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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 93 35
Rank change year-on-year +48 -58 +34
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,901 1,454 5,530
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.11% 3.26% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.52% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,397 894 4,275
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,497
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -0.01%

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 67,964 41,274 88,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.59% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46,731 22,044 62,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +56 2,642 £65,000 -3.70% 2,017
UK excluding London +53 1,910 £60,000 - 2,205
Work from Home +41 1,223 £60,000 -7.69% 2,014
London +31 836 £85,000 +6.25% 372
North of England +63 638 £65,000 - 483
South East +75 457 £60,000 - 508
North West +41 344 £65,000 - 225
Midlands +49 289 £55,000 -6.38% 256
South West +40 247 £60,000 -4.00% 191
Yorkshire +78 200 £70,000 +16.67% 166
East of England +49 160 £60,000 +20.00% 293
West Midlands +25 147 £55,000 -12.00% 103
East Midlands +21 141 £55,000 +15.79% 153
North East +14 94 £55,000 +15.79% 92
Scotland -42 60 £60,000 -11.11% 234
Wales -32 38 £60,000 -14.29% 136
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 128
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

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 26 (0.90%) CMS
2 19 (0.65%) Confluence
3 13 (0.45%) WordPress
4 12 (0.41%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.34%) ColdFusion
6 9 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.28%) Apache
7 8 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.17%) IIS
11 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.14%) nginx
12 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.10%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.069%) Liferay
Applications
1 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.034%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.034%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.17%) Shopify
2 2 (0.069%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.034%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.034%) Magento
3 1 (0.034%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.034%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.034%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 845 (29.13%) AWS
2 723 (24.92%) Azure
3 228 (7.86%) SaaS
4 206 (7.10%) GitHub
4 206 (7.10%) Serverless
5 180 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
6 161 (5.55%) GCP
7 130 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
8 106 (3.65%) Amazon S3
9 98 (3.38%) Azure AI
10 97 (3.34%) GitHub Copilot
11 78 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
12 69 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
13 65 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 51 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 42 (1.45%) Figma
17 41 (1.41%) Power Platform
18 33 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
19 29 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.52%) Broadband
2 36 (1.24%) Internet
3 6 (0.21%) Firewall
3 6 (0.21%) HTTP
3 6 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.17%) DNS
4 5 (0.17%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.14%) MQTT
6 3 (0.10%) VPN
7 1 (0.034%) DHCP
7 1 (0.034%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.034%) FTP
7 1 (0.034%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.034%) LAN
7 1 (0.034%) RTP
7 1 (0.034%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.034%) VoIP
7 1 (0.034%) VSAN
7 1 (0.034%) WAN
7 1 (0.034%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (12.58%) MongoDB
2 276 (9.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 190 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
4 138 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 107 (3.69%) NoSQL
6 93 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
7 79 (2.72%) MySQL
8 68 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 57 (1.96%) DynamoDB
10 25 (0.86%) Redis
11 23 (0.79%) Power BI
12 17 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.38%) GIS
14 11 (0.38%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.31%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.21%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.21%) NonStop SQL
16 6 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 5 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 200 (6.89%) Git
2 94 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 60 (2.07%) GitLab
4 59 (2.03%) Cypress.io
5 40 (1.38%) JIRA
6 36 (1.24%) JUnit
7 35 (1.21%) Maven
8 28 (0.97%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.69%) SonarQube
10 19 (0.65%) Vite
11 17 (0.59%) Mockito
12 15 (0.52%) CircleCI
12 15 (0.52%) Eclipse
13 14 (0.48%) Subversion
14 11 (0.38%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.31%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.28%) Selenium
16 8 (0.28%) Storybook
17 7 (0.24%) Cucumber
18 6 (0.21%) Spock
General
1 337 (11.62%) Finance
2 294 (10.13%) Social Skills
3 90 (3.10%) Public Sector
4 80 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (2.59%) Games
6 71 (2.45%) Marketing
7 58 (2.00%) Retail
8 57 (1.96%) Banking
9 49 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 48 (1.65%) Advertising
11 39 (1.34%) Front Office
11 39 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 36 (1.24%) Law
13 32 (1.10%) Legal
13 32 (1.10%) Tech for Good
14 21 (0.72%) Aviation
14 21 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (0.62%) Health Technology
16 16 (0.55%) Automotive
17 15 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,709 (58.91%) Developer
2 995 (34.30%) Full-Stack Developer
