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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 107 44
Rank change year-on-year +57 -63 +30
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,316 1,374 3,392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.82% 2.79% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 3.13% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,686 824 1,997
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £49,383
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 85,804 43,854 61,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.92% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 59,130 24,461 33,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +66 3,024 £65,000 -7.14% 2,108
UK excluding London +79 2,285 £60,000 - 1,021
Work from Home +42 1,332 £60,000 -7.69% 947
London +14 884 £85,000 - 1,220
North of England +67 768 £65,000 +8.33% 332
South East +96 546 £60,000 - 169
North West +49 445 £67,500 +3.85% 217
South West +62 345 £65,000 +8.33% 133
Midlands +41 302 £55,000 -8.33% 121
Yorkshire +81 208 £70,000 +16.67% 90
West Midlands +29 170 £60,000 -4.00% 75
East of England +51 163 £60,000 +20.00% 87
East Midlands +16 132 £55,000 +15.79% 46
North East +9 115 £50,000 +5.26% 27
Scotland -13 98 £60,000 -9.43% 96
Wales -25 58 £68,750 +14.58% 11
Northern Ireland -81 10 £90,000 +50.00% 76
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

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 29 (0.87%) CMS
2 27 (0.81%) Confluence
3 17 (0.51%) WordPress
4 11 (0.33%) Apache
5 10 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.27%) IIS
7 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.18%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.15%) ColdFusion
10 5 (0.15%) nginx
11 4 (0.12%) Kentico
11 4 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.12%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.090%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.090%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.090%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.090%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.060%) Elementor
2 2 (0.060%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) Shopify
2 3 (0.090%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.030%) Magento
4 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.030%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.030%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 909 (27.41%) AWS
2 906 (27.32%) Azure
3 307 (9.26%) GitHub
4 238 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
5 235 (7.09%) SaaS
6 206 (6.21%) Serverless
7 182 (5.49%) GCP
7 182 (5.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 160 (4.83%) Azure AI
9 137 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (3.17%) Amazon S3
11 88 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
12 80 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
13 72 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 62 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
15 58 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
15 58 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
16 50 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (1.09%) Snowflake
18 33 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.93%) Internet
2 38 (1.15%) Broadband
3 18 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.39%) DNS
4 13 (0.39%) HTTP
5 11 (0.33%) Firewall
6 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
7 5 (0.15%) MQTT
7 5 (0.15%) VoIP
8 3 (0.090%) DHCP
9 2 (0.060%) AMQP
9 2 (0.060%) LAN
9 2 (0.060%) Network Security
9 2 (0.060%) VPN
9 2 (0.060%) WAN
10 1 (0.030%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.030%) Multicast
10 1 (0.030%) SCTP
10 1 (0.030%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.030%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 508 (15.32%) MongoDB
2 444 (13.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 224 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
4 192 (5.79%) SQL Server
5 158 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
6 97 (2.93%) Relational Database
7 95 (2.86%) NoSQL
8 90 (2.71%) MySQL
9 66 (1.99%) DynamoDB
10 65 (1.96%) Redis
11 31 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (0.60%) Power BI
13 17 (0.51%) Spark SQL
14 12 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.30%) Pinecone
17 9 (0.27%) Chroma
17 9 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.27%) GIS
17 9 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 245 (7.39%) Git
2 103 (3.11%) Jenkins
3 97 (2.93%) GitLab
4 63 (1.90%) JUnit
5 60 (1.81%) Cypress.io
6 47 (1.42%) Claude Code
7 38 (1.15%) JIRA
8 37 (1.12%) Maven
9 31 (0.93%) Subversion
10 29 (0.87%) Eclipse
11 23 (0.69%) SonarQube
11 23 (0.69%) Vite
12 18 (0.54%) Mockito
13 15 (0.45%) Selenium
13 15 (0.45%) Storybook
14 14 (0.42%) Spock
15 13 (0.39%) NUnit
16 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.27%) Postman
16 9 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 414 (12.48%) Finance
2 303 (9.14%) Social Skills
3 190 (5.73%) Public Sector
4 97 (2.93%) Marketing
5 79 (2.38%) Games
6 76 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
7 66 (1.99%) Advertising
7 66 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (1.99%) Retail
8 64 (1.93%) Banking
9 39 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 35 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 30 (0.90%) Law
12 28 (0.84%) Legal
13 27 (0.81%) Tech for Good
14 20 (0.60%) Automotive
15 19 (0.57%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.45%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.36%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,818 (54.83%) Developer
