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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 102 46
Rank change year-on-year +53 -56 +34
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,217 1,469 3,680
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.93% 2.93% 4.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.30% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,635 894 2,362
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%

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 80,366 44,460 65,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.73% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 55,743 25,365 40,240
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -7.07%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +56 2,923 £65,000 -7.14% 1,439
UK excluding London +68 2,266 £60,000 - 804
Work from Home +44 1,381 £60,000 -7.69% 606
London +3 800 £85,000 +3.03% 813
North of England +60 734 £65,000 +8.33% 214
South East +106 562 £60,000 - 170
North West +37 402 £65,000 - 132
South West +59 327 £60,000 - 128
Midlands +40 305 £55,000 -8.33% 110
Yorkshire +68 209 £70,000 +16.67% 61
East of England +61 181 £60,000 +26.32% 72
West Midlands +36 168 £60,000 -5.88% 51
East Midlands +21 137 £55,000 +15.79% 59
North East +19 123 £52,000 +21.64% 24
Scotland -15 98 £60,000 -9.43% 73
Wales -36 58 £60,000 - 19
Northern Ireland -81 6 £70,000 +16.67% 24
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

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 25 (0.78%) CMS
2 24 (0.75%) Confluence
3 15 (0.47%) WordPress
4 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 9 (0.28%) Apache
5 9 (0.28%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.28%) IIS
6 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.22%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.093%) DNN
10 3 (0.093%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.093%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.093%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.093%) Kentico
10 3 (0.093%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.093%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 14 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.062%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.031%) Magento
3 1 (0.031%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.031%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 940 (29.22%) Azure
2 918 (28.54%) AWS
3 321 (9.98%) GitHub
4 253 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
5 243 (7.55%) SaaS
6 197 (6.12%) Serverless
7 188 (5.84%) GitHub Copilot
8 183 (5.69%) GCP
9 167 (5.19%) Azure AI
10 128 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
11 101 (3.14%) Amazon S3
12 85 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
13 79 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 75 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
15 66 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
16 55 (1.71%) Anthropic Claude
16 55 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
17 45 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (1.09%) Power Platform
19 32 (0.99%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.90%) Internet
2 51 (1.59%) Broadband
3 17 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.40%) DNS
5 11 (0.34%) Firewall
5 11 (0.34%) HTTP
6 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
7 5 (0.16%) MQTT
8 4 (0.12%) VoIP
9 3 (0.093%) DHCP
10 2 (0.062%) AMQP
10 2 (0.062%) LAN
10 2 (0.062%) Network Security
10 2 (0.062%) VPN
10 2 (0.062%) WAN
11 1 (0.031%) Multicast
11 1 (0.031%) SCTP
11 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
11 1 (0.031%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.031%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 531 (16.51%) MongoDB
2 463 (14.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 235 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
4 180 (5.60%) SQL Server
5 159 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
6 110 (3.42%) NoSQL
7 98 (3.05%) MySQL
8 84 (2.61%) Relational Database
9 71 (2.21%) DynamoDB
10 56 (1.74%) Redis
11 28 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.68%) Power BI
13 14 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.37%) GIS
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
17 8 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.25%) Pinecone
18 7 (0.22%) Chroma
19 6 (0.19%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 250 (7.77%) Git
2 105 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 86 (2.67%) GitLab
4 63 (1.96%) Cypress.io
5 62 (1.93%) JUnit
6 46 (1.43%) Claude Code
7 42 (1.31%) JIRA
8 35 (1.09%) Maven
9 32 (0.99%) Eclipse
10 31 (0.96%) Subversion
11 22 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.50%) Mockito
13 15 (0.47%) Selenium
14 14 (0.44%) Spock
14 14 (0.44%) Storybook
14 14 (0.44%) Vite
15 12 (0.37%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.37%) NUnit
16 11 (0.34%) Bitbucket
17 10 (0.31%) IntelliJ
General
1 375 (11.66%) Finance
2 314 (9.76%) Social Skills
3 163 (5.07%) Public Sector
4 105 (3.26%) Marketing
5 91 (2.83%) Games
6 73 (2.27%) Advertising
7 72 (2.24%) Retail
8 70 (2.18%) Analytical Skills
9 66 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 59 (1.83%) Banking
11 37 (1.15%) Law
12 34 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.03%) Legal
14 30 (0.93%) Financial Institution
15 26 (0.81%) Tech for Good
16 18 (0.56%) Aerospace
17 15 (0.47%) Investment Banking
17 15 (0.47%) Legal Technology
18 14 (0.44%) Automotive
19 13 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,895 (58.91%) Developer
