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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 51 67
Rank change year-on-year -58 +16 -7
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,225 2,794 2,131
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.26% 4.37% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 5.09% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 950 1,468 1,906
10th Percentile £44,875 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £114,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

All Process and 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 45,523 54,873 47,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.89% 85.86% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 28,510 36,562
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,905 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 -55 1,098 £70,000 +7.69% 1,020
UK excluding London -87 637 £60,000 +9.09% 929
London -16 525 £90,000 +5.88% 306
Work from Home -46 463 £70,000 +12.00% 500
North of England -53 171 £60,000 +4.35% 207
South East -84 168 £60,000 - 323
Midlands -58 103 £60,000 +20.00% 146
North West -22 86 £65,000 +13.04% 105
South West -44 85 £60,000 +9.09% 103
West Midlands -25 61 £60,000 +9.09% 84
Yorkshire -54 61 £63,750 +15.91% 66
East of England -75 44 £60,000 - 91
Scotland -41 42 £67,500 +22.73% 30
East Midlands -50 42 £60,000 +41.18% 60
North East -9 24 £50,000 -16.67% 39
Wales -28 21 £60,000 +9.09% 28
Northern Ireland -21 6 £72,500 +16.00% 8
Channel Islands +5 1 £90,000 -

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 14 (1.14%) CMS
2 10 (0.82%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.65%) Headless CMS
5 7 (0.57%) Confluence
6 6 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.49%) IIS
6 6 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.41%) nginx
8 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.24%) Apache
9 3 (0.24%) Appian
9 3 (0.24%) Drupal
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.24%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) Camunda
10 2 (0.16%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.082%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.24%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.082%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 9 (0.73%) Shopify
2 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 499 (40.73%) AWS
2 431 (35.18%) Azure
3 132 (10.78%) SaaS
4 130 (10.61%) Serverless
5 114 (9.31%) GitHub
6 108 (8.82%) GCP
7 69 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (4.00%) Amazon S3
11 46 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (2.53%) PaaS
14 26 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (1.96%) Azure App Service
15 24 (1.96%) Entra ID
16 23 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 23 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
17 21 (1.71%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.57%) HTTP
2 6 (0.49%) Firewall
3 4 (0.33%) WAN
4 3 (0.24%) Broadband
4 3 (0.24%) DNS
4 3 (0.24%) LAN
4 3 (0.24%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.24%) VLAN
4 3 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.16%) AMQP
5 2 (0.16%) DHCP
6 1 (0.082%) Internet
6 1 (0.082%) MQTT
6 1 (0.082%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.082%) SAN
6 1 (0.082%) SNMP
6 1 (0.082%) SSL
6 1 (0.082%) VPN
6 1 (0.082%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (11.02%) SQL Server
2 116 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
3 96 (7.84%) NoSQL
4 90 (7.35%) MongoDB
5 87 (7.10%) Relational Database
6 65 (5.31%) MySQL
7 47 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (2.78%) RDBMS
9 24 (1.96%) Redis
10 23 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (1.47%) DynamoDB
12 17 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.98%) Power BI
14 10 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.57%) Big Data
15 7 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
16 6 (0.49%) Pinecone
17 5 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
17 5 (0.41%) Oracle Database
17 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 165 (13.47%) Git
2 63 (5.14%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.59%) Cypress.io
4 40 (3.27%) JIRA
5 34 (2.78%) JUnit
6 24 (1.96%) JMeter
6 24 (1.96%) Mockito
7 21 (1.71%) GitLab
8 16 (1.31%) Visual Studio
9 15 (1.22%) webpack
10 12 (0.98%) Maven
10 12 (0.98%) Vite
11 9 (0.73%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.57%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.57%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.49%) Selenium
15 5 (0.41%) Mocha
General
1 272 (22.20%) Social Skills
2 205 (16.73%) Finance
3 98 (8.00%) Law
4 67 (5.47%) Public Sector
5 61 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (4.08%) Marketing
7 49 (4.00%) Banking
8 45 (3.67%) Front Office
9 42 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
10 31 (2.53%) Investment Banking
11 27 (2.20%) Legal
11 27 (2.20%) Retail
12 19 (1.55%) Health Technology
13 12 (0.98%) Back Office
14 11 (0.90%) Games
14 11 (0.90%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.90%) Tech for Good
15 10 (0.82%) Advertising
15 10 (0.82%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 720 (58.78%) Developer
2 489 (39.92%) Full-Stack Developer
