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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 95 38
Rank change year-on-year +46 -57 +32
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,757 1,457 5,372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.00% 3.29% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 3.55% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,261 902 4,188
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £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 £82,500 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,494
% change year-on-year - +4.36% -0.01%

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 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -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 9 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 9 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 +52 2,506 £65,000 -3.70% 696
UK excluding London +43 1,775 £60,000 - 498
Work from Home +37 1,126 £62,500 -3.85% 443
London +32 820 £85,000 +6.25% 283
North of England +53 606 £65,000 - 156
South East +68 428 £60,000 - 147
North West +44 323 £65,000 - 88
Midlands +36 269 £55,000 +2.80% 51
South West +33 227 £60,000 -4.00% 51
Yorkshire +70 192 £70,000 +16.67% 44
East of England +39 139 £60,000 +20.00% 48
West Midlands +21 139 £55,000 -12.00% 17
East Midlands +12 129 £55,000 +15.79% 34
North East +10 91 £55,000 +15.79% 24
Scotland -47 53 £60,000 -11.11% 25
Wales -36 33 £60,000 -11.11% 15
Northern Ireland - 25 £70,000 - 10
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 24 (0.87%) CMS
2 19 (0.69%) Confluence
3 14 (0.51%) WordPress
4 10 (0.36%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.29%) Apache
6 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
8 6 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.18%) IIS
10 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.15%) nginx
11 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.11%) Liferay
12 2 (0.073%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.073%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.073%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.036%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.036%) Magento
3 1 (0.036%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.036%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 804 (29.16%) AWS
2 627 (22.74%) Azure
3 221 (8.02%) SaaS
4 205 (7.44%) Serverless
5 174 (6.31%) GitHub
6 158 (5.73%) GCP
7 153 (5.55%) Azure DevOps
8 124 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
9 103 (3.74%) Amazon S3
10 78 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
11 70 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
12 69 (2.50%) Azure AI
13 67 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
14 56 (2.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 48 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
17 41 (1.49%) Figma
18 38 (1.38%) Power Platform
19 32 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
20 26 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (2.54%) Broadband
2 23 (0.83%) Internet
3 6 (0.22%) Firewall
3 6 (0.22%) HTTP
4 5 (0.18%) DNS
4 5 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.11%) MQTT
5 3 (0.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.036%) AMQP
6 1 (0.036%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.036%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.036%) RTP
6 1 (0.036%) RTSP
6 1 (0.036%) SCTP
6 1 (0.036%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.036%) SS7
6 1 (0.036%) VLAN
6 1 (0.036%) VSAN
6 1 (0.036%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (10.45%) MongoDB
2 197 (7.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 189 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
4 137 (4.97%) SQL Server
5 111 (4.03%) NoSQL
6 76 (2.76%) MySQL
7 67 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 64 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
9 55 (1.99%) DynamoDB
10 23 (0.83%) Power BI
11 20 (0.73%) Redis
12 15 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.40%) GIS
15 9 (0.33%) Pinecone
16 7 (0.25%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.22%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.22%) MariaDB
17 6 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 202 (7.33%) Git
2 90 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 58 (2.10%) Cypress.io
4 53 (1.92%) GitLab
5 39 (1.41%) JIRA
6 33 (1.20%) Maven
7 31 (1.12%) JUnit
8 26 (0.94%) Claude Code
9 19 (0.69%) SonarQube
10 17 (0.62%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.62%) Mockito
10 17 (0.62%) Vite
11 12 (0.44%) Eclipse
12 11 (0.40%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.40%) Subversion
12 11 (0.40%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.33%) Selenium
14 8 (0.29%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.25%) ESLint
15 7 (0.25%) Storybook
General
1 316 (11.46%) Finance
2 290 (10.52%) Social Skills
3 86 (3.12%) Public Sector
4 76 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (2.39%) Games
6 62 (2.25%) Marketing
7 56 (2.03%) Banking
8 55 (1.99%) Retail
9 48 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.41%) Front Office
11 38 (1.38%) Advertising
11 38 (1.38%) Law
12 35 (1.27%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.20%) Tech for Good
14 28 (1.02%) Legal
15 22 (0.80%) Aviation
16 21 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.69%) Health Technology
18 14 (0.51%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,598 (57.96%) Developer
2 978 (35.47%) Full-Stack Developer
3 677 (24.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 601 (21.80%) Senior
