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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 95 44
Rank change year-on-year +49 -51 +27
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,129 1,561 4,792
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.17% 3.17% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 3.51% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,606 970 3,580
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +15.42% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £96,375
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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +55 2,840 £65,000 -7.14% 791
UK excluding London +63 2,147 £60,000 - 587
Work from Home +44 1,417 £60,000 -9.23% 378
London +15 827 £85,000 - 342
North of England +65 708 £65,000 +4.00% 157
South East +88 528 £60,000 - 161
North West +31 381 £65,000 - 95
Midlands +39 296 £55,000 -8.33% 71
South West +46 289 £60,000 - 97
Yorkshire +76 214 £70,000 +16.67% 39
East of England +46 176 £60,000 +20.00% 52
West Midlands +22 149 £57,500 -6.12% 35
East Midlands +21 146 £55,000 +15.79% 36
North East +18 113 £52,000 +8.33% 24
Scotland -24 79 £55,000 -18.52% 29
Wales -28 54 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Northern Ireland -40 22 £70,000 +16.67% 16
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 30 (0.96%) CMS
2 23 (0.74%) Confluence
3 16 (0.51%) WordPress
4 12 (0.38%) Apache
5 11 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.32%) ColdFusion
6 10 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
7 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.16%) IIS
10 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.096%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.096%) Kentico
12 3 (0.096%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.064%) Elementor
4 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Shopify
2 2 (0.064%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.032%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.032%) Magento
3 1 (0.032%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 930 (29.72%) Azure
2 929 (29.69%) AWS
3 288 (9.20%) GitHub
4 244 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
5 236 (7.54%) SaaS
6 216 (6.90%) Serverless
7 185 (5.91%) GCP
8 168 (5.37%) GitHub Copilot
9 161 (5.15%) Azure AI
10 130 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
11 105 (3.36%) Amazon S3
12 82 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 80 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
14 73 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
15 58 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
16 52 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 40 (1.28%) Power Platform
18 35 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
19 34 (1.09%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.11%) Broadband
2 57 (1.82%) Internet
3 8 (0.26%) Firewall
4 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
4 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.19%) DNS
6 5 (0.16%) HTTP
6 5 (0.16%) MQTT
7 3 (0.096%) LAN
7 3 (0.096%) VPN
7 3 (0.096%) WAN
8 2 (0.064%) AMQP
8 2 (0.064%) DHCP
8 2 (0.064%) Network Security
8 2 (0.064%) VoIP
9 1 (0.032%) Multicast
9 1 (0.032%) SCTP
9 1 (0.032%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.032%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.032%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 535 (17.10%) MongoDB
2 459 (14.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 204 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 162 (5.18%) SQL Server
5 158 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
6 112 (3.58%) NoSQL
7 104 (3.32%) MySQL
8 81 (2.59%) Relational Database
9 66 (2.11%) DynamoDB
10 44 (1.41%) Redis
11 24 (0.77%) Power BI
12 21 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
14 11 (0.35%) GIS
14 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.32%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.29%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.22%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
18 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 223 (7.13%) Git
2 105 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 68 (2.17%) GitLab
4 55 (1.76%) Cypress.io
5 45 (1.44%) JIRA
6 40 (1.28%) Claude Code
7 39 (1.25%) JUnit
8 32 (1.02%) Maven
9 23 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 22 (0.70%) Eclipse
11 21 (0.67%) Subversion
12 17 (0.54%) Vite
13 13 (0.42%) CircleCI
14 12 (0.38%) Mockito
15 11 (0.35%) Bitbucket
16 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
17 8 (0.26%) Spock
17 8 (0.26%) Storybook
17 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
18 7 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 377 (12.05%) Finance
2 293 (9.36%) Social Skills
3 107 (3.42%) Public Sector
4 95 (3.04%) Marketing
5 92 (2.94%) Games
6 79 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (2.36%) Advertising
8 72 (2.30%) Retail
9 55 (1.76%) Banking
10 52 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (1.25%) Front Office
12 36 (1.15%) Law
13 33 (1.05%) Legal
13 33 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 29 (0.93%) Tech for Good
15 20 (0.64%) Automotive
16 17 (0.54%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.51%) Aerospace
18 15 (0.48%) Aviation
18 15 (0.48%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,916 (61.23%) Developer
2 1,015 (32.44%) Full-Stack Developer
3 689 (22.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 612 (19.56%) .NET Developer
5 605 (19.34%) Senior
6 538 (17.19%) Software Engineer
7 412 (13.17%) Lead
8 275 (8.79%) Senior Developer
