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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 91 40
Rank change year-on-year +33 -51 +27
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,727 1,422 5,203
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.93% 3.28% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.52% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,241 906 4,067
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,046
% change year-on-year - +5.18% -0.79%

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 68,833 40,438 84,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.92% 93.25% 83.74%
Number of salaries quoted 44,981 21,310 60,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,200
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,871 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,610 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 30 May 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 30 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 +36 2,476 £67,500 +1.05% 503
UK excluding London +32 1,743 £60,000 - 467
Work from Home +33 1,099 £63,750 -1.92% 288
London +30 815 £85,000 +6.25% 139
North of England +43 582 £65,000 +8.33% 146
South East +68 427 £60,000 - 138
North West +33 312 £65,000 - 72
Midlands +22 269 £55,000 +4.76% 63
South West +24 221 £60,000 -4.00% 40
Yorkshire +64 185 £70,000 +21.74% 49
East of England +40 143 £60,000 +20.00% 38
West Midlands +9 141 £57,500 -4.17% 21
East Midlands +14 127 £55,000 +15.79% 42
North East +9 85 £55,000 +15.79% 25
Scotland -37 53 £60,000 -10.45% 25
Wales -33 28 £57,500 -17.86% 21
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 2
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 23 (0.84%) CMS
2 18 (0.66%) Confluence
3 14 (0.51%) WordPress
4 10 (0.37%) ColdFusion
5 8 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (0.29%) Apache
5 8 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.29%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (0.29%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (0.18%) IIS
8 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.11%) Liferay
9 3 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.073%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.22%) Shopify
2 2 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.037%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.037%) Magento
3 1 (0.037%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 783 (28.71%) AWS
2 617 (22.63%) Azure
3 230 (8.43%) SaaS
4 195 (7.15%) Serverless
5 173 (6.34%) GitHub
6 159 (5.83%) GCP
7 154 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
8 119 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
9 101 (3.70%) Amazon S3
10 77 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
11 65 (2.38%) Azure AI
11 65 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
12 64 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
13 54 (1.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 50 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
15 44 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 44 (1.61%) Figma
16 33 (1.21%) Power Platform
17 32 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
18 25 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.31%) Broadband
2 22 (0.81%) Internet
3 8 (0.29%) HTTP
4 6 (0.22%) Firewall
5 5 (0.18%) DNS
5 5 (0.18%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
6 3 (0.11%) VPN
7 2 (0.073%) MQTT
8 1 (0.037%) AMQP
8 1 (0.037%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.037%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.037%) RTP
8 1 (0.037%) RTSP
8 1 (0.037%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.037%) SS7
8 1 (0.037%) TCAP
8 1 (0.037%) VLAN
8 1 (0.037%) VSAN
8 1 (0.037%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (9.97%) MongoDB
2 187 (6.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 183 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
4 140 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 114 (4.18%) NoSQL
6 77 (2.82%) MySQL
7 65 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 61 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
9 54 (1.98%) DynamoDB
10 23 (0.84%) Power BI
11 20 (0.73%) Redis
12 17 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.40%) GIS
15 10 (0.37%) Pinecone
16 6 (0.22%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.22%) DB2
16 6 (0.22%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 204 (7.48%) Git
2 96 (3.52%) Jenkins
3 61 (2.24%) Cypress.io
4 53 (1.94%) GitLab
5 39 (1.43%) JIRA
6 35 (1.28%) Maven
7 30 (1.10%) JUnit
8 24 (0.88%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 17 (0.62%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.62%) Mockito
10 17 (0.62%) Vite
11 13 (0.48%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.37%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.37%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.33%) Subversion
14 8 (0.29%) Selenium
15 7 (0.26%) ESLint
15 7 (0.26%) Storybook
General
1 309 (11.33%) Finance
2 301 (11.04%) Social Skills
3 86 (3.15%) Public Sector
4 76 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (2.20%) Games
5 60 (2.20%) Marketing
6 55 (2.02%) Banking
7 54 (1.98%) Retail
8 46 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.43%) Law
10 36 (1.32%) Front Office
11 34 (1.25%) Manufacturing
12 33 (1.21%) Advertising
13 32 (1.17%) Tech for Good
14 29 (1.06%) Legal
15 23 (0.84%) Aviation
16 21 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.70%) Health Technology
18 15 (0.55%) Investment Banking
19 14 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,589 (58.27%) Developer
2 989 (36.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 661 (24.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 587 (21.53%) Senior
5 507 (18.59%) Software Engineer
6 375 (13.75%) Lead
