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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 61 45
Rank change year-on-year -28 -16 +22
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,462 2,240 3,297
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.35% 4.21% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 4.63% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,183 1,088 2,906
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,383 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% - -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 50,076 48,429 57,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.42% 91.10% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 29,566 23,408 43,853
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -23 1,325 £70,000 +7.69% 1,790
UK excluding London -56 777 £61,250 +11.36% 1,674
London -3 567 £80,000 -3.03% 340
Work from Home -24 564 £70,000 +7.69% 808
South East -54 211 £62,500 +4.17% 507
North of England -20 206 £65,000 +15.56% 341
Midlands -26 159 £55,000 +10.00% 213
South West -17 112 £62,500 +4.17% 217
West Midlands -11 88 £55,000 +4.76% 67
North West -27 88 £65,000 +8.33% 155
Yorkshire -24 76 £72,500 +46.46% 131
East Midlands -34 71 £60,000 +41.18% 144
East of England -48 56 £60,000 +29.73% 246
North East +10 42 £55,000 +7.32% 57
Wales -26 13 £51,250 -2.38% 82
Scotland -73 13 £67,500 +28.57% 68
Northern Ireland -14 9 £95,000 +58.33% 36
Channel Islands +1 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 12 (0.82%) CMS
1 12 (0.82%) Confluence
2 11 (0.75%) OpenStack
3 9 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.34%) WordPress
6 4 (0.27%) Appian
6 4 (0.27%) nginx
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.21%) Liferay
7 3 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) ColdFusion
8 2 (0.14%) Drupal
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.068%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.068%) Kentico
9 1 (0.068%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.068%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 524 (35.84%) AWS
2 404 (27.63%) Azure
3 159 (10.88%) Serverless
4 149 (10.19%) SaaS
5 120 (8.21%) GitHub
6 105 (7.18%) GCP
7 87 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
8 76 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (5.13%) Amazon S3
10 62 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (2.19%) Figma
15 28 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (1.92%) PaaS
16 23 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (1.44%) Entra ID
18 19 (1.30%) Azure App Service
18 19 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.09%) Broadband
2 7 (0.48%) HTTP
3 4 (0.27%) Firewall
4 3 (0.21%) Internet
4 3 (0.21%) WAN
5 2 (0.14%) AMQP
5 2 (0.14%) DHCP
5 2 (0.14%) DNS
5 2 (0.14%) LAN
5 2 (0.14%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.14%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.14%) VLAN
5 2 (0.14%) VPN
5 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.068%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.068%) MQTT
6 1 (0.068%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.068%) SSL
6 1 (0.068%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (8.21%) SQL Server
2 119 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (6.70%) NoSQL
4 94 (6.43%) MongoDB
5 72 (4.92%) Relational Database
6 64 (4.38%) MySQL
7 45 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (1.78%) DynamoDB
9 24 (1.64%) Redis
10 23 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.50%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.82%) Pinecone
15 11 (0.75%) Power BI
16 9 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (0.55%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.55%) DB2
18 5 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
19 4 (0.27%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 154 (10.53%) Git
2 82 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 50 (3.42%) Cypress.io
4 40 (2.74%) JIRA
5 29 (1.98%) GitLab
5 29 (1.98%) JUnit
6 22 (1.50%) Mockito
7 20 (1.37%) Maven
8 18 (1.23%) Vite
9 16 (1.09%) JMeter
9 16 (1.09%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.09%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.82%) Selenium
10 12 (0.82%) SonarQube
11 11 (0.75%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.68%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.55%) CircleCI
13 8 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.55%) webpack
14 5 (0.34%) ESLint
General
1 281 (19.22%) Social Skills
2 142 (9.71%) Finance
3 71 (4.86%) Public Sector
4 55 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (3.08%) Law
6 44 (3.01%) Banking
7 34 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (1.98%) Retail
9 26 (1.78%) Tech for Good
10 25 (1.71%) Investment Banking
11 24 (1.64%) Marketing
12 23 (1.57%) Health Technology
12 23 (1.57%) Legal
13 22 (1.50%) Front Office
14 21 (1.44%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.23%) Aviation
16 16 (1.09%) Games
17 14 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 806 (55.13%) Developer
2 560 (38.30%) Full-Stack Developer
