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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 107 45
Rank change year-on-year +55 -62 +27
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,293 1,366 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.79% 2.74% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.08% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,611 814 1,854
10th Percentile £43,930 £45,000 £41,250
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 £85,000 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% 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 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +69 3,002 £65,000 -7.14% 2,563
UK excluding London +85 2,266 £60,000 - 1,134
Work from Home +40 1,304 £60,000 -7.69% 1,130
London +14 883 £85,000 - 1,581
North of England +67 764 £65,000 +8.33% 351
South East +105 537 £60,000 -4.00% 207
North West +50 447 £70,000 +1.82% 217
South West +70 354 £65,000 +8.33% 106
Midlands +43 290 £55,000 -10.20% 133
Yorkshire +72 208 £70,000 +16.67% 100
West Midlands +23 159 £60,000 -4.00% 83
East of England +38 156 £60,000 +20.00% 100
East Midlands +21 131 £55,000 +4.76% 50
North East +6 109 £50,000 +5.26% 37
Scotland -2 98 £60,000 -9.43% 153
Wales -40 57 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Northern Ireland -71 12 £90,000 +50.00% 70
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

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 30 (0.91%) CMS
2 29 (0.88%) Confluence
3 18 (0.55%) WordPress
4 10 (0.30%) Apache
4 10 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.27%) IIS
6 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.21%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.15%) nginx
10 4 (0.12%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.091%) DNN
11 3 (0.091%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.091%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.091%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.061%) Elementor
2 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (0.21%) Shopify
2 6 (0.18%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.030%) Magento
4 1 (0.030%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.030%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 896 (27.21%) Azure
2 888 (26.97%) AWS
3 316 (9.60%) GitHub
4 236 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
5 220 (6.68%) SaaS
6 198 (6.01%) Serverless
7 183 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
8 180 (5.47%) GCP
9 160 (4.86%) Azure AI
10 127 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (3.01%) Amazon S3
12 85 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
13 72 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
13 72 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 66 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
15 56 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
16 54 (1.64%) Anthropic Claude
17 49 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
18 39 (1.18%) Snowflake
19 34 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.94%) Internet
2 35 (1.06%) Broadband
3 20 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.39%) HTTP
5 12 (0.36%) DNS
6 11 (0.33%) Firewall
7 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.15%) MQTT
8 5 (0.15%) VoIP
9 3 (0.091%) DHCP
10 2 (0.061%) AMQP
10 2 (0.061%) LAN
10 2 (0.061%) Network Security
10 2 (0.061%) VPN
10 2 (0.061%) WAN
11 1 (0.030%) Multicast
11 1 (0.030%) SCTP
11 1 (0.030%) VoLTE
11 1 (0.030%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.030%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 506 (15.37%) MongoDB
2 444 (13.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 223 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
4 195 (5.92%) SQL Server
5 157 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
6 100 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 92 (2.79%) NoSQL
8 86 (2.61%) MySQL
9 67 (2.03%) Redis
10 58 (1.76%) DynamoDB
11 31 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (0.58%) Power BI
13 17 (0.52%) Spark SQL
14 12 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.30%) Pinecone
17 9 (0.27%) Chroma
17 9 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.27%) GIS
18 8 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 241 (7.32%) Git
2 103 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 97 (2.95%) GitLab
4 64 (1.94%) JUnit
5 56 (1.70%) Cypress.io
6 43 (1.31%) Claude Code
7 38 (1.15%) JIRA
8 36 (1.09%) Maven
9 30 (0.91%) Subversion
10 29 (0.88%) Eclipse
11 24 (0.73%) Vite
12 22 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 19 (0.58%) Mockito
14 15 (0.46%) Selenium
14 15 (0.46%) Storybook
15 14 (0.43%) Spock
16 12 (0.36%) NUnit
17 10 (0.30%) TeamCity
17 10 (0.30%) Visual Studio
18 9 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 426 (12.94%) Finance
2 299 (9.08%) Social Skills
3 192 (5.83%) Public Sector
4 94 (2.85%) Marketing
5 83 (2.52%) Games
6 79 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 67 (2.03%) Retail
8 64 (1.94%) Advertising
9 63 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 60 (1.82%) Banking
11 42 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 37 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 30 (0.91%) Law
14 27 (0.82%) Tech for Good
15 26 (0.79%) Legal
16 22 (0.67%) Automotive
17 19 (0.58%) Aerospace
18 13 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
18 13 (0.39%) Front Office
19 11 (0.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,756 (53.33%) Developer
2 973 (29.55%) Full-Stack Developer
3 903 (27.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 717 (21.77%) Senior
5 559 (16.98%) .NET Developer
6 549 (16.67%) Software Engineer
7 406 (12.33%) Lead