7 336 (12.32%) .NET Developer
8 278 (10.19%) Senior Developer
9 228 (8.36%) Software Developer
10 224 (8.21%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 195 (7.15%) Lead Developer
12 185 (6.78%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 177 (6.49%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 168 (6.16%) Java Developer
15 138 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
16 132 (4.84%) React Developer
17 102 (3.74%) Python Developer
18 98 (3.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 96 (3.52%) Java Engineer
20 90 (3.30%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 899 (32.97%) React
2 678 (24.86%) .NET
3 497 (18.23%) Node.js
4 318 (11.66%) AngularJS
5 313 (11.48%) CSS
6 304 (11.15%) HTML
7 290 (10.63%) .NET Core
8 273 (10.01%) Vue
9 231 (8.47%) ASP.NET
10 228 (8.36%) RESTful
11 203 (7.44%) ASP.NET Core
12 189 (6.93%) Spring
13 158 (5.79%) REST
14 153 (5.61%) Spring Boot
15 134 (4.91%) Next.js
16 119 (4.36%) Entity Framework
17 95 (3.48%) Blazor
18 81 (2.97%) ASP.NET Web API
19 74 (2.71%) .NET Framework
19 74 (2.71%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 202 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 122 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
3 84 (3.08%) Mobile App
4 77 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 76 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
6 50 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 42 (1.54%) AI Agents
8 40 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.25%) Fixed Income
10 32 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.10%) IoT
12 29 (1.06%) e-Learning
12 29 (1.06%) Low-Code
13 25 (0.92%) Onboarding
14 23 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
15 19 (0.70%) Virtual Team
16 17 (0.62%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 15 (0.55%) Management Information System
18 14 (0.51%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 44 (1.61%) Linux
2 27 (0.99%) Android
3 17 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.26%) Unix
5 6 (0.22%) Windows
6 1 (0.037%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.037%) VMS
6 1 (0.037%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (31.10%) Software Engineering
2 625 (22.92%) Agile
3 541 (19.84%) CI/CD
4 492 (18.04%) AI
5 445 (16.32%) DevOps
6 394 (14.45%) Microservices
7 347 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
8 286 (10.49%) Mentoring
9 268 (9.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 223 (8.18%) Test Automation
11 183 (6.71%) Machine Learning
12 166 (6.09%) Scrum
13 162 (5.94%) Containerisation
14 158 (5.79%) Clean Code
14 158 (5.79%) User Experience
15 144 (5.28%) Infrastructure as Code
16 140 (5.13%) TDD
16 140 (5.13%) Web Development
17 131 (4.80%) Computer Science
17 131 (4.80%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 777 (28.49%) JavaScript
2 751 (27.54%) TypeScript
3 614 (22.52%) C#
4 520 (19.07%) Python
5 489 (17.93%) Java
6 474 (17.38%) SQL
7 104 (3.81%) PHP
8 75 (2.75%) Go
9 56 (2.05%) Ruby
10 49 (1.80%) C++
11 34 (1.25%) Bash
12 23 (0.84%) Groovy
13 16 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.55%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.44%) Bicep
16 11 (0.40%) C
17 10 (0.37%) Rust
18 7 (0.26%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.22%) Perl
19 6 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 182 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 140 (5.13%) Degree
3 130 (4.77%) SC Cleared
4 97 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.66%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 14 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.22%) PhD
11 5 (0.18%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.073%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.037%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.037%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.037%) MBA
13 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.74%) QA
2 41 (1.50%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.51%) GDPR
4 11 (0.40%) WCAG
5 10 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.26%) GRC
7 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.15%) SLA
8 3 (0.11%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.073%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.073%) ITGC
9 2 (0.073%) NCSC
9 2 (0.073%) NIST
10 1 (0.037%) HL7
10 1 (0.037%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.037%) SOC 2
System Software
1 308 (11.29%) Docker
2 5 (0.18%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.15%) Firmware
4 2 (0.073%) vSphere
5 1 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.037%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 215 (7.88%) Kubernetes
2 119 (4.36%) Terraform
3 34 (1.25%) Grafana
4 24 (0.88%) Ansible
5 21 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.48%) Podman
7 12 (0.44%) HP Fortify
8 8 (0.29%) Kibana
9 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.22%) Argo
11 4 (0.15%) logstash
12 3 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.037%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.037%) Graylog
13 1 (0.037%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.037%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 298 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 50 (1.83%) Google
3 36 (1.32%) Adobe
4 33 (1.21%) Oracle
5 32 (1.17%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.77%) Salesforce
7 20 (0.73%) Facebook
8 19 (0.70%) Foundry
9 15 (0.55%) Palantir
10 10 (0.37%) Splunk
11 8 (0.29%) Apple
11 8 (0.29%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.29%) YouTube
12 7 (0.26%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.26%) Sony
12 7 (0.26%) Yahoo!
13 6 (0.22%) Pega
13 6 (0.22%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.22%) WooCommerce
14 5 (0.18%) Databricks