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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 101 46
Rank change year-on-year +53 -55 +23
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,213 1,509 3,830
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.11% 3.05% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 3.40% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,652 933 2,694
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £40,000
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 £80,000 £92,500 £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 - - +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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 1 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 1 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 +56 2,916 £65,000 -7.14% 1,027
UK excluding London +66 2,206 £60,000 - 636
Work from Home +46 1,417 £60,000 -11.11% 457
London +9 851 £85,000 - 516
North of England +69 724 £65,000 +8.33% 179
South East +93 545 £60,000 - 163
North West +47 393 £65,000 - 108
South West +52 302 £60,000 - 67
Midlands +41 301 £55,000 -8.33% 84
Yorkshire +75 214 £70,000 +16.67% 51
East of England +55 181 £60,000 +33.33% 67
West Midlands +27 163 £60,000 -4.00% 45
East Midlands +20 137 £55,000 +15.79% 39
North East +19 117 £52,000 +19.54% 21
Scotland -15 85 £55,000 -18.52% 34
Wales -37 54 £60,000 - 27
Northern Ireland -58 19 £70,000 +16.67% 21
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 27 (0.84%) CMS
2 26 (0.81%) Confluence
3 15 (0.47%) 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%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.25%) IIS
6 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.093%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.093%) Kentico
10 3 (0.093%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.093%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.062%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.031%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.031%) Magento
3 1 (0.031%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.031%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 949 (29.54%) Azure
2 939 (29.23%) AWS
3 310 (9.65%) GitHub
4 247 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 243 (7.56%) SaaS
6 207 (6.44%) Serverless
7 186 (5.79%) GCP
8 181 (5.63%) GitHub Copilot
9 163 (5.07%) Azure AI
10 127 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
11 106 (3.30%) Amazon S3
12 86 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 77 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
15 63 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
16 56 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
17 51 (1.59%) Anthropic Claude
18 38 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
19 36 (1.12%) Power Platform
20 33 (1.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.77%) Internet
2 52 (1.62%) Broadband
3 10 (0.31%) Firewall
3 10 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.25%) DNS
5 7 (0.22%) HTTP
5 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
6 5 (0.16%) MQTT
7 3 (0.093%) DHCP
7 3 (0.093%) LAN
7 3 (0.093%) WAN
8 2 (0.062%) AMQP
8 2 (0.062%) Network Security
8 2 (0.062%) VoIP
8 2 (0.062%) VPN
9 1 (0.031%) BGP
9 1 (0.031%) FTP
9 1 (0.031%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.031%) SCTP
9 1 (0.031%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 535 (16.65%) MongoDB
2 462 (14.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 226 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
4 174 (5.42%) SQL Server
5 158 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
6 110 (3.42%) NoSQL
7 99 (3.08%) MySQL
8 86 (2.68%) Relational Database
9 70 (2.18%) DynamoDB
10 54 (1.68%) Redis
11 26 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.68%) Power BI
13 15 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.37%) GIS
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
17 6 (0.19%) MariaDB
17 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 247 (7.69%) Git
2 106 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 77 (2.40%) GitLab
4 55 (1.71%) Cypress.io
5 54 (1.68%) JUnit
6 49 (1.53%) JIRA
7 46 (1.43%) Claude Code
8 35 (1.09%) Maven
9 27 (0.84%) Eclipse
10 26 (0.81%) Subversion
11 21 (0.65%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.53%) Vite
13 16 (0.50%) Mockito
14 13 (0.40%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.37%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.37%) Selenium
15 12 (0.37%) Spock
16 10 (0.31%) Storybook
17 8 (0.25%) Cucumber
17 8 (0.25%) NUnit
General
1 405 (12.61%) Finance
2 307 (9.55%) Social Skills
3 116 (3.61%) Public Sector
4 104 (3.24%) Marketing
5 91 (2.83%) Games
6 75 (2.33%) Advertising
7 73 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
8 72 (2.24%) Retail
9 67 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 63 (1.96%) Banking
11 43 (1.34%) Law
12 40 (1.24%) Front Office
13 35 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 34 (1.06%) Legal
15 27 (0.84%) Tech for Good
16 25 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 18 (0.56%) Automotive
18 17 (0.53%) Aerospace
19 16 (0.50%) Legal Technology
20 14 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,933 (60.16%) Developer
2 1,030 (32.06%) Full-Stack Developer
3 762 (23.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 633 (19.70%) Senior
5 612 (19.05%) .NET Developer
6 558 (17.37%) Software Engineer
7 412 (12.82%) Lead
8 281 (8.75%) Senior Developer
9 271 (8.43%) Software Developer
