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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 107 44
Rank change year-on-year +57 -63 +30
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,342 1,373 3,333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.83% 2.77% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 3.11% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,696 822 1,949
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,502
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +0.00%

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 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 1 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 1 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 +68 3,049 £65,000 -7.14% 2,264
UK excluding London +88 2,300 £60,000 - 1,095
Work from Home +40 1,334 £60,000 -7.69% 996
London +13 896 £85,000 +3.03% 1,314
North of England +67 775 £65,000 +8.33% 344
South East +100 547 £60,000 - 189
North West +46 451 £70,000 +7.69% 229
South West +66 351 £65,000 +8.33% 145
Midlands +41 301 £55,000 -8.33% 137
Yorkshire +79 210 £70,000 +16.67% 91
West Midlands +22 168 £60,000 -4.00% 88
East of England +46 163 £60,000 +20.00% 97
East Midlands +19 133 £55,000 +15.79% 49
North East +9 114 £50,000 +5.26% 26
Scotland -5 99 £60,000 -9.43% 102
Wales -39 58 £68,750 +14.58% 24
Northern Ireland -78 11 £90,000 +50.00% 60
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 27 (0.81%) Confluence
3 18 (0.54%) WordPress
4 11 (0.33%) Apache
5 10 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.27%) IIS
7 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.21%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.15%) ColdFusion
10 5 (0.15%) nginx
11 4 (0.12%) Kentico
11 4 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.12%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.090%) DNN
12 3 (0.090%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.090%) Immediacy CMS
12 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
1 910 (27.23%) AWS
2 907 (27.14%) Azure
3 310 (9.28%) GitHub
4 240 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
5 232 (6.94%) SaaS
6 206 (6.16%) Serverless
7 186 (5.57%) GCP
8 182 (5.45%) GitHub Copilot
9 160 (4.79%) Azure AI
10 134 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
11 103 (3.08%) Amazon S3
12 87 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
14 72 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 65 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
16 59 (1.77%) Anthropic Claude
17 57 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
18 49 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
19 36 (1.08%) Snowflake
20 34 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.92%) Internet
2 38 (1.14%) Broadband
3 19 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.39%) DNS
4 13 (0.39%) 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%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.030%) Multicast
10 1 (0.030%) SCTP
10 1 (0.030%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.030%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 508 (15.20%) MongoDB
2 444 (13.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 229 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
4 195 (5.83%) SQL Server
5 158 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
6 102 (3.05%) Relational Database
7 96 (2.87%) NoSQL
8 88 (2.63%) MySQL
9 65 (1.94%) 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
17 9 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 245 (7.33%) Git
2 105 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 97 (2.90%) GitLab
4 63 (1.89%) JUnit
5 59 (1.77%) Cypress.io
6 47 (1.41%) 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 22 (0.66%) SonarQube
13 18 (0.54%) Mockito
14 15 (0.45%) Selenium
14 15 (0.45%) Storybook
15 14 (0.42%) Spock
16 13 (0.39%) NUnit
17 9 (0.27%) Postman
17 9 (0.27%) TeamCity
17 9 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 419 (12.54%) Finance
2 305 (9.13%) Social Skills
3 192 (5.75%) Public Sector
4 97 (2.90%) Marketing
5 79 (2.36%) Games
6 77 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
7 66 (1.97%) Advertising
7 66 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (1.97%) Retail
8 63 (1.89%) Banking
9 40 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 36 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 30 (0.90%) Law
12 28 (0.84%) Legal
13 27 (0.81%) Tech for Good
14 21 (0.63%) Automotive
15 19 (0.57%) Aerospace
16 14 (0.42%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.39%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,814 (54.28%) Developer
2 1,005 (30.07%) Full-Stack Developer
