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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 76 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 -34 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,002 1,512 4,610
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.56% 3.70% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 3.97% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 1,017 3,781
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 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.04% +8.18% -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 60,207 38,067 76,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.10% 93.27% 86.65%
Number of salaries quoted 36,835 22,259 57,410
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,035
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 £102,410 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 28 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 28 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 -1 1,810 £70,000 +7.69% 848
UK excluding London -9 1,157 £62,500 +5.04% 635
Work from Home +5 788 £70,000 +7.69% 458
London +14 687 £84,250 +6.98% 329
North of England +22 346 £67,500 +17.39% 161
South East -38 290 £60,000 - 175
Midlands +26 206 £55,000 +4.76% 86
North West +13 169 £70,000 +12.00% 83
South West +13 169 £60,000 -4.00% 100
Yorkshire +10 127 £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 -31 87 £60,000 +9.09% 63
North East +11 50 £55,000 +22.22% 24
Northern Ireland -9 26 £70,000 - 5
Scotland -54 21 £61,710 +0.75% 34
Wales -41 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 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (0.70%) CMS
2 12 (0.60%) OpenStack
3 11 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
4 10 (0.50%) Confluence
5 8 (0.40%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.35%) ColdFusion
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.30%) WordPress
8 5 (0.25%) Apache
9 4 (0.20%) Appian
9 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.15%) IIS
10 3 (0.15%) Liferay
11 2 (0.100%) CICS
11 2 (0.100%) Drupal
11 2 (0.100%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.100%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.100%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.20%) Shopify
2 1 (0.050%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.050%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 636 (31.77%) AWS
2 461 (23.03%) Azure
3 200 (9.99%) SaaS
4 190 (9.49%) Serverless
5 152 (7.59%) GCP
6 135 (6.74%) GitHub
7 105 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
8 92 (4.60%) Amazon S3
9 79 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
10 65 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
12 50 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
13 41 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (2.00%) Figma
15 36 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (1.25%) Entra ID
17 25 (1.25%) PaaS
18 23 (1.15%) Power Platform
19 19 (0.95%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.80%) Broadband
2 6 (0.30%) HTTP
3 4 (0.20%) Firewall
3 4 (0.20%) Internet
4 3 (0.15%) WAN
5 2 (0.100%) AMQP
5 2 (0.100%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.100%) LAN
5 2 (0.100%) VLAN
5 2 (0.100%) VPN
6 1 (0.050%) DHCP
6 1 (0.050%) DNS
6 1 (0.050%) MQTT
6 1 (0.050%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.050%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.050%) SSL
6 1 (0.050%) TCAP
6 1 (0.050%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.050%) WebEx
6 1 (0.050%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (6.39%) SQL Server
3 122 (6.09%) MongoDB
4 117 (5.84%) NoSQL
5 72 (3.60%) MySQL
6 67 (3.35%) Relational Database
7 42 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 39 (1.95%) DynamoDB
9 24 (1.20%) Redis
10 18 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.75%) Power BI
12 12 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.60%) Pinecone
13 11 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.55%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.50%) DB2
15 8 (0.40%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.30%) GIS
16 6 (0.30%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 179 (8.94%) Git
2 98 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 57 (2.85%) Cypress.io
4 36 (1.80%) JIRA
5 34 (1.70%) GitLab
6 26 (1.30%) Maven
7 24 (1.20%) JUnit
8 18 (0.90%) Mockito
8 18 (0.90%) SonarQube
8 18 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.70%) CircleCI
9 14 (0.70%) Vite
10 10 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.50%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.50%) webpack
11 9 (0.45%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.45%) Selenium
12 7 (0.35%) ESLint
13 5 (0.25%) git-flow
13 5 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 291 (14.54%) Social Skills
2 210 (10.49%) Finance
3 80 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 71 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (2.60%) Banking
6 47 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (2.25%) Retail
8 42 (2.10%) Front Office
9 41 (2.05%) Law
10 35 (1.75%) Marketing
11 33 (1.65%) Games
12 32 (1.60%) Tech for Good
13 26 (1.30%) Aviation
13 26 (1.30%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.15%) Health Technology
