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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 104 44
Rank change year-on-year +54 -60 +33
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,275 1,400 3,617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.90% 2.82% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 3.18% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,696 837 2,198
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
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 £116,000 £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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £96,288 £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 10 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 10 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 +62 2,975 £65,000 -7.14% 1,858
UK excluding London +82 2,292 £60,000 - 933
Work from Home +42 1,373 £60,000 -7.69% 807
London +5 828 £85,000 - 1,147
North of England +65 761 £65,000 +8.33% 255
South East +113 565 £60,000 - 180
North West +47 422 £65,000 -3.70% 144
South West +54 327 £60,000 - 129
Midlands +42 300 £55,000 -8.33% 120
Yorkshire +72 213 £70,000 +16.67% 78
East of England +53 176 £60,000 +33.33% 93
West Midlands +34 166 £60,000 -4.00% 61
East Midlands +19 134 £55,000 +15.79% 59
North East +19 126 £51,000 +17.92% 37
Scotland -13 102 £60,000 -9.43% 102
Wales -36 60 £60,000 - 17
Northern Ireland -75 6 £90,000 +50.00% 42
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 26 (0.79%) CMS
2 24 (0.73%) Confluence
3 17 (0.52%) WordPress
4 10 (0.31%) Apache
4 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.27%) IIS
6 8 (0.24%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.18%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.092%) DNN
10 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.092%) Kentico
10 3 (0.092%) nginx
10 3 (0.092%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.092%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 13 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.061%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.031%) 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
1 936 (28.58%) Azure
2 927 (28.31%) AWS
3 319 (9.74%) GitHub
4 250 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
5 233 (7.11%) SaaS
6 206 (6.29%) Serverless
7 189 (5.77%) GCP
8 186 (5.68%) GitHub Copilot
9 166 (5.07%) Azure AI
10 139 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (3.18%) Amazon S3
12 88 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
13 77 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 65 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
15 57 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
16 55 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
16 55 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
17 35 (1.07%) Power Platform
18 33 (1.01%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.86%) Internet
2 50 (1.53%) Broadband
3 17 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.40%) DNS
5 11 (0.34%) Firewall
5 11 (0.34%) HTTP
6 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
7 5 (0.15%) MQTT
8 4 (0.12%) VoIP
9 3 (0.092%) 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 (0.031%) Diameter Protocol
11 1 (0.031%) Multicast
11 1 (0.031%) SCTP
11 1 (0.031%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 532 (16.24%) MongoDB
2 463 (14.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 231 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
4 184 (5.62%) SQL Server
5 160 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
6 110 (3.36%) NoSQL
7 96 (2.93%) MySQL
8 84 (2.56%) Relational Database
9 71 (2.17%) DynamoDB
10 59 (1.80%) Redis
11 28 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.67%) 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 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.27%) Pinecone
18 8 (0.24%) Chroma
18 8 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 248 (7.57%) Git
2 104 (3.18%) Jenkins
3 91 (2.78%) GitLab
4 65 (1.98%) Cypress.io
5 62 (1.89%) JUnit
6 46 (1.40%) Claude Code
7 40 (1.22%) JIRA
8 38 (1.16%) Maven
9 31 (0.95%) Subversion
10 29 (0.89%) Eclipse
11 24 (0.73%) 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%) NUnit
16 13 (0.40%) Storybook
17 12 (0.37%) CircleCI
18 11 (0.34%) Bitbucket
19 9 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 393 (12.00%) Finance
2 313 (9.56%) Social Skills
3 179 (5.47%) Public Sector
4 101 (3.08%) Marketing
5 90 (2.75%) Games
6 78 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (2.20%) Advertising
8 70 (2.14%) Retail
9 68 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 62 (1.89%) Banking
11 35 (1.07%) Law
11 35 (1.07%) Manufacturing
12 34 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 31 (0.95%) Legal
14 23 (0.70%) Tech for Good
15 19 (0.58%) Aerospace
16 17 (0.52%) Automotive
17 15 (0.46%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.43%) Legal Technology
19 13 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,882 (57.47%) Developer
2 1,029 (31.42%) Full-Stack Developer
3 811 (24.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 652 (19.91%) Senior
5 592 (18.08%) .NET Developer
6 531 (16.21%) Software Engineer
7 420 (12.82%) Lead
8 283 (8.64%) Software Developer
9 274 (8.37%) Senior Developer
