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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 52 65
Rank change year-on-year -59 +13 -7
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,217 2,828 2,136
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.25% 4.36% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 5.10% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 942 1,495 1,908
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £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 £100,000 £114,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 45,446 55,486 47,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.93% 85.56% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,712 28,853 36,694
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £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 £98,474 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 -57 1,091 £70,000 +7.69% 793
UK excluding London -90 632 £60,000 +9.09% 708
London -10 525 £90,000 +5.88% 236
Work from Home -46 462 £70,000 +12.00% 465
North of England -50 169 £60,000 +4.35% 168
South East -85 165 £60,000 - 227
Midlands -51 104 £60,000 +20.00% 121
North West -26 85 £65,000 +13.04% 89
South West -47 84 £60,000 +9.09% 79
West Midlands -25 61 £60,000 +6.67% 72
Yorkshire -49 60 £63,750 +15.91% 47
East of England -78 44 £60,000 -4.00% 65
East Midlands -50 43 £60,000 +41.18% 49
Scotland -42 42 £67,500 +22.73% 24
North East -7 24 £50,000 -16.67% 34
Wales -25 21 £60,000 +9.09% 23
Northern Ireland -22 6 £72,500 +16.00% 6
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 14 (1.15%) CMS
2 10 (0.82%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.66%) Headless CMS
5 7 (0.58%) Confluence
6 6 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.49%) IIS
6 6 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.41%) nginx
8 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.25%) Apache
9 3 (0.25%) Appian
9 3 (0.25%) Drupal
9 3 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.25%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) Camunda
10 2 (0.16%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.082%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.25%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.082%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 9 (0.74%) Shopify
2 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 497 (40.84%) AWS
2 430 (35.33%) Azure
3 130 (10.68%) SaaS
4 128 (10.52%) Serverless
5 112 (9.20%) GitHub
6 107 (8.79%) GCP
7 68 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (4.03%) Amazon S3
11 46 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (2.47%) PaaS
15 26 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
16 23 (1.89%) Azure App Service
16 23 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 23 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
16 23 (1.89%) Entra ID
17 21 (1.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.58%) HTTP
2 6 (0.49%) Firewall
3 4 (0.33%) WAN
4 3 (0.25%) Broadband
4 3 (0.25%) DNS
4 3 (0.25%) LAN
4 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.25%) VLAN
4 3 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.16%) AMQP
5 2 (0.16%) DHCP
6 1 (0.082%) Internet
6 1 (0.082%) NAS
6 1 (0.082%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.082%) Network Security
6 1 (0.082%) SNMP
6 1 (0.082%) SSL
6 1 (0.082%) VPN
6 1 (0.082%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (11.18%) SQL Server
2 115 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
3 93 (7.64%) NoSQL
4 90 (7.40%) MongoDB
5 88 (7.23%) Relational Database
6 65 (5.34%) MySQL
7 48 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (2.79%) RDBMS
9 23 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (1.89%) Redis
10 18 (1.48%) DynamoDB
11 17 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.99%) Power BI
13 10 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.58%) Big Data
14 7 (0.58%) NonStop SQL
15 6 (0.49%) Pinecone
16 5 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (0.41%) Oracle Database
16 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 163 (13.39%) Git
2 63 (5.18%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.62%) Cypress.io
4 40 (3.29%) JIRA
5 34 (2.79%) JUnit
6 24 (1.97%) JMeter
6 24 (1.97%) Mockito
7 20 (1.64%) GitLab
8 16 (1.31%) Visual Studio
9 15 (1.23%) webpack
10 12 (0.99%) Maven
10 12 (0.99%) Vite
11 9 (0.74%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.58%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.58%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.58%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.49%) Selenium
15 5 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 269 (22.10%) Social Skills
2 205 (16.84%) Finance
3 98 (8.05%) Law
4 67 (5.51%) Public Sector
5 61 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (4.11%) Marketing
7 48 (3.94%) Banking
8 45 (3.70%) Front Office
9 42 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
10 30 (2.47%) Investment Banking
11 28 (2.30%) Retail
12 27 (2.22%) Legal
13 19 (1.56%) Health Technology
14 12 (0.99%) Back Office
15 11 (0.90%) Games
