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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 95 36
Rank change year-on-year +49 -59 +32
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,958 1,463 5,617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.14% 3.26% 5.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 3.53% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,447 903 4,361
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
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 £92,000
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 20 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 20 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 +51 2,693 £65,000 -3.70% 614
UK excluding London +58 1,959 £60,000 - 531
Work from Home +40 1,265 £60,000 -7.69% 336
London +24 846 £85,000 +6.25% 238
North of England +66 651 £65,000 - 134
South East +81 476 £60,000 - 155
North West +37 350 £65,000 - 75
Midlands +43 292 £55,000 -6.38% 64
South West +36 253 £60,000 -4.00% 53
Yorkshire +73 202 £70,000 +12.00% 37
East of England +49 160 £60,000 +20.00% 51
East Midlands +21 147 £55,000 +15.79% 38
West Midlands +21 144 £55,000 -12.00% 26
North East +12 99 £55,000 +26.44% 22
Scotland -35 65 £60,000 -11.11% 38
Wales -31 41 £60,000 -14.29% 17
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 24
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 (0.88%) CMS
2 20 (0.68%) Confluence
3 12 (0.41%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.41%) WordPress
4 10 (0.34%) Apache
4 10 (0.34%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
7 7 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.14%) nginx
11 3 (0.10%) IIS
11 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.10%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.068%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.14%) Shopify
2 2 (0.068%) 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
1 868 (29.34%) AWS
2 779 (26.34%) Azure
3 226 (7.64%) SaaS
4 222 (7.51%) GitHub
5 210 (7.10%) Serverless
6 200 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
7 166 (5.61%) GCP
8 130 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
9 114 (3.85%) Azure AI
10 112 (3.79%) GitHub Copilot
11 105 (3.55%) Amazon S3
12 76 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
13 70 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 69 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
15 50 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
16 46 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
17 42 (1.42%) Figma
17 42 (1.42%) Power Platform
18 34 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
19 28 (0.95%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.47%) Broadband
2 43 (1.45%) Internet
3 7 (0.24%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.20%) Firewall
4 6 (0.20%) HTTP
4 6 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.17%) DNS
6 4 (0.14%) MQTT
7 3 (0.10%) VPN
8 2 (0.068%) AMQP
8 2 (0.068%) LAN
8 2 (0.068%) VoIP
8 2 (0.068%) WAN
9 1 (0.034%) Multicast
9 1 (0.034%) Network Security
9 1 (0.034%) RTSP
9 1 (0.034%) SCTP
9 1 (0.034%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.034%) VLAN
9 1 (0.034%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (13.76%) MongoDB
2 321 (10.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 191 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
4 136 (4.60%) SQL Server
5 114 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 112 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
7 84 (2.84%) MySQL
8 74 (2.50%) Relational Database
9 57 (1.93%) DynamoDB
10 26 (0.88%) Redis
11 24 (0.81%) Power BI
12 17 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.37%) GIS
14 11 (0.37%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.30%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.24%) MariaDB
17 6 (0.20%) NonStop SQL
17 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 209 (7.07%) Git
2 94 (3.18%) Jenkins
3 60 (2.03%) GitLab
4 57 (1.93%) Cypress.io
5 42 (1.42%) JIRA
6 38 (1.28%) JUnit
7 34 (1.15%) Maven
8 33 (1.12%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 19 (0.64%) Vite
11 18 (0.61%) Mockito
12 17 (0.57%) Eclipse
13 16 (0.54%) Subversion
14 15 (0.51%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.27%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.27%) Storybook
16 8 (0.27%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.24%) Selenium
18 6 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 347 (11.73%) Finance
2 299 (10.11%) Social Skills
3 93 (3.14%) Public Sector
4 81 (2.74%) Games
5 80 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 78 (2.64%) Marketing
7 62 (2.10%) Retail
8 56 (1.89%) Banking
9 55 (1.86%) Advertising
10 49 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (1.32%) Front Office
12 38 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.22%) Law
14 34 (1.15%) Legal
15 31 (1.05%) Tech for Good
16 21 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (0.68%) Aviation
18 18 (0.61%) Health Technology
19 17 (0.57%) Automotive
20 15 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,762 (59.57%) Developer
2 1,000 (33.81%) Full-Stack Developer
3 687 (23.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 617 (20.86%) Senior
5 530 (17.92%) Software Engineer
6 472 (15.96%) .NET Developer
7 386 (13.05%) Lead
8 281 (9.50%) Senior Developer
9 246 (8.32%) Software Developer
10 225 (7.61%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 204 (6.90%) Lead Developer
