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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 103 44
Rank change year-on-year +54 -59 +33
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,251 1,391 3,589
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.91% 2.83% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.20% 5.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,678 828 2,241
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%

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 81,553 43,498 62,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.98% 88.46% 80.40%
Number of salaries quoted 56,728 24,515 37,208
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,200
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.00% -4.22%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 +61 2,957 £65,000 -7.14% 1,995
UK excluding London +83 2,277 £60,000 - 1,002
Work from Home +45 1,368 £60,000 -7.69% 2,695
London +9 820 £85,000 - 1,247
North of England +63 749 £65,000 +8.33% 276
South East +101 565 £60,000 - 187
North West +36 414 £65,000 -3.70% 162
South West +56 326 £60,000 - 138
Midlands +49 303 £55,000 -8.33% 123
Yorkshire +71 210 £70,000 +16.67% 78
East of England +49 176 £60,000 +33.33% 96
West Midlands +37 167 £60,000 -5.88% 63
East Midlands +15 136 £55,000 +15.79% 60
North East +15 125 £50,000 +15.61% 40
Scotland -19 99 £60,000 -9.43% 113
Wales -30 59 £60,000 - 20
Northern Ireland -77 5 £90,000 +50.00% 54
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

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 26 (0.80%) CMS
2 24 (0.74%) Confluence
3 16 (0.49%) WordPress
4 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.28%) Apache
5 9 (0.28%) IIS
6 8 (0.25%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.18%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.092%) DNN
10 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.092%) Kentico
10 3 (0.092%) nginx
10 3 (0.092%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.092%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 13 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.062%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.031%) Magento
3 1 (0.031%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 936 (28.79%) Azure
2 921 (28.33%) AWS
3 319 (9.81%) GitHub
4 250 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 236 (7.26%) SaaS
6 204 (6.27%) Serverless
7 187 (5.75%) GitHub Copilot
8 186 (5.72%) GCP
9 166 (5.11%) Azure AI
10 137 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
11 103 (3.17%) Amazon S3
12 87 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 76 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
15 65 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
16 56 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
17 55 (1.69%) Anthropic Claude
17 55 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
18 35 (1.08%) Power Platform
19 33 (1.02%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.88%) Internet
2 50 (1.54%) Broadband
3 17 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.40%) DNS
5 11 (0.34%) Firewall
5 11 (0.34%) HTTP
6 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
7 5 (0.15%) MQTT
8 4 (0.12%) VoIP
9 3 (0.092%) DHCP
10 2 (0.062%) AMQP
10 2 (0.062%) LAN
10 2 (0.062%) Network Security
10 2 (0.062%) VPN
10 2 (0.062%) WAN
11 1 (0.031%) Diameter Protocol
11 1 (0.031%) Multicast
11 1 (0.031%) SCTP
11 1 (0.031%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 531 (16.33%) MongoDB
2 463 (14.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 231 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
4 185 (5.69%) SQL Server
5 159 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
6 110 (3.38%) NoSQL
7 97 (2.98%) MySQL
8 83 (2.55%) Relational Database
9 71 (2.18%) DynamoDB
10 59 (1.81%) Redis
11 28 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.68%) Power BI
13 16 (0.49%) Spark SQL
14 12 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.31%) GIS
17 9 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
18 8 (0.25%) Chroma
18 8 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 248 (7.63%) Git
2 103 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 89 (2.74%) GitLab
4 65 (2.00%) Cypress.io
5 61 (1.88%) JUnit
6 46 (1.41%) Claude Code
7 40 (1.23%) JIRA
8 37 (1.14%) Maven
9 31 (0.95%) Subversion
10 29 (0.89%) Eclipse
11 22 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.52%) Vite
13 15 (0.46%) Mockito
13 15 (0.46%) Selenium
14 14 (0.43%) Spock
15 13 (0.40%) NUnit
15 13 (0.40%) Storybook
16 12 (0.37%) CircleCI
17 11 (0.34%) Bitbucket
18 9 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 385 (11.84%) Finance
2 314 (9.66%) Social Skills
3 174 (5.35%) Public Sector
4 101 (3.11%) Marketing
5 90 (2.77%) Games
6 78 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (2.21%) Advertising
8 70 (2.15%) Retail
9 65 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 61 (1.88%) Banking
11 35 (1.08%) Law
11 35 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 33 (1.02%) Financial Institution
13 31 (0.95%) Legal
14 24 (0.74%) Tech for Good
15 18 (0.55%) Aerospace
16 16 (0.49%) Automotive
17 15 (0.46%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.43%) Legal Technology
19 13 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,879 (57.80%) Developer
2 1,027 (31.59%) Full-Stack Developer
3 802 (24.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 642 (19.75%) Senior
5 592 (18.21%) .NET Developer
