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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 43 71
Rank change year-on-year -63 +28 -25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,350 3,147 2,264
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.75% 4.56% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 5.54% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 798 1,736 2,039
10th Percentile £43,375 £40,000 £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% +8.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +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 43,485 56,800 52,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.57% 82.28% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 24,712 30,353 40,296
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £54,000 £53,249
% change year-on-year -14.81% +1.41% +1.43%

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 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Top 17 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 October 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 -65 1,165 £70,000 +7.69% 1,609
UK excluding London -84 809 £60,000 +4.35% 1,242
Work from Home -40 684 £65,000 +8.33% 950
London -28 505 £90,000 - 718
North of England -51 270 £60,000 - 249
North West -12 200 £65,000 +8.33% 150
South East -112 146 £61,250 +2.08% 586
Midlands -71 128 £60,000 +20.00% 142
Scotland -2 127 £65,000 +6.12% 25
West Midlands -24 71 £60,000 - 81
South West -59 60 £60,000 +9.09% 104
East of England -75 58 £50,000 -23.08% 105
East Midlands -58 57 £45,000 - 58
Yorkshire -75 44 £65,000 +18.18% 65
North East -27 26 £47,500 -20.83% 36
Wales -31 19 £60,000 +9.09% 25
Northern Ireland -18 4 £60,000 -7.69% 11

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
1 169 (12.52%) Confluence
2 28 (2.07%) IIS
3 21 (1.56%) CMS
4 13 (0.96%) Headless CMS
5 11 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.67%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.52%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.37%) Apache
9 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.37%) nginx
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.30%) Camunda
10 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.22%) Drupal
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.074%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.074%) Kentico
12 1 (0.074%) MetaMask
12 1 (0.074%) TPMS
Applications
1 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.22%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (0.89%) Shopify
2 4 (0.30%) Magento
3 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 713 (52.81%) AWS
2 643 (47.63%) Azure
3 255 (18.89%) GCP
4 116 (8.59%) SaaS
5 110 (8.15%) Serverless
6 107 (7.93%) GitHub
7 57 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
9 39 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (2.74%) Amazon S3
11 36 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
14 22 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 22 (1.63%) PaaS
15 21 (1.56%) Power Platform
16 20 (1.48%) Azure App Service
16 20 (1.48%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) Firewall
2 4 (0.30%) Broadband
2 4 (0.30%) HTTP
3 3 (0.22%) DNS
3 3 (0.22%) MQTT
3 3 (0.22%) SMS
3 3 (0.22%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) Internet
4 2 (0.15%) LAN
4 2 (0.15%) NAS
4 2 (0.15%) Network Security
4 2 (0.15%) SAN
4 2 (0.15%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.15%) SNMP
4 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.15%) VLAN
4 2 (0.15%) WAN
4 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.15%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.074%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 401 (29.70%) SQL Server
2 122 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
3 113 (8.37%) MongoDB
4 95 (7.04%) NoSQL
5 89 (6.59%) MySQL
6 79 (5.85%) Relational Database
7 51 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 37 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (2.44%) RDBMS
10 22 (1.63%) Redis
11 16 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (1.19%) DynamoDB
12 13 (0.96%) Big Data
12 13 (0.96%) DB2
13 12 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.74%) Data Hub
14 10 (0.74%) SQL CLR
15 9 (0.67%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.59%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 296 (21.93%) JIRA
2 268 (19.85%) GitLab
3 258 (19.11%) Bitbucket
4 257 (19.04%) Maven
5 256 (18.96%) Selenium
6 255 (18.89%) Cucumber
7 252 (18.67%) SonarQube
7 252 (18.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 169 (12.52%) Git
9 48 (3.56%) Jenkins
10 34 (2.52%) Cypress.io
11 31 (2.30%) JUnit
12 22 (1.63%) JMeter
13 21 (1.56%) Mockito
14 20 (1.48%) TeamCity
15 17 (1.26%) Visual Studio
16 16 (1.19%) Vite
17 15 (1.11%) webpack
18 11 (0.81%) NUnit
19 10 (0.74%) Jasmine
General
1 510 (37.78%) Finance
2 362 (26.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 314 (23.26%) Banking
4 252 (18.67%) Social Skills
5 131 (9.70%) Law
6 120 (8.89%) Investment Banking
7 112 (8.30%) Retail
8 90 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
9 79 (5.85%) Public Sector
10 67 (4.96%) Marketing
11 51 (3.78%) Front Office
12 43 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
13 33 (2.44%) Legal
14 19 (1.41%) Back Office
14 19 (1.41%) Games
15 18 (1.33%) Health Technology
16 17 (1.26%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (1.04%) Advertising
