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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 101 47
Rank change year-on-year +53 -54 +22
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,209 1,511 3,979
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.12% 3.06% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 3.41% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,651 937 2,841
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +0.87%

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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 31 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 31 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 +52 2,914 £65,000 -7.14% 931
UK excluding London +66 2,206 £60,000 - 563
Work from Home +49 1,419 £60,000 -11.11% 396
London +10 849 £85,000 - 470
North of England +71 724 £65,000 +8.33% 161
South East +98 545 £60,000 - 154
North West +45 395 £65,000 - 96
South West +58 302 £60,000 - 59
Midlands +34 299 £55,000 -8.33% 79
Yorkshire +77 213 £70,000 +16.67% 43
East of England +51 183 £60,000 +33.33% 63
West Midlands +32 160 £60,000 -4.00% 42
East Midlands +21 138 £55,000 +15.79% 37
North East +21 116 £52,000 +19.54% 23
Scotland -17 85 £55,000 -18.52% 27
Wales -35 54 £60,000 - 14
Northern Ireland -50 19 £70,000 +16.67% 14
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 27 (0.84%) CMS
2 25 (0.78%) Confluence
3 15 (0.47%) WordPress
4 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.28%) Apache
5 9 (0.28%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.28%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.25%) IIS
6 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.093%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.093%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.093%) Kentico
10 3 (0.093%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.062%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.031%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.031%) Magento
3 1 (0.031%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.031%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 947 (29.51%) Azure
2 938 (29.23%) AWS
3 310 (9.66%) GitHub
4 246 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
5 244 (7.60%) SaaS
6 206 (6.42%) Serverless
7 185 (5.77%) GCP
8 181 (5.64%) GitHub Copilot
9 163 (5.08%) Azure AI
10 126 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
11 105 (3.27%) Amazon S3
12 85 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 76 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
15 63 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
16 56 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
17 50 (1.56%) Anthropic Claude
18 38 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
19 36 (1.12%) Power Platform
20 33 (1.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.78%) Internet
2 52 (1.62%) Broadband
3 10 (0.31%) Firewall
3 10 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.25%) DNS
5 7 (0.22%) HTTP
5 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
6 5 (0.16%) MQTT
7 3 (0.093%) DHCP
7 3 (0.093%) LAN
7 3 (0.093%) WAN
8 2 (0.062%) AMQP
8 2 (0.062%) Network Security
8 2 (0.062%) VoIP
8 2 (0.062%) VPN
9 1 (0.031%) Multicast
9 1 (0.031%) SCTP
9 1 (0.031%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.031%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 534 (16.64%) MongoDB
2 462 (14.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 225 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
4 174 (5.42%) SQL Server
5 158 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
6 110 (3.43%) NoSQL
7 98 (3.05%) MySQL
8 85 (2.65%) Relational Database
9 70 (2.18%) DynamoDB
10 54 (1.68%) Redis
11 26 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.69%) Power BI
13 14 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.37%) GIS
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
17 6 (0.19%) MariaDB
17 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 245 (7.63%) Git
2 106 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 76 (2.37%) GitLab
4 55 (1.71%) Cypress.io
5 53 (1.65%) JUnit
6 48 (1.50%) JIRA
7 45 (1.40%) Claude Code
8 34 (1.06%) Maven
9 27 (0.84%) Eclipse
10 26 (0.81%) Subversion
11 21 (0.65%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.53%) Vite
13 15 (0.47%) Mockito
14 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.37%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.37%) Selenium
15 12 (0.37%) Spock
16 10 (0.31%) Storybook
17 8 (0.25%) IntelliJ
17 8 (0.25%) NUnit
General
1 403 (12.56%) Finance
2 307 (9.57%) Social Skills
3 113 (3.52%) Public Sector
4 105 (3.27%) Marketing
5 91 (2.84%) Games
6 75 (2.34%) Advertising
7 73 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
8 72 (2.24%) Retail
9 64 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 62 (1.93%) Banking
11 42 (1.31%) Law
12 40 (1.25%) Front Office
13 35 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 34 (1.06%) Legal
15 27 (0.84%) Tech for Good
16 25 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 18 (0.56%) Automotive
18 17 (0.53%) Aerospace
19 16 (0.50%) Legal Technology
20 14 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,931 (60.17%) Developer
2 1,029 (32.07%) Full-Stack Developer
3 759 (23.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 628 (19.57%) Senior
5 615 (19.16%) .NET Developer
6 558 (17.39%) Software Engineer
7 411 (12.81%) Lead
8 279 (8.69%) Senior Developer
9 270 (8.41%) Software Developer
10 254 (7.92%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 204 (6.36%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 195 (6.08%) Lead Developer
