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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 105 44
Rank change year-on-year +54 -61 +30
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,293 1,376 3,512
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.84% 2.80% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 3.16% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,692 821 2,111
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £49,383
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 £81,454
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £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 84,797 43,558 63,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.01% 88.68% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,554 24,566 35,554
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,781 £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 £77,500
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% -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 21 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 21 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 +62 3,000 £65,000 -7.14% 2,825
UK excluding London +82 2,280 £60,000 - 1,372
Work from Home +41 1,332 £60,000 -7.69% 1,288
London +10 866 £85,000 - 1,687
North of England +59 758 £65,000 +8.33% 418
South East +100 553 £60,000 - 268
North West +43 431 £65,000 - 256
South West +63 333 £60,000 - 175
Midlands +37 303 £55,000 -8.33% 164
Yorkshire +77 210 £70,000 +16.67% 111
East of England +44 171 £60,000 +33.33% 116
West Midlands +22 170 £60,000 -4.00% 89
East Midlands +20 133 £55,000 +15.79% 75
North East +13 117 £52,000 +9.47% 54
Scotland -10 99 £60,000 -9.43% 146
Wales -32 59 £67,500 +12.50% 22
Northern Ireland -76 9 £90,000 +50.00% 66
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 29 (0.88%) CMS
2 27 (0.82%) Confluence
3 17 (0.52%) WordPress
4 10 (0.30%) Apache
4 10 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.27%) IIS
6 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.21%) ColdFusion
7 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.15%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) nginx
11 3 (0.091%) DNN
11 3 (0.091%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.091%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.091%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.061%) Elementor
2 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.061%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.030%) Magento
3 1 (0.030%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.030%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 912 (27.70%) AWS
2 909 (27.60%) Azure
3 312 (9.47%) GitHub
4 242 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
5 234 (7.11%) SaaS
6 210 (6.38%) Serverless
7 182 (5.53%) GCP
7 182 (5.53%) GitHub Copilot
8 160 (4.86%) Azure AI
9 139 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (3.19%) Amazon S3
11 89 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
12 79 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
13 76 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 64 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
15 59 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
15 59 (1.79%) Anthropic Claude
16 53 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
17 34 (1.03%) Snowflake
18 33 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.91%) Internet
2 38 (1.15%) Broadband
3 17 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.39%) DNS
5 12 (0.36%) HTTP
6 11 (0.33%) Firewall
7 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.15%) MQTT
8 5 (0.15%) VoIP
9 3 (0.091%) DHCP
10 2 (0.061%) AMQP
10 2 (0.061%) LAN
10 2 (0.061%) Network Security
10 2 (0.061%) VPN
10 2 (0.061%) WAN
11 1 (0.030%) BGP
11 1 (0.030%) FTP
11 1 (0.030%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.030%) RTP
11 1 (0.030%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 507 (15.40%) MongoDB
2 447 (13.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 221 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
4 191 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 159 (4.83%) Elasticsearch
6 106 (3.22%) NoSQL
7 92 (2.79%) Relational Database
8 91 (2.76%) MySQL
9 69 (2.10%) DynamoDB
10 63 (1.91%) Redis
11 30 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (0.61%) Power BI
13 17 (0.52%) 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 (7.44%) Git
2 104 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 95 (2.88%) GitLab
4 62 (1.88%) JUnit
5 61 (1.85%) Cypress.io
6 47 (1.43%) Claude Code
7 40 (1.21%) JIRA
8 38 (1.15%) Maven
9 31 (0.94%) Subversion
10 29 (0.88%) Eclipse
11 24 (0.73%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.64%) Vite
13 17 (0.52%) Mockito
14 15 (0.46%) Selenium
15 14 (0.43%) Spock
15 14 (0.43%) Storybook
16 13 (0.39%) NUnit
17 9 (0.27%) Bitbucket
17 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
17 9 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 405 (12.30%) Finance
2 308 (9.35%) Social Skills
3 182 (5.53%) Public Sector
4 97 (2.95%) Marketing
5 80 (2.43%) Games
6 76 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
7 68 (2.06%) Advertising
7 68 (2.06%) Retail
8 64 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 63 (1.91%) Banking
10 37 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 36 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 31 (0.94%) Law
13 28 (0.85%) Legal
14 25 (0.76%) Tech for Good
15 20 (0.61%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.58%) Automotive
17 15 (0.46%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (0.36%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,842 (55.94%) Developer
