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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 101 47
Rank change year-on-year +54 -54 +22
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,172 1,526 4,060
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.13% 3.09% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.44% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,624 950 2,919
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +0.87%

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 74,612 44,363 71,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.65% 89.74% 81.45%
Number of salaries quoted 51,478 25,172 48,522
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 27 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 27 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 +58 2,880 £65,000 -7.14% 855
UK excluding London +66 2,170 £60,000 - 538
Work from Home +44 1,423 £60,000 -9.23% 381
London +10 846 £85,000 - 413
North of England +68 717 £65,000 +8.33% 148
South East +96 534 £60,000 +4.35% 152
North West +40 388 £65,000 - 85
Midlands +40 296 £55,000 -8.33% 75
South West +55 294 £60,000 - 56
Yorkshire +79 213 £69,653 +16.09% 43
East of England +52 178 £60,000 +33.33% 59
West Midlands +27 155 £60,000 -4.00% 43
East Midlands +20 140 £55,000 +15.79% 32
North East +19 116 £52,000 +19.54% 21
Scotland -21 84 £55,000 -18.52% 31
Wales -33 53 £60,000 -4.00% 12
Northern Ireland -51 19 £70,000 +16.67% 13
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 31 (0.98%) CMS
2 24 (0.76%) Confluence
3 15 (0.47%) WordPress
4 10 (0.32%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.28%) Apache
5 9 (0.28%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.25%) IIS
6 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.13%) nginx
10 3 (0.095%) DNN
10 3 (0.095%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.063%) Elementor
3 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.032%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.032%) Magento
3 1 (0.032%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.032%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.032%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 943 (29.73%) Azure
2 935 (29.48%) AWS
3 301 (9.49%) GitHub
4 246 (7.76%) Azure DevOps
5 237 (7.47%) SaaS
6 209 (6.59%) Serverless
7 183 (5.77%) GCP
8 176 (5.55%) GitHub Copilot
9 161 (5.08%) Azure AI
10 126 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
11 105 (3.31%) Amazon S3
12 85 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
13 81 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 76 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
15 62 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
16 56 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
17 43 (1.36%) Anthropic Claude
18 39 (1.23%) Power Platform
19 37 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
20 34 (1.07%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.86%) Broadband
2 57 (1.80%) Internet
3 10 (0.32%) Firewall
3 10 (0.32%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.25%) DNS
5 7 (0.22%) HTTP
5 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
6 5 (0.16%) MQTT
7 3 (0.095%) DHCP
7 3 (0.095%) LAN
7 3 (0.095%) WAN
8 2 (0.063%) AMQP
8 2 (0.063%) Network Security
8 2 (0.063%) VoIP
8 2 (0.063%) VPN
9 1 (0.032%) Multicast
9 1 (0.032%) SCTP
9 1 (0.032%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.032%) VoLTE
9 1 (0.032%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 534 (16.83%) MongoDB
2 460 (14.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 223 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
4 173 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 158 (4.98%) Elasticsearch
6 112 (3.53%) NoSQL
7 102 (3.22%) MySQL
8 85 (2.68%) Relational Database
9 68 (2.14%) DynamoDB
10 52 (1.64%) Redis
11 24 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
12 23 (0.73%) Power BI
13 14 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.38%) GIS
15 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.22%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
18 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 242 (7.63%) Git
2 107 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 73 (2.30%) GitLab
4 55 (1.73%) Cypress.io
5 48 (1.51%) JUnit
6 47 (1.48%) JIRA
7 41 (1.29%) Claude Code
8 34 (1.07%) Maven
9 24 (0.76%) Eclipse
10 23 (0.73%) Subversion
11 22 (0.69%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.54%) Vite
13 15 (0.47%) Mockito
14 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
16 11 (0.35%) Selenium
17 10 (0.32%) Spock
17 10 (0.32%) Storybook
18 8 (0.25%) Cucumber
19 7 (0.22%) NUnit
General
1 397 (12.52%) Finance
2 298 (9.39%) Social Skills
3 111 (3.50%) Public Sector
4 103 (3.25%) Marketing
5 91 (2.87%) Games
6 75 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (2.33%) Advertising
8 71 (2.24%) Retail
9 59 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 58 (1.83%) Banking
11 41 (1.29%) Front Office
12 38 (1.20%) Law
13 33 (1.04%) Legal
13 33 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 25 (0.79%) Tech for Good
15 21 (0.66%) Financial Institution
16 18 (0.57%) Automotive
17 17 (0.54%) Aerospace
18 15 (0.47%) Legal Technology
19 14 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,923 (60.62%) Developer
2 1,018 (32.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 733 (23.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 625 (19.70%) Senior
5 616 (19.42%) .NET Developer
6 548 (17.28%) Software Engineer
7 409 (12.89%) Lead
8 278 (8.76%) Senior Developer
9 267 (8.42%) Software Developer
