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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 95 40
Rank change year-on-year +49 -55 +27
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,130 1,548 5,111
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.21% 3.22% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 3.55% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,611 969 3,894
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +14.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,500 £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 71,870 43,651 85,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.67% 90.86% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 49,673 24,244 60,243
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 7 July 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 7 July 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 +56 2,843 £65,000 -7.14% 762
UK excluding London +60 2,138 £60,000 - 578
Work from Home +44 1,425 £60,000 -9.23% 568
London +17 838 £85,000 - 288
North of England +58 703 £65,000 +4.00% 151
South East +91 522 £60,000 - 167
North West +39 377 £65,000 - 85
Midlands +42 299 £55,000 -8.33% 73
South West +44 286 £60,000 - 64
Yorkshire +79 214 £70,000 +16.67% 40
East of England +52 178 £60,000 +20.00% 63
East Midlands +29 149 £55,000 +15.79% 38
West Midlands +22 149 £55,000 -12.00% 35
North East +21 112 £52,000 +8.33% 27
Scotland -26 76 £55,000 -18.52% 36
Wales -27 55 £60,000 -4.00% 12
Northern Ireland -30 24 £70,000 +16.67% 16
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 29 (0.93%) CMS
2 22 (0.70%) Confluence
3 14 (0.45%) WordPress
4 11 (0.35%) Apache
4 11 (0.35%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.32%) ColdFusion
5 10 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.16%) IIS
9 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.13%) nginx
11 3 (0.096%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.096%) Kentico
11 3 (0.096%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.064%) Elementor
4 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Shopify
2 2 (0.064%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.032%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.032%) Magento
3 1 (0.032%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 942 (30.10%) Azure
2 935 (29.87%) AWS
3 282 (9.01%) GitHub
4 251 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
5 234 (7.48%) SaaS
6 220 (7.03%) Serverless
7 185 (5.91%) GCP
8 166 (5.30%) Azure AI
9 165 (5.27%) GitHub Copilot
10 134 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
11 108 (3.45%) Amazon S3
12 82 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 79 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
14 71 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
15 56 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
16 52 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 40 (1.28%) Power Platform
18 35 (1.12%) Figma
19 33 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
19 33 (1.05%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.11%) Broadband
2 58 (1.85%) Internet
3 8 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
4 7 (0.22%) Firewall
4 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.16%) DNS
5 5 (0.16%) HTTP
5 5 (0.16%) MQTT
6 3 (0.096%) LAN
6 3 (0.096%) VPN
6 3 (0.096%) WAN
7 2 (0.064%) AMQP
7 2 (0.064%) Network Security
7 2 (0.064%) VoIP
8 1 (0.032%) Multicast
8 1 (0.032%) RTSP
8 1 (0.032%) SCTP
8 1 (0.032%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.032%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.032%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 540 (17.25%) MongoDB
2 465 (14.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 201 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
4 159 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
5 154 (4.92%) SQL Server
6 109 (3.48%) NoSQL
7 98 (3.13%) MySQL
8 78 (2.49%) Relational Database
9 64 (2.04%) DynamoDB
10 39 (1.25%) Redis
11 24 (0.77%) Power BI
12 18 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.35%) GIS
13 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.32%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
15 9 (0.29%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.22%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 218 (6.96%) Git
2 102 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 65 (2.08%) GitLab
4 57 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 45 (1.44%) JIRA
6 39 (1.25%) JUnit
7 37 (1.18%) Claude Code
8 33 (1.05%) Maven
9 22 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 21 (0.67%) Eclipse
11 20 (0.64%) Subversion
12 17 (0.54%) Vite
13 15 (0.48%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.42%) Mockito
15 11 (0.35%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.29%) Cucumber
17 8 (0.26%) Spock
17 8 (0.26%) Storybook
17 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
18 7 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 383 (12.24%) Finance
2 298 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 104 (3.32%) Public Sector
4 93 (2.97%) Games
4 93 (2.97%) Marketing
5 80 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (2.40%) Advertising
7 72 (2.30%) Retail
8 57 (1.82%) Banking
9 55 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.25%) Front Office
11 37 (1.18%) Law
12 34 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.05%) Legal
14 28 (0.89%) Tech for Good
15 19 (0.61%) Automotive
16 17 (0.54%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.51%) Aerospace
17 16 (0.51%) Aviation
18 15 (0.48%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,919 (61.31%) Developer
2 1,013 (32.36%) Full-Stack Developer
3 685 (21.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 615 (19.65%) .NET Developer
5 606 (19.36%) Senior