2 1,033 (32.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 769 (23.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 631 (19.61%) Senior
5 589 (18.31%) .NET Developer
6 528 (16.41%) Software Engineer
7 412 (12.81%) Lead
8 289 (8.98%) Software Developer
9 273 (8.49%) Senior Developer
10 230 (7.15%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 226 (7.03%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 179 (5.56%) Lead Developer
13 159 (4.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 157 (4.88%) Java Developer
15 154 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
16 118 (3.67%) Java Engineer
17 102 (3.17%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 97 (3.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 97 (3.02%) Python Engineer
19 92 (2.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,026 (31.89%) React
2 975 (30.31%) .NET
3 611 (18.99%) Node.js
4 553 (17.19%) ASP.NET
5 546 (16.97%) .NET Core
6 513 (15.95%) ASP.NET Core
7 433 (13.46%) AngularJS
8 419 (13.02%) CSS
9 398 (12.37%) HTML
10 371 (11.53%) RESTful
11 366 (11.38%) Vue
12 230 (7.15%) Entity Framework
13 225 (6.99%) REST
14 218 (6.78%) Blazor
15 210 (6.53%) Spring
16 186 (5.78%) ASP.NET Web API
17 170 (5.28%) Next.js
18 168 (5.22%) Spring Boot
19 156 (4.85%) ML.NET
20 155 (4.82%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 303 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 156 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
3 121 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 85 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 84 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 81 (2.52%) AI Agents
7 76 (2.36%) Mobile App
8 72 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 49 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 35 (1.09%) Low-Code
10 35 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
11 34 (1.06%) e-Learning
12 30 (0.93%) Onboarding
13 26 (0.81%) IoT
14 23 (0.71%) Virtual Team
15 20 (0.62%) Digital TV
15 20 (0.62%) Social Media
16 19 (0.59%) Algorithms
17 17 (0.53%) iPhone
17 17 (0.53%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (1.87%) Linux
2 26 (0.81%) Android
3 15 (0.47%) Windows
4 12 (0.37%) Unix
5 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.16%) VMS
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.093%) AIX
9 3 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.031%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 916 (28.47%) Software Engineering
2 911 (28.32%) Agile
3 798 (24.81%) CI/CD
4 744 (23.13%) AI
5 578 (17.97%) Microservices
6 548 (17.03%) DevOps
7 341 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
8 309 (9.61%) Machine Learning
9 298 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 284 (8.83%) Mentoring
10 284 (8.83%) Test Automation
11 221 (6.87%) Scrum
12 201 (6.25%) Clean Code
13 197 (6.12%) TDD
14 191 (5.94%) Observability
15 182 (5.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 178 (5.53%) Multithreading
17 176 (5.47%) Technical Leadership
18 166 (5.16%) LLM
19 165 (5.13%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 994 (30.90%) JavaScript
2 937 (29.13%) C#
3 908 (28.23%) TypeScript
4 765 (23.78%) SQL
5 605 (18.81%) Python
6 522 (16.23%) Java
7 98 (3.05%) Ruby
8 93 (2.89%) PHP
9 84 (2.61%) Go
10 82 (2.55%) C++
11 56 (1.74%) Kotlin
12 29 (0.90%) Bash
13 28 (0.87%) Groovy
14 26 (0.81%) Perl
15 18 (0.56%) Rust
16 14 (0.44%) Bicep
16 14 (0.44%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.22%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.19%) C
18 6 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 225 (6.99%) Security Cleared
2 185 (5.75%) Degree
3 159 (4.94%) SC Cleared
4 128 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 23 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 10 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.16%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.12%) PhD
15 3 (0.093%) ICAEW
15 3 (0.093%) OCP
15 3 (0.093%) Oracle Certification
16 1 (0.031%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.11%) QA
2 72 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.93%) WCAG
4 23 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 19 (0.59%) GDPR
6 8 (0.25%) GRC
6 8 (0.25%) NCSC
7 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.16%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.093%) NIST
10 2 (0.062%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.031%) ITGC
11 1 (0.031%) SLA
System Software
1 466 (14.49%) Docker
2 4 (0.12%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.12%) Firmware
2 4 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 355 (11.04%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.65%) Ansible
2 21 (0.65%) Grafana
3 13 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.37%) Podman
5 10 (0.31%) HP Fortify
6 8 (0.25%) Kibana
7 6 (0.19%) logstash
7 6 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.093%) Argo
9 2 (0.062%) Bugsnag
9 2 (0.062%) Packer
9 2 (0.062%) Puppet
10 1 (0.031%) Consul
10 1 (0.031%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.031%) Graylog
10 1 (0.031%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 612 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.64%) Google
3 59 (1.83%) Facebook
4 47 (1.46%) OpenAI
5 34 (1.06%) Oracle
6 25 (0.78%) Salesforce
7 24 (0.75%) YouTube
8 21 (0.65%) Splunk
9 17 (0.53%) AppDynamics
9 17 (0.53%) Apple
9 17 (0.53%) Sony
9 17 (0.53%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.50%) Foundry
11 15 (0.47%) Adobe
11 15 (0.47%) Palantir
12 12 (0.37%) Mistral
13 10 (0.31%) OneLogin
13 10 (0.31%) Sitecore
14 9 (0.28%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.28%) Red Hat