3 326 (22.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 326 (22.30%) Senior
4 255 (17.44%) Software Engineer
5 198 (13.54%) Lead
6 142 (9.71%) .NET Developer
7 141 (9.64%) Senior Developer
8 121 (8.28%) Java Developer
9 111 (7.59%) React Developer
10 103 (7.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 101 (6.91%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 98 (6.70%) Lead Developer
13 94 (6.43%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 88 (6.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 84 (5.75%) Software Developer
16 82 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
17 69 (4.72%) C# Developer
18 60 (4.10%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 57 (3.90%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 668 (45.69%) React
2 396 (27.09%) .NET
3 280 (19.15%) Node.js
4 230 (15.73%) AngularJS
5 216 (14.77%) HTML
6 196 (13.41%) CSS
7 151 (10.33%) Spring
7 151 (10.33%) Vue
8 145 (9.92%) RESTful
9 143 (9.78%) .NET Core
10 139 (9.51%) REST
11 112 (7.66%) Spring Boot
12 94 (6.43%) ASP.NET
13 89 (6.09%) .NET Framework
14 82 (5.61%) Next.js
15 71 (4.86%) Entity Framework
16 63 (4.31%) GraphQL
17 57 (3.90%) HTML5
18 55 (3.76%) Kafka
18 55 (3.76%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 55 (3.76%) Mobile App
5 49 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
6 45 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (1.57%) AI Agents
7 23 (1.57%) IoT
8 16 (1.09%) Management Information System
9 14 (0.96%) Data Structures
9 14 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (0.96%) Smart Energy
10 12 (0.82%) Private Cloud
11 11 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (0.75%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.68%) e-Learning
12 10 (0.68%) Hedge funds
12 10 (0.68%) Reference Data
13 9 (0.62%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.78%) Android
2 25 (1.71%) Apple iOS
3 19 (1.30%) Linux
4 7 (0.48%) Unix
5 5 (0.34%) Windows
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (31.74%) Software Engineering
2 431 (29.48%) Agile
3 382 (26.13%) CI/CD
4 290 (19.84%) Microservices
5 284 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
6 275 (18.81%) DevOps
7 273 (18.67%) AI
8 193 (13.20%) Mentoring
9 191 (13.06%) User Experience
10 188 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 121 (8.28%) Clean Code
11 121 (8.28%) Computer Science
12 118 (8.07%) Scrum
13 113 (7.73%) Test Automation
14 104 (7.11%) Containerisation
14 104 (7.11%) Front End Development
15 101 (6.91%) TDD
16 99 (6.77%) MVC
17 93 (6.36%) Code Quality
18 90 (6.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 502 (34.34%) JavaScript
2 489 (33.45%) TypeScript
3 380 (25.99%) C#
4 346 (23.67%) Java
5 291 (19.90%) Python
6 269 (18.40%) SQL
7 61 (4.17%) PHP
8 36 (2.46%) Ruby
9 27 (1.85%) Go
10 24 (1.64%) Rust
11 22 (1.50%) Bash
12 20 (1.37%) C++
13 16 (1.09%) C
14 13 (0.89%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.75%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.62%) Groovy
17 8 (0.55%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.48%) R
18 7 (0.48%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 141 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 117 (8.00%) Degree
3 86 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.62%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.27%) MCP
11 2 (0.14%) PhD
12 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.068%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.068%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.068%) MBA
12 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.34%) QA
2 68 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.03%) WCAG
4 12 (0.82%) GDPR
5 5 (0.34%) PERC
5 5 (0.34%) SLA
6 2 (0.14%) ECSS
6 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.068%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.068%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.068%) HL7
7 1 (0.068%) NCSC
7 1 (0.068%) NIST
7 1 (0.068%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 190 (13.00%) Docker
2 18 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 158 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 90 (6.16%) Terraform
3 26 (1.78%) Ansible
4 17 (1.16%) Kibana
5 13 (0.89%) Argo
6 12 (0.82%) Grafana
7 9 (0.62%) HP Fortify
8 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.14%) Nagios
9 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.068%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.068%) Istio
10 1 (0.068%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.068%) logstash
10 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 103 (7.05%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.92%) OpenAI
3 25 (1.71%) Oracle
4 20 (1.37%) Google
5 18 (1.23%) Adobe
6 16 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 16 (1.09%) Foundry
7 14 (0.96%) Palantir
8 13 (0.89%) Splunk
9 6 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.41%) Facebook
9 6 (0.41%) Fortinet
9 6 (0.41%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.34%) VMware
10 5 (0.34%) YouTube
10 5 (0.34%) Zoho
11 4 (0.27%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.27%) Pega
11 4 (0.27%) Telerik
11 4 (0.27%) WSO2