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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 103 46
Rank change year-on-year +55 -57 +35
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,247 1,477 3,798
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.02% 2.96% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 3.32% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,662 908 2,561
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% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 78,808 44,479 67,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.30% 89.14% 80.83%
Number of salaries quoted 54,325 25,171 42,850
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 20 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 20 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 2,949 £65,000 -7.14% 1,098
UK excluding London +73 2,256 £60,000 - 671
Work from Home +50 1,405 £60,000 -7.69% 556
London +8 834 £85,000 +3.03% 563
North of England +69 729 £65,000 +8.33% 207
South East +99 559 £60,000 - 155
North West +42 405 £65,000 - 116
South West +58 321 £60,000 - 89
Midlands +47 312 £55,000 -8.33% 77
Yorkshire +70 203 £70,000 +16.67% 59
East of England +59 181 £60,000 +33.33% 65
West Midlands +30 174 £60,000 -7.69% 44
East Midlands +21 138 £55,000 +15.79% 33
North East +21 121 £52,000 +40.07% 34
Scotland -15 93 £58,565 -11.60% 56
Wales -33 57 £60,000 - 12
Northern Ireland -75 9 £70,000 +16.67% 15
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 (0.77%) CMS
1 25 (0.77%) Confluence
2 14 (0.43%) WordPress
3 10 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
4 9 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (0.28%) Apache
4 9 (0.28%) ColdFusion
4 9 (0.28%) IIS
5 8 (0.25%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.15%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.092%) DNN
9 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.092%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
9 3 (0.092%) Kentico
9 3 (0.092%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.092%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.062%) Elementor
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) 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
1 959 (29.53%) Azure
2 942 (29.01%) AWS
3 326 (10.04%) GitHub
4 254 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
5 250 (7.70%) SaaS
6 197 (6.07%) Serverless
7 192 (5.91%) GCP
8 187 (5.76%) GitHub Copilot
9 168 (5.17%) Azure AI
10 125 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (3.20%) Amazon S3
12 86 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 77 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
15 70 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
16 57 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
17 54 (1.66%) Anthropic Claude
18 41 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
19 36 (1.11%) Power Platform
20 32 (0.99%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (1.88%) Internet
2 51 (1.57%) Broadband
3 17 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.40%) DNS
5 11 (0.34%) Firewall
5 11 (0.34%) HTTP
6 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
7 5 (0.15%) MQTT
8 4 (0.12%) VoIP
9 3 (0.092%) 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%) Diameter Protocol
11 1 (0.031%) Multicast
11 1 (0.031%) SCTP
11 1 (0.031%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.031%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 535 (16.48%) MongoDB
2 463 (14.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 237 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
4 186 (5.73%) SQL Server
5 159 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
6 114 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 98 (3.02%) MySQL
8 86 (2.65%) Relational Database
9 72 (2.22%) DynamoDB
10 57 (1.76%) Redis
11 29 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (0.68%) Power BI
13 14 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.37%) GIS
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.28%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.28%) RDBMS
17 8 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
18 6 (0.18%) MariaDB
18 6 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 255 (7.85%) Git
2 107 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 84 (2.59%) GitLab
4 63 (1.94%) Cypress.io
5 62 (1.91%) JUnit
6 46 (1.42%) Claude Code
7 43 (1.32%) JIRA
8 33 (1.02%) Maven
9 32 (0.99%) Eclipse
10 31 (0.95%) Subversion
11 22 (0.68%) SonarQube
12 17 (0.52%) Mockito
13 15 (0.46%) Vite
14 14 (0.43%) Selenium
14 14 (0.43%) Storybook
15 13 (0.40%) NUnit
16 12 (0.37%) CircleCI
16 12 (0.37%) Spock
17 11 (0.34%) Bitbucket
18 9 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 392 (12.07%) Finance
2 328 (10.10%) Social Skills
3 147 (4.53%) Public Sector
4 106 (3.26%) Marketing
5 90 (2.77%) Games
6 76 (2.34%) Retail
7 73 (2.25%) Advertising
8 70 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 65 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
10 59 (1.82%) Banking
11 39 (1.20%) Law
12 36 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 35 (1.08%) Legal
14 29 (0.89%) Financial Institution
15 28 (0.86%) Tech for Good
16 25 (0.77%) Front Office
17 18 (0.55%) Aerospace
18 16 (0.49%) Legal Technology
19 14 (0.43%) Automotive
19 14 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,927 (59.35%) Developer
2 1,044 (32.15%) Full-Stack Developer
3 775 (23.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 634 (19.53%) Senior
5 599 (18.45%) .NET Developer
