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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 73 41
Rank change year-on-year -2 -32 +27
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,967 1,565 4,533
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.56% 3.78% 5.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 4.05% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,580 1,021 3,759
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
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 59,482 38,652 75,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.48% 93.43% 86.89%
Number of salaries quoted 36,105 22,218 57,058
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
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 £102,500 £93,750
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 24 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 24 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 -2 1,775 £70,000 +7.69% 805
UK excluding London -15 1,131 £62,500 +4.17% 584
Work from Home +4 781 £70,000 +7.69% 455
London +12 677 £85,000 +6.25% 320
North of England +29 333 £67,500 +17.39% 156
South East -37 285 £60,000 - 165
Midlands +25 206 £55,000 +4.76% 82
South West +13 166 £60,000 -5.88% 86
North West +10 165 £70,000 +12.00% 81
Yorkshire +17 118 £70,000 +40.00% 54
West Midlands +24 108 £55,000 +4.76% 43
East Midlands -5 97 £55,000 +30.95% 39
East of England -28 83 £60,000 +9.09% 55
North East +15 50 £55,000 +25.71% 21
Northern Ireland -11 26 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Scotland -55 19 £64,210 +4.83% 28
Wales -34 15 £51,250 -22.64% 16
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%) Confluence
3 11 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (0.36%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.31%) ColdFusion
5 6 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.31%) WordPress
6 5 (0.25%) Apache
7 4 (0.20%) Appian
7 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.20%) nginx
8 3 (0.15%) IIS
8 3 (0.15%) Liferay
9 2 (0.10%) CICS
9 2 (0.10%) Drupal
9 2 (0.10%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.10%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.31%) 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
1 623 (31.67%) AWS
2 458 (23.28%) Azure
3 198 (10.07%) SaaS
4 184 (9.35%) Serverless
5 148 (7.52%) GCP
6 133 (6.76%) GitHub
7 101 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
8 89 (4.52%) Amazon S3
9 79 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
10 62 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
13 42 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (2.03%) Figma
15 34 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (1.32%) Entra ID
18 24 (1.22%) PaaS
19 22 (1.12%) Power Platform
20 18 (0.92%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.83%) Broadband
2 6 (0.31%) 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
1 149 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (6.46%) SQL Server
3 122 (6.20%) MongoDB
4 113 (5.74%) NoSQL
5 70 (3.56%) MySQL
6 69 (3.51%) Relational Database
7 41 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 35 (1.78%) DynamoDB
9 24 (1.22%) Redis
10 18 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (0.71%) Power BI
12 12 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.61%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.61%) RDBMS
13 10 (0.51%) DB2
14 8 (0.41%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.31%) GIS
15 6 (0.31%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 176 (8.95%) Git
2 96 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 56 (2.85%) Cypress.io
4 35 (1.78%) JIRA
5 33 (1.68%) GitLab
6 25 (1.27%) Maven
7 24 (1.22%) JUnit
8 18 (0.92%) Mockito
8 18 (0.92%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.86%) SonarQube
10 14 (0.71%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.71%) Vite
11 11 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.51%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.51%) webpack
13 9 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.46%) Selenium
14 7 (0.36%) ESLint
15 5 (0.25%) git-flow
15 5 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 287 (14.59%) Social Skills
2 206 (10.47%) Finance
3 80 (4.07%) Public Sector
4 71 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (2.59%) Banking
6 47 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (2.19%) Front Office
7 43 (2.19%) Law
7 43 (2.19%) Retail
8 35 (1.78%) Marketing
9 33 (1.68%) Games
10 32 (1.63%) Tech for Good
11 25 (1.27%) Aviation
11 25 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.22%) Health Technology
13 23 (1.17%) Legal
14 21 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (0.97%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.61%) Advertising
17 10 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,131 (57.50%) Developer
