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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 62 42
Rank change year-on-year -19 -20 +19
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,705 1,934 3,970
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.46% 4.09% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 4.40% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,377 1,016 3,431
10th Percentile £45,750 £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% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
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 54,747 43,918 66,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.09% 92.80% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 32,789 21,812 51,500
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £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% -8.90%

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 24 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 24 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 1,545 £70,000 +7.69% 914
UK excluding London -35 927 £62,500 +8.70% 750
Work from Home -9 675 £70,000 +7.69% 442
London +11 645 £84,250 +5.31% 316
North of England -3 255 £66,250 +15.22% 196
South East -52 238 £62,500 +4.17% 200
Midlands -8 183 £55,000 +4.76% 109
South West -5 142 £60,000 -4.00% 108
North West -6 115 £70,000 +16.67% 100
West Midlands -6 99 £52,500 - 47
Yorkshire -9 95 £72,500 +46.46% 63
East Midlands -21 83 £55,000 +57.14% 62
East of England -48 64 £60,000 +23.08% 73
North East +17 45 £55,000 +22.22% 33
Northern Ireland -14 22 £70,000 +16.67% 13
Wales -32 13 £52,500 -0.94% 21
Scotland -79 12 £67,500 +22.73% 38
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 (1.00%) CMS
2 12 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (0.70%) Confluence
3 11 (0.65%) OpenStack
3 11 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.35%) WordPress
6 5 (0.29%) nginx
6 5 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.23%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) Appian
8 3 (0.18%) ColdFusion
8 3 (0.18%) Drupal
8 3 (0.18%) IIS
8 3 (0.18%) Liferay
9 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.059%) Camunda
10 1 (0.059%) Kentico
Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.059%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.059%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 571 (33.49%) AWS
2 424 (24.87%) Azure
3 179 (10.50%) Serverless
4 164 (9.62%) SaaS
5 126 (7.39%) GCP
6 122 (7.16%) GitHub
7 97 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
8 88 (5.16%) Amazon S3
9 68 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
10 66 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
13 42 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (2.23%) Figma
15 29 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (1.52%) PaaS
17 20 (1.17%) Power Platform
18 19 (1.11%) Entra ID
19 17 (1.00%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.41%) Broadband
2 7 (0.41%) HTTP
3 5 (0.29%) Firewall
4 4 (0.23%) WAN
5 3 (0.18%) Internet
5 3 (0.18%) LAN
5 3 (0.18%) VLAN
6 2 (0.12%) AMQP
6 2 (0.12%) DHCP
6 2 (0.12%) DNS
6 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.12%) VPN
6 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.059%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.059%) MQTT
7 1 (0.059%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.059%) TCAP
7 1 (0.059%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.059%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 104 (6.10%) NoSQL
4 95 (5.57%) MongoDB
5 74 (4.34%) Relational Database
6 64 (3.75%) MySQL
7 32 (1.88%) DynamoDB
8 29 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (1.52%) Redis
10 17 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (1.00%) RDBMS
11 14 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.70%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.70%) Power BI
13 11 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.47%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.47%) DB2
15 4 (0.23%) Weaviate
16 3 (0.18%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 164 (9.62%) Git
2 89 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 52 (3.05%) Cypress.io
4 39 (2.29%) JIRA
5 32 (1.88%) GitLab
6 28 (1.64%) JUnit
7 24 (1.41%) Maven
8 20 (1.17%) Mockito
8 20 (1.17%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.00%) Vite
10 15 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.70%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.70%) JMeter
11 12 (0.70%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.65%) webpack
13 10 (0.59%) Selenium
14 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.53%) CircleCI
15 6 (0.35%) ESLint
15 6 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 279 (16.36%) Social Skills
2 171 (10.03%) Finance
3 75 (4.40%) Public Sector
4 65 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (3.05%) Banking
6 44 (2.58%) Law
7 40 (2.35%) Front Office
8 38 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (1.94%) Retail
10 28 (1.64%) Tech for Good
11 26 (1.52%) Marketing
12 24 (1.41%) Aviation
12 24 (1.41%) Health Technology
12 24 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 23 (1.35%) Legal
14 22 (1.29%) Games
15 21 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.53%) Automotive
