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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 66 44
Rank change year-on-year -10 -22 +24
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,911 1,730 4,314
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.57% 3.95% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 4.22% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,536 1,057 3,680
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -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 57,986 41,016 73,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.95% 93.54% 87.33%
Number of salaries quoted 35,213 22,402 55,977
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,967 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,997 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -5 1,726 £70,000 +7.69% 866
UK excluding London -23 1,080 £62,500 +4.17% 645
Work from Home -2 761 £70,000 +7.69% 487
London +10 681 £85,000 +6.25% 349
North of England +21 315 £67,500 +17.39% 167
South East -46 265 £60,000 - 183
Midlands +16 204 £55,000 +4.76% 86
South West +10 160 £60,000 -5.88% 90
North West +18 155 £70,000 +12.00% 86
Yorkshire +12 112 £71,250 +42.50% 57
West Midlands +19 108 £55,000 +4.76% 41
East Midlands -14 95 £55,000 +30.95% 45
East of England -34 78 £60,000 +9.09% 71
North East +23 48 £55,000 +25.71% 25
Northern Ireland -8 26 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Scotland -59 19 £65,000 +6.12% 36
Wales -32 15 £51,250 -22.64% 16
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 16 (0.84%) CMS
2 14 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
3 12 (0.63%) OpenStack
4 11 (0.58%) Confluence
5 8 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.31%) WordPress
8 5 (0.26%) Apache
8 5 (0.26%) ColdFusion
8 5 (0.26%) nginx
9 4 (0.21%) Appian
10 3 (0.16%) Drupal
10 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.16%) IIS
10 3 (0.16%) Liferay
11 2 (0.10%) CICS
11 2 (0.10%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.10%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Shopify
2 1 (0.052%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.052%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 616 (32.23%) AWS
2 452 (23.65%) Azure
3 190 (9.94%) SaaS
4 184 (9.63%) Serverless
5 143 (7.48%) GCP
6 134 (7.01%) GitHub
7 99 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
8 88 (4.60%) Amazon S3
9 76 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
11 54 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
13 45 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
14 38 (1.99%) Figma
15 33 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (1.36%) PaaS
18 24 (1.26%) Entra ID
19 22 (1.15%) Power Platform
20 20 (1.05%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.78%) Broadband
2 6 (0.31%) HTTP
3 4 (0.21%) Firewall
3 4 (0.21%) Internet
4 3 (0.16%) WAN
5 2 (0.10%) AMQP
5 2 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.10%) LAN
5 2 (0.10%) VLAN
5 2 (0.10%) VPN
6 1 (0.052%) DNS
6 1 (0.052%) MQTT
6 1 (0.052%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.052%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.052%) SSL
6 1 (0.052%) TCAP
6 1 (0.052%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.052%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.052%) WebEx
6 1 (0.052%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (6.70%) SQL Server
3 121 (6.33%) MongoDB
4 112 (5.86%) NoSQL
5 73 (3.82%) Relational Database
6 70 (3.66%) MySQL
7 38 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 35 (1.83%) DynamoDB
9 26 (1.36%) Redis
10 17 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (0.73%) Power BI
11 14 (0.73%) RDBMS
12 13 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.63%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.52%) DB2
15 8 (0.42%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.26%) GIS
16 5 (0.26%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 177 (9.26%) Git
2 99 (5.18%) Jenkins
3 55 (2.88%) Cypress.io
4 34 (1.78%) JIRA
5 33 (1.73%) GitLab
6 27 (1.41%) JUnit
7 25 (1.31%) Maven
8 19 (0.99%) Mockito
8 19 (0.99%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.89%) SonarQube
10 14 (0.73%) Vite
11 13 (0.68%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.63%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.58%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.52%) webpack
15 9 (0.47%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.47%) Selenium
16 8 (0.42%) JMeter
17 7 (0.37%) ESLint
18 5 (0.26%) git-flow
General
1 290 (15.18%) Social Skills
2 204 (10.68%) Finance
3 79 (4.13%) Public Sector
4 74 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (2.62%) Banking
6 44 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 44 (2.30%) Law
7 43 (2.25%) Front Office
8 42 (2.20%) Retail
9 36 (1.88%) Marketing
10 32 (1.67%) Games
10 32 (1.67%) Tech for Good
11 25 (1.31%) Aviation
12 24 (1.26%) Health Technology
12 24 (1.26%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.20%) Legal
14 21 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.05%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.58%) Advertising
17 9 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,085 (56.78%) Developer
2 757 (39.61%) Full-Stack Developer
3 450 (23.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 442 (23.13%) Senior
5 346 (18.11%) Software Engineer
6 269 (14.08%) Lead
