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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 107 42
Rank change year-on-year +37 -65 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,394 1,240 4,991
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.66% 2.93% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 3.16% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,943 1,006 3,930
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% +8.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,046
% change year-on-year +8.33% +5.18% -0.79%

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 67,238 39,252 82,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.66% 92.86% 85.61%
Number of salaries quoted 41,831 22,645 59,684
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,516 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 2 May 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 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 +39 2,161 £70,000 +7.69% 841
UK excluding London +30 1,433 £65,000 +8.33% 572
Work from Home +34 898 £70,000 +7.69% 485
London +35 780 £85,000 +6.25% 359
North of England +51 442 £70,000 +21.74% 171
South East +14 353 £60,000 - 164
Midlands +34 244 £55,000 +4.76% 60
North West +38 227 £67,500 +10.20% 96
South West +9 208 £60,000 -4.00% 66
Yorkshire +27 157 £75,000 +36.36% 47
West Midlands +26 127 £57,500 -2.13% 23
East Midlands +12 116 £55,000 +15.79% 37
East of England +41 112 £66,250 +20.45% 71
North East +1 58 £60,000 +9.09% 28
Scotland -44 38 £60,000 -9.77% 30
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 4
Wales -39 18 £52,500 -25.00% 12
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 17 (0.71%) CMS
2 15 (0.63%) Confluence
3 14 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.46%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.38%) Apache
5 9 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 9 (0.38%) WordPress
6 8 (0.33%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.17%) Appian
10 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.17%) IIS
11 3 (0.13%) Liferay
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.084%) CICS
12 2 (0.084%) Drupal
12 2 (0.084%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.084%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.084%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.042%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.042%) Magento
2 1 (0.042%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 690 (28.82%) AWS
2 446 (18.63%) Azure
3 224 (9.36%) SaaS
4 189 (7.89%) Serverless
5 161 (6.73%) GCP
6 129 (5.39%) GitHub
7 114 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 98 (4.09%) Amazon S3
9 85 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
10 62 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
11 59 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
12 48 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (1.84%) Figma
14 43 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (1.09%) Power Platform
17 25 (1.04%) Entra ID
18 23 (0.96%) GitHub Copilot
19 22 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
19 22 (0.92%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.01%) Broadband
2 10 (0.42%) HTTP
3 6 (0.25%) DNS
3 6 (0.25%) Firewall
4 4 (0.17%) Internet
4 4 (0.17%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.13%) VPN
5 3 (0.13%) WAN
6 2 (0.084%) DHCP
6 2 (0.084%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.084%) LAN
6 2 (0.084%) VLAN
7 1 (0.042%) AMQP
7 1 (0.042%) MQTT
7 1 (0.042%) Multicast
7 1 (0.042%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.042%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.042%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.042%) VSAN
7 1 (0.042%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (5.76%) MongoDB
3 120 (5.01%) SQL Server
4 117 (4.89%) NoSQL
5 61 (2.55%) MySQL
6 50 (2.09%) DynamoDB
7 47 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 40 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (0.79%) Redis
10 18 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (0.75%) Power BI
11 14 (0.58%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.33%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.33%) DB2
15 7 (0.29%) GIS
16 6 (0.25%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.17%) Big Data
17 4 (0.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 173 (7.23%) Git
2 95 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 63 (2.63%) Cypress.io
4 43 (1.80%) GitLab
5 36 (1.50%) JIRA
6 26 (1.09%) Maven
7 23 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.79%) CircleCI
8 19 (0.79%) Vite
9 17 (0.71%) JUnit
10 14 (0.58%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.54%) Claude Code
12 11 (0.46%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.46%) Mockito
13 8 (0.33%) Selenium
14 7 (0.29%) ESLint
14 7 (0.29%) NUnit
15 6 (0.25%) webpack
16 4 (0.17%) Storybook
General
1 272 (11.36%) Social Skills
2 252 (10.53%) Finance
3 69 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (2.88%) Public Sector
4 53 (2.21%) Banking
5 51 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 44 (1.84%) Retail
7 39 (1.63%) Front Office
7 39 (1.63%) Marketing
8 38 (1.59%) Law
9 36 (1.50%) Games
10 33 (1.38%) Tech for Good
11 28 (1.17%) Aviation
12 24 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 21 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (0.84%) Health Technology
15 19 (0.79%) Legal
16 17 (0.71%) Investment Banking
17 16 (0.67%) Advertising
18 12 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,375 (57.44%) Developer
