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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 82 42
Rank change year-on-year +9 -40 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,083 1,469 4,694
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.60% 3.59% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 3.86% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,677 1,007 3,828
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 £55,000
% 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 61,258 38,052 77,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.49% 93.03% 86.40%
Number of salaries quoted 37,754 22,305 57,991
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,410
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 3 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 3 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 +6 1,886 £70,000 +7.28% 848
UK excluding London -1 1,211 £62,500 +4.17% 635
Work from Home +11 812 £70,000 +7.69% 458
London +16 710 £85,000 +6.25% 329
North of England +24 370 £67,500 +17.39% 161
South East -31 301 £60,000 - 175
Midlands +31 215 £55,000 +4.76% 86
North West +10 185 £70,000 +12.00% 83
South West +13 176 £60,000 -4.00% 100
Yorkshire +19 131 £70,000 +40.00% 54
West Midlands +28 115 £55,000 +3.77% 43
East Midlands -5 99 £55,000 +22.22% 43
East of England -26 91 £60,000 +9.09% 63
North East +17 54 £55,000 +22.22% 24
Northern Ireland -11 26 £70,000 - 5
Scotland -52 22 £60,000 -6.98% 34
Wales -41 14 £52,500 -22.22% 18
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 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (0.67%) CMS
2 13 (0.62%) OpenStack
3 10 (0.48%) Confluence
3 10 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (0.38%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.34%) Apache
5 7 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.34%) ColdFusion
6 6 (0.29%) WordPress
7 5 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.19%) Appian
8 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.19%) nginx
9 3 (0.14%) IIS
9 3 (0.14%) Liferay
10 2 (0.096%) CICS
10 2 (0.096%) Drupal
10 2 (0.096%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.096%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.096%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.19%) Shopify
2 1 (0.048%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.048%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 651 (31.25%) AWS
2 466 (22.37%) Azure
3 208 (9.99%) SaaS
4 194 (9.31%) Serverless
5 159 (7.63%) GCP
6 134 (6.43%) GitHub
7 108 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
8 92 (4.42%) Amazon S3
9 81 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
10 66 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
11 54 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
12 52 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (2.02%) Figma
14 39 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
15 36 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (1.30%) Entra ID
18 25 (1.20%) PaaS
19 23 (1.10%) Power Platform
20 19 (0.91%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.68%) Broadband
2 7 (0.34%) HTTP
3 4 (0.19%) Firewall
3 4 (0.19%) Internet
4 3 (0.14%) WAN
5 2 (0.096%) AMQP
5 2 (0.096%) DNS
5 2 (0.096%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.096%) LAN
5 2 (0.096%) VLAN
5 2 (0.096%) VPN
6 1 (0.048%) MQTT
6 1 (0.048%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.048%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.048%) SSL
6 1 (0.048%) TCAP
6 1 (0.048%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.048%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.048%) WebEx
6 1 (0.048%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (6.10%) SQL Server
3 125 (6.00%) MongoDB
4 119 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 74 (3.55%) MySQL
6 65 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 43 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 42 (2.02%) DynamoDB
9 24 (1.15%) Redis
10 20 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.72%) Power BI
12 12 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.58%) Pinecone
13 10 (0.48%) DB2
13 10 (0.48%) RDBMS
14 9 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.38%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.34%) MariaDB
17 6 (0.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 181 (8.69%) Git
2 100 (4.80%) Jenkins
3 57 (2.74%) Cypress.io
4 37 (1.78%) GitLab
5 36 (1.73%) JIRA
6 25 (1.20%) Maven
7 21 (1.01%) JUnit
7 21 (1.01%) SonarQube
8 18 (0.86%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.72%) Mockito
10 14 (0.67%) Vite
11 13 (0.62%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.58%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.53%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.48%) Visual Studio
15 9 (0.43%) Selenium
15 9 (0.43%) webpack
16 8 (0.38%) Claude Code
17 7 (0.34%) ESLint
17 7 (0.34%) NUnit
General
1 289 (13.87%) Social Skills
2 217 (10.42%) Finance
3 80 (3.84%) Public Sector
4 72 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (2.69%) Banking
6 48 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (2.11%) Retail
8 41 (1.97%) Front Office
9 40 (1.92%) Law
10 36 (1.73%) Marketing
11 33 (1.58%) Games
12 32 (1.54%) Tech for Good
13 26 (1.25%) Aviation
13 26 (1.25%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (0.96%) Health Technology
15 20 (0.96%) Investment Banking
15 20 (0.96%) Legal
16 15 (0.72%) Advertising
17 12 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,208 (57.99%) Developer
2 847 (40.66%) Full-Stack Developer