18 7 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 629 (46.59%) Developer
2 503 (37.26%) Software Engineer
3 427 (31.63%) Full-Stack Developer
4 264 (19.56%) Senior
5 226 (16.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 150 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 146 (10.81%) Lead
8 109 (8.07%) .NET Developer
8 109 (8.07%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 108 (8.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 92 (6.81%) Software Developer
11 87 (6.44%) Java Developer
12 69 (5.11%) Java Engineer
13 63 (4.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 57 (4.22%) Java Software Engineer
14 57 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
15 56 (4.15%) Lead Developer
15 56 (4.15%) Lead Software Engineer
16 52 (3.85%) React Developer
17 51 (3.78%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 812 (60.15%) React
2 506 (37.48%) HTML
3 475 (35.19%) CSS
4 392 (29.04%) Spring
5 376 (27.85%) .NET
6 358 (26.52%) Spring Boot
7 344 (25.48%) Kafka
8 303 (22.44%) Redux
9 281 (20.81%) AngularJS
10 274 (20.30%) RESTful
11 258 (19.11%) JPA
12 212 (15.70%) REST
13 206 (15.26%) Node.js
14 189 (14.00%) Hibernate
15 174 (12.89%) HTML5
16 165 (12.22%) Vue
17 158 (11.70%) CSS3
18 146 (10.81%) .NET Core
19 138 (10.22%) Jest
20 129 (9.56%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 283 (20.96%) Product Ownership
2 261 (19.33%) Enterprise Software
3 138 (10.22%) Cloud Native
4 72 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (3.48%) Algorithms
6 42 (3.11%) Mobile App
7 35 (2.59%) Fixed Income
8 27 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (2.00%) Onboarding
9 26 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.48%) e-Learning
14 18 (1.33%) Private Cloud
15 17 (1.26%) Hedge funds
16 16 (1.19%) Reference Data
17 15 (1.11%) Virtual Team
18 14 (1.04%) AI Agents
18 14 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.07%) Linux
2 26 (1.93%) Windows
3 19 (1.41%) Android
3 19 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 12 (0.89%) Unix
4 12 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (58.67%) Agile
2 636 (47.11%) Software Engineering
3 633 (46.89%) CI/CD
4 488 (36.15%) DevOps
5 459 (34.00%) Microservices
6 404 (29.93%) SDLC
7 363 (26.89%) Test Automation
8 348 (25.78%) Containerisation
9 338 (25.04%) Front End Development
10 324 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 306 (22.67%) TDD
12 295 (21.85%) User Experience
13 289 (21.41%) Clean Code
14 272 (20.15%) Performance Optimisation
15 270 (20.00%) Mentoring
16 236 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
17 227 (16.81%) AI
18 116 (8.59%) MVC
19 113 (8.37%) Code Quality
20 112 (8.30%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 720 (53.33%) JavaScript
2 543 (40.22%) SQL
3 529 (39.19%) Java
4 477 (35.33%) TypeScript
5 372 (27.56%) C#
6 226 (16.74%) Python
7 52 (3.85%) PHP
8 45 (3.33%) Go
9 39 (2.89%) Rust
10 19 (1.41%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.19%) Ruby
12 15 (1.11%) PowerShell
13 13 (0.96%) C++
13 13 (0.96%) VB.NET
14 12 (0.89%) Bicep
15 10 (0.74%) Bash
16 9 (0.67%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.44%) Groovy
17 6 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 94 (6.96%) Degree
2 86 (6.37%) Security Cleared
3 54 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 49 (3.63%) SC Cleared
5 30 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 13 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
9 9 (0.67%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.59%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.30%) MCP
12 3 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.15%) CISSP
13 2 (0.15%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.074%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 322 (23.85%) QA
2 153 (11.33%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.96%) GDPR
4 12 (0.89%) WCAG
5 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.15%) NIST
6 2 (0.15%) PERC
6 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.074%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.074%) GRC
7 1 (0.074%) MiFID
System Software
1 428 (31.70%) Docker
2 14 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.37%) HDFS
5 4 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.074%) Firmware
6 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 421 (31.19%) Kubernetes
2 86 (6.37%) Terraform
3 20 (1.48%) Kibana
4 13 (0.96%) Grafana
5 11 (0.81%) Ansible
6 10 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.30%) Argo
8 3 (0.22%) Istio
9 2 (0.15%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.15%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.15%) linkerd
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.074%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.074%) Nagios
10 1 (0.074%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 247 (18.30%) Solace
2 189 (14.00%) Microsoft
3 35 (2.59%) Oracle
4 30 (2.22%) Splunk
5 27 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 20 (1.48%) Google
6 20 (1.48%) IBM
7 16 (1.19%) VMware
8 14 (1.04%) Databricks
9 13 (0.96%) DevExpress
10 12 (0.89%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.81%) Foundry
11 11 (0.81%) Palantir
11 11 (0.81%) Rollbar
12 9 (0.67%) Apple
12 9 (0.67%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.52%) Facebook
13 7 (0.52%) YouTube
14 5 (0.37%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.37%) WSO2