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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 95 39
Rank change year-on-year +42 -56 +30
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,719 1,437 5,275
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.93% 3.28% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.53% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,231 906 4,116
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year - +8.75% -4.05%

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 68,040 40,758 85,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.42% 93.05% 83.05%
Number of salaries quoted 45,181 21,501 61,227
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 5 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 5 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 +47 2,468 £65,000 -3.70% 973
UK excluding London +38 1,745 £60,000 - 613
Work from Home +35 1,100 £62,500 -3.85% 704
London +34 810 £85,000 +6.25% 451
North of England +43 591 £65,000 +4.00% 202
South East +62 421 £60,000 - 156
North West +30 316 £65,000 - 114
Midlands +22 266 £55,000 +4.76% 68
South West +29 225 £60,000 -4.00% 75
Yorkshire +66 189 £70,000 +19.15% 61
East of England +28 138 £60,000 +20.00% 53
West Midlands +13 138 £55,000 -12.00% 25
East Midlands +10 127 £55,000 +15.79% 43
North East +6 86 £57,500 +21.05% 27
Scotland -36 53 £60,000 -11.11% 30
Wales -39 31 £60,000 -7.69% 18
Northern Ireland - 25 £70,000 - 17
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 23 (0.85%) CMS
2 20 (0.74%) Confluence
3 14 (0.51%) WordPress
4 10 (0.37%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.29%) Apache
6 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
9 5 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.18%) IIS
10 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.11%) Liferay
11 3 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.074%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.074%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.074%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.037%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.037%) Magento
3 1 (0.037%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.037%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 791 (29.09%) AWS
2 607 (22.32%) Azure
3 222 (8.16%) SaaS
4 202 (7.43%) Serverless
5 170 (6.25%) GitHub
6 156 (5.74%) GCP
7 149 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
8 123 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
9 103 (3.79%) Amazon S3
10 77 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
11 67 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
12 66 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
13 65 (2.39%) Azure AI
14 54 (1.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 48 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
16 45 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 42 (1.54%) Figma
18 35 (1.29%) Power Platform
19 32 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
20 25 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.35%) Broadband
2 22 (0.81%) Internet
3 6 (0.22%) Firewall
3 6 (0.22%) HTTP
4 5 (0.18%) DNS
4 5 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.11%) MQTT
5 3 (0.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.037%) AMQP
6 1 (0.037%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.037%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.037%) RTP
6 1 (0.037%) RTSP
6 1 (0.037%) SCTP
6 1 (0.037%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.037%) SS7
6 1 (0.037%) VLAN
6 1 (0.037%) VSAN
6 1 (0.037%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (10.04%) MongoDB
2 187 (6.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 183 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
4 135 (4.97%) SQL Server
5 110 (4.05%) NoSQL
6 74 (2.72%) MySQL
7 66 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 61 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
9 55 (2.02%) DynamoDB
10 23 (0.85%) Power BI
11 20 (0.74%) Redis
12 15 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.40%) GIS
15 9 (0.33%) Pinecone
16 6 (0.22%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.22%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.22%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 5 (0.18%) Db2
Development Applications
1 197 (7.25%) Git
2 93 (3.42%) Jenkins
3 59 (2.17%) Cypress.io
4 54 (1.99%) GitLab
5 40 (1.47%) JIRA
6 34 (1.25%) Maven
7 31 (1.14%) JUnit
8 25 (0.92%) Claude Code
9 20 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 17 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.63%) Mockito
10 17 (0.63%) Vite
11 12 (0.44%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.44%) Eclipse
12 11 (0.40%) Subversion
12 11 (0.40%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.37%) Selenium
14 9 (0.33%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.26%) ESLint
15 7 (0.26%) Storybook
General
1 309 (11.36%) Finance
2 288 (10.59%) Social Skills
3 87 (3.20%) Public Sector
4 77 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (2.17%) Games
5 59 (2.17%) Marketing
6 54 (1.99%) Banking
7 53 (1.95%) Retail
8 48 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 38 (1.40%) Law
10 37 (1.36%) Front Office
11 35 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 33 (1.21%) Advertising
13 32 (1.18%) Tech for Good
14 28 (1.03%) Legal
15 22 (0.81%) Aviation
16 21 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.70%) Health Technology
18 14 (0.51%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,575 (57.93%) Developer
2 972 (35.75%) Full-Stack Developer
3 668 (24.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 586 (21.55%) Senior
5 513 (18.87%) Software Engineer
