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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 95 42
Rank change year-on-year +24 -53 +24
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,324 1,291 4,956
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.62% 3.07% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 3.30% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,887 1,021 3,914
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -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 £55,173
% change year-on-year +8.33% +8.75% -4.05%

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 66,454 39,098 81,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.05% 92.85% 85.76%
Number of salaries quoted 41,096 22,768 59,613
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £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% -10.90%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 25 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 25 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 +29 2,105 £70,000 +7.28% 675
UK excluding London +23 1,387 £65,000 +8.33% 509
Work from Home +28 878 £70,000 +7.69% 683
London +32 760 £85,000 +6.25% 261
North of England +52 426 £70,000 +21.74% 151
South East -2 336 £60,000 - 151
Midlands +28 243 £55,000 +4.76% 55
North West +26 212 £67,500 +10.20% 84
South West +12 204 £60,000 -4.00% 56
Yorkshire +29 156 £75,000 +36.36% 40
West Midlands +27 127 £60,000 +4.35% 28
East Midlands -2 115 £55,000 +15.79% 27
East of England +20 112 £66,250 +20.45% 55
North East 0 58 £60,000 +17.07% 27
Scotland -40 32 £60,000 -10.45% 23
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 11
Wales -40 15 £51,250 -26.79% 13
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 (0.65%) CMS
2 14 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (0.56%) Confluence
4 10 (0.43%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.34%) Apache
6 8 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.34%) WordPress
7 7 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.17%) Appian
10 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.13%) IIS
11 3 (0.13%) Liferay
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.086%) CICS
12 2 (0.086%) Drupal
12 2 (0.086%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.086%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.086%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.043%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.043%) Magento
2 1 (0.043%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 688 (29.60%) AWS
2 446 (19.19%) Azure
3 218 (9.38%) SaaS
4 191 (8.22%) Serverless
5 162 (6.97%) GCP
6 126 (5.42%) GitHub
7 115 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
8 99 (4.26%) Amazon S3
9 81 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
10 62 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
11 59 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
12 51 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (1.94%) Figma
14 41 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (1.08%) Entra ID
16 25 (1.08%) Power Platform
17 22 (0.95%) GitHub Copilot
18 21 (0.90%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.81%) Broadband
2 10 (0.43%) HTTP
3 5 (0.22%) DNS
3 5 (0.22%) Firewall
4 4 (0.17%) Internet
5 3 (0.13%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.13%) VPN
5 3 (0.13%) WAN
6 2 (0.086%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.086%) LAN
6 2 (0.086%) VLAN
7 1 (0.043%) AMQP
7 1 (0.043%) MQTT
7 1 (0.043%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.043%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.043%) SSL
7 1 (0.043%) TCAP
7 1 (0.043%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.043%) WebEx
7 1 (0.043%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (5.51%) MongoDB
3 120 (5.16%) NoSQL
3 120 (5.16%) SQL Server
4 62 (2.67%) MySQL
5 50 (2.15%) DynamoDB
5 50 (2.15%) Relational Database
6 37 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (0.90%) Redis
8 18 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (0.73%) Power BI
10 14 (0.60%) Pinecone
11 12 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.34%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.34%) DB2
14 6 (0.26%) GIS
14 6 (0.26%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.17%) Big Data
15 4 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 178 (7.66%) Git
2 92 (3.96%) Jenkins
3 62 (2.67%) Cypress.io
4 41 (1.76%) GitLab
5 35 (1.51%) JIRA
6 27 (1.16%) Maven
7 23 (0.99%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.82%) CircleCI
8 19 (0.82%) JUnit
9 15 (0.65%) Vite
10 14 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.56%) Mockito
12 12 (0.52%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.52%) Claude Code
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
1 275 (11.83%) Social Skills
2 245 (10.54%) Finance
3 71 (3.06%) Public Sector
4 70 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (2.28%) Banking
6 50 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (1.81%) Retail
8 40 (1.72%) Front Office
9 39 (1.68%) Law
10 37 (1.59%) Marketing
11 32 (1.38%) Tech for Good
12 30 (1.29%) Games
13 28 (1.20%) Aviation
14 24 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (0.86%) Health Technology
17 19 (0.82%) Legal
18 18 (0.77%) Investment Banking
19 16 (0.69%) Advertising
20 12 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,333 (57.36%) Developer
2 933 (40.15%) Full-Stack Developer
3 572 (24.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 535 (23.02%) Senior
5 433 (18.63%) Software Engineer
6 342 (14.72%) Lead
7 257 (11.06%) Senior Developer
