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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 107 44
Rank change year-on-year +55 -63 +28
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,320 1,360 3,238
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.79% 2.76% 4.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.11% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,601 806 1,804
10th Percentile £43,930 £43,750 £40,150
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £100,000
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 87,229 43,738 58,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 88.90% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 59,718 24,553 31,325
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,243 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,600
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.70% -2.59%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +67 3,030 £65,000 -7.14% 2,117
UK excluding London +77 2,286 £60,000 - 1,038
Work from Home +35 1,305 £60,000 -7.69% 1,041
London +14 892 £85,000 -4.23% 1,222
North of England +61 773 £65,000 +8.33% 343
South East +97 541 £60,000 -2.04% 180
North West +50 461 £70,000 +7.69% 214
South West +66 358 £65,000 +8.33% 92
Midlands +43 296 £55,000 -8.33% 114
Yorkshire +68 205 £69,653 +11.44% 97
West Midlands +22 163 £60,000 -4.00% 74
East of England +33 153 £60,000 +20.00% 95
East Midlands +25 133 £55,000 - 40
North East +2 107 £50,000 +5.26% 36
Scotland -5 98 £60,000 -9.43% 134
Wales -30 57 £70,000 +16.67% 15
Northern Ireland -69 12 £90,000 +50.00% 68
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 30 (0.90%) CMS
1 30 (0.90%) Confluence
2 20 (0.60%) WordPress
3 10 (0.30%) Apache
3 10 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
4 9 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (0.27%) IIS
4 9 (0.27%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.21%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.15%) nginx
9 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 3 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.090%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.090%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.090%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.090%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.090%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.090%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.060%) Elementor
3 2 (0.060%) Revit
4 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.24%) Shopify
2 6 (0.18%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.030%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.030%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.030%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 913 (27.50%) Azure
2 886 (26.69%) AWS
3 323 (9.73%) GitHub
4 241 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
5 232 (6.99%) SaaS
6 199 (5.99%) Serverless
7 183 (5.51%) GitHub Copilot
8 181 (5.45%) GCP
9 161 (4.85%) Azure AI
10 124 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
11 96 (2.89%) Amazon S3
12 83 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
13 74 (2.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 70 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
14 70 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
15 61 (1.84%) Anthropic Claude
16 55 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
17 47 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
18 42 (1.27%) Snowflake
19 34 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.99%) Internet
2 31 (0.93%) Broadband
3 21 (0.63%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.39%) HTTP
5 12 (0.36%) DNS
6 11 (0.33%) Firewall
7 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.15%) MQTT
8 5 (0.15%) VoIP
9 3 (0.090%) DHCP
10 2 (0.060%) AMQP
10 2 (0.060%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.060%) LAN
10 2 (0.060%) Network Security
10 2 (0.060%) VPN
10 2 (0.060%) WAN
11 1 (0.030%) BGP
11 1 (0.030%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.030%) RTP
11 1 (0.030%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 507 (15.27%) MongoDB
2 447 (13.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 229 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 200 (6.02%) SQL Server
5 160 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
6 109 (3.28%) Relational Database
7 91 (2.74%) NoSQL
8 88 (2.65%) MySQL
9 75 (2.26%) Redis
10 56 (1.69%) DynamoDB
11 31 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (0.57%) Power BI
13 17 (0.51%) Spark SQL
14 12 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.27%) GIS
16 9 (0.27%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.27%) RDBMS
17 8 (0.24%) Chroma
Development Applications
1 249 (7.50%) Git
2 105 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 98 (2.95%) GitLab
4 64 (1.93%) JUnit
5 51 (1.54%) Cypress.io
6 46 (1.39%) Claude Code
7 40 (1.20%) JIRA
8 36 (1.08%) Maven
9 30 (0.90%) Subversion
10 29 (0.87%) Eclipse
11 24 (0.72%) Vite
12 22 (0.66%) SonarQube
13 19 (0.57%) Mockito
14 15 (0.45%) Selenium
14 15 (0.45%) Storybook
15 14 (0.42%) Spock
16 13 (0.39%) NUnit
17 12 (0.36%) TeamCity
18 11 (0.33%) Visual Studio
19 9 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 450 (13.55%) Finance
2 304 (9.16%) Social Skills
3 197 (5.93%) Public Sector
4 95 (2.86%) Marketing
5 84 (2.53%) Games
6 79 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (2.08%) Retail
8 65 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 64 (1.93%) Advertising
10 60 (1.81%) Banking
11 44 (1.33%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 29 (0.87%) Law
14 27 (0.81%) Tech for Good
15 26 (0.78%) Legal
16 23 (0.69%) Automotive
17 20 (0.60%) Aerospace
18 13 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (0.36%) Front Office
