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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 61 44
Rank change year-on-year -21 -17 +23
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,652 2,063 3,887
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.46% 4.18% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 4.53% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 1,045 3,404
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -10.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £99,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -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 53,402 45,552 66,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.39% 92.32% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 31,913 22,134 51,281
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,934 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -20 1,497 £70,000 +7.69% 890
UK excluding London -41 896 £62,500 +8.70% 702
Work from Home -13 654 £70,000 +7.69% 480
London +4 625 £80,000 - 252
North of England -8 248 £65,000 +13.04% 180
South East -47 233 £62,500 +4.17% 192
Midlands -14 175 £55,000 +4.76% 97
South West -9 133 £60,000 -4.00% 107
North West -8 113 £67,500 +12.50% 94
West Midlands -1 95 £52,500 - 42
Yorkshire -19 90 £73,750 +48.99% 61
East Midlands -24 79 £55,000 +41.03% 55
East of England -41 64 £60,000 +14.29% 67
North East +19 45 £55,000 +22.22% 25
Northern Ireland -10 19 £70,000 -6.67% 15
Wales -33 13 £52,500 -0.47% 20
Scotland -81 13 £67,500 +22.73% 31
Channel Islands 0 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 17 (1.03%) CMS
2 11 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (0.67%) Confluence
2 11 (0.67%) OpenStack
2 11 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
3 6 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.30%) nginx
4 5 (0.30%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.30%) WordPress
5 4 (0.24%) Apache
5 4 (0.24%) Appian
6 3 (0.18%) ColdFusion
6 3 (0.18%) Drupal
6 3 (0.18%) IIS
6 3 (0.18%) Liferay
7 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.061%) Camunda
8 1 (0.061%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.061%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.061%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.061%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.061%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 557 (33.72%) AWS
2 415 (25.12%) Azure
3 174 (10.53%) Serverless
4 162 (9.81%) SaaS
5 119 (7.20%) GitHub
6 117 (7.08%) GCP
7 95 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
8 86 (5.21%) Amazon S3
9 72 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
11 49 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
13 38 (2.30%) Figma
14 28 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (1.63%) PaaS
16 20 (1.21%) Entra ID
16 20 (1.21%) Power Platform
17 17 (1.03%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.45%) Broadband
2 7 (0.42%) HTTP
3 4 (0.24%) Firewall
4 3 (0.18%) Internet
4 3 (0.18%) WAN
5 2 (0.12%) AMQP
5 2 (0.12%) DHCP
5 2 (0.12%) DNS
5 2 (0.12%) LAN
5 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.12%) VLAN
5 2 (0.12%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.061%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.061%) MQTT
6 1 (0.061%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.061%) SSL
6 1 (0.061%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (7.08%) SQL Server
3 101 (6.11%) NoSQL
4 96 (5.81%) MongoDB
5 74 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 67 (4.06%) MySQL
7 35 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (1.94%) DynamoDB
9 26 (1.57%) Redis
10 20 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (1.09%) RDBMS
12 15 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.73%) Power BI
15 11 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.67%) Pinecone
16 8 (0.48%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.48%) DB2
17 4 (0.24%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 160 (9.69%) Git
2 85 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 51 (3.09%) Cypress.io
4 38 (2.30%) JIRA
5 30 (1.82%) GitLab
6 26 (1.57%) JUnit
7 24 (1.45%) Maven
8 19 (1.15%) Mockito
8 19 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.97%) Vite
10 15 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.73%) JMeter
11 12 (0.73%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.61%) Selenium
13 9 (0.54%) webpack
14 8 (0.48%) CircleCI
15 6 (0.36%) ESLint
15 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 276 (16.71%) Social Skills
2 164 (9.93%) Finance
3 71 (4.30%) Public Sector
4 65 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.09%) Banking
6 45 (2.72%) Law
7 38 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (2.12%) Front Office
9 33 (2.00%) Retail
10 28 (1.69%) Marketing
10 28 (1.69%) Tech for Good
11 25 (1.51%) Investment Banking
12 24 (1.45%) Aviation
13 23 (1.39%) Legal
14 22 (1.33%) Games
14 22 (1.33%) Health Technology
15 21 (1.27%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.54%) Advertising
16 9 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 923 (55.87%) Developer
2 649 (39.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 381 (23.06%) Senior