5 515 (18.68%) Software Engineer
6 372 (13.49%) Lead
7 347 (12.59%) .NET Developer
8 280 (10.16%) Senior Developer
9 233 (8.45%) Software Developer
10 228 (8.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 195 (7.07%) Lead Developer
12 184 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 179 (6.49%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 173 (6.27%) Java Developer
15 147 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
16 129 (4.68%) React Developer
17 115 (4.17%) Java Engineer
18 103 (3.74%) Python Developer
19 100 (3.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 91 (3.30%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 899 (32.61%) React
2 687 (24.92%) .NET
3 497 (18.03%) Node.js
4 322 (11.68%) AngularJS
5 313 (11.35%) CSS
6 303 (10.99%) HTML
7 295 (10.70%) .NET Core
8 277 (10.05%) Vue
9 240 (8.71%) ASP.NET
10 233 (8.45%) RESTful
11 212 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
12 194 (7.04%) Spring
13 159 (5.77%) REST
14 151 (5.48%) Spring Boot
15 130 (4.72%) Next.js
16 121 (4.39%) Entity Framework
17 98 (3.55%) Blazor
18 80 (2.90%) ASP.NET Web API
19 72 (2.61%) .NET Framework
20 70 (2.54%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 218 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 123 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
3 84 (3.05%) Mobile App
4 80 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 79 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 51 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 47 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 42 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
10 35 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 34 (1.23%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.16%) e-Learning
13 29 (1.05%) IoT
13 29 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
14 25 (0.91%) Onboarding
15 19 (0.69%) Virtual Team
16 17 (0.62%) Data Structures
17 16 (0.58%) Management Information System
18 14 (0.51%) Algorithms
18 14 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 48 (1.74%) Linux
2 27 (0.98%) Android
3 16 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.29%) Unix
5 6 (0.22%) Windows
6 2 (0.073%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.036%) AIX
7 1 (0.036%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.036%) VMS
7 1 (0.036%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (31.37%) Software Engineering
2 638 (23.14%) Agile
3 550 (19.95%) CI/CD
4 507 (18.39%) AI
5 442 (16.03%) DevOps
6 396 (14.36%) Microservices
7 340 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
8 289 (10.48%) Mentoring
9 272 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 228 (8.27%) Test Automation
11 191 (6.93%) Machine Learning
12 163 (5.91%) Containerisation
12 163 (5.91%) Scrum
13 156 (5.66%) Clean Code
14 154 (5.59%) Infrastructure as Code
15 153 (5.55%) User Experience
16 145 (5.26%) TDD
17 137 (4.97%) Web Development
18 132 (4.79%) Technical Leadership
19 131 (4.75%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 777 (28.18%) JavaScript
2 747 (27.09%) TypeScript
3 624 (22.63%) C#
4 535 (19.41%) Python
5 505 (18.32%) Java
6 484 (17.56%) SQL
7 101 (3.66%) PHP
8 81 (2.94%) Go
9 58 (2.10%) Ruby
10 51 (1.85%) C++
11 32 (1.16%) Bash
12 22 (0.80%) Groovy
13 16 (0.58%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.54%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.44%) Bicep
16 10 (0.36%) C
16 10 (0.36%) Rust
17 8 (0.29%) Perl
18 7 (0.25%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 185 (6.71%) Security Cleared
2 142 (5.15%) Degree
3 135 (4.90%) SC Cleared
4 97 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 15 (0.54%) DBS Check
8 14 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.18%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.18%) PhD
12 2 (0.073%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.036%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.036%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (3.59%) QA
2 44 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.51%) GDPR
4 13 (0.47%) WCAG
5 10 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.25%) GRC
7 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.11%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.11%) SLA
9 2 (0.073%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.073%) ITGC
9 2 (0.073%) NCSC
9 2 (0.073%) NIST
10 1 (0.036%) HL7
10 1 (0.036%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.036%) SOC 2
System Software
1 308 (11.17%) Docker
2 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.073%) vSphere
6 1 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.036%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 218 (7.91%) Kubernetes
2 121 (4.39%) Terraform
3 34 (1.23%) Grafana
4 23 (0.83%) Ansible
5 20 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.47%) Podman
7 10 (0.36%) HP Fortify
8 8 (0.29%) Kibana
9 6 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.18%) Argo
11 4 (0.15%) logstash
12 2 (0.073%) Nagios
13 1 (0.036%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.036%) Graylog
13 1 (0.036%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.036%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 311 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 51 (1.85%) Google
3 35 (1.27%) Adobe
4 30 (1.09%) OpenAI
4 30 (1.09%) Oracle
5 22 (0.80%) Facebook
5 22 (0.80%) Salesforce
6 19 (0.69%) Foundry
7 15 (0.54%) Palantir
8 10 (0.36%) Dynatrace
8 10 (0.36%) Splunk
9 9 (0.33%) YouTube
10 8 (0.29%) Apple
11 7 (0.25%) AppDynamics
11 7 (0.25%) Sitecore
11 7 (0.25%) Sony
11 7 (0.25%) Yahoo!
12 6 (0.22%) Databricks
12 6 (0.22%) Pega
13 5 (0.18%) WooCommerce