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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 51 68
Rank change year-on-year -72 +17 -12
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,201 2,965 2,155
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.27% 4.42% 4.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 5.29% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 903 1,574 1,922
10th Percentile £42,500 £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 £92,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £98,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,409
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.50% +2.56%

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 45,394 56,021 48,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 83.52% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,423 29,005 37,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,128 £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 £97,500 £98,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Top 17 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 November 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 -69 1,055 £70,000 +7.69% 1,709
UK excluding London -93 629 £60,000 +9.09% 994
London -24 521 £90,000 +5.88% 836
Work from Home -46 461 £67,500 +8.00% 978
North of England -53 170 £60,000 +4.35% 245
South East -93 153 £60,000 - 300
North West -36 93 £65,000 +13.04% 147
Midlands -71 91 £60,000 +20.00% 167
South West -59 73 £60,000 +9.09% 115
Scotland -28 70 £67,500 +17.39% 34
West Midlands -35 56 £60,000 +9.09% 100
Yorkshire -55 52 £60,000 +9.09% 73
East of England -80 46 £50,000 -23.08% 90
East Midlands -61 35 £62,500 +47.06% 67
North East -23 25 £50,000 -16.67% 28
Wales -32 23 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Northern Ireland -23 5 £60,000 -7.69% 15

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 18 (1.50%) CMS
1 18 (1.50%) IIS
2 11 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 10 (0.83%) Confluence
4 9 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.75%) Headless CMS
5 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.50%) Apache
6 6 (0.50%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.42%) nginx
7 5 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.33%) Camunda
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.25%) Drupal
9 3 (0.25%) WordPress
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.083%) Appian
11 1 (0.083%) MetaMask
Applications
1 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.25%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.00%) Shopify
2 3 (0.25%) Magento
3 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 505 (42.05%) AWS
2 439 (36.55%) Azure
3 128 (10.66%) SaaS
4 123 (10.24%) GitHub
5 122 (10.16%) Serverless
6 106 (8.83%) GCP
7 69 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
9 47 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (3.75%) Amazon S3
11 43 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (2.41%) PaaS
14 26 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (2.16%) Azure Service Bus
15 24 (2.00%) Power Platform
16 23 (1.92%) Azure App Service
16 23 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (1.75%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.42%) Firewall
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
3 3 (0.25%) Broadband
3 3 (0.25%) WAN
4 2 (0.17%) DNS
4 2 (0.17%) Internet
4 2 (0.17%) LAN
4 2 (0.17%) MQTT
4 2 (0.17%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.17%) VLAN
4 2 (0.17%) VPN
4 2 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.083%) AMQP
5 1 (0.083%) NAS
5 1 (0.083%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.083%) Network Security
5 1 (0.083%) SAN
5 1 (0.083%) SSL
5 1 (0.083%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (12.74%) SQL Server
2 126 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (8.16%) MongoDB
4 94 (7.83%) NoSQL
5 90 (7.49%) Relational Database
6 78 (6.49%) MySQL
7 50 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (3.00%) RDBMS
9 30 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (2.25%) Redis
11 19 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (1.33%) DynamoDB
13 13 (1.08%) Big Data
14 12 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.00%) Power BI
15 9 (0.75%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.67%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
17 7 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
17 7 (0.58%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 179 (14.90%) Git
2 56 (4.66%) Jenkins
3 50 (4.16%) JIRA
4 41 (3.41%) Cypress.io
5 34 (2.83%) JUnit
6 25 (2.08%) Mockito
7 24 (2.00%) JMeter
8 20 (1.67%) GitLab
8 20 (1.67%) Visual Studio
9 18 (1.50%) Vite
10 17 (1.42%) webpack
11 14 (1.17%) TeamCity
12 12 (1.00%) Maven
13 11 (0.92%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.58%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.58%) Selenium
16 6 (0.50%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.50%) NUnit
General
1 288 (23.98%) Social Skills
2 249 (20.73%) Finance
3 136 (11.32%) Law
4 103 (8.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (6.00%) Banking
6 66 (5.50%) Marketing
7 65 (5.41%) Public Sector
8 51 (4.25%) Front Office
9 47 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
10 39 (3.25%) Investment Banking
11 33 (2.75%) Legal
12 28 (2.33%) Retail
13 18 (1.50%) Back Office
13 18 (1.50%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.42%) Games