9 256 (8.18%) Software Developer
10 232 (7.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 197 (6.30%) Lead Developer
12 183 (5.85%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 170 (5.43%) Java Developer
14 162 (5.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 145 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
16 115 (3.68%) Java Engineer
17 104 (3.32%) React Developer
18 101 (3.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 100 (3.20%) Python Developer
20 88 (2.81%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,036 (33.11%) React
2 957 (30.58%) .NET
3 623 (19.91%) Node.js
4 545 (17.42%) .NET Core
5 538 (17.19%) ASP.NET
6 498 (15.92%) ASP.NET Core
7 432 (13.81%) AngularJS
8 418 (13.36%) CSS
9 404 (12.91%) HTML
10 389 (12.43%) Vue
11 336 (10.74%) RESTful
12 228 (7.29%) Entity Framework
13 209 (6.68%) Blazor
14 197 (6.30%) Spring
15 185 (5.91%) ASP.NET Web API
16 177 (5.66%) REST
17 158 (5.05%) Spring Boot
18 154 (4.92%) ML.NET
19 146 (4.67%) Next.js
20 131 (4.19%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 281 (8.98%) Cloud Native
2 171 (5.47%) Greenfield Project
3 97 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
4 89 (2.84%) Mobile App
5 75 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 61 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 54 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 47 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.21%) Low-Code
11 37 (1.18%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.02%) e-Learning
12 32 (1.02%) Video\Live Streaming
13 30 (0.96%) IoT
13 30 (0.96%) Onboarding
14 22 (0.70%) Social Media
15 20 (0.64%) Digital TV
15 20 (0.64%) Virtual Team
16 18 (0.58%) Algorithms
17 17 (0.54%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.76%) Linux
2 24 (0.77%) Android
3 14 (0.45%) Windows
4 10 (0.32%) Unix
5 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.096%) AIX
6 3 (0.096%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.096%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.064%) VMS
8 1 (0.032%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (29.47%) Software Engineering
2 897 (28.67%) Agile
3 725 (23.17%) CI/CD
4 662 (21.16%) AI
5 555 (17.74%) DevOps
6 539 (17.23%) Microservices
7 360 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
8 297 (9.49%) Machine Learning
9 296 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 285 (9.11%) Mentoring
11 252 (8.05%) Test Automation
12 209 (6.68%) Scrum
13 190 (6.07%) TDD
14 182 (5.82%) Clean Code
15 176 (5.62%) Infrastructure as Code
16 171 (5.47%) Multithreading
17 170 (5.43%) Containerisation
18 160 (5.11%) Observability
19 155 (4.95%) Technical Leadership
20 148 (4.73%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 961 (30.71%) JavaScript
2 906 (28.95%) TypeScript
3 905 (28.92%) C#
4 748 (23.91%) SQL
5 597 (19.08%) Python
6 507 (16.20%) Java
7 107 (3.42%) PHP
8 94 (3.00%) Go
9 71 (2.27%) Ruby
10 68 (2.17%) C++
11 31 (0.99%) Bash
12 27 (0.86%) Groovy
13 19 (0.61%) Rust
14 16 (0.51%) Perl
15 14 (0.45%) Bicep
16 12 (0.38%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.35%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.22%) C
19 6 (0.19%) PowerShell
20 5 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 210 (6.71%) Security Cleared
2 167 (5.34%) Degree
3 150 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 120 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 21 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 19 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.38%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.13%) PhD
14 3 (0.096%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.032%) CCNA
15 1 (0.032%) CCNP
15 1 (0.032%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.032%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.20%) QA
2 63 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 29 (0.93%) WCAG
4 19 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 17 (0.54%) GDPR
6 8 (0.26%) NCSC
7 7 (0.22%) GRC
8 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.096%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.096%) SLA
10 2 (0.064%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.064%) ITGC
10 2 (0.064%) NIST
11 1 (0.032%) HL7
11 1 (0.032%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.032%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.032%) SOC 2
System Software
1 436 (13.93%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.064%) vSphere
5 1 (0.032%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 332 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 144 (4.60%) Terraform
3 33 (1.05%) Grafana
4 22 (0.70%) Ansible
5 19 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.42%) Podman
7 12 (0.38%) HP Fortify
8 11 (0.35%) Kibana
9 7 (0.22%) logstash
10 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.064%) Argo
11 2 (0.064%) Nagios
12 1 (0.032%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.032%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.032%) Graylog
12 1 (0.032%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.032%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 612 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.72%) Google
3 58 (1.85%) Facebook
4 33 (1.05%) OpenAI
5 29 (0.93%) Adobe
6 23 (0.74%) Oracle
7 22 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.67%) YouTube
9 19 (0.61%) Palantir
10 18 (0.58%) Apple
11 17 (0.54%) Foundry
11 17 (0.54%) Sony
11 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
12 12 (0.38%) Databricks
12 12 (0.38%) Splunk
13 11 (0.35%) AppDynamics
14 10 (0.32%) Sitecore
15 9 (0.29%) OneLogin
16 8 (0.26%) Dynatrace
17 6 (0.19%) Palo Alto