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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 93 42
Rank change year-on-year +19 -51 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,280 1,324 4,933
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.60% 3.16% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 3.40% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,850 1,028 3,900
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year +8.33% +8.75% -4.05%

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 66,065 38,941 81,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.85% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,765 22,745 59,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +24 2,065 £70,000 +6.87% 832
UK excluding London +19 1,355 £65,000 +8.33% 597
Work from Home +27 871 £70,000 +7.69% 433
London +25 750 £85,000 +6.25% 337
North of England +40 413 £70,000 +21.74% 165
South East -7 329 £60,000 - 160
Midlands +18 238 £55,000 +4.76% 67
North West +30 206 £70,000 +14.29% 86
South West +11 201 £60,000 -4.00% 84
Yorkshire +28 152 £75,000 +42.86% 52
West Midlands +17 123 £55,000 -4.35% 28
East Midlands -4 114 £55,000 +15.79% 39
East of England +15 109 £70,000 +27.27% 63
North East 0 55 £60,000 +17.07% 27
Scotland -36 30 £60,000 -11.11% 31
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 16
Wales -35 15 £51,250 -26.79% 16
Channel Islands - 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 15 (0.66%) CMS
2 14 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (0.53%) Confluence
4 9 (0.39%) ColdFusion
4 9 (0.39%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.35%) Apache
5 8 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.31%) WordPress
7 6 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.18%) Appian
9 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.18%) nginx
10 3 (0.13%) IIS
10 3 (0.13%) Liferay
11 2 (0.088%) CICS
11 2 (0.088%) Drupal
11 2 (0.088%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.088%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.044%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.044%) Magento
2 1 (0.044%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 685 (30.04%) AWS
2 447 (19.61%) Azure
3 219 (9.61%) SaaS
4 195 (8.55%) Serverless
5 163 (7.15%) GCP
6 127 (5.57%) GitHub
7 117 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
8 100 (4.39%) Amazon S3
9 82 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
11 59 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
12 51 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (1.97%) Figma
14 42 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (1.14%) Entra ID
17 24 (1.05%) Power Platform
18 23 (1.01%) PaaS
19 21 (0.92%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.84%) Broadband
2 10 (0.44%) HTTP
3 5 (0.22%) DNS
3 5 (0.22%) Firewall
4 4 (0.18%) Internet
5 3 (0.13%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.13%) VPN
5 3 (0.13%) WAN
6 2 (0.088%) AMQP
6 2 (0.088%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.088%) LAN
6 2 (0.088%) VLAN
7 1 (0.044%) MQTT
7 1 (0.044%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.044%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.044%) SSL
7 1 (0.044%) TCAP
7 1 (0.044%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.044%) WebEx
7 1 (0.044%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (5.61%) MongoDB
3 123 (5.39%) NoSQL
4 122 (5.35%) SQL Server
5 64 (2.81%) MySQL
6 50 (2.19%) Relational Database
7 49 (2.15%) DynamoDB
8 37 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (0.92%) Redis
10 18 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (0.70%) Power BI
12 14 (0.61%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.35%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.35%) DB2
16 6 (0.26%) GIS
16 6 (0.26%) MariaDB
17 5 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
18 4 (0.18%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 181 (7.94%) Git
2 93 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 64 (2.81%) Cypress.io
4 41 (1.80%) GitLab
5 36 (1.58%) JIRA
6 27 (1.18%) Maven
7 23 (1.01%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.83%) CircleCI
9 18 (0.79%) JUnit
10 15 (0.66%) Vite
11 14 (0.61%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.53%) Claude Code
12 12 (0.53%) Mockito
13 11 (0.48%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.48%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.35%) webpack
15 7 (0.31%) ESLint
15 7 (0.31%) NUnit
15 7 (0.31%) Selenium
16 4 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 278 (12.19%) Social Skills
2 239 (10.48%) Finance
3 73 (3.20%) Public Sector
4 69 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (2.28%) Banking
5 52 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (1.89%) Retail
7 39 (1.71%) Front Office
8 38 (1.67%) Law
9 37 (1.62%) Marketing
10 32 (1.40%) Tech for Good
11 30 (1.32%) Games
12 28 (1.23%) Aviation
13 23 (1.01%) Manufacturing
14 21 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (0.88%) Health Technology
16 18 (0.79%) Investment Banking
16 18 (0.79%) Legal
17 16 (0.70%) Advertising
18 12 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,309 (57.41%) Developer
2 922 (40.44%) Full-Stack Developer
3 560 (24.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 522 (22.89%) Senior
5 426 (18.68%) Software Engineer
6 335 (14.69%) Lead
7 250 (10.96%) Senior Developer
