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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 72 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 -30 +27
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,978 1,547 4,568
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.56% 3.78% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 4.04% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,587 1,017 3,763
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -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 59,772 38,266 76,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.27% 93.41% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 36,377 22,223 57,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.42%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -3 1,787 £70,000 +7.69% 848
UK excluding London -10 1,140 £62,500 +4.17% 635
Work from Home +5 782 £70,000 +7.69% 458
London +13 680 £85,000 +9.68% 329
North of England +23 339 £67,500 +17.39% 161
South East -36 287 £60,000 - 175
Midlands +16 206 £55,000 +4.76% 86
South West +15 167 £60,000 -4.00% 100
North West +6 167 £70,000 +12.00% 83
Yorkshire +15 123 £70,000 +40.00% 54
West Midlands +27 108 £55,000 +4.76% 43
East Midlands -7 97 £55,000 +22.22% 43
East of England -33 83 £60,000 +9.09% 63
North East +11 49 £55,000 +25.71% 24
Northern Ireland -10 26 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Scotland -59 20 £63,419 +3.54% 34
Wales -40 14 £50,000 -24.53% 18
Channel Islands - 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 14 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (0.71%) CMS
2 12 (0.61%) OpenStack
3 11 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
4 10 (0.51%) Confluence
5 7 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.35%) ColdFusion
5 7 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.30%) WordPress
7 5 (0.25%) Apache
8 4 (0.20%) Appian
8 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.20%) nginx
9 3 (0.15%) IIS
9 3 (0.15%) Liferay
10 2 (0.10%) CICS
10 2 (0.10%) Drupal
10 2 (0.10%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.10%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Shopify
2 1 (0.051%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.051%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 630 (31.85%) AWS
2 457 (23.10%) Azure
3 200 (10.11%) SaaS
4 187 (9.45%) Serverless
5 151 (7.63%) GCP
6 134 (6.77%) GitHub
7 103 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
8 91 (4.60%) Amazon S3
9 76 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
13 41 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (2.02%) Figma
15 36 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (1.26%) Entra ID
18 23 (1.16%) PaaS
19 22 (1.11%) Power Platform
20 18 (0.91%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.82%) Broadband
2 6 (0.30%) HTTP
3 4 (0.20%) Firewall
3 4 (0.20%) Internet
4 3 (0.15%) WAN
5 2 (0.10%) AMQP
5 2 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.10%) LAN
5 2 (0.10%) VLAN
5 2 (0.10%) VPN
6 1 (0.051%) DHCP
6 1 (0.051%) DNS
6 1 (0.051%) MQTT
6 1 (0.051%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.051%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.051%) SSL
6 1 (0.051%) TCAP
6 1 (0.051%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.051%) WebEx
6 1 (0.051%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (6.32%) SQL Server
3 122 (6.17%) MongoDB
4 116 (5.86%) NoSQL
5 72 (3.64%) MySQL
6 67 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 41 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
8 37 (1.87%) DynamoDB
9 24 (1.21%) Redis
10 18 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (0.71%) Power BI
12 12 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.61%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.56%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.51%) DB2
15 8 (0.40%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.30%) GIS
16 6 (0.30%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 178 (9.00%) Git
2 97 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 57 (2.88%) Cypress.io
4 36 (1.82%) JIRA
5 34 (1.72%) GitLab
6 26 (1.31%) Maven
7 24 (1.21%) JUnit
8 18 (0.91%) Mockito
8 18 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 18 (0.91%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.71%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.71%) Vite
10 10 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.51%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.51%) webpack
11 9 (0.46%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.46%) Selenium
12 7 (0.35%) ESLint
13 5 (0.25%) git-flow
13 5 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 289 (14.61%) Social Skills
2 205 (10.36%) Finance
3 80 (4.04%) Public Sector
4 70 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (2.58%) Banking
6 47 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (2.17%) Retail
8 42 (2.12%) Front Office
8 42 (2.12%) Law
9 35 (1.77%) Marketing
10 33 (1.67%) Games
11 32 (1.62%) Tech for Good
12 25 (1.26%) Aviation
12 25 (1.26%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.16%) Health Technology
14 22 (1.11%) Legal
15 21 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (0.91%) Investment Banking
17 14 (0.71%) Advertising
18 11 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,138 (57.53%) Developer
