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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 94 40
Rank change year-on-year +31 -54 +26
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,651 1,446 5,053
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.89% 3.28% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 3.52% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,163 958 3,977
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 £107,375 £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 67,575 41,082 82,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 93.28% 84.93%
Number of salaries quoted 43,564 22,321 59,668
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,684 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +8.52% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,001 £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 17 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 17 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 +33 2,402 £70,000 +6.06% 883
UK excluding London +32 1,657 £60,000 - 640
Work from Home +35 1,056 £65,000 - 1,383
London +35 818 £85,000 +6.25% 355
North of England +42 521 £67,500 +12.50% 208
South East +55 425 £60,000 - 168
North West +37 275 £65,000 - 111
Midlands +14 261 £55,000 +4.76% 73
South West +18 220 £60,000 -4.00% 70
Yorkshire +44 172 £75,000 +30.43% 66
East of England +33 137 £60,000 +20.00% 65
West Midlands +8 137 £60,000 - 26
East Midlands +2 123 £55,000 +15.79% 47
North East +11 74 £60,000 +14.29% 31
Scotland -41 49 £60,000 -6.98% 34
Wales -30 26 £55,000 -21.43% 19
Northern Ireland - 25 £70,000 - 9
Isle of Man - 2 £35,000 -
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 23 (0.87%) CMS
2 19 (0.72%) Confluence
3 12 (0.45%) WordPress
4 11 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.41%) ColdFusion
5 10 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.34%) Apache
7 8 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.15%) IIS
11 3 (0.11%) Appian
11 3 (0.11%) Liferay
11 3 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.075%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.075%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.19%) Shopify
2 1 (0.038%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.038%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.038%) Magento
2 1 (0.038%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.038%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 755 (28.48%) AWS
2 567 (21.39%) Azure
3 229 (8.64%) SaaS
4 193 (7.28%) Serverless
5 164 (6.19%) GitHub
6 159 (6.00%) GCP
7 139 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
8 116 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
9 102 (3.85%) Amazon S3
10 72 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
11 62 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
12 56 (2.11%) GitHub Copilot
13 54 (2.04%) Azure AI
14 49 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 44 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 43 (1.62%) Figma
18 30 (1.13%) Power Platform
19 29 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
20 26 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.26%) Broadband
2 19 (0.72%) Internet
3 9 (0.34%) HTTP
4 6 (0.23%) DNS
4 6 (0.23%) Firewall
4 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.11%) VPN
6 2 (0.075%) DHCP
6 2 (0.075%) LAN
6 2 (0.075%) VLAN
6 2 (0.075%) WAN
7 1 (0.038%) AMQP
7 1 (0.038%) Multicast
7 1 (0.038%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.038%) TCAP
7 1 (0.038%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.038%) VSAN
7 1 (0.038%) WebEx
7 1 (0.038%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (9.32%) MongoDB
2 174 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
3 155 (5.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 128 (4.83%) SQL Server
5 113 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 70 (2.64%) MySQL
7 58 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 53 (2.00%) DynamoDB
9 51 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (0.83%) Power BI
11 20 (0.75%) Redis
12 12 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.41%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.38%) GIS
15 8 (0.30%) DB2
16 6 (0.23%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.23%) MariaDB
17 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 4 (0.15%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 192 (7.24%) Git
2 102 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 66 (2.49%) Cypress.io
4 53 (2.00%) GitLab
5 39 (1.47%) JIRA
6 33 (1.24%) Maven
7 25 (0.94%) JUnit
8 23 (0.87%) SonarQube
9 18 (0.68%) Claude Code
10 17 (0.64%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.64%) Vite
11 15 (0.57%) Mockito
12 14 (0.53%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.53%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.41%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.34%) Selenium
15 7 (0.26%) ESLint
15 7 (0.26%) NUnit
16 6 (0.23%) webpack
17 5 (0.19%) Storybook
General
1 294 (11.09%) Finance
2 281 (10.60%) Social Skills
3 85 (3.21%) Public Sector
4 72 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (2.19%) Games
6 54 (2.04%) Banking
7 51 (1.92%) Retail
8 49 (1.85%) Marketing
9 47 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (1.43%) Front Office
11 37 (1.40%) Law
12 34 (1.28%) Tech for Good
13 28 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 26 (0.98%) Advertising
14 26 (0.98%) Aviation
15 23 (0.87%) Legal
16 21 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (0.75%) Health Technology
18 15 (0.57%) Investment Banking
19 13 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,542 (58.17%) Developer
2 994 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 644 (24.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 584 (22.03%) Senior
