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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 66 46
Rank change year-on-year -10 -20 +20
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,837 1,739 4,278
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.52% 3.96% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 4.23% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,487 1,049 3,667
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
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 56,840 41,126 73,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.65% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 34,202 22,190 55,823
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £77,219 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -7 1,661 £70,000 +7.69% 1,141
UK excluding London -23 1,019 £62,500 +8.70% 884
Work from Home -6 714 £70,000 +7.69% 718
London +14 672 £85,000 +7.94% 297
North of England +23 293 £70,000 +21.74% 213
South East -46 252 £61,250 +2.08% 245
Midlands +19 198 £55,000 +4.76% 120
South West -4 150 £60,000 -5.88% 121
North West +8 145 £70,000 +17.65% 103
West Midlands +9 107 £55,000 +4.76% 59
Yorkshire +5 105 £72,500 +41.46% 82
East Midlands -8 90 £55,000 +57.14% 58
East of England -28 74 £60,000 +9.09% 122
North East +8 43 £55,000 +22.22% 29
Northern Ireland -7 26 £70,000 +16.67% 6
Scotland -65 15 £66,250 +20.45% 43
Wales -33 13 £52,500 -19.23% 23
Channel Islands - 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 15 (0.82%) CMS
2 13 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
4 11 (0.60%) Confluence
4 11 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.33%) WordPress
7 5 (0.27%) nginx
8 4 (0.22%) Apache
8 4 (0.22%) Appian
8 4 (0.22%) ColdFusion
9 3 (0.16%) Drupal
9 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.16%) IIS
9 3 (0.16%) Liferay
10 2 (0.11%) CICS
10 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.11%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Shopify
2 1 (0.054%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.054%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 590 (32.12%) AWS
2 426 (23.19%) Azure
3 189 (10.29%) SaaS
4 178 (9.69%) Serverless
5 136 (7.40%) GCP
6 123 (6.70%) GitHub
7 98 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
8 87 (4.74%) Amazon S3
9 67 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
11 53 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
13 43 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
14 36 (1.96%) Figma
15 30 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (1.42%) PaaS
18 20 (1.09%) Entra ID
19 19 (1.03%) Power Platform
20 16 (0.87%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.31%) Broadband
2 6 (0.33%) HTTP
3 4 (0.22%) Firewall
4 3 (0.16%) Internet
4 3 (0.16%) WAN
5 2 (0.11%) AMQP
5 2 (0.11%) LAN
5 2 (0.11%) VLAN
5 2 (0.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.054%) DHCP
6 1 (0.054%) DNS
6 1 (0.054%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.054%) MQTT
6 1 (0.054%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.054%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.054%) SSL
6 1 (0.054%) TCAP
6 1 (0.054%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.054%) WebEx
6 1 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (6.70%) SQL Server
3 103 (5.61%) NoSQL
4 93 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 72 (3.92%) Relational Database
6 65 (3.54%) MySQL
7 33 (1.80%) DynamoDB
8 27 (1.47%) Redis
9 22 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (0.76%) RDBMS
11 13 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.65%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.65%) Power BI
13 10 (0.54%) DB2
14 8 (0.44%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.27%) GIS
16 4 (0.22%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 170 (9.25%) Git
2 96 (5.23%) Jenkins
3 51 (2.78%) Cypress.io
4 34 (1.85%) JIRA
5 33 (1.80%) GitLab
6 25 (1.36%) JUnit
7 24 (1.31%) Maven
8 20 (1.09%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.98%) Mockito
10 16 (0.87%) SonarQube
11 15 (0.82%) Vite
12 12 (0.65%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.60%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.54%) webpack
15 9 (0.49%) Selenium
16 8 (0.44%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.44%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.44%) JMeter
17 7 (0.38%) ESLint
18 5 (0.27%) git-flow
General
1 284 (15.46%) Social Skills
2 193 (10.51%) Finance
3 76 (4.14%) Public Sector
4 69 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (2.83%) Banking
6 44 (2.40%) Front Office
7 43 (2.34%) Law
8 40 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (2.18%) Retail
9 32 (1.74%) Marketing
10 31 (1.69%) Tech for Good
11 24 (1.31%) Aviation
11 24 (1.31%) Games
11 24 (1.31%) Health Technology
12 23 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.20%) Investment Banking
13 22 (1.20%) Legal
14 21 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.49%) Automotive
15 9 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,034 (56.29%) Developer
2 732 (39.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 441 (24.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 427 (23.24%) Senior
5 341 (18.56%) Software Engineer
6 262 (14.26%) Lead
7 195 (10.62%) Senior Developer
8 154 (8.38%) .NET Developer
