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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 87 41
Rank change year-on-year +13 -46 +29
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 2,145 1,395 4,790
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.59% 3.41% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 3.67% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,727 1,017 3,882
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 63,076 38,012 79,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.99% 86.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38,955 22,518 58,781
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +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 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 9 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 9 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 +15 1,945 £70,000 +7.69% 848
UK excluding London +9 1,260 £62,500 +4.17% 635
Work from Home +16 828 £70,000 +7.69% 458
London +18 720 £85,000 +6.25% 329
North of England +31 387 £70,000 +21.74% 161
South East -23 311 £60,000 - 175
Midlands +28 223 £55,000 +8.37% 86
North West +17 193 £70,000 +16.67% 83
South West +17 183 £60,000 -4.00% 100
Yorkshire +28 140 £72,500 +45.00% 54
West Midlands +30 118 £55,000 +4.76% 43
East Midlands -5 104 £55,000 +22.22% 43
East of England -4 97 £60,000 +20.00% 63
North East +10 54 £60,000 +33.33% 24
Northern Ireland - 26 £70,000 - 5
Scotland -35 24 £60,000 -6.98% 34
Wales -42 14 £52,500 -22.22% 18
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 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (0.65%) CMS
2 13 (0.61%) OpenStack
3 10 (0.47%) Confluence
4 8 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (0.37%) SharePoint
5 7 (0.33%) Apache
5 7 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.33%) ColdFusion
6 6 (0.28%) WordPress
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.19%) Appian
8 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.19%) nginx
9 3 (0.14%) IIS
9 3 (0.14%) Liferay
10 2 (0.093%) CICS
10 2 (0.093%) Drupal
10 2 (0.093%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.093%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.093%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.19%) Shopify
2 1 (0.047%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.047%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 661 (30.82%) AWS
2 457 (21.31%) Azure
3 213 (9.93%) SaaS
4 197 (9.18%) Serverless
5 160 (7.46%) GCP
6 130 (6.06%) GitHub
7 113 (5.27%) AWS Lambda
8 96 (4.48%) Amazon S3
9 80 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
10 67 (3.12%) Amazon ECS
11 57 (2.66%) Amazon SQS
12 52 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (1.96%) Figma
14 38 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
15 36 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (1.21%) Entra ID
18 25 (1.17%) PaaS
19 24 (1.12%) Power Platform
20 20 (0.93%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.77%) Broadband
2 7 (0.33%) HTTP
3 4 (0.19%) Firewall
3 4 (0.19%) Internet
4 3 (0.14%) WAN
5 2 (0.093%) AMQP
5 2 (0.093%) DNS
5 2 (0.093%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.093%) LAN
5 2 (0.093%) VLAN
5 2 (0.093%) VPN
6 1 (0.047%) DHCP
6 1 (0.047%) MQTT
6 1 (0.047%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.047%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.047%) SSL
6 1 (0.047%) TCAP
6 1 (0.047%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.047%) WebEx
6 1 (0.047%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (5.83%) SQL Server
3 120 (5.59%) MongoDB
4 116 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 73 (3.40%) MySQL
6 64 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 46 (2.14%) DynamoDB
8 37 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (1.07%) Redis
10 17 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (0.75%) Power BI
12 12 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.56%) Pinecone
13 9 (0.42%) DB2
13 9 (0.42%) RDBMS
14 8 (0.37%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.37%) MariaDB
15 6 (0.28%) GIS
Development Applications
1 179 (8.34%) Git
2 99 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 58 (2.70%) Cypress.io
4 36 (1.68%) GitLab
5 35 (1.63%) JIRA
6 26 (1.21%) Maven
7 21 (0.98%) SonarQube
8 20 (0.93%) JUnit
9 16 (0.75%) TeamCity
10 15 (0.70%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.65%) Mockito
12 13 (0.61%) Vite
13 11 (0.51%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.51%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.42%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.37%) Selenium
15 8 (0.37%) webpack
16 7 (0.33%) ESLint
16 7 (0.33%) NUnit
16 7 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 284 (13.24%) Social Skills
2 225 (10.49%) Finance
3 79 (3.68%) Public Sector
4 70 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (2.61%) Banking
6 49 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (1.96%) Retail
8 41 (1.91%) Front Office
9 38 (1.77%) Law
10 37 (1.72%) Marketing
11 32 (1.49%) Games
11 32 (1.49%) Tech for Good
12 26 (1.21%) Aviation
12 26 (1.21%) Manufacturing
13 21 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (0.93%) Health Technology
14 20 (0.93%) Investment Banking
15 19 (0.89%) Legal
16 15 (0.70%) Advertising
17 12 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,232 (57.44%) Developer
2 866 (40.37%) Full-Stack Developer
3 519 (24.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 499 (23.26%) Senior
5 399 (18.60%) Software Engineer
6 308 (14.36%) Lead
