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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 50 67
Rank change year-on-year -70 +17 -12
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,199 3,012 2,167
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.25% 4.40% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 5.24% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 914 1,623 1,937
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,250 £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 £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £98,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% +3.64%

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 45,432 57,470 49,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.24% 83.88% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,673 30,239 37,620
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,975 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,150 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.14% -

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 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 -68 1,058 £70,000 +7.69% 1,686
UK excluding London -93 630 £60,000 +9.09% 1,020
London -18 513 £90,000 +5.88% 817
Work from Home -45 469 £67,500 +8.00% 982
North of England -50 170 £60,000 +6.67% 245
South East -88 158 £60,000 - 309
Midlands -63 95 £60,000 +20.00% 165
North West -25 94 £65,000 +13.04% 142
South West -60 73 £60,000 +9.09% 123
Scotland -32 59 £67,500 +17.39% 39
West Midlands -31 58 £60,000 +9.09% 100
Yorkshire -52 52 £60,000 +9.09% 77
East of England -74 46 £52,000 -20.00% 98
East Midlands -56 37 £62,500 +47.06% 65
Wales -28 25 £60,000 +9.09% 35
North East -13 24 £50,000 -16.67% 29
Northern Ireland -16 5 £60,000 -7.69% 11
Channel Islands +5 1 £90,000 -