6 374 (13.76%) Lead
7 334 (12.28%) .NET Developer
8 274 (10.08%) Senior Developer
9 231 (8.50%) Software Developer
10 226 (8.31%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 196 (7.21%) Lead Developer
12 181 (6.66%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 175 (6.44%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 172 (6.33%) Java Developer
15 144 (5.30%) Senior Software Engineer
16 128 (4.71%) React Developer
17 111 (4.08%) Java Engineer
18 101 (3.71%) Python Developer
19 99 (3.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 89 (3.27%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 886 (32.59%) React
2 671 (24.68%) .NET
3 493 (18.13%) Node.js
4 318 (11.70%) AngularJS
5 308 (11.33%) CSS
6 298 (10.96%) HTML
7 285 (10.48%) .NET Core
8 272 (10.00%) Vue
9 229 (8.42%) ASP.NET
10 224 (8.24%) RESTful
11 201 (7.39%) ASP.NET Core
12 192 (7.06%) Spring
13 155 (5.70%) REST
14 151 (5.55%) Spring Boot
15 129 (4.74%) Next.js
16 117 (4.30%) Entity Framework
17 94 (3.46%) Blazor
18 77 (2.83%) ASP.NET Web API
19 71 (2.61%) .NET Framework
20 70 (2.57%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 209 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 121 (4.45%) Greenfield Project
3 82 (3.02%) Mobile App
4 79 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 70 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
6 49 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 45 (1.66%) AI Agents
8 40 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (1.25%) Fixed Income
11 32 (1.18%) e-Learning
12 30 (1.10%) IoT
13 29 (1.07%) Low-Code
14 24 (0.88%) Onboarding
15 23 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
16 18 (0.66%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.63%) Data Structures
18 15 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 15 (0.55%) Management Information System
19 14 (0.51%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 45 (1.66%) Linux
2 26 (0.96%) Android
3 16 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.29%) Unix
5 6 (0.22%) Windows
6 1 (0.037%) AIX
6 1 (0.037%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.037%) VMS
6 1 (0.037%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (31.34%) Software Engineering
2 626 (23.02%) Agile
3 535 (19.68%) CI/CD
4 491 (18.06%) AI
5 438 (16.11%) DevOps
6 390 (14.34%) Microservices
7 342 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
8 285 (10.48%) Mentoring
9 264 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 222 (8.16%) Test Automation
11 181 (6.66%) Machine Learning
12 163 (5.99%) Scrum
13 162 (5.96%) Containerisation
14 156 (5.74%) Clean Code
15 154 (5.66%) User Experience
16 146 (5.37%) Infrastructure as Code
17 141 (5.19%) TDD
18 135 (4.97%) Web Development
19 131 (4.82%) Computer Science
20 130 (4.78%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 768 (28.25%) JavaScript
2 736 (27.07%) TypeScript
3 606 (22.29%) C#
4 522 (19.20%) Python
5 503 (18.50%) Java
6 472 (17.36%) SQL
7 99 (3.64%) PHP
8 74 (2.72%) Go
9 58 (2.13%) Ruby
10 50 (1.84%) C++
11 33 (1.21%) Bash
12 23 (0.85%) Groovy
13 16 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.55%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.44%) Bicep
16 10 (0.37%) C
16 10 (0.37%) Rust
17 8 (0.29%) Perl
18 7 (0.26%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 183 (6.73%) Security Cleared
2 142 (5.22%) Degree
3 133 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 97 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.29%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.66%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.55%) DBS Check
8 14 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.18%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.18%) PhD
12 2 (0.074%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.037%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.037%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (3.64%) QA
2 45 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.51%) GDPR
4 13 (0.48%) WCAG
5 10 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.26%) GRC
7 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.11%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.11%) SLA
9 2 (0.074%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.074%) ITGC
9 2 (0.074%) NCSC
9 2 (0.074%) NIST
10 1 (0.037%) HL7
10 1 (0.037%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.037%) SOC 2
System Software
1 307 (11.29%) Docker
2 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.074%) vSphere
6 1 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.037%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 215 (7.91%) Kubernetes
2 119 (4.38%) Terraform
3 34 (1.25%) Grafana
4 23 (0.85%) Ansible
5 20 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.48%) Podman
7 11 (0.40%) HP Fortify
8 8 (0.29%) Kibana
9 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.18%) Argo
11 4 (0.15%) logstash
12 2 (0.074%) Nagios
13 1 (0.037%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.037%) Graylog
13 1 (0.037%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.037%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 297 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 50 (1.84%) Google
3 36 (1.32%) Adobe
4 31 (1.14%) OpenAI
5 30 (1.10%) Oracle
6 22 (0.81%) Salesforce
7 20 (0.74%) Facebook
8 19 (0.70%) Foundry
9 15 (0.55%) Palantir
10 10 (0.37%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.37%) Splunk
11 8 (0.29%) Apple
11 8 (0.29%) YouTube
12 7 (0.26%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.26%) Sony
12 7 (0.26%) Yahoo!
13 6 (0.22%) Pega
13 6 (0.22%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.18%) Databricks
14 5 (0.18%) ServiceNow