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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 98 39
Rank change year-on-year +53 -59 +32
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,065 1,523 5,292
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.17% 3.25% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 3.55% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,551 956 4,067
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,263 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +15.44% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 71,035 42,845 86,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 91.34% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49,086 23,535 61,317
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% - -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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +54 2,780 £65,000 -7.14% 917
UK excluding London +57 2,057 £60,000 - 611
Work from Home +46 1,368 £60,000 -9.23% 503
London +19 847 £85,000 - 414
North of England +61 679 £65,000 - 181
South East +85 498 £60,000 - 163
North West +33 363 £65,000 - 103
Midlands +41 292 £55,000 -6.38% 79
South West +45 273 £60,000 - 62
Yorkshire +73 207 £70,000 +16.67% 53
East of England +52 174 £60,000 +20.00% 61
East Midlands +27 147 £55,000 +15.79% 38
West Midlands +17 144 £55,000 -12.00% 41
North East +12 109 £55,000 +14.58% 26
Scotland -27 72 £55,000 -18.52% 37
Wales -28 50 £60,000 -7.69% 14
Northern Ireland -24 24 £70,000 +16.67% 18
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 29 (0.95%) CMS
2 21 (0.69%) Confluence
3 14 (0.46%) WordPress
4 11 (0.36%) Apache
4 11 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.33%) ColdFusion
5 10 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.13%) IIS
10 4 (0.13%) nginx
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.098%) Kentico
11 3 (0.098%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.065%) Elementor
4 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Shopify
2 2 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.033%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.033%) Magento
3 1 (0.033%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.033%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 911 (29.72%) AWS
2 887 (28.94%) Azure
3 263 (8.58%) GitHub
4 233 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
5 232 (7.57%) SaaS
6 216 (7.05%) Serverless
7 180 (5.87%) GCP
8 148 (4.83%) Azure AI
9 146 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 132 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
11 106 (3.46%) Amazon S3
12 79 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 72 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
15 56 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
16 51 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 41 (1.34%) Power Platform
18 36 (1.17%) Figma
19 34 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
20 32 (1.04%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.15%) Broadband
2 52 (1.70%) Internet
3 8 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
4 7 (0.23%) Firewall
4 7 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.16%) DNS
5 5 (0.16%) HTTP
5 5 (0.16%) MQTT
6 3 (0.098%) LAN
6 3 (0.098%) VPN
6 3 (0.098%) WAN
7 2 (0.065%) AMQP
7 2 (0.065%) Network Security
7 2 (0.065%) VoIP
8 1 (0.033%) Multicast
8 1 (0.033%) SCTP
8 1 (0.033%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.033%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.033%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.033%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 492 (16.05%) MongoDB
2 414 (13.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 198 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
4 145 (4.73%) SQL Server
5 143 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
6 110 (3.59%) NoSQL
7 95 (3.10%) MySQL
8 77 (2.51%) Relational Database
9 62 (2.02%) DynamoDB
10 36 (1.17%) Redis
11 24 (0.78%) Power BI
12 18 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.36%) GIS
14 10 (0.33%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
15 9 (0.29%) NonStop SQL
15 9 (0.29%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.23%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 214 (6.98%) Git
2 100 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 61 (1.99%) GitLab
4 57 (1.86%) Cypress.io
5 44 (1.44%) JIRA
6 37 (1.21%) JUnit
7 36 (1.17%) Claude Code
8 32 (1.04%) Maven
9 21 (0.69%) Eclipse
9 21 (0.69%) SonarQube
10 20 (0.65%) Subversion
11 18 (0.59%) Vite
12 15 (0.49%) CircleCI
13 14 (0.46%) Mockito
14 11 (0.36%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.29%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.26%) Storybook
16 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
17 6 (0.20%) MLflow
17 6 (0.20%) Spock
General
1 369 (12.04%) Finance
2 297 (9.69%) Social Skills
3 100 (3.26%) Public Sector
4 89 (2.90%) Games
5 86 (2.81%) Marketing
6 80 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
7 68 (2.22%) Retail
8 67 (2.19%) Advertising
9 56 (1.83%) Banking
10 53 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (1.27%) Front Office
12 36 (1.17%) Law
12 36 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 32 (1.04%) Legal
14 28 (0.91%) Tech for Good
15 18 (0.59%) Automotive
16 17 (0.55%) Aviation
17 16 (0.52%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.52%) Health Technology
18 15 (0.49%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,859 (60.65%) Developer
2 1,007 (32.85%) Full-Stack Developer
3 682 (22.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 609 (19.87%) Senior
5 562 (18.34%) .NET Developer
6 542 (17.68%) Software Engineer
7 402 (13.12%) Lead
8 274 (8.94%) Senior Developer
9 251 (8.19%) Software Developer