9 148 (8.06%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 147 (8.00%) Java Developer
11 139 (7.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 137 (7.46%) Lead Developer
13 131 (7.13%) React Developer
14 123 (6.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 111 (6.04%) Software Developer
16 98 (5.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 98 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
17 84 (4.57%) C# Developer
18 81 (4.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 69 (3.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 742 (40.39%) React
2 424 (23.08%) .NET
3 361 (19.65%) Node.js
4 225 (12.25%) AngularJS
4 225 (12.25%) HTML
5 215 (11.70%) CSS
6 164 (8.93%) Vue
7 155 (8.44%) Spring
8 141 (7.68%) REST
9 135 (7.35%) RESTful
10 131 (7.13%) .NET Core
11 122 (6.64%) Spring Boot
12 98 (5.33%) Next.js
13 89 (4.84%) GraphQL
14 83 (4.52%) Kafka
15 74 (4.03%) .NET Framework
15 74 (4.03%) ASP.NET
16 60 (3.27%) Laravel
17 56 (3.05%) Entity Framework
18 54 (2.94%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 143 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 67 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
3 65 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 59 (3.21%) Mobile App
6 50 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.74%) IoT
8 30 (1.63%) Fixed Income
9 21 (1.14%) AI Agents
10 20 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (0.98%) Smart Energy
13 14 (0.76%) Management Information System
13 14 (0.76%) Private Cloud
14 13 (0.71%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (0.60%) Blog
15 11 (0.60%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.54%) e-Learning
16 10 (0.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.58%) Linux
2 23 (1.25%) Android
3 21 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.33%) Unix
5 5 (0.27%) Windows
6 1 (0.054%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.054%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (33.15%) Software Engineering
2 472 (25.69%) Agile
3 412 (22.43%) CI/CD
4 308 (16.77%) DevOps
5 302 (16.44%) AI
6 298 (16.22%) Microservices
6 298 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 220 (11.98%) Mentoring
8 204 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 192 (10.45%) User Experience
10 143 (7.78%) Test Automation
11 127 (6.91%) Containerisation
12 121 (6.59%) Clean Code
13 120 (6.53%) Computer Science
14 115 (6.26%) Scrum
15 101 (5.50%) Front End Development
16 100 (5.44%) Technical Leadership
17 96 (5.23%) Collaborative Culture
18 93 (5.06%) TDD
19 92 (5.01%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 576 (31.36%) JavaScript
2 568 (30.92%) TypeScript
3 418 (22.75%) Java
4 376 (20.47%) C#
5 375 (20.41%) Python
6 261 (14.21%) SQL
7 76 (4.14%) PHP
8 49 (2.67%) Go
9 39 (2.12%) Ruby
10 26 (1.42%) Bash
11 21 (1.14%) Rust
12 19 (1.03%) C++
13 17 (0.93%) C
14 16 (0.87%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.82%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.60%) Groovy
17 8 (0.44%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.38%) R
19 6 (0.33%) Bicep
19 6 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 148 (8.06%) Security Cleared
2 119 (6.48%) Degree
3 103 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 82 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.23%) DV Cleared
6 16 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.49%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.38%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.16%) PhD
11 2 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.11%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.054%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.054%) MBA
12 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.30%) QA
2 55 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.60%) GDPR
4 9 (0.49%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.49%) WCAG
5 6 (0.33%) SLA
6 5 (0.27%) PERC
7 4 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.11%) ECSS
9 2 (0.11%) HL7
9 2 (0.11%) NCSC
9 2 (0.11%) NIST
10 1 (0.054%) GRC
10 1 (0.054%) ITGC
10 1 (0.054%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 214 (11.65%) Docker
2 14 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.11%) Firmware
4 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 172 (9.36%) Kubernetes
2 103 (5.61%) Terraform
3 29 (1.58%) Ansible
4 26 (1.42%) Grafana
5 15 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.76%) Kibana
7 11 (0.60%) Argo
7 11 (0.60%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.16%) Nagios
8 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.054%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.054%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.054%) Istio
10 1 (0.054%) logstash
10 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.054%) Podman
10 1 (0.054%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 101 (5.50%) Microsoft
2 29 (1.58%) Oracle
3 28 (1.52%) OpenAI
4 25 (1.36%) Adobe
5 22 (1.20%) Google
6 17 (0.93%) Foundry
7 16 (0.87%) Palantir
8 11 (0.60%) Fortinet
8 11 (0.60%) Palo Alto
9 10 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (0.49%) Dynatrace
10 9 (0.49%) Splunk
11 7 (0.38%) Pega
12 6 (0.33%) Databricks
13 5 (0.27%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.27%) VMware
13 5 (0.27%) Zoho
14 4 (0.22%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.22%) SAP
14 4 (0.22%) Telerik