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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 61 43
Rank change year-on-year -19 -18 +20
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,735 1,912 3,990
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.48% 4.05% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 4.35% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,406 1,019 3,430
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -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 55,198 43,957 67,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.83% 93.01% 88.40%
Number of salaries quoted 33,132 22,050 51,588
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,125 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 February 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 February 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 -15 1,572 £70,000 +7.69% 814
UK excluding London -34 944 £62,500 +8.70% 647
Work from Home -4 686 £70,000 +7.69% 417
London +11 655 £85,000 +6.25% 295
North of England +10 260 £67,500 +17.39% 179
South East -52 240 £62,500 +4.17% 173
Midlands +5 188 £55,000 +4.76% 83
South West +2 145 £60,000 -9.43% 90
North West -1 120 £70,000 +16.67% 93
West Midlands +4 102 £52,500 - 39
Yorkshire 0 97 £72,500 +46.46% 58
East Midlands -24 85 £55,000 +57.14% 44
East of England -47 66 £62,500 +25.00% 73
North East +13 43 £55,000 +22.22% 29
Northern Ireland -11 22 £70,000 +16.67% 11
Wales -31 13 £52,500 -11.02% 14
Scotland -77 12 £67,500 +22.73% 32
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 16 (0.92%) CMS
2 13 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (0.63%) Confluence
3 11 (0.63%) OpenStack
3 11 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.35%) WordPress
6 5 (0.29%) nginx
6 5 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.23%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) Appian
8 3 (0.17%) ColdFusion
8 3 (0.17%) Drupal
8 3 (0.17%) IIS
8 3 (0.17%) Liferay
9 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.058%) Camunda
Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.058%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.058%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 576 (33.20%) AWS
2 427 (24.61%) Azure
3 176 (10.14%) Serverless
4 172 (9.91%) SaaS
5 125 (7.20%) GCP
6 119 (6.86%) GitHub
7 97 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
8 88 (5.07%) Amazon S3
9 66 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
13 42 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (2.19%) Figma
15 29 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (1.44%) PaaS
17 20 (1.15%) Power Platform
18 19 (1.10%) Entra ID
19 15 (0.86%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 23 (1.33%) Broadband
2 7 (0.40%) HTTP
3 5 (0.29%) Firewall
4 4 (0.23%) WAN
5 3 (0.17%) Internet
5 3 (0.17%) LAN
5 3 (0.17%) VLAN
6 2 (0.12%) AMQP
6 2 (0.12%) DHCP
6 2 (0.12%) DNS
6 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.12%) VPN
6 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.058%) MQTT
7 1 (0.058%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.058%) SSL
7 1 (0.058%) TCAP
7 1 (0.058%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.058%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (7.03%) SQL Server
3 102 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 96 (5.53%) MongoDB
5 73 (4.21%) Relational Database
6 63 (3.63%) MySQL
7 32 (1.84%) DynamoDB
8 28 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 27 (1.56%) Redis
10 17 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.86%) RDBMS
12 13 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.69%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.69%) Power BI
14 8 (0.46%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.46%) DB2
15 4 (0.23%) Weaviate
16 3 (0.17%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 163 (9.39%) Git
2 88 (5.07%) Jenkins
3 51 (2.94%) Cypress.io
4 37 (2.13%) JIRA
5 32 (1.84%) GitLab
6 27 (1.56%) JUnit
7 24 (1.38%) Maven
8 20 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 19 (1.10%) Mockito
10 17 (0.98%) Vite
11 15 (0.86%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.69%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.63%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.58%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.58%) JMeter
14 10 (0.58%) webpack
15 9 (0.52%) Selenium
16 8 (0.46%) CircleCI
17 6 (0.35%) ESLint
18 5 (0.29%) git-flow
General
1 280 (16.14%) Social Skills
2 175 (10.09%) Finance
3 72 (4.15%) Public Sector
4 65 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (3.00%) Banking
6 45 (2.59%) Law
7 39 (2.25%) Front Office
8 38 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (1.96%) Retail
10 28 (1.61%) Tech for Good
11 27 (1.56%) Marketing
12 24 (1.38%) Aviation
12 24 (1.38%) Health Technology
12 24 (1.38%) Legal
13 23 (1.33%) Games
13 23 (1.33%) Investment Banking
14 21 (1.21%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.52%) Automotive
15 9 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 972 (56.02%) Developer
2 683 (39.37%) Full-Stack Developer
3 412 (23.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 401 (23.11%) Senior
5 323 (18.62%) Software Engineer
6 245 (14.12%) Lead
7 177 (10.20%) Senior Developer
8 157 (9.05%) .NET Developer
