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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 106 42
Rank change year-on-year +34 -64 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,362 1,245 4,960
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.63% 2.94% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 3.16% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,919 1,008 3,904
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +9.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,494
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.36% -0.01%

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 67,110 39,339 81,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.81% 92.87% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,656 22,592 59,463
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +37 2,134 £70,000 +6.87% 677
UK excluding London +32 1,413 £65,000 +8.33% 486
Work from Home +34 882 £70,000 +7.69% 370
London +32 768 £85,000 +6.25% 279
North of England +52 434 £70,000 +21.74% 143
South East +15 345 £60,000 - 152
Midlands +32 245 £55,000 +4.76% 44
North West +31 217 £67,500 +5.88% 81
South West +13 208 £60,000 -4.00% 59
Yorkshire +28 158 £75,000 +36.36% 35
West Midlands +20 129 £60,000 +4.35% 19
East Midlands +1 115 £55,000 +15.79% 25
East of England +36 111 £67,500 +22.73% 50
North East +6 59 £60,000 +17.07% 27
Scotland -42 35 £60,000 -9.77% 23
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 10
Wales -43 16 £52,500 -25.00% 10
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 15 (0.64%) CMS
2 14 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (0.59%) Confluence
3 11 (0.47%) ColdFusion
4 9 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.34%) Apache
5 8 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.34%) WordPress
6 7 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.17%) Appian
9 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.13%) IIS
10 3 (0.13%) Liferay
10 3 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.085%) CICS
11 2 (0.085%) Drupal
11 2 (0.085%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.085%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.085%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.042%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.042%) Magento
2 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 686 (29.04%) AWS
2 445 (18.84%) Azure
3 222 (9.40%) SaaS
4 191 (8.09%) Serverless
5 161 (6.82%) GCP
6 128 (5.42%) GitHub
7 116 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
8 100 (4.23%) Amazon S3
9 82 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
10 62 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
11 59 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
12 48 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (1.91%) Figma
14 42 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (1.10%) Power Platform
17 25 (1.06%) Entra ID
18 23 (0.97%) GitHub Copilot
19 22 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
19 22 (0.93%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.78%) Broadband
2 10 (0.42%) HTTP
3 6 (0.25%) DNS
4 5 (0.21%) Firewall
5 4 (0.17%) Internet
6 3 (0.13%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.13%) VPN
6 3 (0.13%) WAN
7 2 (0.085%) DHCP
7 2 (0.085%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.085%) LAN
7 2 (0.085%) VLAN
8 1 (0.042%) AMQP
8 1 (0.042%) MQTT
8 1 (0.042%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.042%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.042%) SSL
8 1 (0.042%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.042%) VSAN
8 1 (0.042%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (5.46%) MongoDB
3 120 (5.08%) SQL Server
4 119 (5.04%) NoSQL
5 61 (2.58%) MySQL
6 51 (2.16%) DynamoDB
7 47 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 37 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (0.80%) Redis
10 18 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (0.76%) Power BI
11 14 (0.59%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.34%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.34%) DB2
15 6 (0.25%) GIS
15 6 (0.25%) MariaDB
16 4 (0.17%) Big Data
16 4 (0.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 176 (7.45%) Git
2 95 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 64 (2.71%) Cypress.io
4 44 (1.86%) GitLab
5 36 (1.52%) JIRA
6 27 (1.14%) Maven
7 23 (0.97%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.80%) CircleCI
8 19 (0.80%) Vite
9 18 (0.76%) JUnit
10 14 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.55%) Claude Code
12 12 (0.51%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.51%) Mockito
13 11 (0.47%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.34%) Selenium
15 7 (0.30%) ESLint
15 7 (0.30%) NUnit
15 7 (0.30%) webpack
16 4 (0.17%) Storybook
General
1 274 (11.60%) Social Skills
2 248 (10.50%) Finance
3 70 (2.96%) Public Sector
4 68 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (2.20%) Banking
6 50 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (1.86%) Retail
8 39 (1.65%) Front Office
9 38 (1.61%) Law
9 38 (1.61%) Marketing
10 33 (1.40%) Tech for Good
11 30 (1.27%) Games
12 28 (1.19%) Aviation
13 24 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 21 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (0.85%) Health Technology
16 19 (0.80%) Legal
17 17 (0.72%) Investment Banking
18 16 (0.68%) Advertising
