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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 101 73
Rank change year-on-year +35 -28 +72
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 167 80 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.94% 2.32% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.75% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 136 34 109
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +10.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,950 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,375 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

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 5,961 2,913 4,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.20% 84.53% 78.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,480 1,847 2,877
10th Percentile £32,225 £28,800 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +14 85 £70,000 +7.69% 44
Coventry -9 20 £60,000 +64.38% 5
Staffordshire +8 18 £55,000 +18.92% 3
Solihull +21 15 £65,000 -
Worcestershire -17 8 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Shropshire - 7 £40,000 - 3
Dudley - 6 £55,000 - 1
Warwickshire -14 4 £55,000 -24.14% 5
Herefordshire -15 3 £55,000 - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 £37,500 - 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 7 (4.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.60%) CMS
2 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.60%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 58 (34.73%) Azure
2 26 (15.57%) AWS
3 14 (8.38%) SaaS
4 11 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.59%) GitHub
5 10 (5.99%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (4.19%) Azure AI
7 4 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.80%) AWS IoT
8 3 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.80%) GCP
8 3 (1.80%) Serverless
9 2 (1.20%) Google Play
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.60%) Figma
10 1 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.79%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) BGP
2 1 (0.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.60%) LAN
2 1 (0.60%) Network Security
2 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.60%) WAN
2 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 30 (17.96%) MongoDB
3 14 (8.38%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.40%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.40%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.20%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.20%) Redis
6 1 (0.60%) MySQL
6 1 (0.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.99%) JUnit
1 10 (5.99%) Maven
1 10 (5.99%) Mockito
2 7 (4.19%) Git
3 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.60%) NUnit
General
1 13 (7.78%) Public Sector
2 10 (5.99%) Advertising
2 10 (5.99%) Finance
3 8 (4.79%) Banking
3 8 (4.79%) Investment Banking
4 6 (3.59%) Retail
5 5 (2.99%) Marketing
6 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.20%) Social Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 125 (74.85%) Developer
2 68 (40.72%) Full-Stack Developer
3 40 (23.95%) Senior
4 35 (20.96%) Senior Developer
5 33 (19.76%) .NET Developer
6 28 (16.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (16.17%) Software Developer
8 24 (14.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (7.19%) Lead
9 12 (7.19%) Software Engineer
10 11 (6.59%) Java Engineer
10 11 (6.59%) Lead Developer
10 11 (6.59%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (5.99%) C# Developer
11 10 (5.99%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 10 (5.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 10 (5.99%) Java Developer
11 10 (5.99%) React Developer
12 7 (4.19%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.19%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.54%) .NET
2 44 (26.35%) React
3 40 (23.95%) .NET Core
4 33 (19.76%) ASP.NET
4 33 (19.76%) Node.js
5 32 (19.16%) ASP.NET Core
6 23 (13.77%) AngularJS
7 20 (11.98%) REST
8 18 (10.78%) Spring
9 17 (10.18%) RESTful
10 16 (9.58%) ASP.NET Web API
10 16 (9.58%) Blazor
10 16 (9.58%) CSS
10 16 (9.58%) HTML
11 15 (8.98%) Vue
12 13 (7.78%) Entity Framework
13 11 (6.59%) LINQ
14 8 (4.79%) Spring Boot
15 7 (4.19%) ML.NET
16 5 (2.99%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.78%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (5.99%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.99%) IoT
5 3 (1.80%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.20%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.20%) iPhone
6 2 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.60%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.99%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (22.75%) Agile
2 31 (18.56%) CI/CD
3 27 (16.17%) Software Engineering
4 26 (15.57%) Microservices
5 22 (13.17%) AI
5 22 (13.17%) DevOps
6 20 (11.98%) Mentoring
6 20 (11.98%) TDD
7 18 (10.78%) Scrum
8 14 (8.38%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (7.78%) Test Automation
10 12 (7.19%) Containerisation
10 12 (7.19%) LLM
11 10 (5.99%) Sprint Planning
11 10 (5.99%) Technical Architecture
11 10 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (5.39%) Design Patterns
12 9 (5.39%) SDLC
13 8 (4.79%) Architectural Patterns
13 8 (4.79%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 72 (43.11%) C#
2 53 (31.74%) SQL
3 39 (23.35%) JavaScript
4 30 (17.96%) TypeScript
5 24 (14.37%) Java
6 10 (5.99%) Bash
6 10 (5.99%) PL/SQL
7 9 (5.39%) Python
8 6 (3.59%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.80%) Ruby
10 2 (1.20%) C++
10 2 (1.20%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (5.99%) SC Cleared
1 10 (5.99%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.60%) CCNA
2 1 (0.60%) CCNP
2 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.60%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.40%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (14.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 37 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.99%) Facebook
2 10 (5.99%) Oracle
3 5 (2.99%) YouTube
4 3 (1.80%) Google
5 1 (0.60%) Cisco
5 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.60%) Meraki
5 1 (0.60%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow