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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 107 42
Rank change year-on-year +37 -65 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,379 1,245 4,975
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.65% 2.94% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 3.16% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,929 1,008 3,921
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% +8.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,494
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.36% -0.01%

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 67,118 39,358 81,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.74% 92.84% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,692 22,603 59,642
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,344 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +40 2,149 £70,000 +7.69% 719
UK excluding London +33 1,423 £65,000 +8.33% 514
Work from Home +37 889 £70,000 +7.69% 405
London +35 774 £85,000 +6.25% 307
North of England +50 438 £70,000 +21.74% 145
South East +12 350 £60,000 - 166
Midlands +36 246 £55,000 +4.76% 46
North West +30 222 £67,500 +8.00% 84
South West +14 208 £60,000 -4.00% 61
Yorkshire +29 158 £75,000 +36.36% 36
West Midlands +28 129 £60,000 +2.13% 19
East Midlands +10 116 £55,000 +15.79% 27
East of England +32 110 £68,750 +25.00% 59
North East +10 58 £60,000 +17.07% 25
Scotland -37 36 £60,000 -9.77% 25
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 8
Wales -42 17 £52,500 -25.00% 8
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 17 (0.71%) CMS
2 14 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (0.59%) Confluence
3 11 (0.46%) ColdFusion
4 9 (0.38%) Apache
4 9 (0.38%) OpenStack
4 9 (0.38%) WordPress
5 8 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.17%) Appian
9 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.17%) IIS
10 3 (0.13%) Liferay
10 3 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.084%) CICS
11 2 (0.084%) Drupal
11 2 (0.084%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.084%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.084%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.042%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.042%) Magento
2 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 691 (29.05%) AWS
2 447 (18.79%) Azure
3 223 (9.37%) SaaS
4 191 (8.03%) Serverless
5 162 (6.81%) GCP
6 129 (5.42%) GitHub
7 115 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
8 99 (4.16%) Amazon S3
9 83 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
10 61 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
11 59 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
12 48 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (1.85%) Figma
14 43 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (1.05%) Entra ID
16 25 (1.05%) Power Platform
17 23 (0.97%) GitHub Copilot
18 22 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (0.92%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.93%) Broadband
2 10 (0.42%) HTTP
3 6 (0.25%) DNS
4 5 (0.21%) Firewall
5 4 (0.17%) Internet
5 4 (0.17%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.13%) VPN
6 3 (0.13%) WAN
7 2 (0.084%) DHCP
7 2 (0.084%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.084%) LAN
7 2 (0.084%) VLAN
8 1 (0.042%) AMQP
8 1 (0.042%) MQTT
8 1 (0.042%) Multicast
8 1 (0.042%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.042%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.042%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.042%) VSAN
8 1 (0.042%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 133 (5.59%) MongoDB
3 119 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 119 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 62 (2.61%) MySQL
5 51 (2.14%) DynamoDB
6 47 (1.98%) Relational Database
7 37 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (0.80%) Redis
9 18 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (0.71%) Power BI
11 14 (0.59%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.34%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.34%) DB2
15 6 (0.25%) GIS
15 6 (0.25%) MariaDB
16 4 (0.17%) Big Data
16 4 (0.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 175 (7.36%) Git
2 95 (3.99%) Jenkins
3 64 (2.69%) Cypress.io
4 44 (1.85%) GitLab
5 36 (1.51%) JIRA
6 27 (1.13%) Maven
7 23 (0.97%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.80%) CircleCI
8 19 (0.80%) Vite
9 18 (0.76%) JUnit
10 14 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.55%) Claude Code
12 12 (0.50%) Mockito
13 11 (0.46%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.34%) Selenium
15 7 (0.29%) ESLint
15 7 (0.29%) NUnit
16 6 (0.25%) webpack
17 4 (0.17%) Storybook
General
1 274 (11.52%) Social Skills
2 250 (10.51%) Finance
3 70 (2.94%) Public Sector
4 69 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (2.23%) Banking
6 51 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (1.89%) Retail
8 39 (1.64%) Front Office
8 39 (1.64%) Law
9 38 (1.60%) Marketing
10 34 (1.43%) Games
11 33 (1.39%) Tech for Good
12 28 (1.18%) Aviation
13 24 (1.01%) Manufacturing
14 21 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (0.84%) Health Technology
16 19 (0.80%) Legal
17 18 (0.76%) Investment Banking
18 16 (0.67%) Advertising
19 12 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,366 (57.42%) Developer
2 959 (40.31%) Full-Stack Developer
3 585 (24.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 550 (23.12%) Senior
