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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 95 36
Rank change year-on-year +49 -59 +34
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,994 1,462 5,554
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.15% 3.23% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 3.50% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,481 902 4,309
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,595 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% 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 69,604 41,717 88,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 92.25% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 48,009 22,461 62,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +53 2,720 £65,000 -5.11% 668
UK excluding London +52 1,984 £60,000 - 533
Work from Home +44 1,303 £60,000 -7.69% 325
London +25 855 £85,000 +3.03% 283
North of England +66 659 £65,000 - 127
South East +80 475 £60,000 - 154
North West +36 353 £65,000 - 69
Midlands +40 286 £55,000 -6.38% 68
South West +40 263 £60,000 -4.00% 55
Yorkshire +76 205 £70,000 +12.00% 38
East of England +48 168 £60,000 +20.00% 57
East Midlands +22 145 £55,000 +15.79% 39
West Midlands +24 140 £55,000 -12.00% 29
North East +16 101 £55,000 +26.44% 21
Scotland -32 67 £60,000 -11.11% 37
Wales -30 45 £60,000 -14.29% 17
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 23
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 28 (0.94%) CMS
2 20 (0.67%) Confluence
3 12 (0.40%) WordPress
4 11 (0.37%) Apache
4 11 (0.37%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.33%) ColdFusion
6 9 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
7 8 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.13%) IIS
10 4 (0.13%) nginx
10 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.067%) Kentico
Applications
1 5 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.17%) Shopify
2 2 (0.067%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.033%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.033%) Magento
3 1 (0.033%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.033%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 887 (29.63%) AWS
2 812 (27.12%) Azure
3 238 (7.95%) GitHub
4 230 (7.68%) SaaS
5 213 (7.11%) Serverless
6 209 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
7 172 (5.74%) GCP
8 133 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
9 124 (4.14%) Azure AI
10 123 (4.11%) GitHub Copilot
11 107 (3.57%) Amazon S3
12 79 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
13 73 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 72 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
15 53 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
16 49 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 43 (1.44%) Figma
18 42 (1.40%) Power Platform
19 35 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
20 30 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.44%) Broadband
2 45 (1.50%) Internet
3 8 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
4 7 (0.23%) Firewall
4 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.17%) DNS
5 5 (0.17%) HTTP
6 4 (0.13%) MQTT
7 3 (0.10%) LAN
7 3 (0.10%) VPN
7 3 (0.10%) WAN
8 2 (0.067%) AMQP
8 2 (0.067%) Network Security
8 2 (0.067%) VoIP
9 1 (0.033%) Multicast
9 1 (0.033%) SCTP
9 1 (0.033%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.033%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.033%) VoLTE
9 1 (0.033%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 433 (14.46%) MongoDB
2 347 (11.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 198 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
4 141 (4.71%) SQL Server
5 120 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
6 112 (3.74%) NoSQL
7 89 (2.97%) MySQL
8 75 (2.51%) Relational Database
9 60 (2.00%) DynamoDB
10 30 (1.00%) Redis
11 24 (0.80%) Power BI
12 18 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.37%) GIS
13 11 (0.37%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (0.30%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.23%) MariaDB
16 7 (0.23%) NonStop SQL
17 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 212 (7.08%) Git
2 99 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 62 (2.07%) GitLab
4 58 (1.94%) Cypress.io
5 41 (1.37%) JIRA
6 37 (1.24%) JUnit
7 36 (1.20%) Claude Code
8 33 (1.10%) Maven
9 21 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 19 (0.63%) Eclipse
10 19 (0.63%) Vite
11 18 (0.60%) Subversion
12 16 (0.53%) Mockito
13 15 (0.50%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.37%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.30%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.27%) Storybook
16 8 (0.27%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.23%) Selenium
18 6 (0.20%) Spock
General
1 351 (11.72%) Finance
2 303 (10.12%) Social Skills
3 97 (3.24%) Public Sector
4 83 (2.77%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (2.77%) Games
5 81 (2.71%) Marketing
6 63 (2.10%) Retail
7 58 (1.94%) Advertising
8 56 (1.87%) Banking
9 51 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.30%) Front Office
11 38 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 36 (1.20%) Law
13 34 (1.14%) Legal
14 30 (1.00%) Tech for Good
15 21 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (0.60%) Aviation
16 18 (0.60%) Health Technology
17 16 (0.53%) Automotive
18 15 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,787 (59.69%) Developer
2 1,003 (33.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 684 (22.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 617 (20.61%) Senior
