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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 91 42
Rank change year-on-year +29 -49 +24
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,640 1,448 5,013
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.90% 3.33% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 3.57% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,154 959 3,954
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +9.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 67,106 40,605 82,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 93.31% 85.17%
Number of salaries quoted 43,167 22,159 59,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the UK

Full-Stack Development
Top 19 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 15 May 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 +34 2,392 £70,000 +6.46% 887
UK excluding London +34 1,649 £60,000 - 666
Work from Home +33 1,050 £65,000 - 1,145
London +37 815 £85,000 +6.25% 345
North of England +43 516 £67,500 +12.50% 214
South East +47 421 £60,000 - 173
North West +35 272 £65,000 - 111
Midlands +14 262 £55,000 +4.76% 79
South West +19 221 £60,000 -4.00% 71
Yorkshire +42 170 £75,000 +30.43% 69
West Midlands +11 138 £60,000 - 27
East of England +44 137 £60,000 +20.00% 67
East Midlands +4 123 £55,000 +15.79% 52
North East +11 74 £60,000 +14.29% 34
Scotland -40 48 £60,000 -4.00% 39
Wales -31 26 £55,000 -21.43% 20
Northern Ireland - 25 £70,000 - 10
Isle of Man - 2 £35,000 -
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 22 (0.83%) CMS
2 19 (0.72%) Confluence
3 11 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (0.42%) ColdFusion
3 11 (0.42%) WordPress
4 10 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 9 (0.34%) Apache
6 8 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.15%) IIS
9 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.11%) Appian
10 3 (0.11%) Liferay
10 3 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.076%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.076%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.15%) Shopify
2 1 (0.038%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.038%) Magento
2 1 (0.038%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.038%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 751 (28.45%) AWS
2 563 (21.33%) Azure
3 229 (8.67%) SaaS
4 191 (7.23%) Serverless
5 162 (6.14%) GitHub
6 158 (5.98%) GCP
7 139 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
9 100 (3.79%) Amazon S3
10 70 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
11 61 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
12 55 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
13 54 (2.05%) Azure AI
14 49 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 43 (1.63%) Figma
17 42 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
19 28 (1.06%) Power Platform
20 26 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.27%) Broadband
2 19 (0.72%) Internet
3 9 (0.34%) HTTP
4 6 (0.23%) DNS
4 6 (0.23%) Firewall
4 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.11%) VPN
6 2 (0.076%) DHCP
6 2 (0.076%) LAN
6 2 (0.076%) VLAN
6 2 (0.076%) WAN
7 1 (0.038%) AMQP
7 1 (0.038%) Multicast
7 1 (0.038%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.038%) TCAP
7 1 (0.038%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.038%) VSAN
7 1 (0.038%) WebEx
7 1 (0.038%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (9.32%) MongoDB
2 174 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
3 155 (5.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 126 (4.77%) SQL Server
5 113 (4.28%) NoSQL
6 68 (2.58%) MySQL
7 59 (2.23%) Relational Database
8 52 (1.97%) DynamoDB
9 51 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (0.76%) Power BI
10 20 (0.76%) Redis
11 12 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (0.42%) Pinecone
13 10 (0.38%) GIS
14 8 (0.30%) DB2
15 6 (0.23%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.23%) MariaDB
16 4 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.15%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 192 (7.27%) Git
2 101 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 65 (2.46%) Cypress.io
4 52 (1.97%) GitLab
5 40 (1.52%) JIRA
6 33 (1.25%) Maven
7 25 (0.95%) JUnit
8 23 (0.87%) SonarQube
9 17 (0.64%) CircleCI
9 17 (0.64%) Claude Code
9 17 (0.64%) Vite
10 15 (0.57%) Mockito
11 14 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 14 (0.53%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.34%) Selenium
14 7 (0.27%) ESLint
14 7 (0.27%) NUnit
15 6 (0.23%) webpack
16 5 (0.19%) Storybook
General
1 291 (11.02%) Finance
2 278 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 84 (3.18%) Public Sector
4 70 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (2.20%) Games
6 53 (2.01%) Banking
7 50 (1.89%) Retail
8 48 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (1.82%) Marketing
9 38 (1.44%) Front Office
10 37 (1.40%) Law
11 34 (1.29%) Tech for Good
12 28 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 26 (0.98%) Advertising
13 26 (0.98%) Aviation
14 22 (0.83%) Legal
15 21 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (0.76%) Health Technology
17 15 (0.57%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,536 (58.18%) Developer
2 990 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 641 (24.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 586 (22.20%) Senior
5 481 (18.22%) Software Engineer
6 381 (14.43%) Lead
7 292 (11.06%) .NET Developer
8 277 (10.49%) Senior Developer