6 529 (16.27%) Software Engineer
7 419 (12.89%) Lead
8 284 (8.74%) Software Developer
9 270 (8.31%) Senior Developer
10 240 (7.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 236 (7.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 178 (5.48%) Lead Developer
13 159 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
14 155 (4.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 149 (4.58%) Java Developer
16 125 (3.84%) Java Engineer
17 106 (3.26%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 98 (3.01%) Python Engineer
19 92 (2.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 89 (2.74%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,018 (31.31%) React
2 981 (30.18%) .NET
3 602 (18.52%) Node.js
4 555 (17.07%) ASP.NET
5 550 (16.92%) .NET Core
6 515 (15.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 431 (13.26%) AngularJS
8 420 (12.92%) CSS
9 399 (12.27%) HTML
10 368 (11.32%) RESTful
10 368 (11.32%) Vue
11 232 (7.14%) Entity Framework
12 226 (6.95%) REST
13 218 (6.71%) Blazor
14 207 (6.37%) Spring
15 185 (5.69%) ASP.NET Web API
16 168 (5.17%) Next.js
17 166 (5.11%) Spring Boot
18 157 (4.83%) Terraform
19 156 (4.80%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 302 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 153 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
3 123 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 85 (2.61%) AI Agents
5 84 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 83 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
7 77 (2.37%) Mobile App
8 72 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 47 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.11%) e-Learning
11 34 (1.05%) Low-Code
11 34 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
12 28 (0.86%) Onboarding
13 26 (0.80%) IoT
14 22 (0.68%) Virtual Team
15 20 (0.62%) Digital TV
16 19 (0.58%) Social Media
17 18 (0.55%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.52%) BBC
18 17 (0.52%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 60 (1.85%) Linux
2 26 (0.80%) Android
3 15 (0.46%) Windows
4 13 (0.40%) Unix
5 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.15%) VMS
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.092%) AIX
9 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.031%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (28.27%) Agile
2 914 (28.11%) Software Engineering
3 808 (24.85%) CI/CD
4 746 (22.95%) AI
5 579 (17.81%) Microservices
6 539 (16.58%) DevOps
7 351 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
8 306 (9.41%) Machine Learning
9 299 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 293 (9.01%) Mentoring
11 284 (8.74%) Test Automation
12 210 (6.46%) Scrum
13 203 (6.24%) Clean Code
14 192 (5.91%) TDD
15 191 (5.88%) Observability
16 185 (5.69%) Infrastructure as Code
17 178 (5.48%) Multithreading
18 173 (5.32%) Technical Leadership
19 172 (5.29%) LLM
20 168 (5.17%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 1,001 (30.79%) JavaScript
2 948 (29.16%) C#
3 907 (27.90%) TypeScript
4 775 (23.84%) SQL
5 599 (18.43%) Python
6 534 (16.43%) Java
7 102 (3.14%) Ruby
8 93 (2.86%) C++
9 88 (2.71%) PHP
10 81 (2.49%) Go
11 63 (1.94%) Kotlin
12 30 (0.92%) Bash
13 29 (0.89%) Groovy
14 26 (0.80%) Perl
15 18 (0.55%) Rust
16 13 (0.40%) Bicep
17 12 (0.37%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.22%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.18%) C
19 6 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 227 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 187 (5.75%) Degree
3 158 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 127 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 23 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.15%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.15%) PhD
13 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.092%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.092%) OCP
14 3 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.031%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (3.05%) QA
2 72 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.92%) WCAG
5 19 (0.58%) GDPR
6 8 (0.25%) NCSC
7 7 (0.22%) GRC
8 6 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.092%) NIST
11 2 (0.062%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.031%) ITGC
12 1 (0.031%) SLA
System Software
1 471 (14.49%) Docker
2 4 (0.12%) Firmware
3 3 (0.092%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 358 (11.01%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.65%) Ansible
3 20 (0.62%) Grafana
4 12 (0.37%) Podman
4 12 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.34%) HP Fortify
6 8 (0.25%) Kibana
7 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.18%) logstash
9 3 (0.092%) Argo
10 2 (0.062%) Bugsnag
10 2 (0.062%) Packer
10 2 (0.062%) Puppet
11 1 (0.031%) Consul
11 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.031%) Graylog
11 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 610 (18.76%) Microsoft
2 91 (2.80%) Google
3 59 (1.81%) Facebook
4 48 (1.48%) OpenAI
5 34 (1.05%) Oracle
6 25 (0.77%) YouTube
7 24 (0.74%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.65%) Splunk
9 17 (0.52%) AppDynamics
9 17 (0.52%) Apple
9 17 (0.52%) Sony
9 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.49%) Foundry
11 15 (0.46%) Adobe
11 15 (0.46%) Palantir
12 13 (0.40%) Mistral
13 10 (0.31%) Databricks
13 10 (0.31%) OneLogin
13 10 (0.31%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.31%) Sitecore