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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 60 48
Rank change year-on-year -33 -12 +18
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,364 2,261 2,841
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.30% 4.23% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 4.67% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,103 1,098 2,508
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £48,688
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 £84,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -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 48,033 48,451 50,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.60% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,230 23,579 38,463
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 £78,479
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 12 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 12 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 -29 1,249 £70,000 +7.69% 1,788
UK excluding London -60 721 £62,500 +13.64% 1,629
London -7 542 £80,000 -3.03% 362
Work from Home -28 520 £70,000 +7.69% 993
South East -59 203 £65,000 +8.33% 516
North of England -24 189 £65,000 +18.18% 313
Midlands -33 146 £60,000 +20.00% 199
South West -22 103 £61,250 +2.08% 204
West Midlands -11 83 £55,000 +4.76% 66
North West -13 78 £65,000 +13.04% 133
Yorkshire -25 72 £72,500 +46.46% 122
East Midlands -35 63 £62,500 +47.06% 131
East of England -54 53 £60,000 +33.33% 262
North East +13 39 £55,000 +4.76% 59
Wales -32 12 £50,000 -5.21% 84
Scotland -71 10 £70,000 +33.33% 51
Northern Ireland -17 7 £95,000 +58.33% 38
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 (0.88%) Confluence
2 11 (0.81%) CMS
2 11 (0.81%) OpenStack
3 8 (0.59%) 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
1 493 (36.14%) AWS
2 410 (30.06%) Azure
3 143 (10.48%) Serverless
4 130 (9.53%) SaaS
5 115 (8.43%) GitHub
6 99 (7.26%) GCP
7 75 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
8 72 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
9 67 (4.91%) Amazon S3
10 60 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (1.98%) PaaS
15 26 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (1.83%) Figma
17 21 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (1.54%) Entra ID
18 18 (1.32%) Azure App Service
19 17 (1.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.66%) Broadband
2 7 (0.51%) HTTP
3 5 (0.37%) Firewall
4 4 (0.29%) WAN
5 3 (0.22%) Internet
5 3 (0.22%) LAN
5 3 (0.22%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.22%) VLAN
5 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.15%) AMQP
6 2 (0.15%) DHCP
6 2 (0.15%) DNS
7 1 (0.073%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.073%) MQTT
7 1 (0.073%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.073%) SSL
7 1 (0.073%) TCAP
7 1 (0.073%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 114 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
3 96 (7.04%) NoSQL
4 94 (6.89%) MongoDB
5 71 (5.21%) Relational Database
6 59 (4.33%) MySQL
7 51 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 25 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (1.76%) Redis
10 23 (1.69%) DynamoDB
11 22 (1.61%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.73%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.66%) Power BI
16 8 (0.59%) DB2
17 6 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
17 6 (0.44%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
18 4 (0.29%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 155 (11.36%) Git
2 77 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 45 (3.30%) Cypress.io
4 41 (3.01%) JIRA
5 29 (2.13%) JUnit
6 25 (1.83%) GitLab
7 22 (1.61%) Mockito
8 18 (1.32%) Maven
9 16 (1.17%) JMeter
9 16 (1.17%) Visual Studio
10 14 (1.03%) TeamCity
10 14 (1.03%) Vite
11 12 (0.88%) Selenium
12 11 (0.81%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.73%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.73%) webpack
14 9 (0.66%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
16 6 (0.44%) CircleCI
17 5 (0.37%) git-flow
General
1 283 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 141 (10.34%) Finance
3 69 (5.06%) Public Sector
4 50 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (3.52%) Law
6 40 (2.93%) Banking
7 30 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (2.20%) Marketing
8 27 (1.98%) Retail
9 24 (1.76%) Investment Banking
10 22 (1.61%) Front Office
10 22 (1.61%) Legal
11 20 (1.47%) Health Technology
11 20 (1.47%) Tech for Good
12 19 (1.39%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.25%) Aviation
14 15 (1.10%) Games
