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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 103 45
Rank change year-on-year +54 -58 +35
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,215 1,390 3,605
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.91% 2.83% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.20% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,645 827 2,296
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 £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%

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 80,539 43,404 64,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.01% 88.47% 80.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,017 24,525 38,712
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,250
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -5.04%

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 4 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 4 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 +65 2,924 £65,000 -7.14% 1,978
UK excluding London +81 2,257 £60,000 - 1,010
Work from Home +45 1,366 £60,000 -7.69% 847
London +7 804 £85,000 - 1,215
North of England +63 738 £65,000 +8.33% 283
South East +105 560 £60,000 - 185
North West +41 406 £65,000 -3.70% 169
South West +56 325 £60,000 - 142
Midlands +44 303 £55,000 -8.33% 132
Yorkshire +68 208 £70,000 +16.67% 78
East of England +55 176 £60,000 +33.33% 93
West Midlands +38 167 £60,000 -7.69% 70
East Midlands +23 136 £55,000 +15.79% 62
North East +14 124 £50,000 +16.96% 40
Scotland -14 97 £60,000 -9.43% 107
Wales -34 58 £60,000 - 20
Northern Ireland -83 5 £90,000 +50.00% 54
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 (0.81%) CMS
2 24 (0.75%) Confluence
3 16 (0.50%) WordPress
4 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.28%) Apache
5 9 (0.28%) IIS
6 8 (0.25%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.19%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.093%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.093%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.093%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.093%) Kentico
10 3 (0.093%) nginx
10 3 (0.093%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.093%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 13 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.062%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.062%) 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
1 935 (29.08%) Azure
2 920 (28.62%) AWS
3 319 (9.92%) GitHub
4 249 (7.74%) Azure DevOps
5 234 (7.28%) SaaS
6 203 (6.31%) Serverless
7 187 (5.82%) GitHub Copilot
8 183 (5.69%) GCP
9 166 (5.16%) Azure AI
10 136 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
11 102 (3.17%) Amazon S3
12 86 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 75 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
15 65 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
16 56 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
17 55 (1.71%) Anthropic Claude
18 54 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
19 35 (1.09%) Power Platform
20 32 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.90%) Internet
2 50 (1.56%) Broadband
3 17 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.40%) DNS
5 11 (0.34%) Firewall
5 11 (0.34%) HTTP
6 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
7 5 (0.16%) MQTT
8 4 (0.12%) VoIP
9 3 (0.093%) DHCP
10 2 (0.062%) AMQP
10 2 (0.062%) LAN
10 2 (0.062%) Network Security
10 2 (0.062%) VPN
10 2 (0.062%) 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
1 531 (16.52%) MongoDB
2 463 (14.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 230 (7.15%) PostgreSQL
4 182 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 159 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
6 110 (3.42%) NoSQL
7 97 (3.02%) MySQL
8 83 (2.58%) Relational Database
9 70 (2.18%) DynamoDB
10 59 (1.84%) Redis
11 28 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.68%) Power BI
13 16 (0.50%) Spark SQL
14 12 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.31%) GIS
17 9 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
18 8 (0.25%) Chroma
18 8 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 247 (7.68%) Git
2 102 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 88 (2.74%) GitLab
4 64 (1.99%) Cypress.io
5 61 (1.90%) JUnit
6 46 (1.43%) Claude Code
7 40 (1.24%) JIRA
8 36 (1.12%) Maven
9 31 (0.96%) Subversion
10 29 (0.90%) Eclipse
11 21 (0.65%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.53%) Vite
13 15 (0.47%) Mockito
13 15 (0.47%) Selenium
14 14 (0.44%) Spock
15 13 (0.40%) NUnit
15 13 (0.40%) Storybook
16 12 (0.37%) CircleCI
17 11 (0.34%) Bitbucket
18 9 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 378 (11.76%) Finance
2 313 (9.74%) Social Skills
3 172 (5.35%) Public Sector
4 103 (3.20%) Marketing
5 89 (2.77%) Games
6 77 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (2.24%) Advertising
8 71 (2.21%) Retail
9 64 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 59 (1.84%) Banking
11 35 (1.09%) Law
12 34 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 31 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 31 (0.96%) Legal
14 24 (0.75%) Tech for Good
15 18 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.47%) Automotive
16 15 (0.47%) Investment Banking
17 14 (0.44%) Legal Technology
18 13 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,870 (58.16%) Developer
2 1,018 (31.66%) Full-Stack Developer