2 1,007 (30.37%) Full-Stack Developer
3 883 (26.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 692 (20.87%) Senior
5 565 (17.04%) .NET Developer
6 553 (16.68%) Software Engineer
7 423 (12.76%) Lead
8 279 (8.41%) Senior Developer
9 270 (8.14%) Software Developer
10 269 (8.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 248 (7.48%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 169 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 166 (5.01%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 163 (4.92%) Lead Developer
15 151 (4.55%) Java Engineer
16 145 (4.37%) Java Developer
17 105 (3.17%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 98 (2.96%) Python Engineer
19 94 (2.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 79 (2.38%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 999 (30.13%) React
2 950 (28.65%) .NET
3 580 (17.49%) Node.js
4 532 (16.04%) ASP.NET
5 527 (15.89%) .NET Core
6 496 (14.96%) ASP.NET Core
7 428 (12.91%) AngularJS
8 388 (11.70%) CSS
9 370 (11.16%) HTML
10 357 (10.77%) RESTful
11 343 (10.34%) Vue
12 233 (7.03%) REST
13 223 (6.72%) Entity Framework
14 211 (6.36%) Spring
15 209 (6.30%) Blazor
16 180 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web API
17 174 (5.25%) Spring Boot
18 171 (5.16%) Next.js
19 160 (4.83%) Terraform
20 148 (4.46%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 304 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 146 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
3 131 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 101 (3.05%) AI Agents
5 91 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 77 (2.32%) Product Ownership
7 71 (2.14%) Mobile App
8 66 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.15%) e-Learning
11 28 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
12 27 (0.81%) IoT
12 27 (0.81%) Low-Code
13 22 (0.66%) Onboarding
13 22 (0.66%) Virtual Team
14 19 (0.57%) Digital TV
15 18 (0.54%) Social Media
16 17 (0.51%) iPhone
17 16 (0.48%) BBC
17 16 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (1.78%) Linux
2 26 (0.78%) Android
3 15 (0.45%) Windows
4 14 (0.42%) Unix
5 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.12%) VMS
6 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.090%) AIX
7 3 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.030%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 950 (28.65%) Software Engineering
2 905 (27.29%) Agile
3 806 (24.31%) CI/CD
4 760 (22.92%) AI
5 574 (17.31%) Microservices
6 516 (15.56%) DevOps
7 349 (10.52%) Problem-Solving
8 285 (8.59%) Mentoring
9 282 (8.50%) Machine Learning
10 267 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 260 (7.84%) Test Automation
12 197 (5.94%) Clean Code
12 197 (5.94%) Scrum
13 191 (5.76%) Observability
14 185 (5.58%) LLM
15 179 (5.40%) TDD
16 177 (5.34%) Technical Leadership
17 176 (5.31%) Front End Development
18 171 (5.16%) Infrastructure as Code
18 171 (5.16%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 955 (28.80%) JavaScript
2 927 (27.96%) C#
3 892 (26.90%) TypeScript
4 741 (22.35%) SQL
5 590 (17.79%) Java
6 569 (17.16%) Python
7 103 (3.11%) Ruby
8 96 (2.90%) C++
9 84 (2.53%) Kotlin
10 83 (2.50%) PHP
11 77 (2.32%) Go
12 32 (0.97%) Bash
13 29 (0.87%) Groovy
14 26 (0.78%) Perl
15 24 (0.72%) Rust
16 12 (0.36%) Bicep
17 11 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.21%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.18%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 239 (7.21%) Security Cleared
2 192 (5.79%) Degree
3 165 (4.98%) SC Cleared
4 127 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 22 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.18%) PhD
13 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.090%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.090%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.090%) OCP
14 3 (0.090%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (2.62%) QA
2 68 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 31 (0.93%) WCAG
5 19 (0.57%) GDPR
6 10 (0.30%) NCSC
7 8 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.15%) NIST
8 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.060%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.060%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.060%) GRC
9 2 (0.060%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.030%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.030%) SLA
System Software
1 470 (14.17%) Docker
2 3 (0.090%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.090%) Firmware
3 1 (0.030%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.030%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 367 (11.07%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.63%) Ansible
3 20 (0.60%) Grafana
4 12 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.33%) HP Fortify
6 10 (0.30%) Kibana
7 7 (0.21%) logstash
7 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.18%) Podman
9 4 (0.12%) Argo
10 2 (0.060%) Bugsnag
10 2 (0.060%) Packer
10 2 (0.060%) Puppet
11 1 (0.030%) Consul
11 1 (0.030%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.030%) Graylog
11 1 (0.030%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 593 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 94 (2.83%) Google
3 56 (1.69%) Facebook
4 50 (1.51%) OpenAI
5 42 (1.27%) Oracle
6 25 (0.75%) YouTube
7 23 (0.69%) Splunk
8 21 (0.63%) Salesforce
9 17 (0.51%) AppDynamics
10 16 (0.48%) Apple
10 16 (0.48%) Foundry
10 16 (0.48%) Sony
10 16 (0.48%) Yahoo!
11 15 (0.45%) Red Hat
12 14 (0.42%) Adobe
12 14 (0.42%) Mistral
13 13 (0.39%) Dynatrace
14 12 (0.36%) Databricks
14 12 (0.36%) Palantir
15 10 (0.30%) Sitecore