10 229 (7.47%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 203 (6.62%) Lead Developer
12 181 (5.91%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 176 (5.74%) Java Developer
14 170 (5.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 152 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
16 116 (3.78%) Java Engineer
17 115 (3.75%) React Developer
18 104 (3.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 100 (3.26%) Python Developer
20 90 (2.94%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,019 (33.25%) React
2 911 (29.72%) .NET
3 601 (19.61%) Node.js
4 512 (16.70%) .NET Core
5 479 (15.63%) ASP.NET
6 447 (14.58%) ASP.NET Core
7 417 (13.61%) AngularJS
8 395 (12.89%) CSS
9 384 (12.53%) HTML
10 369 (12.04%) Vue
11 326 (10.64%) RESTful
12 201 (6.56%) Entity Framework
13 194 (6.33%) Spring
14 192 (6.26%) Blazor
15 171 (5.58%) REST
16 164 (5.35%) ASP.NET Web API
17 155 (5.06%) Spring Boot
18 144 (4.70%) Next.js
19 141 (4.60%) ML.NET
20 108 (3.52%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 268 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 162 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
3 91 (2.97%) Mobile App
4 88 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
5 74 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 68 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 50 (1.63%) AI Agents
9 45 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.24%) Low-Code
11 37 (1.21%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.04%) e-Learning
12 32 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
13 30 (0.98%) IoT
14 29 (0.95%) Onboarding
15 22 (0.72%) Virtual Team
16 21 (0.69%) Social Media
17 20 (0.65%) Digital TV
18 18 (0.59%) Algorithms
19 17 (0.55%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.79%) Linux
2 28 (0.91%) Android
3 11 (0.36%) Windows
4 10 (0.33%) Unix
5 9 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.098%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.098%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.065%) AIX
8 1 (0.033%) Debian
8 1 (0.033%) VMS
8 1 (0.033%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (29.98%) Software Engineering
2 844 (27.54%) Agile
3 680 (22.19%) CI/CD
4 636 (20.75%) AI
5 540 (17.62%) DevOps
6 508 (16.57%) Microservices
7 357 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
8 294 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 288 (9.40%) Mentoring
10 281 (9.17%) Machine Learning
11 241 (7.86%) Test Automation
12 198 (6.46%) Scrum
13 182 (5.94%) TDD
14 177 (5.77%) Clean Code
15 173 (5.64%) Containerisation
15 173 (5.64%) Infrastructure as Code
16 157 (5.12%) Multithreading
17 149 (4.86%) Observability
17 149 (4.86%) Technical Leadership
17 149 (4.86%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 907 (29.59%) JavaScript
2 882 (28.78%) TypeScript
3 856 (27.93%) C#
4 706 (23.03%) SQL
5 578 (18.86%) Python
6 509 (16.61%) Java
7 103 (3.36%) PHP
8 94 (3.07%) Go
9 66 (2.15%) C++
9 66 (2.15%) Ruby
10 31 (1.01%) Bash
11 25 (0.82%) Groovy
12 18 (0.59%) Rust
13 15 (0.49%) Perl
14 14 (0.46%) Kotlin
15 13 (0.42%) Bicep
15 13 (0.42%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.26%) C
17 6 (0.20%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 214 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 164 (5.35%) Degree
3 158 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 115 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 20 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 17 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 11 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.13%) PhD
14 3 (0.098%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.065%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 1 (0.033%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.033%) CCNA
16 1 (0.033%) CCNP
16 1 (0.033%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.26%) QA
2 59 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 25 (0.82%) WCAG
4 17 (0.55%) GDPR
5 14 (0.46%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.23%) GRC
6 7 (0.23%) NCSC
7 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.098%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.098%) SLA
9 2 (0.065%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.065%) ITGC
9 2 (0.065%) NIST
10 1 (0.033%) HL7
10 1 (0.033%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.033%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.033%) SOC 2
System Software
1 404 (13.18%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.098%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.065%) vSphere
6 1 (0.033%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 302 (9.85%) Kubernetes
2 142 (4.63%) Terraform
3 32 (1.04%) Grafana
4 23 (0.75%) Ansible
5 19 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.42%) Podman
7 11 (0.36%) HP Fortify
8 10 (0.33%) Kibana
9 6 (0.20%) logstash
10 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.13%) Argo
12 2 (0.065%) Nagios
13 1 (0.033%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.033%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.033%) Graylog
13 1 (0.033%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.033%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 552 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 70 (2.28%) Google
3 52 (1.70%) Facebook
4 32 (1.04%) OpenAI
5 29 (0.95%) Adobe
6 26 (0.85%) Oracle
7 22 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 20 (0.65%) Palantir
9 19 (0.62%) Foundry
9 19 (0.62%) YouTube
10 17 (0.55%) Apple
11 16 (0.52%) Sony
11 16 (0.52%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.33%) Databricks
12 10 (0.33%) Sitecore
12 10 (0.33%) Splunk
13 9 (0.29%) AppDynamics
14 8 (0.26%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.23%) OneLogin
16 6 (0.20%) Palo Alto