20 11 (0.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,739 (52.38%) Developer
2 965 (29.07%) Full-Stack Developer
3 934 (28.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 744 (22.41%) Senior
5 566 (17.05%) Software Engineer
6 564 (16.99%) .NET Developer
7 397 (11.96%) Lead
8 304 (9.16%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 283 (8.52%) Senior Developer
10 259 (7.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 244 (7.35%) Software Developer
12 182 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 176 (5.30%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 163 (4.91%) Java Engineer
15 144 (4.34%) Java Developer
16 140 (4.22%) Lead Developer
17 100 (3.01%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 94 (2.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 91 (2.74%) Python Engineer
20 82 (2.47%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 953 (28.70%) React
2 947 (28.52%) .NET
3 566 (17.05%) Node.js
4 537 (16.17%) ASP.NET
5 527 (15.87%) .NET Core
6 499 (15.03%) ASP.NET Core
7 419 (12.62%) AngularJS
8 386 (11.63%) CSS
9 368 (11.08%) HTML
10 357 (10.75%) RESTful
11 332 (10.00%) Vue
12 246 (7.41%) REST
13 223 (6.72%) Entity Framework
14 210 (6.33%) Blazor
15 205 (6.17%) Spring
16 182 (5.48%) ASP.NET Web API
17 169 (5.09%) Spring Boot
18 165 (4.97%) Next.js
19 157 (4.73%) Terraform
20 149 (4.49%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 308 (9.28%) Cloud Native
2 136 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
3 134 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (3.34%) AI Agents
5 90 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
6 76 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 73 (2.20%) Mobile App
8 62 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 45 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 35 (1.05%) e-Learning
11 30 (0.90%) IoT
12 28 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
13 27 (0.81%) Low-Code
14 23 (0.69%) Onboarding
15 21 (0.63%) Virtual Team
16 19 (0.57%) Digital TV
17 17 (0.51%) iPhone
17 17 (0.51%) Social Media
18 16 (0.48%) BBC
18 16 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (1.93%) Linux
2 27 (0.81%) Android
3 16 (0.48%) Unix
4 15 (0.45%) Windows
5 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.12%) VMS
7 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.090%) AIX
8 3 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.030%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 978 (29.46%) Software Engineering
2 900 (27.11%) Agile
3 813 (24.49%) CI/CD
4 768 (23.13%) AI
5 568 (17.11%) Microservices
6 508 (15.30%) DevOps
7 346 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
8 289 (8.70%) Mentoring
9 287 (8.64%) Machine Learning
10 265 (7.98%) Test Automation
11 252 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 194 (5.84%) Clean Code
13 193 (5.81%) LLM
14 188 (5.66%) Observability
15 185 (5.57%) Front End Development
16 181 (5.45%) Scrum
17 174 (5.24%) Computer Science
17 174 (5.24%) TDD
17 174 (5.24%) Technical Leadership
18 171 (5.15%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 925 (27.86%) C#
1 925 (27.86%) JavaScript
2 869 (26.17%) TypeScript
3 745 (22.44%) SQL
4 615 (18.52%) Java
5 556 (16.75%) Python
6 109 (3.28%) Kotlin
7 101 (3.04%) Ruby
8 98 (2.95%) C++
9 79 (2.38%) PHP
10 74 (2.23%) Go
11 31 (0.93%) Bash
12 29 (0.87%) Rust
13 28 (0.84%) Groovy
14 26 (0.78%) Perl
15 13 (0.39%) Bicep
16 11 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.21%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.18%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 224 (6.75%) Security Cleared
2 195 (5.87%) Degree
3 152 (4.58%) SC Cleared
4 130 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.05%) DV Cleared
6 21 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (0.27%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.18%) PhD
13 4 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.12%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.090%) CISSP
14 3 (0.090%) OCP
14 3 (0.090%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (2.17%) Accessibility
1 72 (2.17%) QA
2 36 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 31 (0.93%) WCAG
4 20 (0.60%) GDPR
5 11 (0.33%) NCSC
6 9 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.24%) NIST
8 4 (0.12%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.090%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.090%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.060%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.060%) SLA
11 1 (0.030%) GRC
11 1 (0.030%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 479 (14.43%) Docker
2 3 (0.090%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.090%) Firmware
3 1 (0.030%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.030%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 381 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.63%) Ansible
3 18 (0.54%) Grafana
4 10 (0.30%) HP Fortify
4 10 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.27%) Kibana
6 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.18%) Argo
7 6 (0.18%) logstash
8 2 (0.060%) Bugsnag
8 2 (0.060%) Packer
8 2 (0.060%) Puppet
9 1 (0.030%) Consul
9 1 (0.030%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.030%) Graylog
9 1 (0.030%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 587 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 98 (2.95%) Google
3 56 (1.69%) Facebook
4 53 (1.60%) OpenAI
5 45 (1.36%) Oracle
6 25 (0.75%) YouTube
7 23 (0.69%) Splunk
8 20 (0.60%) Salesforce
9 18 (0.54%) Red Hat
10 16 (0.48%) Apple
10 16 (0.48%) Foundry
10 16 (0.48%) Sony
10 16 (0.48%) Yahoo!
11 14 (0.42%) AppDynamics
12 13 (0.39%) Databricks
12 13 (0.39%) Mistral
13 12 (0.36%) Adobe
13 12 (0.36%) OutSystems
13 12 (0.36%) Palantir
14 11 (0.33%) Dynatrace