10 248 (7.82%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 200 (6.31%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 193 (6.08%) Lead Developer
13 167 (5.26%) Java Developer
14 163 (5.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 153 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
16 118 (3.72%) Java Engineer
17 102 (3.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 99 (3.12%) Python Developer
19 95 (2.99%) React Developer
20 90 (2.84%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,040 (32.79%) React
2 974 (30.71%) .NET
3 628 (19.80%) Node.js
4 550 (17.34%) ASP.NET
5 547 (17.24%) .NET Core
6 508 (16.02%) ASP.NET Core
7 439 (13.84%) AngularJS
8 423 (13.34%) CSS
9 408 (12.86%) HTML
10 387 (12.20%) Vue
11 344 (10.84%) RESTful
12 232 (7.31%) Entity Framework
13 217 (6.84%) Blazor
14 204 (6.43%) Spring
15 200 (6.31%) REST
16 186 (5.86%) ASP.NET Web API
17 163 (5.14%) Spring Boot
18 155 (4.89%) Next.js
19 154 (4.85%) ML.NET
20 136 (4.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 295 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 169 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
3 110 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 80 (2.52%) Mobile App
5 79 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 75 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 67 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 59 (1.86%) AI Agents
9 49 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.20%) Fixed Income
11 37 (1.17%) Low-Code
12 34 (1.07%) Video\Live Streaming
13 33 (1.04%) Onboarding
14 29 (0.91%) e-Learning
15 28 (0.88%) IoT
16 23 (0.73%) Virtual Team
17 22 (0.69%) Social Media
18 20 (0.63%) Digital TV
19 19 (0.60%) Algorithms
20 17 (0.54%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 59 (1.86%) Linux
2 23 (0.73%) Android
3 15 (0.47%) Windows
4 9 (0.28%) Unix
5 7 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.13%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.095%) AIX
7 3 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.063%) VMS
9 1 (0.032%) Debian
9 1 (0.032%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 934 (29.45%) Software Engineering
2 920 (29.00%) Agile
3 755 (23.80%) CI/CD
4 696 (21.94%) AI
5 565 (17.81%) Microservices
6 561 (17.69%) DevOps
7 344 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
8 302 (9.52%) Machine Learning
9 295 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 284 (8.95%) Mentoring
11 263 (8.29%) Test Automation
12 221 (6.97%) Scrum
13 197 (6.21%) TDD
14 189 (5.96%) Clean Code
15 181 (5.71%) Infrastructure as Code
16 177 (5.58%) Observability
17 176 (5.55%) Containerisation
18 175 (5.52%) Multithreading
19 160 (5.04%) Technical Leadership
20 154 (4.85%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 974 (30.71%) JavaScript
2 916 (28.88%) C#
3 912 (28.75%) TypeScript
4 755 (23.80%) SQL
5 611 (19.26%) Python
6 515 (16.24%) Java
7 101 (3.18%) PHP
8 97 (3.06%) Go
9 77 (2.43%) Ruby
10 68 (2.14%) C++
11 32 (1.01%) Bash
12 27 (0.85%) Groovy
13 18 (0.57%) Perl
14 17 (0.54%) Rust
15 14 (0.44%) Bicep
16 13 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.41%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.19%) C
17 6 (0.19%) PowerShell
18 5 (0.16%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 215 (6.78%) Security Cleared
2 170 (5.36%) Degree
3 157 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 121 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 23 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.13%) PhD
15 3 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.032%) CCNA
16 1 (0.032%) CCNP
16 1 (0.032%) Cisco Certification
16 1 (0.032%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.25%) QA
2 67 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.95%) WCAG
4 21 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 20 (0.63%) GDPR
6 7 (0.22%) GRC
6 7 (0.22%) NCSC
7 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.095%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.095%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.063%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.032%) HL7
10 1 (0.032%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.032%) ITGC
10 1 (0.032%) NIST
10 1 (0.032%) SLA
10 1 (0.032%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 458 (14.44%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 2 (0.063%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.063%) vSphere
5 1 (0.032%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 349 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 146 (4.60%) Terraform
3 29 (0.91%) Grafana
4 20 (0.63%) Ansible
5 19 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.41%) Podman
7 12 (0.38%) HP Fortify
8 10 (0.32%) Kibana
9 6 (0.19%) logstash
10 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.063%) Argo
12 1 (0.032%) Bugsnag
12 1 (0.032%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.032%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.032%) Graylog
12 1 (0.032%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.032%) Nagios
12 1 (0.032%) Packer
12 1 (0.032%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 621 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 83 (2.62%) Google
3 58 (1.83%) Facebook
4 35 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 27 (0.85%) Oracle
6 25 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.69%) Adobe
7 22 (0.69%) YouTube
8 18 (0.57%) Apple
9 17 (0.54%) Palantir
9 17 (0.54%) Sony
9 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.50%) Splunk
11 15 (0.47%) Foundry
12 13 (0.41%) AppDynamics
12 13 (0.41%) Databricks
13 10 (0.32%) Sitecore
14 9 (0.28%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.28%) OneLogin
15 6 (0.19%) Palo Alto