5 439 (18.45%) Software Engineer
6 349 (14.67%) Lead
7 268 (11.27%) Senior Developer
8 193 (8.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 188 (7.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 187 (7.86%) Lead Developer
11 174 (7.31%) .NET Developer
11 174 (7.31%) Software Developer
12 153 (6.43%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 146 (6.14%) React Developer
14 145 (6.09%) Java Developer
15 124 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
16 102 (4.29%) Python Developer
17 91 (3.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 89 (3.74%) C# Developer
19 85 (3.57%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 843 (35.44%) React
2 468 (19.67%) .NET
3 457 (19.21%) Node.js
4 242 (10.17%) AngularJS
5 235 (9.88%) HTML
6 234 (9.84%) CSS
7 197 (8.28%) Vue
8 162 (6.81%) RESTful
9 158 (6.64%) Spring
10 147 (6.18%) .NET Core
11 138 (5.80%) REST
12 131 (5.51%) Spring Boot
13 124 (5.21%) Next.js
14 83 (3.49%) ASP.NET
15 77 (3.24%) GraphQL
16 69 (2.90%) .NET Framework
17 68 (2.86%) Laravel
18 66 (2.77%) React Native
19 61 (2.56%) Kafka
20 58 (2.44%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 173 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 98 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
3 76 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 66 (2.77%) Mobile App
5 60 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
6 47 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.47%) AI Agents
7 35 (1.47%) Fixed Income
8 33 (1.39%) IoT
9 25 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (0.92%) e-Learning
11 21 (0.88%) Low-Code
12 20 (0.84%) Smart Energy
13 18 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (0.67%) Onboarding
15 15 (0.63%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (0.63%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.55%) Blog
16 13 (0.55%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.30%) Linux
2 23 (0.97%) Android
3 20 (0.84%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.25%) Windows
5 5 (0.21%) Unix
6 2 (0.084%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.042%) VMS
7 1 (0.042%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (31.53%) Software Engineering
2 504 (21.19%) Agile
3 442 (18.58%) CI/CD
4 369 (15.51%) AI
5 354 (14.88%) DevOps
6 318 (13.37%) Microservices
7 311 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
8 245 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 239 (10.05%) Mentoring
10 195 (8.20%) Test Automation
11 167 (7.02%) User Experience
12 152 (6.39%) Containerisation
13 143 (6.01%) Clean Code
14 139 (5.84%) Scrum
15 136 (5.72%) Web Development
16 121 (5.09%) Technical Leadership
17 118 (4.96%) Infrastructure as Code
18 113 (4.75%) Computer Science
19 111 (4.67%) Front End Development
19 111 (4.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 687 (28.88%) TypeScript
2 671 (28.21%) JavaScript
3 479 (20.13%) Python
4 445 (18.71%) Java
5 418 (17.57%) C#
6 310 (13.03%) SQL
7 99 (4.16%) PHP
8 61 (2.56%) Go
9 53 (2.23%) Ruby
10 31 (1.30%) Bash
11 22 (0.92%) C++
12 18 (0.76%) C
13 16 (0.67%) Groovy
13 16 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.55%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.50%) Bicep
16 9 (0.38%) Rust
17 6 (0.25%) R
17 6 (0.25%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 172 (7.23%) Security Cleared
2 122 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 117 (4.92%) Degree
4 76 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 17 (0.71%) DBS Check
8 10 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.17%) PhD
12 2 (0.084%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.042%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.042%) MBA
13 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (4.41%) QA
2 45 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.46%) GDPR
4 10 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.29%) GRC
6 6 (0.25%) SLA
6 6 (0.25%) WCAG
7 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.084%) HL7
8 2 (0.084%) ITGC
8 2 (0.084%) NCSC
8 2 (0.084%) NIST
8 2 (0.084%) PERC
9 1 (0.042%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.042%) SOC 2
System Software
1 239 (10.05%) Docker
2 9 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.084%) vSphere
6 1 (0.042%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 165 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 117 (4.92%) Terraform
3 33 (1.39%) Grafana
4 28 (1.18%) Ansible
5 20 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.59%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.55%) Podman
8 10 (0.42%) Argo
9 7 (0.29%) Kibana
9 7 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.17%) logstash
11 3 (0.13%) Nagios
12 1 (0.042%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.042%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.042%) Graylog
12 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.042%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 144 (6.05%) Microsoft
2 34 (1.43%) OpenAI
3 33 (1.39%) Google
4 30 (1.26%) Adobe
5 27 (1.13%) Oracle
6 11 (0.46%) Foundry
7 10 (0.42%) Palantir
7 10 (0.42%) Salesforce
8 8 (0.34%) Peregrine
9 6 (0.25%) Databricks
9 6 (0.25%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.25%) Fortinet
9 6 (0.25%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.25%) Pega
10 5 (0.21%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (0.21%) Facebook
10 5 (0.21%) Zoho
11 4 (0.17%) Apple
11 4 (0.17%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.17%) Splunk