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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 60 44
Rank change year-on-year -23 -16 +23
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,651 2,073 3,884
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.46% 4.18% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 4.53% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 1,051 3,406
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -10.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £99,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -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 53,358 45,796 65,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.56% 92.23% 88.32%
Number of salaries quoted 31,921 22,329 51,135
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -19 1,497 £70,000 +7.69% 901
UK excluding London -43 891 £62,500 +8.70% 713
Work from Home -10 654 £70,000 +7.69% 484
London +6 628 £82,500 +3.13% 253
North of England -3 246 £65,000 +13.04% 185
South East -49 231 £62,500 +4.17% 197
Midlands -15 177 £55,000 +4.76% 99
South West -11 132 £60,000 -4.00% 106
North West -9 111 £67,500 +12.50% 97
West Midlands 0 96 £52,500 - 42
Yorkshire -20 90 £73,750 +48.99% 62
East Midlands -24 80 £55,000 +41.03% 57
East of England -42 63 £60,000 +20.00% 67
North East +12 45 £55,000 +22.22% 26
Northern Ireland -9 19 £70,000 -6.67% 15
Wales -27 13 £52,500 -0.47% 20
Scotland -75 12 £67,500 +22.73% 31
Channel Islands 0 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 (1.03%) CMS
2 11 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (0.67%) Confluence
2 11 (0.67%) OpenStack
2 11 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
3 6 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.30%) nginx
4 5 (0.30%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.30%) WordPress
5 4 (0.24%) Apache
5 4 (0.24%) Appian
6 3 (0.18%) ColdFusion
6 3 (0.18%) Drupal
6 3 (0.18%) IIS
6 3 (0.18%) Liferay
7 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.061%) Camunda
8 1 (0.061%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.061%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.061%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.061%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.061%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 560 (33.92%) AWS
2 418 (25.32%) Azure
3 176 (10.66%) Serverless
4 164 (9.93%) SaaS
5 120 (7.27%) GitHub
6 116 (7.03%) GCP
7 97 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 87 (5.27%) Amazon S3
9 74 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (2.36%) Figma
14 28 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (1.64%) PaaS
16 20 (1.21%) Entra ID
16 20 (1.21%) Power Platform
17 17 (1.03%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.45%) Broadband
2 7 (0.42%) HTTP
3 4 (0.24%) Firewall
4 3 (0.18%) Internet
4 3 (0.18%) WAN
5 2 (0.12%) AMQP
5 2 (0.12%) DHCP
5 2 (0.12%) DNS
5 2 (0.12%) LAN
5 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.12%) VLAN
5 2 (0.12%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.061%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.061%) MQTT
6 1 (0.061%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.061%) SSL
6 1 (0.061%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (7.21%) SQL Server
3 101 (6.12%) NoSQL
4 96 (5.81%) MongoDB
5 74 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 67 (4.06%) MySQL
7 35 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (1.94%) DynamoDB
9 26 (1.57%) Redis
10 21 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (1.09%) RDBMS
12 15 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.73%) Power BI
15 11 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.67%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.48%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.48%) DB2
17 4 (0.24%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 162 (9.81%) Git
2 85 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 52 (3.15%) Cypress.io
4 39 (2.36%) JIRA
5 30 (1.82%) GitLab
6 26 (1.57%) JUnit
7 24 (1.45%) Maven
8 19 (1.15%) Mockito
8 19 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.03%) Vite
10 15 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.79%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.73%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 12 (0.73%) JMeter
13 10 (0.61%) Selenium
14 9 (0.55%) webpack
15 8 (0.48%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.36%) ESLint
16 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 278 (16.84%) Social Skills
2 165 (9.99%) Finance
3 71 (4.30%) Public Sector
4 65 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (3.03%) Banking
6 46 (2.79%) Law
7 37 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (2.12%) Front Office
9 32 (1.94%) Retail
10 28 (1.70%) Marketing
10 28 (1.70%) Tech for Good
11 25 (1.51%) Investment Banking
12 24 (1.45%) Aviation
13 23 (1.39%) Legal
14 22 (1.33%) Games
14 22 (1.33%) Health Technology
15 21 (1.27%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.55%) Advertising
16 9 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 916 (55.48%) Developer
