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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 70 45
Rank change year-on-year -5 -25 +22
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,916 1,666 4,342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.56% 3.87% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 4.15% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,539 1,053 3,698
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,250
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 58,222 40,192 73,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.86% 93.47% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,232 22,295 56,140
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -7 1,731 £70,000 +7.69% 897
UK excluding London -20 1,083 £62,500 +4.17% 660
Work from Home -3 764 £70,000 +7.69% 516
London +10 681 £85,000 +6.25% 375
North of England +30 313 £67,500 +17.39% 169
South East -43 267 £60,000 - 195
Midlands +19 204 £55,000 +4.76% 86
South West +11 161 £60,000 -5.88% 95
North West +16 155 £70,000 +12.00% 84
Yorkshire +15 112 £71,250 +42.50% 58
West Midlands +29 107 £55,000 +4.76% 41
East Midlands -5 96 £55,000 +30.95% 45
East of England -35 80 £60,000 +9.09% 68
North East +13 46 £55,000 +25.71% 28
Northern Ireland -9 26 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Scotland -62 19 £65,000 +6.12% 34
Wales -35 15 £51,250 -21.15% 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 16 (0.84%) CMS
2 14 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
3 12 (0.63%) OpenStack
4 11 (0.57%) Confluence
5 8 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.31%) WordPress
8 5 (0.26%) Apache
8 5 (0.26%) ColdFusion
9 4 (0.21%) Appian
9 4 (0.21%) nginx
10 3 (0.16%) Drupal
10 3 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.16%) IIS
10 3 (0.16%) Liferay
11 2 (0.10%) CICS
11 2 (0.10%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.10%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Shopify
2 1 (0.052%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.052%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 615 (32.10%) AWS
2 450 (23.49%) Azure
3 191 (9.97%) SaaS
4 182 (9.50%) Serverless
5 145 (7.57%) GCP
6 132 (6.89%) GitHub
7 100 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
8 89 (4.65%) Amazon S3
9 75 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (3.29%) Amazon ECS
11 53 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
13 44 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
14 39 (2.04%) Figma
15 33 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (1.30%) PaaS
18 24 (1.25%) Entra ID
19 22 (1.15%) Power Platform
20 18 (0.94%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.83%) Broadband
2 6 (0.31%) HTTP
3 4 (0.21%) Firewall
3 4 (0.21%) Internet
4 3 (0.16%) WAN
5 2 (0.10%) AMQP
5 2 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.10%) LAN
5 2 (0.10%) VLAN
5 2 (0.10%) VPN
6 1 (0.052%) DHCP
6 1 (0.052%) DNS
6 1 (0.052%) MQTT
6 1 (0.052%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.052%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.052%) SSL
6 1 (0.052%) TCAP
6 1 (0.052%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.052%) WebEx
6 1 (0.052%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (6.68%) SQL Server
3 121 (6.32%) MongoDB
4 110 (5.74%) NoSQL
5 71 (3.71%) Relational Database
6 69 (3.60%) MySQL
7 38 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 36 (1.88%) DynamoDB
9 26 (1.36%) Redis
10 17 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (0.73%) Power BI
12 13 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (0.68%) RDBMS
13 12 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.63%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.52%) DB2
15 8 (0.42%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.26%) GIS
16 5 (0.26%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 177 (9.24%) Git
2 99 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 57 (2.97%) Cypress.io
4 34 (1.77%) JIRA
5 33 (1.72%) GitLab
6 26 (1.36%) JUnit
7 25 (1.30%) Maven
8 19 (0.99%) Mockito
8 19 (0.99%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.89%) SonarQube
10 14 (0.73%) CircleCI
10 14 (0.73%) Vite
11 11 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.57%) Visual Studio
12 10 (0.52%) webpack
13 9 (0.47%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.47%) Selenium
14 7 (0.37%) ESLint
14 7 (0.37%) JMeter
15 5 (0.26%) git-flow
General
1 293 (15.29%) Social Skills
2 202 (10.54%) Finance
3 79 (4.12%) Public Sector
4 73 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (2.61%) Banking
6 45 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (2.35%) Law
7 42 (2.19%) Front Office
7 42 (2.19%) Retail
8 35 (1.83%) Marketing
9 32 (1.67%) Games
9 32 (1.67%) Tech for Good
10 25 (1.30%) Aviation
11 24 (1.25%) Health Technology
11 24 (1.25%) Legal
11 24 (1.25%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.04%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.57%) Advertising
15 9 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,084 (56.58%) Developer
2 757 (39.51%) Full-Stack Developer
3 455 (23.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 440 (22.96%) Senior
5 345 (18.01%) Software Engineer
6 268 (13.99%) Lead
7 198 (10.33%) Senior Developer
8 169 (8.82%) .NET Developer
