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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 107 44
Rank change year-on-year +56 -63 +33
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,267 1,375 3,585
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.86% 2.79% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 3.14% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,688 813 2,131
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £49,441
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +64 2,972 £65,000 -7.14% 2,960
UK excluding London +78 2,274 £60,000 - 1,409
Work from Home +42 1,334 £60,000 -7.69% 1,287
London +13 844 £85,000 - 1,758
North of England +65 759 £65,000 +8.33% 436
South East +101 557 £60,000 - 255
North West +45 428 £65,000 - 271
South West +65 326 £60,000 - 181
Midlands +47 301 £55,000 -8.33% 171
Yorkshire +79 211 £70,000 +16.67% 113
East of England +54 170 £60,000 +33.33% 142
West Midlands +36 169 £60,000 -4.00% 91
East Midlands +21 132 £55,000 +15.79% 80
North East +10 120 £51,000 +12.09% 55
Scotland -11 99 £60,000 -7.69% 151
Wales -37 58 £63,750 +6.25% 21
Northern Ireland -69 9 £90,000 +50.00% 56
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

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 27 (0.83%) CMS
2 26 (0.80%) Confluence
3 17 (0.52%) WordPress
4 10 (0.31%) Apache
4 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.28%) IIS
6 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.21%) ColdFusion
7 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.15%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) nginx
11 3 (0.092%) DNN
11 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.092%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.092%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.061%) Elementor
2 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.031%) Magento
3 1 (0.031%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 911 (27.88%) AWS
1 911 (27.88%) Azure
2 310 (9.49%) GitHub
3 244 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
4 234 (7.16%) SaaS
5 202 (6.18%) Serverless
6 180 (5.51%) GCP
6 180 (5.51%) GitHub Copilot
7 158 (4.84%) Azure AI
8 136 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
9 101 (3.09%) Amazon S3
10 87 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
11 77 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
12 76 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 63 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
14 59 (1.81%) Anthropic Claude
15 58 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
16 53 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
17 33 (1.01%) AWS Step Functions
18 32 (0.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.93%) Internet
2 39 (1.19%) Broadband
3 17 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.40%) DNS
5 11 (0.34%) Firewall
5 11 (0.34%) HTTP
6 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
7 5 (0.15%) MQTT
7 5 (0.15%) VoIP
8 3 (0.092%) DHCP
9 2 (0.061%) AMQP
9 2 (0.061%) LAN
9 2 (0.061%) Network Security
9 2 (0.061%) VPN
9 2 (0.061%) WAN
10 1 (0.031%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.031%) Multicast
10 1 (0.031%) SCTP
10 1 (0.031%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 507 (15.52%) MongoDB
2 448 (13.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 219 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
4 182 (5.57%) SQL Server
5 159 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
6 104 (3.18%) NoSQL
7 92 (2.82%) MySQL
8 87 (2.66%) Relational Database
9 69 (2.11%) DynamoDB
10 62 (1.90%) Redis
11 28 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (0.61%) Power BI
13 17 (0.52%) Spark SQL
14 13 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.31%) GIS
16 10 (0.31%) Pinecone
17 9 (0.28%) Chroma
17 9 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 242 (7.41%) Git
2 103 (3.15%) Jenkins
3 93 (2.85%) GitLab
4 61 (1.87%) Cypress.io
4 61 (1.87%) JUnit
5 47 (1.44%) Claude Code
6 40 (1.22%) JIRA
7 38 (1.16%) Maven
8 31 (0.95%) Subversion
9 29 (0.89%) Eclipse
10 24 (0.73%) SonarQube
11 20 (0.61%) Vite
12 16 (0.49%) Mockito
13 15 (0.46%) Selenium
14 14 (0.43%) Spock
14 14 (0.43%) Storybook
15 11 (0.34%) NUnit
16 9 (0.28%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.28%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 396 (12.12%) Finance
2 303 (9.27%) Social Skills
3 184 (5.63%) Public Sector
4 98 (3.00%) Marketing
5 81 (2.48%) Games
6 75 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (2.11%) Advertising
7 69 (2.11%) Retail
8 65 (1.99%) Banking
9 63 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 36 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 35 (1.07%) Manufacturing
12 32 (0.98%) Law
13 28 (0.86%) Legal
14 24 (0.73%) Tech for Good
15 20 (0.61%) Aerospace
16 17 (0.52%) Automotive
17 15 (0.46%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (0.37%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,856 (56.81%) Developer
2 1,029 (31.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 831 (25.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 655 (20.05%) Senior
5 578 (17.69%) .NET Developer
6 532 (16.28%) Software Engineer
7 427 (13.07%) Lead
8 280 (8.57%) Software Developer
9 275 (8.42%) Senior Developer
10 251 (7.68%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 238 (7.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 176 (5.39%) Lead Developer
