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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 90 42
Rank change year-on-year +15 -48 +27
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,212 1,360 4,824
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.59% 3.30% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 3.56% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,788 1,026 3,877
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 64,523 38,250 80,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.56% 92.93% 86.07%
Number of salaries quoted 39,734 22,522 59,066
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -8.26%

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 15 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 15 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 +15 2,005 £70,000 +7.69% 731
UK excluding London +10 1,304 £62,500 +4.17% 553
Work from Home +21 850 £70,000 +7.69% 383
London +24 739 £85,000 +6.25% 285
North of England +34 397 £70,000 +21.74% 133
South East -18 318 £60,000 - 168
Midlands +27 227 £55,000 +6.80% 73
North West +22 198 £70,000 +16.67% 63
South West +10 193 £60,000 -4.00% 75
Yorkshire +26 143 £72,500 +45.00% 45
West Midlands +25 118 £55,000 +3.77% 34
East Midlands -3 108 £55,000 +15.79% 39
East of England +9 106 £65,000 +23.81% 58
North East +15 56 £60,000 +33.33% 25
Scotland -46 27 £60,000 -6.98% 32
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 5
Wales -39 15 £51,250 -25.45% 17
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 14 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (0.63%) CMS
2 11 (0.50%) Confluence
3 9 (0.41%) OpenStack
4 8 (0.36%) ColdFusion
4 8 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.32%) Apache
5 7 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.27%) WordPress
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Appian
8 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.18%) nginx
9 3 (0.14%) IIS
9 3 (0.14%) Liferay
10 2 (0.090%) CICS
10 2 (0.090%) Drupal
10 2 (0.090%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.090%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.090%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.045%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.045%) Magento
2 1 (0.045%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 674 (30.47%) AWS
2 446 (20.16%) Azure
3 218 (9.86%) SaaS
4 193 (8.73%) Serverless
5 162 (7.32%) GCP
6 129 (5.83%) GitHub
7 116 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
8 99 (4.48%) Amazon S3
9 79 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
11 58 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
12 51 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (1.94%) Figma
14 38 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
16 28 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (1.18%) Entra ID
18 24 (1.08%) PaaS
19 22 (0.99%) Power Platform
20 21 (0.95%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.90%) Broadband
2 7 (0.32%) HTTP
3 4 (0.18%) Firewall
3 4 (0.18%) Internet
4 3 (0.14%) WAN
5 2 (0.090%) AMQP
5 2 (0.090%) DNS
5 2 (0.090%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.090%) LAN
5 2 (0.090%) VLAN
5 2 (0.090%) VPN
6 1 (0.045%) MQTT
6 1 (0.045%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.045%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.045%) SSL
6 1 (0.045%) TCAP
6 1 (0.045%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.045%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.045%) WebEx
6 1 (0.045%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (5.70%) MongoDB
3 124 (5.61%) SQL Server
4 119 (5.38%) NoSQL
5 70 (3.16%) MySQL
6 56 (2.53%) Relational Database
7 48 (2.17%) DynamoDB
8 37 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (1.04%) Redis
10 17 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (0.63%) Power BI
12 13 (0.59%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (0.41%) DB2
15 8 (0.36%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.36%) MariaDB
16 7 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.32%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.27%) GIS
Development Applications
1 176 (7.96%) Git
2 95 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 63 (2.85%) Cypress.io
4 38 (1.72%) GitLab
5 35 (1.58%) JIRA
6 26 (1.18%) Maven
7 21 (0.95%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.86%) CircleCI
8 19 (0.86%) JUnit
9 16 (0.72%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.63%) Vite
11 13 (0.59%) Mockito
12 11 (0.50%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.50%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.45%) Claude Code
14 8 (0.36%) Selenium
14 8 (0.36%) webpack
15 7 (0.32%) ESLint
15 7 (0.32%) NUnit
16 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 282 (12.75%) Social Skills
2 228 (10.31%) Finance
3 76 (3.44%) Public Sector
4 69 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (2.49%) Banking
6 50 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (1.90%) Retail
8 40 (1.81%) Front Office
9 38 (1.72%) Law
10 36 (1.63%) Marketing
11 32 (1.45%) Games
11 32 (1.45%) Tech for Good
12 25 (1.13%) Aviation
12 25 (1.13%) Manufacturing
13 21 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (0.90%) Health Technology
14 20 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 18 (0.81%) Legal
16 15 (0.68%) Advertising
17 12 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,273 (57.55%) Developer
2 892 (40.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 536 (24.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 510 (23.06%) Senior
5 413 (18.67%) Software Engineer
6 328 (14.83%) Lead
