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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 107 44
Rank change year-on-year +57 -63 +28
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,328 1,372 3,331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.82% 2.77% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.11% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,668 822 1,950
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +0.87%

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 86,399 44,171 61,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.11% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59,417 24,443 33,150
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +67 3,037 £65,000 -7.14% 2,790
UK excluding London +86 2,289 £60,000 - 2,039
Work from Home +39 1,323 £60,000 -7.69% 1,865
London +12 894 £85,000 +3.03% 1,398
North of England +69 770 £65,000 +8.33% 487
South East +104 546 £60,000 - 320
North West +48 448 £70,000 +7.69% 283
South West +62 351 £65,000 +8.33% 195
Midlands +41 298 £55,000 -8.33% 219
Yorkshire +71 211 £70,000 +16.67% 146
West Midlands +20 163 £60,000 -4.00% 126
East of England +40 160 £60,000 +20.00% 162
East Midlands +15 135 £55,000 +15.79% 93
North East +12 111 £50,000 +5.26% 65
Scotland -7 98 £60,000 -9.43% 394
Wales -38 58 £68,750 +14.58% 110
Northern Ireland -76 11 £90,000 +50.00% 168
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

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 30 (0.90%) CMS
2 28 (0.84%) Confluence
3 18 (0.54%) WordPress
4 10 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.27%) Apache
5 9 (0.27%) IIS
6 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.21%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.15%) nginx
10 4 (0.12%) ColdFusion
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.090%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.090%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.090%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.090%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.060%) Elementor
2 2 (0.060%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) Shopify
2 4 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.030%) Magento
4 1 (0.030%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.030%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 901 (27.07%) AWS
1 901 (27.07%) Azure
2 312 (9.38%) GitHub
3 238 (7.15%) Azure DevOps
4 231 (6.94%) SaaS
5 205 (6.16%) Serverless
6 183 (5.50%) GitHub Copilot
7 182 (5.47%) GCP
8 160 (4.81%) Azure AI
9 134 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
10 103 (3.09%) Amazon S3
11 86 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
12 78 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
13 72 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 65 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
15 57 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
15 57 (1.71%) Anthropic Claude
16 49 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (1.08%) Snowflake
18 33 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.92%) Internet
2 38 (1.14%) Broadband
3 19 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.36%) DNS
4 12 (0.36%) HTTP
5 11 (0.33%) Firewall
6 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
7 5 (0.15%) MQTT
7 5 (0.15%) VoIP
8 3 (0.090%) DHCP
9 2 (0.060%) AMQP
9 2 (0.060%) LAN
9 2 (0.060%) Network Security
9 2 (0.060%) VPN
9 2 (0.060%) WAN
10 1 (0.030%) Multicast
10 1 (0.030%) SCTP
10 1 (0.030%) VoLTE
10 1 (0.030%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.030%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 508 (15.26%) MongoDB
2 443 (13.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 227 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
4 196 (5.89%) SQL Server
5 156 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
6 100 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 94 (2.82%) NoSQL
8 87 (2.61%) MySQL
9 65 (1.95%) Redis
10 64 (1.92%) DynamoDB
11 31 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (0.60%) Power BI
13 17 (0.51%) Spark SQL
14 12 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.30%) Pinecone
17 9 (0.27%) Chroma
17 9 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.27%) GIS
18 8 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 243 (7.30%) Git
2 102 (3.06%) Jenkins
3 95 (2.85%) GitLab
4 63 (1.89%) JUnit
5 59 (1.77%) Cypress.io
6 45 (1.35%) Claude Code
7 38 (1.14%) JIRA
8 36 (1.08%) Maven
9 31 (0.93%) Subversion
10 29 (0.87%) Eclipse
11 23 (0.69%) Vite
12 20 (0.60%) SonarQube
13 18 (0.54%) Mockito
14 15 (0.45%) Selenium
14 15 (0.45%) Storybook
15 14 (0.42%) Spock
16 11 (0.33%) NUnit
17 9 (0.27%) Postman
17 9 (0.27%) TeamCity
17 9 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 421 (12.65%) Finance
2 302 (9.07%) Social Skills
3 191 (5.74%) Public Sector
4 96 (2.88%) Marketing
5 80 (2.40%) Games
6 76 (2.28%) Analytical Skills
7 66 (1.98%) Retail
8 65 (1.95%) Advertising
8 65 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 60 (1.80%) Banking
10 40 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 37 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 29 (0.87%) Law
13 27 (0.81%) Legal
13 27 (0.81%) Tech for Good
14 21 (0.63%) Automotive
15 19 (0.57%) Aerospace
16 13 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.39%) Front Office
17 12 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,792 (53.85%) Developer
2 989 (29.72%) Full-Stack Developer
3 904 (27.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 710 (21.33%) Senior
5 564 (16.95%) .NET Developer
6 554 (16.65%) Software Engineer
7 419 (12.59%) Lead
8 280 (8.41%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 278 (8.35%) Senior Developer
