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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 47 68
Rank change year-on-year -80 +21 -12
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,178 3,023 2,209
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.22% 4.45% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 5.35% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 879 1,618 1,974
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,025 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,375 £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 £93,000 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £98,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 45,647 56,467 49,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.17% 83.08% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,329 29,505 38,075
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,625 £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 £79,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -

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 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Top 17 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 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 -78 1,036 £70,000 +7.69% 1,642
UK excluding London -96 613 £60,000 +9.09% 1,003
London -25 516 £90,000 +5.88% 762
Work from Home -57 455 £67,500 +8.00% 948
North of England -57 170 £60,000 +4.35% 254
South East -106 151 £60,000 - 298
North West -33 94 £65,000 +13.04% 161
Midlands -81 85 £60,000 +20.00% 166
Scotland -29 70 £67,500 +12.50% 34
South West -59 69 £60,000 +9.09% 111
West Midlands -37 57 £60,000 +9.09% 101
Yorkshire -50 52 £60,000 +9.09% 69
East of England -78 45 £50,000 -23.08% 101
East Midlands -69 28 £52,500 +16.67% 65
North East -22 24 £50,000 -16.67% 27
Wales -34 20 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Northern Ireland -22 5 £60,000 -7.69% 10

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 18 (1.53%) IIS
2 17 (1.44%) CMS
3 12 (1.02%) Confluence
4 11 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.76%) Headless CMS
6 8 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.51%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.42%) Apache
9 5 (0.42%) nginx
9 5 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.34%) Camunda
10 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.25%) WordPress
12 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.085%) Appian
13 1 (0.085%) MetaMask
Applications
1 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.25%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.02%) Shopify
2 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 496 (42.11%) AWS
2 430 (36.50%) Azure
3 126 (10.70%) SaaS
4 123 (10.44%) GitHub
5 120 (10.19%) Serverless
6 105 (8.91%) GCP
7 65 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
9 45 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
10 44 (3.74%) Amazon S3
10 44 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
13 27 (2.29%) PaaS
14 26 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
15 25 (2.12%) Power Platform
16 23 (1.95%) Azure App Service
16 23 (1.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (1.78%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.42%) Firewall
2 4 (0.34%) HTTP
3 3 (0.25%) Broadband
3 3 (0.25%) MQTT
3 3 (0.25%) VPN
3 3 (0.25%) WAN
4 2 (0.17%) DNS
4 2 (0.17%) Internet
4 2 (0.17%) LAN
4 2 (0.17%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.17%) SMS
4 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.17%) VLAN
4 2 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.085%) DHCP
5 1 (0.085%) FTP
5 1 (0.085%) SAN
5 1 (0.085%) SNMP
5 1 (0.085%) SSL
5 1 (0.085%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (13.16%) SQL Server
2 126 (10.70%) PostgreSQL
3 99 (8.40%) MongoDB
4 96 (8.15%) NoSQL
5 86 (7.30%) Relational Database
6 80 (6.79%) MySQL
7 51 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (3.06%) RDBMS
9 30 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (2.21%) Redis
11 19 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (1.36%) DynamoDB
13 13 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.10%) Big Data
14 12 (1.02%) Power BI
15 9 (0.76%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.68%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.68%) NonStop SQL
17 7 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
17 7 (0.59%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 175 (14.86%) Git
2 54 (4.58%) Jenkins
3 50 (4.24%) JIRA
4 39 (3.31%) Cypress.io
5 34 (2.89%) JUnit
6 25 (2.12%) Mockito
7 24 (2.04%) JMeter
8 23 (1.95%) GitLab
9 20 (1.70%) Visual Studio
10 18 (1.53%) Vite
11 17 (1.44%) webpack
12 14 (1.19%) TeamCity
13 12 (1.02%) Maven
14 11 (0.93%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (0.76%) Selenium
16 8 (0.68%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
17 7 (0.59%) CircleCI
18 6 (0.51%) NUnit
General
1 286 (24.28%) Social Skills
2 252 (21.39%) Finance
3 134 (11.38%) Law
4 105 (8.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (6.11%) Banking
6 68 (5.77%) Public Sector
7 66 (5.60%) Marketing
8 52 (4.41%) Front Office
9 48 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
10 38 (3.23%) Investment Banking
11 33 (2.80%) Legal
12 28 (2.38%) Retail
13 19 (1.61%) Games
14 18 (1.53%) Back Office
14 18 (1.53%) Health Technology