10 254 (7.91%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 206 (6.41%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 196 (6.10%) Lead Developer
13 167 (5.20%) Java Developer
13 167 (5.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 158 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
15 122 (3.80%) Java Engineer
16 100 (3.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 97 (3.02%) Python Developer
18 93 (2.89%) Python Engineer
19 92 (2.86%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,054 (32.80%) React
2 976 (30.38%) .NET
3 624 (19.42%) Node.js
4 553 (17.21%) ASP.NET
5 549 (17.09%) .NET Core
6 511 (15.90%) ASP.NET Core
7 448 (13.94%) AngularJS
8 426 (13.26%) CSS
9 409 (12.73%) HTML
10 385 (11.98%) Vue
11 355 (11.05%) RESTful
12 233 (7.25%) Entity Framework
13 220 (6.85%) Blazor
14 210 (6.54%) REST
15 209 (6.50%) Spring
16 186 (5.79%) ASP.NET Web API
17 165 (5.14%) Spring Boot
18 163 (5.07%) Next.js
19 156 (4.86%) ML.NET
20 138 (4.30%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 305 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 169 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 114 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 85 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 73 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 70 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
8 65 (2.02%) AI Agents
9 51 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.15%) Fixed Income
11 36 (1.12%) Low-Code
12 34 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
13 33 (1.03%) Onboarding
14 30 (0.93%) e-Learning
15 28 (0.87%) IoT
16 26 (0.81%) Virtual Team
17 22 (0.68%) Social Media
18 20 (0.62%) Digital TV
19 19 (0.59%) Algorithms
20 17 (0.53%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 57 (1.77%) Linux
2 23 (0.72%) Android
3 16 (0.50%) Windows
4 9 (0.28%) Unix
5 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.093%) AIX
7 3 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.093%) VMS
8 1 (0.031%) Debian
8 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 950 (29.57%) Software Engineering
2 933 (29.04%) Agile
3 775 (24.12%) CI/CD
4 715 (22.25%) AI
5 574 (17.86%) Microservices
6 566 (17.62%) DevOps
7 339 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
8 306 (9.52%) Machine Learning
9 302 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 278 (8.65%) Mentoring
11 272 (8.47%) Test Automation
12 224 (6.97%) Scrum
13 197 (6.13%) TDD
14 195 (6.07%) Clean Code
15 186 (5.79%) Observability
16 185 (5.76%) Infrastructure as Code
17 177 (5.51%) Multithreading
18 176 (5.48%) Containerisation
19 168 (5.23%) Technical Leadership
20 158 (4.92%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 987 (30.72%) JavaScript
2 927 (28.85%) TypeScript
3 926 (28.82%) C#
4 762 (23.72%) SQL
5 620 (19.30%) Python
6 527 (16.40%) Java
7 98 (3.05%) PHP
8 97 (3.02%) Go
9 82 (2.55%) Ruby
10 72 (2.24%) C++
11 32 (1.00%) Bash
12 27 (0.84%) Groovy
13 21 (0.65%) Perl
14 17 (0.53%) Rust
15 15 (0.47%) Bicep
16 14 (0.44%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.44%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.22%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.19%) C
19 5 (0.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 219 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 178 (5.54%) Degree
3 160 (4.98%) SC Cleared
4 128 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 24 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.12%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.12%) PhD
13 3 (0.093%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.062%) ICAEW
15 1 (0.031%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.031%) OCP
15 1 (0.031%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.24%) QA
2 67 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.93%) WCAG
4 21 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 19 (0.59%) GDPR
6 8 (0.25%) NCSC
7 7 (0.22%) GRC
8 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.093%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.093%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.062%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.031%) HL7
11 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.031%) ITGC
11 1 (0.031%) NIST
11 1 (0.031%) SLA
11 1 (0.031%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 467 (14.53%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.12%) Firmware
4 2 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.062%) vSphere
5 1 (0.031%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 359 (11.17%) Kubernetes
2 155 (4.82%) Terraform
3 29 (0.90%) Grafana
4 20 (0.62%) Ansible
5 19 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.40%) Podman
7 11 (0.34%) HP Fortify
8 10 (0.31%) Kibana
9 6 (0.19%) logstash
10 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.062%) Argo
12 1 (0.031%) Bugsnag
12 1 (0.031%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.031%) Graylog
12 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.031%) Nagios
12 1 (0.031%) Packer
12 1 (0.031%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 622 (19.36%) Microsoft
2 84 (2.61%) Google
3 59 (1.84%) Facebook
4 38 (1.18%) OpenAI
5 29 (0.90%) Oracle
6 26 (0.81%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.68%) YouTube
8 18 (0.56%) Apple
8 18 (0.56%) Splunk
9 17 (0.53%) Palantir
9 17 (0.53%) Sony
9 17 (0.53%) Yahoo!
10 15 (0.47%) Adobe
10 15 (0.47%) AppDynamics
10 15 (0.47%) Foundry
11 13 (0.40%) Databricks
12 10 (0.31%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.31%) Sitecore
13 9 (0.28%) OneLogin
14 6 (0.19%) Palo Alto