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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 103 42
Rank change year-on-year +32 -61 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,358 1,251 4,957
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.63% 2.96% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 3.18% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,911 1,013 3,904
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,494
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.36% -0.01%

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 67,035 39,288 81,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.86% 92.85% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,557 22,685 59,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 28 April 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 April 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 +36 2,132 £70,000 +6.06% 772
UK excluding London +34 1,411 £65,000 +8.33% 580
Work from Home +34 882 £70,000 +7.69% 562
London +35 766 £85,000 +6.25% 303
North of England +52 432 £70,000 +21.74% 169
South East +8 345 £60,000 - 170
Midlands +30 246 £55,000 +4.76% 58
North West +37 214 £67,500 +5.88% 95
South West +13 207 £60,000 -4.00% 71
Yorkshire +27 159 £75,000 +36.36% 42
West Midlands +28 130 £60,000 +4.35% 28
East Midlands +6 115 £55,000 +15.79% 30
East of England +33 113 £67,500 +22.73% 63
North East +1 59 £60,000 +17.07% 32
Scotland -40 34 £60,000 -9.77% 27
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 11
Wales -43 15 £51,250 -26.79% 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 15 (0.64%) CMS
2 14 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (0.59%) Confluence
3 11 (0.47%) ColdFusion
4 9 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.34%) Apache
5 8 (0.34%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.34%) WordPress
6 7 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.17%) Appian
9 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.13%) IIS
10 3 (0.13%) Liferay
10 3 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.085%) CICS
11 2 (0.085%) Drupal
11 2 (0.085%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.085%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.085%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.042%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.042%) Magento
2 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 690 (29.26%) AWS
2 445 (18.87%) Azure
3 221 (9.37%) SaaS
4 192 (8.14%) Serverless
5 162 (6.87%) GCP
6 127 (5.39%) GitHub
7 116 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
8 100 (4.24%) Amazon S3
9 81 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
11 59 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
12 51 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (1.91%) Figma
14 42 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (1.06%) Entra ID
16 25 (1.06%) Power Platform
17 24 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
18 23 (0.98%) GitHub Copilot
19 22 (0.93%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.78%) Broadband
2 10 (0.42%) HTTP
3 5 (0.21%) DNS
3 5 (0.21%) Firewall
4 4 (0.17%) Internet
5 3 (0.13%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.13%) VPN
5 3 (0.13%) WAN
6 2 (0.085%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.085%) LAN
6 2 (0.085%) VLAN
7 1 (0.042%) AMQP
7 1 (0.042%) DHCP
7 1 (0.042%) MQTT
7 1 (0.042%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.042%) SSL
7 1 (0.042%) TCAP
7 1 (0.042%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.042%) WebEx
7 1 (0.042%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (5.47%) MongoDB
3 120 (5.09%) NoSQL
3 120 (5.09%) SQL Server
4 62 (2.63%) MySQL
5 51 (2.16%) DynamoDB
6 50 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 37 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (0.89%) Redis
9 18 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (0.72%) Power BI
11 14 (0.59%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.34%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.34%) DB2
15 6 (0.25%) GIS
15 6 (0.25%) MariaDB
16 4 (0.17%) Big Data
16 4 (0.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 178 (7.55%) Git
2 93 (3.94%) Jenkins
3 64 (2.71%) Cypress.io
4 42 (1.78%) GitLab
5 36 (1.53%) JIRA
6 27 (1.15%) Maven
7 23 (0.98%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.81%) CircleCI
8 19 (0.81%) JUnit
9 15 (0.64%) Vite
10 14 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.55%) Claude Code
11 13 (0.55%) Mockito
12 12 (0.51%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.47%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.34%) Selenium
15 7 (0.30%) ESLint
15 7 (0.30%) NUnit
15 7 (0.30%) webpack
16 4 (0.17%) Storybook
General
1 273 (11.58%) Social Skills
2 246 (10.43%) Finance
3 71 (3.01%) Public Sector
4 69 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (2.21%) Banking
6 50 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (1.82%) Retail
8 40 (1.70%) Front Office
9 39 (1.65%) Law
10 38 (1.61%) Marketing
11 33 (1.40%) Tech for Good
12 30 (1.27%) Games
13 28 (1.19%) Aviation
14 24 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (0.85%) Health Technology
17 19 (0.81%) Legal
18 17 (0.72%) Investment Banking
19 16 (0.68%) Advertising
20 12 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,354 (57.42%) Developer
2 951 (40.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 579 (24.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 542 (22.99%) Senior
