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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 100 45
Rank change year-on-year +53 -55 +26
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,154 1,532 4,366
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.15% 3.12% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 3.46% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,629 955 3,186
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
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 £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 73,727 44,243 76,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.97% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,045 24,911 52,533
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £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 22 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 22 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 +55 2,864 £65,000 -7.14% 812
UK excluding London +66 2,160 £60,000 - 497
Work from Home +47 1,415 £60,000 -9.23% 320
London +12 838 £85,000 - 406
North of England +69 712 £65,000 +8.33% 141
South East +90 535 £60,000 - 140
North West +41 385 £65,000 - 77
Midlands +40 294 £55,000 -8.33% 73
South West +45 292 £60,000 - 58
Yorkshire +73 213 £70,000 +16.67% 44
East of England +60 177 £60,000 +20.00% 43
West Midlands +32 152 £60,000 -4.00% 40
East Midlands +22 141 £55,000 +15.79% 33
North East +17 114 £52,000 +8.33% 21
Scotland -20 81 £55,000 -18.52% 31
Wales -34 54 £60,000 -4.00% 7
Northern Ireland -49 20 £70,000 +16.67% 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 31 (0.98%) CMS
2 23 (0.73%) Confluence
3 15 (0.48%) WordPress
4 11 (0.35%) Apache
4 11 (0.35%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.32%) ColdFusion
5 10 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
6 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) IIS
9 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.095%) DNN
12 3 (0.095%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.095%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.25%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 938 (29.74%) Azure
2 921 (29.20%) AWS
3 293 (9.29%) GitHub
4 242 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
5 230 (7.29%) SaaS
6 208 (6.59%) Serverless
7 184 (5.83%) GCP
8 169 (5.36%) GitHub Copilot
9 161 (5.10%) Azure AI
10 126 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (3.30%) Amazon S3
12 82 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
12 82 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 76 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
14 59 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
15 52 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 39 (1.24%) Anthropic Claude
17 38 (1.20%) Power Platform
18 37 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
19 33 (1.05%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.87%) Broadband
2 57 (1.81%) Internet
3 8 (0.25%) Firewall
3 8 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.19%) DNS
5 6 (0.19%) HTTP
6 5 (0.16%) MQTT
7 3 (0.095%) LAN
7 3 (0.095%) WAN
8 2 (0.063%) AMQP
8 2 (0.063%) DHCP
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
1 535 (16.96%) MongoDB
2 460 (14.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 214 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
4 165 (5.23%) SQL Server
5 158 (5.01%) Elasticsearch
6 113 (3.58%) NoSQL
7 101 (3.20%) MySQL
8 82 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 65 (2.06%) DynamoDB
10 50 (1.59%) Redis
11 22 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
11 22 (0.70%) Power BI
12 13 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
13 11 (0.35%) GIS
13 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
14 9 (0.29%) Pinecone
14 9 (0.29%) RDBMS
15 7 (0.22%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 5 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 232 (7.36%) Git
2 104 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 68 (2.16%) GitLab
4 54 (1.71%) Cypress.io
5 46 (1.46%) JIRA
6 43 (1.36%) JUnit
7 40 (1.27%) Claude Code
8 32 (1.01%) Maven
9 24 (0.76%) Eclipse
10 23 (0.73%) Subversion
11 21 (0.67%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.54%) Vite
13 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.41%) Mockito
14 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.29%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.29%) Selenium
15 9 (0.29%) Spock
16 8 (0.25%) Storybook
17 7 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 385 (12.21%) Finance
2 298 (9.45%) Social Skills
3 108 (3.42%) Public Sector
4 98 (3.11%) Marketing
5 91 (2.89%) Games
6 77 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 73 (2.31%) Advertising
7 73 (2.31%) Retail
8 56 (1.78%) Banking
9 54 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (1.30%) Front Office
11 37 (1.17%) Law
12 32 (1.01%) Legal
13 31 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 26 (0.82%) Tech for Good
15 19 (0.60%) Automotive
15 19 (0.60%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.51%) Aerospace
17 15 (0.48%) Legal Technology
18 13 (0.41%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,925 (61.03%) Developer
2 1,022 (32.40%) Full-Stack Developer
3 723 (22.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 618 (19.59%) Senior
5 617 (19.56%) .NET Developer
6 543 (17.22%) Software Engineer
7 407 (12.90%) Lead
8 278 (8.81%) Senior Developer
9 262 (8.31%) Software Developer
