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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 61 44
Rank change year-on-year -24 -17 +22
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,506 2,221 3,558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.39% 4.24% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 4.63% 5.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,213 1,073 3,126
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,383 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £56,509 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.60% +2.74% -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 50,653 47,952 60,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.28% 91.49% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 29,910 23,033 46,850
10th Percentile £28,738 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -25 1,364 £70,000 +7.69% 1,199
UK excluding London -52 798 £62,500 +10.60% 1,060
London +1 585 £80,000 - 318
Work from Home -19 582 £70,000 +7.69% 642
South East -59 216 £62,500 +4.17% 350
North of England -14 212 £65,000 +18.18% 222
Midlands -33 161 £55,000 +10.00% 134
South West -12 116 £61,250 +2.08% 130
North West -19 93 £65,000 +10.64% 111
West Midlands -10 88 £55,000 +4.76% 52
Yorkshire -29 76 £75,000 +51.52% 78
East Midlands -35 73 £60,000 +53.85% 81
East of England -52 57 £60,000 +29.73% 132
North East +10 43 £55,000 +22.22% 35
Wales -25 14 £52,500 - 43
Scotland -76 14 £67,500 +25.58% 42
Northern Ireland -14 10 £95,000 +58.33% 24
Channel Islands 0 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 12 (0.80%) CMS
2 11 (0.73%) Confluence
2 11 (0.73%) OpenStack
3 9 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.33%) WordPress
6 4 (0.27%) Apache
6 4 (0.27%) Appian
6 4 (0.27%) nginx
6 4 (0.27%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.20%) ColdFusion
7 3 (0.20%) Liferay
8 2 (0.13%) Drupal
8 2 (0.13%) IIS
8 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.066%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.066%) Kentico
9 1 (0.066%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.066%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.066%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 527 (34.99%) AWS
2 408 (27.09%) Azure
3 159 (10.56%) Serverless
4 152 (10.09%) SaaS
5 122 (8.10%) GitHub
6 106 (7.04%) GCP
7 89 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
8 77 (5.11%) Amazon S3
9 76 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
10 60 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
12 49 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (2.66%) Figma
14 34 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
15 29 (1.93%) PaaS
16 27 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (1.39%) Entra ID
19 19 (1.26%) Azure App Service
20 17 (1.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.53%) Broadband
2 7 (0.46%) HTTP
3 4 (0.27%) Firewall
4 3 (0.20%) Internet
4 3 (0.20%) WAN
5 2 (0.13%) AMQP
5 2 (0.13%) DHCP
5 2 (0.13%) DNS
5 2 (0.13%) LAN
5 2 (0.13%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.13%) VLAN
5 2 (0.13%) VPN
5 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.066%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.066%) MQTT
6 1 (0.066%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.066%) SSL
6 1 (0.066%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (7.97%) SQL Server
2 119 (7.90%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (6.51%) NoSQL
4 96 (6.37%) MongoDB
5 71 (4.71%) Relational Database
6 65 (4.32%) MySQL
7 44 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 27 (1.79%) DynamoDB
9 25 (1.66%) Redis
10 23 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.39%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.80%) Pinecone
15 10 (0.66%) Power BI
16 9 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (0.53%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.53%) DB2
18 5 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
19 4 (0.27%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 154 (10.23%) Git
2 82 (5.44%) Jenkins
3 50 (3.32%) Cypress.io
4 39 (2.59%) JIRA
5 30 (1.99%) GitLab
6 28 (1.86%) JUnit
7 21 (1.39%) Mockito
8 20 (1.33%) Maven
9 18 (1.20%) Vite
10 17 (1.13%) TeamCity
11 15 (1.00%) Visual Studio
12 14 (0.93%) JMeter
13 13 (0.86%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.73%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.73%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.73%) Selenium
15 8 (0.53%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.53%) webpack
16 7 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
17 5 (0.33%) ESLint
General
1 287 (19.06%) Social Skills
2 145 (9.63%) Finance
3 69 (4.58%) Public Sector
4 57 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (2.99%) Banking
5 45 (2.99%) Law
6 35 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (1.99%) Retail
8 27 (1.79%) Tech for Good
9 25 (1.66%) Investment Banking
10 24 (1.59%) Front Office
10 24 (1.59%) Marketing
11 23 (1.53%) Health Technology
11 23 (1.53%) Legal
12 21 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.33%) Aviation
14 17 (1.13%) Games
15 9 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 827 (54.91%) Developer
2 579 (38.45%) Full-Stack Developer