13 162 (4.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 159 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
15 150 (4.59%) Java Developer
16 133 (4.07%) Java Engineer
17 111 (3.40%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 98 (3.00%) Python Engineer
19 96 (2.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 84 (2.57%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,000 (30.61%) React
2 960 (29.38%) .NET
3 588 (18.00%) Node.js
4 538 (16.47%) ASP.NET
5 534 (16.35%) .NET Core
6 500 (15.30%) ASP.NET Core
7 426 (13.04%) AngularJS
8 409 (12.52%) CSS
9 389 (11.91%) HTML
10 359 (10.99%) RESTful
11 358 (10.96%) Vue
12 226 (6.92%) Entity Framework
13 220 (6.73%) REST
14 211 (6.46%) Blazor
15 206 (6.31%) Spring
16 181 (5.54%) ASP.NET Web API
17 168 (5.14%) Next.js
18 166 (5.08%) Spring Boot
19 158 (4.84%) Terraform
20 149 (4.56%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 300 (9.18%) Cloud Native
2 145 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 125 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
4 94 (2.88%) AI Agents
5 85 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 76 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 76 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 69 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 45 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (1.13%) e-Learning
10 29 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
11 28 (0.86%) IoT
11 28 (0.86%) Low-Code
12 24 (0.73%) Onboarding
13 22 (0.67%) Virtual Team
14 19 (0.58%) Digital TV
14 19 (0.58%) Social Media
15 17 (0.52%) BBC
15 17 (0.52%) iPhone
16 15 (0.46%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 60 (1.84%) Linux
2 24 (0.73%) Android
3 15 (0.46%) Windows
4 14 (0.43%) Unix
5 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.15%) VMS
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.092%) AIX
9 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.031%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (28.01%) Software Engineering
2 903 (27.64%) Agile
3 802 (24.55%) CI/CD
4 741 (22.68%) AI
5 576 (17.63%) Microservices
6 529 (16.19%) DevOps
7 349 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
8 291 (8.91%) Machine Learning
9 289 (8.85%) Mentoring
10 279 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 273 (8.36%) Test Automation
12 200 (6.12%) Scrum
13 194 (5.94%) Clean Code
14 190 (5.82%) Observability
15 186 (5.69%) TDD
16 178 (5.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 177 (5.42%) LLM
18 174 (5.33%) Front End Development
19 173 (5.30%) Multithreading
20 172 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 983 (30.09%) JavaScript
2 931 (28.50%) C#
3 904 (27.67%) TypeScript
4 753 (23.05%) SQL
5 588 (18.00%) Python
6 551 (16.87%) Java
7 104 (3.18%) Ruby
8 95 (2.91%) C++
9 88 (2.69%) PHP
10 76 (2.33%) Go
11 71 (2.17%) Kotlin
12 33 (1.01%) Bash
13 30 (0.92%) Groovy
14 26 (0.80%) Perl
15 19 (0.58%) Rust
16 12 (0.37%) Bicep
16 12 (0.37%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.21%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.18%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 233 (7.13%) Security Cleared
2 189 (5.79%) Degree
3 161 (4.93%) SC Cleared
4 126 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 24 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.21%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.18%) PhD
14 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.092%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.092%) ICAEW
15 3 (0.092%) OCP
15 3 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (2.82%) QA
2 67 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.92%) WCAG
5 19 (0.58%) GDPR
6 10 (0.31%) NCSC
7 7 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.15%) NIST
8 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.12%) GRC
10 2 (0.061%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.061%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.061%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.061%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.031%) ITGC
11 1 (0.031%) SLA
System Software
1 459 (14.05%) Docker
2 4 (0.12%) Firmware
3 3 (0.092%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.031%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 355 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.64%) Ansible
2 21 (0.64%) Grafana
3 13 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.37%) HP Fortify
5 10 (0.31%) Kibana
6 7 (0.21%) logstash
6 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.18%) Podman
8 3 (0.092%) Argo
9 2 (0.061%) Bugsnag
9 2 (0.061%) Packer
9 2 (0.061%) Puppet
10 1 (0.031%) Consul
10 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.031%) Graylog
10 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 593 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.75%) Google
3 57 (1.74%) Facebook
4 49 (1.50%) OpenAI
5 39 (1.19%) Oracle
6 25 (0.77%) YouTube
7 23 (0.70%) Splunk
8 21 (0.64%) Salesforce
9 17 (0.52%) AppDynamics
9 17 (0.52%) Apple
9 17 (0.52%) Sony
9 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
10 14 (0.43%) Adobe
10 14 (0.43%) Mistral
11 13 (0.40%) Foundry
11 13 (0.40%) Red Hat
12 12 (0.37%) Palantir
13 11 (0.34%) Dynatrace
14 10 (0.31%) Databricks
14 10 (0.31%) OneLogin