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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 61 44
Rank change year-on-year -29 -17 +23
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,477 2,240 3,397
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.36% 4.22% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 4.63% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,194 1,089 2,995
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £56,509 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.39% +2.74% -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 50,274 48,415 58,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.40% 91.16% 89.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,681 23,366 44,999
10th Percentile £28,571 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,246 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 24 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 24 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 -23 1,339 £70,000 +7.69% 1,741
UK excluding London -55 783 £61,250 +8.39% 1,638
London -1 575 £80,000 -3.03% 330
Work from Home -21 568 £70,000 +7.69% 843
South East -51 213 £62,500 +4.17% 492
North of England -20 209 £65,000 +18.18% 335
Midlands -35 160 £55,000 +10.00% 204
South West -17 111 £62,500 +4.17% 210
North West -16 90 £65,000 +8.33% 158
West Midlands +2 88 £55,000 +4.76% 67
Yorkshire -29 76 £72,500 +46.46% 123
East Midlands -33 72 £60,000 +53.85% 134
East of England -49 56 £60,000 +29.73% 245
North East +13 43 £55,000 +7.32% 56
Scotland -76 14 £67,500 +28.57% 71
Wales -25 13 £51,250 -2.38% 81
Northern Ireland -16 9 £95,000 +58.33% 36
Channel Islands +1 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 (0.81%) CMS
2 11 (0.74%) Confluence
2 11 (0.74%) OpenStack
3 9 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.34%) WordPress
6 4 (0.27%) Appian
6 4 (0.27%) nginx
7 3 (0.20%) Apache
7 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.20%) Liferay
7 3 (0.20%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.14%) ColdFusion
8 2 (0.14%) Drupal
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.068%) Kentico
9 1 (0.068%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.068%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.068%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 526 (35.61%) AWS
2 406 (27.49%) Azure
3 158 (10.70%) Serverless
4 150 (10.16%) SaaS
5 119 (8.06%) GitHub
6 107 (7.24%) GCP
7 87 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
8 75 (5.08%) Amazon S3
8 75 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
9 62 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
10 51 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (2.17%) Figma
14 28 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (1.90%) PaaS
15 23 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (1.42%) Entra ID
17 18 (1.22%) Azure App Service
17 18 (1.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.08%) Broadband
2 7 (0.47%) HTTP
3 4 (0.27%) Firewall
4 3 (0.20%) Internet
4 3 (0.20%) WAN
5 2 (0.14%) AMQP
5 2 (0.14%) DHCP
5 2 (0.14%) DNS
5 2 (0.14%) LAN
5 2 (0.14%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.14%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.14%) VLAN
5 2 (0.14%) VPN
5 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.068%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.068%) MQTT
6 1 (0.068%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.068%) SSL
6 1 (0.068%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (8.12%) SQL Server
2 119 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (6.64%) NoSQL
4 95 (6.43%) MongoDB
5 72 (4.87%) Relational Database
6 64 (4.33%) MySQL
7 44 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (1.76%) DynamoDB
9 24 (1.62%) Redis
10 23 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.49%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.81%) Pinecone
15 11 (0.74%) Power BI
16 9 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (0.54%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.54%) DB2
18 5 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
19 4 (0.27%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 155 (10.49%) Git
2 83 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 50 (3.39%) Cypress.io
4 39 (2.64%) JIRA
5 30 (2.03%) GitLab
6 29 (1.96%) JUnit
7 22 (1.49%) Mockito
8 20 (1.35%) Maven
9 18 (1.22%) Vite
10 17 (1.15%) TeamCity
11 15 (1.02%) JMeter
11 15 (1.02%) Visual Studio
12 13 (0.88%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.74%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.74%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.74%) Selenium
14 8 (0.54%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.54%) webpack
15 7 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (0.34%) git-flow
General
1 284 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 143 (9.68%) Finance
3 71 (4.81%) Public Sector
4 56 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (3.11%) Banking
5 46 (3.11%) Law
6 35 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (1.96%) Retail
8 27 (1.83%) Tech for Good
9 25 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 24 (1.62%) Health Technology
10 24 (1.62%) Marketing
11 23 (1.56%) Front Office
11 23 (1.56%) Legal
12 21 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.22%) Aviation
14 16 (1.08%) Games
15 14 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 813 (55.04%) Developer
