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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 44 77
Rank change year-on-year -64 +33 -36
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,375 3,585 2,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.79% 4.60% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 5.67% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 813 2,131 2,148
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,441 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,750 £86,563
90th Percentile £117,500 £100,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

All Process and 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 43,797 63,176 57,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.73% 81.14% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 24,693 35,881 43,260
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Full-Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development 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 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Top 17 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 17 September 2025. 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 -67 1,188 £70,000 +7.69% 1,114
UK excluding London -84 829 £60,000 - 862
Work from Home -28 699 £65,000 +8.33% 692
London -26 514 £85,000 -5.56% 444
North of England -63 272 £60,000 - 231
North West -29 209 £65,000 +8.33% 130
South East -100 152 £60,000 - 263
Midlands -75 135 £60,000 +20.00% 133
Scotland -2 134 £65,000 - 36
West Midlands -36 72 £62,500 +8.70% 80
East Midlands -55 63 £47,500 - 51
South West -61 61 £60,000 +9.09% 81
East of England -86 56 £45,000 -30.77% 95
Yorkshire -82 40 £60,000 +9.09% 65
North East -29 23 £45,500 -24.17% 41
Wales -30 19 £60,000 +9.09% 20
Northern Ireland -9 4 £60,000 -7.69% 9

Full-Stack Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 174 (12.65%) Confluence
2 34 (2.47%) IIS
3 32 (2.33%) CMS
4 20 (1.45%) Headless CMS
5 14 (1.02%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.80%) Umbraco
8 9 (0.65%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.36%) Apache
9 5 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.36%) nginx
9 5 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.36%) WordPress
10 4 (0.29%) Camunda
11 3 (0.22%) Drupal
12 1 (0.073%) MetaMask
Applications
1 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.22%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (1.16%) Shopify
2 6 (0.44%) Magento
3 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 728 (52.95%) AWS
2 641 (46.62%) Azure
3 259 (18.84%) GCP
4 113 (8.22%) Serverless
5 112 (8.15%) SaaS
6 103 (7.49%) GitHub
7 55 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 43 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
10 41 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
11 33 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 26 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
14 25 (1.82%) Figma
15 24 (1.75%) Power Platform
16 23 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
17 22 (1.60%) Azure Functions
18 21 (1.53%) Azure App Service
19 20 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.51%) Firewall
1 7 (0.51%) HTTP
2 6 (0.44%) VPN
3 5 (0.36%) DNS
3 5 (0.36%) Internet
3 5 (0.36%) WAN
4 4 (0.29%) LAN
4 4 (0.29%) MQTT
4 4 (0.29%) Network Security
4 4 (0.29%) SMS
4 4 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.22%) Broadband
5 3 (0.22%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.15%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.15%) DWDM
6 2 (0.15%) NAS
6 2 (0.15%) SAN
6 2 (0.15%) SNMP
6 2 (0.15%) VLAN
6 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (29.45%) SQL Server
2 130 (9.45%) MongoDB
3 127 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
4 96 (6.98%) NoSQL
5 94 (6.84%) MySQL
6 64 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 54 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 41 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (2.04%) RDBMS
10 23 (1.67%) Redis
11 20 (1.45%) DynamoDB
12 17 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (1.16%) Big Data
14 13 (0.95%) Data Hub
14 13 (0.95%) SQL CLR
15 11 (0.80%) DB2
15 11 (0.80%) Power BI
16 9 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.65%) Hadoop
17 8 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 301 (21.89%) JIRA
2 277 (20.15%) GitLab
3 261 (18.98%) Bitbucket
4 255 (18.55%) Maven
5 254 (18.47%) Selenium
6 253 (18.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 252 (18.33%) Cucumber
7 252 (18.33%) SonarQube
8 174 (12.65%) Git
9 39 (2.84%) Jenkins
10 32 (2.33%) JUnit
11 26 (1.89%) Cypress.io
12 24 (1.75%) JMeter
13 19 (1.38%) Mockito
14 15 (1.09%) TeamCity
14 15 (1.09%) Vite
15 13 (0.95%) webpack
16 12 (0.87%) Visual Studio
17 11 (0.80%) NUnit
18 10 (0.73%) Jasmine
General
1 538 (39.13%) Finance
2 363 (26.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 317 (23.05%) Banking
4 230 (16.73%) Social Skills
5 123 (8.95%) Law
6 116 (8.44%) Investment Banking
7 112 (8.15%) Retail
8 90 (6.55%) Corporate Banking
9 69 (5.02%) Marketing
10 61 (4.44%) Public Sector
11 60 (4.36%) Front Office
12 38 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
13 24 (1.75%) Legal
14 21 (1.53%) Back Office
15 17 (1.24%) Games
15 17 (1.24%) Health Technology
16 16 (1.16%) Advertising
16 16 (1.16%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 645 (46.91%) Developer
2 516 (37.53%) Software Engineer
3 440 (32.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 278 (20.22%) Senior
5 243 (17.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 155 (11.27%) Senior Developer