13 167 (5.20%) Java Developer
14 166 (5.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 156 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
16 121 (3.77%) Java Engineer
17 100 (3.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 97 (3.02%) Python Developer
19 93 (2.90%) Python Engineer
19 93 (2.90%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,053 (32.81%) React
2 977 (30.45%) .NET
3 623 (19.41%) Node.js
4 553 (17.23%) ASP.NET
5 549 (17.11%) .NET Core
6 511 (15.92%) ASP.NET Core
7 447 (13.93%) AngularJS
8 425 (13.24%) CSS
9 408 (12.71%) HTML
10 385 (12.00%) Vue
11 353 (11.00%) RESTful
12 233 (7.26%) Entity Framework
13 220 (6.86%) Blazor
14 208 (6.48%) Spring
15 206 (6.42%) REST
16 186 (5.80%) ASP.NET Web API
17 165 (5.14%) Spring Boot
18 162 (5.05%) Next.js
19 156 (4.86%) ML.NET
20 137 (4.27%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 302 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 169 (5.27%) Greenfield Project
3 114 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 84 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
5 78 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 73 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 69 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 65 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 50 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.15%) Fixed Income
11 36 (1.12%) Low-Code
12 34 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
13 32 (1.00%) Onboarding
14 30 (0.93%) e-Learning
15 29 (0.90%) IoT
16 25 (0.78%) Virtual Team
17 22 (0.69%) Social Media
18 20 (0.62%) Digital TV
19 19 (0.59%) Algorithms
20 17 (0.53%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 56 (1.75%) Linux
2 23 (0.72%) Android
3 15 (0.47%) Windows
4 9 (0.28%) Unix
5 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.093%) AIX
7 3 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.093%) VMS
8 1 (0.031%) Debian
8 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 950 (29.60%) Software Engineering
2 930 (28.98%) Agile
3 771 (24.03%) CI/CD
4 715 (22.28%) AI
5 572 (17.82%) Microservices
6 564 (17.58%) DevOps
7 339 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
8 306 (9.54%) Machine Learning
9 302 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 277 (8.63%) Mentoring
11 269 (8.38%) Test Automation
12 222 (6.92%) Scrum
13 196 (6.11%) TDD
14 193 (6.01%) Clean Code
15 186 (5.80%) Observability
16 184 (5.73%) Infrastructure as Code
17 177 (5.52%) Multithreading
18 174 (5.42%) Containerisation
19 165 (5.14%) Technical Leadership
20 158 (4.92%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 985 (30.69%) JavaScript
2 925 (28.83%) C#
2 925 (28.83%) TypeScript
3 761 (23.71%) SQL
4 619 (19.29%) Python
5 526 (16.39%) Java
6 99 (3.09%) PHP
7 97 (3.02%) Go
8 81 (2.52%) Ruby
9 72 (2.24%) C++
10 31 (0.97%) Bash
11 27 (0.84%) Groovy
12 21 (0.65%) Perl
13 17 (0.53%) Rust
14 14 (0.44%) Bicep
14 14 (0.44%) Kotlin
15 13 (0.41%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.19%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.19%) C
17 5 (0.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 218 (6.79%) Security Cleared
2 178 (5.55%) Degree
3 159 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 128 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 24 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.12%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.12%) PhD
13 3 (0.093%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.062%) ICAEW
15 1 (0.031%) CCNA
15 1 (0.031%) CCNP
15 1 (0.031%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.21%) QA
2 67 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 29 (0.90%) WCAG
4 21 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 19 (0.59%) GDPR
6 7 (0.22%) GRC
6 7 (0.22%) NCSC
7 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.093%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.093%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.062%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.031%) HL7
10 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.031%) ITGC
10 1 (0.031%) NIST
10 1 (0.031%) SLA
10 1 (0.031%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 464 (14.46%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.12%) Firmware
4 2 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.062%) vSphere
5 1 (0.031%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 356 (11.09%) Kubernetes
2 153 (4.77%) Terraform
3 29 (0.90%) Grafana
4 20 (0.62%) Ansible
5 19 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.41%) Podman
7 11 (0.34%) HP Fortify
8 10 (0.31%) Kibana
9 6 (0.19%) logstash
10 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.062%) Argo
12 1 (0.031%) Bugsnag
12 1 (0.031%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.031%) Graylog
12 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.031%) Nagios
12 1 (0.031%) Packer
12 1 (0.031%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 621 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 84 (2.62%) Google
3 59 (1.84%) Facebook
4 38 (1.18%) OpenAI
5 27 (0.84%) Oracle
6 25 (0.78%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.69%) YouTube
8 18 (0.56%) Apple
8 18 (0.56%) Splunk
9 17 (0.53%) Palantir
9 17 (0.53%) Sony
9 17 (0.53%) Yahoo!
10 15 (0.47%) Adobe
10 15 (0.47%) AppDynamics
10 15 (0.47%) Foundry
11 13 (0.41%) Databricks
12 10 (0.31%) Sitecore
13 9 (0.28%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.28%) OneLogin
14 6 (0.19%) Palo Alto