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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 61 57
Rank change year-on-year -43 -4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,298 2,313 2,379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.19% 4.19% 4.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 4.65% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,033 1,138 2,073
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 48,662 49,693 47,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.06% 89.92% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,549 24,753 35,968
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,565 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 -37 1,193 £70,000 +7.69% 4,473
UK excluding London -66 675 £60,000 +9.09% 4,030
London -10 535 £85,000 +3.03% 826
Work from Home -37 495 £70,000 +7.69% 3,105
South East -59 198 £62,500 +4.17% 1,006
North of England -25 182 £65,000 +18.18% 977
Midlands -39 123 £60,000 +20.00% 711
South West -29 95 £60,000 - 439
North West -24 77 £65,000 +13.04% 487
West Midlands -19 73 £60,000 +14.29% 358
Yorkshire -21 73 £68,000 +37.37% 399
East Midlands -55 50 £60,000 +41.18% 313
East of England -61 49 £60,000 +26.32% 588
North East +4 32 £50,000 - 93
Wales -31 13 £51,250 -2.38% 106
Scotland -59 12 £70,000 +33.33% 196
Northern Ireland -12 5 £95,000 +58.33% 59
Channel Islands +3 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 (0.92%) CMS
2 11 (0.85%) Confluence
2 11 (0.85%) OpenStack
3 9 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.54%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.46%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.39%) nginx
6 5 (0.39%) WordPress
7 4 (0.31%) Appian
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.15%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.15%) Drupal
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 2 (0.15%) Liferay
9 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.077%) Apache
10 1 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.077%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.15%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 505 (38.91%) AWS
2 419 (32.28%) Azure
3 142 (10.94%) Serverless
4 129 (9.94%) SaaS
5 111 (8.55%) GitHub
6 110 (8.47%) GCP
7 70 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
7 70 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
9 64 (4.93%) Amazon S3
10 48 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
13 30 (2.31%) PaaS
14 26 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (1.77%) Figma
16 22 (1.69%) Entra ID
17 21 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (1.62%) Azure App Service
18 18 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.62%) HTTP
2 6 (0.46%) Firewall
3 4 (0.31%) WAN
4 3 (0.23%) Broadband
4 3 (0.23%) DNS
4 3 (0.23%) LAN
4 3 (0.23%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.23%) VLAN
4 3 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.15%) AMQP
5 2 (0.15%) DHCP
5 2 (0.15%) Internet
6 1 (0.077%) Network Security
6 1 (0.077%) SAN
6 1 (0.077%) SNMP
6 1 (0.077%) SSL
6 1 (0.077%) TCAP
6 1 (0.077%) VPN
6 1 (0.077%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (9.71%) SQL Server
2 119 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
3 100 (7.70%) NoSQL
4 82 (6.32%) MongoDB
5 74 (5.70%) Relational Database
6 67 (5.16%) MySQL
7 43 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (1.85%) RDBMS
9 23 (1.77%) DynamoDB
10 22 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (1.69%) Redis
11 15 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.69%) Pinecone
13 9 (0.69%) Power BI
14 8 (0.62%) DB2
15 6 (0.46%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
16 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 4 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 170 (13.10%) Git
2 76 (5.86%) Jenkins
3 49 (3.78%) Cypress.io
4 40 (3.08%) JIRA
5 28 (2.16%) JUnit
6 27 (2.08%) GitLab
7 21 (1.62%) Mockito
8 18 (1.39%) JMeter
9 16 (1.23%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.23%) Visual Studio
10 15 (1.16%) Maven
11 13 (1.00%) Vite
12 12 (0.92%) webpack
13 11 (0.85%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.85%) Selenium
13 11 (0.85%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.69%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.62%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
16 6 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 286 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 147 (11.33%) Finance
3 68 (5.24%) Public Sector
4 61 (4.70%) Law
5 46 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (3.08%) Banking
7 36 (2.77%) Marketing
8 32 (2.47%) Retail
9 30 (2.31%) Front Office
10 27 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.85%) Legal
12 23 (1.77%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.31%) Health Technology
13 17 (1.31%) Tech for Good
14 15 (1.16%) Aviation
14 15 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.08%) Games
16 10 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.62%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.54%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 740 (57.01%) Developer
2 511 (39.37%) Full-Stack Developer
3 299 (23.04%) Senior
4 270 (20.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 216 (16.64%) Software Engineer
6 172 (13.25%) Lead
