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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 93 39
Rank change year-on-year +39 -54 +30
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,713 1,435 5,260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.93% 3.29% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.53% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,227 907 4,112
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year - +8.75% -4.05%

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 68,107 40,669 85,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 93.11% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45,062 21,401 61,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,114 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +44 2,466 £65,000 -3.70% 921
UK excluding London +36 1,741 £60,000 - 564
Work from Home +35 1,097 £62,500 -3.85% 701
London +32 809 £85,000 +6.25% 447
North of England +40 590 £65,000 +6.12% 173
South East +62 422 £60,000 - 152
North West +30 313 £65,000 - 98
Midlands +19 266 £55,000 +4.76% 63
South West +27 224 £60,000 -4.00% 69
Yorkshire +67 191 £70,000 +19.15% 46
East of England +30 139 £60,000 +20.00% 50
West Midlands +10 138 £55,000 -12.00% 27
East Midlands +10 127 £55,000 +15.79% 36
North East +14 86 £57,500 +21.05% 29
Scotland -41 52 £60,000 -11.11% 26
Wales -38 28 £57,500 -11.54% 20
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 18
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 23 (0.85%) CMS
2 19 (0.70%) Confluence
3 14 (0.52%) WordPress
4 10 (0.37%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.29%) Apache
6 8 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
9 5 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.18%) IIS
10 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.11%) Liferay
11 3 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.074%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.074%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.074%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.037%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.037%) Magento
3 1 (0.037%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 790 (29.12%) AWS
2 607 (22.37%) Azure
3 221 (8.15%) SaaS
4 201 (7.41%) Serverless
5 168 (6.19%) GitHub
6 156 (5.75%) GCP
7 149 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
8 121 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
9 103 (3.80%) Amazon S3
10 78 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
11 67 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
12 65 (2.40%) Azure AI
12 65 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
13 54 (1.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 47 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
15 45 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
16 42 (1.55%) Figma
17 34 (1.25%) Power Platform
18 32 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
19 26 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.32%) Broadband
2 22 (0.81%) Internet
3 6 (0.22%) Firewall
3 6 (0.22%) HTTP
4 5 (0.18%) DNS
4 5 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.11%) MQTT
5 3 (0.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.037%) AMQP
6 1 (0.037%) DHCP
6 1 (0.037%) FTP
6 1 (0.037%) LAN
6 1 (0.037%) Multicast
6 1 (0.037%) RTSP
6 1 (0.037%) SCTP
6 1 (0.037%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.037%) VLAN
6 1 (0.037%) VoIP
6 1 (0.037%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (10.10%) MongoDB
2 187 (6.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 184 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
4 134 (4.94%) SQL Server
5 111 (4.09%) NoSQL
6 74 (2.73%) MySQL
7 66 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 61 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
9 54 (1.99%) DynamoDB
10 23 (0.85%) Power BI
11 20 (0.74%) Redis
12 15 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.41%) GIS
15 9 (0.33%) Pinecone
16 6 (0.22%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.22%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.22%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 5 (0.18%) DB2
Development Applications
1 196 (7.22%) Git
2 93 (3.43%) Jenkins
3 59 (2.17%) Cypress.io
4 54 (1.99%) GitLab
5 39 (1.44%) JIRA
6 34 (1.25%) Maven
7 30 (1.11%) JUnit
8 24 (0.88%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 17 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.63%) Mockito
10 17 (0.63%) Vite
11 12 (0.44%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.41%) Eclipse
12 11 (0.41%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.37%) Subversion
14 9 (0.33%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.33%) Selenium
15 7 (0.26%) ESLint
15 7 (0.26%) Storybook
General
1 308 (11.35%) Finance
2 289 (10.65%) Social Skills
3 85 (3.13%) Public Sector
4 76 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (2.17%) Games
5 59 (2.17%) Marketing
6 53 (1.95%) Banking
6 53 (1.95%) Retail
7 47 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (1.40%) Law
9 36 (1.33%) Front Office
10 35 (1.29%) Manufacturing
11 33 (1.22%) Advertising
12 32 (1.18%) Tech for Good
13 28 (1.03%) Legal
14 22 (0.81%) Aviation
15 21 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (0.70%) Health Technology
17 14 (0.52%) Investment Banking
17 14 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,571 (57.91%) Developer
2 971 (35.79%) Full-Stack Developer
3 666 (24.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 584 (21.53%) Senior
5 512 (18.87%) Software Engineer
6 373 (13.75%) Lead
7 333 (12.27%) .NET Developer
8 273 (10.06%) Senior Developer