3 339 (22.51%) Senior
4 335 (22.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 264 (17.53%) Software Engineer
6 208 (13.81%) Lead
7 144 (9.56%) Senior Developer
8 143 (9.50%) .NET Developer
9 123 (8.17%) Java Developer
10 115 (7.64%) React Developer
11 108 (7.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 106 (7.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 99 (6.57%) Lead Developer
13 99 (6.57%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 89 (5.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 87 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
15 87 (5.78%) Software Developer
16 71 (4.71%) C# Developer
17 64 (4.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 61 (4.05%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 676 (44.89%) React
2 401 (26.63%) .NET
3 285 (18.92%) Node.js
4 227 (15.07%) AngularJS
5 217 (14.41%) HTML
6 198 (13.15%) CSS
7 150 (9.96%) Spring
7 150 (9.96%) Vue
8 144 (9.56%) .NET Core
8 144 (9.56%) RESTful
9 138 (9.16%) REST
10 111 (7.37%) Spring Boot
11 92 (6.11%) ASP.NET
12 87 (5.78%) .NET Framework
13 85 (5.64%) Next.js
14 69 (4.58%) Entity Framework
15 61 (4.05%) GraphQL
16 58 (3.85%) HTML5
17 56 (3.72%) React Native
18 54 (3.59%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 119 (7.90%) Cloud Native
2 70 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 61 (4.05%) Mobile App
5 49 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (1.73%) IoT
8 23 (1.53%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (0.93%) Data Structures
11 14 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (0.93%) Smart Energy
12 12 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (0.80%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.73%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.66%) e-Learning
14 10 (0.66%) Hedge funds
14 10 (0.66%) Reference Data
15 9 (0.60%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.73%) Android
2 25 (1.66%) Apple iOS
3 20 (1.33%) Linux
4 7 (0.46%) Unix
5 5 (0.33%) Windows
6 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (32.20%) Software Engineering
2 431 (28.62%) Agile
3 388 (25.76%) CI/CD
4 296 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
5 289 (19.19%) Microservices
6 278 (18.46%) DevOps
7 276 (18.33%) AI
8 202 (13.41%) Mentoring
9 200 (13.28%) User Experience
10 192 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 122 (8.10%) Computer Science
12 121 (8.03%) Clean Code
13 118 (7.84%) Test Automation
14 117 (7.77%) Scrum
15 105 (6.97%) Containerisation
16 104 (6.91%) Front End Development
17 102 (6.77%) TDD
18 96 (6.37%) MVC
19 91 (6.04%) Code Quality
20 90 (5.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 506 (33.60%) JavaScript
2 494 (32.80%) TypeScript
3 380 (25.23%) C#
4 353 (23.44%) Java
5 298 (19.79%) Python
6 268 (17.80%) SQL
7 62 (4.12%) PHP
8 37 (2.46%) Ruby
9 27 (1.79%) Go
10 26 (1.73%) Rust
11 23 (1.53%) Bash
12 20 (1.33%) C++
13 16 (1.06%) C
14 12 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.80%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.60%) Groovy
16 8 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.53%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.46%) R
18 6 (0.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 141 (9.36%) Security Cleared
2 119 (7.90%) Degree
3 87 (5.78%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.60%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.27%) MCP
11 2 (0.13%) PhD
12 1 (0.066%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.066%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.066%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.066%) MBA
12 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.05%) QA
2 67 (4.45%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.93%) WCAG
4 12 (0.80%) GDPR
5 6 (0.40%) SLA
6 5 (0.33%) PERC
7 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.13%) ECSS
8 2 (0.13%) NCSC
8 2 (0.13%) NIST
9 1 (0.066%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.066%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.066%) HL7
9 1 (0.066%) ITGC
9 1 (0.066%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 188 (12.48%) Docker
2 18 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 158 (10.49%) Kubernetes
2 93 (6.18%) Terraform
3 27 (1.79%) Ansible
4 16 (1.06%) Kibana
5 15 (1.00%) Grafana
6 13 (0.86%) Argo
7 9 (0.60%) HP Fortify
8 7 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.13%) Nagios
9 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.066%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.066%) Istio
10 1 (0.066%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.066%) logstash
10 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 102 (6.77%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.86%) OpenAI
3 26 (1.73%) Oracle
4 25 (1.66%) Adobe
5 20 (1.33%) Google
6 16 (1.06%) Foundry
7 14 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 14 (0.93%) Palantir
8 12 (0.80%) Splunk
9 6 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.40%) Facebook
9 6 (0.40%) Fortinet
9 6 (0.40%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.33%) VMware
10 5 (0.33%) YouTube
10 5 (0.33%) Zoho
11 4 (0.27%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.27%) Pega
11 4 (0.27%) Telerik
11 4 (0.27%) WSO2