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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 98 43
Rank change year-on-year +50 -55 +28
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,152 1,531 4,326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.14% 3.12% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.47% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,622 955 3,151
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 23 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 23 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 +54 2,863 £65,000 -7.14% 793
UK excluding London +63 2,157 £60,000 - 485
Work from Home +43 1,413 £60,000 -9.23% 317
London +15 841 £85,000 - 395
North of England +66 712 £65,000 +8.33% 137
South East +91 532 £60,000 - 132
North West +42 385 £65,000 - 73
South West +52 293 £60,000 - 59
Midlands +44 291 £55,000 -8.33% 71
Yorkshire +80 213 £70,000 +16.67% 44
East of England +64 178 £60,000 +26.32% 45
West Midlands +21 149 £60,000 -4.00% 38
East Midlands +22 141 £55,000 +15.79% 33
North East +20 114 £52,000 +8.33% 21
Scotland -18 82 £55,000 -18.52% 29
Wales -28 54 £60,000 -4.00% 8
Northern Ireland -52 20 £70,000 +16.67% 10
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 31 (0.98%) CMS
2 24 (0.76%) Confluence
3 15 (0.48%) WordPress
4 11 (0.35%) Apache
4 11 (0.35%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.32%) ColdFusion
5 10 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) IIS
9 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.095%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.095%) Kentico
12 3 (0.095%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.063%) Elementor
3 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.032%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.032%) Magento
3 1 (0.032%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.032%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 938 (29.76%) Azure
2 917 (29.09%) AWS
3 293 (9.30%) GitHub
4 243 (7.71%) Azure DevOps
5 232 (7.36%) SaaS
6 206 (6.54%) Serverless
7 181 (5.74%) GCP
8 169 (5.36%) GitHub Copilot
9 161 (5.11%) Azure AI
10 125 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
11 103 (3.27%) Amazon S3
12 82 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
12 82 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 75 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
14 59 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
15 53 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (1.27%) Anthropic Claude
17 38 (1.21%) Power Platform
18 36 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
19 33 (1.05%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.87%) Broadband
2 57 (1.81%) Internet
3 8 (0.25%) Firewall
3 8 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.19%) DNS
5 6 (0.19%) HTTP
6 5 (0.16%) MQTT
7 3 (0.095%) LAN
7 3 (0.095%) WAN
8 2 (0.063%) AMQP
8 2 (0.063%) DHCP
8 2 (0.063%) Network Security
8 2 (0.063%) VoIP
8 2 (0.063%) VPN
9 1 (0.032%) Multicast
9 1 (0.032%) SCTP
9 1 (0.032%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.032%) VoLTE
9 1 (0.032%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 534 (16.94%) MongoDB
2 460 (14.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 216 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
4 166 (5.27%) SQL Server
5 158 (5.01%) Elasticsearch
6 112 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.24%) MySQL
8 83 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 66 (2.09%) DynamoDB
10 51 (1.62%) Redis
11 22 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
11 22 (0.70%) Power BI
12 14 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
13 11 (0.35%) GIS
13 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
14 9 (0.29%) Pinecone
14 9 (0.29%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.22%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 5 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 236 (7.49%) Git
2 103 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 70 (2.22%) GitLab
4 53 (1.68%) Cypress.io
5 47 (1.49%) JIRA
6 44 (1.40%) JUnit
7 40 (1.27%) Claude Code
8 31 (0.98%) Maven
9 24 (0.76%) Eclipse
10 23 (0.73%) Subversion
11 21 (0.67%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.51%) Vite
13 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.41%) Mockito
14 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.32%) Spock
15 10 (0.32%) Storybook
16 9 (0.29%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.29%) Selenium
17 7 (0.22%) IntelliJ
General
1 392 (12.44%) Finance
2 298 (9.45%) Social Skills
3 108 (3.43%) Public Sector
4 99 (3.14%) Marketing
5 91 (2.89%) Games
6 76 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (2.35%) Advertising
8 72 (2.28%) Retail
9 58 (1.84%) Banking
10 55 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 42 (1.33%) Front Office
12 37 (1.17%) Law
13 32 (1.02%) Legal
14 31 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 25 (0.79%) Tech for Good
16 19 (0.60%) Automotive
16 19 (0.60%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.51%) Aerospace
18 15 (0.48%) Legal Technology
19 14 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,923 (61.01%) Developer
2 1,020 (32.36%) Full-Stack Developer
3 723 (22.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 621 (19.70%) Senior
5 617 (19.57%) .NET Developer
6 545 (17.29%) Software Engineer
7 408 (12.94%) Lead
8 279 (8.85%) Senior Developer
9 262 (8.31%) Software Developer
10 246 (7.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 196 (6.22%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 192 (6.09%) Lead Developer
