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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 61 44
Rank change year-on-year -24 -17 +24
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 1,603 2,115 3,870
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.44% 4.23% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 4.60% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,297 1,043 3,406
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
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% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -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 52,411 45,996 65,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.77% 91.99% 88.32%
Number of salaries quoted 31,090 22,202 50,938
10th Percentile £28,809 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 February 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 February 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 -19 1,456 £70,000 +7.69% 922
UK excluding London -46 864 £62,500 +8.70% 728
Work from Home -15 632 £70,000 +7.69% 509
London +6 611 £80,000 - 343
North of England -11 232 £65,000 +18.18% 189
South East -49 230 £61,250 +2.08% 207
Midlands -25 168 £55,000 +4.76% 98
South West -15 131 £60,000 -4.00% 112
North West -5 105 £67,500 +14.89% 105
West Midlands -6 92 £52,500 - 38
Yorkshire -29 84 £73,750 +48.99% 60
East Midlands -27 76 £57,500 +55.41% 60
East of England -41 63 £60,000 +26.32% 65
North East +17 43 £55,000 +22.22% 25
Northern Ireland -16 14 £70,000 -6.67% 15
Wales -27 14 £52,500 -0.47% 19
Scotland -78 14 £67,500 +22.73% 30
Channel Islands 0 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 17 (1.06%) CMS
2 11 (0.69%) OpenStack
2 11 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
3 10 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (0.62%) Confluence
4 6 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.31%) nginx
5 5 (0.31%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.31%) WordPress
6 4 (0.25%) Apache
6 4 (0.25%) Appian
7 3 (0.19%) ColdFusion
7 3 (0.19%) Liferay
8 2 (0.12%) Drupal
8 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.062%) Camunda
9 1 (0.062%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.062%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.062%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.062%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 550 (34.31%) AWS
2 419 (26.14%) Azure
3 167 (10.42%) Serverless
4 162 (10.11%) SaaS
5 123 (7.67%) GitHub
6 113 (7.05%) GCP
7 95 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
8 84 (5.24%) Amazon S3
9 75 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (2.43%) Figma
14 38 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
15 27 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (1.68%) PaaS
16 26 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (1.25%) Entra ID
18 19 (1.19%) Power Platform
19 17 (1.06%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.50%) Broadband
2 7 (0.44%) HTTP
3 4 (0.25%) Firewall
4 3 (0.19%) Internet
4 3 (0.19%) WAN
5 2 (0.12%) AMQP
5 2 (0.12%) DHCP
5 2 (0.12%) DNS
5 2 (0.12%) LAN
5 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.12%) VLAN
5 2 (0.12%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.062%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.062%) MQTT
6 1 (0.062%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.062%) SSL
6 1 (0.062%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
2 120 (7.49%) SQL Server
3 103 (6.43%) MongoDB
4 101 (6.30%) NoSQL
5 73 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 70 (4.37%) MySQL
7 41 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (1.93%) DynamoDB
9 25 (1.56%) Redis
10 23 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (1.12%) RDBMS
12 15 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.75%) Pinecone
14 12 (0.75%) Power BI
15 10 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.50%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.50%) DB2
17 5 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
18 4 (0.25%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 159 (9.92%) Git
2 85 (5.30%) Jenkins
3 51 (3.18%) Cypress.io
4 38 (2.37%) JIRA
5 31 (1.93%) GitLab
6 26 (1.62%) JUnit
7 22 (1.37%) Maven
8 19 (1.19%) Mockito
9 17 (1.06%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.06%) Vite
10 15 (0.94%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.87%) Visual Studio
12 12 (0.75%) JMeter
13 11 (0.69%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.69%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.62%) Selenium
15 8 (0.50%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.50%) webpack
16 6 (0.37%) ESLint
16 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 279 (17.40%) Social Skills
2 155 (9.67%) Finance
3 70 (4.37%) Public Sector
4 63 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (2.99%) Banking
6 42 (2.62%) Law
7 36 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (1.81%) Marketing
8 29 (1.81%) Retail
9 28 (1.75%) Front Office
9 28 (1.75%) Tech for Good
10 25 (1.56%) Investment Banking
11 24 (1.50%) Aviation
12 22 (1.37%) Health Technology
12 22 (1.37%) Legal
13 21 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.25%) Games