3 269 (21.96%) Senior
4 245 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 227 (18.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 173 (14.12%) Lead
7 150 (12.24%) Senior Developer
8 126 (10.29%) .NET Developer
9 105 (8.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 101 (8.24%) Java Developer
11 97 (7.92%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 93 (7.59%) Software Developer
13 76 (6.20%) Lead Developer
14 75 (6.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 74 (6.04%) React Developer
16 62 (5.06%) C# Developer
17 58 (4.73%) Senior Software Engineer
18 46 (3.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 46 (3.76%) Java Engineer
19 45 (3.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 632 (51.59%) React
2 380 (31.02%) .NET
3 266 (21.71%) Node.js
4 262 (21.39%) AngularJS
5 258 (21.06%) HTML
6 225 (18.37%) CSS
7 172 (14.04%) RESTful
8 157 (12.82%) Vue
9 147 (12.00%) Spring
10 142 (11.59%) .NET Core
11 136 (11.10%) REST
12 118 (9.63%) ASP.NET
13 114 (9.31%) .NET Framework
14 108 (8.82%) GraphQL
15 102 (8.33%) Spring Boot
16 86 (7.02%) Kafka
17 85 (6.94%) Entity Framework
18 77 (6.29%) Next.js
19 69 (5.63%) HTML5
20 59 (4.82%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 139 (11.35%) Cloud Native
2 76 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 34 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 28 (2.29%) Fixed Income
7 20 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.31%) IoT
11 15 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.14%) Private Cloud
13 13 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.06%) Reference Data
14 12 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (0.98%) Hedge funds
14 12 (0.98%) Management Information System
15 11 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.06%) Linux
2 11 (0.90%) Android
2 11 (0.90%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.82%) Windows
4 9 (0.73%) Unix
5 7 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (41.55%) Agile
2 402 (32.82%) Software Engineering
3 400 (32.65%) CI/CD
4 269 (21.96%) DevOps
5 257 (20.98%) Microservices
6 250 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
7 227 (18.53%) AI
8 204 (16.65%) User Experience
9 181 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 170 (13.88%) Mentoring
11 136 (11.10%) Clean Code
12 123 (10.04%) TDD
12 123 (10.04%) Test Automation
13 121 (9.88%) SDLC
14 113 (9.22%) MVC
15 106 (8.65%) Containerisation
16 105 (8.57%) Scrum
17 103 (8.41%) Computer Science
18 100 (8.16%) Front End Development
19 95 (7.76%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 504 (41.14%) JavaScript
2 443 (36.16%) TypeScript
3 379 (30.94%) C#
4 300 (24.49%) Java
5 265 (21.63%) Python
6 261 (21.31%) SQL
7 49 (4.00%) Go
8 46 (3.76%) PHP
9 34 (2.78%) Rust
10 27 (2.20%) Ruby
11 20 (1.63%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.22%) C++
12 15 (1.22%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.14%) Bash
13 14 (1.14%) PowerShell
14 11 (0.90%) Bicep
14 11 (0.90%) C
15 7 (0.57%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.57%) VB.NET
16 6 (0.49%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 111 (9.06%) Security Cleared
2 100 (8.16%) Degree
3 62 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 59 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.41%) MCP
11 4 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.24%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.16%) CISSP
13 2 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.20%) Accessibility
2 75 (6.12%) QA
3 15 (1.22%) GDPR
4 12 (0.98%) WCAG
5 5 (0.41%) PERC
6 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.24%) SLA
7 2 (0.16%) ECSS
7 2 (0.16%) NIST
7 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.082%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.082%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.082%) GRC
8 1 (0.082%) HL7
8 1 (0.082%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 191 (15.59%) Docker
2 18 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.24%) HDFS
6 2 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 166 (13.55%) Kubernetes
2 79 (6.45%) Terraform
3 24 (1.96%) Kibana
4 18 (1.47%) Ansible
5 11 (0.90%) Grafana
6 9 (0.73%) Argo
6 9 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.24%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.16%) Istio
8 2 (0.16%) Nagios
8 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.082%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.082%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.082%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.082%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.082%) linkerd
9 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 162 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.37%) Oracle
3 25 (2.04%) Dynatrace
3 25 (2.04%) Splunk
4 17 (1.39%) OpenAI
5 14 (1.14%) Google
6 11 (0.90%) Foundry
6 11 (0.90%) Palantir
6 11 (0.90%) VMware
7 10 (0.82%) Apple
8 8 (0.65%) Databricks
8 8 (0.65%) DevExpress
9 7 (0.57%) Facebook
9 7 (0.57%) YouTube
10 6 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.49%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.49%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.41%) Zoho
12 4 (0.33%) Pega
12 4 (0.33%) WSO2