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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 104 44
Rank change year-on-year +54 -60 +32
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,255 1,376 3,589
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.87% 2.78% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 3.14% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,683 814 2,179
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £49,875
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 82,630 43,847 63,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.77% 88.67% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 57,445 24,695 36,468
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +63 2,962 £65,000 -7.14% 2,325
UK excluding London +80 2,263 £60,000 - 1,093
Work from Home +47 1,337 £60,000 -7.69% 2,805
London +15 841 £85,000 - 1,453
North of England +65 754 £65,000 +8.33% 320
South East +111 557 £60,000 - 220
North West +48 423 £65,000 -3.70% 183
South West +62 320 £60,000 - 135
Midlands +41 300 £55,000 -8.33% 127
Yorkshire +79 210 £70,000 +16.67% 96
East of England +52 173 £60,000 +33.33% 113
West Midlands +38 168 £60,000 -4.00% 66
East Midlands +21 132 £55,000 +15.79% 61
North East +16 121 £52,000 +19.88% 44
Scotland -13 98 £60,000 -7.69% 122
Wales -34 58 £63,750 +6.25% 19
Northern Ireland -77 8 £90,000 +50.00% 43
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 17 (0.52%) WordPress
4 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.28%) Apache
5 9 (0.28%) IIS
6 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.22%) ColdFusion
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.15%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.12%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.092%) DNN
10 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.092%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.092%) Kentico
10 3 (0.092%) nginx
10 3 (0.092%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.092%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.061%) Elementor
2 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.061%) 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
1 911 (27.99%) AWS
2 908 (27.90%) Azure
3 308 (9.46%) GitHub
4 241 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
5 235 (7.22%) SaaS
6 201 (6.18%) Serverless
7 186 (5.71%) GCP
8 179 (5.50%) GitHub Copilot
9 158 (4.85%) Azure AI
10 137 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
11 102 (3.13%) Amazon S3
12 87 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
14 75 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 64 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
16 58 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
17 57 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
18 53 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
19 33 (1.01%) AWS Step Functions
20 32 (0.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.90%) Internet
2 46 (1.41%) Broadband
3 17 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.40%) DNS
5 11 (0.34%) Firewall
5 11 (0.34%) HTTP
6 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
7 5 (0.15%) MQTT
7 5 (0.15%) VoIP
8 3 (0.092%) DHCP
9 2 (0.061%) AMQP
9 2 (0.061%) LAN
9 2 (0.061%) Network Security
9 2 (0.061%) VPN
9 2 (0.061%) WAN
10 1 (0.031%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.031%) Multicast
10 1 (0.031%) SCTP
10 1 (0.031%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 509 (15.64%) MongoDB
2 447 (13.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 220 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
4 178 (5.47%) SQL Server
5 156 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
6 105 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 90 (2.76%) MySQL
8 83 (2.55%) Relational Database
9 70 (2.15%) DynamoDB
10 59 (1.81%) Redis
11 27 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (0.61%) Power BI
13 17 (0.52%) Spark SQL
14 12 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.31%) GIS
17 9 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
17 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
18 8 (0.25%) Chroma
Development Applications
1 237 (7.28%) Git
2 103 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 91 (2.80%) GitLab
4 64 (1.97%) Cypress.io
5 61 (1.87%) JUnit
6 45 (1.38%) Claude Code
7 39 (1.20%) JIRA
8 38 (1.17%) Maven
9 31 (0.95%) Subversion
10 29 (0.89%) Eclipse
11 24 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.52%) Vite
13 16 (0.49%) Mockito
14 15 (0.46%) Selenium
15 14 (0.43%) Spock
16 13 (0.40%) Storybook
17 11 (0.34%) NUnit
18 10 (0.31%) CircleCI
19 9 (0.28%) Bitbucket
19 9 (0.28%) Cucumber
General
1 389 (11.95%) Finance
2 303 (9.31%) Social Skills
3 179 (5.50%) Public Sector
4 97 (2.98%) Marketing
5 83 (2.55%) Games
6 74 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (2.12%) Advertising
8 68 (2.09%) Retail
9 64 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 62 (1.90%) Banking
11 35 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 35 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 33 (1.01%) Law
13 29 (0.89%) Legal
14 23 (0.71%) Tech for Good
15 20 (0.61%) Aerospace
16 17 (0.52%) Automotive
17 15 (0.46%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (0.37%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,850 (56.84%) Developer
2 1,025 (31.49%) Full-Stack Developer
3 828 (25.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 653 (20.06%) Senior
5 575 (17.67%) .NET Developer
6 530 (16.28%) Software Engineer
7 426 (13.09%) Lead