7 146 (10.62%) Lead
8 116 (8.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 108 (7.85%) .NET Developer
10 105 (7.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 85 (6.18%) Software Developer
12 76 (5.53%) Java Developer
13 69 (5.02%) Java Engineer
14 64 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
15 59 (4.29%) Lead Developer
16 57 (4.15%) Java Software Engineer
16 57 (4.15%) Lead Software Engineer
17 54 (3.93%) C# Developer
18 51 (3.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 51 (3.71%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 811 (58.98%) React
2 507 (36.87%) HTML
3 466 (33.89%) CSS
4 384 (27.93%) Spring
5 380 (27.64%) .NET
6 356 (25.89%) Spring Boot
7 337 (24.51%) Kafka
8 298 (21.67%) Redux
9 291 (21.16%) AngularJS
10 276 (20.07%) RESTful
11 258 (18.76%) JPA
12 217 (15.78%) Node.js
13 196 (14.25%) REST
14 187 (13.60%) Hibernate
15 171 (12.44%) HTML5
16 164 (11.93%) Vue
17 154 (11.20%) .NET Core
17 154 (11.20%) CSS3
18 132 (9.60%) Jest
19 127 (9.24%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 280 (20.36%) Product Ownership
2 259 (18.84%) Enterprise Software
3 134 (9.75%) Cloud Native
4 65 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (3.78%) Algorithms
6 49 (3.56%) Mobile App
7 43 (3.13%) Fixed Income
8 32 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 21 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (1.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 20 (1.45%) e-Learning
11 20 (1.45%) Private Cloud
12 19 (1.38%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 18 (1.31%) Hedge funds
13 18 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (1.09%) Equities
14 15 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.96%) Linux
1 27 (1.96%) Windows
2 16 (1.16%) Android
2 16 (1.16%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.80%) Unix
5 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.073%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 795 (57.82%) Agile
2 662 (48.15%) Software Engineering
3 627 (45.60%) CI/CD
4 491 (35.71%) DevOps
5 448 (32.58%) Microservices
6 398 (28.95%) SDLC
7 359 (26.11%) Test Automation
8 346 (25.16%) Front End Development
9 344 (25.02%) Containerisation
10 308 (22.40%) TDD
11 302 (21.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 284 (20.65%) User Experience
13 283 (20.58%) Clean Code
14 269 (19.56%) Performance Optimisation
15 265 (19.27%) Mentoring
16 240 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
17 208 (15.13%) Artificial Intelligence
18 113 (8.22%) MVC
19 108 (7.85%) Code Quality
20 107 (7.78%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 736 (53.53%) JavaScript
2 544 (39.56%) SQL
3 526 (38.25%) Java
4 473 (34.40%) TypeScript
5 370 (26.91%) C#
6 241 (17.53%) Python
7 49 (3.56%) PHP
8 44 (3.20%) Go
9 33 (2.40%) Rust
10 19 (1.38%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.16%) PowerShell
12 15 (1.09%) Bicep
12 15 (1.09%) Ruby
13 14 (1.02%) C++
14 13 (0.95%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.87%) VB.NET
16 9 (0.65%) Bash
16 9 (0.65%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.44%) Groovy
17 6 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 97 (7.05%) Degree
2 68 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 48 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (3.05%) SC Cleared
5 20 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 13 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
9 9 (0.65%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.58%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.15%) CCNA
12 2 (0.15%) CCNP
12 2 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.15%) CISSP
12 2 (0.15%) JNCIA
12 2 (0.15%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.15%) MCP
13 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.073%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (22.25%) QA
2 137 (9.96%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.73%) GDPR
3 10 (0.73%) WCAG
4 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.15%) NIST
5 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.073%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.073%) GRC
6 1 (0.073%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.073%) HL7
6 1 (0.073%) MiFID
System Software
1 430 (31.27%) Docker
2 17 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.36%) HDFS
5 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.073%) Firmware
6 1 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 422 (30.69%) Kubernetes
2 82 (5.96%) Terraform
3 17 (1.24%) Kibana
4 15 (1.09%) Grafana
5 12 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.65%) Ansible
7 4 (0.29%) Argo
8 3 (0.22%) Istio
8 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.15%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.15%) linkerd
9 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.073%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.073%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.073%) Nagios
10 1 (0.073%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 247 (17.96%) Solace
2 191 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 32 (2.33%) Oracle
4 31 (2.25%) Splunk
5 29 (2.11%) Google
6 28 (2.04%) Dynatrace
7 21 (1.53%) IBM
8 20 (1.45%) Databricks
9 18 (1.31%) VMware
10 13 (0.95%) DevExpress
11 11 (0.80%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.80%) Rollbar
12 9 (0.65%) Apple
13 7 (0.51%) Facebook
13 7 (0.51%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.51%) YouTube
14 6 (0.44%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.36%) Cloudera
15 5 (0.36%) Ping Identity
15 5 (0.36%) Xamarin