13 165 (5.23%) Java Developer
14 164 (5.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 153 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
16 119 (3.78%) Java Engineer
17 99 (3.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 99 (3.14%) Python Developer
18 98 (3.11%) React Developer
19 91 (2.89%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,032 (32.74%) React
2 968 (30.71%) .NET
3 620 (19.67%) Node.js
4 544 (17.26%) .NET Core
5 543 (17.23%) ASP.NET
6 504 (15.99%) ASP.NET Core
7 433 (13.74%) AngularJS
8 422 (13.39%) CSS
9 407 (12.91%) HTML
10 385 (12.21%) Vue
11 343 (10.88%) RESTful
12 230 (7.30%) Entity Framework
13 213 (6.76%) Blazor
14 198 (6.28%) Spring
15 188 (5.96%) REST
16 185 (5.87%) ASP.NET Web API
17 158 (5.01%) Spring Boot
18 154 (4.89%) ML.NET
19 151 (4.79%) Next.js
20 133 (4.22%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 288 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 172 (5.46%) Greenfield Project
3 107 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 79 (2.51%) Mobile App
5 74 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
5 74 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 63 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 57 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 48 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (1.21%) Fixed Income
9 38 (1.21%) Low-Code
10 33 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 33 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
11 30 (0.95%) IoT
12 29 (0.92%) e-Learning
13 22 (0.70%) Social Media
13 22 (0.70%) Virtual Team
14 20 (0.63%) Digital TV
15 19 (0.60%) Algorithms
16 17 (0.54%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.74%) Linux
2 22 (0.70%) Android
3 14 (0.44%) Windows
4 8 (0.25%) Unix
5 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.095%) AIX
6 3 (0.095%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.095%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.063%) VMS
8 1 (0.032%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (29.44%) Software Engineering
2 908 (28.81%) Agile
3 740 (23.48%) CI/CD
4 680 (21.57%) AI
5 555 (17.61%) Microservices
6 554 (17.58%) DevOps
7 346 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
8 298 (9.45%) Machine Learning
9 292 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 279 (8.85%) Mentoring
11 261 (8.28%) Test Automation
12 217 (6.88%) Scrum
13 195 (6.19%) TDD
14 184 (5.84%) Clean Code
15 175 (5.55%) Infrastructure as Code
16 174 (5.52%) Multithreading
17 171 (5.43%) Containerisation
17 171 (5.43%) Observability
18 156 (4.95%) Technical Leadership
19 149 (4.73%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 963 (30.55%) JavaScript
2 910 (28.87%) C#
3 903 (28.65%) TypeScript
4 751 (23.83%) SQL
5 602 (19.10%) Python
6 512 (16.24%) Java
7 102 (3.24%) PHP
8 94 (2.98%) Go
9 74 (2.35%) Ruby
10 66 (2.09%) C++
11 30 (0.95%) Bash
12 26 (0.82%) Groovy
13 19 (0.60%) Rust
14 18 (0.57%) Perl
15 15 (0.48%) Bicep
16 13 (0.41%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.38%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.19%) C
18 6 (0.19%) PowerShell
19 5 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 207 (6.57%) Security Cleared
2 166 (5.27%) Degree
3 150 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 118 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 21 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.29%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.13%) PhD
14 3 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.032%) CCNA
15 1 (0.032%) CCNP
15 1 (0.032%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.032%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (3.11%) QA
2 65 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.95%) WCAG
4 20 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 18 (0.57%) GDPR
6 8 (0.25%) NCSC
7 7 (0.22%) GRC
8 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.095%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.095%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.063%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.063%) ITGC
10 2 (0.063%) SLA
11 1 (0.032%) HL7
11 1 (0.032%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.032%) NIST
11 1 (0.032%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 443 (14.05%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.095%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.063%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.063%) vSphere
6 1 (0.032%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 338 (10.72%) Kubernetes
2 142 (4.51%) Terraform
3 31 (0.98%) Grafana
4 19 (0.60%) Ansible
4 19 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.41%) Podman
6 11 (0.35%) HP Fortify
7 10 (0.32%) Kibana
8 6 (0.19%) logstash
9 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.063%) Argo
11 1 (0.032%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.032%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.032%) Graylog
11 1 (0.032%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.032%) Nagios
11 1 (0.032%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 616 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 83 (2.63%) Google
3 58 (1.84%) Facebook
4 34 (1.08%) OpenAI
5 26 (0.82%) Oracle
6 25 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.70%) Adobe
8 21 (0.67%) YouTube
9 18 (0.57%) Apple
10 17 (0.54%) Palantir
10 17 (0.54%) Sony
10 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
11 15 (0.48%) Foundry
11 15 (0.48%) Splunk
12 13 (0.41%) AppDynamics
12 13 (0.41%) Databricks
13 10 (0.32%) Sitecore
14 9 (0.29%) OneLogin
15 8 (0.25%) Dynatrace
16 6 (0.19%) Palo Alto