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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 89 42
Rank change year-on-year +15 -47 +28
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,193 1,361 4,816
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.60% 3.31% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 3.56% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,774 1,024 3,887
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year +4.17% +8.75% -4.05%

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 63,952 38,221 79,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.80% 92.98% 86.04%
Number of salaries quoted 39,483 22,497 58,940
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -8.26%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 +16 1,989 £70,000 +7.69% 727
UK excluding London +7 1,291 £62,500 +4.17% 555
Work from Home +19 839 £70,000 +7.69% 384
London +23 737 £85,000 +6.25% 286
North of England +36 395 £70,000 +21.74% 133
South East -20 314 £60,000 - 175
Midlands +27 227 £55,000 +6.80% 73
North West +11 200 £70,000 +16.67% 68
South West +13 191 £60,000 -4.00% 74
Yorkshire +26 140 £71,250 +42.50% 41
West Midlands +34 119 £55,000 +3.77% 32
East Midlands +1 107 £55,000 +15.79% 40
East of England +7 102 £66,250 +26.19% 46
North East +13 55 £60,000 +33.33% 24
Scotland -38 27 £60,000 -6.98% 38
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 5
Wales -41 14 £52,500 -23.64% 19
Channel Islands - 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 14 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (0.64%) CMS
2 11 (0.50%) Confluence
3 9 (0.41%) OpenStack
4 8 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.32%) Apache
5 7 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.32%) ColdFusion
6 6 (0.27%) WordPress
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.18%) Appian
8 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.18%) nginx
9 3 (0.14%) IIS
9 3 (0.14%) Liferay
10 2 (0.091%) CICS
10 2 (0.091%) Drupal
10 2 (0.091%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.091%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.046%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.046%) Magento
2 1 (0.046%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 670 (30.55%) AWS
2 451 (20.57%) Azure
3 217 (9.90%) SaaS
4 193 (8.80%) Serverless
5 159 (7.25%) GCP
6 129 (5.88%) GitHub
7 115 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
8 98 (4.47%) Amazon S3
9 79 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
11 58 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
12 51 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (1.96%) Figma
14 38 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
15 33 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (1.19%) Entra ID
18 24 (1.09%) PaaS
19 23 (1.05%) Power Platform
20 21 (0.96%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.73%) Broadband
2 7 (0.32%) HTTP
3 4 (0.18%) Firewall
3 4 (0.18%) Internet
4 3 (0.14%) WAN
5 2 (0.091%) AMQP
5 2 (0.091%) DNS
5 2 (0.091%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.091%) LAN
5 2 (0.091%) VLAN
5 2 (0.091%) VPN
6 1 (0.046%) MQTT
6 1 (0.046%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.046%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.046%) SSL
6 1 (0.046%) TCAP
6 1 (0.046%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.046%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.046%) WebEx
6 1 (0.046%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (5.75%) SQL Server
3 121 (5.52%) MongoDB
4 116 (5.29%) NoSQL
5 72 (3.28%) MySQL
6 58 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 48 (2.19%) DynamoDB
8 37 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (1.05%) Redis
10 17 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.68%) Power BI
12 13 (0.59%) Pinecone
13 12 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (0.41%) DB2
14 9 (0.41%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.36%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.36%) MariaDB
16 6 (0.27%) GIS
Development Applications
1 177 (8.07%) Git
2 96 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 58 (2.64%) Cypress.io
4 38 (1.73%) GitLab
5 35 (1.60%) JIRA
6 26 (1.19%) Maven
7 21 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 20 (0.91%) JUnit
9 16 (0.73%) TeamCity
10 15 (0.68%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.64%) Mockito
11 14 (0.64%) Vite
12 11 (0.50%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.50%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.46%) Claude Code
14 8 (0.36%) Selenium
14 8 (0.36%) webpack
15 7 (0.32%) ESLint
15 7 (0.32%) NUnit
16 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 285 (13.00%) Social Skills
2 228 (10.40%) Finance
3 77 (3.51%) Public Sector
4 70 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (2.51%) Banking
6 50 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (1.92%) Retail
8 41 (1.87%) Front Office
9 39 (1.78%) Law
10 37 (1.69%) Marketing
11 32 (1.46%) Games
11 32 (1.46%) Tech for Good
12 26 (1.19%) Aviation
13 25 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 21 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (0.91%) Health Technology
15 20 (0.91%) Investment Banking
16 19 (0.87%) Legal
17 15 (0.68%) Advertising
18 12 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,258 (57.36%) Developer
2 882 (40.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 534 (24.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 505 (23.03%) Senior
