Full-Stack Development Job Trends in Wales

Full-Stack Development
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 33 29
Rank change year-on-year -26 -4 +21
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 54 34 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.35% 4.93% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 5.87% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 50 33 92
10th Percentile £42,500 £55,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +20.93% +4.88%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile - - £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,485 579 1,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.65% 83.91% 70.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,077 406 1,124
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,307 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +11.79% -
75th Percentile £65,750 £66,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,259 £77,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Full-Stack Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend in Wales

Full-Stack Development
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Full-Stack Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in Wales over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in Wales

Full-Stack Development
Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 12 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
South Wales -19 36 £57,500 -4.17% 9
West Wales - 14 £72,500 - 3
North Wales - 4 £45,000 - 1
Full-Stack Development
UK

Full-Stack Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 6 (11.11%) CMS
1 6 (11.11%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 23 (42.59%) Azure
2 22 (40.74%) AWS
3 10 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (18.52%) Serverless
4 6 (11.11%) GCP
5 5 (9.26%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (9.26%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (9.26%) Azure AI
5 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub
8 1 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.63%) MongoDB
2 15 (27.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.56%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.70%) MySQL
5 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Git
2 4 (7.41%) JIRA
2 4 (7.41%) JUnit
3 3 (5.56%) Selenium
4 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.85%) GitLab
5 1 (1.85%) Gradle
5 1 (1.85%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.85%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.85%) Maven
5 1 (1.85%) Mocha
5 1 (1.85%) RSpec
General
1 10 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 7 (12.96%) Retail
3 6 (11.11%) Finance
3 6 (11.11%) Games
3 6 (11.11%) Marketing
3 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Banking
5 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 37 (68.52%) Developer
2 16 (29.63%) .NET Developer
3 12 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (20.37%) Lead
5 10 (18.52%) Senior
6 9 (16.67%) Java Developer
7 8 (14.81%) Senior Developer
7 8 (14.81%) Software Developer
8 6 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (11.11%) Software Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (7.41%) Java Software Developer
10 3 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
11 2 (3.70%) Applications Developer
11 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 2 (3.70%) JavaScript Developer
11 2 (3.70%) Senior JavaScript Developer
11 2 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
12 1 (1.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 1 (1.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (59.26%) React
2 25 (46.30%) AngularJS
3 20 (37.04%) Node.js
4 18 (33.33%) .NET
4 18 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 17 (31.48%) ASP.NET Core
6 16 (29.63%) RESTful
7 15 (27.78%) .NET Core
8 12 (22.22%) Spring
8 12 (22.22%) Spring Boot
9 11 (20.37%) HTML
9 11 (20.37%) Vue
10 10 (18.52%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (18.52%) CSS
11 9 (16.67%) Blazor
11 9 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
12 8 (14.81%) HTML5
13 7 (12.96%) CSS3
13 7 (12.96%) Entity Framework
13 7 (12.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 8 (14.81%) Mainframe
4 6 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 6 (11.11%) Onboarding
5 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (51.85%) Agile
2 24 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 22 (40.74%) DevOps
4 21 (38.89%) Software Engineering
5 16 (29.63%) Scrum
6 15 (27.78%) Observability
7 12 (22.22%) AI
7 12 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (20.37%) Kanban
8 11 (20.37%) Multithreading
9 10 (18.52%) Microservices
10 9 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 8 (14.81%) Clean Code
11 8 (14.81%) OWASP
12 7 (12.96%) API Integration
12 7 (12.96%) Containerisation
12 7 (12.96%) Knowledge Transfer
12 7 (12.96%) TDD
12 7 (12.96%) Web Development
13 6 (11.11%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 28 (51.85%) JavaScript
2 23 (42.59%) Java
3 18 (33.33%) C#
3 18 (33.33%) SQL
4 12 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 9 (16.67%) Ruby
6 1 (1.85%) PHP
6 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) WCAG
2 5 (9.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Terraform
2 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Sitecore
3 4 (7.41%) OneLogin
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) Google