14 20 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.62%) Advertising
16 9 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 892 (55.65%) Developer
2 624 (38.93%) Full-Stack Developer
3 367 (22.89%) Senior
4 366 (22.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 290 (18.09%) Software Engineer
6 224 (13.97%) Lead
7 159 (9.92%) Senior Developer
8 151 (9.42%) .NET Developer
9 130 (8.11%) Java Developer
10 123 (7.67%) React Developer
11 121 (7.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 117 (7.30%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 108 (6.74%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 107 (6.67%) Lead Developer
15 97 (6.05%) Software Developer
16 94 (5.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 91 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
18 79 (4.93%) C# Developer
19 71 (4.43%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 69 (4.30%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 701 (43.73%) React
2 415 (25.89%) .NET
3 310 (19.34%) Node.js
4 234 (14.60%) AngularJS
5 221 (13.79%) HTML
6 201 (12.54%) CSS
7 158 (9.86%) Vue
8 152 (9.48%) Spring
9 148 (9.23%) .NET Core
10 139 (8.67%) RESTful
11 138 (8.61%) REST
12 118 (7.36%) Spring Boot
13 90 (5.61%) ASP.NET
14 88 (5.49%) Next.js
15 84 (5.24%) .NET Framework
16 66 (4.12%) Entity Framework
16 66 (4.12%) GraphQL
17 62 (3.87%) Kafka
18 57 (3.56%) HTML5
19 55 (3.43%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 126 (7.86%) Cloud Native
2 70 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.81%) Mobile App
5 52 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.68%) IoT
8 24 (1.50%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (0.94%) Management Information System
12 14 (0.87%) Smart Energy
13 13 (0.81%) Data Structures
13 13 (0.81%) Fixed Income
13 13 (0.81%) Private Cloud
14 12 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (0.69%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.62%) e-Learning
17 9 (0.56%) Hedge funds
17 9 (0.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.50%) Linux
2 23 (1.43%) Android
3 22 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.44%) Unix
5 5 (0.31%) Windows
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (32.88%) Software Engineering
2 453 (28.26%) Agile
3 402 (25.08%) CI/CD
4 307 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
5 301 (18.78%) Microservices
6 288 (17.97%) AI
7 283 (17.65%) DevOps
8 208 (12.98%) Mentoring
9 201 (12.54%) User Experience
10 193 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (7.80%) Computer Science
11 125 (7.80%) Test Automation
12 119 (7.42%) Clean Code
12 119 (7.42%) Scrum
13 115 (7.17%) Containerisation
14 108 (6.74%) TDD
15 97 (6.05%) Front End Development
15 97 (6.05%) MVC
16 95 (5.93%) Technical Leadership
17 91 (5.68%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 533 (33.25%) JavaScript
2 517 (32.25%) TypeScript
3 385 (24.02%) C#
4 377 (23.52%) Java
5 325 (20.27%) Python
6 266 (16.59%) SQL
7 67 (4.18%) PHP
8 37 (2.31%) Ruby
9 34 (2.12%) Go
10 26 (1.62%) Bash
11 25 (1.56%) Rust
12 21 (1.31%) C++
13 16 (1.00%) C
14 12 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.69%) Groovy
15 11 (0.69%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.62%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.50%) PowerShell
17 8 (0.50%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 146 (9.11%) Security Cleared
2 123 (7.67%) Degree
3 96 (5.99%) SC Cleared
4 82 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.56%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.19%) PhD
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.062%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.062%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.062%) MBA
13 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.80%) QA
2 67 (4.18%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.87%) WCAG
4 13 (0.81%) GDPR
5 6 (0.37%) SLA
6 5 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.31%) PERC
7 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.12%) ECSS
9 2 (0.12%) NCSC
9 2 (0.12%) NIST
10 1 (0.062%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.062%) HL7
10 1 (0.062%) ITGC
System Software
1 198 (12.35%) Docker
2 16 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 164 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 96 (5.99%) Terraform
3 27 (1.68%) Ansible
4 18 (1.12%) Grafana
5 15 (0.94%) Kibana
6 13 (0.81%) Argo
7 11 (0.69%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.12%) Nagios
10 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.062%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.062%) Istio
11 1 (0.062%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.062%) logstash
11 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.062%) Podman
Vendors
1 107 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.68%) OpenAI
2 27 (1.68%) Oracle
3 25 (1.56%) Adobe
4 20 (1.25%) Google
5 15 (0.94%) Foundry
6 13 (0.81%) Palantir
7 12 (0.75%) Dynatrace
8 11 (0.69%) Splunk
9 7 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.44%) Fortinet
9 7 (0.44%) Palo Alto
10 6 (0.37%) Facebook
11 5 (0.31%) VMware
11 5 (0.31%) YouTube
11 5 (0.31%) Zoho
12 4 (0.25%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.25%) SAP
12 4 (0.25%) Telerik
12 4 (0.25%) WSO2