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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 103 45
Rank change year-on-year +54 -58 +31
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,246 1,476 3,838
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.06% 2.96% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 3.31% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,662 902 2,616
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £49,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +59 2,940 £65,000 -7.14% 1,889
UK excluding London +72 2,236 £60,000 - 906
Work from Home +52 1,411 £60,000 -11.11% 842
London +5 847 £85,000 +3.03% 1,151
North of England +66 730 £65,000 +8.33% 259
South East +106 545 £60,000 - 197
North West +49 404 £65,000 - 147
South West +70 316 £60,000 - 118
Midlands +37 308 £55,000 -8.33% 107
Yorkshire +73 206 £70,000 +16.67% 74
East of England +57 182 £60,000 +33.33% 92
West Midlands +29 171 £60,000 -7.69% 60
East Midlands +24 137 £55,000 +15.79% 47
North East +20 120 £52,000 +19.54% 40
Scotland -11 92 £55,000 -18.52% 82
Wales -34 55 £60,000 - 19
Northern Ireland -62 13 £70,000 +16.67% 38
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 25 (0.77%) CMS
2 24 (0.74%) Confluence
3 15 (0.46%) 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 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.092%) DNN
10 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.092%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.092%) Kentico
10 3 (0.092%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.062%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.031%) Magento
3 1 (0.031%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 955 (29.42%) Azure
2 951 (29.30%) AWS
3 323 (9.95%) GitHub
4 251 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
5 244 (7.52%) SaaS
6 205 (6.32%) Serverless
7 192 (5.91%) GCP
8 185 (5.70%) GitHub Copilot
9 168 (5.18%) Azure AI
10 127 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 106 (3.27%) Amazon S3
12 87 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 77 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
15 70 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
16 59 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
17 53 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
18 42 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
19 36 (1.11%) Power Platform
20 32 (0.99%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.82%) Internet
2 51 (1.57%) Broadband
3 17 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.40%) DNS
5 12 (0.37%) Firewall
6 11 (0.34%) HTTP
7 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.15%) MQTT
9 4 (0.12%) VoIP
10 3 (0.092%) DHCP
10 3 (0.092%) LAN
10 3 (0.092%) WAN
11 2 (0.062%) AMQP
11 2 (0.062%) Network Security
11 2 (0.062%) VPN
12 1 (0.031%) Multicast
12 1 (0.031%) SCTP
12 1 (0.031%) Software-Defined Radio
12 1 (0.031%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 533 (16.42%) MongoDB
2 463 (14.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 230 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
4 185 (5.70%) SQL Server
5 157 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
6 113 (3.48%) NoSQL
7 97 (2.99%) MySQL
8 82 (2.53%) Relational Database
9 71 (2.19%) DynamoDB
10 56 (1.73%) Redis
11 28 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.68%) Power BI
13 14 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.37%) GIS
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
17 8 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
18 6 (0.18%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 251 (7.73%) Git
2 107 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 79 (2.43%) GitLab
4 61 (1.88%) JUnit
5 60 (1.85%) Cypress.io
6 46 (1.42%) Claude Code
7 45 (1.39%) JIRA
8 33 (1.02%) Maven
9 30 (0.92%) Eclipse
10 29 (0.89%) Subversion
11 22 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.52%) Mockito
13 16 (0.49%) Vite
14 14 (0.43%) Selenium
15 13 (0.40%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.37%) NUnit
16 12 (0.37%) Spock
17 11 (0.34%) Bitbucket
17 11 (0.34%) Storybook
18 9 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 400 (12.32%) Finance
2 321 (9.89%) Social Skills
3 140 (4.31%) Public Sector
4 106 (3.27%) Marketing
5 88 (2.71%) Games
6 74 (2.28%) Retail
7 73 (2.25%) Advertising
8 72 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 67 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
10 63 (1.94%) Banking
11 43 (1.32%) Law
12 37 (1.14%) Legal
13 35 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 32 (0.99%) Front Office
15 27 (0.83%) Financial Institution
15 27 (0.83%) Tech for Good
16 17 (0.52%) Aerospace
16 17 (0.52%) Legal Technology
17 15 (0.46%) Automotive
18 14 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,946 (59.95%) Developer
2 1,050 (32.35%) Full-Stack Developer
3 761 (23.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 636 (19.59%) Senior
5 605 (18.64%) .NET Developer
6 550 (16.94%) Software Engineer
7 421 (12.97%) Lead
8 281 (8.66%) Senior Developer
9 278 (8.56%) Software Developer
10 245 (7.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 211 (6.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 193 (5.95%) Lead Developer
13 168 (5.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 167 (5.14%) Java Developer
