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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 44 24
Rank change year-on-year -34 -20 +25
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 58 26 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.99% 3.12% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 3.77% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 54 26 68
10th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £44,250
25th Percentile £45,625 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -4.41%

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 1,895 689 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.14% 82.71% 64.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 521 745
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £27,700
25th Percentile £38,000 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% +10.56% -1.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,258 £70,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -25 39 £57,500 -4.17% 15
West Wales - 15 £72,500 - 6
North Wales - 4 £45,000 - 3
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 (10.34%) CMS
1 6 (10.34%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (5.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.83%) AWS
2 23 (39.66%) Azure
3 14 (24.14%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (24.14%) Serverless
4 6 (10.34%) Amazon EventBridge
4 6 (10.34%) Amazon S3
4 6 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (10.34%) GCP
5 5 (8.62%) Azure AI
5 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.62%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) MongoDB
2 15 (25.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (10.34%) DynamoDB
4 4 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.45%) MySQL
6 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) JUnit
3 3 (5.17%) Selenium
4 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.72%) GitLab
5 1 (1.72%) Gradle
5 1 (1.72%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.72%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.72%) Maven
5 1 (1.72%) Mocha
5 1 (1.72%) RSpec
General
1 11 (18.97%) Public Sector
2 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Finance
3 6 (10.34%) Games
3 6 (10.34%) Marketing
3 6 (10.34%) Retail
4 4 (6.90%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 39 (67.24%) Developer
2 16 (27.59%) .NET Developer
3 14 (24.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (20.69%) Lead
5 10 (17.24%) Senior
6 9 (15.52%) Java Developer
7 8 (13.79%) Software Developer
8 7 (12.07%) Senior Developer
8 7 (12.07%) Software Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (6.90%) Java Software Developer
11 3 (5.17%) Senior Software Developer
11 3 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
12 2 (3.45%) Applications Developer
12 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 2 (3.45%) JavaScript Developer
12 2 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 2 (3.45%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (62.07%) React
2 25 (43.10%) AngularJS
3 21 (36.21%) Node.js
4 18 (31.03%) .NET
4 18 (31.03%) ASP.NET
5 17 (29.31%) ASP.NET Core
6 15 (25.86%) .NET Core
6 15 (25.86%) RESTful
7 13 (22.41%) Spring
7 13 (22.41%) Spring Boot
8 12 (20.69%) Terraform
9 11 (18.97%) Vue
10 10 (17.24%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (17.24%) HTML
10 10 (17.24%) Ruby on Rails
11 9 (15.52%) AWS CDK
11 9 (15.52%) Blazor
11 9 (15.52%) CSS
12 7 (12.07%) Entity Framework
12 7 (12.07%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Cloud Native
2 10 (17.24%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (15.52%) Mainframe
4 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
4 6 (10.34%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (58.62%) Agile
2 28 (48.28%) CI/CD
3 23 (39.66%) Software Engineering
4 22 (37.93%) DevOps
5 17 (29.31%) Scrum
6 16 (27.59%) Observability
7 15 (25.86%) AI
8 13 (22.41%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (20.69%) Kanban
10 11 (18.97%) Clean Code
10 11 (18.97%) Multithreading
11 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (17.24%) Microservices
11 10 (17.24%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 9 (15.52%) OWASP
13 7 (12.07%) Containerisation
13 7 (12.07%) Event-Driven
13 7 (12.07%) Knowledge Transfer
13 7 (12.07%) TDD
13 7 (12.07%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (46.55%) JavaScript
2 24 (41.38%) Java
3 18 (31.03%) C#
4 17 (29.31%) SQL
5 15 (25.86%) TypeScript
6 10 (17.24%) Ruby
7 1 (1.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) WCAG
2 6 (10.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Sitecore
3 4 (6.90%) OneLogin
4 3 (5.17%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Google