2 794 (40.37%) Full-Stack Developer
3 461 (23.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 450 (22.88%) Senior
5 354 (18.00%) Software Engineer
6 281 (14.29%) Lead
7 209 (10.63%) Senior Developer
8 175 (8.90%) .NET Developer
9 153 (7.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 151 (7.68%) Lead Developer
11 150 (7.63%) Java Developer
12 149 (7.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 135 (6.86%) React Developer
14 129 (6.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 123 (6.25%) Software Developer
16 99 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
17 98 (4.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 85 (4.32%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 83 (4.22%) C# Developer
20 80 (4.07%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 771 (39.20%) React
2 458 (23.28%) .NET
3 404 (20.54%) Node.js
4 244 (12.40%) HTML
5 236 (12.00%) CSS
6 226 (11.49%) AngularJS
7 178 (9.05%) Vue
8 156 (7.93%) .NET Core
9 153 (7.78%) RESTful
9 153 (7.78%) Spring
10 149 (7.57%) REST
11 121 (6.15%) Spring Boot
12 97 (4.93%) Next.js
13 95 (4.83%) ASP.NET
14 85 (4.32%) GraphQL
15 79 (4.02%) .NET Framework
16 72 (3.66%) Kafka
17 64 (3.25%) Entity Framework
17 64 (3.25%) Laravel
18 57 (2.90%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 149 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 79 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
3 75 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
5 60 (3.05%) Mobile App
6 53 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.73%) IoT
8 30 (1.53%) Fixed Income
9 22 (1.12%) AI Agents
10 21 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.02%) Smart Energy
12 17 (0.86%) Low-Code
13 15 (0.76%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 14 (0.71%) Management Information System
14 14 (0.71%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.66%) Private Cloud
16 12 (0.61%) Blog
17 11 (0.56%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.53%) Linux
2 26 (1.32%) Android
3 23 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.31%) Unix
5 5 (0.25%) Windows
6 1 (0.051%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.051%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (32.13%) Software Engineering
2 498 (25.32%) Agile
3 430 (21.86%) CI/CD
4 325 (16.52%) DevOps
5 323 (16.42%) AI
6 312 (15.86%) Microservices
7 298 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 226 (11.49%) Mentoring
9 224 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 190 (9.66%) User Experience
11 164 (8.34%) Test Automation
12 132 (6.71%) Clean Code
12 132 (6.71%) Containerisation
13 131 (6.66%) Scrum
14 123 (6.25%) Computer Science
15 105 (5.34%) Machine Learning
16 104 (5.29%) Technical Leadership
17 103 (5.24%) Front End Development
18 101 (5.13%) TDD
19 98 (4.98%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 620 (31.52%) JavaScript
2 592 (30.10%) TypeScript
3 420 (21.35%) Java
4 403 (20.49%) Python
5 399 (20.28%) C#
6 293 (14.90%) SQL
7 83 (4.22%) PHP
8 54 (2.75%) Go
9 43 (2.19%) Ruby
10 25 (1.27%) Bash
11 20 (1.02%) C++
12 18 (0.92%) Rust
13 17 (0.86%) C
14 16 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.56%) Groovy
17 8 (0.41%) Bicep
18 7 (0.36%) R
18 7 (0.36%) Shell Script
19 5 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 137 (6.96%) Security Cleared
2 123 (6.25%) Degree
3 95 (4.83%) SC Cleared
4 84 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (0.41%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.31%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.20%) PhD
10 3 (0.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
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 89 (4.52%) QA
2 58 (2.95%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.66%) GDPR
4 10 (0.51%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.41%) WCAG
6 6 (0.31%) GRC
6 6 (0.31%) 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
1 227 (11.54%) Docker
2 13 (0.66%) 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 (8.85%) Kubernetes
2 105 (5.34%) Terraform
3 28 (1.42%) Ansible
4 27 (1.37%) Grafana
5 15 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.61%) Kibana
7 11 (0.56%) Argo
7 11 (0.56%) HP Fortify
8 7 (0.36%) 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
1 130 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 29 (1.47%) Oracle
3 26 (1.32%) Adobe
3 26 (1.32%) Google
3 26 (1.32%) OpenAI
4 16 (0.81%) Foundry
5 15 (0.76%) Palantir
6 9 (0.46%) Fortinet
6 9 (0.46%) Palo Alto
7 8 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.41%) Dynatrace
7 8 (0.41%) Pega
7 8 (0.41%) Salesforce
7 8 (0.41%) Splunk
8 6 (0.31%) Databricks
8 6 (0.31%) Facebook
9 5 (0.25%) WSO2
9 5 (0.25%) Zoho
10 4 (0.20%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.20%) ServiceNow