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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 62 44
Rank change year-on-year -22 -18 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,551 2,146 3,846
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.40% 4.20% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 4.58% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,257 1,072 3,393
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
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% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,438 £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 51,688 46,838 64,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.04% 91.77% 88.53%
Number of salaries quoted 30,626 22,631 50,390
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 £75,900 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 4 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 4 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 -22 1,408 £70,000 +7.69% 1,005
UK excluding London -46 833 £60,000 +4.35% 774
Work from Home -17 603 £70,000 +7.69% 595
London +4 592 £80,000 - 383
South East -47 223 £62,500 +4.17% 226
North of England -19 221 £65,000 +18.18% 202
Midlands -28 167 £55,000 +10.00% 105
South West -11 125 £60,000 - 109
North West -22 98 £65,000 +10.64% 107
West Midlands -1 91 £52,500 - 42
Yorkshire -16 80 £75,000 +51.52% 66
East Midlands -16 76 £57,500 +47.44% 63
East of England -47 61 £60,000 +29.73% 69
North East +12 43 £55,000 +22.22% 30
Wales -32 14 £52,500 - 18
Scotland -84 14 £67,500 +22.73% 35
Northern Ireland -17 10 £95,000 +58.33% 17
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 (1.10%) CMS
2 12 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
3 11 (0.71%) OpenStack
4 10 (0.64%) Confluence
5 8 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.32%) nginx
7 5 (0.32%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.32%) WordPress
8 4 (0.26%) Apache
8 4 (0.26%) Appian
9 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.19%) ColdFusion
9 3 (0.19%) Liferay
10 2 (0.13%) Drupal
10 2 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.13%) IIS
10 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.064%) Camunda
11 1 (0.064%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.064%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 536 (34.56%) AWS
2 418 (26.95%) Azure
3 165 (10.64%) Serverless
4 154 (9.93%) SaaS
5 121 (7.80%) GitHub
6 109 (7.03%) GCP
7 94 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
8 83 (5.35%) Amazon S3
9 75 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (2.51%) Figma
14 37 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
15 28 (1.81%) PaaS
16 27 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (1.29%) Entra ID
19 18 (1.16%) Power Platform
20 17 (1.10%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.48%) Broadband
2 7 (0.45%) HTTP
3 4 (0.26%) 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 (0.064%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.064%) MQTT
6 1 (0.064%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.064%) SSL
6 1 (0.064%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (7.74%) SQL Server
3 102 (6.58%) MongoDB
4 100 (6.45%) NoSQL
5 72 (4.64%) Relational Database
6 70 (4.51%) MySQL
7 42 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 30 (1.93%) DynamoDB
9 24 (1.55%) Redis
10 23 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.23%) RDBMS
12 15 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.77%) Pinecone
15 11 (0.71%) Power BI
16 10 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (0.52%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.52%) DB2
18 5 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
19 4 (0.26%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 158 (10.19%) Git
2 83 (5.35%) Jenkins
3 50 (3.22%) Cypress.io
4 38 (2.45%) JIRA
5 30 (1.93%) GitLab
6 26 (1.68%) JUnit
7 21 (1.35%) Maven
8 19 (1.23%) Mockito
9 17 (1.10%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.10%) Vite
10 14 (0.90%) SonarQube
10 14 (0.90%) Visual Studio
11 12 (0.77%) JMeter
12 11 (0.71%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.71%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.64%) Selenium
14 8 (0.52%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.52%) webpack
15 6 (0.39%) ESLint
15 6 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 279 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 145 (9.35%) Finance
3 71 (4.58%) Public Sector
4 62 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (2.90%) Banking
6 42 (2.71%) Law
7 35 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (1.87%) Retail
9 28 (1.81%) Marketing
10 26 (1.68%) Tech for Good
11 25 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 23 (1.48%) Aviation
12 23 (1.48%) Health Technology
13 22 (1.42%) Legal
14 21 (1.35%) Front Office
14 21 (1.35%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.16%) Games
16 9 (0.58%) Advertising
16 9 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 860 (55.45%) Developer
2 604 (38.94%) Full-Stack Developer
3 351 (22.63%) Senior
4 345 (22.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 277 (17.86%) Software Engineer
