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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 108 43
Rank change year-on-year +58 -65 +30
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,346 1,364 3,328
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.84% 2.77% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 3.10% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,701 817 1,943
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
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 £87,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +0.87%

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 86,307 43,936 60,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.11% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 59,386 24,309 33,164
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 £58,033
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.23% -3.28%
75th Percentile £79,641 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
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 30 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 30 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 +68 3,053 £65,000 -7.14% 2,148
UK excluding London +84 2,305 £60,000 - 1,039
Work from Home +40 1,337 £60,000 -7.69% 975
London +13 895 £85,000 +3.03% 1,250
North of England +71 779 £65,000 +8.33% 328
South East +106 550 £60,000 - 180
North West +51 451 £69,305 +6.62% 213
South West +64 348 £65,000 +8.33% 134
Midlands +34 302 £55,000 -8.33% 125
Yorkshire +76 213 £70,000 +16.67% 90
West Midlands +26 169 £60,000 -4.00% 80
East of England +46 163 £60,000 +20.00% 95
East Midlands +16 133 £55,000 +15.79% 45
North East +9 115 £50,000 +5.26% 27
Scotland -3 99 £60,000 -9.43% 95
Wales -40 58 £68,750 +14.58% 11
Northern Ireland -83 11 £90,000 +50.00% 75
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 30 (0.90%) CMS
2 27 (0.81%) Confluence
3 18 (0.54%) 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
8 7 (0.21%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
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%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.090%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.090%) Jupyter
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 4 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.030%) Magento
4 1 (0.030%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.030%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 915 (27.35%) AWS
2 907 (27.11%) Azure
3 309 (9.23%) GitHub
4 239 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 235 (7.02%) SaaS
6 208 (6.22%) Serverless
7 185 (5.53%) GCP
8 182 (5.44%) GitHub Copilot
9 160 (4.78%) Azure AI
10 136 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
11 105 (3.14%) Amazon S3
12 89 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
13 80 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
14 72 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 64 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
16 59 (1.76%) Anthropic Claude
17 58 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
18 50 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
19 36 (1.08%) Snowflake
20 34 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.91%) Internet
2 38 (1.14%) Broadband
3 19 (0.57%) 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 (15.18%) MongoDB
2 444 (13.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 229 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
4 194 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 158 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
6 102 (3.05%) Relational Database
7 97 (2.90%) NoSQL
8 89 (2.66%) MySQL
9 65 (1.94%) DynamoDB
9 65 (1.94%) Redis
10 31 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (0.60%) Power BI
12 17 (0.51%) Spark SQL
13 12 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
14 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.30%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.27%) Chroma
16 9 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.27%) GIS
16 9 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 245 (7.32%) Git
2 106 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 98 (2.93%) GitLab
4 63 (1.88%) JUnit
5 60 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 47 (1.40%) Claude Code
7 38 (1.14%) JIRA
8 37 (1.11%) 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%) Postman
16 9 (0.27%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 420 (12.55%) Finance
2 305 (9.12%) Social Skills
3 190 (5.68%) Public Sector
4 97 (2.90%) Marketing
5 79 (2.36%) Games
6 78 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
7 66 (1.97%) Advertising
7 66 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (1.97%) Retail
8 64 (1.91%) Banking
9 40 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 36 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 30 (0.90%) Law
12 28 (0.84%) Legal
13 27 (0.81%) Tech for Good
14 21 (0.63%) Automotive
15 19 (0.57%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.45%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.39%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,825 (54.54%) Developer
2 1,013 (30.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 894 (26.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 707 (21.13%) Senior
5 565 (16.89%) .NET Developer
6 556 (16.62%) Software Engineer
7 425 (12.70%) Lead
8 284 (8.49%) Senior Developer
9 277 (8.28%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 272 (8.13%) Software Developer
11 249 (7.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 170 (5.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 170 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
13 160 (4.78%) Lead Developer
14 157 (4.69%) Java Engineer
15 149 (4.45%) Java Developer
16 104 (3.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
17 99 (2.96%) Python Engineer
18 97 (2.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 80 (2.39%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,004 (30.01%) React
2 952 (28.45%) .NET
3 582 (17.39%) Node.js
4 533 (15.93%) ASP.NET
5 528 (15.78%) .NET Core
6 497 (14.85%) ASP.NET Core
7 430 (12.85%) AngularJS
8 390 (11.66%) CSS
9 372 (11.12%) HTML
10 358 (10.70%) RESTful
11 346 (10.34%) Vue
12 235 (7.02%) REST
13 224 (6.69%) Entity Framework
14 213 (6.37%) Spring
15 209 (6.25%) Blazor
16 180 (5.38%) ASP.NET Web API
17 176 (5.26%) Spring Boot
18 172 (5.14%) Next.js
19 162 (4.84%) Terraform
20 148 (4.42%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 304 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 146 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
3 133 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (3.08%) AI Agents
5 92 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 78 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 72 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 67 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 39 (1.17%) 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 60 (1.79%) 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
1 959 (28.66%) Software Engineering
2 908 (27.14%) Agile
3 812 (24.27%) CI/CD
4 766 (22.89%) AI
5 576 (17.21%) Microservices
6 520 (15.54%) DevOps
7 354 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
8 288 (8.61%) Mentoring
9 283 (8.46%) Machine Learning
10 271 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 259 (7.74%) Test Automation
12 200 (5.98%) Clean Code
13 198 (5.92%) Scrum
14 194 (5.80%) Observability
15 189 (5.65%) LLM
16 179 (5.35%) TDD
17 178 (5.32%) Front End Development
18 177 (5.29%) Technical Leadership
19 172 (5.14%) Infrastructure as Code
20 171 (5.11%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 958 (28.63%) JavaScript
2 929 (27.76%) C#
3 895 (26.75%) TypeScript
4 742 (22.18%) SQL
5 606 (18.11%) Java
6 573 (17.12%) Python
7 104 (3.11%) Ruby
8 97 (2.90%) C++
9 89 (2.66%) Kotlin
10 85 (2.54%) PHP
11 77 (2.30%) Go
12 32 (0.96%) Bash
13 29 (0.87%) Groovy
14 26 (0.78%) Perl
15 25 (0.75%) 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
1 237 (7.08%) Security Cleared
2 195 (5.83%) Degree
3 163 (4.87%) SC Cleared
4 129 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.08%) 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 4 (0.12%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.090%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.090%) OCP
15 3 (0.090%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (2.60%) QA
2 69 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 36 (1.08%) 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 6 (0.18%) NIST
9 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.060%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.060%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.060%) GRC
10 2 (0.060%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.030%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.030%) SLA
System Software
1 475 (14.20%) 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
1 370 (11.06%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.69%) Ansible
3 21 (0.63%) 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 5 (0.15%) 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 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 95 (2.84%) Google
3 56 (1.67%) Facebook
4 50 (1.49%) OpenAI
5 43 (1.29%) 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%) Dynatrace
12 14 (0.42%) Mistral
13 12 (0.36%) Databricks
13 12 (0.36%) Palantir
14 10 (0.30%) Sitecore