8 290 (8.81%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 275 (8.35%) Senior Developer
10 251 (7.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 247 (7.50%) Software Developer
12 171 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
13 169 (5.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 155 (4.71%) Java Engineer
15 146 (4.43%) Java Developer
15 146 (4.43%) Lead Developer
16 98 (2.98%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
17 96 (2.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 91 (2.76%) Python Engineer
19 80 (2.43%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 968 (29.40%) React
2 939 (28.52%) .NET
3 562 (17.07%) Node.js
4 532 (16.16%) ASP.NET
5 525 (15.94%) .NET Core
6 495 (15.03%) ASP.NET Core
7 423 (12.85%) AngularJS
8 384 (11.66%) CSS
9 366 (11.11%) HTML
10 355 (10.78%) RESTful
11 333 (10.11%) Vue
12 234 (7.11%) REST
13 223 (6.77%) Entity Framework
14 208 (6.32%) Blazor
15 207 (6.29%) Spring
16 179 (5.44%) ASP.NET Web API
17 170 (5.16%) Spring Boot
18 166 (5.04%) Next.js
19 157 (4.77%) Terraform
20 148 (4.49%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 302 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 139 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
3 133 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (3.10%) AI Agents
5 92 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
6 76 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 72 (2.19%) Mobile App
8 65 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 45 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.09%) e-Learning
11 28 (0.85%) IoT
11 28 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
12 27 (0.82%) Low-Code
13 22 (0.67%) Onboarding
14 21 (0.64%) Virtual Team
15 19 (0.58%) Digital TV
16 17 (0.52%) iPhone
16 17 (0.52%) Social Media
17 16 (0.49%) BBC
17 16 (0.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (1.82%) Linux
2 27 (0.82%) Android
3 15 (0.46%) Windows
4 14 (0.43%) Unix
5 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.12%) VMS
7 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.091%) AIX
8 3 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.061%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.030%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 953 (28.94%) Software Engineering
2 894 (27.15%) Agile
3 797 (24.20%) CI/CD
4 751 (22.81%) AI
5 562 (17.07%) Microservices
6 497 (15.09%) DevOps
7 340 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
8 284 (8.62%) Mentoring
9 280 (8.50%) Machine Learning
10 260 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 252 (7.65%) Test Automation
12 196 (5.95%) Clean Code
13 187 (5.68%) Scrum
14 186 (5.65%) Observability
15 185 (5.62%) LLM
16 181 (5.50%) Front End Development
17 175 (5.31%) TDD
18 171 (5.19%) Multithreading
19 170 (5.16%) Technical Leadership
20 168 (5.10%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 926 (28.12%) JavaScript
2 916 (27.82%) C#
3 862 (26.18%) TypeScript
4 735 (22.32%) SQL
5 612 (18.58%) Java
6 544 (16.52%) Python
7 103 (3.13%) Ruby
8 100 (3.04%) Kotlin
9 97 (2.95%) C++
10 82 (2.49%) PHP
11 74 (2.25%) Go
12 31 (0.94%) Bash
13 28 (0.85%) Groovy
14 27 (0.82%) Rust
15 26 (0.79%) Perl
16 11 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.30%) Bicep
18 7 (0.21%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.18%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 225 (6.83%) Security Cleared
2 190 (5.77%) Degree
3 151 (4.59%) SC Cleared
4 127 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 21 (0.64%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.43%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (0.18%) PhD
13 5 (0.15%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.12%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.091%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.091%) OCP
15 3 (0.091%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (2.28%) QA
2 68 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 36 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 31 (0.94%) WCAG
5 18 (0.55%) GDPR
6 10 (0.30%) NCSC
7 8 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.18%) NIST
9 4 (0.12%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.061%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.061%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.061%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.061%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.030%) GRC
11 1 (0.030%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.030%) SLA
System Software
1 473 (14.36%) Docker
2 3 (0.091%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.091%) Firmware
3 1 (0.030%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.030%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 372 (11.30%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.64%) Ansible
3 19 (0.58%) Grafana
4 11 (0.33%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.30%) HP Fortify
6 9 (0.27%) Kibana
7 6 (0.18%) logstash
7 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.15%) Argo
9 4 (0.12%) Podman
10 2 (0.061%) Bugsnag
10 2 (0.061%) Packer
10 2 (0.061%) Puppet
11 1 (0.030%) Consul
11 1 (0.030%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.030%) Graylog
11 1 (0.030%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 584 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 98 (2.98%) Google
3 56 (1.70%) Facebook
4 53 (1.61%) OpenAI
5 43 (1.31%) Oracle
6 25 (0.76%) YouTube
7 23 (0.70%) Splunk
8 21 (0.64%) Salesforce
9 17 (0.52%) Red Hat
10 16 (0.49%) AppDynamics
10 16 (0.49%) Apple
10 16 (0.49%) Foundry
10 16 (0.49%) Sony
10 16 (0.49%) Yahoo!
11 14 (0.43%) Mistral
12 13 (0.39%) Adobe
12 13 (0.39%) Dynatrace
13 12 (0.36%) Databricks
13 12 (0.36%) Palantir
14 11 (0.33%) OutSystems