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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 62 42
Rank change year-on-year -23 -20 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,621 2,081 3,842
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.44% 4.18% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 4.53% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,310 1,059 3,373
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 £98,750
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 53,044 45,908 65,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.73% 92.10% 88.26%
Number of salaries quoted 31,514 22,467 50,521
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 £97,500 £101,250 £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 12 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 12 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 -22 1,471 £70,000 +7.69% 932
UK excluding London -47 876 £62,500 +8.70% 739
Work from Home -13 639 £70,000 +7.69% 509
London +7 615 £80,000 - 348
North of England -3 240 £65,000 +13.04% 189
South East -52 231 £62,500 +4.17% 206
Midlands -25 170 £55,000 +4.76% 101
South West -9 131 £60,000 -4.00% 113
North West -7 108 £66,250 +12.77% 105
West Midlands -4 92 £52,500 - 44
Yorkshire -21 88 £72,500 +46.46% 60
East Midlands -23 78 £55,000 +48.65% 57
East of England -51 63 £60,000 +23.08% 66
North East +16 44 £55,000 +22.22% 24
Northern Ireland -10 16 £70,000 -6.67% 16
Wales -30 14 £52,500 -0.47% 21
Scotland -76 13 £67,500 +22.73% 34
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 (0.19%) ColdFusion
7 3 (0.19%) Drupal
7 3 (0.19%) IIS
7 3 (0.19%) Liferay
8 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.062%) Camunda
9 1 (0.062%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.062%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 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
1 555 (34.24%) AWS
2 420 (25.91%) Azure
3 173 (10.67%) Serverless
4 162 (9.99%) SaaS
5 122 (7.53%) GitHub
6 117 (7.22%) GCP
7 97 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
8 86 (5.31%) Amazon S3
9 75 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (2.41%) Figma
14 27 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (1.67%) 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 (0.19%) Internet
4 3 (0.19%) 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
2 120 (7.40%) SQL Server
3 101 (6.23%) NoSQL
4 97 (5.98%) MongoDB
5 74 (4.57%) Relational Database
6 69 (4.26%) MySQL
7 35 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (1.97%) DynamoDB
9 25 (1.54%) Redis
10 20 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (1.11%) RDBMS
12 15 (0.93%) 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 4 (0.25%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 161 (9.93%) Git
2 85 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 51 (3.15%) 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 (0.93%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.80%) 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
1 278 (17.15%) Social Skills
2 156 (9.62%) Finance
3 70 (4.32%) Public Sector
4 64 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.02%) Banking
6 43 (2.65%) Law
7 36 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (1.91%) Retail
9 29 (1.79%) Marketing
10 28 (1.73%) Front Office
11 27 (1.67%) Tech for Good
12 25 (1.54%) Investment Banking
13 24 (1.48%) Aviation
14 23 (1.42%) Health Technology
15 22 (1.36%) Legal
16 21 (1.30%) Games
16 21 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.23%) Manufacturing
18 9 (0.56%) Advertising
18 9 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 895 (55.21%) Developer
2 632 (38.99%) Full-Stack Developer
3 376 (23.20%) Senior
4 375 (23.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 294 (18.14%) Software Engineer
6 226 (13.94%) Lead
7 162 (9.99%) Senior Developer
8 147 (9.07%) .NET Developer
9 129 (7.96%) Java Developer
10 123 (7.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 123 (7.59%) React Developer
11 119 (7.34%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 112 (6.91%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 108 (6.66%) Lead Developer
14 98 (6.05%) Software Developer
15 93 (5.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 92 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
17 79 (4.87%) C# Developer
18 72 (4.44%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 69 (4.26%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 707 (43.62%) React
2 412 (25.42%) .NET
3 310 (19.12%) Node.js
4 230 (14.19%) AngularJS
5 223 (13.76%) HTML
6 205 (12.65%) CSS
7 155 (9.56%) Vue
8 151 (9.32%) Spring
9 144 (8.88%) .NET Core
10 139 (8.57%) REST
11 137 (8.45%) RESTful
12 117 (7.22%) Spring Boot
13 90 (5.55%) Next.js
14 84 (5.18%) ASP.NET
15 80 (4.94%) .NET Framework
16 66 (4.07%) GraphQL
17 61 (3.76%) Entity Framework
17 61 (3.76%) Kafka
18 55 (3.39%) HTML5
18 55 (3.39%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 133 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.76%) Mobile App
5 55 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.67%) IoT
8 24 (1.48%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (0.93%) Management Information System
12 14 (0.86%) Smart Energy
13 13 (0.80%) Data Structures
13 13 (0.80%) Fixed Income
13 13 (0.80%) Private Cloud
14 12 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (0.74%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.62%) e-Learning
16 9 (0.56%) Hedge funds
16 9 (0.56%) 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
1 533 (32.88%) Software Engineering
2 451 (27.82%) Agile
3 405 (24.98%) CI/CD
4 309 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
5 299 (18.45%) Microservices
6 290 (17.89%) AI
7 287 (17.71%) DevOps
8 213 (13.14%) Mentoring
9 201 (12.40%) User Experience
10 196 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 126 (7.77%) Test Automation
12 124 (7.65%) Computer Science
13 121 (7.46%) Clean Code
14 118 (7.28%) Containerisation
15 116 (7.16%) Scrum
16 105 (6.48%) TDD
17 99 (6.11%) Front End Development
18 95 (5.86%) Technical Leadership
19 93 (5.74%) Collaborative Culture
20 92 (5.68%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 537 (33.13%) JavaScript
2 521 (32.14%) TypeScript
3 381 (23.50%) C#
4 378 (23.32%) Java
5 328 (20.23%) Python
6 262 (16.16%) SQL
7 68 (4.19%) PHP
8 37 (2.28%) Ruby
9 33 (2.04%) Go
10 26 (1.60%) Bash
11 25 (1.54%) Rust
12 21 (1.30%) 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
1 146 (9.01%) Security Cleared
2 123 (7.59%) Degree
3 95 (5.86%) SC Cleared
4 82 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.56%) 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 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.19%) 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
1 203 (12.52%) Docker
2 16 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 169 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 97 (5.98%) Terraform
3 27 (1.67%) Ansible
4 19 (1.17%) Grafana
5 15 (0.93%) Kibana
6 13 (0.80%) Argo
7 11 (0.68%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.19%) 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
1 102 (6.29%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.67%) OpenAI
2 27 (1.67%) Oracle
3 25 (1.54%) Adobe
4 20 (1.23%) Google
5 15 (0.93%) 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 5 (0.31%) Facebook
10 5 (0.31%) VMware
10 5 (0.31%) Zoho
11 4 (0.25%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.25%) Pega
11 4 (0.25%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.25%) SAP
11 4 (0.25%) Telerik