2 566 (38.32%) Full-Stack Developer
3 330 (22.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 328 (22.21%) Senior
5 257 (17.40%) Software Engineer
6 201 (13.61%) Lead
7 141 (9.55%) .NET Developer
8 140 (9.48%) Senior Developer
9 123 (8.33%) Java Developer
10 111 (7.52%) React Developer
11 103 (6.97%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 102 (6.91%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 98 (6.64%) Lead Developer
14 97 (6.57%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 89 (6.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 86 (5.82%) Software Developer
17 84 (5.69%) Senior Software Engineer
18 69 (4.67%) C# Developer
19 60 (4.06%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 58 (3.93%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 670 (45.36%) React
2 397 (26.88%) .NET
3 281 (19.03%) Node.js
4 229 (15.50%) AngularJS
5 215 (14.56%) HTML
6 195 (13.20%) CSS
7 152 (10.29%) Spring
8 151 (10.22%) Vue
9 145 (9.82%) RESTful
10 143 (9.68%) .NET Core
11 139 (9.41%) REST
12 113 (7.65%) Spring Boot
13 93 (6.30%) ASP.NET
14 89 (6.03%) .NET Framework
15 83 (5.62%) Next.js
16 71 (4.81%) Entity Framework
17 61 (4.13%) GraphQL
18 57 (3.86%) HTML5
19 56 (3.79%) React Native
20 55 (3.72%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.12%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.66%) Mobile App
5 49 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
6 46 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (1.56%) AI Agents
7 23 (1.56%) IoT
8 16 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 14 (0.95%) Data Structures
9 14 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (0.95%) Smart Energy
10 12 (0.81%) Private Cloud
11 11 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (0.74%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.68%) e-Learning
12 10 (0.68%) Hedge funds
12 10 (0.68%) Reference Data
13 8 (0.54%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.76%) Android
2 25 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 20 (1.35%) Linux
4 7 (0.47%) Unix
5 5 (0.34%) Windows
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (31.62%) Software Engineering
2 433 (29.32%) Agile
3 387 (26.20%) CI/CD
4 290 (19.63%) Microservices
5 288 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
6 275 (18.62%) DevOps
7 274 (18.55%) AI
8 193 (13.07%) Mentoring
9 192 (13.00%) User Experience
10 191 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 122 (8.26%) Clean Code
11 122 (8.26%) Computer Science
12 118 (7.99%) Test Automation
13 117 (7.92%) Scrum
14 104 (7.04%) Containerisation
15 103 (6.97%) Front End Development
16 102 (6.91%) TDD
17 98 (6.64%) MVC
18 93 (6.30%) Code Quality
19 90 (6.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 505 (34.19%) JavaScript
2 491 (33.24%) TypeScript
3 380 (25.73%) C#
4 352 (23.83%) Java
5 295 (19.97%) Python
6 269 (18.21%) SQL
7 61 (4.13%) PHP
8 36 (2.44%) Ruby
9 27 (1.83%) Go
10 25 (1.69%) Rust
11 23 (1.56%) Bash
12 20 (1.35%) C++
13 16 (1.08%) C
14 13 (0.88%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.61%) Groovy
17 8 (0.54%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.47%) R
18 7 (0.47%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 142 (9.61%) Security Cleared
2 118 (7.99%) Degree
3 86 (5.82%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.98%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.61%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.27%) MCP
11 2 (0.14%) PhD
12 1 (0.068%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.068%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.068%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.068%) MBA
12 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.21%) QA
2 67 (4.54%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.95%) WCAG
4 12 (0.81%) GDPR
5 6 (0.41%) SLA
6 5 (0.34%) PERC
7 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.14%) ECSS
8 2 (0.14%) NCSC
8 2 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.068%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.068%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.068%) HL7
9 1 (0.068%) ITGC
9 1 (0.068%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 190 (12.86%) Docker
2 18 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 159 (10.77%) Kubernetes
2 92 (6.23%) Terraform
3 27 (1.83%) Ansible
4 17 (1.15%) Kibana
5 14 (0.95%) Grafana
6 13 (0.88%) Argo
7 9 (0.61%) HP Fortify
8 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.14%) Nagios
9 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.068%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.068%) Istio
10 1 (0.068%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.068%) logstash
10 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 103 (6.97%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.90%) OpenAI
3 25 (1.69%) Oracle
4 20 (1.35%) Google
5 18 (1.22%) Adobe
6 16 (1.08%) Foundry
7 15 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 14 (0.95%) Palantir
9 13 (0.88%) Splunk
10 6 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.41%) Facebook
10 6 (0.41%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.41%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.34%) VMware
11 5 (0.34%) YouTube
11 5 (0.34%) Zoho
12 4 (0.27%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.27%) Pega
12 4 (0.27%) Telerik
12 4 (0.27%) WSO2