8 188 (8.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 184 (7.92%) Lead Developer
10 181 (7.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 173 (7.44%) .NET Developer
12 171 (7.36%) Software Developer
13 150 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 146 (6.28%) Java Developer
15 144 (6.20%) React Developer
16 124 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
17 98 (4.22%) Python Developer
18 92 (3.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 90 (3.87%) C# Developer
20 85 (3.66%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 835 (35.93%) React
2 465 (20.01%) .NET
3 449 (19.32%) Node.js
4 237 (10.20%) AngularJS
4 237 (10.20%) HTML
5 235 (10.11%) CSS
6 197 (8.48%) Vue
7 159 (6.84%) RESTful
7 159 (6.84%) Spring
8 148 (6.37%) .NET Core
9 138 (5.94%) REST
10 130 (5.59%) Spring Boot
11 117 (5.03%) Next.js
12 83 (3.57%) ASP.NET
13 79 (3.40%) GraphQL
14 71 (3.06%) .NET Framework
15 67 (2.88%) Laravel
16 65 (2.80%) React Native
17 62 (2.67%) Kafka
18 59 (2.54%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 167 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 96 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
3 76 (3.27%) Product Ownership
4 64 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 58 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 46 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.46%) Fixed Income
7 34 (1.46%) IoT
8 28 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 25 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (0.90%) e-Learning
11 20 (0.86%) Smart Energy
12 19 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (0.69%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.65%) Data Structures
14 15 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (0.65%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.56%) Blog
15 13 (0.56%) Podcast
16 12 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.25%) Linux
2 24 (1.03%) Android
3 21 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.22%) Unix
5 4 (0.17%) Windows
6 1 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.043%) VMS
6 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.043%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 735 (31.63%) Software Engineering
2 507 (21.82%) Agile
3 442 (19.02%) CI/CD
4 356 (15.32%) AI
5 354 (15.23%) DevOps
6 316 (13.60%) Microservices
7 312 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
8 245 (10.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 237 (10.20%) Mentoring
10 190 (8.18%) Test Automation
11 168 (7.23%) User Experience
12 150 (6.45%) Containerisation
13 142 (6.11%) Clean Code
13 142 (6.11%) Scrum
14 132 (5.68%) Web Development
15 118 (5.08%) Technical Leadership
16 115 (4.95%) Computer Science
17 112 (4.82%) Infrastructure as Code
18 107 (4.60%) Machine Learning
19 105 (4.52%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 672 (28.92%) TypeScript
2 668 (28.74%) JavaScript
3 469 (20.18%) Python
4 449 (19.32%) Java
5 414 (17.81%) C#
6 311 (13.38%) SQL
7 97 (4.17%) PHP
8 57 (2.45%) Go
9 53 (2.28%) Ruby
10 30 (1.29%) Bash
11 24 (1.03%) C++
12 18 (0.77%) C
13 16 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.65%) Groovy
15 13 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.47%) Bicep
17 9 (0.39%) Rust
18 6 (0.26%) R
18 6 (0.26%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 165 (7.10%) Security Cleared
2 119 (5.12%) Degree
2 119 (5.12%) SC Cleared
3 78 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (1.55%) DV Cleared
5 18 (0.77%) Master's Degree
6 16 (0.69%) DBS Check
7 10 (0.43%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.17%) PhD
11 2 (0.086%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.043%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.043%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.043%) MBA
12 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (4.48%) QA
2 46 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.47%) GDPR
4 10 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.30%) GRC
6 6 (0.26%) SLA
6 6 (0.26%) WCAG
7 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.086%) ECSS
8 2 (0.086%) HL7
8 2 (0.086%) ITGC
8 2 (0.086%) NCSC
8 2 (0.086%) NIST
8 2 (0.086%) PERC
9 1 (0.043%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.043%) SOC 2
System Software
1 240 (10.33%) Docker
2 8 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.086%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.043%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.043%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 167 (7.19%) Kubernetes
2 118 (5.08%) Terraform
3 33 (1.42%) Grafana
4 27 (1.16%) Ansible
5 19 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.60%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.56%) Podman
8 10 (0.43%) Argo
9 8 (0.34%) Kibana
10 7 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.17%) logstash
12 3 (0.13%) Nagios
13 1 (0.043%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.043%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.043%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 141 (6.07%) Microsoft
2 33 (1.42%) Google
3 29 (1.25%) Adobe
4 28 (1.20%) OpenAI
5 27 (1.16%) Oracle
6 11 (0.47%) Foundry
7 10 (0.43%) Palantir
7 10 (0.43%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.30%) Dynatrace
8 7 (0.30%) Peregrine
9 6 (0.26%) Databricks
9 6 (0.26%) Fortinet
9 6 (0.26%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.26%) Pega
10 5 (0.22%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (0.22%) Facebook
10 5 (0.22%) Zoho
11 4 (0.17%) Apple
11 4 (0.17%) Splunk
11 4 (0.17%) WooCommerce