10 244 (7.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 195 (6.18%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 191 (6.06%) Lead Developer
13 166 (5.26%) Java Developer
14 163 (5.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 151 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
16 121 (3.84%) Java Engineer
17 101 (3.20%) Python Developer
18 100 (3.17%) React Developer
19 99 (3.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
20 91 (2.89%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,038 (32.91%) React
2 968 (30.69%) .NET
3 625 (19.82%) Node.js
4 544 (17.25%) ASP.NET
5 542 (17.18%) .NET Core
6 504 (15.98%) ASP.NET Core
7 431 (13.67%) AngularJS
8 421 (13.35%) CSS
9 408 (12.94%) HTML
10 383 (12.14%) Vue
11 343 (10.88%) RESTful
12 230 (7.29%) Entity Framework
13 213 (6.75%) Blazor
14 199 (6.31%) Spring
15 185 (5.87%) ASP.NET Web API
16 184 (5.83%) REST
17 159 (5.04%) Spring Boot
18 154 (4.88%) ML.NET
19 149 (4.72%) Next.js
20 133 (4.22%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 287 (9.10%) Cloud Native
2 172 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
3 106 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
4 80 (2.54%) Mobile App
5 74 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
5 74 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 64 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
7 57 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 47 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 38 (1.20%) Fixed Income
9 38 (1.20%) Low-Code
10 33 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
11 31 (0.98%) IoT
11 31 (0.98%) Onboarding
12 29 (0.92%) e-Learning
13 22 (0.70%) Social Media
13 22 (0.70%) Virtual Team
14 20 (0.63%) Digital TV
15 18 (0.57%) Algorithms
16 17 (0.54%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.74%) Linux
2 23 (0.73%) Android
3 13 (0.41%) Windows
4 8 (0.25%) Unix
5 6 (0.19%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.095%) AIX
7 3 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.095%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.063%) VMS
9 1 (0.032%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 925 (29.33%) Software Engineering
2 904 (28.66%) Agile
3 735 (23.30%) CI/CD
4 678 (21.50%) AI
5 554 (17.56%) DevOps
5 554 (17.56%) Microservices
6 348 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
7 297 (9.42%) Machine Learning
8 292 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 279 (8.85%) Mentoring
10 256 (8.12%) Test Automation
11 215 (6.82%) Scrum
12 194 (6.15%) TDD
13 185 (5.87%) Clean Code
14 176 (5.58%) Infrastructure as Code
15 172 (5.45%) Multithreading
16 169 (5.36%) Containerisation
16 169 (5.36%) Observability
17 156 (4.95%) Technical Leadership
18 148 (4.69%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 965 (30.60%) JavaScript
2 913 (28.95%) C#
3 904 (28.66%) TypeScript
4 750 (23.78%) SQL
5 602 (19.09%) Python
6 512 (16.23%) Java
7 101 (3.20%) PHP
8 94 (2.98%) Go
9 75 (2.38%) Ruby
10 67 (2.12%) C++
11 30 (0.95%) Bash
12 26 (0.82%) Groovy
13 19 (0.60%) Rust
14 18 (0.57%) Perl
15 14 (0.44%) Bicep
15 14 (0.44%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.22%) C
18 6 (0.19%) PowerShell
19 5 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 206 (6.53%) Security Cleared
2 165 (5.23%) Degree
3 149 (4.72%) SC Cleared
4 117 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 21 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.29%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.13%) PhD
14 3 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.032%) CCNA
15 1 (0.032%) CCNP
15 1 (0.032%) ICAEW
15 1 (0.032%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (3.11%) QA
2 62 (1.97%) Accessibility
3 29 (0.92%) WCAG
4 20 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 18 (0.57%) GDPR
6 7 (0.22%) GRC
6 7 (0.22%) NCSC
7 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.095%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.063%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.063%) ITGC
9 2 (0.063%) SLA
10 1 (0.032%) HL7
10 1 (0.032%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.032%) NIST
10 1 (0.032%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.032%) SOC 2
System Software
1 440 (13.95%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 3 (0.095%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.063%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.063%) vSphere
6 1 (0.032%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 339 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 143 (4.53%) Terraform
3 31 (0.98%) Grafana
4 20 (0.63%) Ansible
4 20 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.41%) Podman
6 11 (0.35%) HP Fortify
7 10 (0.32%) Kibana
8 6 (0.19%) logstash
9 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.063%) Argo
10 2 (0.063%) Nagios
11 1 (0.032%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.032%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.032%) Graylog
11 1 (0.032%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.032%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 615 (19.50%) Microsoft
2 84 (2.66%) Google
3 58 (1.84%) Facebook
4 34 (1.08%) OpenAI
5 25 (0.79%) Oracle
6 24 (0.76%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.70%) Adobe
8 21 (0.67%) YouTube
9 18 (0.57%) Apple
10 17 (0.54%) Palantir
10 17 (0.54%) Sony
10 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
11 15 (0.48%) Foundry
12 14 (0.44%) Splunk
13 13 (0.41%) Databricks
14 12 (0.38%) AppDynamics
15 10 (0.32%) Sitecore
16 9 (0.29%) OneLogin
17 8 (0.25%) Dynatrace
18 6 (0.19%) Palo Alto