2 642 (38.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 383 (23.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 383 (23.20%) Senior
4 302 (18.29%) Software Engineer
5 230 (13.93%) Lead
6 164 (9.93%) Senior Developer
7 150 (9.09%) .NET Developer
8 132 (8.00%) Java Developer
9 127 (7.69%) React Developer
10 126 (7.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 119 (7.21%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 114 (6.90%) Lead Developer
12 114 (6.90%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 99 (6.00%) Software Developer
14 93 (5.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 93 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
15 80 (4.85%) C# Developer
16 73 (4.42%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 70 (4.24%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 716 (43.37%) React
2 414 (25.08%) .NET
3 315 (19.08%) Node.js
4 234 (14.17%) AngularJS
5 223 (13.51%) HTML
6 204 (12.36%) CSS
7 160 (9.69%) Vue
8 154 (9.33%) Spring
9 145 (8.78%) .NET Core
10 139 (8.42%) REST
11 137 (8.30%) RESTful
12 120 (7.27%) Spring Boot
13 90 (5.45%) Next.js
14 81 (4.91%) .NET Framework
14 81 (4.91%) ASP.NET
15 73 (4.42%) GraphQL
16 68 (4.12%) Kafka
17 61 (3.69%) Entity Framework
18 57 (3.45%) HTML5
19 56 (3.39%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 138 (8.36%) Cloud Native
2 73 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.69%) Mobile App
5 56 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.70%) IoT
8 24 (1.45%) AI Agents
9 20 (1.21%) Fixed Income
10 17 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (0.91%) Management Information System
13 14 (0.85%) Smart Energy
14 13 (0.79%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (0.79%) Private Cloud
15 12 (0.73%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.61%) e-Learning
16 10 (0.61%) Hedge funds
16 10 (0.61%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.51%) Linux
2 23 (1.39%) Android
3 22 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.42%) Unix
5 5 (0.30%) Windows
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (32.83%) Software Engineering
2 459 (27.80%) Agile
3 405 (24.53%) CI/CD
4 306 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
5 302 (18.29%) Microservices
6 288 (17.44%) AI
7 287 (17.38%) DevOps
8 214 (12.96%) Mentoring
9 200 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 200 (12.11%) User Experience
10 130 (7.87%) Test Automation
11 123 (7.45%) Clean Code
12 122 (7.39%) Computer Science
13 121 (7.33%) Containerisation
14 118 (7.15%) Scrum
15 105 (6.36%) TDD
16 100 (6.06%) Front End Development
17 96 (5.81%) Technical Leadership
18 93 (5.63%) Collaborative Culture
19 91 (5.51%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 544 (32.95%) JavaScript
2 528 (31.98%) TypeScript
3 389 (23.56%) Java
4 379 (22.96%) C#
5 337 (20.41%) Python
6 262 (15.87%) SQL
7 69 (4.18%) PHP
8 39 (2.36%) Go
9 37 (2.24%) Ruby
10 26 (1.57%) Bash
11 25 (1.51%) Rust
12 21 (1.27%) C++
13 16 (0.97%) C
14 12 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.67%) Groovy
15 11 (0.67%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.61%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.48%) PowerShell
18 7 (0.42%) R
18 7 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 146 (8.84%) Security Cleared
2 121 (7.33%) Degree
3 95 (5.75%) SC Cleared
4 81 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.18%) PhD
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.061%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.061%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.061%) MBA
13 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.66%) QA
2 67 (4.06%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.85%) GDPR
3 14 (0.85%) WCAG
4 7 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.36%) SLA
6 5 (0.30%) PERC
7 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.12%) ECSS
8 2 (0.12%) NCSC
8 2 (0.12%) NIST
9 1 (0.061%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.061%) HL7
9 1 (0.061%) ITGC
System Software
1 205 (12.42%) Docker
2 16 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 174 (10.54%) Kubernetes
2 99 (6.00%) Terraform
3 27 (1.64%) Ansible
4 22 (1.33%) Grafana
5 16 (0.97%) Kibana
6 13 (0.79%) Argo
7 11 (0.67%) HP Fortify
7 11 (0.67%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Nagios
9 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.061%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.061%) Istio
10 1 (0.061%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.061%) logstash
10 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.061%) Podman
Vendors
1 103 (6.24%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.64%) Oracle
3 26 (1.57%) OpenAI
4 25 (1.51%) Adobe
5 20 (1.21%) Google
6 15 (0.91%) Foundry
7 13 (0.79%) Dynatrace
7 13 (0.79%) Palantir
8 11 (0.67%) Splunk
9 7 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.42%) Fortinet
9 7 (0.42%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.30%) Facebook
10 5 (0.30%) VMware
10 5 (0.30%) Zoho
11 4 (0.24%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.24%) Pega
11 4 (0.24%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.24%) SAP
11 4 (0.24%) Telerik