9 226 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 225 (8.29%) Software Developer
11 195 (7.19%) Lead Developer
12 180 (6.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 175 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 172 (6.34%) Java Developer
15 143 (5.27%) Senior Software Engineer
16 129 (4.75%) React Developer
17 110 (4.05%) Java Engineer
18 102 (3.76%) Python Developer
19 100 (3.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 89 (3.28%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 887 (32.69%) React
2 670 (24.70%) .NET
3 491 (18.10%) Node.js
4 319 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 306 (11.28%) CSS
6 296 (10.91%) HTML
7 285 (10.50%) .NET Core
8 273 (10.06%) Vue
9 229 (8.44%) ASP.NET
10 222 (8.18%) RESTful
11 201 (7.41%) ASP.NET Core
12 190 (7.00%) Spring
13 154 (5.68%) REST
14 150 (5.53%) Spring Boot
15 130 (4.79%) Next.js
16 117 (4.31%) Entity Framework
17 94 (3.46%) Blazor
18 77 (2.84%) ASP.NET Web API
19 71 (2.62%) .NET Framework
20 70 (2.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 206 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 122 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
3 83 (3.06%) Mobile App
4 77 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 71 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
6 49 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 44 (1.62%) AI Agents
8 40 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.25%) Fixed Income
10 33 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.18%) e-Learning
12 30 (1.11%) IoT
13 29 (1.07%) Low-Code
14 24 (0.88%) Onboarding
15 23 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
16 18 (0.66%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.63%) Data Structures
18 15 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 15 (0.55%) Management Information System
19 14 (0.52%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 44 (1.62%) Linux
2 26 (0.96%) Android
3 16 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.26%) Unix
5 6 (0.22%) Windows
6 1 (0.037%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.037%) VMS
6 1 (0.037%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (31.33%) Software Engineering
2 623 (22.96%) Agile
3 535 (19.72%) CI/CD
4 491 (18.10%) AI
5 438 (16.14%) DevOps
6 389 (14.34%) Microservices
7 343 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
8 286 (10.54%) Mentoring
9 263 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 221 (8.15%) Test Automation
11 181 (6.67%) Machine Learning
12 162 (5.97%) Containerisation
13 161 (5.93%) Scrum
14 157 (5.79%) Clean Code
15 154 (5.68%) User Experience
16 145 (5.34%) Infrastructure as Code
17 140 (5.16%) TDD
18 136 (5.01%) Web Development
19 130 (4.79%) Computer Science
20 129 (4.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 766 (28.23%) JavaScript
2 739 (27.24%) TypeScript
3 607 (22.37%) C#
4 522 (19.24%) Python
5 501 (18.47%) Java
6 473 (17.43%) SQL
7 101 (3.72%) PHP
8 74 (2.73%) Go
9 55 (2.03%) Ruby
10 49 (1.81%) C++
11 33 (1.22%) Bash
12 23 (0.85%) Groovy
13 16 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.55%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.44%) Bicep
16 10 (0.37%) C
16 10 (0.37%) Rust
17 7 (0.26%) Perl
17 7 (0.26%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 182 (6.71%) Security Cleared
2 141 (5.20%) Degree
3 132 (4.87%) SC Cleared
4 96 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.66%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 14 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.18%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.18%) PhD
12 2 (0.074%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.037%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.037%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.69%) QA
2 44 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.52%) GDPR
4 11 (0.41%) WCAG
5 10 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.26%) GRC
7 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.11%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.11%) SLA
9 2 (0.074%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.074%) ITGC
9 2 (0.074%) NCSC
9 2 (0.074%) NIST
10 1 (0.037%) HL7
10 1 (0.037%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.037%) SOC 2
System Software
1 305 (11.24%) Docker
2 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.074%) vSphere
6 1 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.037%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 215 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 118 (4.35%) Terraform
3 34 (1.25%) Grafana
4 23 (0.85%) Ansible
5 20 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.48%) Podman
7 11 (0.41%) HP Fortify
8 8 (0.29%) Kibana
9 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.18%) Argo
11 4 (0.15%) logstash
12 2 (0.074%) Nagios
13 1 (0.037%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.037%) Graylog
13 1 (0.037%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.037%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 296 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 50 (1.84%) Google
3 36 (1.33%) Adobe
4 31 (1.14%) OpenAI
5 30 (1.11%) Oracle
6 22 (0.81%) Salesforce
7 20 (0.74%) Facebook
8 19 (0.70%) Foundry
9 15 (0.55%) Palantir
10 10 (0.37%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.37%) Splunk
11 8 (0.29%) Apple
11 8 (0.29%) YouTube
12 7 (0.26%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.26%) Sony
12 7 (0.26%) Yahoo!
13 6 (0.22%) Pega
13 6 (0.22%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.18%) Databricks
14 5 (0.18%) ServiceNow