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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 94 41
Rank change year-on-year +31 -53 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,575 1,440 5,016
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.83% 3.29% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.53% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,101 993 3,961
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% 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 67,438 40,826 82,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.22% 93.31% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,850 22,742 59,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,491 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Top 19 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 May 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 +31 2,329 £70,000 +6.06% 881
UK excluding London +28 1,579 £60,000 - 638
Work from Home +26 1,023 £65,000 - 485
London +33 816 £85,000 +6.25% 347
North of England +35 484 £67,500 +14.41% 211
South East +40 399 £60,000 - 164
Midlands +21 255 £55,000 +4.76% 76
North West +27 251 £65,000 +1.96% 113
South West +14 218 £60,000 -4.00% 67
Yorkshire +33 162 £75,000 +36.36% 64
East of England +44 135 £62,500 +25.00% 72
West Midlands +8 132 £60,000 - 26
East Midlands 0 122 £55,000 +15.79% 50
North East +7 71 £60,000 +9.09% 34
Scotland -52 46 £60,000 -6.98% 34
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 5
Wales -33 23 £51,250 -26.79% 16
Isle of Man - 2 £35,000 - 1
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 22 (0.85%) CMS
2 17 (0.66%) Confluence
3 14 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.47%) WordPress
5 11 (0.43%) ColdFusion
6 9 (0.35%) Apache
6 9 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.16%) Appian
10 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.16%) IIS
10 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Liferay
11 3 (0.12%) nginx
12 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.078%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.078%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Shopify
2 1 (0.039%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.039%) Magento
2 1 (0.039%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.039%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 748 (29.05%) AWS
2 550 (21.36%) Azure
3 234 (9.09%) SaaS
4 189 (7.34%) Serverless
5 164 (6.37%) GCP
6 162 (6.29%) GitHub
7 124 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
9 98 (3.81%) Amazon S3
10 67 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
11 60 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
12 50 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
13 48 (1.86%) GitHub Copilot
14 45 (1.75%) Azure AI
15 44 (1.71%) Figma
16 43 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (1.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 29 (1.13%) Power Platform
19 27 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
20 23 (0.89%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.33%) Broadband
2 13 (0.50%) Internet
3 10 (0.39%) HTTP
4 6 (0.23%) DNS
5 5 (0.19%) Firewall
5 5 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.078%) DHCP
6 2 (0.078%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.078%) LAN
6 2 (0.078%) VLAN
6 2 (0.078%) VPN
6 2 (0.078%) WAN
7 1 (0.039%) AMQP
7 1 (0.039%) Multicast
7 1 (0.039%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.039%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.039%) SSL
7 1 (0.039%) TCAP
7 1 (0.039%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.039%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (9.01%) MongoDB
2 179 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
3 129 (5.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 128 (4.97%) SQL Server
5 119 (4.62%) NoSQL
6 69 (2.68%) MySQL
7 56 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 50 (1.94%) DynamoDB
9 46 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (0.85%) Redis
11 21 (0.82%) Power BI
12 14 (0.54%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.39%) GIS
15 8 (0.31%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.31%) DB2
16 6 (0.23%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.16%) Big Data
17 4 (0.16%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 188 (7.30%) Git
2 100 (3.88%) Jenkins
3 66 (2.56%) Cypress.io
4 49 (1.90%) GitLab
5 39 (1.51%) JIRA
6 29 (1.13%) Maven
7 23 (0.89%) SonarQube
8 20 (0.78%) JUnit
9 19 (0.74%) CircleCI
9 19 (0.74%) Vite
10 16 (0.62%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.54%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.47%) Mockito
13 11 (0.43%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.35%) Selenium
15 7 (0.27%) ESLint
15 7 (0.27%) NUnit
16 6 (0.23%) webpack
17 4 (0.16%) Storybook
General
1 282 (10.95%) Social Skills
2 273 (10.60%) Finance
3 74 (2.87%) Public Sector
4 73 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (2.14%) Games
6 54 (2.10%) Banking
7 50 (1.94%) Retail
8 49 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (1.75%) Marketing
10 39 (1.51%) Law
11 38 (1.48%) Front Office
12 34 (1.32%) Tech for Good
13 28 (1.09%) Aviation
14 26 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 25 (0.97%) Advertising
16 22 (0.85%) Legal
17 21 (0.82%) Health Technology
17 21 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
18 16 (0.62%) Investment Banking
19 13 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,517 (58.91%) Developer
2 993 (38.56%) Full-Stack Developer
3 612 (23.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 571 (22.17%) Senior
5 458 (17.79%) Software Engineer
6 370 (14.37%) Lead
7 283 (10.99%) Senior Developer
