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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 61 47
Rank change year-on-year -30 -14 +19
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,425 2,238 3,041
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.33% 4.23% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 4.65% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 1,075 2,668
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,956 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,140 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -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 49,307 48,088 54,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.63% 90.91% 89.35%
Number of salaries quoted 29,027 23,255 41,501
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -25 1,293 £70,000 +7.69% 1,594
UK excluding London -55 756 £62,500 +13.64% 1,446
London -3 554 £80,000 -1.54% 368
Work from Home -24 551 £70,000 +7.69% 914
South East -61 205 £62,500 +4.17% 480
North of England -20 200 £65,000 +18.18% 284
Midlands -26 152 £60,000 +20.00% 173
South West -19 111 £62,500 +4.17% 172
West Midlands -6 85 £55,000 +4.76% 62
North West -23 83 £65,000 +8.33% 134
Yorkshire -25 75 £72,500 +46.46% 101
East Midlands -38 67 £60,000 +47.24% 108
East of England -50 56 £60,000 +33.33% 207
North East +18 42 £55,000 +7.32% 51
Wales -28 13 £51,250 -2.38% 71
Scotland -72 13 £67,500 +28.57% 62
Northern Ireland -11 8 £95,000 +58.33% 26
Channel Islands +1 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 12 (0.84%) Confluence
2 11 (0.77%) CMS
2 11 (0.77%) OpenStack
3 9 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.35%) WordPress
6 4 (0.28%) Appian
6 4 (0.28%) nginx
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.21%) Liferay
7 3 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) ColdFusion
8 2 (0.14%) Drupal
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.070%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.070%) Kentico
9 1 (0.070%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.070%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.14%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 513 (36.00%) AWS
2 406 (28.49%) Azure
3 155 (10.88%) Serverless
4 143 (10.04%) SaaS
5 120 (8.42%) GitHub
6 102 (7.16%) GCP
7 84 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
8 75 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (5.05%) Amazon S3
10 62 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (3.44%) Amazon EKS
12 47 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (2.25%) Figma
14 27 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (1.89%) PaaS
15 23 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (1.40%) Entra ID
17 18 (1.26%) Azure App Service
17 18 (1.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.12%) Broadband
2 7 (0.49%) HTTP
3 4 (0.28%) Firewall
4 3 (0.21%) Internet
4 3 (0.21%) WAN
5 2 (0.14%) AMQP
5 2 (0.14%) DHCP
5 2 (0.14%) DNS
5 2 (0.14%) LAN
5 2 (0.14%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.14%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.14%) VLAN
5 2 (0.14%) VPN
5 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.070%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.070%) MQTT
6 1 (0.070%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.070%) SSL
6 1 (0.070%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
1 118 (8.28%) SQL Server
2 96 (6.74%) NoSQL
3 92 (6.46%) MongoDB
4 71 (4.98%) Relational Database
5 62 (4.35%) MySQL
6 45 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 26 (1.82%) DynamoDB
8 24 (1.68%) Redis
9 23 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (1.54%) RDBMS
11 16 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.84%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.70%) Power BI
15 8 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.56%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.56%) DB2
16 5 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
17 4 (0.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 151 (10.60%) Git
2 81 (5.68%) Jenkins
3 49 (3.44%) Cypress.io
4 40 (2.81%) JIRA
5 29 (2.04%) JUnit
6 28 (1.96%) GitLab
7 22 (1.54%) Mockito
8 19 (1.33%) Maven
9 17 (1.19%) Vite
10 16 (1.12%) JMeter
10 16 (1.12%) Visual Studio
11 15 (1.05%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.84%) Selenium
12 12 (0.84%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.77%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.70%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.70%) webpack
15 8 (0.56%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (0.35%) git-flow
General
1 277 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 143 (10.04%) Finance
3 67 (4.70%) Public Sector
4 52 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (3.09%) Law
6 43 (3.02%) Banking
7 33 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (1.96%) Retail
9 25 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 24 (1.68%) Marketing
10 24 (1.68%) Tech for Good
11 23 (1.61%) Legal
12 22 (1.54%) Front Office
12 22 (1.54%) Health Technology
13 21 (1.47%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.12%) Aviation
14 16 (1.12%) Games
15 14 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 785 (55.09%) Developer