3 895 (26.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 707 (21.15%) Senior
5 563 (16.85%) .NET Developer
6 554 (16.58%) Software Engineer
7 425 (12.72%) Lead
8 283 (8.47%) Senior Developer
9 276 (8.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 270 (8.08%) Software Developer
11 248 (7.42%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 169 (5.06%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 169 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 158 (4.73%) Lead Developer
14 157 (4.70%) Java Engineer
15 148 (4.43%) Java Developer
16 104 (3.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
17 99 (2.96%) Python Engineer
18 96 (2.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 79 (2.36%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 998 (29.86%) React
2 949 (28.40%) .NET
3 581 (17.38%) Node.js
4 533 (15.95%) ASP.NET
5 527 (15.77%) .NET Core
6 497 (14.87%) ASP.NET Core
7 427 (12.78%) AngularJS
8 388 (11.61%) CSS
9 369 (11.04%) HTML
10 359 (10.74%) RESTful
11 341 (10.20%) Vue
12 234 (7.00%) REST
13 224 (6.70%) Entity Framework
14 211 (6.31%) Spring
15 209 (6.25%) Blazor
16 180 (5.39%) ASP.NET Web API
17 173 (5.18%) Next.js
17 173 (5.18%) Spring Boot
18 162 (4.85%) Terraform
19 148 (4.43%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 303 (9.07%) Cloud Native
2 146 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
3 133 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 104 (3.11%) AI Agents
5 91 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 78 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 73 (2.18%) Mobile App
8 67 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 39 (1.17%) e-Learning
11 28 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
12 27 (0.81%) IoT
12 27 (0.81%) Low-Code
13 22 (0.66%) Onboarding
14 21 (0.63%) 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 26 (0.78%) Android
3 15 (0.45%) Windows
4 14 (0.42%) Unix
5 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.12%) VMS
6 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.090%) AIX
7 3 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.030%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 959 (28.70%) Software Engineering
2 905 (27.08%) Agile
3 811 (24.27%) CI/CD
4 764 (22.86%) AI
5 569 (17.03%) Microservices
6 518 (15.50%) DevOps
7 353 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
8 288 (8.62%) Mentoring
9 283 (8.47%) Machine Learning
10 268 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 258 (7.72%) Test Automation
12 201 (6.01%) Clean Code
13 197 (5.89%) Scrum
14 193 (5.77%) Observability
15 189 (5.66%) LLM
16 179 (5.36%) TDD
17 178 (5.33%) Front End Development
18 177 (5.30%) Technical Leadership
19 172 (5.15%) Infrastructure as Code
20 171 (5.12%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 956 (28.61%) JavaScript
2 924 (27.65%) C#
3 893 (26.72%) TypeScript
4 741 (22.17%) SQL
5 608 (18.19%) Java
6 572 (17.12%) Python
7 103 (3.08%) Ruby
8 97 (2.90%) C++
9 89 (2.66%) Kotlin
10 84 (2.51%) PHP
11 75 (2.24%) Go
12 32 (0.96%) Bash
13 28 (0.84%) Groovy
14 26 (0.78%) Perl
15 25 (0.75%) Rust
16 12 (0.36%) Bicep
17 11 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.21%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.18%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 236 (7.06%) Security Cleared
2 195 (5.83%) Degree
3 162 (4.85%) SC Cleared
4 129 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 21 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (0.18%) PhD
13 4 (0.12%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.090%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.090%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.090%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (2.57%) QA
2 69 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 36 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 31 (0.93%) WCAG
5 19 (0.57%) 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%) GRC
10 2 (0.060%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.030%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.030%) SLA
System Software
1 475 (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 (11.13%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.69%) Ansible
3 21 (0.63%) Grafana
4 12 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.30%) HP Fortify
5 10 (0.30%) Kibana
6 7 (0.21%) logstash
6 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.18%) Podman
8 5 (0.15%) Argo
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
1 593 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 97 (2.90%) Google
3 56 (1.68%) Facebook
4 51 (1.53%) OpenAI
5 43 (1.29%) 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