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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 97 40
Rank change year-on-year +52 -57 +31
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,073 1,547 5,134
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.16% 3.23% 4.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 3.55% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,558 970 3,918
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,513 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +14.19% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,250 £95,000
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 71,495 43,542 85,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 90.95% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 49,394 24,103 60,537
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 5 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 5 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 +57 2,789 £65,000 -7.14% 903
UK excluding London +59 2,079 £60,000 - 600
Work from Home +45 1,378 £60,000 -9.23% 498
London +15 836 £85,000 - 410
North of England +59 686 £65,000 +4.00% 175
South East +91 508 £60,000 - 166
North West +34 368 £65,000 - 100
Midlands +39 290 £55,000 -8.33% 77
South West +46 279 £60,000 - 61
Yorkshire +75 209 £70,000 +16.67% 50
East of England +48 173 £60,000 +20.00% 62
East Midlands +24 147 £55,000 +15.79% 37
West Midlands +21 142 £57,500 -8.00% 40
North East +22 109 £55,000 +14.58% 26
Scotland -23 73 £55,000 -18.52% 35
Wales -37 51 £60,000 -4.00% 13
Northern Ireland -29 24 £70,000 +16.67% 16
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 29 (0.94%) CMS
2 22 (0.72%) Confluence
3 14 (0.46%) WordPress
4 11 (0.36%) Apache
4 11 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.33%) ColdFusion
5 10 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.13%) IIS
10 4 (0.13%) nginx
11 3 (0.098%) DNN
11 3 (0.098%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.098%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.065%) Elementor
4 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Shopify
2 2 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.033%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.033%) Magento
3 1 (0.033%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.033%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 921 (29.97%) AWS
2 898 (29.22%) Azure
3 267 (8.69%) GitHub
4 236 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
5 232 (7.55%) SaaS
6 220 (7.16%) Serverless
7 184 (5.99%) GCP
8 151 (4.91%) Azure AI
8 151 (4.91%) GitHub Copilot
9 134 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
10 108 (3.51%) Amazon S3
11 79 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
12 78 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 71 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
14 56 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
15 52 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (1.30%) Power Platform
17 35 (1.14%) Figma
18 33 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
18 33 (1.07%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.15%) Broadband
2 53 (1.72%) Internet
3 8 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
4 7 (0.23%) Firewall
4 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.16%) DNS
5 5 (0.16%) HTTP
5 5 (0.16%) MQTT
6 3 (0.098%) LAN
6 3 (0.098%) VPN
6 3 (0.098%) WAN
7 2 (0.065%) AMQP
7 2 (0.065%) Network Security
7 2 (0.065%) VoIP
8 1 (0.033%) DHCP
8 1 (0.033%) FTP
8 1 (0.033%) Multicast
8 1 (0.033%) SCTP
8 1 (0.033%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.033%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 499 (16.24%) MongoDB
2 422 (13.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 197 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
4 150 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 147 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
6 109 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 97 (3.16%) MySQL
8 78 (2.54%) Relational Database
9 64 (2.08%) DynamoDB
10 37 (1.20%) Redis
11 24 (0.78%) Power BI
12 18 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.36%) GIS
14 10 (0.33%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
15 9 (0.29%) NonStop SQL
15 9 (0.29%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.23%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 214 (6.96%) Git
2 101 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 63 (2.05%) GitLab
4 57 (1.85%) Cypress.io
5 45 (1.46%) JIRA
6 37 (1.20%) Claude Code
6 37 (1.20%) JUnit
7 32 (1.04%) Maven
8 22 (0.72%) SonarQube
9 21 (0.68%) Eclipse
10 20 (0.65%) Subversion
11 17 (0.55%) Vite
12 15 (0.49%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.42%) Mockito
14 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.29%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.26%) Storybook
16 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.23%) Selenium
18 6 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 373 (12.14%) Finance
2 299 (9.73%) Social Skills
3 104 (3.38%) Public Sector
4 89 (2.90%) Games
5 87 (2.83%) Marketing
6 80 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
7 70 (2.28%) Retail
8 68 (2.21%) Advertising
9 57 (1.85%) Banking
10 55 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (1.27%) Front Office
12 37 (1.20%) Law
13 34 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 32 (1.04%) Legal
15 26 (0.85%) Tech for Good
16 19 (0.62%) Automotive
17 16 (0.52%) Aviation
17 16 (0.52%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.46%) Health Technology
18 14 (0.46%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,865 (60.69%) Developer
2 1,007 (32.77%) Full-Stack Developer
3 681 (22.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 605 (19.69%) Senior
5 570 (18.55%) .NET Developer
6 543 (17.67%) Software Engineer
7 405 (13.18%) Lead
8 270 (8.79%) Senior Developer
9 255 (8.30%) Software Developer