12 182 (6.15%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 178 (6.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 177 (5.98%) Java Developer
15 150 (5.07%) Senior Software Engineer
16 127 (4.29%) React Developer
17 118 (3.99%) Java Engineer
18 103 (3.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 103 (3.48%) Python Developer
19 92 (3.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 976 (33.00%) React
2 819 (27.69%) .NET
3 550 (18.59%) Node.js
4 425 (14.37%) .NET Core
5 378 (12.78%) ASP.NET
6 377 (12.75%) AngularJS
7 357 (12.07%) CSS
8 348 (11.76%) ASP.NET Core
8 348 (11.76%) HTML
9 326 (11.02%) Vue
10 291 (9.84%) RESTful
11 191 (6.46%) Spring
12 167 (5.65%) Entity Framework
13 164 (5.54%) REST
14 154 (5.21%) Blazor
15 150 (5.07%) Spring Boot
16 143 (4.83%) Next.js
17 128 (4.33%) ASP.NET Web API
18 107 (3.62%) ML.NET
19 95 (3.21%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 249 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 149 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
3 91 (3.08%) Mobile App
4 84 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
5 76 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 56 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
7 55 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 50 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 39 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.28%) Low-Code
11 35 (1.18%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
13 31 (1.05%) e-Learning
14 30 (1.01%) IoT
15 27 (0.91%) Onboarding
16 19 (0.64%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.57%) Data Structures
17 17 (0.57%) Social Media
18 16 (0.54%) Algorithms
18 16 (0.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 54 (1.83%) Linux
2 28 (0.95%) Android
3 13 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.34%) Windows
5 9 (0.30%) Unix
6 3 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.034%) AIX
7 1 (0.034%) Debian
7 1 (0.034%) VMS
7 1 (0.034%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 903 (30.53%) Software Engineering
2 750 (25.35%) Agile
3 620 (20.96%) CI/CD
4 588 (19.88%) AI
5 501 (16.94%) DevOps
6 464 (15.69%) Microservices
7 357 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
8 291 (9.84%) Mentoring
9 288 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 243 (8.22%) Machine Learning
11 234 (7.91%) Test Automation
12 179 (6.05%) Containerisation
13 178 (6.02%) Scrum
14 166 (5.61%) Clean Code
15 164 (5.54%) Infrastructure as Code
16 163 (5.51%) TDD
17 158 (5.34%) User Experience
18 142 (4.80%) Computer Science
19 139 (4.70%) Technical Leadership
19 139 (4.70%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 848 (28.67%) JavaScript
2 836 (28.26%) TypeScript
3 759 (25.66%) C#
4 620 (20.96%) SQL
5 571 (19.30%) Python
6 509 (17.21%) Java
7 99 (3.35%) PHP
8 87 (2.94%) Go
9 64 (2.16%) Ruby
10 61 (2.06%) C++
11 32 (1.08%) Bash
12 23 (0.78%) Groovy
13 15 (0.51%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.51%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.51%) Rust
14 13 (0.44%) Bicep
15 12 (0.41%) Perl
16 10 (0.34%) C
17 8 (0.27%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 196 (6.63%) Security Cleared
2 157 (5.31%) Degree
3 146 (4.94%) SC Cleared
4 108 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 20 (0.68%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 9 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.17%) PhD
13 4 (0.14%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.068%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 1 (0.034%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.034%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.38%) QA
2 53 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 20 (0.68%) WCAG
4 15 (0.51%) GDPR
5 11 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.24%) GRC
7 6 (0.20%) NCSC
8 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.10%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.10%) SLA
10 2 (0.068%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.068%) ITGC
10 2 (0.068%) NIST
11 1 (0.034%) HL7
11 1 (0.034%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.034%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.034%) SOC 2
System Software
1 363 (12.27%) Docker
2 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.14%) Firmware
4 3 (0.10%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.068%) vSphere
6 1 (0.034%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 265 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 133 (4.50%) Terraform
3 31 (1.05%) Grafana
4 23 (0.78%) Ansible
5 20 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.44%) Podman
7 9 (0.30%) HP Fortify
7 9 (0.30%) Kibana
8 5 (0.17%) logstash
8 5 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.10%) Argo
10 2 (0.068%) Nagios
11 1 (0.034%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.034%) Graylog
11 1 (0.034%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.034%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 447 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 62 (2.10%) Google
3 40 (1.35%) Facebook
4 36 (1.22%) Adobe
5 35 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 30 (1.01%) Oracle
7 22 (0.74%) Salesforce
8 20 (0.68%) Foundry
9 19 (0.64%) Palantir
10 15 (0.51%) YouTube
11 13 (0.44%) Apple
12 12 (0.41%) Sony
12 12 (0.41%) Splunk
12 12 (0.41%) Yahoo!
13 9 (0.30%) AppDynamics
14 8 (0.27%) Databricks
14 8 (0.27%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.27%) Sitecore
15 6 (0.20%) Pega
16 5 (0.17%) OneLogin