2 544 (38.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 319 (22.39%) Senior
4 317 (22.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 250 (17.54%) Software Engineer
6 193 (13.54%) Lead
7 141 (9.89%) .NET Developer
8 139 (9.75%) Senior Developer
9 119 (8.35%) Java Developer
10 109 (7.65%) React Developer
11 101 (7.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 100 (7.02%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 94 (6.60%) Lead Developer
14 92 (6.46%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 86 (6.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 85 (5.96%) Software Developer
17 80 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
18 69 (4.84%) C# Developer
19 60 (4.21%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 54 (3.79%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 653 (45.82%) React
2 393 (27.58%) .NET
3 269 (18.88%) Node.js
4 230 (16.14%) AngularJS
5 214 (15.02%) HTML
6 194 (13.61%) CSS
7 148 (10.39%) Spring
7 148 (10.39%) Vue
8 143 (10.04%) RESTful
9 142 (9.96%) .NET Core
10 138 (9.68%) REST
11 110 (7.72%) Spring Boot
12 94 (6.60%) ASP.NET
13 88 (6.18%) .NET Framework
14 80 (5.61%) Next.js
15 70 (4.91%) Entity Framework
16 63 (4.42%) GraphQL
17 58 (4.07%) HTML5
18 55 (3.86%) Kafka
19 53 (3.72%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.49%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.72%) Mobile App
5 48 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 44 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (1.61%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.54%) IoT
9 16 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 14 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (0.91%) Smart Energy
12 12 (0.84%) Data Structures
12 12 (0.84%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (0.77%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.70%) e-Learning
14 10 (0.70%) Hedge funds
14 10 (0.70%) Reference Data
15 9 (0.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.75%) Android
2 24 (1.68%) Apple iOS
3 18 (1.26%) Linux
4 7 (0.49%) Unix
5 5 (0.35%) Windows
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (31.93%) Software Engineering
2 428 (30.04%) Agile
3 378 (26.53%) CI/CD
4 283 (19.86%) Microservices
5 276 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
6 272 (19.09%) DevOps
7 265 (18.60%) AI
8 192 (13.47%) User Experience
9 189 (13.26%) Mentoring
10 183 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 122 (8.56%) Clean Code
12 118 (8.28%) Computer Science
13 117 (8.21%) Scrum
14 109 (7.65%) Test Automation
15 106 (7.44%) Front End Development
16 105 (7.37%) Containerisation
17 100 (7.02%) TDD
18 96 (6.74%) MVC
19 90 (6.32%) Code Quality
19 90 (6.32%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 491 (34.46%) JavaScript
2 479 (33.61%) TypeScript
3 378 (26.53%) C#
4 338 (23.72%) Java
5 283 (19.86%) Python
6 263 (18.46%) SQL
7 56 (3.93%) PHP
8 36 (2.53%) Ruby
9 27 (1.89%) Go
10 24 (1.68%) Rust
11 22 (1.54%) Bash
12 19 (1.33%) C++
13 15 (1.05%) C
14 13 (0.91%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.77%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.63%) Groovy
17 7 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.49%) R
17 7 (0.49%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 135 (9.47%) Security Cleared
2 115 (8.07%) Degree
3 82 (5.75%) SC Cleared
4 75 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.28%) MCP
11 2 (0.14%) PhD
12 1 (0.070%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.070%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.070%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.070%) MBA
12 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.40%) QA
2 67 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.98%) WCAG
4 12 (0.84%) GDPR
5 5 (0.35%) PERC
5 5 (0.35%) SLA
6 2 (0.14%) ECSS
6 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.070%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.070%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.070%) HL7
7 1 (0.070%) NCSC
7 1 (0.070%) NIST
7 1 (0.070%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 189 (13.26%) Docker
2 17 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 154 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 88 (6.18%) Terraform
3 25 (1.75%) Ansible
4 17 (1.19%) Kibana
5 13 (0.91%) Argo
6 11 (0.77%) Grafana
7 9 (0.63%) HP Fortify
8 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.070%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.070%) Istio
10 1 (0.070%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.070%) logstash
10 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.070%) Nagios
Vendors
1 102 (7.16%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.96%) OpenAI
3 25 (1.75%) Oracle
4 19 (1.33%) Google
5 18 (1.26%) Adobe
6 16 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 14 (0.98%) Foundry
8 13 (0.91%) Splunk
9 12 (0.84%) Palantir
10 6 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.42%) Facebook
10 6 (0.42%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.42%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.35%) VMware
11 5 (0.35%) YouTube
11 5 (0.35%) Zoho
12 4 (0.28%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.28%) Pega
12 4 (0.28%) Telerik
12 4 (0.28%) WSO2