8 185 (8.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 183 (8.03%) Lead Developer
10 179 (7.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 173 (7.59%) .NET Developer
12 163 (7.15%) Software Developer
13 147 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 145 (6.36%) Java Developer
15 142 (6.23%) React Developer
16 121 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
17 99 (4.34%) Python Developer
18 92 (4.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 89 (3.90%) C# Developer
20 85 (3.73%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 827 (36.27%) React
2 462 (20.26%) .NET
3 444 (19.47%) Node.js
4 238 (10.44%) HTML
5 235 (10.31%) CSS
6 234 (10.26%) AngularJS
7 195 (8.55%) Vue
8 160 (7.02%) RESTful
9 159 (6.97%) Spring
10 150 (6.58%) .NET Core
11 139 (6.10%) REST
12 129 (5.66%) Spring Boot
13 118 (5.18%) Next.js
14 84 (3.68%) ASP.NET
15 79 (3.46%) GraphQL
16 73 (3.20%) .NET Framework
17 67 (2.94%) Laravel
18 65 (2.85%) React Native
19 64 (2.81%) Kafka
20 60 (2.63%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 169 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 95 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 77 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 64 (2.81%) Mobile App
5 56 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
6 47 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.49%) IoT
8 33 (1.45%) Fixed Income
9 26 (1.14%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (0.88%) e-Learning
11 20 (0.88%) Smart Energy
12 18 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (0.70%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.70%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.66%) Onboarding
15 14 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (0.57%) Blog
16 13 (0.57%) Podcast
17 11 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.27%) Linux
2 24 (1.05%) Android
3 21 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.22%) Unix
5 4 (0.18%) Windows
6 1 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.044%) VMS
6 1 (0.044%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.044%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (31.71%) Software Engineering
2 507 (22.24%) Agile
3 443 (19.43%) CI/CD
4 356 (15.61%) DevOps
5 354 (15.53%) AI
6 316 (13.86%) Microservices
7 309 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
8 245 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 235 (10.31%) Mentoring
10 191 (8.38%) Test Automation
11 171 (7.50%) User Experience
12 150 (6.58%) Containerisation
13 143 (6.27%) Scrum
14 142 (6.23%) Clean Code
15 129 (5.66%) Web Development
16 118 (5.18%) Computer Science
16 118 (5.18%) Technical Leadership
17 112 (4.91%) Infrastructure as Code
18 106 (4.65%) Machine Learning
19 102 (4.47%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 669 (29.34%) TypeScript
2 667 (29.25%) JavaScript
3 460 (20.18%) Python
4 448 (19.65%) Java
5 407 (17.85%) C#
6 309 (13.55%) SQL
7 95 (4.17%) PHP
8 57 (2.50%) Go
9 51 (2.24%) Ruby
10 30 (1.32%) Bash
11 22 (0.96%) C++
12 17 (0.75%) C
13 16 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.66%) Groovy
15 13 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.48%) Bicep
17 9 (0.39%) Rust
18 6 (0.26%) R
18 6 (0.26%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 165 (7.24%) Security Cleared
2 122 (5.35%) Degree
3 119 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 80 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.58%) DV Cleared
6 19 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 10 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.18%) PhD
12 2 (0.088%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.044%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.044%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.044%) MBA
13 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (4.61%) QA
2 48 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.48%) GDPR
4 10 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.31%) GRC
6 6 (0.26%) SLA
6 6 (0.26%) WCAG
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.13%) PERC
9 2 (0.088%) ECSS
9 2 (0.088%) HL7
9 2 (0.088%) ITGC
9 2 (0.088%) NCSC
9 2 (0.088%) NIST
10 1 (0.044%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.044%) SOC 2
System Software
1 237 (10.39%) Docker
2 9 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.044%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 166 (7.28%) Kubernetes
2 116 (5.09%) Terraform
3 33 (1.45%) Grafana
4 27 (1.18%) Ansible
5 19 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.61%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.57%) Podman
8 10 (0.44%) Argo
9 9 (0.39%) Kibana
10 7 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.18%) logstash
12 3 (0.13%) Nagios
13 1 (0.044%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.044%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.044%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 140 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 33 (1.45%) Google
3 28 (1.23%) Adobe
4 27 (1.18%) OpenAI
4 27 (1.18%) Oracle
5 11 (0.48%) Foundry
6 10 (0.44%) Palantir
6 10 (0.44%) Salesforce
7 7 (0.31%) Dynatrace
7 7 (0.31%) Fortinet
7 7 (0.31%) Palo Alto
7 7 (0.31%) Peregrine
8 6 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (0.26%) Databricks
8 6 (0.26%) Pega
9 5 (0.22%) Facebook
9 5 (0.22%) Zoho
10 4 (0.18%) DevExpress
10 4 (0.18%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.18%) Splunk