15 157 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
16 119 (3.67%) Java Engineer
17 99 (3.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 95 (2.93%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 95 (2.93%) Python Developer
19 93 (2.87%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,056 (32.53%) React
2 980 (30.19%) .NET
3 632 (19.47%) Node.js
4 555 (17.10%) .NET Core
5 554 (17.07%) ASP.NET
6 511 (15.74%) ASP.NET Core
7 441 (13.59%) AngularJS
8 423 (13.03%) CSS
9 405 (12.48%) HTML
10 380 (11.71%) Vue
11 366 (11.28%) RESTful
12 236 (7.27%) Entity Framework
13 220 (6.78%) Blazor
14 213 (6.56%) REST
15 208 (6.41%) Spring
16 186 (5.73%) ASP.NET Web API
17 169 (5.21%) Next.js
18 167 (5.14%) Spring Boot
19 156 (4.81%) ML.NET
20 138 (4.25%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 314 (9.67%) Cloud Native
2 162 (4.99%) Greenfield Project
3 112 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 86 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
5 81 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 75 (2.31%) Mobile App
7 74 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
8 73 (2.25%) AI Agents
9 50 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
10 35 (1.08%) Low-Code
10 35 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
11 32 (0.99%) e-Learning
11 32 (0.99%) Onboarding
12 30 (0.92%) Fixed Income
13 28 (0.86%) IoT
14 25 (0.77%) Virtual Team
15 21 (0.65%) Social Media
16 20 (0.62%) Digital TV
17 19 (0.59%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.52%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 61 (1.88%) Linux
2 25 (0.77%) Android
3 16 (0.49%) Windows
4 11 (0.34%) Unix
5 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.092%) AIX
8 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.092%) VMS
9 1 (0.031%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 949 (29.24%) Software Engineering
2 930 (28.65%) Agile
3 793 (24.43%) CI/CD
4 734 (22.61%) AI
5 583 (17.96%) Microservices
6 567 (17.47%) DevOps
7 338 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
8 311 (9.58%) Machine Learning
9 305 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 281 (8.66%) Mentoring
11 274 (8.44%) Test Automation
12 222 (6.84%) Scrum
13 201 (6.19%) Clean Code
14 196 (6.04%) TDD
15 190 (5.85%) Observability
16 188 (5.79%) Infrastructure as Code
17 178 (5.48%) Multithreading
18 176 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
19 172 (5.30%) Containerisation
20 165 (5.08%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 993 (30.59%) JavaScript
2 937 (28.87%) C#
3 931 (28.68%) TypeScript
4 764 (23.54%) SQL
5 621 (19.13%) Python
6 518 (15.96%) Java
7 98 (3.02%) Go
8 96 (2.96%) PHP
9 95 (2.93%) Ruby
10 74 (2.28%) C++
11 35 (1.08%) Kotlin
12 31 (0.96%) Bash
13 26 (0.80%) Groovy
14 24 (0.74%) Perl
15 18 (0.55%) Rust
16 15 (0.46%) Bicep
17 14 (0.43%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.25%) Apex Code
19 7 (0.22%) C
20 6 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 229 (7.05%) Security Cleared
2 184 (5.67%) Degree
3 166 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 131 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.17%) DV Cleared
6 23 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 15 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.15%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.092%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.092%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.092%) OCP
14 3 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.092%) PhD
15 1 (0.031%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.14%) QA
2 69 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.92%) WCAG
4 19 (0.59%) GDPR
5 18 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.25%) NCSC
7 7 (0.22%) GRC
8 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.092%) NIST
9 3 (0.092%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.062%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.031%) HL7
11 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.031%) ITGC
11 1 (0.031%) SLA
11 1 (0.031%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 464 (14.29%) Docker
2 5 (0.15%) 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
1 353 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 156 (4.81%) Terraform
3 25 (0.77%) Grafana
4 21 (0.65%) Ansible
5 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.37%) Podman
7 10 (0.31%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.28%) Kibana
9 6 (0.18%) logstash
9 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.092%) Argo
11 2 (0.062%) Bugsnag
11 2 (0.062%) Packer
11 2 (0.062%) Puppet
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%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 622 (19.16%) Microsoft
2 84 (2.59%) Google
3 59 (1.82%) Facebook
4 45 (1.39%) OpenAI
5 32 (0.99%) Oracle
6 27 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 24 (0.74%) YouTube
8 20 (0.62%) Splunk
9 18 (0.55%) Apple
10 17 (0.52%) Foundry
10 17 (0.52%) Palantir
10 17 (0.52%) Sony
10 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
11 15 (0.46%) Adobe
11 15 (0.46%) AppDynamics
12 12 (0.37%) Databricks
13 10 (0.31%) OneLogin
13 10 (0.31%) Sitecore
14 9 (0.28%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.25%) New Relic