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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 58 65
Rank change year-on-year -52 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,227 2,473 2,112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.11% 4.28% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 4.82% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 987 1,285 1,844
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £91,250 £84,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £114,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.34% -0.37%

All Process and 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 48,580 51,296 46,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.42% 88.74% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 28,425 26,239 35,356
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,720 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.08% +4.37% -2.51%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 -47 1,118 £70,000 +7.69% 853
UK excluding London -81 627 £60,000 +9.09% 739
London -9 519 £87,500 +6.06% 259
Work from Home -41 472 £70,000 +7.69% 531
North of England -41 178 £60,000 +9.09% 198
South East -74 177 £62,500 +4.17% 217
Midlands -57 101 £60,000 +20.00% 119
South West -33 89 £60,000 +6.67% 81
North West -25 80 £65,000 +13.04% 103
Yorkshire -47 70 £63,750 +21.43% 67
West Midlands -39 58 £60,000 +9.09% 69
East of England -79 44 £60,000 +9.52% 76
East Midlands -55 43 £60,000 +41.18% 49
North East -6 28 £50,000 -14.89% 30
Wales -25 19 £60,000 +13.74% 21
Scotland -63 14 £67,500 +28.57% 30
Northern Ireland -9 7 £85,000 +41.67% 4
Channel Islands +4 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 (1.14%) CMS
2 10 (0.81%) Confluence
2 10 (0.81%) OpenStack
3 9 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.65%) Headless CMS
5 7 (0.57%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.41%) nginx
7 4 (0.33%) Appian
7 4 (0.33%) WordPress
8 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.24%) Drupal
9 2 (0.16%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.081%) Apache
10 1 (0.081%) Kentico
10 1 (0.081%) Liferay
10 1 (0.081%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.24%) S-PLUS
3 2 (0.16%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 495 (40.34%) AWS
2 419 (34.15%) Azure
3 136 (11.08%) SaaS
4 130 (10.59%) Serverless
5 112 (9.13%) GCP
6 110 (8.96%) GitHub
7 73 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (4.40%) Amazon S3
11 48 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
12 46 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (2.44%) PaaS
14 28 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (2.28%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (1.96%) Figma
16 23 (1.87%) Entra ID
17 21 (1.71%) Azure App Service
18 20 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 20 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.57%) HTTP
2 6 (0.49%) Firewall
3 4 (0.33%) WAN
4 3 (0.24%) Broadband
4 3 (0.24%) DNS
4 3 (0.24%) LAN
4 3 (0.24%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.24%) VLAN
4 3 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.16%) AMQP
5 2 (0.16%) DHCP
6 1 (0.081%) Internet
6 1 (0.081%) MQTT
6 1 (0.081%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.081%) SAN
6 1 (0.081%) SNMP
6 1 (0.081%) SSL
6 1 (0.081%) TCAP
6 1 (0.081%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (10.68%) SQL Server
2 121 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
3 100 (8.15%) NoSQL
4 79 (6.44%) MongoDB
5 78 (6.36%) Relational Database
6 67 (5.46%) MySQL
7 41 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 27 (2.20%) RDBMS
9 22 (1.79%) Redis
10 20 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.55%) DynamoDB
12 15 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (0.73%) Pinecone
14 9 (0.73%) Power BI
15 7 (0.57%) DB2
16 6 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.41%) BigQuery
17 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 4 (0.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 171 (13.94%) Git
2 73 (5.95%) Jenkins
3 47 (3.83%) Cypress.io
4 40 (3.26%) JIRA
5 27 (2.20%) JUnit
6 26 (2.12%) GitLab
7 21 (1.71%) JMeter
7 21 (1.71%) Mockito
8 16 (1.30%) Visual Studio
9 14 (1.14%) TeamCity
9 14 (1.14%) webpack
10 12 (0.98%) Vite
11 10 (0.81%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.81%) Maven
11 10 (0.81%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.73%) Selenium
13 8 (0.65%) CircleCI
13 8 (0.65%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 273 (22.25%) Social Skills
2 156 (12.71%) Finance
3 67 (5.46%) Public Sector
4 62 (5.05%) Law
5 41 (3.34%) Front Office
6 38 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (2.93%) Banking
8 34 (2.77%) Marketing
9 31 (2.53%) Retail
10 27 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.87%) Legal
12 22 (1.79%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.39%) Health Technology
14 14 (1.14%) Games
15 12 (0.98%) Tech for Good
16 11 (0.90%) Aviation
16 11 (0.90%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.73%) Advertising
19 7 (0.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 725 (59.09%) Developer
2 504 (41.08%) Full-Stack Developer
3 267 (21.76%) Senior
