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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 105 44
Rank change year-on-year +55 -61 +35
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,274 1,390 3,623
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.88% 2.80% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 3.16% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,697 828 2,204
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% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £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 - - +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 82,871 44,018 63,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.00% 88.61% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 57,674 24,857 36,941
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.67%

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 11 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 11 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 +64 2,975 £65,000 -7.14% 1,330
UK excluding London +80 2,287 £60,000 - 757
Work from Home +46 1,367 £60,000 -7.69% 590
London +11 832 £85,000 +3.03% 751
North of England +67 761 £65,000 +8.33% 197
South East +104 562 £60,000 - 161
North West +45 422 £65,000 -3.70% 110
South West +63 327 £60,000 - 110
Midlands +42 299 £55,000 -8.33% 102
Yorkshire +68 213 £70,000 +16.67% 66
East of England +50 176 £60,000 +33.33% 72
West Midlands +34 166 £60,000 -4.00% 46
East Midlands +13 133 £55,000 +15.79% 56
North East +21 126 £51,000 +17.92% 24
Scotland -7 101 £60,000 -7.69% 78
Wales -30 60 £60,000 - 16
Northern Ireland -74 6 £90,000 +50.00% 26
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 (0.79%) CMS
2 24 (0.73%) Confluence
3 17 (0.52%) WordPress
4 10 (0.31%) Apache
4 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.27%) IIS
6 8 (0.24%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.18%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.092%) DNN
10 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.092%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.092%) Kentico
10 3 (0.092%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.092%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.092%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.061%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.061%) 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
1 931 (28.44%) Azure
2 920 (28.10%) AWS
3 318 (9.71%) GitHub
4 248 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
5 231 (7.06%) SaaS
6 206 (6.29%) Serverless
7 188 (5.74%) GCP
8 187 (5.71%) GitHub Copilot
9 165 (5.04%) Azure AI
10 138 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
11 103 (3.15%) Amazon S3
12 89 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
14 76 (2.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 65 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
16 58 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
17 57 (1.74%) Anthropic Claude
18 54 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
19 34 (1.04%) Power Platform
20 33 (1.01%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.92%) Internet
2 50 (1.53%) Broadband
3 17 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.40%) DNS
5 11 (0.34%) Firewall
5 11 (0.34%) HTTP
6 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
7 5 (0.15%) MQTT
7 5 (0.15%) VoIP
8 3 (0.092%) DHCP
9 2 (0.061%) AMQP
9 2 (0.061%) LAN
9 2 (0.061%) Network Security
9 2 (0.061%) VPN
9 2 (0.061%) WAN
10 1 (0.031%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.031%) Multicast
10 1 (0.031%) SCTP
10 1 (0.031%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 529 (16.16%) MongoDB
2 461 (14.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 229 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
4 184 (5.62%) SQL Server
5 160 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
6 109 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 94 (2.87%) MySQL
8 85 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 70 (2.14%) DynamoDB
10 59 (1.80%) Redis
11 28 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.64%) Power BI
13 17 (0.52%) Spark SQL
14 12 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.31%) GIS
17 9 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.27%) Pinecone
17 9 (0.27%) RDBMS
18 8 (0.24%) Chroma
Development Applications
1 247 (7.54%) Git
2 105 (3.21%) Jenkins
3 91 (2.78%) GitLab
4 65 (1.99%) Cypress.io
5 61 (1.86%) JUnit
6 45 (1.37%) Claude Code
7 39 (1.19%) JIRA
8 38 (1.16%) Maven
9 31 (0.95%) Subversion
10 29 (0.89%) Eclipse
11 24 (0.73%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.52%) Vite
13 16 (0.49%) Mockito
14 15 (0.46%) Selenium
15 14 (0.43%) Spock
16 13 (0.40%) Storybook
17 12 (0.37%) CircleCI
18 11 (0.34%) Bitbucket
18 11 (0.34%) NUnit
19 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
General
1 393 (12.00%) Finance
2 308 (9.41%) Social Skills
3 178 (5.44%) Public Sector
4 101 (3.08%) Marketing
5 88 (2.69%) Games
6 75 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (2.20%) Advertising
8 70 (2.14%) Retail
9 66 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 62 (1.89%) Banking
11 36 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 34 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 34 (1.04%) Law
13 30 (0.92%) Legal
14 23 (0.70%) Tech for Good
15 19 (0.58%) Aerospace
16 17 (0.52%) Automotive
17 15 (0.46%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
18 13 (0.40%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,880 (57.42%) Developer
2 1,029 (31.43%) Full-Stack Developer