8 281 (8.63%) Software Developer
9 273 (8.39%) Senior Developer
10 251 (7.71%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 238 (7.31%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 178 (5.47%) Lead Developer
13 161 (4.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 158 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
15 151 (4.64%) Java Developer
16 131 (4.02%) Java Engineer
17 111 (3.41%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 100 (3.07%) Python Engineer
19 96 (2.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 85 (2.61%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 996 (30.60%) React
2 956 (29.37%) .NET
3 592 (18.19%) Node.js
4 536 (16.47%) ASP.NET
5 532 (16.34%) .NET Core
6 498 (15.30%) ASP.NET Core
7 424 (13.03%) AngularJS
8 406 (12.47%) CSS
9 387 (11.89%) HTML
10 358 (11.00%) Vue
11 353 (10.84%) RESTful
12 225 (6.91%) Entity Framework
13 218 (6.70%) REST
14 211 (6.48%) Blazor
15 202 (6.21%) Spring
16 180 (5.53%) ASP.NET Web API
17 164 (5.04%) Spring Boot
18 163 (5.01%) Next.js
19 157 (4.82%) Terraform
20 149 (4.58%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 301 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 145 (4.45%) Greenfield Project
3 123 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 91 (2.80%) AI Agents
5 82 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
6 80 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 75 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 71 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
9 48 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.11%) e-Learning
11 32 (0.98%) Video\Live Streaming
12 31 (0.95%) Low-Code
13 26 (0.80%) IoT
14 25 (0.77%) Onboarding
15 22 (0.68%) Virtual Team
16 19 (0.58%) Digital TV
16 19 (0.58%) Social Media
17 17 (0.52%) BBC
17 17 (0.52%) iPhone
18 16 (0.49%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 59 (1.81%) Linux
2 23 (0.71%) Android
3 15 (0.46%) Windows
4 13 (0.40%) Unix
5 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.15%) VMS
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.092%) AIX
9 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.031%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 908 (27.90%) Software Engineering
2 899 (27.62%) Agile
3 794 (24.39%) CI/CD
4 740 (22.73%) AI
5 569 (17.48%) Microservices
6 526 (16.16%) DevOps
7 347 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
8 295 (9.06%) Machine Learning
9 287 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 286 (8.79%) Mentoring
11 273 (8.39%) Test Automation
12 201 (6.18%) Scrum
13 196 (6.02%) Clean Code
14 186 (5.71%) Observability
15 184 (5.65%) TDD
16 178 (5.47%) Infrastructure as Code
17 174 (5.35%) LLM
18 172 (5.28%) Multithreading
19 171 (5.25%) Technical Leadership
20 165 (5.07%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 987 (30.32%) JavaScript
2 928 (28.51%) C#
3 900 (27.65%) TypeScript
4 746 (22.92%) SQL
5 588 (18.06%) Python
6 544 (16.71%) Java
7 104 (3.20%) Ruby
8 94 (2.89%) C++
9 85 (2.61%) PHP
10 79 (2.43%) Go
11 69 (2.12%) Kotlin
12 32 (0.98%) Bash
13 30 (0.92%) Groovy
14 26 (0.80%) Perl
15 19 (0.58%) Rust
16 12 (0.37%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.34%) Bicep
18 7 (0.22%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.18%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 232 (7.13%) Security Cleared
2 186 (5.71%) Degree
3 160 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 125 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 24 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 18 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.22%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.18%) PhD
14 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.092%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.092%) ICAEW
15 3 (0.092%) OCP
15 3 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (2.95%) QA
2 68 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.92%) WCAG
5 19 (0.58%) GDPR
6 10 (0.31%) NCSC
7 7 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.15%) GRC
8 5 (0.15%) NIST
8 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.061%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.061%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.061%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.061%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.031%) ITGC
10 1 (0.031%) SLA
System Software
1 456 (14.01%) Docker
2 4 (0.12%) Firmware
3 3 (0.092%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 350 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.65%) Ansible
3 20 (0.61%) Grafana
4 12 (0.37%) HP Fortify
4 12 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.31%) Kibana
5 10 (0.31%) Podman
6 7 (0.22%) logstash
6 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.092%) Argo
8 2 (0.061%) Bugsnag
8 2 (0.061%) Packer
8 2 (0.061%) Puppet
9 1 (0.031%) Consul
9 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.031%) Graylog
9 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 590 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 93 (2.86%) Google
3 57 (1.75%) Facebook
4 48 (1.47%) OpenAI
5 39 (1.20%) Oracle
6 25 (0.77%) YouTube
7 22 (0.68%) Splunk
8 21 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 17 (0.52%) AppDynamics
9 17 (0.52%) Apple
9 17 (0.52%) Sony
9 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
10 14 (0.43%) Adobe
11 13 (0.40%) Foundry
11 13 (0.40%) Mistral
11 13 (0.40%) Red Hat
12 12 (0.37%) Palantir
13 11 (0.34%) Dynatrace
14 10 (0.31%) OneLogin
14 10 (0.31%) Sitecore