19 12 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,355 (57.37%) Developer
2 953 (40.35%) Full-Stack Developer
3 580 (24.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 545 (23.07%) Senior
5 440 (18.63%) Software Engineer
6 346 (14.65%) Lead
7 263 (11.13%) Senior Developer
8 192 (8.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 185 (7.83%) Lead Developer
9 185 (7.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 174 (7.37%) .NET Developer
10 174 (7.37%) Software Developer
11 152 (6.44%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 145 (6.14%) Java Developer
13 144 (6.10%) React Developer
14 125 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
15 99 (4.19%) Python Developer
16 91 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 90 (3.81%) C# Developer
18 87 (3.68%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 840 (35.56%) React
2 466 (19.73%) .NET
3 456 (19.31%) Node.js
4 242 (10.25%) AngularJS
5 237 (10.03%) HTML
6 236 (9.99%) CSS
7 198 (8.38%) Vue
8 159 (6.73%) RESTful
9 158 (6.69%) Spring
10 148 (6.27%) .NET Core
11 136 (5.76%) REST
12 131 (5.55%) Spring Boot
13 123 (5.21%) Next.js
14 82 (3.47%) ASP.NET
15 78 (3.30%) GraphQL
16 69 (2.92%) .NET Framework
17 66 (2.79%) Laravel
18 65 (2.75%) React Native
19 61 (2.58%) Kafka
20 58 (2.46%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 168 (7.11%) Cloud Native
2 96 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
3 76 (3.22%) Product Ownership
4 67 (2.84%) Mobile App
5 56 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
6 46 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.48%) Fixed Income
8 34 (1.44%) AI Agents
9 33 (1.40%) IoT
10 25 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (0.89%) e-Learning
12 20 (0.85%) Smart Energy
13 18 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (0.68%) Low-Code
15 15 (0.64%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (0.64%) Onboarding
16 14 (0.59%) Virtual Team
17 13 (0.55%) Blog
17 13 (0.55%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.27%) Linux
2 24 (1.02%) Android
3 21 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.21%) Unix
4 5 (0.21%) Windows
5 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.042%) VMS
5 1 (0.042%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.042%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (31.46%) Software Engineering
2 502 (21.25%) Agile
3 440 (18.63%) CI/CD
4 361 (15.28%) AI
5 353 (14.94%) DevOps
6 318 (13.46%) Microservices
7 307 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 238 (10.08%) Mentoring
10 188 (7.96%) Test Automation
11 167 (7.07%) User Experience
12 152 (6.44%) Containerisation
13 142 (6.01%) Clean Code
14 139 (5.88%) Scrum
15 135 (5.72%) Web Development
16 120 (5.08%) Technical Leadership
17 112 (4.74%) Computer Science
17 112 (4.74%) Infrastructure as Code
18 111 (4.70%) Front End Development
19 107 (4.53%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 683 (28.92%) TypeScript
2 668 (28.28%) JavaScript
3 470 (19.90%) Python
4 445 (18.84%) Java
5 417 (17.65%) C#
6 309 (13.08%) SQL
7 97 (4.11%) PHP
8 57 (2.41%) Go
9 53 (2.24%) Ruby
10 30 (1.27%) Bash
11 22 (0.93%) C++
12 18 (0.76%) C
13 16 (0.68%) Groovy
13 16 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.55%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.47%) Bicep
16 9 (0.38%) Rust
17 6 (0.25%) R
17 6 (0.25%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 172 (7.28%) Security Cleared
2 122 (5.17%) SC Cleared
3 116 (4.91%) Degree
4 76 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.57%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 17 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 10 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.17%) PhD
12 2 (0.085%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.042%) MBA
13 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (4.45%) QA
2 46 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.47%) GDPR
4 10 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.30%) GRC
6 6 (0.25%) SLA
6 6 (0.25%) WCAG
7 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.085%) HL7
8 2 (0.085%) ITGC
8 2 (0.085%) NCSC
8 2 (0.085%) NIST
8 2 (0.085%) PERC
9 1 (0.042%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.042%) SOC 2
System Software
1 240 (10.16%) Docker
2 9 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.085%) vSphere
6 1 (0.042%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 167 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 117 (4.95%) Terraform
3 32 (1.35%) Grafana
4 27 (1.14%) Ansible
5 19 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.59%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.55%) Podman
8 10 (0.42%) Argo
9 7 (0.30%) Kibana
9 7 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.17%) logstash
11 3 (0.13%) Nagios
12 1 (0.042%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.042%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.042%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 143 (6.05%) Microsoft
2 33 (1.40%) Google
2 33 (1.40%) OpenAI
3 30 (1.27%) Adobe
4 27 (1.14%) Oracle
5 11 (0.47%) Foundry
6 10 (0.42%) Palantir
6 10 (0.42%) Salesforce
7 8 (0.34%) Peregrine
8 6 (0.25%) Databricks
8 6 (0.25%) Dynatrace
8 6 (0.25%) Fortinet
8 6 (0.25%) Palo Alto
8 6 (0.25%) Pega
9 5 (0.21%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (0.21%) Facebook
9 5 (0.21%) Zoho
10 4 (0.17%) DevExpress
10 4 (0.17%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.17%) WooCommerce