15 9 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.66%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.59%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 773 (56.67%) Developer
2 530 (38.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 311 (22.80%) Senior
4 299 (21.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 228 (16.72%) Software Engineer
6 178 (13.05%) Lead
7 146 (10.70%) .NET Developer
8 144 (10.56%) Senior Developer
9 112 (8.21%) Java Developer
10 106 (7.77%) React Developer
10 106 (7.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 94 (6.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 89 (6.52%) Lead Developer
13 87 (6.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 83 (6.09%) Software Developer
15 82 (6.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 74 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
17 72 (5.28%) C# Developer
18 58 (4.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 54 (3.96%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 642 (47.07%) React
2 398 (29.18%) .NET
3 274 (20.09%) Node.js
4 229 (16.79%) AngularJS
5 223 (16.35%) HTML
6 200 (14.66%) CSS
7 151 (11.07%) RESTful
8 148 (10.85%) Vue
9 142 (10.41%) .NET Core
10 141 (10.34%) Spring
11 135 (9.90%) REST
12 103 (7.55%) Spring Boot
13 102 (7.48%) ASP.NET
14 94 (6.89%) .NET Framework
15 76 (5.57%) Next.js
16 74 (5.43%) Entity Framework
17 63 (4.62%) GraphQL
18 61 (4.47%) HTML5
19 55 (4.03%) Kafka
20 52 (3.81%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.80%) Cloud Native
2 70 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 45 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
5 45 (3.30%) Mobile App
6 21 (1.54%) AI Agents
7 19 (1.39%) IoT
8 16 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.17%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 12 (0.88%) Private Cloud
10 12 (0.88%) Smart Energy
11 11 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (0.81%) Onboarding
11 11 (0.81%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.73%) Hedge funds
12 10 (0.73%) Reference Data
13 8 (0.59%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.61%) Android
2 21 (1.54%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.10%) Linux
4 5 (0.37%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Windows
5 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (31.01%) Agile
2 420 (30.79%) Software Engineering
3 368 (26.98%) CI/CD
4 279 (20.45%) Microservices
5 268 (19.65%) DevOps
6 263 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
7 254 (18.62%) AI
8 186 (13.64%) User Experience
9 177 (12.98%) Mentoring
10 175 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 121 (8.87%) Clean Code
12 118 (8.65%) Scrum
13 114 (8.36%) Computer Science
14 108 (7.92%) Test Automation
15 104 (7.62%) MVC
16 103 (7.55%) Containerisation
16 103 (7.55%) TDD
17 101 (7.40%) Front End Development
18 91 (6.67%) SDLC
19 89 (6.52%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 481 (35.26%) JavaScript
2 459 (33.65%) TypeScript
3 378 (27.71%) C#
4 320 (23.46%) Java
5 270 (19.79%) Python
6 260 (19.06%) SQL
7 53 (3.89%) PHP
8 35 (2.57%) Ruby
9 25 (1.83%) Go
10 23 (1.69%) Rust
11 21 (1.54%) Bash
12 16 (1.17%) C++
13 15 (1.10%) C
14 13 (0.95%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.88%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.66%) Groovy
17 7 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.51%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.51%) R
18 6 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 111 (8.14%) Degree
3 74 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 70 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.59%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.59%) 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 78 (5.72%) QA
2 68 (4.99%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.03%) WCAG
4 12 (0.88%) GDPR
5 5 (0.37%) 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
1 182 (13.34%) Docker
2 18 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 151 (11.07%) Kubernetes
2 80 (5.87%) Terraform
3 23 (1.69%) Ansible
4 16 (1.17%) Kibana
5 11 (0.81%) Argo
6 10 (0.73%) Grafana
7 8 (0.59%) 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
1 110 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 26 (1.91%) OpenAI
3 25 (1.83%) Oracle
4 18 (1.32%) Google
5 16 (1.17%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.03%) Foundry
7 13 (0.95%) Splunk
8 12 (0.88%) Palantir
9 11 (0.81%) 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%) VMware
11 6 (0.44%) YouTube
12 5 (0.37%) Zoho
13 4 (0.29%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.29%) DevExpress
13 4 (0.29%) Pega
13 4 (0.29%) Telerik