15 21 (1.05%) Legal
15 21 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (0.90%) Investment Banking
17 14 (0.70%) Advertising
18 11 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,156 (57.74%) Developer
2 811 (40.51%) Full-Stack Developer
3 469 (23.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 462 (23.08%) Senior
5 361 (18.03%) Software Engineer
6 281 (14.04%) Lead
7 215 (10.74%) Senior Developer
8 180 (8.99%) .NET Developer
9 154 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 154 (7.69%) Java Developer
9 154 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 153 (7.64%) Lead Developer
11 136 (6.79%) React Developer
12 132 (6.59%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 128 (6.39%) Software Developer
14 102 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
15 101 (5.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 88 (4.40%) C# Developer
17 86 (4.30%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 83 (4.15%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 776 (38.76%) React
2 464 (23.18%) .NET
3 409 (20.43%) Node.js
4 253 (12.64%) HTML
5 245 (12.24%) CSS
6 230 (11.49%) AngularJS
7 189 (9.44%) Vue
8 157 (7.84%) .NET Core
8 157 (7.84%) RESTful
9 156 (7.79%) Spring
10 148 (7.39%) REST
11 124 (6.19%) Spring Boot
12 98 (4.90%) Next.js
13 96 (4.80%) ASP.NET
14 82 (4.10%) GraphQL
15 81 (4.05%) .NET Framework
16 71 (3.55%) Kafka
17 65 (3.25%) Entity Framework
18 63 (3.15%) Laravel
19 57 (2.85%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 153 (7.64%) Cloud Native
2 80 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 76 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (3.05%) Mobile App
6 51 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (1.65%) IoT
8 30 (1.50%) Fixed Income
9 21 (1.05%) AI Agents
9 21 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.00%) Smart Energy
11 17 (0.85%) Data Structures
11 17 (0.85%) Low-Code
12 14 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (0.70%) Onboarding
13 13 (0.65%) Management Information System
13 13 (0.65%) Private Cloud
14 12 (0.60%) Blog
15 11 (0.55%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.50%) Linux
2 25 (1.25%) Android
3 22 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.25%) Unix
5 4 (0.20%) Windows
6 1 (0.050%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.050%) VMS
6 1 (0.050%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.050%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (31.82%) Software Engineering
2 505 (25.22%) Agile
3 435 (21.73%) CI/CD
4 334 (16.68%) DevOps
5 329 (16.43%) AI
6 319 (15.93%) Microservices
7 302 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
8 230 (11.49%) Mentoring
9 226 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 184 (9.19%) User Experience
11 171 (8.54%) Test Automation
12 135 (6.74%) Containerisation
13 134 (6.69%) Clean Code
14 132 (6.59%) Scrum
15 122 (6.09%) Computer Science
16 111 (5.54%) Machine Learning
17 107 (5.34%) Technical Leadership
18 105 (5.24%) TDD
19 104 (5.19%) Front End Development
20 100 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 638 (31.87%) JavaScript
2 599 (29.92%) TypeScript
3 426 (21.28%) Java
4 413 (20.63%) Python
5 402 (20.08%) C#
6 304 (15.18%) SQL
7 86 (4.30%) PHP
8 53 (2.65%) Go
9 45 (2.25%) Ruby
10 26 (1.30%) Bash
11 21 (1.05%) C++
12 17 (0.85%) C
12 17 (0.85%) Kotlin
13 16 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 16 (0.80%) Rust
14 12 (0.60%) Groovy
15 9 (0.45%) Bicep
16 7 (0.35%) R
16 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 145 (7.24%) Security Cleared
2 124 (6.19%) Degree
3 101 (5.04%) SC Cleared
4 84 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (0.40%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.20%) PhD
10 2 (0.100%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.100%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.050%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.050%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.050%) MBA
11 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.50%) QA
2 57 (2.85%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.65%) GDPR
4 10 (0.50%) 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 (0.100%) ECSS
9 2 (0.100%) HL7
9 2 (0.100%) ITGC
9 2 (0.100%) NCSC
9 2 (0.100%) NIST
10 1 (0.050%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 228 (11.39%) Docker
2 11 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.15%) Firmware
4 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.100%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 172 (8.59%) Kubernetes
2 108 (5.39%) Terraform
3 28 (1.40%) Ansible
3 28 (1.40%) Grafana
4 16 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.60%) HP Fortify
5 12 (0.60%) Kibana
6 11 (0.55%) Argo
7 7 (0.35%) Podman
8 3 (0.15%) Nagios
8 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.050%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.050%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.050%) logstash
9 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.050%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 133 (6.64%) Microsoft
2 29 (1.45%) Oracle
3 27 (1.35%) Google
4 26 (1.30%) Adobe
4 26 (1.30%) OpenAI
5 16 (0.80%) Foundry
6 15 (0.75%) Palantir
7 9 (0.45%) Fortinet
7 9 (0.45%) 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