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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 50 68
Rank change year-on-year -69 +18 -13
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,188 2,961 2,181
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.26% 4.42% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 5.30% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 890 1,572 1,948
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,575 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £98,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

All Process and 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 45,214 55,881 49,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 83.44% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,281 28,909 37,851
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Top 17 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 18 November 2025. 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 -70 1,045 £70,000 +7.69% 1,708
UK excluding London -99 619 £60,000 +9.09% 1,019
London -21 519 £90,000 +5.88% 822
Work from Home -46 455 £67,500 +8.00% 957
North of England -51 169 £60,000 +4.35% 253
South East -92 151 £60,000 - 300
North West -34 93 £65,000 +13.04% 157
Midlands -75 89 £60,000 +20.00% 167
South West -57 72 £60,000 +9.09% 117
Scotland -33 69 £67,500 +17.39% 37
West Midlands -32 56 £60,000 +9.09% 100
Yorkshire -54 52 £60,000 +9.09% 75
East of England -81 45 £50,000 -23.08% 98
East Midlands -63 33 £60,000 +37.14% 67
North East -20 24 £50,000 -16.67% 24
Wales -32 21 £60,000 +9.09% 35
Northern Ireland -23 5 £60,000 -7.69% 15

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 18 (1.52%) IIS
2 17 (1.43%) CMS
3 11 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.84%) Confluence
5 9 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.76%) Headless CMS
6 8 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.51%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.42%) Apache
9 5 (0.42%) nginx
9 5 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.34%) Camunda
10 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.25%) WordPress
12 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.084%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.084%) Kentico
13 1 (0.084%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.25%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.01%) Shopify
2 3 (0.25%) Magento
3 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 498 (41.92%) AWS
2 432 (36.36%) Azure
3 127 (10.69%) SaaS
4 122 (10.27%) Serverless
5 121 (10.19%) GitHub
6 104 (8.75%) GCP
7 66 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
9 47 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (3.79%) Amazon S3
11 43 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (2.36%) PaaS
14 26 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
15 24 (2.02%) Power Platform
16 23 (1.94%) Azure App Service
16 23 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (1.77%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.42%) Firewall
2 4 (0.34%) HTTP
3 3 (0.25%) Broadband
3 3 (0.25%) WAN
4 2 (0.17%) DNS
4 2 (0.17%) Internet
4 2 (0.17%) LAN
4 2 (0.17%) MQTT
4 2 (0.17%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.17%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.17%) VLAN
4 2 (0.17%) VPN
4 2 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.084%) AMQP
5 1 (0.084%) NAS
5 1 (0.084%) Network Security
5 1 (0.084%) SAN
5 1 (0.084%) SNMP
5 1 (0.084%) SSL
5 1 (0.084%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (12.79%) SQL Server
2 125 (10.52%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (8.25%) MongoDB
4 93 (7.83%) NoSQL
5 88 (7.41%) Relational Database
6 77 (6.48%) MySQL
7 50 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (3.03%) RDBMS
9 30 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
10 27 (2.27%) Redis
11 19 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (1.35%) DynamoDB
13 13 (1.09%) Big Data
14 12 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.01%) Power BI
15 9 (0.76%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.67%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
17 7 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
17 7 (0.59%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 176 (14.81%) Git
2 55 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 49 (4.12%) JIRA
4 40 (3.37%) Cypress.io
5 34 (2.86%) JUnit
6 25 (2.10%) Mockito
7 24 (2.02%) JMeter
8 20 (1.68%) GitLab
8 20 (1.68%) Visual Studio
9 18 (1.52%) Vite
10 17 (1.43%) webpack
11 14 (1.18%) TeamCity
12 12 (1.01%) Maven
13 11 (0.93%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.59%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.59%) Selenium
16 6 (0.51%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.51%) NUnit
General
1 286 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 246 (20.71%) Finance
3 135 (11.36%) Law
4 105 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (6.06%) Banking
6 68 (5.72%) Public Sector
7 66 (5.56%) Marketing
8 51 (4.29%) Front Office
9 46 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
10 39 (3.28%) Investment Banking
11 33 (2.78%) Legal
12 28 (2.36%) Retail
13 18 (1.52%) Back Office
13 18 (1.52%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.43%) Games
15 16 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (1.26%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.09%) Advertising
