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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 108 44
Rank change year-on-year +57 -64 +28
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,295 1,367 3,290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.79% 2.77% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.11% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,599 810 1,829
10th Percentile £43,894 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £100,000
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 86,578 43,908 59,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.25% 88.94% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 59,120 24,542 31,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,054 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -2.78%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +69 3,005 £65,000 -7.14% 2,204
UK excluding London +82 2,267 £60,000 - 1,063
Work from Home +37 1,300 £60,000 -7.69% 1,036
London +13 884 £85,000 - 1,276
North of England +61 764 £65,000 +4.00% 354
South East +108 540 £60,000 -4.00% 185
North West +54 451 £70,000 +1.82% 221
South West +68 356 £65,000 +8.33% 94
Midlands +38 290 £55,000 -8.33% 121
Yorkshire +66 205 £70,000 +16.67% 100
West Midlands +19 159 £60,000 -4.00% 77
East of England +33 153 £60,000 +20.00% 95
East Midlands +29 131 £55,000 +4.76% 44
North East +1 108 £50,000 +5.26% 36
Scotland -4 96 £60,000 -9.43% 129
Wales -39 58 £68,750 +14.58% 16
Northern Ireland -63 12 £90,000 +50.00% 72
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 30 (0.91%) CMS
1 30 (0.91%) Confluence
2 18 (0.55%) WordPress
3 10 (0.30%) Apache
3 10 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
4 9 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (0.27%) IIS
5 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.21%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.15%) nginx
8 5 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.12%) ColdFusion
9 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 3 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.091%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.091%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.091%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.061%) Elementor
2 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.061%) Revit
3 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.21%) Shopify
2 6 (0.18%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.030%) Magento
4 1 (0.030%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.030%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 897 (27.22%) Azure
2 885 (26.86%) AWS
3 319 (9.68%) GitHub
4 237 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
5 225 (6.83%) SaaS
6 196 (5.95%) Serverless
7 183 (5.55%) GitHub Copilot
8 180 (5.46%) GCP
9 160 (4.86%) Azure AI
10 125 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
11 97 (2.94%) Amazon S3
12 84 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
13 71 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
13 71 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 66 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
15 57 (1.73%) Anthropic Claude
16 56 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
17 47 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
18 41 (1.24%) Snowflake
19 34 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.94%) Internet
2 35 (1.06%) Broadband
3 20 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.39%) HTTP
5 12 (0.36%) DNS
6 11 (0.33%) Firewall
7 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.15%) MQTT
8 5 (0.15%) VoIP
9 3 (0.091%) DHCP
10 2 (0.061%) AMQP
10 2 (0.061%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.061%) LAN
10 2 (0.061%) Network Security
10 2 (0.061%) VPN
10 2 (0.061%) WAN
11 1 (0.030%) 4G
11 1 (0.030%) Multicast
11 1 (0.030%) SCTP
11 1 (0.030%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 507 (15.39%) MongoDB
2 444 (13.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 224 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
4 199 (6.04%) SQL Server
5 158 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
6 102 (3.10%) Relational Database
7 92 (2.79%) NoSQL
8 86 (2.61%) MySQL
9 72 (2.19%) Redis
10 56 (1.70%) DynamoDB
11 31 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (0.58%) Power BI
13 17 (0.52%) Spark SQL
14 12 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.30%) Pinecone
17 9 (0.27%) Chroma
17 9 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.27%) GIS
18 8 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 245 (7.44%) Git
2 103 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 97 (2.94%) GitLab
4 64 (1.94%) JUnit
5 56 (1.70%) Cypress.io
6 45 (1.37%) Claude Code
7 40 (1.21%) JIRA
8 36 (1.09%) Maven
9 30 (0.91%) Subversion
10 29 (0.88%) Eclipse
11 25 (0.76%) Vite
12 22 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 19 (0.58%) Mockito
14 15 (0.46%) Selenium
14 15 (0.46%) Storybook
15 14 (0.42%) Spock
16 12 (0.36%) NUnit
17 10 (0.30%) TeamCity
17 10 (0.30%) Visual Studio
18 9 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 432 (13.11%) Finance
2 299 (9.07%) Social Skills
3 194 (5.89%) Public Sector
4 95 (2.88%) Marketing
5 83 (2.52%) Games
6 79 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 68 (2.06%) Retail
8 64 (1.94%) Advertising
8 64 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 59 (1.79%) Banking
10 42 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 37 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 29 (0.88%) Law
13 27 (0.82%) Tech for Good
14 26 (0.79%) Legal
15 22 (0.67%) Automotive
16 19 (0.58%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.39%) Front Office
18 11 (0.33%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,747 (53.02%) Developer
2 968 (29.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 910 (27.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 721 (21.88%) Senior