8 272 (10.56%) .NET Developer
9 203 (7.88%) Software Developer
10 200 (7.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 197 (7.65%) Lead Developer
12 192 (7.46%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 160 (6.21%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 147 (5.71%) Java Developer
15 144 (5.59%) React Developer
16 125 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
17 112 (4.35%) Python Developer
18 92 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 88 (3.42%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
20 87 (3.38%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 887 (34.45%) React
2 588 (22.83%) .NET
3 502 (19.50%) Node.js
4 289 (11.22%) CSS
5 286 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 286 (11.11%) HTML
6 241 (9.36%) .NET Core
7 240 (9.32%) Vue
8 209 (8.12%) RESTful
9 183 (7.11%) ASP.NET
10 167 (6.49%) Spring
11 144 (5.59%) REST
12 141 (5.48%) ASP.NET Core
12 141 (5.48%) Spring Boot
13 129 (5.01%) Next.js
14 101 (3.92%) Entity Framework
15 77 (2.99%) GraphQL
16 74 (2.87%) .NET Framework
17 71 (2.76%) Blazor
18 70 (2.72%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 191 (7.42%) Cloud Native
2 117 (4.54%) Greenfield Project
3 76 (2.95%) Product Ownership
4 75 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 72 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
6 49 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
7 36 (1.40%) AI Agents
8 35 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.32%) Fixed Income
10 32 (1.24%) Low-Code
11 30 (1.17%) IoT
12 22 (0.85%) e-Learning
12 22 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
13 20 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (0.78%) Onboarding
14 17 (0.66%) Smart Energy
15 16 (0.62%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (0.62%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.50%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.32%) Linux
2 27 (1.05%) Android
3 20 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.23%) Windows
5 5 (0.19%) Unix
6 2 (0.078%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.039%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.039%) VMS
7 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (30.68%) Software Engineering
2 577 (22.41%) Agile
3 508 (19.73%) CI/CD
4 438 (17.01%) AI
5 404 (15.69%) DevOps
6 371 (14.41%) Microservices
7 321 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
8 254 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 253 (9.83%) Mentoring
10 212 (8.23%) Test Automation
11 169 (6.56%) User Experience
12 157 (6.10%) Containerisation
13 156 (6.06%) Scrum
14 152 (5.90%) Machine Learning
15 147 (5.71%) Clean Code
16 143 (5.55%) Web Development
17 137 (5.32%) Infrastructure as Code
18 127 (4.93%) Technical Leadership
19 122 (4.74%) Computer Science
20 120 (4.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 738 (28.66%) JavaScript
2 735 (28.54%) TypeScript
3 530 (20.58%) C#
4 513 (19.92%) Python
5 456 (17.71%) Java
6 404 (15.69%) SQL
7 102 (3.96%) PHP
8 72 (2.80%) Go
9 56 (2.17%) Ruby
10 32 (1.24%) Bash
11 27 (1.05%) C++
12 19 (0.74%) Groovy
13 16 (0.62%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.58%) C
15 13 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.47%) Bicep
17 8 (0.31%) Rust
18 6 (0.23%) R
18 6 (0.23%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 172 (6.68%) Security Cleared
2 127 (4.93%) Degree
3 125 (4.85%) SC Cleared
4 84 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.62%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.43%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.19%) PhD
12 2 (0.078%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.039%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.039%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.039%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.039%) MBA
13 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.00%) QA
2 45 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.43%) GDPR
4 10 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.27%) GRC
5 7 (0.27%) WCAG
6 6 (0.23%) SLA
7 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.078%) HL7
8 2 (0.078%) ITGC
8 2 (0.078%) NCSC
8 2 (0.078%) NIST
9 1 (0.039%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.039%) PERC
9 1 (0.039%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.039%) SOC 2
System Software
1 281 (10.91%) Docker
2 8 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.16%) Firmware
5 2 (0.078%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.078%) vSphere
6 1 (0.039%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 193 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 121 (4.70%) Terraform
3 33 (1.28%) Grafana
4 29 (1.13%) Ansible
5 20 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.54%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.50%) Podman
8 10 (0.39%) Argo
9 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.23%) Kibana
11 4 (0.16%) logstash
12 3 (0.12%) Nagios
13 1 (0.039%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.039%) Graylog
13 1 (0.039%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 242 (9.40%) Microsoft
2 42 (1.63%) Google
3 36 (1.40%) OpenAI
4 33 (1.28%) Adobe
5 26 (1.01%) Oracle
6 14 (0.54%) Facebook
7 12 (0.47%) Foundry
7 12 (0.47%) Palantir
7 12 (0.47%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.27%) Apple
8 7 (0.27%) Peregrine
9 6 (0.23%) Databricks
9 6 (0.23%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.23%) Pega
9 6 (0.23%) Splunk
9 6 (0.23%) YouTube
10 5 (0.19%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.19%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.19%) WooCommerce
10 5 (0.19%) Yahoo!