7 154 (11.86%) Senior Developer
8 133 (10.25%) .NET Developer
9 112 (8.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 104 (8.01%) Java Developer
11 87 (6.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 87 (6.70%) React Developer
12 79 (6.09%) Lead Developer
13 75 (5.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 74 (5.70%) Software Developer
15 72 (5.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 66 (5.08%) C# Developer
17 63 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
18 56 (4.31%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 43 (3.31%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 635 (48.92%) React
2 391 (30.12%) .NET
3 282 (21.73%) Node.js
4 246 (18.95%) HTML
5 235 (18.10%) AngularJS
6 223 (17.18%) CSS
7 168 (12.94%) RESTful
8 150 (11.56%) Vue
9 135 (10.40%) .NET Core
9 135 (10.40%) REST
10 132 (10.17%) Spring
11 104 (8.01%) .NET Framework
11 104 (8.01%) ASP.NET
12 95 (7.32%) Spring Boot
13 82 (6.32%) GraphQL
14 77 (5.93%) Entity Framework
14 77 (5.93%) Next.js
15 64 (4.93%) HTML5
16 63 (4.85%) Kafka
17 53 (4.08%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 128 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 80 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.16%) Product Ownership
4 42 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
4 42 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (2.77%) Mobile App
6 18 (1.39%) AI Agents
7 17 (1.31%) IoT
8 15 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.00%) Onboarding
11 12 (0.92%) Data Structures
12 11 (0.85%) Fixed Income
12 11 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (0.85%) Private Cloud
13 10 (0.77%) Hedge funds
13 10 (0.77%) Reference Data
13 10 (0.77%) Smart Energy
14 9 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.46%) Android
1 19 (1.46%) Apple iOS
2 15 (1.16%) Linux
3 6 (0.46%) Unix
4 5 (0.39%) Windows
5 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (34.05%) Agile
2 385 (29.66%) Software Engineering
3 379 (29.20%) CI/CD
4 277 (21.34%) DevOps
5 275 (21.19%) Microservices
6 260 (20.03%) Problem-Solving
7 241 (18.57%) AI
8 199 (15.33%) User Experience
9 176 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 169 (13.02%) Mentoring
11 130 (10.02%) Clean Code
12 121 (9.32%) Test Automation
13 118 (9.09%) Scrum
14 110 (8.47%) Computer Science
15 108 (8.32%) Containerisation
15 108 (8.32%) MVC
16 104 (8.01%) Front End Development
17 101 (7.78%) TDD
18 97 (7.47%) Code Quality
19 89 (6.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 505 (38.91%) JavaScript
2 460 (35.44%) TypeScript
3 375 (28.89%) C#
4 302 (23.27%) Java
5 265 (20.42%) Python
6 249 (19.18%) SQL
7 56 (4.31%) PHP
8 35 (2.70%) Go
9 33 (2.54%) Ruby
10 28 (2.16%) Rust
11 21 (1.62%) Bash
12 16 (1.23%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.16%) C++
14 13 (1.00%) C
15 11 (0.85%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.77%) Groovy
17 8 (0.62%) Bicep
17 8 (0.62%) PowerShell
18 6 (0.46%) R
18 6 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 116 (8.94%) Security Cleared
2 111 (8.55%) Degree
3 69 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 64 (4.93%) SC Cleared
5 43 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 10 (0.77%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.39%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.39%) MCP
11 3 (0.23%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.15%) CISSP
12 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.15%) PhD
13 1 (0.077%) MBA
13 1 (0.077%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (6.55%) QA
2 75 (5.78%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.08%) GDPR
3 14 (1.08%) WCAG
4 5 (0.39%) PERC
5 4 (0.31%) SLA
6 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.15%) ECSS
7 2 (0.15%) NIST
7 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.077%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.077%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.077%) HL7
8 1 (0.077%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 196 (15.10%) Docker
2 19 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.39%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 161 (12.40%) Kubernetes
2 79 (6.09%) Terraform
3 23 (1.77%) Ansible
4 18 (1.39%) Kibana
5 13 (1.00%) Grafana
6 11 (0.85%) Argo
7 8 (0.62%) HP Fortify
7 8 (0.62%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.15%) Istio
8 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.077%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.077%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.077%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.077%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.077%) linkerd
9 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.077%) Nagios
Vendors
1 110 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 24 (1.85%) OpenAI
3 20 (1.54%) Oracle
4 18 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 17 (1.31%) Google
6 15 (1.16%) Splunk
7 12 (0.92%) Foundry
8 11 (0.85%) Palantir
9 8 (0.62%) Apple
10 7 (0.54%) VMware
11 6 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.46%) DevExpress
11 6 (0.46%) Facebook
11 6 (0.46%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.46%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.46%) YouTube
12 5 (0.39%) Zoho
13 4 (0.31%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.31%) Pega
13 4 (0.31%) WSO2