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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 76 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 -34 +24
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,043 1,484 4,668
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.57% 3.63% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 3.90% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,641 1,004 3,814
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -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 60,831 38,033 77,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.64% 93.07% 86.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,418 22,319 57,741
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

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 1 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 1 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 +3 1,848 £70,000 +7.69% 848
UK excluding London -7 1,185 £62,500 +4.17% 635
Work from Home +8 804 £70,000 +7.69% 458
London +16 696 £85,000 +6.25% 329
North of England +26 365 £67,500 +17.39% 161
South East -40 293 £60,000 - 175
Midlands +28 212 £55,000 +4.76% 86
North West +10 182 £70,000 +12.00% 83
South West +11 171 £60,000 -4.00% 100
Yorkshire +22 131 £70,000 +40.00% 54
West Midlands +29 113 £55,000 +3.77% 43
East Midlands -7 98 £55,000 +22.22% 43
East of England -30 87 £60,000 +9.09% 63
North East +12 52 £55,000 +22.22% 24
Northern Ireland -10 26 £70,000 - 5
Scotland -45 22 £60,000 -6.98% 34
Wales -43 13 £51,250 -24.07% 18
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 14 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (0.69%) CMS
2 13 (0.64%) OpenStack
3 10 (0.49%) Confluence
3 10 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (0.39%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.29%) ColdFusion
6 6 (0.29%) WordPress
7 5 (0.24%) Apache
7 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.20%) Appian
8 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.20%) nginx
9 3 (0.15%) IIS
9 3 (0.15%) Liferay
10 2 (0.098%) CICS
10 2 (0.098%) Drupal
10 2 (0.098%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.098%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.098%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Shopify
2 1 (0.049%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.049%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 639 (31.28%) AWS
2 462 (22.61%) Azure
3 202 (9.89%) SaaS
4 193 (9.45%) Serverless
5 155 (7.59%) GCP
6 134 (6.56%) GitHub
7 107 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
8 93 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 80 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
10 67 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (2.55%) Amazon SQS
11 52 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (2.06%) Figma
13 40 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
14 36 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (1.27%) Entra ID
17 25 (1.22%) PaaS
18 23 (1.13%) Power Platform
19 19 (0.93%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.76%) Broadband
2 6 (0.29%) HTTP
3 4 (0.20%) Firewall
3 4 (0.20%) Internet
4 3 (0.15%) WAN
5 2 (0.098%) AMQP
5 2 (0.098%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.098%) LAN
5 2 (0.098%) VLAN
5 2 (0.098%) VPN
6 1 (0.049%) DHCP
6 1 (0.049%) DNS
6 1 (0.049%) MQTT
6 1 (0.049%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.049%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.049%) SSL
6 1 (0.049%) TCAP
6 1 (0.049%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.049%) WebEx
6 1 (0.049%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (6.22%) SQL Server
3 124 (6.07%) MongoDB
4 120 (5.87%) NoSQL
5 74 (3.62%) MySQL
6 64 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 43 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 40 (1.96%) DynamoDB
9 24 (1.17%) Redis
10 18 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.73%) Power BI
12 12 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.59%) Pinecone
13 10 (0.49%) DB2
14 9 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.44%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.39%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.34%) MariaDB
17 6 (0.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 180 (8.81%) Git
2 99 (4.85%) Jenkins
3 59 (2.89%) Cypress.io
4 37 (1.81%) JIRA
5 35 (1.71%) GitLab
6 25 (1.22%) Maven
7 21 (1.03%) JUnit
8 19 (0.93%) SonarQube
9 18 (0.88%) TeamCity
10 15 (0.73%) Mockito
11 14 (0.69%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.69%) Vite
12 11 (0.54%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.49%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.49%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.49%) webpack
14 9 (0.44%) Selenium
15 7 (0.34%) ESLint
15 7 (0.34%) NUnit
16 5 (0.24%) Claude Code
General
1 288 (14.10%) Social Skills
2 212 (10.38%) Finance
3 80 (3.92%) Public Sector
4 70 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (2.79%) Banking
6 47 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (2.15%) Retail
8 41 (2.01%) Front Office
9 39 (1.91%) Law
10 36 (1.76%) Marketing
11 33 (1.62%) Games
12 32 (1.57%) Tech for Good
13 26 (1.27%) Aviation
13 26 (1.27%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.03%) Investment Banking
14 21 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (0.98%) Health Technology
16 19 (0.93%) Legal
17 15 (0.73%) Advertising
18 12 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,184 (57.95%) Developer