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 16 (1.33%) CMS
2 14 (1.17%) IIS
3 11 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.75%) Confluence
5 9 (0.75%) Headless CMS
6 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.42%) Apache
7 5 (0.42%) nginx
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.33%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.25%) Camunda
9 3 (0.25%) Drupal
9 3 (0.25%) WordPress
10 2 (0.17%) Appian
10 2 (0.17%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.083%) MetaMask
Applications
1 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.25%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.083%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 12 (1.00%) Shopify
2 3 (0.25%) Magento
3 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 499 (41.62%) AWS
2 436 (36.36%) Azure
3 129 (10.76%) SaaS
4 123 (10.26%) GitHub
5 120 (10.01%) Serverless
6 106 (8.84%) GCP
7 71 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
9 46 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (3.67%) Amazon S3
12 43 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (2.59%) PaaS
15 25 (2.09%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (2.09%) Azure Service Bus
15 25 (2.09%) Power Platform
16 24 (2.00%) Azure App Service
17 23 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 23 (1.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.50%) Firewall
2 4 (0.33%) HTTP
2 4 (0.33%) WAN
3 3 (0.25%) Broadband
3 3 (0.25%) DNS
3 3 (0.25%) LAN
3 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.25%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.25%) VLAN
3 3 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.17%) DHCP
4 2 (0.17%) MQTT
4 2 (0.17%) VPN
5 1 (0.083%) AMQP
5 1 (0.083%) FTP
5 1 (0.083%) NAS
5 1 (0.083%) Network Security
5 1 (0.083%) SMS
5 1 (0.083%) SNMP
5 1 (0.083%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (12.68%) SQL Server
2 122 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
3 96 (8.01%) MongoDB
4 94 (7.84%) NoSQL
5 89 (7.42%) Relational Database
6 78 (6.51%) MySQL
7 50 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 35 (2.92%) RDBMS
9 29 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (2.34%) Redis
11 18 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.25%) DynamoDB
13 13 (1.08%) Power BI
14 12 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.92%) Big Data
16 8 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
16 8 (0.67%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.58%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
18 6 (0.50%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 179 (14.93%) Git
2 56 (4.67%) Jenkins
3 47 (3.92%) JIRA
4 41 (3.42%) Cypress.io
5 33 (2.75%) JUnit
6 25 (2.09%) Mockito
7 24 (2.00%) JMeter
8 20 (1.67%) GitLab
9 17 (1.42%) Visual Studio
9 17 (1.42%) webpack
10 15 (1.25%) Vite
11 13 (1.08%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.92%) Maven
13 9 (0.75%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.58%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.58%) Selenium
15 6 (0.50%) Cucumber
16 5 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 285 (23.77%) Social Skills
2 233 (19.43%) Finance
3 118 (9.84%) Law
4 85 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 62 (5.17%) Banking
7 58 (4.84%) Marketing
8 48 (4.00%) Front Office
9 45 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
10 35 (2.92%) Investment Banking
11 31 (2.59%) Legal
12 29 (2.42%) Retail
13 18 (1.50%) Health Technology
14 16 (1.33%) Games
14 16 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (1.25%) Back Office
16 13 (1.08%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.92%) Advertising
17 11 (0.92%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 706 (58.88%) Developer
2 477 (39.78%) Full-Stack Developer
3 266 (22.19%) Senior
4 256 (21.35%) Software Engineer
5 216 (18.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 168 (14.01%) Lead
7 157 (13.09%) Senior Developer
8 125 (10.43%) .NET Developer
9 110 (9.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 106 (8.84%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 97 (8.09%) Java Developer
12 92 (7.67%) Software Developer
13 73 (6.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 71 (5.92%) Lead Developer
15 69 (5.75%) React Developer
16 61 (5.09%) C# Developer
17 60 (5.00%) Java Engineer
18 56 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
19 50 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
20 46 (3.84%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 611 (50.96%) React
2 394 (32.86%) .NET
3 274 (22.85%) HTML
4 271 (22.60%) AngularJS
5 242 (20.18%) Node.js
6 239 (19.93%) CSS
7 184 (15.35%) RESTful
8 174 (14.51%) Vue
9 149 (12.43%) .NET Core
10 147 (12.26%) Spring
11 137 (11.43%) REST
12 127 (10.59%) ASP.NET
13 119 (9.92%) .NET Framework
14 106 (8.84%) GraphQL
15 102 (8.51%) Spring Boot
16 92 (7.67%) Kafka
17 86 (7.17%) Entity Framework
18 79 (6.59%) HTML5
19 75 (6.26%) Next.js
20 65 (5.42%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 144 (12.01%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.26%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 36 (3.00%) Mobile App
5 33 (2.75%) Fixed Income
6 30 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.34%) Algorithms
8 25 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.75%) Onboarding
10 20 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.42%) AI Agents
12 16 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.33%) Private Cloud
13 15 (1.25%) Hedge funds
13 15 (1.25%) Reference Data
14 14 (1.17%) IoT
14 14 (1.17%) Virtual Team
15 13 (1.08%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 12 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.33%) Linux
2 12 (1.00%) Unix
2 12 (1.00%) Windows
3 11 (0.92%) Android
3 11 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (45.54%) Agile
2 419 (34.95%) CI/CD
3 407 (33.94%) Software Engineering
4 278 (23.19%) DevOps
5 258 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
6 251 (20.93%) Microservices
7 228 (19.02%) AI
8 202 (16.85%) User Experience
9 188 (15.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 179 (14.93%) Mentoring
11 141 (11.76%) SDLC
12 139 (11.59%) Clean Code
13 132 (11.01%) TDD
14 123 (10.26%) Test Automation
15 122 (10.18%) MVC
16 112 (9.34%) Computer Science
17 110 (9.17%) Containerisation
18 108 (9.01%) Scrum
19 104 (8.67%) Front End Development
20 103 (8.59%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 513 (42.79%) JavaScript
2 428 (35.70%) TypeScript
3 393 (32.78%) C#
4 301 (25.10%) Java
5 284 (23.69%) SQL
6 261 (21.77%) Python
7 53 (4.42%) PHP
8 50 (4.17%) Go
9 37 (3.09%) Rust
10 24 (2.00%) Ruby
11 21 (1.75%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.33%) C++
12 16 (1.33%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.25%) PowerShell
14 11 (0.92%) Bash
14 11 (0.92%) Bicep
15 10 (0.83%) VB.NET
16 8 (0.67%) C
16 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.42%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 112 (9.34%) Degree
2 106 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 66 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 35 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.58%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.42%) MCP
12 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.17%) CISSP
15 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.42%) QA
2 73 (6.09%) 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%) SLA
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
System Software
1 196 (16.35%) Docker
2 17 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.33%) HDFS
6 2 (0.17%) Firmware
7 1 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 175 (14.60%) Kubernetes
2 88 (7.34%) Terraform
3 24 (2.00%) Kibana
4 16 (1.33%) 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
1 181 (15.10%) Microsoft
2 34 (2.84%) Oracle
3 28 (2.34%) Splunk
4 27 (2.25%) Dynatrace
5 16 (1.33%) Google
6 13 (1.08%) OpenAI
6 13 (1.08%) VMware
7 11 (0.92%) DevExpress
7 11 (0.92%) Foundry
7 11 (0.92%) Palantir
8 10 (0.83%) Databricks
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
12 5 (0.42%) Rollbar
12 5 (0.42%) Zoho
13 4 (0.33%) Pega