4 380 (23.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 303 (18.34%) Software Engineer
6 229 (13.86%) Lead
7 167 (10.11%) Senior Developer
8 150 (9.08%) .NET Developer
9 134 (8.11%) Java Developer
10 128 (7.75%) React Developer
11 127 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 122 (7.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 115 (6.96%) Lead Developer
14 111 (6.72%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 100 (6.05%) Software Developer
16 95 (5.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 93 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
18 79 (4.78%) C# Developer
19 73 (4.42%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 70 (4.24%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 708 (42.86%) React
2 411 (24.88%) .NET
3 314 (19.01%) Node.js
4 233 (14.10%) AngularJS
5 221 (13.38%) HTML
6 203 (12.29%) CSS
7 161 (9.75%) Vue
8 153 (9.26%) Spring
9 143 (8.66%) .NET Core
10 137 (8.29%) REST
10 137 (8.29%) RESTful
11 119 (7.20%) Spring Boot
12 86 (5.21%) Next.js
13 81 (4.90%) ASP.NET
14 79 (4.78%) .NET Framework
15 72 (4.36%) GraphQL
16 68 (4.12%) Kafka
17 61 (3.69%) Entity Framework
18 57 (3.45%) HTML5
19 56 (3.39%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 137 (8.29%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.69%) Mobile App
5 56 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.69%) IoT
8 22 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 20 (1.21%) Fixed Income
10 18 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (0.91%) Management Information System
13 14 (0.85%) Smart Energy
14 13 (0.79%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (0.79%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.67%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.61%) e-Learning
16 10 (0.61%) Hedge funds
16 10 (0.61%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.51%) Linux
2 23 (1.39%) Android
3 22 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.42%) Unix
5 5 (0.30%) Windows
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (32.75%) Software Engineering
2 458 (27.72%) Agile
3 404 (24.46%) CI/CD
4 305 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
5 301 (18.22%) Microservices
6 285 (17.25%) DevOps
7 283 (17.13%) AI
8 212 (12.83%) Mentoring
9 197 (11.92%) User Experience
10 196 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 130 (7.87%) Test Automation
12 121 (7.32%) Clean Code
12 121 (7.32%) Computer Science
13 120 (7.26%) Containerisation
14 118 (7.14%) Scrum
15 105 (6.36%) TDD
16 99 (5.99%) Front End Development
17 94 (5.69%) Technical Leadership
18 92 (5.57%) Collaborative Culture
19 90 (5.45%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 543 (32.87%) JavaScript
2 522 (31.60%) TypeScript
3 390 (23.61%) Java
4 374 (22.64%) C#
5 334 (20.22%) Python
6 261 (15.80%) SQL
7 69 (4.18%) PHP
8 39 (2.36%) Go
9 37 (2.24%) Ruby
10 26 (1.57%) Bash
11 22 (1.33%) Rust
12 21 (1.27%) C++
13 16 (0.97%) C
14 12 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.67%) Groovy
15 11 (0.67%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.61%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.48%) PowerShell
18 7 (0.42%) R
19 6 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 120 (7.26%) Degree
3 97 (5.87%) SC Cleared
4 80 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 11 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.54%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.18%) PhD
13 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.061%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.061%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.061%) MBA
14 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.60%) QA
2 66 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.85%) GDPR
3 14 (0.85%) WCAG
4 7 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.36%) SLA
6 5 (0.30%) PERC
7 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.12%) ECSS
8 2 (0.12%) NCSC
8 2 (0.12%) NIST
9 1 (0.061%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.061%) HL7
9 1 (0.061%) ITGC
System Software
1 202 (12.23%) Docker
2 16 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 172 (10.41%) Kubernetes
2 98 (5.93%) Terraform
3 27 (1.63%) Ansible
4 22 (1.33%) Grafana
5 16 (0.97%) Kibana
6 13 (0.79%) Argo
7 11 (0.67%) HP Fortify
7 11 (0.67%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Nagios
9 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.061%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.061%) Istio
10 1 (0.061%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.061%) logstash
10 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.061%) Podman
Vendors
1 104 (6.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.63%) Oracle
3 25 (1.51%) Adobe
3 25 (1.51%) OpenAI
4 20 (1.21%) Google
5 15 (0.91%) Foundry
6 13 (0.79%) Dynatrace
6 13 (0.79%) Palantir
7 11 (0.67%) Splunk
8 8 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (0.48%) Fortinet
8 8 (0.48%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.30%) Facebook
9 5 (0.30%) VMware
9 5 (0.30%) Zoho
10 4 (0.24%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.24%) Pega
10 4 (0.24%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.24%) SAP
10 4 (0.24%) Telerik