3 687 (23.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 619 (21.34%) Senior
5 532 (18.34%) Software Engineer
6 427 (14.72%) .NET Developer
7 383 (13.20%) Lead
8 286 (9.86%) Senior Developer
9 244 (8.41%) Software Developer
10 231 (7.96%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 202 (6.96%) Lead Developer
12 185 (6.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 182 (6.27%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 176 (6.07%) Java Developer
15 151 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
16 128 (4.41%) React Developer
17 118 (4.07%) Java Engineer
18 104 (3.58%) Python Developer
19 102 (3.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 90 (3.10%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 949 (32.71%) React
2 776 (26.75%) .NET
3 529 (18.24%) Node.js
4 378 (13.03%) .NET Core
5 359 (12.38%) AngularJS
6 341 (11.75%) CSS
7 332 (11.44%) HTML
8 327 (11.27%) ASP.NET
9 307 (10.58%) Vue
10 297 (10.24%) ASP.NET Core
11 268 (9.24%) RESTful
12 191 (6.58%) Spring
13 157 (5.41%) REST
14 150 (5.17%) Entity Framework
14 150 (5.17%) Spring Boot
15 139 (4.79%) Next.js
16 133 (4.58%) Blazor
17 110 (3.79%) ASP.NET Web API
18 92 (3.17%) ML.NET
19 86 (2.96%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 236 (8.14%) Cloud Native
2 139 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
3 88 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 81 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
5 77 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 55 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
7 50 (1.72%) AI Agents
8 49 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (1.31%) Low-Code
10 35 (1.21%) Fixed Income
11 32 (1.10%) e-Learning
11 32 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
12 30 (1.03%) IoT
13 26 (0.90%) Onboarding
14 19 (0.65%) Virtual Team
15 16 (0.55%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.55%) Management Information System
15 16 (0.55%) Social Media
16 15 (0.52%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 51 (1.76%) Linux
2 27 (0.93%) Android
3 14 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.28%) Unix
4 8 (0.28%) Windows
5 2 (0.069%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.069%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.034%) AIX
6 1 (0.034%) VMS
6 1 (0.034%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 892 (30.75%) Software Engineering
2 709 (24.44%) Agile
3 595 (20.51%) CI/CD
4 566 (19.51%) AI
5 480 (16.55%) DevOps
6 437 (15.06%) Microservices
7 351 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
8 287 (9.89%) Mentoring
9 284 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 233 (8.03%) Test Automation
11 228 (7.86%) Machine Learning
12 172 (5.93%) Scrum
13 171 (5.89%) Containerisation
14 161 (5.55%) Clean Code
14 161 (5.55%) Infrastructure as Code
15 159 (5.48%) User Experience
16 155 (5.34%) TDD
17 139 (4.79%) Computer Science
18 137 (4.72%) Web Development
19 136 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 817 (28.16%) JavaScript
2 806 (27.78%) TypeScript
3 714 (24.61%) C#
4 569 (19.61%) SQL
5 554 (19.10%) Python
6 512 (17.65%) Java
7 98 (3.38%) PHP
8 86 (2.96%) Go
9 62 (2.14%) Ruby
10 57 (1.96%) C++
11 33 (1.14%) Bash
12 24 (0.83%) Groovy
13 15 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.48%) Rust
15 11 (0.38%) Bicep
16 10 (0.34%) C
16 10 (0.34%) Perl
17 7 (0.24%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 188 (6.48%) Security Cleared
2 153 (5.27%) Degree
3 140 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 105 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.62%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 15 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.17%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.17%) PhD
12 2 (0.069%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.069%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.034%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.034%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (3.38%) QA
2 48 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.59%) WCAG
4 15 (0.52%) GDPR
5 11 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.24%) GRC
7 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.14%) NCSC
8 3 (0.10%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.10%) SLA
9 2 (0.069%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.069%) ITGC
9 2 (0.069%) NIST
10 1 (0.034%) HL7
10 1 (0.034%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.034%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.034%) SOC 2
System Software
1 342 (11.79%) Docker
2 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.14%) Firmware
4 3 (0.10%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.069%) vSphere
6 1 (0.034%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 245 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 125 (4.31%) Terraform
3 31 (1.07%) Grafana
4 22 (0.76%) Ansible
5 20 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.45%) Podman
7 11 (0.38%) HP Fortify
8 8 (0.28%) Kibana
9 6 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.14%) logstash
11 3 (0.10%) Argo
12 2 (0.069%) Nagios
13 1 (0.034%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.034%) Graylog
13 1 (0.034%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.034%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 395 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 57 (1.96%) Google
3 36 (1.24%) Adobe
4 34 (1.17%) OpenAI
5 33 (1.14%) Facebook
6 30 (1.03%) Oracle
7 23 (0.79%) Salesforce
8 20 (0.69%) Foundry
9 19 (0.65%) Palantir
10 12 (0.41%) Apple
10 12 (0.41%) Splunk
10 12 (0.41%) YouTube
11 11 (0.38%) Sony
11 11 (0.38%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.34%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.31%) AppDynamics
14 8 (0.28%) Sitecore
15 7 (0.24%) Databricks
16 6 (0.21%) Pega
17 5 (0.17%) ServiceNow