3 817 (24.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 649 (19.82%) Senior
5 590 (18.02%) .NET Developer
6 529 (16.16%) Software Engineer
7 422 (12.89%) Lead
8 282 (8.61%) Software Developer
9 273 (8.34%) Senior Developer
10 246 (7.51%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 236 (7.21%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 178 (5.44%) Lead Developer
13 159 (4.86%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 158 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
15 151 (4.61%) Java Developer
16 126 (3.85%) Java Engineer
17 106 (3.24%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 98 (2.99%) Python Engineer
19 94 (2.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 89 (2.72%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,016 (31.03%) React
2 979 (29.90%) .NET
3 601 (18.36%) Node.js
4 552 (16.86%) ASP.NET
5 548 (16.74%) .NET Core
6 513 (15.67%) ASP.NET Core
7 431 (13.16%) AngularJS
8 417 (12.74%) CSS
9 397 (12.13%) HTML
10 369 (11.27%) Vue
11 367 (11.21%) RESTful
12 230 (7.03%) Entity Framework
13 226 (6.90%) REST
14 218 (6.66%) Blazor
15 208 (6.35%) Spring
16 184 (5.62%) ASP.NET Web API
17 167 (5.10%) Spring Boot
18 166 (5.07%) Next.js
19 160 (4.89%) Terraform
20 156 (4.76%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 307 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 150 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
3 125 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (2.75%) AI Agents
5 85 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 82 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 76 (2.32%) Mobile App
8 71 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 48 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.10%) e-Learning
11 34 (1.04%) Low-Code
11 34 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
12 27 (0.82%) Onboarding
13 26 (0.79%) IoT
14 22 (0.67%) Virtual Team
15 20 (0.61%) 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 59 (1.80%) Linux
2 25 (0.76%) Android
3 15 (0.46%) Windows
4 13 (0.40%) Unix
5 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.24%) 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
1 920 (28.10%) Agile
2 914 (27.92%) Software Engineering
3 808 (24.68%) CI/CD
4 749 (22.88%) AI
5 578 (17.65%) Microservices
6 539 (16.46%) DevOps
7 349 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
8 305 (9.32%) Machine Learning
9 295 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 292 (8.92%) Mentoring
11 280 (8.55%) Test Automation
12 209 (6.38%) Scrum
13 203 (6.20%) Clean Code
14 191 (5.83%) TDD
15 189 (5.77%) Observability
16 184 (5.62%) Infrastructure as Code
17 178 (5.44%) Multithreading
18 174 (5.31%) LLM
18 174 (5.31%) Technical Leadership
19 168 (5.13%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 1,000 (30.54%) JavaScript
2 947 (28.92%) C#
3 907 (27.70%) TypeScript
4 769 (23.49%) SQL
5 594 (18.14%) Python
6 539 (16.46%) Java
7 104 (3.18%) Ruby
8 94 (2.87%) C++
9 90 (2.75%) PHP
10 82 (2.50%) Go
11 69 (2.11%) Kotlin
12 31 (0.95%) Bash
13 29 (0.89%) Groovy
14 26 (0.79%) Perl
15 19 (0.58%) Rust
16 12 (0.37%) Bicep
16 12 (0.37%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.21%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.21%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 232 (7.09%) Security Cleared
2 186 (5.68%) Degree
3 159 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 126 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 23 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 18 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.18%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.18%) PhD
13 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.092%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.092%) OCP
14 3 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.061%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (3.02%) QA
2 70 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.92%) WCAG
5 20 (0.61%) GDPR
6 9 (0.27%) NCSC
7 7 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.18%) GRC
9 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.12%) NIST
11 2 (0.061%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.031%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.031%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.031%) ITGC
12 1 (0.031%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.031%) SLA
System Software
1 468 (14.29%) Docker
2 4 (0.12%) Firmware
3 3 (0.092%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 359 (10.97%) Kubernetes
2 22 (0.67%) Ansible
3 21 (0.64%) Grafana
4 12 (0.37%) Podman
4 12 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.34%) HP Fortify
6 10 (0.31%) Kibana
7 7 (0.21%) logstash
7 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.092%) Argo
9 2 (0.061%) Bugsnag
9 2 (0.061%) Packer
9 2 (0.061%) Puppet
10 1 (0.031%) Consul
10 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.031%) Graylog
10 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 608 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 94 (2.87%) Google
3 59 (1.80%) Facebook
4 48 (1.47%) OpenAI
5 36 (1.10%) Oracle
6 25 (0.76%) YouTube
7 23 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 22 (0.67%) Splunk
9 17 (0.52%) AppDynamics
9 17 (0.52%) Apple
9 17 (0.52%) Sony
9 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
10 15 (0.46%) Adobe
11 13 (0.40%) Foundry
11 13 (0.40%) Mistral
12 12 (0.37%) Palantir
13 11 (0.34%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.34%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.31%) Databricks
14 10 (0.31%) OneLogin