16 9 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 954 (55.95%) Developer
2 668 (39.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 404 (23.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 395 (23.17%) Senior
5 318 (18.65%) Software Engineer
6 238 (13.96%) Lead
7 175 (10.26%) Senior Developer
8 150 (8.80%) .NET Developer
9 137 (8.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 137 (8.04%) Java Developer
10 129 (7.57%) React Developer
11 126 (7.39%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 123 (7.21%) Lead Developer
13 115 (6.74%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 102 (5.98%) Software Developer
15 95 (5.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 95 (5.57%) Senior Software Engineer
16 81 (4.75%) C# Developer
17 76 (4.46%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 70 (4.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 722 (42.35%) React
2 410 (24.05%) .NET
3 329 (19.30%) Node.js
4 225 (13.20%) AngularJS
5 224 (13.14%) HTML
6 208 (12.20%) CSS
7 159 (9.33%) Vue
8 155 (9.09%) Spring
9 137 (8.04%) REST
10 136 (7.98%) .NET Core
11 132 (7.74%) RESTful
12 123 (7.21%) Spring Boot
13 91 (5.34%) Next.js
14 78 (4.57%) GraphQL
15 76 (4.46%) ASP.NET
16 75 (4.40%) .NET Framework
17 73 (4.28%) Kafka
18 58 (3.40%) Entity Framework
19 57 (3.34%) Laravel
20 56 (3.28%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 142 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.52%) Mobile App
5 59 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
6 50 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (1.76%) IoT
8 25 (1.47%) Fixed Income
9 22 (1.29%) AI Agents
10 18 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (0.94%) Smart Energy
13 14 (0.82%) Management Information System
13 14 (0.82%) Private Cloud
14 13 (0.76%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (0.65%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.59%) e-Learning
16 10 (0.59%) Low-Code
17 9 (0.53%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.58%) Linux
2 22 (1.29%) Android
3 21 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.41%) Unix
5 6 (0.35%) Windows
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (32.90%) Software Engineering
2 469 (27.51%) Agile
3 408 (23.93%) CI/CD
4 305 (17.89%) Microservices
5 304 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
6 294 (17.24%) DevOps
7 286 (16.77%) AI
8 213 (12.49%) Mentoring
9 201 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 196 (11.50%) User Experience
11 136 (7.98%) Test Automation
12 128 (7.51%) Containerisation
13 124 (7.27%) Clean Code
14 118 (6.92%) Computer Science
15 115 (6.74%) Scrum
16 103 (6.04%) Front End Development
17 100 (5.87%) TDD
18 96 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
19 95 (5.57%) Collaborative Culture
20 93 (5.45%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 556 (32.61%) JavaScript
2 540 (31.67%) TypeScript
3 399 (23.40%) Java
4 372 (21.82%) C#
5 349 (20.47%) Python
6 261 (15.31%) SQL
7 70 (4.11%) PHP
8 42 (2.46%) Go
9 38 (2.23%) Ruby
10 26 (1.52%) Bash
11 22 (1.29%) Rust
12 20 (1.17%) C++
13 16 (0.94%) C
14 12 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.65%) Groovy
15 11 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.41%) R
17 6 (0.35%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 154 (9.03%) Security Cleared
2 118 (6.92%) Degree
3 103 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 79 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.53%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.53%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.23%) 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 (0.059%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.059%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.059%) MBA
13 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.63%) QA
2 61 (3.58%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.70%) WCAG
4 11 (0.65%) GDPR
5 8 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.35%) SLA
7 5 (0.29%) PERC
8 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.12%) ECSS
10 2 (0.12%) NCSC
10 2 (0.12%) NIST
11 1 (0.059%) HL7
11 1 (0.059%) ITGC
System Software
1 212 (12.43%) Docker
2 15 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 176 (10.32%) Kubernetes
2 101 (5.92%) Terraform
3 28 (1.64%) Ansible
4 24 (1.41%) Grafana
5 17 (1.00%) Kibana
6 12 (0.70%) Argo
6 12 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.65%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Nagios
9 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.059%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.059%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.059%) Istio
10 1 (0.059%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.059%) logstash
10 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.059%) Podman
Vendors
1 99 (5.81%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.58%) OpenAI
2 27 (1.58%) Oracle
3 25 (1.47%) Adobe
4 20 (1.17%) Google
5 16 (0.94%) Foundry
6 15 (0.88%) Palantir
7 13 (0.76%) Dynatrace
8 12 (0.70%) Splunk
9 10 (0.59%) Fortinet
9 10 (0.59%) Palo Alto
10 9 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.35%) Databricks
11 6 (0.35%) VMware
12 5 (0.29%) Zoho
13 4 (0.23%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.23%) Facebook
13 4 (0.23%) Pega
13 4 (0.23%) Telerik
13 4 (0.23%) WSO2