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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 72 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -29 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,927 1,625 4,423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.56% 3.84% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 4.11% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,542 1,030 3,720
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,125 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -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 58,555 39,559 74,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.69% 93.50% 87.13%
Number of salaries quoted 35,503 22,222 56,291
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,910 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -3 1,738 £70,000 +7.69% 805
UK excluding London -14 1,097 £62,500 +4.17% 603
Work from Home -2 768 £70,000 +7.69% 487
London +10 674 £84,250 +5.31% 305
North of England +33 320 £67,500 +17.39% 165
South East -42 274 £60,000 - 157
Midlands +25 203 £55,000 +4.76% 85
South West +8 162 £60,000 -4.00% 91
North West +10 160 £70,000 +12.00% 84
Yorkshire +13 111 £70,000 +40.00% 56
West Midlands +32 106 £55,000 +4.76% 45
East Midlands -15 96 £55,000 +30.95% 40
East of England -32 80 £60,000 +9.09% 58
North East +13 49 £55,000 +25.71% 25
Northern Ireland -8 26 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Scotland -58 19 £64,210 +4.83% 32
Wales -38 15 £51,250 -21.15% 19
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 16 (0.83%) CMS
2 14 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
3 12 (0.62%) OpenStack
4 11 (0.57%) Confluence
5 7 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.36%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.31%) WordPress
7 5 (0.26%) Apache
7 5 (0.26%) ColdFusion
8 4 (0.21%) Appian
8 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.21%) nginx
9 3 (0.16%) Drupal
9 3 (0.16%) IIS
9 3 (0.16%) Liferay
10 2 (0.10%) CICS
10 2 (0.10%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.10%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Shopify
2 1 (0.052%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.052%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 615 (31.91%) AWS
2 452 (23.46%) Azure
3 190 (9.86%) SaaS
4 182 (9.44%) Serverless
5 146 (7.58%) GCP
6 132 (6.85%) GitHub
7 100 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
8 88 (4.57%) Amazon S3
9 76 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
10 62 (3.22%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
13 44 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (2.08%) Figma
15 33 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (1.30%) Entra ID
18 24 (1.25%) PaaS
19 22 (1.14%) Power Platform
20 18 (0.93%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.87%) Broadband
2 6 (0.31%) HTTP
3 4 (0.21%) Firewall
3 4 (0.21%) Internet
4 3 (0.16%) WAN
5 2 (0.10%) AMQP
5 2 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.10%) LAN
5 2 (0.10%) VLAN
5 2 (0.10%) VPN
6 1 (0.052%) DHCP
6 1 (0.052%) DNS
6 1 (0.052%) MQTT
6 1 (0.052%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.052%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.052%) SSL
6 1 (0.052%) TCAP
6 1 (0.052%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.052%) WebEx
6 1 (0.052%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (6.59%) SQL Server
3 120 (6.23%) MongoDB
4 110 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 70 (3.63%) Relational Database
6 69 (3.58%) MySQL
7 38 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 35 (1.82%) DynamoDB
9 24 (1.25%) Redis
10 17 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (0.73%) Power BI
12 13 (0.67%) RDBMS
13 12 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.62%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.52%) DB2
15 8 (0.42%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.31%) GIS
17 5 (0.26%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 176 (9.13%) Git
2 99 (5.14%) Jenkins
3 56 (2.91%) Cypress.io
4 35 (1.82%) JIRA
5 33 (1.71%) GitLab
6 26 (1.35%) JUnit
7 25 (1.30%) Maven
8 19 (0.99%) Mockito
9 18 (0.93%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.73%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.73%) Vite
12 11 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.57%) Visual Studio
13 10 (0.52%) webpack
14 9 (0.47%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.47%) Selenium
15 7 (0.36%) ESLint
15 7 (0.36%) JMeter
16 5 (0.26%) git-flow
General
1 288 (14.95%) Social Skills
2 203 (10.53%) Finance
3 81 (4.20%) Public Sector
4 74 (3.84%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (2.59%) Banking
6 46 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (2.23%) Front Office
7 43 (2.23%) Retail
8 42 (2.18%) Law
9 36 (1.87%) Marketing
10 32 (1.66%) Games
10 32 (1.66%) Tech for Good
11 25 (1.30%) Aviation
12 24 (1.25%) Health Technology
12 24 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.14%) Legal
14 21 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (0.99%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.62%) Advertising
17 10 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,096 (56.88%) Developer
2 767 (39.80%) Full-Stack Developer
3 455 (23.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 441 (22.89%) Senior
5 347 (18.01%) Software Engineer
6 274 (14.22%) Lead