3 491 (23.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 489 (23.48%) Senior
5 381 (18.29%) Software Engineer
6 296 (14.21%) Lead
7 233 (11.19%) Senior Developer
8 181 (8.69%) .NET Developer
9 167 (8.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 164 (7.87%) Lead Developer
11 163 (7.83%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 151 (7.25%) Java Developer
13 139 (6.67%) Software Developer
14 136 (6.53%) React Developer
14 136 (6.53%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 110 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
16 97 (4.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 93 (4.46%) C# Developer
18 87 (4.18%) Python Developer
19 85 (4.08%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 788 (37.83%) React
2 466 (22.37%) .NET
3 420 (20.16%) Node.js
4 253 (12.15%) HTML
5 244 (11.71%) CSS
6 236 (11.33%) AngularJS
7 198 (9.51%) Vue
8 160 (7.68%) RESTful
9 158 (7.59%) Spring
10 155 (7.44%) .NET Core
11 150 (7.20%) REST
12 128 (6.14%) Spring Boot
13 103 (4.94%) Next.js
14 96 (4.61%) ASP.NET
15 82 (3.94%) GraphQL
16 80 (3.84%) .NET Framework
17 70 (3.36%) Kafka
18 65 (3.12%) Entity Framework
18 65 (3.12%) Laravel
19 62 (2.98%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 158 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 81 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
3 77 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.12%) Mobile App
5 64 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
6 48 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (1.58%) IoT
8 30 (1.44%) Fixed Income
9 25 (1.20%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (0.96%) Smart Energy
12 19 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (0.82%) Data Structures
13 17 (0.82%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (0.72%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.62%) Private Cloud
16 12 (0.58%) Blog
16 12 (0.58%) e-Learning
16 12 (0.58%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.34%) Linux
2 26 (1.25%) Android
3 23 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.19%) Unix
4 4 (0.19%) Windows
5 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.048%) VMS
5 1 (0.048%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.048%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (31.83%) Software Engineering
2 511 (24.53%) Agile
3 441 (21.17%) CI/CD
4 349 (16.75%) DevOps
5 343 (16.47%) AI
6 327 (15.70%) Microservices
7 307 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
8 232 (11.14%) Mentoring
9 230 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 184 (8.83%) Test Automation
11 182 (8.74%) User Experience
12 138 (6.63%) Scrum
13 137 (6.58%) Clean Code
14 136 (6.53%) Containerisation
15 124 (5.95%) Computer Science
16 111 (5.33%) Machine Learning
17 109 (5.23%) Technical Leadership
18 108 (5.18%) Web Development
19 104 (4.99%) Infrastructure as Code
19 104 (4.99%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 653 (31.35%) JavaScript
2 619 (29.72%) TypeScript
3 433 (20.79%) Java
4 431 (20.69%) Python
5 404 (19.40%) C#
6 308 (14.79%) SQL
7 90 (4.32%) PHP
8 54 (2.59%) Go
9 47 (2.26%) Ruby
10 28 (1.34%) Bash
11 22 (1.06%) C++
12 18 (0.86%) Kotlin
13 17 (0.82%) C
13 17 (0.82%) Rust
14 13 (0.62%) Groovy
14 13 (0.62%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.53%) Bicep
16 6 (0.29%) R
16 6 (0.29%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 152 (7.30%) Security Cleared
2 126 (6.05%) Degree
3 106 (5.09%) SC Cleared
4 84 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 19 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.48%) DBS Check
8 9 (0.43%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.19%) PhD
12 2 (0.096%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.048%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.048%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.048%) MBA
13 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.56%) QA
2 55 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.67%) GDPR
4 10 (0.48%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.34%) GRC
5 7 (0.34%) WCAG
6 6 (0.29%) SLA
7 5 (0.24%) PERC
8 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.096%) ECSS
9 2 (0.096%) HL7
9 2 (0.096%) ITGC
9 2 (0.096%) NCSC
9 2 (0.096%) NIST
10 1 (0.048%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.048%) SOC 2
System Software
1 230 (11.04%) Docker
2 10 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.14%) Firmware
4 3 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.096%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 171 (8.21%) Kubernetes
2 114 (5.47%) Terraform
3 31 (1.49%) Ansible
4 30 (1.44%) Grafana
5 16 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.62%) HP Fortify
7 12 (0.58%) Kibana
8 11 (0.53%) Argo
9 7 (0.34%) Podman
10 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.14%) logstash
11 3 (0.14%) Nagios
12 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.048%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.048%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 142 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.30%) Google
2 27 (1.30%) Oracle
3 26 (1.25%) Adobe
3 26 (1.25%) OpenAI
4 15 (0.72%) Foundry
5 14 (0.67%) Palantir
6 9 (0.43%) Fortinet
6 9 (0.43%) Palo Alto
6 9 (0.43%) Pega
7 8 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.38%) Dynatrace
7 8 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 7 (0.34%) Splunk
9 6 (0.29%) Databricks
9 6 (0.29%) Facebook
9 6 (0.29%) WSO2
10 5 (0.24%) Zoho
11 4 (0.19%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.19%) DevExpress