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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 102 45
Rank change year-on-year +54 -57 +36
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,252 1,466 3,776
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.97% 2.93% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 3.30% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,668 892 2,515
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
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 - - +2.56%

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 79,954 44,458 67,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.81% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55,419 25,298 42,226
10th Percentile £31,055 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,047
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.09% -9.01%

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 27 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 27 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 +60 2,958 £65,000 -7.14% 2,024
UK excluding London +73 2,277 £60,000 - 1,032
Work from Home +46 1,404 £60,000 -7.69% 810
London +7 821 £85,000 +3.03% 1,204
North of England +66 741 £65,000 +8.33% 297
South East +110 564 £60,000 - 215
North West +41 408 £65,000 - 183
South West +58 327 £60,000 - 156
Midlands +44 307 £55,000 -8.33% 125
Yorkshire +69 210 £70,000 +16.67% 75
East of England +51 184 £60,000 +33.33% 96
West Midlands +32 171 £60,000 -7.69% 63
East Midlands +30 136 £55,000 +15.79% 62
North East +20 123 £52,000 +21.64% 42
Scotland -14 95 £60,000 -9.43% 87
Wales -33 57 £60,000 - 21
Northern Ireland -75 7 £70,000 +16.67% 41
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%) IIS
6 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
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
10 3 (0.092%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 13 (0.40%) 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
1 945 (29.06%) Azure
2 935 (28.75%) AWS
3 322 (9.90%) GitHub
4 254 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
5 250 (7.69%) SaaS
6 198 (6.09%) Serverless
7 188 (5.78%) GCP
7 188 (5.78%) GitHub Copilot
8 167 (5.14%) Azure AI
9 129 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
10 102 (3.14%) Amazon S3
11 86 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
12 80 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 76 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
14 67 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
15 55 (1.69%) Anthropic Claude
15 55 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
16 46 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
17 35 (1.08%) Power Platform
18 32 (0.98%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.88%) Internet
2 51 (1.57%) Broadband
3 17 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.40%) DNS
5 11 (0.34%) Firewall
5 11 (0.34%) HTTP
6 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
7 5 (0.15%) MQTT
8 4 (0.12%) VoIP
9 3 (0.092%) DHCP
10 2 (0.062%) AMQP
10 2 (0.062%) LAN
10 2 (0.062%) Network Security
10 2 (0.062%) VPN
10 2 (0.062%) WAN
11 1 (0.031%) Diameter Protocol
11 1 (0.031%) Multicast
11 1 (0.031%) SCTP
11 1 (0.031%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 533 (16.39%) MongoDB
2 463 (14.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 236 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
4 180 (5.54%) SQL Server
5 159 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
6 110 (3.38%) NoSQL
7 98 (3.01%) MySQL
8 84 (2.58%) Relational Database
9 71 (2.18%) DynamoDB
10 56 (1.72%) 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%) RDBMS
17 8 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.25%) Pinecone
18 6 (0.18%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.18%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 252 (7.75%) Git
2 106 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 85 (2.61%) GitLab
4 64 (1.97%) Cypress.io
5 61 (1.88%) JUnit
6 46 (1.41%) Claude Code
7 42 (1.29%) JIRA
8 34 (1.05%) Maven
9 32 (0.98%) Eclipse
10 31 (0.95%) Subversion
11 22 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.49%) Mockito
13 15 (0.46%) Selenium
14 14 (0.43%) Storybook
14 14 (0.43%) Vite
15 13 (0.40%) Spock
16 12 (0.37%) Bitbucket
16 12 (0.37%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.37%) NUnit
17 9 (0.28%) IntelliJ
General
1 383 (11.78%) Finance
2 318 (9.78%) Social Skills
3 160 (4.92%) Public Sector
4 106 (3.26%) Marketing
5 91 (2.80%) Games
6 75 (2.31%) Retail
7 73 (2.24%) Advertising
8 71 (2.18%) Analytical Skills
9 68 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 59 (1.81%) Banking
11 38 (1.17%) Law
12 36 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 34 (1.05%) Legal
14 30 (0.92%) Financial Institution
15 27 (0.83%) Tech for Good
16 19 (0.58%) Front Office
17 18 (0.55%) Aerospace
18 15 (0.46%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.46%) Legal Technology
19 14 (0.43%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,917 (58.95%) Developer
2 1,045 (32.13%) Full-Stack Developer
3 778 (23.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 639 (19.65%) Senior
5 594 (18.27%) .NET Developer
6 542 (16.67%) Software Engineer
7 425 (13.07%) Lead
8 292 (8.98%) Software Developer
9 277 (8.52%) Senior Developer
