Full-Stack Development Job Trends in the West Midlands

Full-Stack Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Full-Stack Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 90 64
Rank change year-on-year +20 -26 +51
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 143 82 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.85% 2.66% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 3.04% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 122 33 239
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,850 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.28% +5.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,336 2,693 6,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 68.86% 87.29% 80.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,963 1,681 4,629
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Full-Stack Development job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Full-Stack Development
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Full-Stack Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Full-Stack Development

Full-Stack Development
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Development in the West Midlands

Full-Stack Development
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 June 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
Birmingham +6 53 £65,000 - 10
Staffordshire -2 19 £70,000 +47.37% 4
Coventry -10 18 £60,000 - 3
Solihull +20 12 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Worcestershire -6 9 £50,000 -16.67% 4
Wolverhampton - 9 £45,000 - 2
Shropshire - 6 £52,500 - 3
Warwickshire -16 4 £60,000 +13.21% 4
Dudley - 4 £55,000 - 1
Herefordshire -19 2 £55,000 - 1
Full-Stack Development
England

Full-Stack Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (2.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.70%) CMS
2 1 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.70%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.97%) Azure
2 22 (15.38%) AWS
3 9 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.29%) GitHub
3 9 (6.29%) GitHub Copilot
4 6 (4.20%) Azure AI
4 6 (4.20%) SaaS
5 4 (2.80%) Serverless
6 3 (2.10%) AWS IoT
6 3 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (2.10%) GCP
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.40%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.80%) Internet
2 1 (0.70%) BGP
2 1 (0.70%) Firewall
2 1 (0.70%) LAN
2 1 (0.70%) Network Security
2 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.70%) WAN
2 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 25 (17.48%) MongoDB
3 12 (8.39%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.50%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.40%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.40%) Redis
6 2 (1.40%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (0.70%) MySQL
7 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.90%) JUnit
1 7 (4.90%) Maven
1 7 (4.90%) Mockito
2 5 (3.50%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
General
1 9 (6.29%) Advertising
2 8 (5.59%) Banking
2 8 (5.59%) Investment Banking
3 7 (4.90%) Finance
4 5 (3.50%) Retail
5 4 (2.80%) Marketing
5 4 (2.80%) Social Skills
6 2 (1.40%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 115 (80.42%) Developer
2 56 (39.16%) Full-Stack Developer
3 33 (23.08%) .NET Developer
4 31 (21.68%) Senior
5 24 (16.78%) Senior Developer
5 24 (16.78%) Software Developer
6 17 (11.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 12 (8.39%) Java Developer
9 11 (7.69%) Java Engineer
10 10 (6.99%) C# Developer
11 9 (6.29%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 9 (6.29%) Software Engineer
12 8 (5.59%) Lead
12 8 (5.59%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.90%) Angular Developer
13 7 (4.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 7 (4.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 7 (4.90%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (3.50%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (32.87%) .NET
2 43 (30.07%) React
3 33 (23.08%) .NET Core
4 30 (20.98%) AngularJS
5 28 (19.58%) Node.js
6 27 (18.88%) ASP.NET
7 26 (18.18%) ASP.NET Core
8 18 (12.59%) REST
9 15 (10.49%) Spring
10 14 (9.79%) HTML
11 13 (9.09%) Blazor
11 13 (9.09%) CSS
12 11 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
12 11 (7.69%) RESTful
13 10 (6.99%) Spring Boot
13 10 (6.99%) Vue
14 9 (6.29%) Entity Framework
15 8 (5.59%) LINQ
16 6 (4.20%) .NET Framework
16 6 (4.20%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.49%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (6.29%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.10%) IoT
5 2 (1.40%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.40%) iPhone
5 2 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.40%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.90%) Linux
2 2 (1.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (25.17%) Agile
2 25 (17.48%) DevOps
3 23 (16.08%) CI/CD
4 22 (15.38%) Microservices
4 22 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 18 (12.59%) AI
6 16 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (11.19%) TDD
7 14 (9.79%) Mentoring
7 14 (9.79%) Scrum
8 13 (9.09%) API Development
9 11 (7.69%) Test Automation
10 8 (5.59%) Architectural Patterns
10 8 (5.59%) Containerisation
10 8 (5.59%) Design Patterns
10 8 (5.59%) Observability
10 8 (5.59%) Secure Coding
11 7 (4.90%) BDD
11 7 (4.90%) LLM
11 7 (4.90%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 72 (50.35%) C#
2 41 (28.67%) SQL
3 31 (21.68%) JavaScript
3 31 (21.68%) TypeScript
4 28 (19.58%) Java
5 8 (5.59%) Python
6 7 (4.90%) Bash
6 7 (4.90%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.80%) C
8 3 (2.10%) C++
9 2 (1.40%) Go
9 2 (1.40%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (4.90%) SC Cleared
1 7 (4.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.70%) CCNA
2 1 (0.70%) CCNP
2 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.90%) QA
System Software
1 21 (14.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (12.59%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.40%) Nagios
2 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (20.98%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.59%) Facebook
3 7 (4.90%) Oracle
4 4 (2.80%) YouTube
5 3 (2.10%) Google
6 1 (0.70%) Cisco
6 1 (0.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.70%) Meraki
6 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow