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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 74 115
Rank change year-on-year -34 +41 +7
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 60 179 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.74% 3.31% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 4.01% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 43 72 51
10th Percentile £35,150 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,938 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,375 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £71,125 £72,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

All Process and 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 2,911 4,464 3,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.57% 82.67% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,878 2,031 2,545
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,375 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025. 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 -8 35 £60,000 +9.09% 35
Coventry -5 7 £37,500 -28.57% 13
Solihull -5 5 £100,000 +95.12% 1
Staffordshire -11 4 £45,000 -30.77% 14
Warwickshire +34 2 £65,000 +23.81% 9
Worcestershire -3 2 £35,750 +2.14% 6
Herefordshire - 2 £60,000 - 3
Shropshire - 2 £52,500 - 7
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 2 (3.33%) IIS
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (43.33%) Azure
2 22 (36.67%) AWS
3 18 (30.00%) SaaS
4 7 (11.67%) Entra ID
5 6 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (8.33%) Serverless
7 4 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.00%) Firebase
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.33%) GitHub
9 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
1 2 (3.33%) LAN
1 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.33%) VLAN
1 2 (3.33%) WAN
1 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.67%) DHCP
2 1 (1.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.00%) MySQL
5 2 (3.33%) Data Hub
5 2 (3.33%) Hazelcast
5 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.33%) SQL CLR
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Maven
2 6 (10.00%) GitLab
2 6 (10.00%) JIRA
2 6 (10.00%) JUnit
2 6 (10.00%) Mockito
3 4 (6.67%) Git
4 3 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.00%) Selenium
4 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.33%) JMeter
General
1 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.33%) Retail
5 3 (5.00%) Banking
5 3 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Back Office
6 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.67%) Advertising
7 1 (1.67%) Automotive
7 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (58.33%) Developer
2 23 (38.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (23.33%) Software Engineer
4 11 (18.33%) Senior
4 11 (18.33%) Software Developer
5 10 (16.67%) Java Developer
6 9 (15.00%) C# Developer
7 8 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (11.67%) Senior Developer
9 6 (10.00%) Blazor Developer
9 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 6 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (8.33%) Junior
11 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 4 (6.67%) Head of Engineering
11 4 (6.67%) Lead
11 4 (6.67%) Lead C# Developer
11 4 (6.67%) Lead Developer
11 4 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (50.00%) React
2 24 (40.00%) .NET
3 15 (25.00%) Spring
4 14 (23.33%) HTML
4 14 (23.33%) REST
5 10 (16.67%) Blazor
6 9 (15.00%) AngularJS
6 9 (15.00%) CSS
6 9 (15.00%) Spring Boot
7 8 (13.33%) .NET Framework
7 8 (13.33%) Entity Framework
8 6 (10.00%) Node.js
8 6 (10.00%) RESTful
9 5 (8.33%) Hibernate
9 5 (8.33%) Vue
10 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET
10 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (6.67%) HTML5
10 4 (6.67%) JPA
10 4 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Onboarding
1 7 (11.67%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.00%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) IoT
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.33%) Life Science
5 2 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Windows
1 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.33%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) Agile
1 24 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (33.33%) Microservices
3 18 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 15 (25.00%) AI
4 15 (25.00%) DevOps
4 15 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (23.33%) Mentoring
5 14 (23.33%) User Experience
6 11 (18.33%) TDD
7 9 (15.00%) Clean Code
8 8 (13.33%) E-Commerce
8 8 (13.33%) SDLC
9 7 (11.67%) Coaching
9 7 (11.67%) CRM
9 7 (11.67%) Machine Learning
10 6 (10.00%) Containerisation
10 6 (10.00%) Decision-Making
10 6 (10.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.00%) C#
2 26 (43.33%) JavaScript
2 26 (43.33%) SQL
3 18 (30.00%) Java
4 15 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (13.33%) Python
6 7 (11.67%) PL/SQL
6 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
7 5 (8.33%) Bicep
8 3 (5.00%) PHP
8 3 (5.00%) VB
9 2 (3.33%) Bash
9 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) Oracle
3 4 (6.67%) VMware
4 3 (5.00%) Solace
5 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.33%) Splunk
6 1 (1.67%) Foundry
6 1 (1.67%) Palantir