10 238 (7.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 225 (6.92%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 187 (5.75%) Lead Developer
13 161 (4.95%) Java Developer
13 161 (4.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 156 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
15 119 (3.66%) Java Engineer
16 103 (3.17%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
17 98 (3.01%) Python Engineer
18 97 (2.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 92 (2.83%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,040 (31.98%) React
2 980 (30.14%) .NET
3 623 (19.16%) Node.js
4 553 (17.00%) ASP.NET
5 545 (16.76%) .NET Core
6 513 (15.77%) ASP.NET Core
7 436 (13.41%) AngularJS
8 424 (13.04%) CSS
9 403 (12.39%) HTML
10 373 (11.47%) RESTful
11 369 (11.35%) Vue
12 230 (7.07%) Entity Framework
13 226 (6.95%) REST
14 218 (6.70%) Blazor
15 211 (6.49%) Spring
16 186 (5.72%) ASP.NET Web API
17 170 (5.23%) Next.js
18 169 (5.20%) Spring Boot
19 156 (4.80%) ML.NET
20 155 (4.77%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 308 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 158 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
3 120 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
4 86 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
5 85 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 81 (2.49%) AI Agents
7 77 (2.37%) Mobile App
8 73 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 49 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 35 (1.08%) Low-Code
10 35 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
11 34 (1.05%) e-Learning
12 30 (0.92%) Onboarding
13 27 (0.83%) IoT
14 24 (0.74%) Virtual Team
15 21 (0.65%) Social Media
16 20 (0.62%) Digital TV
17 19 (0.58%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.52%) Fixed Income
18 17 (0.52%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 62 (1.91%) Linux
2 27 (0.83%) Android
3 15 (0.46%) Windows
4 12 (0.37%) Unix
5 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.12%) VMS
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
9 1 (0.031%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 938 (28.84%) Software Engineering
2 920 (28.29%) Agile
3 802 (24.66%) CI/CD
4 749 (23.03%) AI
5 581 (17.87%) Microservices
6 553 (17.00%) DevOps
7 342 (10.52%) Problem-Solving
8 312 (9.59%) Machine Learning
9 301 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 287 (8.83%) Mentoring
11 284 (8.73%) Test Automation
12 221 (6.80%) Scrum
13 202 (6.21%) Clean Code
14 197 (6.06%) TDD
15 191 (5.87%) Observability
16 183 (5.63%) Infrastructure as Code
17 179 (5.50%) Technical Leadership
18 178 (5.47%) Multithreading
19 166 (5.10%) Front End Development
20 165 (5.07%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,006 (30.93%) JavaScript
2 941 (28.94%) C#
3 922 (28.35%) TypeScript
4 764 (23.49%) SQL
5 617 (18.97%) Python
6 529 (16.27%) Java
7 98 (3.01%) Ruby
8 94 (2.89%) PHP
9 90 (2.77%) Go
10 82 (2.52%) C++
11 53 (1.63%) Kotlin
12 30 (0.92%) Bash
13 27 (0.83%) Groovy
14 26 (0.80%) Perl
15 18 (0.55%) Rust
16 15 (0.46%) Bicep
17 14 (0.43%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.22%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.18%) C
19 6 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 226 (6.95%) Security Cleared
2 187 (5.75%) Degree
3 160 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 130 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 23 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.49%) 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 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.12%) PhD
15 3 (0.092%) ICAEW
15 3 (0.092%) OCP
15 3 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.031%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.11%) QA
2 73 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.92%) WCAG
4 23 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 19 (0.58%) GDPR
6 8 (0.25%) GRC
6 8 (0.25%) NCSC
7 6 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.092%) NIST
10 2 (0.062%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.031%) ITGC
11 1 (0.031%) SLA
System Software
1 467 (14.36%) Docker
2 4 (0.12%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.12%) Firmware
2 4 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 355 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 22 (0.68%) Ansible
3 21 (0.65%) Grafana
4 13 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.37%) Podman
6 10 (0.31%) HP Fortify
7 8 (0.25%) Kibana
8 6 (0.18%) logstash
8 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.092%) Argo
10 2 (0.062%) Bugsnag
10 2 (0.062%) Packer
10 2 (0.062%) Puppet
11 1 (0.031%) Consul
11 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.031%) Graylog
11 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.031%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 615 (18.91%) Microsoft
2 86 (2.64%) Google
3 59 (1.81%) Facebook
4 46 (1.41%) OpenAI
5 34 (1.05%) Oracle
6 25 (0.77%) Salesforce
7 24 (0.74%) YouTube
8 20 (0.62%) Splunk
9 17 (0.52%) Apple
9 17 (0.52%) Sony
9 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.49%) AppDynamics
10 16 (0.49%) Foundry
11 15 (0.46%) Adobe
11 15 (0.46%) Palantir
12 10 (0.31%) OneLogin
12 10 (0.31%) Sitecore
13 9 (0.28%) Databricks
13 9 (0.28%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.28%) Red Hat