10 246 (7.51%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 237 (7.24%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 177 (5.40%) Lead Developer
13 160 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
14 159 (4.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 150 (4.58%) Java Developer
16 126 (3.85%) Java Engineer
17 105 (3.21%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 98 (2.99%) Python Engineer
19 93 (2.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 89 (2.72%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,018 (31.08%) React
2 982 (29.98%) .NET
3 602 (18.38%) Node.js
4 555 (16.95%) ASP.NET
5 550 (16.79%) .NET Core
6 515 (15.73%) ASP.NET Core
7 432 (13.19%) AngularJS
8 421 (12.85%) CSS
9 400 (12.21%) HTML
10 369 (11.27%) RESTful
10 369 (11.27%) Vue
11 232 (7.08%) Entity Framework
12 226 (6.90%) REST
13 218 (6.66%) Blazor
14 208 (6.35%) Spring
15 185 (5.65%) ASP.NET Web API
16 167 (5.10%) Next.js
16 167 (5.10%) Spring Boot
17 159 (4.85%) Terraform
18 156 (4.76%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 307 (9.37%) Cloud Native
2 153 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
3 123 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 89 (2.72%) AI Agents
5 85 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 84 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 78 (2.38%) Mobile App
8 72 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 47 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.10%) e-Learning
11 34 (1.04%) Low-Code
11 34 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
12 28 (0.85%) Onboarding
13 25 (0.76%) IoT
14 22 (0.67%) Virtual Team
15 20 (0.61%) Digital TV
16 19 (0.58%) Social Media
17 18 (0.55%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.52%) Data Structures
18 17 (0.52%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 60 (1.83%) Linux
2 26 (0.79%) Android
3 15 (0.46%) Windows
4 13 (0.40%) Unix
5 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.24%) 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
1 927 (28.31%) Agile
2 918 (28.03%) Software Engineering
3 811 (24.76%) CI/CD
4 751 (22.93%) AI
5 578 (17.65%) Microservices
6 543 (16.58%) DevOps
7 353 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
8 306 (9.34%) Machine Learning
9 299 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 296 (9.04%) Mentoring
11 285 (8.70%) Test Automation
12 210 (6.41%) Scrum
13 206 (6.29%) Clean Code
14 192 (5.86%) TDD
15 191 (5.83%) Observability
16 185 (5.65%) Infrastructure as Code
17 178 (5.44%) Multithreading
18 176 (5.37%) Technical Leadership
19 175 (5.34%) LLM
20 169 (5.16%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 1,005 (30.69%) JavaScript
2 949 (28.98%) C#
3 909 (27.76%) TypeScript
4 775 (23.66%) SQL
5 599 (18.29%) Python
6 541 (16.52%) Java
7 103 (3.15%) Ruby
8 95 (2.90%) C++
9 89 (2.72%) PHP
10 82 (2.50%) Go
11 68 (2.08%) Kotlin
12 31 (0.95%) Bash
13 29 (0.89%) Groovy
14 26 (0.79%) Perl
15 19 (0.58%) Rust
16 13 (0.40%) Bicep
17 12 (0.37%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.21%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.18%) C
19 6 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 234 (7.15%) Security Cleared
2 188 (5.74%) Degree
3 161 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 126 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.07%) DV Cleared
6 23 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 18 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.18%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.18%) PhD
12 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.092%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.092%) OCP
13 3 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.061%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.08%) QA
2 73 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.92%) WCAG
5 20 (0.61%) GDPR
6 9 (0.27%) NCSC
7 7 (0.21%) GRC
7 7 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.12%) NIST
10 2 (0.061%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.031%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.031%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.031%) ITGC
11 1 (0.031%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.031%) SLA
System Software
1 471 (14.38%) Docker
2 4 (0.12%) Firmware
3 3 (0.092%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 359 (10.96%) Kubernetes
2 22 (0.67%) Ansible
3 21 (0.64%) Grafana
4 12 (0.37%) Podman
4 12 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.34%) HP Fortify
6 9 (0.27%) Kibana
7 7 (0.21%) logstash
7 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.092%) Argo
9 2 (0.061%) Bugsnag
9 2 (0.061%) Packer
9 2 (0.061%) Puppet
10 1 (0.031%) Consul
10 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.031%) Graylog
10 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 611 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 94 (2.87%) Google
3 59 (1.80%) Facebook
4 48 (1.47%) OpenAI
5 36 (1.10%) Oracle
6 25 (0.76%) YouTube
7 24 (0.73%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.64%) Splunk
9 17 (0.52%) AppDynamics
9 17 (0.52%) Apple
9 17 (0.52%) Sony
9 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
10 15 (0.46%) Adobe
10 15 (0.46%) Foundry
11 14 (0.43%) Palantir
12 13 (0.40%) Mistral
13 11 (0.34%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.31%) Dynatrace
14 10 (0.31%) OneLogin
14 10 (0.31%) Sitecore