5 561 (17.03%) .NET Developer
6 548 (16.63%) Software Engineer
7 402 (12.20%) Lead
8 292 (8.86%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 277 (8.41%) Senior Developer
10 251 (7.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 244 (7.41%) Software Developer
12 170 (5.16%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 170 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
13 158 (4.80%) Java Engineer
14 145 (4.40%) Java Developer
15 141 (4.28%) Lead Developer
16 97 (2.94%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
17 95 (2.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 91 (2.76%) Python Engineer
19 81 (2.46%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 959 (29.10%) React
2 941 (28.56%) .NET
3 560 (17.00%) Node.js
4 535 (16.24%) ASP.NET
5 524 (15.90%) .NET Core
6 497 (15.08%) ASP.NET Core
7 424 (12.87%) AngularJS
8 383 (11.62%) CSS
9 364 (11.05%) HTML
10 354 (10.74%) RESTful
11 336 (10.20%) Vue
12 241 (7.31%) REST
13 223 (6.77%) Entity Framework
14 209 (6.34%) Blazor
15 205 (6.22%) Spring
16 180 (5.46%) ASP.NET Web API
17 168 (5.10%) Spring Boot
18 164 (4.98%) Next.js
19 155 (4.70%) Terraform
20 148 (4.49%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 302 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 135 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
3 134 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (3.22%) AI Agents
5 90 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 75 (2.28%) Product Ownership
7 71 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 65 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 45 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.03%) e-Learning
11 30 (0.91%) IoT
12 28 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
13 27 (0.82%) Low-Code
14 22 (0.67%) Onboarding
15 20 (0.61%) Virtual Team
16 19 (0.58%) Digital TV
17 17 (0.52%) iPhone
17 17 (0.52%) Social Media
18 16 (0.49%) BBC
18 16 (0.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (1.85%) Linux
2 27 (0.82%) Android
3 15 (0.46%) Windows
4 14 (0.42%) Unix
5 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.12%) VMS
7 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.091%) AIX
8 3 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.061%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.030%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 952 (28.89%) Software Engineering
2 897 (27.22%) Agile
3 804 (24.40%) CI/CD
4 754 (22.88%) AI
5 563 (17.09%) Microservices
6 500 (15.17%) DevOps
7 340 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
8 281 (8.53%) Machine Learning
8 281 (8.53%) Mentoring
9 259 (7.86%) Test Automation
10 255 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 194 (5.89%) Clean Code
12 190 (5.77%) LLM
13 186 (5.64%) Scrum
14 185 (5.61%) Observability
15 182 (5.52%) Front End Development
16 175 (5.31%) TDD
17 171 (5.19%) Multithreading
18 170 (5.16%) Technical Leadership
19 166 (5.04%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 924 (28.04%) JavaScript
2 918 (27.86%) C#
3 857 (26.01%) TypeScript
4 730 (22.15%) SQL
5 611 (18.54%) Java
6 541 (16.42%) Python
7 102 (3.10%) Kotlin
7 102 (3.10%) Ruby
8 97 (2.94%) C++
9 83 (2.52%) PHP
10 74 (2.25%) Go
11 31 (0.94%) Bash
12 28 (0.85%) Groovy
13 27 (0.82%) Rust
14 26 (0.79%) Perl
15 11 (0.33%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.30%) Bicep
17 7 (0.21%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.18%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 221 (6.71%) Security Cleared
2 190 (5.77%) Degree
3 148 (4.49%) SC Cleared
4 128 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 21 (0.64%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.42%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (0.24%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (0.18%) PhD
12 4 (0.12%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.091%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.091%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.091%) OCP
13 3 (0.091%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (2.19%) QA
2 70 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 36 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 31 (0.94%) WCAG
5 19 (0.58%) GDPR
6 10 (0.30%) NCSC
7 8 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.18%) NIST
9 4 (0.12%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.061%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.061%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.061%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.061%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.030%) GRC
11 1 (0.030%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.030%) SLA
System Software
1 472 (14.32%) Docker
2 3 (0.091%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.091%) Firmware
3 1 (0.030%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.030%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 374 (11.35%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.64%) Ansible
3 18 (0.55%) Grafana
4 10 (0.30%) HP Fortify
4 10 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.27%) Kibana
6 6 (0.18%) logstash
6 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.15%) Argo
8 4 (0.12%) Podman
9 2 (0.061%) Bugsnag
9 2 (0.061%) Packer
9 2 (0.061%) Puppet
10 1 (0.030%) Consul
10 1 (0.030%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.030%) Graylog
10 1 (0.030%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 584 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 101 (3.07%) Google
3 56 (1.70%) Facebook
4 54 (1.64%) OpenAI
5 44 (1.34%) Oracle
6 25 (0.76%) YouTube
7 23 (0.70%) Splunk
8 21 (0.64%) Salesforce
9 18 (0.55%) Red Hat
10 16 (0.49%) Apple
10 16 (0.49%) Foundry
10 16 (0.49%) Sony
10 16 (0.49%) Yahoo!
11 14 (0.42%) AppDynamics
11 14 (0.42%) Mistral
12 13 (0.39%) Adobe
13 12 (0.36%) Databricks
13 12 (0.36%) OutSystems
13 12 (0.36%) Palantir
14 11 (0.33%) Dynatrace