18 10 (0.84%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.59%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 689 (58.00%) Developer
2 468 (39.39%) Full-Stack Developer
3 272 (22.90%) Software Engineer
4 271 (22.81%) Senior
5 221 (18.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 167 (14.06%) Lead
7 156 (13.13%) Senior Developer
8 126 (10.61%) .NET Developer
9 115 (9.68%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 110 (9.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 99 (8.33%) Java Developer
12 92 (7.74%) Software Developer
13 75 (6.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 70 (5.89%) Java Engineer
15 69 (5.81%) Lead Developer
15 69 (5.81%) React Developer
16 61 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
17 59 (4.97%) C# Developer
18 56 (4.71%) Lead Software Engineer
19 55 (4.63%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 607 (51.09%) React
2 391 (32.91%) .NET
3 279 (23.48%) AngularJS
4 271 (22.81%) HTML
5 235 (19.78%) CSS
6 233 (19.61%) Node.js
7 181 (15.24%) RESTful
8 171 (14.39%) Vue
9 157 (13.22%) Spring
10 147 (12.37%) .NET Core
11 140 (11.78%) REST
12 127 (10.69%) ASP.NET
13 120 (10.10%) .NET Framework
14 110 (9.26%) Spring Boot
15 108 (9.09%) GraphQL
16 97 (8.16%) Kafka
17 85 (7.15%) Entity Framework
18 80 (6.73%) HTML5
19 73 (6.14%) Next.js
20 66 (5.56%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 150 (12.63%) Cloud Native
2 73 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.11%) Algorithms
5 35 (2.95%) Mobile App
6 34 (2.86%) Fixed Income
7 30 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.43%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.43%) Private Cloud
10 17 (1.43%) Reference Data
11 16 (1.35%) Hedge funds
12 15 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.18%) IoT
14 13 (1.09%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.09%) Management Information System
14 13 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.35%) Linux
2 13 (1.09%) Unix
3 12 (1.01%) Windows
4 11 (0.93%) Android
4 11 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (47.22%) Agile
2 427 (35.94%) CI/CD
3 413 (34.76%) Software Engineering
4 267 (22.47%) DevOps
5 261 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
6 243 (20.45%) Microservices
7 235 (19.78%) AI
8 203 (17.09%) User Experience
9 194 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 181 (15.24%) Mentoring
11 158 (13.30%) SDLC
12 141 (11.87%) Clean Code
13 136 (11.45%) TDD
14 124 (10.44%) Test Automation
15 119 (10.02%) MVC
16 116 (9.76%) Computer Science
17 108 (9.09%) Machine Learning
18 107 (9.01%) Containerisation
19 105 (8.84%) Scrum
20 102 (8.59%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 506 (42.59%) JavaScript
2 425 (35.77%) TypeScript
3 389 (32.74%) C#
4 316 (26.60%) Java
5 290 (24.41%) SQL
6 251 (21.13%) Python
7 51 (4.29%) Go
7 51 (4.29%) PHP
8 39 (3.28%) Rust
9 24 (2.02%) Ruby
10 21 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.35%) C++
11 16 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 11 (0.93%) Bash
13 11 (0.93%) Bicep
14 10 (0.84%) VB.NET
15 8 (0.67%) C
15 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 113 (9.51%) Degree
2 105 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 68 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 33 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.09%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.01%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.42%) MCP
11 3 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.25%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.17%) CISSP
13 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.57%) QA
2 72 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.35%) GDPR
4 12 (1.01%) WCAG
5 5 (0.42%) PERC
6 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.17%) ECSS
7 2 (0.17%) NIST
7 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.084%) GRC
8 1 (0.084%) MiFID
8 1 (0.084%) SLA
System Software
1 192 (16.16%) Docker
2 15 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.42%) HDFS
5 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.17%) Firmware
7 1 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 180 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 91 (7.66%) Terraform
3 24 (2.02%) Kibana
4 14 (1.18%) Ansible
5 13 (1.09%) Grafana
6 9 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.59%) Argo
8 2 (0.17%) Istio
8 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.084%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.084%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.084%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.084%) linkerd
9 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.084%) Nagios
Vendors
1 183 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 38 (3.20%) Oracle
3 30 (2.53%) Splunk
4 28 (2.36%) Dynatrace
5 16 (1.35%) Google
6 13 (1.09%) VMware
7 12 (1.01%) Databricks
7 12 (1.01%) OpenAI
8 11 (0.93%) DevExpress
8 11 (0.93%) Foundry
8 11 (0.93%) Palantir
9 9 (0.76%) Apple
10 7 (0.59%) Facebook
10 7 (0.59%) YouTube
11 6 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.51%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.51%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.51%) Rollbar
12 5 (0.42%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.42%) Zoho