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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 93 41
Rank change year-on-year +30 -52 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,501 1,436 5,021
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.76% 3.31% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 3.54% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,027 989 3,955
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 67,484 40,549 82,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.46% 93.37% 85.36%
Number of salaries quoted 42,329 22,500 59,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £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 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 8 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 8 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 +31 2,264 £70,000 +6.06% 878
UK excluding London +23 1,512 £62,500 +4.17% 641
Work from Home +24 967 £67,500 +3.85% 466
London +35 810 £85,000 +6.25% 351
North of England +31 464 £67,500 +14.41% 210
South East +28 381 £60,000 - 173
Midlands +15 249 £55,000 +4.76% 72
North West +18 240 £67,500 +5.88% 112
South West +16 216 £60,000 -4.00% 67
Yorkshire +41 159 £75,000 +36.36% 64
West Midlands +12 130 £60,000 - 27
East of England +32 122 £63,750 +21.43% 67
East Midlands -2 118 £55,000 +15.79% 45
North East +7 65 £60,000 +9.09% 34
Scotland -53 41 £60,000 -6.98% 36
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 5
Wales -38 21 £51,250 -26.79% 18
Isle of Man - 1 £35,000 - 1
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 20 (0.80%) CMS
2 17 (0.68%) Confluence
3 14 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.44%) ColdFusion
4 11 (0.44%) WordPress
5 9 (0.36%) Apache
5 9 (0.36%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.32%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.16%) Appian
8 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.16%) IIS
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.12%) Liferay
9 3 (0.12%) nginx
9 3 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.080%) CICS
10 2 (0.080%) Drupal
10 2 (0.080%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.080%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Shopify
2 1 (0.040%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.040%) Magento
2 1 (0.040%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.040%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 722 (28.87%) AWS
2 495 (19.79%) Azure
3 232 (9.28%) SaaS
4 189 (7.56%) Serverless
5 162 (6.48%) GCP
6 147 (5.88%) GitHub
7 114 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
8 102 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
9 98 (3.92%) Amazon S3
10 65 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
11 60 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
12 49 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (1.76%) Figma
14 43 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 37 (1.48%) GitHub Copilot
16 30 (1.20%) Azure AI
17 28 (1.12%) Power Platform
18 27 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
19 26 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 23 (0.92%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.36%) Broadband
2 10 (0.40%) HTTP
3 9 (0.36%) Internet
4 6 (0.24%) DNS
5 5 (0.20%) Firewall
5 5 (0.20%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.080%) DHCP
6 2 (0.080%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.080%) LAN
6 2 (0.080%) VLAN
6 2 (0.080%) VPN
6 2 (0.080%) WAN
7 1 (0.040%) AMQP
7 1 (0.040%) MQTT
7 1 (0.040%) Multicast
7 1 (0.040%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.040%) SSL
7 1 (0.040%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.040%) VSAN
7 1 (0.040%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (7.76%) MongoDB
2 175 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
3 123 (4.92%) SQL Server
4 116 (4.64%) NoSQL
5 86 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 68 (2.72%) MySQL
7 53 (2.12%) Relational Database
8 50 (2.00%) DynamoDB
9 33 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (0.80%) Power BI
10 20 (0.80%) Redis
11 14 (0.56%) Pinecone
12 12 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (0.36%) GIS
15 8 (0.32%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.32%) DB2
16 6 (0.24%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.16%) Big Data
17 4 (0.16%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 182 (7.28%) Git
2 98 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 66 (2.64%) Cypress.io
4 47 (1.88%) GitLab
5 39 (1.56%) JIRA
6 28 (1.12%) Maven
7 23 (0.92%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 19 (0.76%) JUnit
8 19 (0.76%) Vite
9 16 (0.64%) Claude Code
10 14 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 14 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 11 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.44%) Mockito
12 9 (0.36%) Selenium
13 7 (0.28%) ESLint
13 7 (0.28%) NUnit
14 6 (0.24%) webpack
15 4 (0.16%) Storybook
General
1 279 (11.16%) Social Skills
2 265 (10.60%) Finance
3 72 (2.88%) Public Sector
4 71 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (2.12%) Banking
6 51 (2.04%) Games
7 48 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (1.80%) Retail
9 41 (1.64%) Marketing
10 39 (1.56%) Law
11 38 (1.52%) Front Office
12 35 (1.40%) Tech for Good
13 28 (1.12%) Aviation
14 25 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.84%) Advertising
15 21 (0.84%) Health Technology
15 21 (0.84%) Legal
15 21 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.64%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,458 (58.30%) Developer
2 983 (39.30%) Full-Stack Developer
3 605 (24.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 568 (22.71%) Senior
