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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 62 44
Rank change year-on-year -23 -18 +24
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,592 2,132 3,881
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.44% 4.21% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 4.57% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,290 1,058 3,418
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -10.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 52,183 46,628 65,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.83% 91.97% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 30,949 22,565 51,052
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -19 1,445 £70,000 +7.69% 935
UK excluding London -46 860 £60,000 +4.35% 737
Work from Home -15 626 £70,000 +7.69% 535
London +10 605 £80,000 - 347
North of England -9 232 £65,000 +18.18% 194
South East -50 230 £60,000 - 200
Midlands -22 168 £55,000 +5.77% 102
South West -8 127 £60,000 -4.00% 113
North West -7 105 £67,500 +14.89% 109
West Midlands -11 92 £52,500 - 38
Yorkshire -25 84 £73,750 +48.99% 62
East Midlands -28 76 £57,500 +47.44% 63
East of England -43 63 £60,000 +29.73% 68
North East +15 43 £55,000 +22.22% 24
Northern Ireland -17 14 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Wales -26 14 £52,500 -0.47% 19
Scotland -76 14 £67,500 +22.73% 33
Channel Islands 0 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 17 (1.07%) CMS
2 11 (0.69%) OpenStack
2 11 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
3 10 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (0.63%) Confluence
4 6 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.31%) nginx
5 5 (0.31%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.31%) WordPress
6 4 (0.25%) Apache
6 4 (0.25%) Appian
7 3 (0.19%) ColdFusion
7 3 (0.19%) Liferay
8 2 (0.13%) Drupal
8 2 (0.13%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.063%) Camunda
9 1 (0.063%) TPMS
9 1 (0.063%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.063%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.063%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 548 (34.42%) AWS
2 419 (26.32%) Azure
3 167 (10.49%) Serverless
4 161 (10.11%) SaaS
5 122 (7.66%) GitHub
6 111 (6.97%) GCP
7 95 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
8 84 (5.28%) Amazon S3
9 75 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (2.45%) Figma
14 38 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
15 28 (1.76%) PaaS
16 27 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (1.26%) Entra ID
19 19 (1.19%) Power Platform
20 17 (1.07%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.51%) Broadband
2 7 (0.44%) HTTP
3 4 (0.25%) Firewall
4 3 (0.19%) Internet
4 3 (0.19%) WAN
5 2 (0.13%) AMQP
5 2 (0.13%) DHCP
5 2 (0.13%) DNS
5 2 (0.13%) LAN
5 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.13%) VLAN
5 2 (0.13%) VPN
5 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.063%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.063%) MQTT
6 1 (0.063%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.063%) SSL
6 1 (0.063%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (7.54%) SQL Server
3 103 (6.47%) MongoDB
4 102 (6.41%) NoSQL
5 74 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 70 (4.40%) MySQL
7 42 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (1.95%) DynamoDB
9 25 (1.57%) Redis
10 23 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.19%) RDBMS
12 15 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.75%) Pinecone
14 12 (0.75%) Power BI
15 10 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.50%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.50%) DB2
17 5 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
18 4 (0.25%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 159 (9.99%) Git
2 84 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 51 (3.20%) Cypress.io
4 39 (2.45%) JIRA
5 31 (1.95%) GitLab
6 26 (1.63%) JUnit
7 22 (1.38%) Maven
8 19 (1.19%) Mockito
9 17 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.07%) Vite
10 15 (0.94%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.88%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.75%) JMeter
13 11 (0.69%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.69%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.63%) Selenium
15 8 (0.50%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.50%) webpack
16 6 (0.38%) ESLint
16 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 279 (17.53%) Social Skills
2 154 (9.67%) Finance
3 71 (4.46%) Public Sector
4 64 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (3.02%) Banking
6 42 (2.64%) Law
7 36 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (1.82%) Marketing
8 29 (1.82%) Retail
9 28 (1.76%) Front Office
10 27 (1.70%) Tech for Good
11 25 (1.57%) Investment Banking
12 24 (1.51%) Aviation
13 22 (1.38%) Health Technology
13 22 (1.38%) Legal
14 21 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.26%) Games
16 10 (0.63%) Advertising
17 9 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 885 (55.59%) Developer
2 620 (38.94%) Full-Stack Developer