9 148 (7.72%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 148 (7.72%) Java Developer
10 142 (7.41%) Lead Developer
11 140 (7.31%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 133 (6.94%) React Developer
13 130 (6.78%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 117 (6.11%) Software Developer
15 100 (5.22%) Senior Software Engineer
16 97 (5.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 84 (4.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 81 (4.23%) C# Developer
19 73 (3.81%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 764 (39.87%) React
2 448 (23.38%) .NET
3 386 (20.15%) Node.js
4 237 (12.37%) HTML
5 228 (11.90%) CSS
6 227 (11.85%) AngularJS
7 170 (8.87%) Vue
8 155 (8.09%) Spring
9 153 (7.99%) REST
10 150 (7.83%) .NET Core
10 150 (7.83%) RESTful
11 123 (6.42%) Spring Boot
12 100 (5.22%) Next.js
13 91 (4.75%) ASP.NET
14 88 (4.59%) GraphQL
15 78 (4.07%) Kafka
16 77 (4.02%) .NET Framework
17 62 (3.24%) Entity Framework
17 62 (3.24%) Laravel
18 54 (2.82%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 147 (7.67%) Cloud Native
2 76 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
3 73 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 57 (2.97%) Mobile App
6 51 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.67%) IoT
8 30 (1.57%) Fixed Income
9 22 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.10%) AI Agents
11 18 (0.94%) Smart Energy
12 16 (0.84%) Data Structures
12 16 (0.84%) Low-Code
13 15 (0.78%) Private Cloud
14 14 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (0.68%) Management Information System
15 13 (0.68%) Onboarding
16 11 (0.57%) Blog
17 10 (0.52%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.57%) Linux
2 26 (1.36%) Android
3 23 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.31%) Unix
5 5 (0.26%) Windows
6 1 (0.052%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.052%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (32.57%) Software Engineering
2 501 (26.15%) Agile
3 427 (22.29%) CI/CD
4 320 (16.70%) AI
5 319 (16.65%) DevOps
6 306 (15.97%) Microservices
7 302 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
8 225 (11.74%) Mentoring
9 219 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 193 (10.07%) User Experience
11 156 (8.14%) Test Automation
12 138 (7.20%) Containerisation
13 135 (7.05%) Clean Code
14 127 (6.63%) Scrum
15 122 (6.37%) Computer Science
16 104 (5.43%) Technical Leadership
17 102 (5.32%) Front End Development
17 102 (5.32%) Machine Learning
18 97 (5.06%) TDD
19 96 (5.01%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 601 (31.37%) JavaScript
2 583 (30.43%) TypeScript
3 420 (21.92%) Java
4 394 (20.56%) C#
5 392 (20.46%) Python
6 287 (14.98%) SQL
7 80 (4.18%) PHP
8 53 (2.77%) Go
9 40 (2.09%) Ruby
10 25 (1.30%) Bash
11 21 (1.10%) Rust
12 19 (0.99%) C++
13 17 (0.89%) C
13 17 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.57%) Groovy
16 8 (0.42%) Bicep
16 8 (0.42%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.37%) R
18 5 (0.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 145 (7.57%) Security Cleared
2 122 (6.37%) Degree
3 99 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 83 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 17 (0.89%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.47%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.31%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.16%) PhD
11 2 (0.10%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.052%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.052%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.052%) MBA
12 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (4.49%) QA
2 60 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.68%) GDPR
4 9 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.47%) WCAG
5 6 (0.31%) SLA
6 5 (0.26%) PERC
7 4 (0.21%) GRC
7 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.10%) ECSS
8 2 (0.10%) HL7
8 2 (0.10%) NCSC
8 2 (0.10%) NIST
9 1 (0.052%) ITGC
9 1 (0.052%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 232 (12.11%) Docker
2 13 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.10%) Firmware
5 2 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 179 (9.34%) Kubernetes
2 104 (5.43%) Terraform
3 29 (1.51%) Ansible
4 27 (1.41%) Grafana
5 15 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.73%) Kibana
7 11 (0.57%) Argo
7 11 (0.57%) HP Fortify
8 7 (0.37%) Podman
9 3 (0.16%) Nagios
9 3 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.052%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.052%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.052%) logstash
10 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.052%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.052%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 125 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 29 (1.51%) Oracle
3 28 (1.46%) Google
4 27 (1.41%) OpenAI
5 26 (1.36%) Adobe
6 19 (0.99%) Foundry
7 18 (0.94%) Palantir
8 10 (0.52%) Fortinet
8 10 (0.52%) Palo Alto
9 9 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (0.47%) Dynatrace
9 9 (0.47%) Splunk
10 8 (0.42%) Pega
10 8 (0.42%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.31%) Databricks
12 5 (0.26%) Facebook
12 5 (0.26%) WSO2
12 5 (0.26%) Zoho
13 4 (0.21%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.21%) ServiceNow