5 452 (18.07%) Software Engineer
6 365 (14.59%) Lead
7 280 (11.20%) Senior Developer
8 228 (9.12%) .NET Developer
9 200 (8.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 195 (7.80%) Lead Developer
10 195 (7.80%) Software Developer
11 190 (7.60%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 159 (6.36%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 145 (5.80%) Java Developer
14 144 (5.76%) React Developer
15 125 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
16 112 (4.48%) Python Developer
17 90 (3.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 87 (3.48%) C# Developer
18 87 (3.48%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 855 (34.19%) React
2 535 (21.39%) .NET
3 481 (19.23%) Node.js
4 266 (10.64%) AngularJS
4 266 (10.64%) CSS
5 265 (10.60%) HTML
6 223 (8.92%) Vue
7 197 (7.88%) .NET Core
8 193 (7.72%) RESTful
9 166 (6.64%) Spring
10 141 (5.64%) Spring Boot
11 140 (5.60%) REST
12 137 (5.48%) ASP.NET
13 126 (5.04%) Next.js
14 95 (3.80%) ASP.NET Core
15 81 (3.24%) Entity Framework
16 77 (3.08%) GraphQL
17 69 (2.76%) .NET Framework
18 68 (2.72%) Laravel
19 67 (2.68%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 185 (7.40%) Cloud Native
2 108 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
3 74 (2.96%) Product Ownership
4 72 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 69 (2.76%) Mobile App
6 46 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 36 (1.44%) AI Agents
8 34 (1.36%) Fixed Income
9 32 (1.28%) Low-Code
10 31 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.24%) IoT
11 23 (0.92%) e-Learning
12 22 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
13 19 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 18 (0.72%) Onboarding
14 18 (0.72%) Smart Energy
15 16 (0.64%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (0.64%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.52%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.28%) Linux
2 25 (1.00%) Android
3 20 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.24%) Windows
5 5 (0.20%) Unix
6 2 (0.080%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.040%) VMS
7 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 778 (31.11%) Software Engineering
2 535 (21.39%) Agile
3 478 (19.11%) CI/CD
4 412 (16.47%) AI
5 378 (15.11%) DevOps
6 349 (13.95%) Microservices
7 313 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
8 254 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 244 (9.76%) Mentoring
10 207 (8.28%) Test Automation
11 169 (6.76%) User Experience
12 155 (6.20%) Containerisation
13 148 (5.92%) Scrum
14 142 (5.68%) Clean Code
15 140 (5.60%) Web Development
16 134 (5.36%) Machine Learning
17 132 (5.28%) Infrastructure as Code
18 121 (4.84%) Technical Leadership
19 119 (4.76%) Computer Science
20 114 (4.56%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 712 (28.47%) TypeScript
2 710 (28.39%) JavaScript
3 503 (20.11%) Python
4 480 (19.19%) C#
5 450 (17.99%) Java
6 356 (14.23%) SQL
7 100 (4.00%) PHP
8 72 (2.88%) Go
9 54 (2.16%) Ruby
10 31 (1.24%) Bash
11 25 (1.00%) C++
12 19 (0.76%) Groovy
13 16 (0.64%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.56%) C
15 12 (0.48%) Bicep
15 12 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.28%) Rust
17 6 (0.24%) R
17 6 (0.24%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 169 (6.76%) Security Cleared
2 124 (4.96%) Degree
3 123 (4.92%) SC Cleared
4 82 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.44%) DV Cleared
6 18 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 17 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.20%) PhD
12 2 (0.080%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.040%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.040%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.040%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.040%) MBA
13 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.12%) QA
2 45 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.44%) GDPR
4 10 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.28%) GRC
5 7 (0.28%) WCAG
6 6 (0.24%) SLA
7 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.080%) HL7
8 2 (0.080%) ITGC
8 2 (0.080%) NCSC
8 2 (0.080%) NIST
9 1 (0.040%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.040%) PERC
9 1 (0.040%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.040%) SOC 2
System Software
1 263 (10.52%) Docker
2 8 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.12%) Firmware
5 2 (0.080%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.080%) vSphere
6 1 (0.040%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 179 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 118 (4.72%) Terraform
3 33 (1.32%) Grafana
4 29 (1.16%) Ansible
5 20 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.56%) HP Fortify
7 13 (0.52%) Podman
8 10 (0.40%) Argo
9 7 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.24%) Kibana
11 4 (0.16%) logstash
12 3 (0.12%) Nagios
13 1 (0.040%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.040%) Graylog
13 1 (0.040%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 197 (7.88%) Microsoft
2 38 (1.52%) Google
3 35 (1.40%) OpenAI
4 32 (1.28%) Adobe
5 26 (1.04%) Oracle
6 12 (0.48%) Foundry
7 11 (0.44%) Palantir
8 10 (0.40%) Facebook
8 10 (0.40%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.28%) Peregrine
10 6 (0.24%) Databricks
10 6 (0.24%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.24%) Pega
10 6 (0.24%) Splunk
11 5 (0.20%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.20%) Apple
11 5 (0.20%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.20%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.20%) WooCommerce
12 4 (0.16%) ServiceNow