29%) TypeScript
3 772 (26.03%) C#
4 632 (21.31%) SQL
5 573 (19.32%) Python
6 506 (17.06%) Java
7 98 (3.30%) PHP
8 88 (2.97%) Go
9 64 (2.16%) Ruby
10 62 (2.09%) C++
11 32 (1.08%) Bash
12 24 (0.81%) Groovy
13 15 (0.51%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.51%) Rust
14 14 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.44%) Bicep
15 13 (0.44%) Perl
16 9 (0.30%) C
17 8 (0.27%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 195 (6.57%) Security Cleared
2 159 (5.36%) Degree
3 145 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 110 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 20 (0.67%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.17%) PhD
13 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.067%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 1 (0.034%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.034%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.37%) QA
2 53 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 20 (0.67%) WCAG
4 15 (0.51%) GDPR
5 11 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.24%) GRC
7 6 (0.20%) NCSC
8 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.10%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.10%) SLA
10 2 (0.067%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.067%) ITGC
10 2 (0.067%) NIST
11 1 (0.034%) HL7
11 1 (0.034%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.034%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.034%) SOC 2
System Software
1 370 (12.47%) Docker
2 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.10%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.067%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.067%) vSphere
6 1 (0.034%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 270 (9.10%) Kubernetes
2 133 (4.48%) Terraform
3 32 (1.08%) Grafana
4 24 (0.81%) Ansible
5 21 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.44%) Podman
7 10 (0.34%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.30%) Kibana
9 5 (0.17%) logstash
9 5 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.13%) Argo
11 2 (0.067%) Nagios
12 1 (0.034%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.034%) Graylog
12 1 (0.034%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.034%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 462 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 63 (2.12%) Google
3 42 (1.42%) Facebook
4 36 (1.21%) Adobe
5 35 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 29 (0.98%) Oracle
7 22 (0.74%) Salesforce
8 20 (0.67%) Foundry
9 19 (0.64%) Palantir
10 15 (0.51%) YouTube
11 14 (0.47%) Apple
12 13 (0.44%) Sony
12 13 (0.44%) Yahoo!
13 12 (0.40%) Splunk
14 9 (0.30%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.27%) Databricks
15 8 (0.27%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.27%) Sitecore
16 6 (0.20%) Pega
17 5 (0.17%) Fortinet