15 16 (1.36%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (1.19%) Advertising
17 10 (0.85%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.59%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 682 (57.89%) Developer
2 465 (39.47%) Full-Stack Developer
3 270 (22.92%) Software Engineer
4 267 (22.67%) Senior
5 220 (18.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 164 (13.92%) Lead
7 153 (12.99%) Senior Developer
8 126 (10.70%) .NET Developer
9 115 (9.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 109 (9.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 99 (8.40%) Java Developer
12 92 (7.81%) Software Developer
13 75 (6.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 73 (6.20%) Java Engineer
15 68 (5.77%) Lead Developer
16 67 (5.69%) React Developer
17 61 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
18 58 (4.92%) C# Developer
19 56 (4.75%) Java Software Engineer
19 56 (4.75%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 605 (51.36%) React
2 389 (33.02%) .NET
3 279 (23.68%) AngularJS
4 269 (22.84%) HTML
5 235 (19.95%) CSS
6 227 (19.27%) Node.js
7 183 (15.53%) RESTful
8 171 (14.52%) Vue
9 163 (13.84%) Spring
10 145 (12.31%) .NET Core
11 138 (11.71%) REST
12 127 (10.78%) ASP.NET
13 121 (10.27%) .NET Framework
14 115 (9.76%) Spring Boot
15 109 (9.25%) GraphQL
16 98 (8.32%) Kafka
17 86 (7.30%) Entity Framework
18 80 (6.79%) HTML5
19 73 (6.20%) Next.js
20 66 (5.60%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 151 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 74 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 35 (2.97%) Fixed Income
5 35 (2.97%) Mobile App
6 30 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 22 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.44%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.44%) Hedge funds
10 17 (1.44%) Private Cloud
10 17 (1.44%) Reference Data
11 15 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.27%) IoT
12 14 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.10%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.10%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.44%) Linux
2 12 (1.02%) Unix
2 12 (1.02%) Windows
3 11 (0.93%) Android
3 11 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (47.96%) Agile
2 425 (36.08%) CI/CD
3 409 (34.72%) Software Engineering
4 271 (23.01%) DevOps
5 259 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
6 245 (20.80%) Microservices
7 236 (20.03%) AI
8 208 (17.66%) User Experience
9 195 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 181 (15.37%) Mentoring
11 157 (13.33%) SDLC
12 141 (11.97%) Clean Code
12 141 (11.97%) TDD
13 124 (10.53%) Test Automation
14 119 (10.10%) MVC
15 115 (9.76%) Computer Science
16 110 (9.34%) Containerisation
17 108 (9.17%) Machine Learning
18 104 (8.83%) Code Quality
18 104 (8.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 502 (42.61%) JavaScript
2 424 (35.99%) TypeScript
3 388 (32.94%) C#
4 317 (26.91%) Java
5 292 (24.79%) SQL
6 248 (21.05%) Python
7 51 (4.33%) PHP
8 50 (4.24%) Go
9 39 (3.31%) Rust
10 23 (1.95%) Ruby
11 21 (1.78%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.44%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.36%) C++
13 16 (1.36%) PowerShell
14 12 (1.02%) Bicep
15 11 (0.93%) Bash
16 10 (0.85%) VB.NET
17 8 (0.68%) C
17 8 (0.68%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 111 (9.42%) Degree
2 105 (8.91%) Security Cleared
3 67 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (5.18%) SC Cleared
5 33 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.42%) MCP
11 3 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.25%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.17%) CISSP
13 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (6.79%) QA
2 72 (6.11%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.36%) GDPR
4 12 (1.02%) WCAG
5 5 (0.42%) PERC
6 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.17%) ECSS
7 2 (0.17%) NIST
7 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.085%) GRC
8 1 (0.085%) MiFID
8 1 (0.085%) SLA
System Software
1 197 (16.72%) Docker
2 15 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.42%) HDFS
5 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.17%) Firmware
7 1 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 185 (15.70%) Kubernetes
2 91 (7.72%) Terraform
3 24 (2.04%) Kibana
4 13 (1.10%) Ansible
4 13 (1.10%) Grafana
5 9 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.59%) Argo
7 2 (0.17%) Istio
7 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.085%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.085%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.085%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.085%) linkerd
8 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.085%) Nagios
Vendors
1 184 (15.62%) Microsoft
2 38 (3.23%) Oracle
3 30 (2.55%) Splunk
4 28 (2.38%) Dynatrace
5 17 (1.44%) Google
6 13 (1.10%) Databricks
6 13 (1.10%) VMware
7 12 (1.02%) OpenAI
8 11 (0.93%) DevExpress
8 11 (0.93%) Foundry
8 11 (0.93%) Palantir
9 9 (0.76%) Apple
10 7 (0.59%) Facebook
10 7 (0.59%) YouTube
11 6 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.51%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.51%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.51%) Rollbar
12 5 (0.42%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.42%) Zoho