2 830 (40.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 481 (23.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 472 (23.10%) Senior
5 372 (18.21%) Software Engineer
6 291 (14.24%) Lead
7 221 (10.82%) Senior Developer
8 182 (8.91%) .NET Developer
9 162 (7.93%) Lead Developer
10 160 (7.83%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 158 (7.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 150 (7.34%) Java Developer
13 136 (6.66%) React Developer
14 133 (6.51%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 132 (6.46%) Software Developer
16 106 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
17 97 (4.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 92 (4.50%) C# Developer
19 86 (4.21%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 86 (4.21%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 781 (38.23%) React
2 464 (22.71%) .NET
3 416 (20.36%) Node.js
4 253 (12.38%) HTML
5 245 (11.99%) CSS
6 237 (11.60%) AngularJS
7 194 (9.50%) Vue
8 159 (7.78%) RESTful
8 159 (7.78%) Spring
9 156 (7.64%) .NET Core
10 150 (7.34%) REST
11 129 (6.31%) Spring Boot
12 99 (4.85%) Next.js
13 97 (4.75%) ASP.NET
14 81 (3.96%) GraphQL
15 80 (3.92%) .NET Framework
16 70 (3.43%) Kafka
17 65 (3.18%) Entity Framework
17 65 (3.18%) Laravel
18 60 (2.94%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 155 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 80 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
3 76 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (3.08%) Mobile App
5 48 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (1.62%) IoT
7 30 (1.47%) Fixed Income
8 23 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.08%) AI Agents
10 20 (0.98%) Smart Energy
11 19 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (0.83%) Low-Code
13 16 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 14 (0.69%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.64%) Private Cloud
16 12 (0.59%) Blog
16 12 (0.59%) Management Information System
17 11 (0.54%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.42%) Linux
2 26 (1.27%) Android
3 23 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.24%) Unix
5 4 (0.20%) Windows
6 1 (0.049%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.049%) VMS
6 1 (0.049%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.049%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (31.77%) Software Engineering
2 507 (24.82%) Agile
3 435 (21.29%) CI/CD
4 341 (16.69%) DevOps
5 333 (16.30%) AI
6 325 (15.91%) Microservices
7 301 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
8 232 (11.36%) Mentoring
9 226 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 184 (9.01%) User Experience
11 180 (8.81%) Test Automation
12 136 (6.66%) Containerisation
13 135 (6.61%) Clean Code
14 134 (6.56%) Scrum
15 122 (5.97%) Computer Science
16 114 (5.58%) Machine Learning
17 107 (5.24%) Technical Leadership
18 104 (5.09%) TDD
19 103 (5.04%) Front End Development
19 103 (5.04%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 645 (31.57%) JavaScript
2 607 (29.71%) TypeScript
3 430 (21.05%) Java
4 419 (20.51%) Python
5 403 (19.73%) C#
6 309 (15.12%) SQL
7 89 (4.36%) PHP
8 53 (2.59%) Go
9 46 (2.25%) Ruby
10 26 (1.27%) Bash
11 21 (1.03%) C++
12 17 (0.83%) C
12 17 (0.83%) Kotlin
13 16 (0.78%) Rust
14 13 (0.64%) Groovy
14 13 (0.64%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.54%) Bicep
16 7 (0.34%) R
17 6 (0.29%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 149 (7.29%) Security Cleared
2 124 (6.07%) Degree
3 106 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 84 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.20%) PhD
12 2 (0.098%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.049%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.049%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.049%) MBA
13 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (4.36%) QA
2 55 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.69%) GDPR
4 10 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.34%) WCAG
6 6 (0.29%) GRC
6 6 (0.29%) SLA
7 5 (0.24%) PERC
8 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.098%) ECSS
9 2 (0.098%) HL7
9 2 (0.098%) ITGC
9 2 (0.098%) NCSC
9 2 (0.098%) NIST
10 1 (0.049%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 228 (11.16%) Docker
2 10 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.15%) Firmware
4 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.098%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 171 (8.37%) Kubernetes
2 109 (5.34%) Terraform
3 29 (1.42%) Ansible
4 28 (1.37%) Grafana
5 16 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.64%) HP Fortify
7 11 (0.54%) Argo
7 11 (0.54%) Kibana
8 7 (0.34%) Podman
9 3 (0.15%) Nagios
9 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.049%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.049%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.049%) logstash
10 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.049%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 138 (6.75%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.32%) Google
3 26 (1.27%) Adobe
3 26 (1.27%) OpenAI
3 26 (1.27%) Oracle
4 15 (0.73%) Foundry
5 14 (0.69%) Palantir
6 9 (0.44%) Fortinet
6 9 (0.44%) Palo Alto
6 9 (0.44%) Pega
7 8 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.39%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.34%) Dynatrace
8 7 (0.34%) Splunk
9 6 (0.29%) Databricks
9 6 (0.29%) Facebook
9 6 (0.29%) WSO2
10 5 (0.24%) Zoho
11 4 (0.20%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.20%) DevExpress