2 1,020 (30.97%) Full-Stack Developer
3 853 (25.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 671 (20.38%) Senior
5 575 (17.46%) .NET Developer
6 541 (16.43%) Software Engineer
7 425 (12.91%) Lead
8 279 (8.47%) Software Developer
9 277 (8.41%) Senior Developer
10 259 (7.87%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 240 (7.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 171 (5.19%) Lead Developer
13 163 (4.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 163 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
14 150 (4.56%) Java Developer
15 139 (4.22%) Java Engineer
16 107 (3.25%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
17 100 (3.04%) Python Engineer
18 96 (2.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 82 (2.49%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,000 (30.37%) React
2 961 (29.18%) .NET
3 585 (17.76%) Node.js
4 535 (16.25%) ASP.NET
5 533 (16.19%) .NET Core
6 498 (15.12%) ASP.NET Core
7 430 (13.06%) AngularJS
8 407 (12.36%) CSS
9 387 (11.75%) HTML
10 360 (10.93%) RESTful
11 355 (10.78%) Vue
12 227 (6.89%) Entity Framework
13 224 (6.80%) REST
14 211 (6.41%) Blazor
15 209 (6.35%) Spring
16 182 (5.53%) ASP.NET Web API
17 169 (5.13%) Next.js
17 169 (5.13%) Spring Boot
18 163 (4.95%) Terraform
19 148 (4.49%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 302 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 145 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
3 128 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (3.01%) AI Agents
5 89 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 75 (2.28%) Product Ownership
7 74 (2.25%) Mobile App
8 67 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 45 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.12%) e-Learning
11 28 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
12 27 (0.82%) IoT
12 27 (0.82%) Low-Code
13 23 (0.70%) Onboarding
14 22 (0.67%) Virtual Team
15 19 (0.58%) Digital TV
16 18 (0.55%) Social Media
17 17 (0.52%) iPhone
18 16 (0.49%) BBC
19 15 (0.46%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 59 (1.79%) Linux
2 24 (0.73%) Android
3 15 (0.46%) Windows
4 14 (0.43%) 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 (0.091%) AIX
9 3 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.030%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (28.18%) Software Engineering
2 904 (27.45%) Agile
3 809 (24.57%) CI/CD
4 756 (22.96%) AI
5 574 (17.43%) Microservices
6 528 (16.03%) DevOps
7 355 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
8 289 (8.78%) Machine Learning
9 288 (8.75%) Mentoring
10 273 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 268 (8.14%) Test Automation
12 198 (6.01%) Clean Code
13 197 (5.98%) Scrum
14 192 (5.83%) Observability
15 184 (5.59%) LLM
15 184 (5.59%) TDD
16 178 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
17 177 (5.38%) Front End Development
18 176 (5.34%) Technical Leadership
19 172 (5.22%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 975 (29.61%) JavaScript
2 935 (28.39%) C#
3 901 (27.36%) TypeScript
4 754 (22.90%) SQL
5 580 (17.61%) Python
6 564 (17.13%) Java
7 106 (3.22%) Ruby
8 96 (2.92%) C++
9 88 (2.67%) PHP
10 76 (2.31%) Go
11 73 (2.22%) Kotlin
12 33 (1.00%) Bash
13 30 (0.91%) Groovy
14 26 (0.79%) Perl
15 20 (0.61%) Rust
16 13 (0.39%) Bicep
17 12 (0.36%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.21%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.18%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 240 (7.29%) Security Cleared
2 192 (5.83%) Degree
3 166 (5.04%) SC Cleared
4 128 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 24 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 18 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.21%) PhD
13 6 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.091%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.091%) ICAEW
15 3 (0.091%) OCP
15 3 (0.091%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (2.73%) QA
2 66 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.91%) WCAG
5 19 (0.58%) GDPR
6 10 (0.30%) NCSC
7 8 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.15%) NIST
8 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.091%) GRC
10 2 (0.061%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.061%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.061%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.061%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.030%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.030%) SLA
System Software
1 466 (14.15%) Docker
2 4 (0.12%) Firmware
3 3 (0.091%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.030%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 362 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.64%) Ansible
2 21 (0.64%) Grafana
3 13 (0.39%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.36%) 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 4 (0.12%) Argo
9 2 (0.061%) Bugsnag
9 2 (0.061%) Packer
9 2 (0.061%) Puppet
10 1 (0.030%) Consul
10 1 (0.030%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.030%) Graylog
10 1 (0.030%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 594 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 91 (2.76%) Google
3 56 (1.70%) Facebook
4 50 (1.52%) OpenAI
5 39 (1.18%) Oracle
6 25 (0.76%) YouTube
7 23 (0.70%) Splunk
8 21 (0.64%) Salesforce
9 17 (0.52%) AppDynamics
10 16 (0.49%) Apple
10 16 (0.49%) Foundry
10 16 (0.49%) Sony
10 16 (0.49%) Yahoo!
11 14 (0.43%) Adobe
11 14 (0.43%) Mistral
12 13 (0.39%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.36%) Dynatrace
13 12 (0.36%) Palantir
14 11 (0.33%) Databricks
15 10 (0.30%) OneLogin