3 362 (22.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 362 (22.74%) Senior
4 289 (18.15%) Software Engineer
5 223 (14.01%) Lead
6 157 (9.86%) Senior Developer
7 150 (9.42%) .NET Developer
8 128 (8.04%) Java Developer
9 121 (7.60%) React Developer
10 120 (7.54%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 116 (7.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 107 (6.72%) Lead Developer
13 106 (6.66%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 95 (5.97%) Software Developer
15 93 (5.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 90 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
17 79 (4.96%) C# Developer
18 70 (4.40%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 68 (4.27%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 699 (43.91%) React
2 415 (26.07%) .NET
3 309 (19.41%) Node.js
4 230 (14.45%) AngularJS
5 219 (13.76%) HTML
6 200 (12.56%) CSS
7 159 (9.99%) Vue
8 152 (9.55%) Spring
9 147 (9.23%) .NET Core
10 141 (8.86%) RESTful
11 139 (8.73%) REST
12 117 (7.35%) Spring Boot
13 91 (5.72%) ASP.NET
14 87 (5.46%) Next.js
15 85 (5.34%) .NET Framework
16 67 (4.21%) Entity Framework
17 66 (4.15%) GraphQL
18 62 (3.89%) Kafka
19 56 (3.52%) HTML5
20 54 (3.39%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 126 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.83%) Mobile App
5 51 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 50 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.70%) IoT
8 24 (1.51%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 15 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (0.88%) Smart Energy
13 13 (0.82%) Data Structures
13 13 (0.82%) Fixed Income
14 12 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (0.75%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.69%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.63%) e-Learning
17 9 (0.57%) Low-Code
17 9 (0.57%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.51%) Android
1 24 (1.51%) Linux
2 23 (1.44%) Apple iOS
3 7 (0.44%) Unix
4 5 (0.31%) Windows
5 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (32.98%) Software Engineering
2 452 (28.39%) Agile
3 402 (25.25%) CI/CD
4 305 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
5 300 (18.84%) Microservices
6 285 (17.90%) AI
7 281 (17.65%) DevOps
8 209 (13.13%) Mentoring
9 199 (12.50%) User Experience
10 192 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (7.85%) Test Automation
12 124 (7.79%) Computer Science
13 119 (7.47%) Clean Code
13 119 (7.47%) Scrum
14 112 (7.04%) Containerisation
15 107 (6.72%) TDD
16 98 (6.16%) Front End Development
17 97 (6.09%) MVC
18 95 (5.97%) Technical Leadership
19 92 (5.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 529 (33.23%) JavaScript
2 514 (32.29%) TypeScript
3 387 (24.31%) C#
4 373 (23.43%) Java
5 322 (20.23%) Python
6 269 (16.90%) SQL
7 67 (4.21%) PHP
8 37 (2.32%) Ruby
9 35 (2.20%) Go
10 26 (1.63%) Bash
11 25 (1.57%) Rust
12 22 (1.38%) C++
13 16 (1.01%) C
14 13 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.69%) Groovy
15 11 (0.69%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.50%) PowerShell
17 8 (0.50%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 145 (9.11%) Security Cleared
2 122 (7.66%) Degree
3 93 (5.84%) SC Cleared
4 81 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.57%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.19%) PhD
12 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.063%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.063%) MBA
13 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.84%) QA
2 67 (4.21%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.88%) WCAG
4 12 (0.75%) GDPR
5 6 (0.38%) SLA
6 5 (0.31%) PERC
7 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.19%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.13%) ECSS
9 2 (0.13%) NCSC
9 2 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.063%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.063%) HL7
10 1 (0.063%) ITGC
10 1 (0.063%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 197 (12.37%) Docker
2 16 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 162 (10.18%) Kubernetes
2 95 (5.97%) Terraform
3 27 (1.70%) Ansible
4 17 (1.07%) Grafana
5 15 (0.94%) Kibana
6 13 (0.82%) Argo
7 11 (0.69%) HP Fortify
8 8 (0.50%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.13%) Nagios
10 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.063%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.063%) Istio
11 1 (0.063%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.063%) logstash
11 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.063%) Podman
Vendors
1 106 (6.66%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.70%) OpenAI
2 27 (1.70%) Oracle
3 25 (1.57%) Adobe
4 20 (1.26%) Google
5 15 (0.94%) Foundry
6 13 (0.82%) Palantir
7 12 (0.75%) Dynatrace
8 11 (0.69%) Splunk
9 7 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.44%) Fortinet
9 7 (0.44%) Palo Alto
10 6 (0.38%) Facebook
11 5 (0.31%) VMware
11 5 (0.31%) YouTube
11 5 (0.31%) Zoho
12 4 (0.25%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.25%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.25%) SAP
12 4 (0.25%) Telerik