5 441 (18.70%) Software Engineer
6 346 (14.67%) Lead
7 261 (11.07%) Senior Developer
8 192 (8.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 185 (7.85%) Lead Developer
10 183 (7.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 174 (7.38%) .NET Developer
12 173 (7.34%) Software Developer
13 153 (6.49%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 146 (6.19%) Java Developer
15 144 (6.11%) React Developer
16 126 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
17 99 (4.20%) Python Developer
18 92 (3.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 90 (3.82%) C# Developer
20 87 (3.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 838 (35.54%) React
2 466 (19.76%) .NET
3 451 (19.13%) Node.js
4 243 (10.31%) AngularJS
5 237 (10.05%) HTML
6 235 (9.97%) CSS
7 198 (8.40%) Vue
8 160 (6.79%) Spring
9 159 (6.74%) RESTful
10 148 (6.28%) .NET Core
11 138 (5.85%) REST
12 132 (5.60%) Spring Boot
13 119 (5.05%) Next.js
14 82 (3.48%) ASP.NET
15 79 (3.35%) GraphQL
16 70 (2.97%) .NET Framework
17 67 (2.84%) Laravel
18 65 (2.76%) React Native
19 62 (2.63%) Kafka
20 58 (2.46%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 167 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 96 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
3 76 (3.22%) Product Ownership
4 66 (2.80%) Mobile App
5 58 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
6 47 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.44%) Fixed Income
8 33 (1.40%) IoT
9 30 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 21 (0.89%) e-Learning
12 20 (0.85%) Smart Energy
13 19 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (0.68%) Low-Code
15 15 (0.64%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (0.64%) Onboarding
16 13 (0.55%) Blog
16 13 (0.55%) Podcast
16 13 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.23%) Linux
2 24 (1.02%) Android
3 21 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.21%) Unix
5 4 (0.17%) Windows
6 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.042%) VMS
6 1 (0.042%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.042%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (31.55%) Software Engineering
2 505 (21.42%) Agile
3 440 (18.66%) CI/CD
4 359 (15.22%) AI
5 353 (14.97%) DevOps
6 317 (13.44%) Microservices
7 307 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
8 243 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 236 (10.01%) Mentoring
10 188 (7.97%) Test Automation
11 166 (7.04%) User Experience
12 151 (6.40%) Containerisation
13 142 (6.02%) Clean Code
13 142 (6.02%) Scrum
14 135 (5.73%) Web Development
15 118 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
16 114 (4.83%) Computer Science
17 111 (4.71%) Infrastructure as Code
18 107 (4.54%) Front End Development
18 107 (4.54%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 680 (28.84%) TypeScript
2 669 (28.37%) JavaScript
3 471 (19.97%) Python
4 449 (19.04%) Java
5 416 (17.64%) C#
6 312 (13.23%) SQL
7 98 (4.16%) PHP
8 57 (2.42%) Go
9 53 (2.25%) Ruby
10 30 (1.27%) Bash
11 24 (1.02%) C++
12 18 (0.76%) C
13 16 (0.68%) Groovy
13 16 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.55%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.47%) Bicep
16 9 (0.38%) Rust
17 6 (0.25%) R
17 6 (0.25%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 165 (7.00%) Security Cleared
2 119 (5.05%) SC Cleared
3 118 (5.00%) Degree
4 78 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 10 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.17%) PhD
12 2 (0.085%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.042%) MBA
13 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (4.45%) QA
2 46 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.47%) GDPR
4 10 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.30%) GRC
6 6 (0.25%) SLA
6 6 (0.25%) WCAG
7 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.085%) ECSS
8 2 (0.085%) HL7
8 2 (0.085%) ITGC
8 2 (0.085%) NCSC
8 2 (0.085%) NIST
8 2 (0.085%) PERC
9 1 (0.042%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.042%) SOC 2
System Software
1 242 (10.26%) Docker
2 8 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.042%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.042%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 166 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 117 (4.96%) Terraform
3 32 (1.36%) Grafana
4 27 (1.15%) Ansible
5 19 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.59%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.55%) Podman
8 10 (0.42%) Argo
9 8 (0.34%) Kibana
10 7 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.17%) logstash
12 3 (0.13%) Nagios
13 1 (0.042%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.042%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.042%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 142 (6.02%) Microsoft
2 33 (1.40%) Google
3 30 (1.27%) Adobe
4 29 (1.23%) OpenAI
5 27 (1.15%) Oracle
6 11 (0.47%) Foundry
7 10 (0.42%) Palantir
7 10 (0.42%) Salesforce
8 8 (0.34%) Peregrine
9 7 (0.30%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.25%) Databricks
10 6 (0.25%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.25%) Palo Alto
10 6 (0.25%) Pega
11 5 (0.21%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (0.21%) Facebook
11 5 (0.21%) Zoho
12 4 (0.17%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.17%) Splunk
12 4 (0.17%) WooCommerce