7 201 (10.52%) Senior Developer
8 170 (8.90%) .NET Developer
9 149 (7.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 148 (7.74%) Java Developer
11 144 (7.54%) Lead Developer
12 143 (7.48%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 132 (6.91%) React Developer
14 128 (6.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 116 (6.07%) Software Developer
16 101 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
17 98 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 84 (4.40%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 82 (4.29%) C# Developer
20 72 (3.77%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 764 (39.98%) React
2 451 (23.60%) .NET
3 382 (19.99%) Node.js
4 239 (12.51%) HTML
5 235 (12.30%) AngularJS
6 230 (12.04%) CSS
7 173 (9.05%) Vue
8 158 (8.27%) Spring
9 152 (7.95%) RESTful
10 151 (7.90%) .NET Core
10 151 (7.90%) REST
11 124 (6.49%) Spring Boot
12 101 (5.29%) Next.js
13 92 (4.81%) ASP.NET
14 89 (4.66%) GraphQL
15 80 (4.19%) Kafka
16 78 (4.08%) .NET Framework
17 63 (3.30%) Entity Framework
18 62 (3.24%) Laravel
19 54 (2.83%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 148 (7.74%) Cloud Native
2 76 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
3 71 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (3.19%) Mobile App
6 50 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.67%) IoT
8 30 (1.57%) Fixed Income
9 22 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.10%) AI Agents
11 20 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (0.94%) Smart Energy
13 16 (0.84%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.84%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.78%) Private Cloud
15 14 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.73%) Management Information System
16 12 (0.63%) Onboarding
17 11 (0.58%) Blog
18 10 (0.52%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.57%) Linux
2 26 (1.36%) Android
3 23 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.31%) Unix
5 5 (0.26%) Windows
6 1 (0.052%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.052%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (32.71%) Software Engineering
2 501 (26.22%) Agile
3 429 (22.45%) CI/CD
4 323 (16.90%) DevOps
5 321 (16.80%) AI
6 307 (16.06%) Microservices
7 301 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
8 226 (11.83%) Mentoring
9 219 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 193 (10.10%) User Experience
11 158 (8.27%) Test Automation
12 138 (7.22%) Containerisation
13 133 (6.96%) Clean Code
14 126 (6.59%) Scrum
15 121 (6.33%) Computer Science
16 105 (5.49%) Technical Leadership
17 104 (5.44%) Front End Development
18 103 (5.39%) Machine Learning
19 99 (5.18%) TDD
20 95 (4.97%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 600 (31.40%) JavaScript
2 585 (30.61%) TypeScript
3 423 (22.14%) Java
4 398 (20.83%) C#
5 391 (20.46%) Python
6 286 (14.97%) SQL
7 80 (4.19%) PHP
8 54 (2.83%) Go
9 39 (2.04%) Ruby
10 26 (1.36%) Bash
11 21 (1.10%) Rust
12 20 (1.05%) C++
13 17 (0.89%) C
13 17 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.58%) Groovy
16 8 (0.42%) Bicep
16 8 (0.42%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.37%) R
18 6 (0.31%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 151 (7.90%) Security Cleared
2 121 (6.33%) Degree
3 104 (5.44%) SC Cleared
4 82 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.25%) DV Cleared
6 17 (0.89%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.47%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.31%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.16%) PhD
11 2 (0.10%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.052%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.052%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.052%) MBA
12 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (4.45%) QA
2 59 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.68%) GDPR
4 9 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.47%) WCAG
5 6 (0.31%) SLA
6 5 (0.26%) PERC
7 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.16%) GRC
9 2 (0.10%) ECSS
9 2 (0.10%) HL7
9 2 (0.10%) NCSC
9 2 (0.10%) NIST
10 1 (0.052%) ITGC
10 1 (0.052%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 231 (12.09%) Docker
2 14 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.10%) Firmware
4 2 (0.10%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 181 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 103 (5.39%) Terraform
3 30 (1.57%) Ansible
4 27 (1.41%) Grafana
5 15 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.73%) Kibana
7 11 (0.58%) Argo
7 11 (0.58%) HP Fortify
8 6 (0.31%) Podman
9 3 (0.16%) Nagios
9 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.052%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.052%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.052%) logstash
11 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.052%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 125 (6.54%) Microsoft
2 29 (1.52%) Google
2 29 (1.52%) Oracle
3 28 (1.47%) OpenAI
4 26 (1.36%) Adobe
5 19 (0.99%) Foundry
6 18 (0.94%) Palantir
7 10 (0.52%) Fortinet
7 10 (0.52%) Palo Alto
8 9 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
8 9 (0.47%) Dynatrace
8 9 (0.47%) Splunk
9 8 (0.42%) Pega
9 8 (0.42%) Salesforce
10 6 (0.31%) Databricks
11 5 (0.26%) Facebook
11 5 (0.26%) VMware
11 5 (0.26%) WSO2
11 5 (0.26%) Zoho
12 4 (0.21%) ServiceNow