6 547 (16.85%) Software Engineer
7 425 (13.09%) Lead
8 290 (8.93%) Software Developer
9 274 (8.44%) Senior Developer
10 244 (7.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 220 (6.78%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 189 (5.82%) Lead Developer
13 163 (5.02%) Java Developer
14 161 (4.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 158 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
16 120 (3.70%) Java Engineer
17 98 (3.02%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
18 97 (2.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 95 (2.93%) Python Engineer
20 93 (2.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,055 (32.49%) React
2 979 (30.15%) .NET
3 630 (19.40%) Node.js
4 556 (17.12%) ASP.NET
5 550 (16.94%) .NET Core
6 513 (15.80%) ASP.NET Core
7 440 (13.55%) AngularJS
8 427 (13.15%) CSS
9 406 (12.50%) HTML
10 376 (11.58%) Vue
11 373 (11.49%) RESTful
12 234 (7.21%) Entity Framework
13 222 (6.84%) REST
14 220 (6.78%) Blazor
15 209 (6.44%) Spring
16 187 (5.76%) ASP.NET Web API
17 173 (5.33%) Next.js
18 167 (5.14%) Spring Boot
19 157 (4.84%) Terraform
20 156 (4.80%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 309 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 161 (4.96%) Greenfield Project
3 118 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 87 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 84 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 80 (2.46%) AI Agents
7 74 (2.28%) Mobile App
7 74 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 35 (1.08%) Low-Code
9 35 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
10 33 (1.02%) e-Learning
11 31 (0.95%) Onboarding
12 29 (0.89%) IoT
13 24 (0.74%) Virtual Team
14 23 (0.71%) Fixed Income
15 21 (0.65%) Social Media
16 20 (0.62%) Digital TV
17 19 (0.59%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.52%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 63 (1.94%) Linux
2 25 (0.77%) Android
3 15 (0.46%) Windows
4 12 (0.37%) Unix
5 9 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.092%) AIX
8 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.092%) VMS
9 1 (0.031%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (29.20%) Software Engineering
2 925 (28.49%) Agile
3 802 (24.70%) CI/CD
4 746 (22.98%) AI
5 581 (17.89%) Microservices
6 563 (17.34%) DevOps
7 344 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
8 315 (9.70%) Machine Learning
9 305 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 286 (8.81%) Mentoring
11 283 (8.72%) Test Automation
12 222 (6.84%) Scrum
13 201 (6.19%) Clean Code
14 196 (6.04%) TDD
15 190 (5.85%) Observability
16 189 (5.82%) Infrastructure as Code
17 178 (5.48%) Multithreading
17 178 (5.48%) Technical Leadership
18 171 (5.27%) Containerisation
19 164 (5.05%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 1,001 (30.83%) JavaScript
2 940 (28.95%) C#
3 937 (28.86%) TypeScript
4 762 (23.47%) SQL
5 628 (19.34%) Python
6 524 (16.14%) Java
7 97 (2.99%) Ruby
8 96 (2.96%) Go
9 94 (2.89%) PHP
10 76 (2.34%) C++
11 45 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 30 (0.92%) Bash
13 26 (0.80%) Groovy
13 26 (0.80%) Perl
14 18 (0.55%) Rust
15 15 (0.46%) Bicep
16 14 (0.43%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.25%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.22%) C
19 6 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 231 (7.11%) Security Cleared
2 185 (5.70%) Degree
3 166 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 131 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 23 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 15 (0.46%) 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 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.18%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.092%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.092%) OCP
14 3 (0.092%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.092%) PhD
15 1 (0.031%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.20%) QA
2 71 (2.19%) Accessibility
3 30 (0.92%) WCAG
4 19 (0.59%) GDPR
5 17 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.25%) NCSC
7 7 (0.22%) GRC
8 6 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.092%) NIST
11 2 (0.062%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.031%) HL7
12 1 (0.031%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.031%) ITGC
12 1 (0.031%) SLA
12 1 (0.031%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 472 (14.54%) Docker
2 5 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.12%) Firmware
4 2 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 355 (10.93%) Kubernetes
2 22 (0.68%) Ansible
2 22 (0.68%) Grafana
3 15 (0.46%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.37%) Podman
5 10 (0.31%) HP Fortify
6 8 (0.25%) Kibana
7 6 (0.18%) logstash
7 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.092%) 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
10 1 (0.031%) Nagios
10 1 (0.031%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 618 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.62%) Google
3 59 (1.82%) Facebook
4 47 (1.45%) OpenAI
5 32 (0.99%) Oracle
6 27 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 24 (0.74%) YouTube
8 19 (0.59%) Splunk
9 17 (0.52%) Apple
9 17 (0.52%) Sony
9 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.49%) Foundry
10 16 (0.49%) Palantir
11 15 (0.46%) Adobe
11 15 (0.46%) AppDynamics
12 10 (0.31%) OneLogin
12 10 (0.31%) Sitecore
13 9 (0.28%) Databricks
13 9 (0.28%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.25%) New Relic