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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 91 40
Rank change year-on-year +29 -51 +27
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,658 1,446 5,067
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.89% 3.28% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 3.52% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,173 954 3,990
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +9.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,875 £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 67,796 41,102 82,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.28% 84.85%
Number of salaries quoted 43,826 22,293 59,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 19 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Top 19 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 19 May 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 +39 2,409 £70,000 +6.06% 835
UK excluding London +33 1,669 £60,000 - 617
Work from Home +36 1,058 £65,000 - 484
London +35 816 £85,000 +6.25% 327
North of England +40 534 £67,500 +12.50% 191
South East +52 427 £60,000 - 165
North West +36 282 £65,000 - 105
Midlands +15 258 £55,000 +4.76% 73
South West +12 218 £60,000 -4.00% 70
Yorkshire +49 177 £75,000 +30.43% 58
East of England +43 138 £61,250 +22.50% 59
West Midlands +16 137 £60,000 - 28
East Midlands +2 120 £55,000 +15.79% 45
North East +10 75 £60,000 +14.29% 28
Scotland -40 50 £60,000 -6.98% 37
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 8
Wales -36 24 £56,250 -19.64% 20
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -
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 23 (0.87%) CMS
2 19 (0.71%) Confluence
3 13 (0.49%) WordPress
4 11 (0.41%) ColdFusion
5 10 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.30%) Apache
6 8 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.15%) IIS
11 3 (0.11%) Appian
11 3 (0.11%) Liferay
11 3 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.075%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.075%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.19%) Shopify
2 1 (0.038%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.038%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.038%) Magento
2 1 (0.038%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.038%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 758 (28.52%) AWS
2 566 (21.29%) Azure
3 230 (8.65%) SaaS
4 191 (7.19%) Serverless
5 163 (6.13%) GitHub
6 156 (5.87%) GCP
7 138 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
9 100 (3.76%) Amazon S3
10 73 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
11 61 (2.29%) Amazon SQS
12 55 (2.07%) GitHub Copilot
13 54 (2.03%) Azure AI
14 51 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 44 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
16 44 (1.66%) Figma
17 30 (1.13%) Power Platform
18 28 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
19 26 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.29%) Broadband
2 19 (0.71%) Internet
3 9 (0.34%) HTTP
4 6 (0.23%) DNS
4 6 (0.23%) Firewall
4 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.11%) VPN
6 2 (0.075%) DHCP
6 2 (0.075%) LAN
6 2 (0.075%) VLAN
6 2 (0.075%) WAN
7 1 (0.038%) AMQP
7 1 (0.038%) Multicast
7 1 (0.038%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.038%) TCAP
7 1 (0.038%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.038%) VSAN
7 1 (0.038%) WebEx
7 1 (0.038%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (9.22%) MongoDB
2 174 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
3 155 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 131 (4.93%) SQL Server
5 113 (4.25%) NoSQL
6 70 (2.63%) MySQL
7 58 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 53 (1.99%) DynamoDB
9 51 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (0.83%) Power BI
11 19 (0.71%) Redis
12 14 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.41%) GIS
14 11 (0.41%) Pinecone
15 8 (0.30%) DB2
16 6 (0.23%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.23%) MariaDB
17 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 4 (0.15%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 194 (7.30%) Git
2 101 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 64 (2.41%) Cypress.io
4 53 (1.99%) GitLab
5 38 (1.43%) JIRA
6 33 (1.24%) Maven
7 25 (0.94%) JUnit
8 23 (0.87%) SonarQube
9 18 (0.68%) Claude Code
10 17 (0.64%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.64%) Vite
11 15 (0.56%) Mockito
12 14 (0.53%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.53%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.41%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.34%) Selenium
15 7 (0.26%) ESLint
15 7 (0.26%) NUnit
16 6 (0.23%) webpack
17 5 (0.19%) Storybook
General
1 296 (11.14%) Finance
2 278 (10.46%) Social Skills
3 85 (3.20%) Public Sector
4 71 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (2.18%) Games
6 53 (1.99%) Banking
7 52 (1.96%) Retail
8 51 (1.92%) Marketing
9 46 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (1.43%) Front Office
11 36 (1.35%) Law
12 32 (1.20%) Tech for Good
13 29 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 26 (0.98%) Advertising
14 26 (0.98%) Aviation
15 24 (0.90%) Legal
16 21 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (0.75%) Health Technology
18 14 (0.53%) Investment Banking
19 13 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,544 (58.09%) Developer
2 996 (37.47%) Full-Stack Developer
3 649 (24.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 583 (21.93%) Senior