10 263 (7.90%) Software Developer
11 250 (7.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 172 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
13 166 (4.99%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 156 (4.69%) Java Engineer
15 153 (4.60%) Lead Developer
16 146 (4.39%) Java Developer
17 102 (3.06%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 96 (2.88%) Python Engineer
19 95 (2.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 77 (2.31%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 984 (29.57%) React
2 950 (28.55%) .NET
3 575 (17.28%) Node.js
4 533 (16.02%) ASP.NET
5 527 (15.84%) .NET Core
6 496 (14.90%) ASP.NET Core
7 420 (12.62%) AngularJS
8 387 (11.63%) CSS
9 368 (11.06%) HTML
10 356 (10.70%) RESTful
11 336 (10.10%) Vue
12 230 (6.91%) REST
13 223 (6.70%) Entity Framework
14 209 (6.28%) Blazor
15 207 (6.22%) Spring
16 179 (5.38%) ASP.NET Web API
17 170 (5.11%) Next.js
18 169 (5.08%) Spring Boot
19 157 (4.72%) Terraform
20 148 (4.45%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 300 (9.01%) Cloud Native
2 145 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
3 131 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (3.06%) AI Agents
5 90 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 76 (2.28%) Product Ownership
7 69 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 67 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.11%) e-Learning
11 28 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
12 27 (0.81%) IoT
12 27 (0.81%) Low-Code
13 21 (0.63%) Onboarding
14 20 (0.60%) Virtual Team
15 19 (0.57%) Digital TV
16 18 (0.54%) Social Media
17 17 (0.51%) iPhone
18 16 (0.48%) BBC
18 16 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (1.80%) Linux
2 27 (0.81%) Android
3 15 (0.45%) Windows
4 14 (0.42%) Unix
5 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.12%) VMS
7 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.090%) AIX
8 3 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.030%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 953 (28.64%) Software Engineering
2 901 (27.07%) Agile
3 802 (24.10%) CI/CD
4 758 (22.78%) AI
5 563 (16.92%) Microservices
6 506 (15.20%) DevOps
7 346 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
8 285 (8.56%) Mentoring
9 281 (8.44%) Machine Learning
10 265 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 253 (7.60%) Test Automation
12 199 (5.98%) Clean Code
13 191 (5.74%) Scrum
14 190 (5.71%) Observability
15 184 (5.53%) LLM
16 179 (5.38%) Front End Development
17 176 (5.29%) TDD
18 175 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
19 171 (5.14%) Multithreading
20 168 (5.05%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 943 (28.34%) JavaScript
2 925 (27.79%) C#
3 879 (26.41%) TypeScript
4 739 (22.21%) SQL
5 600 (18.03%) Java
6 559 (16.80%) Python
7 103 (3.09%) Ruby
8 95 (2.85%) C++
9 92 (2.76%) Kotlin
10 82 (2.46%) PHP
11 74 (2.22%) Go
12 30 (0.90%) Bash
13 28 (0.84%) Groovy
14 26 (0.78%) Perl
15 23 (0.69%) Rust
16 11 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.30%) Bicep
18 7 (0.21%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.18%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 232 (6.97%) Security Cleared
2 194 (5.83%) Degree
3 161 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 129 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.05%) DV Cleared
6 21 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 15 (0.45%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.21%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.21%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (0.18%) PhD
12 4 (0.12%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.090%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.090%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.090%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (2.40%) QA
2 68 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 36 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 31 (0.93%) WCAG
5 18 (0.54%) GDPR
6 10 (0.30%) NCSC
7 8 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.18%) NIST
9 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.060%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.060%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.060%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.060%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.030%) GRC
11 1 (0.030%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.030%) SLA
System Software
1 473 (14.21%) Docker
2 3 (0.090%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.090%) Firmware
3 1 (0.030%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.030%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 372 (11.18%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.60%) Ansible
3 19 (0.57%) Grafana
4 12 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.30%) HP Fortify
6 8 (0.24%) Kibana
7 6 (0.18%) Podman
7 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.15%) Argo
8 5 (0.15%) logstash
9 2 (0.060%) Bugsnag
9 2 (0.060%) Packer
9 2 (0.060%) Puppet
10 1 (0.030%) Consul
10 1 (0.030%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.030%) Graylog
10 1 (0.030%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 586 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 98 (2.94%) Google
3 56 (1.68%) Facebook
4 52 (1.56%) OpenAI
5 42 (1.26%) Oracle
6 25 (0.75%) YouTube
7 23 (0.69%) Splunk
8 21 (0.63%) Salesforce
9 17 (0.51%) AppDynamics
10 16 (0.48%) Apple
10 16 (0.48%) Foundry
10 16 (0.48%) Sony
10 16 (0.48%) Yahoo!
11 15 (0.45%) Red Hat
12 14 (0.42%) Adobe
12 14 (0.42%) Dynatrace
12 14 (0.42%) Mistral
13 12 (0.36%) Databricks
13 12 (0.36%) Palantir
14 10 (0.30%) Sitecore