7 247 (11.17%) Senior Developer
8 180 (8.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 179 (8.09%) Lead Developer
10 176 (7.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 174 (7.87%) .NET Developer
12 155 (7.01%) Software Developer
13 146 (6.60%) Java Developer
14 142 (6.42%) React Developer
15 140 (6.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 116 (5.24%) Senior Software Engineer
17 96 (4.34%) Python Developer
18 93 (4.20%) C# Developer
19 92 (4.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 85 (3.84%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 812 (36.71%) React
2 458 (20.71%) .NET
3 438 (19.80%) Node.js
4 244 (11.03%) HTML
5 240 (10.85%) CSS
6 230 (10.40%) AngularJS
7 194 (8.77%) Vue
8 158 (7.14%) Spring
9 156 (7.05%) RESTful
10 149 (6.74%) .NET Core
11 142 (6.42%) REST
12 128 (5.79%) Spring Boot
13 109 (4.93%) Next.js
14 87 (3.93%) ASP.NET
15 77 (3.48%) GraphQL
16 74 (3.35%) .NET Framework
17 69 (3.12%) Laravel
18 68 (3.07%) Kafka
19 64 (2.89%) React Native
20 60 (2.71%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 164 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 90 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
3 75 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 65 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 56 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 49 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (1.49%) IoT
8 32 (1.45%) Fixed Income
9 25 (1.13%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (0.90%) Smart Energy
12 19 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (0.77%) Data Structures
14 16 (0.72%) e-Learning
14 16 (0.72%) Low-Code
15 15 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (0.68%) Onboarding
16 13 (0.59%) Blog
16 13 (0.59%) Podcast
17 12 (0.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.31%) Linux
2 25 (1.13%) Android
3 22 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.18%) Unix
5 3 (0.14%) Windows
6 1 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.045%) VMS
6 1 (0.045%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.045%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (31.56%) Software Engineering
2 504 (22.78%) Agile
3 439 (19.85%) CI/CD
4 351 (15.87%) AI
5 350 (15.82%) DevOps
6 313 (14.15%) Microservices
7 304 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
8 240 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 230 (10.40%) Mentoring
10 185 (8.36%) Test Automation
11 173 (7.82%) User Experience
12 144 (6.51%) Containerisation
13 139 (6.28%) Scrum
14 138 (6.24%) Clean Code
15 121 (5.47%) Web Development
16 120 (5.42%) Computer Science
17 113 (5.11%) Technical Leadership
18 108 (4.88%) Machine Learning
19 105 (4.75%) Infrastructure as Code
20 98 (4.43%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 664 (30.02%) JavaScript
2 649 (29.34%) TypeScript
3 444 (20.07%) Python
4 441 (19.94%) Java
5 399 (18.04%) C#
6 304 (13.74%) SQL
7 94 (4.25%) PHP
8 56 (2.53%) Go
9 51 (2.31%) Ruby
10 28 (1.27%) Bash
11 21 (0.95%) C++
12 17 (0.77%) C
13 16 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.59%) Groovy
14 13 (0.59%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.50%) Bicep
16 10 (0.45%) Rust
17 6 (0.27%) R
17 6 (0.27%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 159 (7.19%) Security Cleared
2 123 (5.56%) Degree
3 114 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 80 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.58%) DV Cleared
6 19 (0.86%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 9 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.18%) PhD
13 2 (0.090%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.045%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.045%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.045%) MBA
14 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (4.57%) QA
2 50 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.54%) GDPR
4 10 (0.45%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.32%) GRC
5 7 (0.32%) WCAG
6 6 (0.27%) SLA
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.14%) PERC
9 2 (0.090%) ECSS
9 2 (0.090%) HL7
9 2 (0.090%) ITGC
9 2 (0.090%) NCSC
9 2 (0.090%) NIST
10 1 (0.045%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.045%) SOC 2
System Software
1 231 (10.44%) Docker
2 9 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.14%) Firmware
4 3 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.090%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.045%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.045%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 166 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 111 (5.02%) Terraform
3 32 (1.45%) Grafana
4 27 (1.22%) Ansible
5 18 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.59%) HP Fortify
6 13 (0.59%) Podman
7 10 (0.45%) Argo
7 10 (0.45%) Kibana
8 4 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.14%) logstash
9 3 (0.14%) Nagios
10 1 (0.045%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.045%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.045%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 140 (6.33%) Microsoft
2 32 (1.45%) Google
3 28 (1.27%) Adobe
4 27 (1.22%) Oracle
5 26 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 13 (0.59%) Foundry
7 12 (0.54%) Palantir
8 9 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.36%) Dynatrace
9 8 (0.36%) Fortinet
9 8 (0.36%) Palo Alto
10 7 (0.32%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.27%) Databricks
12 5 (0.23%) Facebook
12 5 (0.23%) Pega
12 5 (0.23%) Peregrine
12 5 (0.23%) Splunk
12 5 (0.23%) Zoho
13 4 (0.18%) Apple
13 4 (0.18%) DevExpress