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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 62 44
Rank change year-on-year -23 -18 +23
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,622 2,080 3,854
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.45% 4.19% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 4.55% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,311 1,058 3,392
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
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% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £99,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +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 52,730 45,725 65,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.77% 92.08% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 31,308 22,323 50,742
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £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 £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,125 £102,500 £95,000
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 11 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 11 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 -19 1,472 £70,000 +7.69% 901
UK excluding London -48 875 £62,500 +8.70% 723
Work from Home -16 642 £70,000 +7.69% 489
London +8 617 £80,000 - 328
North of England -2 239 £65,000 +15.56% 184
South East -48 231 £62,500 +4.17% 202
Midlands -19 170 £55,000 +4.76% 102
South West -13 131 £60,000 -4.00% 106
North West -4 108 £66,250 +15.22% 102
West Midlands -6 92 £52,500 - 42
Yorkshire -14 88 £72,500 +46.46% 59
East Midlands -21 78 £55,000 +48.65% 60
East of England -46 63 £60,000 +23.08% 68
North East +14 43 £55,000 +22.22% 23
Northern Ireland -12 15 £70,000 -6.67% 15
Wales -26 14 £52,500 -0.47% 21
Scotland -76 14 £67,500 +22.73% 33
Channel Islands -1 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 (1.05%) CMS
2 11 (0.68%) OpenStack
2 11 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
3 10 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (0.62%) Confluence
4 6 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.31%) nginx
5 5 (0.31%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.31%) WordPress
6 4 (0.25%) Apache
6 4 (0.25%) Appian
7 3 (0.18%) ColdFusion
7 3 (0.18%) Drupal
7 3 (0.18%) IIS
7 3 (0.18%) Liferay
8 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.062%) Kentico
9 1 (0.062%) TPMS
9 1 (0.062%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.062%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.062%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.062%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 559 (34.46%) AWS
2 423 (26.08%) Azure
3 172 (10.60%) Serverless
4 164 (10.11%) SaaS
5 123 (7.58%) GitHub
6 116 (7.15%) GCP
7 97 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
8 86 (5.30%) Amazon S3
9 75 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (2.40%) Figma
14 27 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (1.66%) PaaS
15 20 (1.23%) Entra ID
16 19 (1.17%) Power Platform
17 17 (1.05%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.48%) Broadband
2 7 (0.43%) HTTP
3 4 (0.25%) Firewall
4 3 (0.18%) Internet
4 3 (0.18%) WAN
5 2 (0.12%) AMQP
5 2 (0.12%) DHCP
5 2 (0.12%) DNS
5 2 (0.12%) LAN
5 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.12%) VLAN
5 2 (0.12%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.062%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.062%) MQTT
6 1 (0.062%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.062%) SSL
6 1 (0.062%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (7.71%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (7.46%) SQL Server
3 103 (6.35%) MongoDB
4 101 (6.23%) NoSQL
5 74 (4.56%) Relational Database
6 70 (4.32%) MySQL
7 41 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (1.97%) DynamoDB
9 25 (1.54%) Redis
10 23 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (1.11%) RDBMS
12 15 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.74%) Pinecone
14 12 (0.74%) Power BI
15 11 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.49%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.49%) DB2
17 5 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
18 4 (0.25%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 161 (9.93%) Git
2 85 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 51 (3.14%) Cypress.io
4 38 (2.34%) JIRA
5 31 (1.91%) GitLab
6 26 (1.60%) JUnit
7 22 (1.36%) Maven
8 19 (1.17%) Mockito
9 18 (1.11%) TeamCity
10 17 (1.05%) Vite
11 15 (0.92%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.86%) Visual Studio
13 12 (0.74%) JMeter
14 11 (0.68%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.68%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.62%) Selenium
16 8 (0.49%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.49%) webpack
17 6 (0.37%) ESLint
17 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 282 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 157 (9.68%) Finance
3 70 (4.32%) Public Sector
4 64 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.02%) Banking
6 43 (2.65%) Law
7 37 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (1.85%) Retail
9 29 (1.79%) Marketing
10 28 (1.73%) Front Office
10 28 (1.73%) Tech for Good
11 25 (1.54%) Investment Banking
12 24 (1.48%) Aviation
13 22 (1.36%) Health Technology