9 211 (7.99%) Software Developer
10 207 (7.84%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 199 (7.54%) Lead Developer
12 188 (7.12%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 174 (6.59%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 152 (5.76%) Java Developer
15 139 (5.27%) React Developer
16 136 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
17 110 (4.17%) Python Developer
18 95 (3.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 90 (3.41%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
20 87 (3.30%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 880 (33.33%) React
2 620 (23.48%) .NET
3 502 (19.02%) Node.js
4 291 (11.02%) AngularJS
4 291 (11.02%) CSS
5 287 (10.87%) HTML
6 260 (9.85%) .NET Core
7 254 (9.62%) Vue
8 219 (8.30%) RESTful
9 201 (7.61%) ASP.NET
10 176 (6.67%) Spring
11 167 (6.33%) ASP.NET Core
12 144 (5.45%) Spring Boot
13 142 (5.38%) REST
14 128 (4.85%) Next.js
15 106 (4.02%) Entity Framework
16 81 (3.07%) Blazor
17 74 (2.80%) GraphQL
18 69 (2.61%) ASP.NET Web API
18 69 (2.61%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 191 (7.23%) Cloud Native
2 126 (4.77%) Greenfield Project
3 78 (2.95%) Mobile App
4 75 (2.84%) Product Ownership
5 72 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 49 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 36 (1.36%) AI Agents
7 36 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (1.29%) Fixed Income
9 32 (1.21%) Low-Code
10 30 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (1.10%) IoT
12 24 (0.91%) e-Learning
13 22 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
14 20 (0.76%) Onboarding
15 18 (0.68%) Virtual Team
16 16 (0.61%) Data Structures
16 16 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 15 (0.57%) Smart Energy
18 13 (0.49%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.29%) Linux
2 27 (1.02%) Android
3 18 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.23%) Unix
4 6 (0.23%) Windows
5 2 (0.076%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.038%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.038%) VMS
6 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (30.95%) Software Engineering
2 590 (22.35%) Agile
3 516 (19.55%) CI/CD
4 452 (17.12%) AI
5 422 (15.98%) DevOps
6 373 (14.13%) Microservices
7 319 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
8 265 (10.04%) Mentoring
9 260 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 217 (8.22%) Test Automation
11 165 (6.25%) Machine Learning
12 164 (6.21%) User Experience
13 160 (6.06%) Scrum
14 156 (5.91%) Containerisation
15 150 (5.68%) Clean Code
16 138 (5.23%) Web Development
17 137 (5.19%) Infrastructure as Code
18 126 (4.77%) Technical Leadership
19 125 (4.73%) TDD
20 122 (4.62%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 746 (28.26%) JavaScript
2 738 (27.95%) TypeScript
3 559 (21.17%) C#
4 509 (19.28%) Python
5 474 (17.95%) Java
6 425 (16.10%) SQL
7 99 (3.75%) PHP
8 68 (2.58%) Go
9 53 (2.01%) Ruby
10 35 (1.33%) C++
11 32 (1.21%) Bash
12 21 (0.80%) Groovy
13 16 (0.61%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.53%) C
14 14 (0.53%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.45%) Bicep
16 8 (0.30%) Rust
17 6 (0.23%) R
17 6 (0.23%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 177 (6.70%) Security Cleared
2 128 (4.85%) Degree
3 126 (4.77%) SC Cleared
4 85 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.40%) DV Cleared
6 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 16 (0.61%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.19%) PhD
12 3 (0.11%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.038%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.038%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.038%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.038%) MBA
13 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.83%) QA
2 40 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.38%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.38%) GDPR
4 8 (0.30%) WCAG
5 7 (0.27%) GRC
6 5 (0.19%) SLA
7 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.076%) HL7
8 2 (0.076%) ITGC
8 2 (0.076%) NCSC
8 2 (0.076%) NIST
9 1 (0.038%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.038%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.038%) SOC 2
System Software
1 286 (10.83%) Docker
2 7 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.11%) Firmware
5 2 (0.076%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.076%) vSphere
6 1 (0.038%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 198 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 117 (4.43%) Terraform
3 32 (1.21%) Grafana
4 28 (1.06%) Ansible
5 19 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.53%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.49%) Podman
8 8 (0.30%) Kibana
9 7 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.23%) Argo
11 4 (0.15%) logstash
12 3 (0.11%) Nagios
13 1 (0.038%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.038%) Graylog
13 1 (0.038%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 257 (9.73%) Microsoft
2 47 (1.78%) Google
3 33 (1.25%) Adobe
3 33 (1.25%) OpenAI
4 27 (1.02%) Oracle
5 18 (0.68%) Foundry
6 16 (0.61%) Facebook
7 13 (0.49%) Salesforce
8 12 (0.45%) Palantir
9 10 (0.38%) Splunk
10 8 (0.30%) Apple
10 8 (0.30%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.27%) AppDynamics
11 7 (0.27%) Peregrine
12 6 (0.23%) Pega
12 6 (0.23%) Sony
12 6 (0.23%) Yahoo!
12 6 (0.23%) YouTube
13 5 (0.19%) Databricks
13 5 (0.19%) WooCommerce