5 411 (18.74%) Software Engineer
6 323 (14.73%) Lead
7 242 (11.04%) Senior Developer
8 178 (8.12%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 176 (8.03%) Lead Developer
10 175 (7.98%) .NET Developer
11 172 (7.84%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 154 (7.02%) Software Developer
13 148 (6.75%) Java Developer
14 140 (6.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 139 (6.34%) React Developer
16 116 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
17 96 (4.38%) Python Developer
18 94 (4.29%) C# Developer
18 94 (4.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 85 (3.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 806 (36.75%) React
2 462 (21.07%) .NET
3 429 (19.56%) Node.js
4 247 (11.26%) HTML
5 242 (11.04%) CSS
6 231 (10.53%) AngularJS
7 195 (8.89%) Vue
8 158 (7.20%) Spring
9 157 (7.16%) RESTful
10 151 (6.89%) .NET Core
11 141 (6.43%) REST
12 128 (5.84%) Spring Boot
13 110 (5.02%) Next.js
14 88 (4.01%) ASP.NET
15 80 (3.65%) GraphQL
16 75 (3.42%) .NET Framework
17 69 (3.15%) Kafka
18 68 (3.10%) Laravel
19 63 (2.87%) React Native
20 61 (2.78%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 163 (7.43%) Cloud Native
2 90 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
3 76 (3.47%) Product Ownership
4 65 (2.96%) Mobile App
5 57 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 49 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (1.50%) IoT
8 32 (1.46%) Fixed Income
9 26 (1.19%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (0.91%) Smart Energy
12 19 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 16 (0.73%) e-Learning
14 16 (0.73%) Low-Code
15 15 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (0.68%) Onboarding
16 13 (0.59%) Blog
16 13 (0.59%) Podcast
16 13 (0.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.32%) Linux
2 25 (1.14%) Android
3 22 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.18%) Unix
5 3 (0.14%) Windows
6 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.046%) VMS
6 1 (0.046%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.046%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (31.83%) Software Engineering
2 506 (23.07%) Agile
3 439 (20.02%) CI/CD
4 354 (16.14%) AI
5 352 (16.05%) DevOps
6 315 (14.36%) Microservices
7 309 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
8 237 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 231 (10.53%) Mentoring
10 186 (8.48%) Test Automation
11 177 (8.07%) User Experience
12 140 (6.38%) Clean Code
12 140 (6.38%) Containerisation
13 135 (6.16%) Scrum
14 120 (5.47%) Computer Science
15 117 (5.34%) Web Development
16 113 (5.15%) Technical Leadership
17 108 (4.92%) Machine Learning
18 105 (4.79%) Infrastructure as Code
19 99 (4.51%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 662 (30.19%) JavaScript
2 645 (29.41%) TypeScript
3 448 (20.43%) Python
4 441 (20.11%) Java
5 403 (18.38%) C#
6 306 (13.95%) SQL
7 93 (4.24%) PHP
8 57 (2.60%) Go
9 48 (2.19%) Ruby
10 28 (1.28%) Bash
11 21 (0.96%) C++
12 17 (0.78%) C
12 17 (0.78%) Kotlin
13 13 (0.59%) Groovy
13 13 (0.59%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.59%) Rust
14 11 (0.50%) Bicep
15 6 (0.27%) R
15 6 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 162 (7.39%) Security Cleared
2 123 (5.61%) Degree
3 115 (5.24%) SC Cleared
4 80 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 19 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.64%) DBS Check
8 9 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.18%) PhD
13 2 (0.091%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.046%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.046%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.046%) MBA
14 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (4.51%) QA
2 51 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.55%) GDPR
4 10 (0.46%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.32%) GRC
5 7 (0.32%) WCAG
6 6 (0.27%) SLA
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.14%) PERC
9 2 (0.091%) ECSS
9 2 (0.091%) HL7
9 2 (0.091%) ITGC
9 2 (0.091%) NCSC
9 2 (0.091%) NIST
10 1 (0.046%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.046%) SOC 2
System Software
1 230 (10.49%) Docker
2 9 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.14%) Firmware
4 3 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.046%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 169 (7.71%) Kubernetes
2 111 (5.06%) Terraform
3 32 (1.46%) Grafana
4 27 (1.23%) Ansible
5 18 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.59%) HP Fortify
7 11 (0.50%) Kibana
8 10 (0.46%) Argo
9 9 (0.41%) Podman
10 4 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.14%) logstash
11 3 (0.14%) Nagios
12 1 (0.046%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.046%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.046%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 140 (6.38%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.28%) Google
3 27 (1.23%) Adobe
3 27 (1.23%) Oracle
4 26 (1.19%) OpenAI
5 13 (0.59%) Foundry
6 12 (0.55%) Palantir
7 9 (0.41%) Dynatrace
7 9 (0.41%) Salesforce
8 8 (0.36%) Fortinet
8 8 (0.36%) Palo Alto
9 7 (0.32%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.27%) Databricks
10 6 (0.27%) Splunk
11 5 (0.23%) Facebook
11 5 (0.23%) Pega
11 5 (0.23%) Zoho
12 4 (0.18%) DevExpress
12 4 (0.18%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.18%) Telerik