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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 93 44
Rank change year-on-year +47 -49 +26
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 3,119 1,564 4,843
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.19% 3.20% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 3.53% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,597 979 3,634
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,690 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 72,315 44,278 84,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.47% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 49,904 24,657 59,064
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,772 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.54% - -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +57 2,833 £65,000 -7.14% 647
UK excluding London +61 2,128 £60,000 - 508
Work from Home +46 1,414 £60,000 -9.23% 334
London +15 836 £85,000 - 252
North of England +60 699 £65,000 +6.12% 131
South East +84 526 £60,000 - 162
North West +37 377 £65,000 - 72
Midlands +39 295 £55,000 -8.33% 64
South West +50 286 £60,000 - 48
Yorkshire +77 212 £70,000 +16.67% 37
East of England +51 174 £60,000 +20.00% 56
West Midlands +25 149 £55,000 -12.00% 30
East Midlands +22 145 £55,000 +15.79% 34
North East +18 110 £52,000 +8.33% 23
Scotland -21 78 £55,000 -18.52% 30
Wales -29 53 £60,000 -4.00% 10
Northern Ireland -43 22 £70,000 +16.67% 13
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

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 30 (0.96%) CMS
2 22 (0.71%) Confluence
3 16 (0.51%) WordPress
4 12 (0.38%) Apache
5 11 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.32%) ColdFusion
6 10 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
7 9 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.16%) IIS
10 5 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 3 (0.096%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.096%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.064%) Elementor
4 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.13%) Shopify
2 2 (0.064%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.032%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.032%) Magento
3 1 (0.032%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 933 (29.91%) Azure
2 929 (29.79%) AWS
3 286 (9.17%) GitHub
4 244 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
5 236 (7.57%) SaaS
6 215 (6.89%) Serverless
7 188 (6.03%) GCP
8 167 (5.35%) GitHub Copilot
9 161 (5.16%) Azure AI
10 128 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
11 104 (3.33%) Amazon S3
12 82 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 79 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
14 71 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
15 57 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
16 51 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 40 (1.28%) Power Platform
18 35 (1.12%) Figma
19 34 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
19 34 (1.09%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.12%) Broadband
2 57 (1.83%) Internet
3 8 (0.26%) Firewall
4 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
4 7 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.19%) DNS
6 5 (0.16%) HTTP
6 5 (0.16%) MQTT
7 3 (0.096%) LAN
7 3 (0.096%) VPN
7 3 (0.096%) WAN
8 2 (0.064%) AMQP
8 2 (0.064%) DHCP
8 2 (0.064%) Network Security
8 2 (0.064%) VoIP
9 1 (0.032%) FTP
9 1 (0.032%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.032%) SCTP
9 1 (0.032%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.032%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 535 (17.15%) MongoDB
2 458 (14.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 202 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
4 161 (5.16%) SQL Server
5 158 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
6 112 (3.59%) NoSQL
7 104 (3.33%) MySQL
8 80 (2.56%) Relational Database
9 65 (2.08%) DynamoDB
10 42 (1.35%) Redis
11 24 (0.77%) Power BI
12 20 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.35%) GIS
13 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (0.32%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.29%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.22%) MariaDB
17 6 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
17 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 220 (7.05%) Git
2 105 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 67 (2.15%) GitLab
4 56 (1.80%) Cypress.io
5 44 (1.41%) JIRA
6 40 (1.28%) Claude Code
6 40 (1.28%) JUnit
7 33 (1.06%) Maven
8 23 (0.74%) SonarQube
9 22 (0.71%) Eclipse
10 21 (0.67%) Subversion
11 18 (0.58%) Vite
12 15 (0.48%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.42%) Mockito
14 11 (0.35%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.26%) Spock
16 8 (0.26%) Storybook
16 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 379 (12.15%) Finance
2 293 (9.39%) Social Skills
3 105 (3.37%) Public Sector
4 95 (3.05%) Marketing
5 92 (2.95%) Games
6 79 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (2.37%) Advertising
8 72 (2.31%) Retail
9 57 (1.83%) Banking
10 51 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (1.25%) Front Office
12 38 (1.22%) Law
13 34 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 33 (1.06%) Legal
15 27 (0.87%) Tech for Good
16 19 (0.61%) Automotive
17 17 (0.55%) Financial Institution
18 16 (0.51%) Aerospace
19 15 (0.48%) Aviation
19 15 (0.48%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,911 (61.27%) Developer
2 1,013 (32.48%) Full-Stack Developer
3 683 (21.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 610 (19.56%) .NET Developer
5 601 (19.27%) Senior
6 534 (17.12%) Software Engineer
7 407 (13.05%) Lead
8 273 (8.75%) Senior Developer