5 540 (18.04%) Software Engineer
6 495 (16.53%) .NET Developer
7 391 (13.06%) Lead
8 278 (9.29%) Senior Developer
9 247 (8.25%) Software Developer
10 227 (7.58%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 202 (6.75%) Lead Developer
12 182 (6.08%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 179 (5.98%) Java Developer
14 176 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 153 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
16 122 (4.07%) React Developer
17 116 (3.87%) Java Engineer
18 106 (3.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 100 (3.34%) Python Developer
20 91 (3.04%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 986 (32.93%) React
2 843 (28.16%) .NET
3 566 (18.90%) Node.js
4 451 (15.06%) .NET Core
5 407 (13.59%) ASP.NET
6 389 (12.99%) AngularJS
7 376 (12.56%) ASP.NET Core
8 368 (12.29%) CSS
9 358 (11.96%) HTML
10 339 (11.32%) Vue
11 304 (10.15%) RESTful
12 194 (6.48%) Spring
13 178 (5.95%) Entity Framework
14 166 (5.54%) REST
15 162 (5.41%) Blazor
16 154 (5.14%) Spring Boot
17 143 (4.78%) Next.js
18 138 (4.61%) ASP.NET Web API
19 117 (3.91%) ML.NET
20 98 (3.27%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 255 (8.52%) Cloud Native
2 150 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
3 92 (3.07%) Mobile App
4 86 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 76 (2.54%) Product Ownership
6 60 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
8 52 (1.74%) AI Agents
9 41 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 36 (1.20%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.07%) e-Learning
12 32 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
13 29 (0.97%) IoT
14 28 (0.94%) Onboarding
15 19 (0.63%) Virtual Team
16 18 (0.60%) Social Media
17 17 (0.57%) Data Structures
17 17 (0.57%) Digital TV
18 16 (0.53%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.84%) Linux
2 28 (0.94%) Android
3 12 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.33%) Unix
4 10 (0.33%) Windows
5 3 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.067%) AIX
7 1 (0.033%) Debian
7 1 (0.033%) VMS
7 1 (0.033%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 920 (30.73%) Software Engineering
2 779 (26.02%) Agile
3 639 (21.34%) CI/CD
4 606 (20.24%) AI
5 513 (17.13%) DevOps
6 479 (16.00%) Microservices
7 363 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 292 (9.75%) Mentoring
9 290 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 256 (8.55%) Machine Learning
11 233 (7.78%) Test Automation
12 186 (6.21%) Scrum
13 179 (5.98%) Containerisation
14 170 (5.68%) Infrastructure as Code
15 168 (5.61%) TDD
16 167 (5.58%) Clean Code
17 155 (5.18%) User Experience
18 144 (4.81%) Computer Science
19 143 (4.78%) Observability
20 139 (4.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 856 (28.59%) JavaScript
2 852 (28.46%) TypeScript
3 786 (26.25%) C#
4 644 (21.51%) SQL
5 577 (19.27%) Python
6 507 (16.93%) Java
7 99 (3.31%) PHP
8 90 (3.01%) Go
9 67 (2.24%) Ruby
10 64 (2.14%) C++
11 32 (1.07%) Bash
12 24 (0.80%) Groovy
13 18 (0.60%) Rust
14 15 (0.50%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.43%) Perl
17 12 (0.40%) Bicep
18 9 (0.30%) C
19 8 (0.27%) T-SQL
20 6 (0.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 200 (6.68%) Security Cleared
2 158 (5.28%) Degree
3 148 (4.94%) SC Cleared
4 111 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 19 (0.63%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.13%) PhD
14 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.067%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 1 (0.033%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.033%) CCNA
16 1 (0.033%) CCNP
16 1 (0.033%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (3.31%) QA
2 55 (1.84%) Accessibility
3 23 (0.77%) WCAG
4 16 (0.53%) GDPR
5 11 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.23%) GRC
7 6 (0.20%) NCSC
8 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.10%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.10%) SLA
10 2 (0.067%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.067%) ITGC
10 2 (0.067%) NIST
11 1 (0.033%) HL7
11 1 (0.033%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.033%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.033%) SOC 2
System Software
1 382 (12.76%) Docker
2 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.10%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.067%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.067%) vSphere
6 1 (0.033%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 278 (9.29%) Kubernetes
2 140 (4.68%) Terraform
3 33 (1.10%) Grafana
4 25 (0.84%) Ansible
5 20 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.43%) Podman
7 10 (0.33%) HP Fortify
7 10 (0.33%) Kibana
8 6 (0.20%) logstash
9 5 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.13%) Argo
11 2 (0.067%) Nagios
12 1 (0.033%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.033%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.033%) Graylog
12 1 (0.033%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.033%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 477 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 63 (2.10%) Google
3 43 (1.44%) Facebook
4 36 (1.20%) Adobe
5 35 (1.17%) OpenAI
6 29 (0.97%) Oracle
7 22 (0.73%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.70%) Palantir
9 20 (0.67%) Foundry
10 16 (0.53%) YouTube
11 14 (0.47%) Apple
12 13 (0.43%) Sony
12 13 (0.43%) Yahoo!
13 11 (0.37%) Splunk
14 9 (0.30%) AppDynamics
14 9 (0.30%) Databricks
14 9 (0.30%) Sitecore
15 8 (0.27%) Dynatrace
16 7 (0.23%) OneLogin
17 6 (0.20%) Palo Alto