4 225 (18.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 209 (17.03%) Software Engineer
6 168 (13.69%) Lead
7 145 (11.82%) Senior Developer
8 125 (10.19%) .NET Developer
9 101 (8.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 98 (7.99%) Java Developer
11 88 (7.17%) Software Developer
12 80 (6.52%) React Developer
13 79 (6.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 74 (6.03%) Lead Developer
15 72 (5.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 63 (5.13%) C# Developer
17 54 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
18 51 (4.16%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
19 50 (4.07%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 38 (3.10%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 615 (50.12%) React
2 372 (30.32%) .NET
3 280 (22.82%) Node.js
4 252 (20.54%) HTML
5 235 (19.15%) AngularJS
6 225 (18.34%) CSS
7 169 (13.77%) RESTful
8 155 (12.63%) Vue
9 131 (10.68%) .NET Core
9 131 (10.68%) REST
10 126 (10.27%) Spring
11 113 (9.21%) ASP.NET
12 105 (8.56%) GraphQL
13 104 (8.48%) .NET Framework
14 89 (7.25%) Spring Boot
15 80 (6.52%) Next.js
16 76 (6.19%) Entity Framework
17 73 (5.95%) Kafka
18 66 (5.38%) HTML5
19 54 (4.40%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 128 (10.43%) Cloud Native
2 81 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (2.93%) Mobile App
6 35 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (1.87%) Fixed Income
8 18 (1.47%) IoT
9 17 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.22%) Onboarding
11 12 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 11 (0.90%) Management Information System
12 11 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.81%) Hedge funds
13 10 (0.81%) Private Cloud
13 10 (0.81%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.65%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.14%) Android
1 14 (1.14%) Apple iOS
1 14 (1.14%) Linux
2 7 (0.57%) Unix
3 6 (0.49%) Windows
4 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (37.33%) Agile
2 378 (30.81%) CI/CD
3 370 (30.15%) Software Engineering
4 275 (22.41%) DevOps
5 268 (21.84%) Microservices
6 247 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
7 219 (17.85%) AI
8 199 (16.22%) User Experience
9 168 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 168 (13.69%) Mentoring
10 134 (10.92%) Clean Code
11 115 (9.37%) Test Automation
12 111 (9.05%) MVC
12 111 (9.05%) Scrum
13 104 (8.48%) Containerisation
14 103 (8.39%) Front End Development
15 102 (8.31%) TDD
16 100 (8.15%) Computer Science
17 93 (7.58%) Code Quality
18 87 (7.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 509 (41.48%) JavaScript
2 447 (36.43%) TypeScript
3 368 (29.99%) C#
4 282 (22.98%) Java
5 259 (21.11%) Python
6 237 (19.32%) SQL
7 55 (4.48%) PHP
8 48 (3.91%) Go
9 31 (2.53%) Ruby
9 31 (2.53%) Rust
10 18 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.39%) Bash
12 16 (1.30%) C++
13 11 (0.90%) C
14 10 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.81%) PowerShell
15 9 (0.73%) Bicep
15 9 (0.73%) Groovy
16 6 (0.49%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 103 (8.39%) Degree
3 62 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 62 (5.05%) SC Cleared
4 41 (3.34%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.41%) MCP
11 4 (0.33%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.24%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.16%) CISSP
13 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.081%) MBA
14 1 (0.081%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.081%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (6.52%) QA
2 77 (6.28%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.14%) GDPR
4 13 (1.06%) WCAG
5 5 (0.41%) PERC
6 4 (0.33%) SLA
7 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.16%) ECSS
8 2 (0.16%) NIST
8 2 (0.16%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.081%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.081%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.081%) HL7
9 1 (0.081%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 198 (16.14%) Docker
2 19 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 166 (13.53%) Kubernetes
2 76 (6.19%) Terraform
3 21 (1.71%) Ansible
3 21 (1.71%) Kibana
4 13 (1.06%) Grafana
5 11 (0.90%) Argo
6 9 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.49%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.16%) Istio
8 2 (0.16%) Nagios
8 2 (0.16%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.081%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.081%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.081%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.081%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.081%) linkerd
9 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.081%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 22 (1.79%) OpenAI
3 21 (1.71%) Oracle
4 19 (1.55%) Dynatrace
5 17 (1.39%) Splunk
6 15 (1.22%) Google
7 10 (0.81%) Apple
7 10 (0.81%) Foundry
7 10 (0.81%) Palantir
8 7 (0.57%) DevExpress
8 7 (0.57%) VMware
9 6 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.49%) Facebook
9 6 (0.49%) Fortinet
9 6 (0.49%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.49%) YouTube
10 5 (0.41%) Zoho
11 4 (0.33%) Pega
11 4 (0.33%) Telerik
11 4 (0.33%) WSO2