3 781 (24.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 633 (19.69%) Senior
5 591 (18.38%) .NET Developer
6 525 (16.33%) Software Engineer
7 411 (12.78%) Lead
8 282 (8.77%) Software Developer
9 267 (8.30%) Senior Developer
10 235 (7.31%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 232 (7.22%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 175 (5.44%) Lead Developer
13 158 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
14 153 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 149 (4.63%) Java Developer
16 123 (3.83%) Java Engineer
17 102 (3.17%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 99 (3.08%) Python Engineer
19 92 (2.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 89 (2.77%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,016 (31.60%) React
2 978 (30.42%) .NET
3 600 (18.66%) Node.js
4 553 (17.20%) ASP.NET
5 550 (17.11%) .NET Core
6 513 (15.96%) ASP.NET Core
7 429 (13.34%) AngularJS
8 419 (13.03%) CSS
9 398 (12.38%) HTML
10 368 (11.45%) Vue
11 367 (11.42%) RESTful
12 230 (7.15%) Entity Framework
13 224 (6.97%) REST
14 218 (6.78%) Blazor
15 207 (6.44%) Spring
16 185 (5.75%) ASP.NET Web API
17 168 (5.23%) Next.js
18 166 (5.16%) Spring Boot
19 157 (4.88%) Terraform
20 156 (4.85%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 300 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 153 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 122 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 84 (2.61%) AI Agents
4 84 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 83 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
6 77 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 72 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 47 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (1.09%) e-Learning
10 34 (1.06%) Low-Code
10 34 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
11 28 (0.87%) Onboarding
12 26 (0.81%) IoT
13 22 (0.68%) Virtual Team
14 20 (0.62%) Digital TV
15 19 (0.59%) Social Media
16 18 (0.56%) Algorithms
17 17 (0.53%) BBC
17 17 (0.53%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 60 (1.87%) Linux
2 26 (0.81%) Android
3 15 (0.47%) Windows
4 13 (0.40%) Unix
5 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.16%) VMS
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.093%) AIX
9 3 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.031%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 914 (28.43%) Agile
2 906 (28.18%) Software Engineering
3 806 (25.07%) CI/CD
4 743 (23.11%) AI
5 577 (17.95%) Microservices
6 537 (16.70%) DevOps
7 348 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
8 305 (9.49%) Machine Learning
9 298 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 292 (9.08%) Mentoring
11 281 (8.74%) Test Automation
12 210 (6.53%) Scrum
13 201 (6.25%) Clean Code
14 191 (5.94%) TDD
15 190 (5.91%) Observability
16 185 (5.75%) Infrastructure as Code
17 178 (5.54%) Multithreading
18 173 (5.38%) Technical Leadership
19 169 (5.26%) LLM
20 166 (5.16%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 997 (31.01%) JavaScript
2 944 (29.36%) C#
3 903 (28.09%) TypeScript
4 775 (24.11%) SQL
5 599 (18.63%) Python
6 531 (16.52%) Java
7 100 (3.11%) Ruby
8 93 (2.89%) C++
9 89 (2.77%) PHP
10 81 (2.52%) Go
11 60 (1.87%) Kotlin
12 29 (0.90%) Bash
13 28 (0.87%) Groovy
14 26 (0.81%) Perl
15 18 (0.56%) Rust
16 13 (0.40%) Bicep
17 12 (0.37%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.22%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.19%) C
19 6 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 228 (7.09%) Security Cleared
2 185 (5.75%) Degree
3 159 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 127 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 23 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.16%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.12%) PhD
15 3 (0.093%) ICAEW
15 3 (0.093%) OCP
15 3 (0.093%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.031%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (3.05%) QA
2 73 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.93%) WCAG
5 19 (0.59%) GDPR
6 8 (0.25%) NCSC
7 7 (0.22%) GRC
8 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.093%) NIST
11 2 (0.062%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.031%) ITGC
12 1 (0.031%) SLA
System Software
1 470 (14.62%) Docker
2 4 (0.12%) Firmware
3 3 (0.093%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 358 (11.14%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.65%) Ansible
3 20 (0.62%) Grafana
4 12 (0.37%) Podman
4 12 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.31%) HP Fortify
6 8 (0.25%) Kibana
7 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.19%) logstash
9 3 (0.093%) Argo
10 2 (0.062%) Bugsnag
10 2 (0.062%) Packer
10 2 (0.062%) Puppet
11 1 (0.031%) Consul
11 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.031%) Graylog
11 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 610 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 88 (2.74%) Google
3 59 (1.84%) Facebook
4 48 (1.49%) OpenAI
5 34 (1.06%) Oracle
6 25 (0.78%) YouTube
7 24 (0.75%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.65%) Splunk
9 17 (0.53%) AppDynamics
9 17 (0.53%) Apple
9 17 (0.53%) Sony
9 17 (0.53%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.50%) Foundry
11 15 (0.47%) Adobe
11 15 (0.47%) Palantir
12 13 (0.40%) Mistral
13 10 (0.31%) Databricks
13 10 (0.31%) OneLogin
13 10 (0.31%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.31%) Sitecore