9 141 (8.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 136 (7.84%) Java Developer
11 129 (7.44%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 128 (7.38%) React Developer
13 127 (7.32%) Lead Developer
14 119 (6.86%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 105 (6.05%) Software Developer
16 97 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
17 93 (5.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 87 (5.01%) C# Developer
19 81 (4.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 69 (3.98%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 722 (41.61%) React
2 421 (24.27%) .NET
3 333 (19.19%) Node.js
4 225 (12.97%) AngularJS
5 224 (12.91%) HTML
6 209 (12.05%) CSS
7 162 (9.34%) Vue
8 154 (8.88%) Spring
9 142 (8.18%) .NET Core
10 136 (7.84%) REST
11 131 (7.55%) RESTful
12 122 (7.03%) Spring Boot
13 92 (5.30%) Next.js
14 79 (4.55%) ASP.NET
15 78 (4.50%) GraphQL
16 76 (4.38%) .NET Framework
17 74 (4.27%) Kafka
18 60 (3.46%) Entity Framework
19 58 (3.34%) Laravel
20 56 (3.23%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 141 (8.13%) Cloud Native
2 69 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
5 60 (3.46%) Mobile App
6 48 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (1.73%) IoT
8 25 (1.44%) Fixed Income
9 22 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 18 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (0.92%) Smart Energy
13 14 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (0.81%) Private Cloud
14 13 (0.75%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.75%) Management Information System
15 11 (0.63%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.58%) Blog
16 10 (0.58%) e-Learning
16 10 (0.58%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.56%) Linux
2 23 (1.33%) Android
3 21 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.35%) Unix
4 6 (0.35%) Windows
5 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (33.03%) Software Engineering
2 469 (27.03%) Agile
3 408 (23.52%) CI/CD
4 303 (17.46%) Microservices
5 302 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
6 300 (17.29%) DevOps
7 289 (16.66%) AI
8 217 (12.51%) Mentoring
9 204 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 195 (11.24%) User Experience
11 136 (7.84%) Test Automation
12 128 (7.38%) Containerisation
13 120 (6.92%) Clean Code
14 119 (6.86%) Computer Science
15 112 (6.46%) Scrum
16 101 (5.82%) Front End Development
17 97 (5.59%) TDD
17 97 (5.59%) Technical Leadership
18 94 (5.42%) Collaborative Culture
19 92 (5.30%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 558 (32.16%) JavaScript
2 550 (31.70%) TypeScript
3 398 (22.94%) Java
4 382 (22.02%) C#
5 351 (20.23%) Python
6 260 (14.99%) SQL
7 70 (4.03%) PHP
8 40 (2.31%) Go
9 38 (2.19%) Ruby
10 26 (1.50%) Bash
11 22 (1.27%) Rust
12 20 (1.15%) C++
13 17 (0.98%) C
14 12 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 12 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.63%) Groovy
16 10 (0.58%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.35%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.35%) R
17 6 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 151 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 118 (6.80%) Degree
3 104 (5.99%) SC Cleared
4 79 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 17 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.52%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.52%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.17%) PhD
12 2 (0.12%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.058%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.058%) MBA
13 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.50%) QA
2 59 (3.40%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.63%) GDPR
3 11 (0.63%) WCAG
4 9 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.35%) SLA
6 5 (0.29%) PERC
7 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.12%) ECSS
9 2 (0.12%) HL7
9 2 (0.12%) NCSC
9 2 (0.12%) NIST
10 1 (0.058%) ITGC
10 1 (0.058%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 213 (12.28%) Docker
2 15 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.058%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 174 (10.03%) Kubernetes
2 101 (5.82%) Terraform
3 29 (1.67%) Ansible
4 25 (1.44%) Grafana
5 16 (0.92%) Kibana
6 14 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.63%) Argo
7 11 (0.63%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.17%) Nagios
8 3 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.058%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.058%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.058%) Istio
10 1 (0.058%) logstash
10 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.058%) Podman
10 1 (0.058%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 102 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.61%) OpenAI
3 27 (1.56%) Oracle
4 25 (1.44%) Adobe
5 19 (1.10%) Google
6 16 (0.92%) Foundry
7 15 (0.86%) Palantir
8 11 (0.63%) Dynatrace
8 11 (0.63%) Splunk
9 10 (0.58%) Fortinet
9 10 (0.58%) Palo Alto
10 9 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.35%) Databricks
11 6 (0.35%) VMware
12 5 (0.29%) Zoho
13 4 (0.23%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.23%) Facebook
13 4 (0.23%) Pega
13 4 (0.23%) Telerik
13 4 (0.23%) WSO2