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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 92 42
Rank change year-on-year +24 -50 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,447 1,433 4,991
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.68% 3.30% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 3.54% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,984 994 3,931
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -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 £57,046
% change year-on-year +8.33% +5.18% -0.79%

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 68,019 40,426 81,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.51% 93.00% 85.53%
Number of salaries quoted 42,516 22,659 59,588
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +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 6 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Top 19 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 6 May 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 +30 2,209 £70,000 +7.69% 884
UK excluding London +18 1,476 £65,000 +8.33% 675
Work from Home +22 919 £70,000 +7.69% 462
London +35 790 £85,000 +6.25% 330
North of England +28 451 £70,000 +21.74% 190
South East +28 370 £60,000 - 188
Midlands +8 246 £57,500 +9.52% 76
North West +10 232 £67,500 +10.20% 103
South West +12 214 £60,000 -4.00% 74
Yorkshire +41 159 £75,000 +36.36% 53
West Midlands +10 131 £60,000 +2.13% 29
East of England +32 116 £66,250 +20.45% 84
East Midlands -15 114 £55,000 +15.79% 47
North East +10 60 £60,000 +9.09% 34
Scotland -67 40 £60,000 -9.77% 40
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 8
Wales -38 20 £52,500 -25.00% 19
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £35,000 - 1

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 18 (0.74%) CMS
2 16 (0.65%) Confluence
3 14 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.45%) ColdFusion
5 10 (0.41%) WordPress
6 9 (0.37%) Apache
6 9 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.33%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.16%) Appian
11 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.16%) IIS
12 3 (0.12%) Liferay
12 3 (0.12%) nginx
13 2 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.082%) Drupal
13 2 (0.082%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.082%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Shopify
2 1 (0.041%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.041%) Magento
2 1 (0.041%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 705 (28.81%) AWS
2 459 (18.76%) Azure
3 229 (9.36%) SaaS
4 190 (7.76%) Serverless
5 162 (6.62%) GCP
6 133 (5.44%) GitHub
7 115 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
8 99 (4.05%) Amazon S3
9 89 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
10 65 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
11 60 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
12 48 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 44 (1.80%) Figma
14 27 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (1.10%) Power Platform
15 25 (1.02%) GitHub Copilot
16 23 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (0.94%) Apigee
16 23 (0.94%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.04%) Broadband
2 10 (0.41%) HTTP
3 7 (0.29%) Internet
4 6 (0.25%) DNS
5 5 (0.20%) Firewall
5 5 (0.20%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.082%) DHCP
6 2 (0.082%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.082%) LAN
6 2 (0.082%) VLAN
6 2 (0.082%) VPN
6 2 (0.082%) WAN
7 1 (0.041%) AMQP
7 1 (0.041%) MQTT
7 1 (0.041%) Multicast
7 1 (0.041%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.041%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.041%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.041%) VSAN
7 1 (0.041%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
2 155 (6.33%) MongoDB
3 121 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 116 (4.74%) NoSQL
5 66 (2.70%) MySQL
6 53 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 51 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 50 (2.04%) DynamoDB
9 22 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (0.86%) Redis
11 19 (0.78%) Power BI
12 14 (0.57%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.33%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.33%) DB2
16 7 (0.29%) GIS
17 6 (0.25%) MariaDB
18 4 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
18 4 (0.16%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 179 (7.32%) Git
2 97 (3.96%) Jenkins
3 65 (2.66%) Cypress.io
4 44 (1.80%) GitLab
5 38 (1.55%) JIRA
6 26 (1.06%) Maven
7 23 (0.94%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.78%) CircleCI
8 19 (0.78%) Vite
9 17 (0.69%) JUnit
10 15 (0.61%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.57%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.53%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.45%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.45%) Mockito
14 8 (0.33%) Selenium
15 7 (0.29%) ESLint
15 7 (0.29%) NUnit
16 6 (0.25%) webpack
17 4 (0.16%) IntelliJ
General
1 274 (11.20%) Social Skills
2 255 (10.42%) Finance
3 70 (2.86%) Public Sector
4 68 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (2.21%) Banking
6 51 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (1.88%) Retail
8 39 (1.59%) Front Office
8 39 (1.59%) Marketing
9 38 (1.55%) Law
10 37 (1.51%) Games
11 35 (1.43%) Tech for Good
12 28 (1.14%) Aviation
13 26 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 21 (0.86%) Health Technology
14 21 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (0.78%) Legal
16 18 (0.74%) Advertising
17 17 (0.69%) Investment Banking
18 12 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,415 (57.83%) Developer