7 237 (11.05%) Senior Developer
8 176 (8.21%) .NET Developer
9 172 (8.02%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 168 (7.83%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 167 (7.79%) Lead Developer
12 151 (7.04%) Java Developer
13 148 (6.90%) Software Developer
14 139 (6.48%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 137 (6.39%) React Developer
16 115 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
17 96 (4.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 95 (4.43%) Python Developer
19 93 (4.34%) C# Developer
20 86 (4.01%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 788 (36.74%) React
2 461 (21.49%) .NET
3 424 (19.77%) Node.js
4 245 (11.42%) HTML
5 240 (11.19%) CSS
6 230 (10.72%) AngularJS
7 192 (8.95%) Vue
8 157 (7.32%) Spring
9 153 (7.13%) RESTful
10 150 (6.99%) .NET Core
11 146 (6.81%) REST
12 128 (5.97%) Spring Boot
13 106 (4.94%) Next.js
14 91 (4.24%) ASP.NET
15 79 (3.68%) GraphQL
16 75 (3.50%) .NET Framework
17 67 (3.12%) Kafka
17 67 (3.12%) Laravel
18 62 (2.89%) React Native
19 59 (2.75%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 158 (7.37%) Cloud Native
2 86 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
3 73 (3.40%) Product Ownership
4 64 (2.98%) Mobile App
5 62 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
6 48 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (1.54%) IoT
8 32 (1.49%) Fixed Income
9 25 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 22 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (0.93%) Smart Energy
12 19 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (0.75%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.75%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (0.70%) Onboarding
15 14 (0.65%) e-Learning
16 13 (0.61%) Blog
16 13 (0.61%) Podcast
16 13 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.35%) Linux
2 25 (1.17%) Android
3 22 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.19%) Unix
4 4 (0.19%) Windows
5 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.047%) VMS
5 1 (0.047%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.047%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (31.79%) Software Engineering
2 503 (23.45%) Agile
3 439 (20.47%) CI/CD
4 354 (16.50%) DevOps
5 346 (16.13%) AI
6 316 (14.73%) Microservices
7 307 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
8 231 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 227 (10.58%) Mentoring
10 185 (8.62%) Test Automation
11 177 (8.25%) User Experience
12 139 (6.48%) Containerisation
13 138 (6.43%) Scrum
14 136 (6.34%) Clean Code
15 124 (5.78%) Computer Science
16 112 (5.22%) Web Development
17 111 (5.17%) Machine Learning
18 109 (5.08%) Technical Leadership
19 103 (4.80%) Infrastructure as Code
20 100 (4.66%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 652 (30.40%) JavaScript
2 623 (29.04%) TypeScript
3 440 (20.51%) Python
4 434 (20.23%) Java
5 402 (18.74%) C#
6 300 (13.99%) SQL
7 91 (4.24%) PHP
8 55 (2.56%) Go
9 47 (2.19%) Ruby
10 28 (1.31%) Bash
11 21 (0.98%) C++
12 17 (0.79%) C
12 17 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 13 (0.61%) Groovy
13 13 (0.61%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.61%) Rust
14 11 (0.51%) Bicep
15 6 (0.28%) R
15 6 (0.28%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 154 (7.18%) Security Cleared
2 125 (5.83%) Degree
3 110 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 83 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.59%) DV Cleared
6 19 (0.89%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 9 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.19%) PhD
13 2 (0.093%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.047%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.047%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.047%) MBA
14 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.43%) QA
2 51 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.56%) GDPR
4 10 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.33%) GRC
5 7 (0.33%) WCAG
6 6 (0.28%) SLA
7 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.14%) PERC
9 2 (0.093%) ECSS
9 2 (0.093%) HL7
9 2 (0.093%) ITGC
9 2 (0.093%) NCSC
9 2 (0.093%) NIST
10 1 (0.047%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.047%) SOC 2
System Software
1 231 (10.77%) Docker
2 9 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.14%) Firmware
4 3 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.093%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 169 (7.88%) Kubernetes
2 114 (5.31%) Terraform
3 31 (1.45%) Ansible
3 31 (1.45%) Grafana
4 17 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.61%) HP Fortify
6 11 (0.51%) Kibana
7 10 (0.47%) Argo
8 9 (0.42%) Podman
9 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.14%) logstash
10 3 (0.14%) Nagios
11 1 (0.047%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.047%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.047%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 141 (6.57%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.31%) Google
3 27 (1.26%) Adobe
3 27 (1.26%) Oracle
4 25 (1.17%) OpenAI
5 13 (0.61%) Foundry
6 12 (0.56%) Palantir
7 9 (0.42%) Fortinet
7 9 (0.42%) Palo Alto
7 9 (0.42%) Pega
8 8 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (0.37%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.33%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.28%) Databricks
10 6 (0.28%) Splunk
10 6 (0.28%) WSO2
11 5 (0.23%) Facebook
11 5 (0.23%) Zoho
12 4 (0.19%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.19%) Telerik