6 217 (13.99%) Lead
7 153 (9.86%) Senior Developer
8 147 (9.48%) .NET Developer
9 122 (7.87%) Java Developer
10 120 (7.74%) React Developer
11 114 (7.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 114 (7.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 102 (6.58%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 100 (6.45%) Lead Developer
14 91 (5.87%) Software Developer
15 90 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
16 89 (5.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 78 (5.03%) C# Developer
18 68 (4.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 66 (4.26%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 691 (44.55%) React
2 411 (26.50%) .NET
3 299 (19.28%) Node.js
4 226 (14.57%) AngularJS
5 218 (14.06%) HTML
6 198 (12.77%) CSS
7 156 (10.06%) Vue
8 149 (9.61%) Spring
9 147 (9.48%) .NET Core
10 140 (9.03%) RESTful
11 137 (8.83%) REST
12 113 (7.29%) Spring Boot
13 91 (5.87%) ASP.NET
14 86 (5.54%) Next.js
15 85 (5.48%) .NET Framework
16 67 (4.32%) Entity Framework
17 60 (3.87%) GraphQL
18 56 (3.61%) HTML5
19 54 (3.48%) Laravel
19 54 (3.48%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 121 (7.80%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.87%) Mobile App
5 50 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.74%) IoT
8 24 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 15 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (0.90%) Data Structures
11 14 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (0.90%) Smart Energy
12 12 (0.77%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (0.71%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.64%) e-Learning
14 10 (0.64%) Sports Betting
15 9 (0.58%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.58%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.55%) Android
2 23 (1.48%) Apple iOS
2 23 (1.48%) Linux
3 7 (0.45%) Unix
4 5 (0.32%) Windows
5 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (32.62%) Software Engineering
2 440 (28.37%) Agile
3 394 (25.40%) CI/CD
4 302 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
5 297 (19.15%) Microservices
6 280 (18.05%) AI
6 280 (18.05%) DevOps
7 208 (13.41%) Mentoring
8 198 (12.77%) User Experience
9 190 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 124 (7.99%) Computer Science
11 122 (7.87%) Test Automation
12 117 (7.54%) Clean Code
12 117 (7.54%) Scrum
13 109 (7.03%) Containerisation
14 104 (6.71%) TDD
15 100 (6.45%) Front End Development
16 97 (6.25%) MVC
17 93 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
18 90 (5.80%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 518 (33.40%) JavaScript
2 498 (32.11%) TypeScript
3 387 (24.95%) C#
4 360 (23.21%) Java
5 309 (19.92%) Python
6 267 (17.21%) SQL
7 67 (4.32%) PHP
8 36 (2.32%) Ruby
9 29 (1.87%) Go
10 25 (1.61%) Bash
10 25 (1.61%) Rust
11 21 (1.35%) C++
12 16 (1.03%) C
13 12 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.64%) Groovy
16 8 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.52%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.52%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 146 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 120 (7.74%) Degree
3 93 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 80 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.58%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.13%) PhD
12 1 (0.064%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.064%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.064%) MBA
12 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.90%) QA
2 68 (4.38%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.90%) WCAG
4 12 (0.77%) GDPR
5 6 (0.39%) SLA
6 5 (0.32%) PERC
7 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.13%) ECSS
8 2 (0.13%) NCSC
8 2 (0.13%) NIST
9 1 (0.064%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.064%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.064%) HL7
9 1 (0.064%) ITGC
9 1 (0.064%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 194 (12.51%) Docker
2 16 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 158 (10.19%) Kubernetes
2 93 (6.00%) Terraform
3 27 (1.74%) Ansible
4 15 (0.97%) Grafana
4 15 (0.97%) Kibana
5 13 (0.84%) Argo
6 10 (0.64%) HP Fortify
7 6 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.13%) Nagios
8 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.064%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.064%) Istio
9 1 (0.064%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.064%) logstash
9 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.064%) Podman
Vendors
1 104 (6.71%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.74%) OpenAI
3 26 (1.68%) Oracle
4 25 (1.61%) Adobe
5 20 (1.29%) Google
6 16 (1.03%) Foundry
7 14 (0.90%) Palantir
8 12 (0.77%) Dynatrace
9 11 (0.71%) Splunk
10 6 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.39%) Facebook
10 6 (0.39%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.39%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.32%) VMware
11 5 (0.32%) YouTube
11 5 (0.32%) Zoho
12 4 (0.26%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.26%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.26%) SAP
12 4 (0.26%) Telerik