5 482 (18.18%) Software Engineer
6 385 (14.52%) Lead
7 292 (11.01%) .NET Developer
8 276 (10.41%) Senior Developer
9 212 (8.00%) Software Developer
10 209 (7.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 199 (7.51%) Lead Developer
12 186 (7.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 174 (6.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 154 (5.81%) Java Developer
15 139 (5.24%) React Developer
16 135 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
17 108 (4.07%) Python Developer
18 96 (3.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 90 (3.39%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
20 87 (3.28%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 878 (33.12%) React
2 624 (23.54%) .NET
3 500 (18.86%) Node.js
4 295 (11.13%) AngularJS
5 294 (11.09%) CSS
6 291 (10.98%) HTML
7 259 (9.77%) .NET Core
8 255 (9.62%) Vue
9 220 (8.30%) RESTful
10 202 (7.62%) ASP.NET
11 180 (6.79%) Spring
12 167 (6.30%) ASP.NET Core
13 146 (5.51%) Spring Boot
14 140 (5.28%) REST
15 128 (4.83%) Next.js
16 106 (4.00%) Entity Framework
17 81 (3.06%) Blazor
18 74 (2.79%) GraphQL
19 69 (2.60%) ASP.NET Web API
19 69 (2.60%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 193 (7.28%) Cloud Native
2 126 (4.75%) Greenfield Project
3 78 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 75 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 72 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
6 48 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 36 (1.36%) AI Agents
7 36 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (1.28%) Fixed Income
9 32 (1.21%) Low-Code
10 30 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (1.09%) IoT
12 24 (0.91%) e-Learning
13 22 (0.83%) Onboarding
13 22 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
14 18 (0.68%) Virtual Team
15 17 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (0.60%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.57%) Smart Energy
18 13 (0.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.28%) Linux
2 27 (1.02%) Android
3 18 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.23%) Windows
5 5 (0.19%) Unix
6 2 (0.075%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.038%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.038%) VMS
7 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (31.01%) Software Engineering
2 593 (22.37%) Agile
3 517 (19.50%) CI/CD
4 456 (17.20%) AI
5 425 (16.03%) DevOps
6 378 (14.26%) Microservices
7 323 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
8 267 (10.07%) Mentoring
9 261 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 218 (8.22%) Test Automation
11 167 (6.30%) Machine Learning
12 165 (6.22%) User Experience
13 161 (6.07%) Scrum
14 157 (5.92%) Containerisation
15 153 (5.77%) Clean Code
16 138 (5.21%) Web Development
17 137 (5.17%) Infrastructure as Code
18 128 (4.83%) Technical Leadership
19 127 (4.79%) TDD
20 122 (4.60%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 749 (28.25%) JavaScript
2 739 (27.88%) TypeScript
3 564 (21.27%) C#
4 510 (19.24%) Python
5 479 (18.07%) Java
6 428 (16.14%) SQL
7 101 (3.81%) PHP
8 67 (2.53%) Go
9 53 (2.00%) Ruby
10 36 (1.36%) C++
11 32 (1.21%) Bash
12 23 (0.87%) Groovy
13 16 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.57%) C
15 14 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.45%) Bicep
17 8 (0.30%) Rust
18 6 (0.23%) R
18 6 (0.23%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 178 (6.71%) Security Cleared
2 128 (4.83%) Degree
3 127 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 85 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.40%) DV Cleared
6 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.60%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.19%) PhD
12 3 (0.11%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.038%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.038%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.038%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.038%) MBA
13 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.77%) QA
2 40 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.41%) GDPR
4 10 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.30%) WCAG
6 7 (0.26%) GRC
7 5 (0.19%) SLA
8 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.075%) HL7
9 2 (0.075%) ITGC
9 2 (0.075%) NCSC
9 2 (0.075%) NIST
10 1 (0.038%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.038%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.038%) SOC 2
System Software
1 288 (10.86%) Docker
2 7 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.075%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.075%) vSphere
6 1 (0.038%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 198 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 116 (4.38%) Terraform
3 32 (1.21%) Grafana
4 27 (1.02%) Ansible
5 19 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.53%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.49%) Podman
8 8 (0.30%) Kibana
9 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.23%) Argo
11 4 (0.15%) logstash
12 3 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.038%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.038%) Graylog
13 1 (0.038%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 258 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 47 (1.77%) Google
3 34 (1.28%) Adobe
4 33 (1.24%) OpenAI
5 28 (1.06%) Oracle
6 18 (0.68%) Foundry
7 16 (0.60%) Facebook
8 14 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 12 (0.45%) Palantir
10 10 (0.38%) Splunk
11 8 (0.30%) Apple
11 8 (0.30%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.26%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.26%) Peregrine
13 6 (0.23%) Pega
13 6 (0.23%) Sony
13 6 (0.23%) WooCommerce
13 6 (0.23%) Yahoo!
13 6 (0.23%) YouTube
14 5 (0.19%) Databricks