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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 59 51
Rank change year-on-year -34 -8 +15
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,376 2,257 2,841
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.31% 4.23% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 4.67% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,115 1,094 2,508
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,813 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £105,000
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 48,315 48,345 50,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.62% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,473 23,469 38,401
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
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 £78,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 13 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 13 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 -28 1,258 £70,000 +7.69% 1,468
UK excluding London -60 725 £60,000 +9.09% 1,305
London -5 546 £80,000 -3.03% 337
Work from Home -25 527 £70,000 +7.69% 792
South East -61 205 £62,500 +4.17% 426
North of England -22 191 £65,000 +18.18% 266
Midlands -30 146 £60,000 +20.00% 162
South West -19 103 £61,250 +2.08% 161
West Midlands -8 83 £55,000 +4.76% 50
North West -18 80 £65,000 +13.04% 124
Yorkshire -23 72 £72,500 +46.46% 97
East Midlands -38 63 £62,500 +47.06% 111
East of England -54 53 £60,000 +33.33% 186
North East +12 39 £55,000 +4.76% 46
Wales -28 12 £50,000 -4.76% 59
Scotland -72 10 £70,000 +33.33% 46
Northern Ireland -17 7 £95,000 +58.33% 25
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 (0.87%) Confluence
2 11 (0.80%) CMS
2 11 (0.80%) OpenStack
3 8 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.29%) Appian
5 4 (0.29%) nginx
5 4 (0.29%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.29%) WordPress
6 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.22%) Liferay
7 2 (0.15%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.15%) Drupal
7 2 (0.15%) IIS
7 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.073%) Apache
8 1 (0.073%) Camunda
8 1 (0.073%) Kentico
8 1 (0.073%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.15%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 497 (36.12%) AWS
2 413 (30.01%) Azure
3 144 (10.47%) Serverless
4 133 (9.67%) SaaS
5 116 (8.43%) GitHub
6 102 (7.41%) GCP
7 75 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
8 73 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
9 67 (4.87%) Amazon S3
10 60 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (1.96%) PaaS
15 26 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (1.82%) Figma
17 21 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (1.45%) Entra ID
19 18 (1.31%) Azure App Service
20 17 (1.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.65%) Broadband
2 7 (0.51%) HTTP
3 3 (0.22%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) Internet
3 3 (0.22%) WAN
4 2 (0.15%) AMQP
4 2 (0.15%) DHCP
4 2 (0.15%) DNS
4 2 (0.15%) LAN
4 2 (0.15%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.15%) VLAN
4 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.073%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.073%) MQTT
5 1 (0.073%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.073%) SSL
5 1 (0.073%) TCAP
5 1 (0.073%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 116 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
3 96 (6.98%) NoSQL
4 94 (6.83%) MongoDB
5 71 (5.16%) Relational Database
6 60 (4.36%) MySQL
7 51 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 25 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (1.74%) Redis
10 23 (1.67%) DynamoDB
11 22 (1.60%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.73%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.65%) Power BI
16 8 (0.58%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.58%) DB2
17 6 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
17 6 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
18 4 (0.29%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 155 (11.26%) Git
2 77 (5.60%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.34%) Cypress.io
4 40 (2.91%) JIRA
5 29 (2.11%) JUnit
6 25 (1.82%) GitLab
7 22 (1.60%) Mockito
8 18 (1.31%) Maven
9 16 (1.16%) JMeter
9 16 (1.16%) Visual Studio
10 15 (1.09%) Vite
11 14 (1.02%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.87%) Selenium
13 11 (0.80%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.73%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.73%) webpack
15 9 (0.65%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.58%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
17 5 (0.36%) git-flow
General
1 282 (20.49%) Social Skills
2 143 (10.39%) Finance
3 69 (5.01%) Public Sector
4 50 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (3.63%) Law
5 42 (3.05%) Banking
6 30 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (2.18%) Marketing
7 27 (1.96%) Retail
8 25 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 22 (1.60%) Front Office
9 22 (1.60%) Legal
10 20 (1.45%) Health Technology
10 20 (1.45%) Tech for Good