7 201 (10.43%) Senior Developer
8 168 (8.72%) .NET Developer
9 149 (7.73%) Java Developer
10 148 (7.68%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 145 (7.52%) Lead Developer
12 141 (7.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 133 (6.90%) React Developer
14 128 (6.64%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 119 (6.18%) Software Developer
16 100 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
17 98 (5.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 83 (4.31%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 79 (4.10%) C# Developer
20 75 (3.89%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 764 (39.65%) React
2 449 (23.30%) .NET
3 394 (20.45%) Node.js
4 238 (12.35%) HTML
5 228 (11.83%) CSS
6 223 (11.57%) AngularJS
7 169 (8.77%) Vue
8 156 (8.10%) Spring
9 152 (7.89%) .NET Core
10 151 (7.84%) RESTful
11 150 (7.78%) REST
12 124 (6.43%) Spring Boot
13 96 (4.98%) Next.js
14 93 (4.83%) ASP.NET
15 85 (4.41%) GraphQL
16 79 (4.10%) .NET Framework
17 76 (3.94%) Kafka
18 62 (3.22%) Entity Framework
18 62 (3.22%) Laravel
19 56 (2.91%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 146 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 77 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 75 (3.89%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
5 58 (3.01%) Mobile App
6 53 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (1.71%) IoT
8 30 (1.56%) Fixed Income
9 22 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.04%) AI Agents
12 19 (0.99%) Smart Energy
13 17 (0.88%) Low-Code
14 16 (0.83%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 14 (0.73%) Management Information System
16 13 (0.67%) Onboarding
16 13 (0.67%) Private Cloud
17 11 (0.57%) Blog
18 10 (0.52%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.61%) Linux
2 26 (1.35%) Android
3 23 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.31%) Unix
5 5 (0.26%) Windows
6 1 (0.052%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.052%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 622 (32.28%) Software Engineering
2 496 (25.74%) Agile
3 425 (22.06%) CI/CD
4 321 (16.66%) DevOps
5 319 (16.55%) AI
6 309 (16.04%) Microservices
7 299 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
8 225 (11.68%) Mentoring
9 220 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 191 (9.91%) User Experience
11 160 (8.30%) Test Automation
12 134 (6.95%) Clean Code
12 134 (6.95%) Containerisation
13 131 (6.80%) Scrum
14 123 (6.38%) Computer Science
15 103 (5.35%) Machine Learning
15 103 (5.35%) Technical Leadership
16 101 (5.24%) Front End Development
17 99 (5.14%) TDD
18 94 (4.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 610 (31.66%) JavaScript
2 583 (30.25%) TypeScript
3 422 (21.90%) Java
4 394 (20.45%) Python
5 390 (20.24%) C#
6 287 (14.89%) SQL
7 81 (4.20%) PHP
8 54 (2.80%) Go
9 40 (2.08%) Ruby
10 25 (1.30%) Bash
11 19 (0.99%) C++
12 18 (0.93%) Rust
13 17 (0.88%) C
14 16 (0.83%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.57%) Groovy
17 8 (0.42%) Bicep
17 8 (0.42%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.36%) R
19 5 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 144 (7.47%) Security Cleared
2 122 (6.33%) Degree
3 98 (5.09%) SC Cleared
4 83 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.18%) DV Cleared
6 17 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.47%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.31%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.16%) PhD
12 2 (0.10%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.052%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.052%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.052%) MBA
13 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (4.57%) QA
2 60 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.67%) GDPR
4 9 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.42%) WCAG
6 6 (0.31%) SLA
7 5 (0.26%) GRC
7 5 (0.26%) PERC
8 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.10%) ECSS
9 2 (0.10%) HL7
9 2 (0.10%) ITGC
9 2 (0.10%) NCSC
9 2 (0.10%) NIST
10 1 (0.052%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 226 (11.73%) Docker
2 13 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.10%) Firmware
5 2 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 176 (9.13%) Kubernetes
2 101 (5.24%) Terraform
3 29 (1.50%) Ansible
4 27 (1.40%) Grafana
5 15 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.73%) Kibana
7 11 (0.57%) Argo
7 11 (0.57%) HP Fortify
8 7 (0.36%) Podman
9 3 (0.16%) Nagios
9 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.052%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.052%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.052%) logstash
10 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.052%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.052%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 126 (6.54%) Microsoft
2 29 (1.50%) Oracle
3 26 (1.35%) Adobe
3 26 (1.35%) OpenAI
4 25 (1.30%) Google
5 19 (0.99%) Foundry
6 18 (0.93%) Palantir
7 9 (0.47%) Dynatrace
7 9 (0.47%) Fortinet
7 9 (0.47%) Palo Alto
7 9 (0.47%) Splunk
8 8 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (0.42%) Pega
8 8 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.31%) Databricks
10 5 (0.26%) Facebook
10 5 (0.26%) WSO2
10 5 (0.26%) Zoho
11 4 (0.21%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.21%) ServiceNow