2 986 (40.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 597 (24.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 558 (22.80%) Senior
5 449 (18.35%) Software Engineer
6 361 (14.75%) Lead
7 272 (11.12%) Senior Developer
8 197 (8.05%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 192 (7.85%) .NET Developer
9 192 (7.85%) Lead Developer
10 191 (7.81%) Software Developer
11 189 (7.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 157 (6.42%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 144 (5.88%) Java Developer
13 144 (5.88%) React Developer
14 126 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
15 108 (4.41%) Python Developer
16 90 (3.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 86 (3.51%) Full-Stack Python Developer
18 85 (3.47%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 847 (34.61%) React
2 491 (20.07%) .NET
3 477 (19.49%) Node.js
4 249 (10.18%) AngularJS
5 245 (10.01%) CSS
6 244 (9.97%) HTML
7 206 (8.42%) Vue
8 176 (7.19%) RESTful
9 163 (6.66%) .NET Core
9 163 (6.66%) Spring
10 139 (5.68%) REST
11 137 (5.60%) Spring Boot
12 126 (5.15%) Next.js
13 101 (4.13%) ASP.NET
14 76 (3.11%) GraphQL
15 68 (2.78%) Laravel
16 67 (2.74%) .NET Framework
17 66 (2.70%) React Native
18 65 (2.66%) Entity Framework
19 61 (2.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 172 (7.03%) Cloud Native
2 104 (4.25%) Greenfield Project
3 73 (2.98%) Product Ownership
4 67 (2.74%) Mobile App
5 62 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 47 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.43%) AI Agents
7 35 (1.43%) Fixed Income
8 32 (1.31%) IoT
9 26 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (0.94%) Low-Code
11 22 (0.90%) e-Learning
12 19 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (0.78%) Smart Energy
13 18 (0.74%) Onboarding
14 16 (0.65%) Virtual Team
15 15 (0.61%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (0.53%) Blog
16 13 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.31%) Linux
2 24 (0.98%) Android
3 20 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.25%) Windows
5 5 (0.20%) Unix
6 2 (0.082%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.041%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.041%) VMS
7 1 (0.041%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (31.22%) Software Engineering
2 509 (20.80%) Agile
3 453 (18.51%) CI/CD
4 383 (15.65%) AI
5 364 (14.88%) DevOps
6 330 (13.49%) Microservices
7 309 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
8 243 (9.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 240 (9.81%) Mentoring
10 197 (8.05%) Test Automation
11 170 (6.95%) User Experience
12 153 (6.25%) Containerisation
13 143 (5.84%) Clean Code
14 142 (5.80%) Web Development
15 141 (5.76%) Scrum
16 123 (5.03%) Infrastructure as Code
17 120 (4.90%) Technical Leadership
18 117 (4.78%) Machine Learning
19 116 (4.74%) Computer Science
20 113 (4.62%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 701 (28.65%) TypeScript
2 693 (28.32%) JavaScript
3 491 (20.07%) Python
4 448 (18.31%) Java
5 439 (17.94%) C#
6 322 (13.16%) SQL
7 100 (4.09%) PHP
8 63 (2.57%) Go
9 53 (2.17%) Ruby
10 31 (1.27%) Bash
11 24 (0.98%) C++
12 17 (0.69%) C
12 17 (0.69%) Groovy
13 16 (0.65%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.49%) Bicep
14 12 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.29%) Rust
16 6 (0.25%) R
16 6 (0.25%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 169 (6.91%) Security Cleared
2 122 (4.99%) SC Cleared
3 121 (4.94%) Degree
4 79 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 17 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.20%) PhD
12 2 (0.082%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.041%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.041%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.041%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.041%) MBA
13 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.21%) QA
2 44 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.41%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.41%) GDPR
4 7 (0.29%) GRC
5 6 (0.25%) SLA
5 6 (0.25%) WCAG
6 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.082%) HL7
7 2 (0.082%) ITGC
7 2 (0.082%) NCSC
7 2 (0.082%) NIST
8 1 (0.041%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.041%) PERC
8 1 (0.041%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.041%) SOC 2
System Software
1 245 (10.01%) Docker
2 8 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.12%) Firmware
5 2 (0.082%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.082%) vSphere
6 1 (0.041%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 166 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 118 (4.82%) Terraform
3 33 (1.35%) Grafana
4 29 (1.19%) Ansible
5 20 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.57%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.53%) Podman
8 10 (0.41%) Argo
9 7 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.25%) Kibana
11 4 (0.16%) logstash
12 3 (0.12%) Nagios
13 1 (0.041%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.041%) Graylog
13 1 (0.041%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 162 (6.62%) Microsoft
2 35 (1.43%) Google
3 34 (1.39%) OpenAI
4 32 (1.31%) Adobe
5 25 (1.02%) Oracle
6 11 (0.45%) Foundry
7 10 (0.41%) Palantir
7 10 (0.41%) Salesforce
8 8 (0.33%) Peregrine
9 7 (0.29%) Facebook
10 6 (0.25%) Databricks
10 6 (0.25%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.25%) Pega
11 5 (0.20%) Apple
11 5 (0.20%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.20%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.20%) WooCommerce
12 4 (0.16%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.16%) DevExpress
12 4 (0.16%) Splunk