15 11 (0.90%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.90%) Tech for Good
16 10 (0.82%) Advertising
16 10 (0.82%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 715 (58.75%) Developer
2 485 (39.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 265 (21.77%) Senior
4 243 (19.97%) Software Engineer
5 225 (18.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 172 (14.13%) Lead
7 148 (12.16%) Senior Developer
8 125 (10.27%) .NET Developer
9 103 (8.46%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 100 (8.22%) Java Developer
11 96 (7.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 93 (7.64%) Software Developer
13 75 (6.16%) Lead Developer
14 74 (6.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 72 (5.92%) React Developer
16 64 (5.26%) C# Developer
17 57 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
18 46 (3.78%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 46 (3.78%) Java Engineer
19 44 (3.62%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 627 (51.52%) React
2 382 (31.39%) .NET
3 264 (21.69%) Node.js
4 262 (21.53%) AngularJS
5 258 (21.20%) HTML
6 225 (18.49%) CSS
7 170 (13.97%) RESTful
8 158 (12.98%) Vue
9 147 (12.08%) Spring
10 142 (11.67%) .NET Core
11 133 (10.93%) REST
12 118 (9.70%) ASP.NET
13 112 (9.20%) .NET Framework
14 105 (8.63%) GraphQL
15 102 (8.38%) Spring Boot
16 86 (7.07%) Kafka
17 84 (6.90%) Entity Framework
18 75 (6.16%) Next.js
19 69 (5.67%) HTML5
20 59 (4.85%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 139 (11.42%) Cloud Native
2 76 (6.24%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.79%) Mobile App
4 34 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
6 28 (2.30%) Fixed Income
7 20 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.40%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.23%) IoT
11 14 (1.15%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.07%) Reference Data
13 12 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (0.99%) Hedge funds
13 12 (0.99%) Management Information System
14 11 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.15%) Linux
2 11 (0.90%) Android
2 11 (0.90%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.82%) Windows
4 9 (0.74%) Unix
5 7 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (41.82%) Agile
2 399 (32.79%) CI/CD
3 398 (32.70%) Software Engineering
4 268 (22.02%) DevOps
5 255 (20.95%) Microservices
6 247 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
7 227 (18.65%) AI
8 203 (16.68%) User Experience
9 180 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 168 (13.80%) Mentoring
11 136 (11.18%) Clean Code
12 123 (10.11%) TDD
13 122 (10.02%) Test Automation
14 121 (9.94%) SDLC
15 112 (9.20%) MVC
16 106 (8.71%) Containerisation
17 105 (8.63%) Scrum
18 103 (8.46%) Computer Science
19 99 (8.13%) Front End Development
20 96 (7.89%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 503 (41.33%) JavaScript
2 438 (35.99%) TypeScript
3 382 (31.39%) C#
4 298 (24.49%) Java
5 263 (21.61%) Python
6 261 (21.45%) SQL
7 49 (4.03%) Go
8 46 (3.78%) PHP
9 34 (2.79%) Rust
10 26 (2.14%) Ruby
11 20 (1.64%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.23%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.15%) Bash
13 14 (1.15%) C++
13 14 (1.15%) PowerShell
14 11 (0.90%) Bicep
15 10 (0.82%) C
16 8 (0.66%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.58%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 111 (9.12%) Security Cleared
2 100 (8.22%) Degree
3 62 (5.09%) SC Cleared
4 59 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 12 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 12 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.41%) MCP
10 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.25%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.16%) CISSP
12 2 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.24%) Accessibility
2 75 (6.16%) QA
3 15 (1.23%) GDPR
4 12 (0.99%) WCAG
5 5 (0.41%) PERC
6 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.25%) SLA
7 2 (0.16%) ECSS
7 2 (0.16%) NIST
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%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 190 (15.61%) Docker
2 17 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.25%) HDFS
6 1 (0.082%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 164 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 80 (6.57%) Terraform
3 24 (1.97%) Kibana
4 18 (1.48%) Ansible
5 11 (0.90%) Grafana
6 8 (0.66%) Argo
6 8 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.25%) 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
1 162 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.30%) Oracle
3 25 (2.05%) Dynatrace
3 25 (2.05%) Splunk
4 17 (1.40%) OpenAI
5 14 (1.15%) Google
6 11 (0.90%) Foundry
6 11 (0.90%) Palantir
6 11 (0.90%) VMware
7 10 (0.82%) Apple
8 9 (0.74%) DevExpress
9 8 (0.66%) Databricks
10 7 (0.58%) Facebook
10 7 (0.58%) YouTube
11 6 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.49%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.49%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.41%) Zoho
13 4 (0.33%) Pega
13 4 (0.33%) Red Hat