6 540 (17.25%) Software Engineer
7 412 (13.16%) Lead
8 273 (8.72%) Senior Developer
9 256 (8.18%) Software Developer
10 229 (7.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 204 (6.52%) Lead Developer
12 182 (5.81%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 172 (5.50%) Java Developer
14 166 (5.30%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 148 (4.73%) Senior Software Engineer
16 117 (3.74%) Java Engineer
17 108 (3.45%) React Developer
18 102 (3.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 100 (3.19%) Python Developer
20 90 (2.88%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,050 (33.55%) React
2 963 (30.77%) .NET
3 625 (19.97%) Node.js
4 556 (17.76%) .NET Core
5 537 (17.16%) ASP.NET
6 501 (16.01%) ASP.NET Core
7 438 (13.99%) AngularJS
8 416 (13.29%) CSS
9 404 (12.91%) HTML
10 389 (12.43%) Vue
11 342 (10.93%) RESTful
12 222 (7.09%) Entity Framework
13 215 (6.87%) Blazor
14 198 (6.33%) Spring
15 183 (5.85%) ASP.NET Web API
16 176 (5.62%) REST
17 159 (5.08%) ML.NET
18 157 (5.02%) Spring Boot
19 145 (4.63%) Next.js
20 121 (3.87%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 277 (8.85%) Cloud Native
2 171 (5.46%) Greenfield Project
3 94 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
4 91 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 76 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 53 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 46 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.21%) Low-Code
11 37 (1.18%) Fixed Income
12 33 (1.05%) e-Learning
13 32 (1.02%) Video\Live Streaming
14 29 (0.93%) IoT
14 29 (0.93%) Onboarding
15 23 (0.73%) Social Media
16 21 (0.67%) Digital TV
17 20 (0.64%) Virtual Team
18 18 (0.58%) BBC
18 18 (0.58%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 54 (1.73%) Linux
2 28 (0.89%) Android
3 12 (0.38%) Windows
4 10 (0.32%) Unix
5 8 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.096%) AIX
6 3 (0.096%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.096%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.064%) VMS
7 2 (0.064%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.032%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (29.36%) Software Engineering
2 899 (28.72%) Agile
3 715 (22.84%) CI/CD
4 665 (21.25%) AI
5 565 (18.05%) DevOps
6 540 (17.25%) Microservices
7 358 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
8 303 (9.68%) Machine Learning
9 298 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 291 (9.30%) Mentoring
11 250 (7.99%) Test Automation
12 210 (6.71%) Scrum
13 194 (6.20%) TDD
14 182 (5.81%) Clean Code
15 176 (5.62%) Multithreading
16 175 (5.59%) Infrastructure as Code
17 174 (5.56%) Containerisation
18 155 (4.95%) Technical Leadership
19 154 (4.92%) Observability
20 150 (4.79%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 950 (30.35%) JavaScript
2 910 (29.07%) C#
3 905 (28.91%) TypeScript
4 760 (24.28%) SQL
5 591 (18.88%) Python
6 513 (16.39%) Java
7 104 (3.32%) PHP
8 94 (3.00%) Go
9 67 (2.14%) C++
9 67 (2.14%) Ruby
10 31 (0.99%) Bash
11 27 (0.86%) Groovy
12 18 (0.58%) Rust
13 15 (0.48%) Perl
14 13 (0.42%) Bicep
14 13 (0.42%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.38%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.26%) C
17 6 (0.19%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 209 (6.68%) Security Cleared
2 169 (5.40%) Degree
3 153 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 121 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 20 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 18 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 12 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.13%) PhD
14 3 (0.096%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.064%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 1 (0.032%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.032%) CCNA
16 1 (0.032%) CCNP
16 1 (0.032%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.19%) QA
2 60 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 27 (0.86%) WCAG
4 17 (0.54%) GDPR
5 15 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.22%) GRC
6 7 (0.22%) NCSC
7 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.096%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.096%) SLA
9 2 (0.064%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.064%) ITGC
9 2 (0.064%) NIST
10 1 (0.032%) HL7
10 1 (0.032%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.032%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.032%) SOC 2
System Software
1 433 (13.83%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.096%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.064%) vSphere
6 1 (0.032%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 327 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 146 (4.66%) Terraform
3 32 (1.02%) Grafana
4 22 (0.70%) Ansible
5 19 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.42%) Podman
7 12 (0.38%) HP Fortify
8 10 (0.32%) Kibana
9 6 (0.19%) logstash
10 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.13%) Argo
12 2 (0.064%) Nagios
13 1 (0.032%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.032%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.032%) Graylog
13 1 (0.032%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.032%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 611 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 80 (2.56%) Google
3 59 (1.88%) Facebook
4 33 (1.05%) OpenAI
5 29 (0.93%) Adobe
6 25 (0.80%) Oracle
7 22 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.67%) YouTube
9 19 (0.61%) Apple
9 19 (0.61%) Palantir
10 18 (0.58%) Sony
10 18 (0.58%) Yahoo!
11 17 (0.54%) Foundry
12 12 (0.38%) Splunk
13 11 (0.35%) AppDynamics
14 10 (0.32%) Databricks
14 10 (0.32%) Sitecore
15 9 (0.29%) OneLogin
16 8 (0.26%) Dynatrace
17 6 (0.19%) Palo Alto