5 490 (18.43%) Software Engineer
6 383 (14.41%) Lead
7 297 (11.17%) .NET Developer
8 273 (10.27%) Senior Developer
9 217 (8.16%) Software Developer
10 213 (8.01%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 198 (7.45%) Lead Developer
12 185 (6.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 176 (6.62%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 154 (5.79%) Java Developer
15 136 (5.12%) Senior Software Engineer
16 135 (5.08%) React Developer
17 107 (4.03%) Python Developer
18 96 (3.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 89 (3.35%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
20 88 (3.31%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 872 (32.81%) React
2 631 (23.74%) .NET
3 492 (18.51%) Node.js
4 295 (11.10%) CSS
5 292 (10.99%) AngularJS
6 290 (10.91%) HTML
7 258 (9.71%) Vue
8 257 (9.67%) .NET Core
9 219 (8.24%) RESTful
10 200 (7.52%) ASP.NET
11 179 (6.73%) Spring
12 168 (6.32%) ASP.NET Core
13 146 (5.49%) Spring Boot
14 144 (5.42%) REST
15 130 (4.89%) Next.js
16 106 (3.99%) Entity Framework
17 81 (3.05%) Blazor
18 75 (2.82%) GraphQL
19 72 (2.71%) React Native
20 69 (2.60%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 195 (7.34%) Cloud Native
2 125 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
3 81 (3.05%) Mobile App
4 79 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 74 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 50 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 37 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 34 (1.28%) Fixed Income
10 32 (1.20%) Low-Code
11 30 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 29 (1.09%) IoT
13 24 (0.90%) e-Learning
14 22 (0.83%) Onboarding
14 22 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
15 18 (0.68%) Virtual Team
16 17 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 16 (0.60%) Data Structures
18 15 (0.56%) Smart Energy
19 13 (0.49%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 35 (1.32%) Linux
2 27 (1.02%) Android
3 18 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.23%) Windows
5 5 (0.19%) Unix
6 2 (0.075%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.038%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.038%) VMS
7 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (31.30%) Software Engineering
2 593 (22.31%) Agile
3 515 (19.38%) CI/CD
4 458 (17.23%) AI
5 426 (16.03%) DevOps
6 377 (14.18%) Microservices
7 323 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (10.16%) Mentoring
9 266 (10.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 219 (8.24%) Test Automation
11 168 (6.32%) Machine Learning
12 162 (6.09%) User Experience
13 161 (6.06%) Scrum
14 155 (5.83%) Clean Code
14 155 (5.83%) Containerisation
15 140 (5.27%) Web Development
16 138 (5.19%) Infrastructure as Code
17 129 (4.85%) Technical Leadership
18 126 (4.74%) TDD
19 121 (4.55%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 743 (27.95%) JavaScript
2 740 (27.84%) TypeScript
3 569 (21.41%) C#
4 514 (19.34%) Python
5 474 (17.83%) Java
6 427 (16.06%) SQL
7 103 (3.88%) PHP
8 68 (2.56%) Go
9 54 (2.03%) Ruby
10 37 (1.39%) C++
11 32 (1.20%) Bash
12 23 (0.87%) Groovy
13 16 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.56%) C
15 14 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.45%) Bicep
17 8 (0.30%) Rust
18 6 (0.23%) R
18 6 (0.23%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 179 (6.73%) Security Cleared
2 128 (4.82%) SC Cleared
3 127 (4.78%) Degree
4 85 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.19%) PhD
12 3 (0.11%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.038%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.038%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.038%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.038%) MBA
13 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (3.72%) QA
2 38 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.41%) GDPR
4 9 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.30%) WCAG
6 7 (0.26%) GRC
7 5 (0.19%) SLA
8 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.075%) ITGC
9 2 (0.075%) NCSC
9 2 (0.075%) NIST
10 1 (0.038%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.038%) HL7
10 1 (0.038%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.038%) SOC 2
System Software
1 290 (10.91%) Docker
2 7 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.075%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.075%) vSphere
6 1 (0.038%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 200 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 116 (4.36%) Terraform
3 33 (1.24%) Grafana
4 26 (0.98%) Ansible
5 20 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.53%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.49%) Podman
8 8 (0.30%) Kibana
9 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.23%) Argo
11 4 (0.15%) logstash
12 3 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.038%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.038%) Graylog
13 1 (0.038%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 257 (9.67%) Microsoft
2 47 (1.77%) Google
3 34 (1.28%) Adobe
3 34 (1.28%) OpenAI
4 28 (1.05%) Oracle
5 18 (0.68%) Foundry
6 16 (0.60%) Facebook
6 16 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 12 (0.45%) Palantir
8 10 (0.38%) Splunk
9 8 (0.30%) Apple
9 8 (0.30%) Dynatrace
10 7 (0.26%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.23%) Pega
11 6 (0.23%) Peregrine
11 6 (0.23%) Sony
11 6 (0.23%) WooCommerce
11 6 (0.23%) Yahoo!
11 6 (0.23%) YouTube
12 5 (0.19%) Databricks