13 22 (1.36%) Legal
14 21 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (1.23%) Games
15 20 (1.23%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.62%) Advertising
17 9 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 901 (55.55%) Developer
2 632 (38.96%) Full-Stack Developer
3 375 (23.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 374 (23.06%) Senior
5 291 (17.94%) Software Engineer
6 228 (14.06%) Lead
7 162 (9.99%) Senior Developer
8 152 (9.37%) .NET Developer
9 130 (8.01%) Java Developer
10 123 (7.58%) React Developer
11 122 (7.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 119 (7.34%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 112 (6.91%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 108 (6.66%) Lead Developer
15 99 (6.10%) Software Developer
16 94 (5.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 91 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
18 79 (4.87%) C# Developer
19 71 (4.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 69 (4.25%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 711 (43.83%) React
2 419 (25.83%) .NET
3 315 (19.42%) Node.js
4 236 (14.55%) AngularJS
5 226 (13.93%) HTML
6 206 (12.70%) CSS
7 158 (9.74%) Vue
8 152 (9.37%) Spring
9 150 (9.25%) .NET Core
10 140 (8.63%) RESTful
11 139 (8.57%) REST
12 118 (7.27%) Spring Boot
13 91 (5.61%) ASP.NET
14 90 (5.55%) Next.js
15 84 (5.18%) .NET Framework
16 66 (4.07%) Entity Framework
16 66 (4.07%) GraphQL
17 62 (3.82%) Kafka
18 58 (3.58%) HTML5
19 55 (3.39%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 130 (8.01%) Cloud Native
2 70 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.76%) Mobile App
5 55 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.66%) IoT
8 24 (1.48%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (0.92%) Management Information System
11 14 (0.86%) Smart Energy
12 13 (0.80%) Data Structures
12 13 (0.80%) Fixed Income
12 13 (0.80%) Private Cloud
13 12 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (0.68%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.62%) e-Learning
16 9 (0.55%) Hedge funds
16 9 (0.55%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.54%) Linux
2 23 (1.42%) Android
3 22 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.43%) Unix
5 5 (0.31%) Windows
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (32.61%) Software Engineering
2 459 (28.30%) Agile
3 407 (25.09%) CI/CD
4 312 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
5 303 (18.68%) Microservices
6 289 (17.82%) AI
7 285 (17.57%) DevOps
8 212 (13.07%) Mentoring
9 202 (12.45%) User Experience
10 196 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 127 (7.83%) Computer Science
11 127 (7.83%) Test Automation
12 121 (7.46%) Clean Code
13 120 (7.40%) Scrum
14 117 (7.21%) Containerisation
15 108 (6.66%) TDD
16 98 (6.04%) Front End Development
16 98 (6.04%) MVC
17 96 (5.92%) Technical Leadership
18 92 (5.67%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 542 (33.42%) JavaScript
2 525 (32.37%) TypeScript
3 387 (23.86%) C#
4 378 (23.30%) Java
5 327 (20.16%) Python
6 269 (16.58%) SQL
7 68 (4.19%) PHP
8 37 (2.28%) Ruby
9 34 (2.10%) Go
10 26 (1.60%) Bash
11 25 (1.54%) Rust
12 21 (1.29%) C++
13 16 (0.99%) C
14 12 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.68%) Groovy
15 11 (0.68%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.62%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.49%) PowerShell
17 8 (0.49%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 147 (9.06%) Security Cleared
2 125 (7.71%) Degree
3 96 (5.92%) SC Cleared
4 83 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.18%) PhD
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.062%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.062%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.062%) MBA
13 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.75%) QA
2 67 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.86%) GDPR
3 14 (0.86%) WCAG
4 6 (0.37%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.37%) SLA
5 5 (0.31%) PERC
6 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.12%) ECSS
7 2 (0.12%) NCSC
7 2 (0.12%) NIST
8 1 (0.062%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.062%) HL7
8 1 (0.062%) ITGC
System Software
1 200 (12.33%) Docker
2 16 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 167 (10.30%) Kubernetes
2 97 (5.98%) Terraform
3 27 (1.66%) Ansible
4 19 (1.17%) Grafana
5 15 (0.92%) Kibana
6 13 (0.80%) Argo
7 11 (0.68%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Nagios
10 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.062%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.062%) Istio
11 1 (0.062%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.062%) logstash
11 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.062%) Podman
Vendors
1 108 (6.66%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.66%) OpenAI
2 27 (1.66%) Oracle
3 25 (1.54%) Adobe
4 20 (1.23%) Google
5 15 (0.92%) Foundry
6 13 (0.80%) Palantir
7 12 (0.74%) Dynatrace
8 11 (0.68%) Splunk
9 7 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.43%) Fortinet
9 7 (0.43%) Palo Alto
10 6 (0.37%) Facebook
11 5 (0.31%) VMware
11 5 (0.31%) YouTube
11 5 (0.31%) Zoho
12 4 (0.25%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.25%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.25%) SAP
12 4 (0.25%) Telerik