2 799 (40.39%) Full-Stack Developer
3 468 (23.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 458 (23.15%) Senior
5 356 (18.00%) Software Engineer
6 279 (14.11%) Lead
7 213 (10.77%) Senior Developer
8 176 (8.90%) .NET Developer
9 154 (7.79%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 152 (7.68%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 151 (7.63%) Java Developer
11 151 (7.63%) Lead Developer
12 134 (6.77%) React Developer
13 132 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 124 (6.27%) Software Developer
15 100 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
16 99 (5.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 86 (4.35%) C# Developer
18 85 (4.30%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 80 (4.04%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 773 (39.08%) React
2 459 (23.21%) .NET
3 408 (20.63%) Node.js
4 247 (12.49%) HTML
5 238 (12.03%) CSS
6 227 (11.48%) AngularJS
7 186 (9.40%) Vue
8 156 (7.89%) RESTful
9 155 (7.84%) .NET Core
10 154 (7.79%) Spring
11 147 (7.43%) REST
12 124 (6.27%) Spring Boot
13 97 (4.90%) Next.js
14 93 (4.70%) ASP.NET
15 84 (4.25%) GraphQL
16 78 (3.94%) .NET Framework
17 71 (3.59%) Kafka
18 64 (3.24%) Laravel
19 63 (3.19%) Entity Framework
20 57 (2.88%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 151 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 79 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
3 76 (3.84%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
5 59 (2.98%) Mobile App
6 51 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (1.67%) IoT
8 30 (1.52%) Fixed Income
9 22 (1.11%) AI Agents
10 21 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.01%) Smart Energy
12 17 (0.86%) Low-Code
13 16 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 14 (0.71%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.66%) Management Information System
15 13 (0.66%) Private Cloud
16 12 (0.61%) Blog
17 11 (0.56%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.47%) Linux
2 25 (1.26%) Android
3 22 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.25%) Unix
5 4 (0.20%) Windows
6 1 (0.051%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.051%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (32.00%) Software Engineering
2 501 (25.33%) Agile
3 434 (21.94%) CI/CD
4 326 (16.48%) DevOps
5 324 (16.38%) AI
6 316 (15.98%) Microservices
7 299 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 226 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 225 (11.38%) Mentoring
10 186 (9.40%) User Experience
11 166 (8.39%) Test Automation
12 133 (6.72%) Clean Code
13 132 (6.67%) Containerisation
14 131 (6.62%) Scrum
15 122 (6.17%) Computer Science
16 105 (5.31%) Machine Learning
16 105 (5.31%) Technical Leadership
17 102 (5.16%) Front End Development
17 102 (5.16%) TDD
18 100 (5.06%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 622 (31.45%) JavaScript
2 595 (30.08%) TypeScript
3 423 (21.39%) Java
4 407 (20.58%) Python
5 398 (20.12%) C#
6 298 (15.07%) SQL
7 85 (4.30%) PHP
8 54 (2.73%) Go
9 44 (2.22%) Ruby
10 26 (1.31%) Bash
11 20 (1.01%) C++
12 18 (0.91%) Rust
13 17 (0.86%) C
13 17 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.61%) Groovy
16 8 (0.40%) Bicep
17 7 (0.35%) R
17 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (7.13%) Security Cleared
2 122 (6.17%) Degree
3 98 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 83 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (0.40%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.20%) PhD
11 2 (0.10%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.051%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.051%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.051%) MBA
12 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.55%) QA
2 58 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.66%) GDPR
4 10 (0.51%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.40%) WCAG
6 6 (0.30%) GRC
6 6 (0.30%) SLA
7 5 (0.25%) PERC
8 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.10%) ECSS
9 2 (0.10%) HL7
9 2 (0.10%) ITGC
9 2 (0.10%) NCSC
9 2 (0.10%) NIST
10 1 (0.051%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 229 (11.58%) Docker
2 12 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.10%) Firmware
5 2 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 174 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 107 (5.41%) Terraform
3 28 (1.42%) Ansible
4 27 (1.37%) Grafana
5 15 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.61%) HP Fortify
6 12 (0.61%) Kibana
7 11 (0.56%) Argo
8 7 (0.35%) Podman
9 3 (0.15%) Nagios
9 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.051%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.051%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.051%) logstash
10 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.051%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 129 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 29 (1.47%) Oracle
3 27 (1.37%) Google
4 26 (1.31%) Adobe
4 26 (1.31%) OpenAI
5 16 (0.81%) Foundry
6 15 (0.76%) Palantir
7 9 (0.46%) Fortinet
7 9 (0.46%) Palo Alto
8 8 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 8 (0.40%) Pega
8 8 (0.40%) Salesforce
8 8 (0.40%) Splunk
9 6 (0.30%) Databricks
9 6 (0.30%) Facebook
10 5 (0.25%) WSO2
10 5 (0.25%) Zoho
11 4 (0.20%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.20%) ServiceNow