2 964 (40.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 587 (24.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 553 (23.10%) Senior
5 440 (18.38%) Software Engineer
6 356 (14.87%) Lead
7 268 (11.19%) Senior Developer
8 192 (8.02%) Lead Developer
9 191 (7.98%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 188 (7.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 181 (7.56%) Software Developer
12 177 (7.39%) .NET Developer
13 155 (6.47%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 145 (6.06%) React Developer
15 143 (5.97%) Java Developer
16 124 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
17 104 (4.34%) Python Developer
18 89 (3.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 86 (3.59%) C# Developer
20 84 (3.51%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 840 (35.09%) React
2 474 (19.80%) .NET
3 461 (19.26%) Node.js
4 242 (10.11%) AngularJS
5 236 (9.86%) CSS
5 236 (9.86%) HTML
6 198 (8.27%) Vue
7 164 (6.85%) RESTful
8 157 (6.56%) Spring
9 151 (6.31%) .NET Core
10 134 (5.60%) REST
11 131 (5.47%) Spring Boot
12 125 (5.22%) Next.js
13 86 (3.59%) ASP.NET
14 77 (3.22%) GraphQL
15 67 (2.80%) .NET Framework
15 67 (2.80%) Laravel
16 66 (2.76%) React Native
17 61 (2.55%) Entity Framework
17 61 (2.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 173 (7.23%) Cloud Native
2 99 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
3 73 (3.05%) Product Ownership
4 66 (2.76%) Mobile App
5 59 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
6 47 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.46%) AI Agents
7 35 (1.46%) Fixed Income
8 32 (1.34%) IoT
9 24 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (0.92%) e-Learning
10 22 (0.92%) Low-Code
11 19 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (0.79%) Smart Energy
12 16 (0.67%) Onboarding
13 15 (0.63%) Data Structures
13 15 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (0.63%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.54%) Blog
14 13 (0.54%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.29%) Linux
2 23 (0.96%) Android
3 20 (0.84%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.25%) Windows
5 5 (0.21%) Unix
6 2 (0.084%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.042%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.042%) VMS
7 1 (0.042%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (31.50%) Software Engineering
2 498 (20.80%) Agile
3 442 (18.46%) CI/CD
4 373 (15.58%) AI
5 356 (14.87%) DevOps
6 314 (13.12%) Microservices
7 309 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 239 (9.98%) Mentoring
10 196 (8.19%) Test Automation
11 169 (7.06%) User Experience
12 151 (6.31%) Containerisation
13 142 (5.93%) Clean Code
14 138 (5.76%) Web Development
15 137 (5.72%) Scrum
16 121 (5.05%) Technical Leadership
17 120 (5.01%) Infrastructure as Code
18 115 (4.80%) Computer Science
19 112 (4.68%) Front End Development
19 112 (4.68%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 691 (28.86%) TypeScript
2 675 (28.20%) JavaScript
3 483 (20.18%) Python
4 442 (18.46%) Java
5 422 (17.63%) C#
6 310 (12.95%) SQL
7 98 (4.09%) PHP
8 62 (2.59%) Go
9 53 (2.21%) Ruby
10 31 (1.29%) Bash
11 22 (0.92%) C++
12 17 (0.71%) C
13 16 (0.67%) Groovy
13 16 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.50%) Bicep
14 12 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.38%) Rust
16 6 (0.25%) R
16 6 (0.25%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 168 (7.02%) Security Cleared
2 120 (5.01%) SC Cleared
3 119 (4.97%) Degree
4 77 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.50%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 17 (0.71%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.17%) PhD
12 2 (0.084%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.042%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.042%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.042%) MBA
13 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.30%) QA
2 43 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.42%) Data Quality
3 10 (0.42%) GDPR
4 7 (0.29%) GRC
5 6 (0.25%) SLA
5 6 (0.25%) WCAG
6 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.084%) HL7
7 2 (0.084%) ITGC
7 2 (0.084%) NCSC
7 2 (0.084%) NIST
8 1 (0.042%) PERC
8 1 (0.042%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.042%) SOC 2
System Software
1 239 (9.98%) Docker
2 9 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.084%) vSphere
6 1 (0.042%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 166 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 116 (4.85%) Terraform
3 33 (1.38%) Grafana
4 28 (1.17%) Ansible
5 20 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.58%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.54%) Podman
8 10 (0.42%) Argo
9 7 (0.29%) Kibana
9 7 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.17%) logstash
11 3 (0.13%) Nagios
12 1 (0.042%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.042%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.042%) Graylog
12 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.042%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 147 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 34 (1.42%) OpenAI
3 33 (1.38%) Google
4 30 (1.25%) Adobe
5 25 (1.04%) Oracle
6 11 (0.46%) Foundry
7 10 (0.42%) Palantir
7 10 (0.42%) Salesforce
8 8 (0.33%) Peregrine
9 6 (0.25%) Databricks
9 6 (0.25%) Dynatrace
9 6 (0.25%) Pega
10 5 (0.21%) Facebook
10 5 (0.21%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.21%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.21%) Zoho
11 4 (0.17%) Apple
11 4 (0.17%) DevExpress
11 4 (0.17%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.17%) Splunk