11 19 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.24%) Aviation
13 15 (1.09%) Games
14 9 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.65%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 781 (56.76%) Developer
2 536 (38.95%) Full-Stack Developer
3 313 (22.75%) Senior
4 304 (22.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 230 (16.72%) Software Engineer
6 179 (13.01%) Lead
7 146 (10.61%) .NET Developer
8 145 (10.54%) Senior Developer
9 115 (8.36%) Java Developer
10 107 (7.78%) React Developer
10 107 (7.78%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 96 (6.98%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 90 (6.54%) Lead Developer
13 87 (6.32%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 84 (6.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 84 (6.10%) Software Developer
15 75 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
16 73 (5.31%) C# Developer
17 58 (4.22%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 54 (3.92%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 649 (47.17%) React
2 399 (29.00%) .NET
3 277 (20.13%) Node.js
4 232 (16.86%) AngularJS
5 223 (16.21%) HTML
6 200 (14.53%) CSS
7 154 (11.19%) RESTful
8 149 (10.83%) Vue
9 143 (10.39%) .NET Core
9 143 (10.39%) Spring
10 136 (9.88%) REST
11 104 (7.56%) Spring Boot
12 103 (7.49%) ASP.NET
13 94 (6.83%) .NET Framework
14 77 (5.60%) Next.js
15 74 (5.38%) Entity Framework
16 64 (4.65%) GraphQL
17 61 (4.43%) HTML5
18 55 (4.00%) Kafka
19 53 (3.85%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 119 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 71 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.34%) Mobile App
4 46 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
5 45 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (1.53%) AI Agents
7 19 (1.38%) IoT
8 16 (1.16%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (0.87%) Data Structures
11 12 (0.87%) Private Cloud
11 12 (0.87%) Smart Energy
12 11 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (0.80%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.73%) Hedge funds
13 10 (0.73%) Onboarding
13 10 (0.73%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.74%) Android
2 23 (1.67%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.09%) Linux
4 5 (0.36%) Unix
5 4 (0.29%) Windows
6 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (31.03%) Agile
2 423 (30.74%) Software Engineering
3 370 (26.89%) CI/CD
4 283 (20.57%) Microservices
5 269 (19.55%) DevOps
6 262 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
7 257 (18.68%) AI
8 187 (13.59%) User Experience
9 179 (13.01%) Mentoring
10 175 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 122 (8.87%) Clean Code
12 119 (8.65%) Scrum
13 114 (8.28%) Computer Science
14 111 (8.07%) Test Automation
15 105 (7.63%) Containerisation
15 105 (7.63%) MVC
16 104 (7.56%) TDD
17 102 (7.41%) Front End Development
18 90 (6.54%) Code Quality
18 90 (6.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 485 (35.25%) JavaScript
2 466 (33.87%) TypeScript
3 380 (27.62%) C#
4 325 (23.62%) Java
5 271 (19.69%) Python
6 262 (19.04%) SQL
7 53 (3.85%) PHP
8 36 (2.62%) Ruby
9 26 (1.89%) Go
10 23 (1.67%) Rust
11 21 (1.53%) Bash
12 16 (1.16%) C++
13 15 (1.09%) C
14 13 (0.94%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.80%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.65%) Groovy
17 7 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.51%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.51%) R
17 7 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 126 (9.16%) Security Cleared
2 111 (8.07%) Degree
3 76 (5.52%) SC Cleared
4 70 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.29%) MCP
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.15%) PhD
11 1 (0.073%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.073%) MBA
11 1 (0.073%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.74%) QA
2 68 (4.94%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.02%) WCAG
4 12 (0.87%) GDPR
5 5 (0.36%) PERC
6 4 (0.29%) SLA
7 2 (0.15%) ECSS
8 1 (0.073%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.073%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.073%) HL7
8 1 (0.073%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.073%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 184 (13.37%) Docker
2 17 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 152 (11.05%) Kubernetes
2 82 (5.96%) Terraform
3 23 (1.67%) Ansible
4 16 (1.16%) Kibana
5 13 (0.94%) Argo
6 10 (0.73%) Grafana
7 8 (0.58%) HP Fortify
8 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.073%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.073%) Istio
10 1 (0.073%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.073%) Nagios
Vendors
1 108 (7.85%) Microsoft
2 26 (1.89%) OpenAI
3 24 (1.74%) Oracle
4 17 (1.24%) Google
5 16 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.02%) Foundry
7 13 (0.94%) Splunk
8 12 (0.87%) Palantir
9 11 (0.80%) Adobe
10 7 (0.51%) Facebook
11 6 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.44%) Fortinet
11 6 (0.44%) Palo Alto
11 6 (0.44%) YouTube
12 5 (0.36%) VMware
12 5 (0.36%) Zoho
13 4 (0.29%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.29%) DevExpress
13 4 (0.29%) Pega
13 4 (0.29%) Telerik