15 16 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (1.25%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.08%) Advertising
18 10 (0.83%) Manufacturing
19 9 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 694 (57.79%) Developer
2 471 (39.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 275 (22.90%) Senior
3 275 (22.90%) Software Engineer
4 225 (18.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 170 (14.15%) Lead
6 159 (13.24%) Senior Developer
7 126 (10.49%) .NET Developer
8 116 (9.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 112 (9.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 99 (8.24%) Java Developer
11 93 (7.74%) Software Developer
12 75 (6.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 71 (5.91%) Lead Developer
14 70 (5.83%) Java Engineer
14 70 (5.83%) React Developer
15 62 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
16 60 (5.00%) C# Developer
17 56 (4.66%) Lead Software Engineer
18 55 (4.58%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 615 (51.21%) React
2 396 (32.97%) .NET
3 283 (23.56%) AngularJS
4 277 (23.06%) HTML
5 242 (20.15%) CSS
6 239 (19.90%) Node.js
7 182 (15.15%) RESTful
8 174 (14.49%) Vue
9 158 (13.16%) Spring
10 150 (12.49%) .NET Core
11 140 (11.66%) REST
12 129 (10.74%) ASP.NET
13 120 (9.99%) .NET Framework
14 110 (9.16%) Spring Boot
15 108 (8.99%) GraphQL
16 97 (8.08%) Kafka
17 85 (7.08%) Entity Framework
18 81 (6.74%) HTML5
19 74 (6.16%) Next.js
20 66 (5.50%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 148 (12.32%) Cloud Native
2 73 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.08%) Algorithms
5 35 (2.91%) Mobile App
6 34 (2.83%) Fixed Income
7 30 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.42%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.42%) Private Cloud
11 17 (1.42%) Reference Data
12 16 (1.33%) Hedge funds
13 15 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.17%) IoT
15 13 (1.08%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.08%) Management Information System
15 13 (1.08%) Virtual Team
16 12 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.33%) Linux
2 13 (1.08%) Unix
3 12 (1.00%) Windows
4 11 (0.92%) Android
4 11 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (46.96%) Agile
2 433 (36.05%) CI/CD
3 419 (34.89%) Software Engineering
4 271 (22.56%) DevOps
5 262 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
6 246 (20.48%) Microservices
7 235 (19.57%) AI
8 206 (17.15%) User Experience
9 195 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 180 (14.99%) Mentoring
11 155 (12.91%) SDLC
12 142 (11.82%) Clean Code
13 136 (11.32%) TDD
14 126 (10.49%) Test Automation
15 121 (10.07%) MVC
16 117 (9.74%) Computer Science
17 110 (9.16%) Containerisation
18 108 (8.99%) Machine Learning
19 106 (8.83%) Scrum
20 102 (8.49%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 515 (42.88%) JavaScript
2 430 (35.80%) TypeScript
3 394 (32.81%) C#
4 318 (26.48%) Java
5 294 (24.48%) SQL
6 255 (21.23%) Python
7 51 (4.25%) Go
7 51 (4.25%) PHP
8 39 (3.25%) Rust
9 25 (2.08%) Ruby
10 21 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.33%) C++
11 16 (1.33%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.25%) PowerShell
13 11 (0.92%) Bash
13 11 (0.92%) Bicep
14 10 (0.83%) VB.NET
15 8 (0.67%) C
15 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 114 (9.49%) Degree
2 105 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 69 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 33 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.42%) MCP
11 4 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.17%) CISSP
14 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.41%) QA
2 74 (6.16%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.33%) GDPR
4 12 (1.00%) WCAG
5 5 (0.42%) PERC
6 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.17%) ECSS
7 2 (0.17%) NIST
7 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.083%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.083%) GRC
8 1 (0.083%) HL7
8 1 (0.083%) MiFID
8 1 (0.083%) SLA
System Software
1 195 (16.24%) Docker
2 15 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.42%) HDFS
5 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.17%) Firmware
7 1 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 181 (15.07%) Kubernetes
2 92 (7.66%) Terraform
3 24 (2.00%) Kibana
4 15 (1.25%) Ansible
5 13 (1.08%) Grafana
6 9 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.67%) Argo
8 2 (0.17%) Istio
8 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.083%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.083%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.083%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.083%) linkerd
9 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.083%) Nagios
Vendors
1 185 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 38 (3.16%) Oracle
3 30 (2.50%) Splunk
4 28 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 16 (1.33%) Google
6 13 (1.08%) VMware
7 12 (1.00%) Databricks
7 12 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 11 (0.92%) DevExpress
8 11 (0.92%) Foundry
8 11 (0.92%) Palantir
9 9 (0.75%) Apple
10 7 (0.58%) Facebook
10 7 (0.58%) YouTube
11 6 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.50%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.50%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.50%) Rollbar
12 5 (0.42%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.42%) Zoho