10 230 (7.48%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 204 (6.64%) Lead Developer
12 180 (5.86%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 173 (5.63%) Java Developer
14 164 (5.34%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 150 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
16 115 (3.74%) Java Engineer
17 112 (3.64%) React Developer
18 103 (3.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 101 (3.29%) Python Developer
20 90 (2.93%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,031 (33.55%) React
2 919 (29.91%) .NET
3 609 (19.82%) Node.js
4 514 (16.73%) .NET Core
5 490 (15.95%) ASP.NET
6 456 (14.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 423 (13.77%) AngularJS
8 398 (12.95%) CSS
9 386 (12.56%) HTML
10 376 (12.24%) Vue
11 327 (10.64%) RESTful
12 204 (6.64%) Entity Framework
13 198 (6.44%) Blazor
14 194 (6.31%) Spring
15 172 (5.60%) REST
16 167 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web API
17 155 (5.04%) Spring Boot
18 144 (4.69%) ML.NET
19 143 (4.65%) Next.js
20 113 (3.68%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 273 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 164 (5.34%) Greenfield Project
3 91 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (2.93%) Mobile App
5 76 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 68 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 59 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 50 (1.63%) AI Agents
9 46 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.24%) Low-Code
11 37 (1.20%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.04%) e-Learning
12 32 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
13 30 (0.98%) IoT
14 29 (0.94%) Onboarding
15 22 (0.72%) Social Media
15 22 (0.72%) Virtual Team
16 20 (0.65%) Digital TV
17 18 (0.59%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.55%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 54 (1.76%) Linux
2 27 (0.88%) Android
3 12 (0.39%) Windows
4 10 (0.33%) Unix
5 8 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.098%) AIX
6 3 (0.098%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.098%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.065%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.033%) Debian
8 1 (0.033%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 926 (30.13%) Software Engineering
2 858 (27.92%) Agile
3 690 (22.45%) CI/CD
4 642 (20.89%) AI
5 546 (17.77%) DevOps
6 517 (16.82%) Microservices
7 357 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
8 296 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 289 (9.40%) Mentoring
10 286 (9.31%) Machine Learning
11 246 (8.01%) Test Automation
12 201 (6.54%) Scrum
13 186 (6.05%) TDD
14 180 (5.86%) Clean Code
15 174 (5.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 172 (5.60%) Containerisation
17 162 (5.27%) Multithreading
18 153 (4.98%) Technical Leadership
19 151 (4.91%) Observability
20 148 (4.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 920 (29.94%) JavaScript
2 888 (28.90%) TypeScript
3 865 (28.15%) C#
4 715 (23.27%) SQL
5 585 (19.04%) Python
6 508 (16.53%) Java
7 102 (3.32%) PHP
8 94 (3.06%) Go
9 67 (2.18%) C++
9 67 (2.18%) Ruby
10 31 (1.01%) Bash
11 26 (0.85%) Groovy
12 18 (0.59%) Rust
13 15 (0.49%) Perl
14 13 (0.42%) Bicep
14 13 (0.42%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.26%) C
17 6 (0.20%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 211 (6.87%) Security Cleared
2 165 (5.37%) Degree
3 154 (5.01%) SC Cleared
4 118 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.17%) DV Cleared
6 20 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 18 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 12 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.13%) PhD
14 3 (0.098%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.065%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 1 (0.033%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.033%) CCNA
16 1 (0.033%) CCNP
16 1 (0.033%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.25%) QA
2 60 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 27 (0.88%) WCAG
4 17 (0.55%) GDPR
5 15 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.23%) GRC
6 7 (0.23%) NCSC
7 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.098%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.098%) SLA
9 2 (0.065%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.065%) ITGC
9 2 (0.065%) NIST
10 1 (0.033%) HL7
10 1 (0.033%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.033%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.033%) SOC 2
System Software
1 414 (13.47%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.098%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.065%) vSphere
6 1 (0.033%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 311 (10.12%) Kubernetes
2 145 (4.72%) Terraform
3 32 (1.04%) Grafana
4 22 (0.72%) Ansible
5 19 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.42%) Podman
7 12 (0.39%) HP Fortify
8 10 (0.33%) Kibana
9 6 (0.20%) logstash
10 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.13%) Argo
12 2 (0.065%) Nagios
13 1 (0.033%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.033%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.033%) Graylog
13 1 (0.033%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.033%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 565 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 75 (2.44%) Google
3 54 (1.76%) Facebook
4 33 (1.07%) OpenAI
5 29 (0.94%) Adobe
6 26 (0.85%) Oracle
7 22 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 19 (0.62%) Palantir
8 19 (0.62%) YouTube
9 18 (0.59%) Apple
10 17 (0.55%) Foundry
10 17 (0.55%) Sony
10 17 (0.55%) Yahoo!
11 10 (0.33%) Databricks
11 10 (0.33%) Sitecore
11 10 (0.33%) Splunk
12 9 (0.29%) AppDynamics
12 9 (0.29%) OneLogin
13 8 (0.26%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.20%) Palo Alto