9 255 (8.18%) Software Developer
10 227 (7.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 197 (6.32%) Lead Developer
12 180 (5.77%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 174 (5.58%) Java Developer
14 163 (5.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 145 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
16 117 (3.75%) Java Engineer
17 105 (3.37%) React Developer
18 104 (3.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 98 (3.14%) Python Developer
20 86 (2.76%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,033 (33.12%) React
2 953 (30.55%) .NET
3 621 (19.91%) Node.js
4 547 (17.54%) .NET Core
5 536 (17.18%) ASP.NET
6 496 (15.90%) ASP.NET Core
7 436 (13.98%) AngularJS
8 415 (13.31%) CSS
9 401 (12.86%) HTML
10 389 (12.47%) Vue
11 338 (10.84%) RESTful
12 226 (7.25%) Entity Framework
13 210 (6.73%) Blazor
14 199 (6.38%) Spring
15 184 (5.90%) ASP.NET Web API
16 178 (5.71%) REST
17 159 (5.10%) Spring Boot
18 154 (4.94%) ML.NET
19 146 (4.68%) Next.js
20 127 (4.07%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 277 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 171 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
3 95 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (2.89%) Mobile App
5 76 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 54 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 45 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 37 (1.19%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.03%) e-Learning
12 32 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
13 30 (0.96%) IoT
14 29 (0.93%) Onboarding
15 22 (0.71%) Social Media
16 20 (0.64%) Digital TV
16 20 (0.64%) Virtual Team
17 18 (0.58%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.55%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 56 (1.80%) Linux
2 26 (0.83%) Android
3 13 (0.42%) Windows
4 10 (0.32%) Unix
5 7 (0.22%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.096%) AIX
7 3 (0.096%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.096%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.064%) VMS
9 1 (0.032%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 916 (29.37%) Software Engineering
2 897 (28.76%) Agile
3 719 (23.05%) CI/CD
4 665 (21.32%) AI
5 556 (17.83%) DevOps
6 542 (17.38%) Microservices
7 359 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
8 298 (9.55%) Machine Learning
9 294 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 285 (9.14%) Mentoring
11 253 (8.11%) Test Automation
12 210 (6.73%) Scrum
13 192 (6.16%) TDD
14 182 (5.84%) Clean Code
15 174 (5.58%) Infrastructure as Code
16 171 (5.48%) Containerisation
16 171 (5.48%) Multithreading
17 158 (5.07%) Observability
18 155 (4.97%) Technical Leadership
19 148 (4.75%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 952 (30.52%) JavaScript
2 904 (28.98%) TypeScript
3 901 (28.89%) C#
4 752 (24.11%) SQL
5 592 (18.98%) Python
6 511 (16.38%) Java
7 105 (3.37%) PHP
8 95 (3.05%) Go
9 69 (2.21%) Ruby
10 68 (2.18%) C++
11 32 (1.03%) Bash
12 27 (0.87%) Groovy
13 19 (0.61%) Rust
14 16 (0.51%) Perl
15 13 (0.42%) Bicep
15 13 (0.42%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.26%) C
18 6 (0.19%) PowerShell
18 6 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 209 (6.70%) Security Cleared
2 167 (5.35%) Degree
3 151 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 120 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 20 (0.64%) AWS Certification
7 19 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 12 (0.38%) DBS Check
8 12 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.13%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.13%) PhD
13 3 (0.096%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.032%) CCNA
14 1 (0.032%) CCNP
14 1 (0.032%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.032%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.27%) QA
2 61 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 27 (0.87%) WCAG
4 18 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 17 (0.55%) GDPR
6 7 (0.22%) GRC
6 7 (0.22%) NCSC
7 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.096%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.096%) SLA
9 2 (0.064%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.064%) ITGC
9 2 (0.064%) NIST
10 1 (0.032%) HL7
10 1 (0.032%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.032%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.032%) SOC 2
System Software
1 438 (14.04%) Docker
2 5 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.13%) Firmware
4 2 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.064%) vSphere
5 1 (0.032%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 331 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 144 (4.62%) Terraform
3 33 (1.06%) Grafana
4 22 (0.71%) Ansible
5 19 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.42%) Podman
7 12 (0.38%) HP Fortify
8 11 (0.35%) Kibana
9 7 (0.22%) logstash
10 5 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.13%) Argo
12 2 (0.064%) Nagios
13 1 (0.032%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.032%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.032%) Graylog
13 1 (0.032%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.032%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 610 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 84 (2.69%) Google
3 58 (1.86%) Facebook
4 33 (1.06%) OpenAI
5 29 (0.93%) Adobe
6 24 (0.77%) Oracle
7 22 (0.71%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.67%) YouTube
9 19 (0.61%) Palantir
10 18 (0.58%) Apple
11 17 (0.55%) Foundry
11 17 (0.55%) Sony
11 17 (0.55%) Yahoo!
12 12 (0.38%) Splunk
13 11 (0.35%) AppDynamics
13 11 (0.35%) Databricks
14 10 (0.32%) Sitecore
15 9 (0.29%) OneLogin
16 8 (0.26%) Dynatrace
17 6 (0.19%) Palo Alto