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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 83 59
Rank change year-on-year -4 -24 +84
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 141 83 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.66% 2.65% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 2.97% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 118 36 247
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,750 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +6.48% +5.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £69,305 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.85% +10.17% -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 6,200 2,792 6,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 72.92% 89.00% 82.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,738 1,619 4,565
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,700
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 £64,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +28 63 £62,500 -3.85% 7
Staffordshire -11 15 £70,000 +47.37% 4
Coventry -15 14 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Solihull +21 11 £65,000 +8.33%
Worcestershire -23 10 £35,750 -40.42% 2
Wolverhampton -17 8 £65,000 -23.53% 2
Warwickshire -26 5 £60,000 +14.29% 1
Shropshire - 5 £52,500 - 3
Dudley - 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 6 (4.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.71%) CMS
2 1 (0.71%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.71%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 35 (24.82%) Azure
2 23 (16.31%) AWS
3 6 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.26%) SaaS
4 4 (2.84%) GitHub
4 4 (2.84%) Serverless
5 3 (2.13%) Azure AI
5 3 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (2.13%) GCP
5 3 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.42%) Google Play
7 1 (0.71%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.80%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (7.09%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.84%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.13%) Redis
5 3 (2.13%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (1.42%) MySQL
6 2 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.71%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (6.38%) JUnit
1 9 (6.38%) Maven
1 9 (6.38%) Mockito
2 6 (4.26%) Git
3 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.71%) GitLab
General
1 9 (6.38%) Finance
2 8 (5.67%) Banking
2 8 (5.67%) Investment Banking
3 6 (4.26%) Social Skills
4 4 (2.84%) Advertising
5 2 (1.42%) Retail
6 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.71%) Marketing
6 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 104 (73.76%) Developer
2 56 (39.72%) Full-Stack Developer
3 30 (21.28%) Senior
4 23 (16.31%) Senior Developer
4 23 (16.31%) Software Developer
5 18 (12.77%) .NET Developer
5 18 (12.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 18 (12.77%) Java Developer
6 16 (11.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (9.93%) Java Engineer
8 9 (6.38%) C# Developer
8 9 (6.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 9 (6.38%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 8 (5.67%) Lead
9 8 (5.67%) Lead Developer
10 7 (4.96%) Angular Developer
10 7 (4.96%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 6 (4.26%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (29.79%) React
2 31 (21.99%) .NET
3 25 (17.73%) AngularJS
4 23 (16.31%) Node.js
5 19 (13.48%) REST
6 17 (12.06%) .NET Core
6 17 (12.06%) Spring
7 12 (8.51%) Spring Boot
8 11 (7.80%) ASP.NET
9 10 (7.09%) ASP.NET Core
9 10 (7.09%) RESTful
10 7 (4.96%) HTML
11 6 (4.26%) Vue
12 5 (3.55%) .NET Framework
12 5 (3.55%) Blazor
12 5 (3.55%) CSS
13 4 (2.84%) ASP.NET Web API
14 3 (2.13%) Entity Framework
14 3 (2.13%) LINQ
14 3 (2.13%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.09%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.84%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.42%) iPhone
4 2 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.42%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.71%) IoT
5 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.38%) Linux
2 2 (1.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (22.70%) Agile
2 27 (19.15%) Software Engineering
3 24 (17.02%) DevOps
4 19 (13.48%) AI
5 18 (12.77%) Microservices
5 18 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (11.35%) CI/CD
7 14 (9.93%) API Development
7 14 (9.93%) Mentoring
8 13 (9.22%) TDD
9 11 (7.80%) Scrum
9 11 (7.80%) Test Automation
10 10 (7.09%) Containerisation
11 9 (6.38%) Sprint Planning
12 8 (5.67%) Architectural Patterns
12 8 (5.67%) Design Patterns
12 8 (5.67%) Observability
12 8 (5.67%) Secure Coding
13 7 (4.96%) SDLC
13 7 (4.96%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (40.43%) C#
2 39 (27.66%) Java
3 30 (21.28%) JavaScript
4 29 (20.57%) TypeScript
5 27 (19.15%) SQL
6 12 (8.51%) Python
7 9 (6.38%) Bash
7 9 (6.38%) PL/SQL
8 7 (4.96%) C
9 4 (2.84%) C++
9 4 (2.84%) R
10 2 (1.42%) PHP
11 1 (0.71%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (6.38%) SC Cleared
1 9 (6.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.42%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.80%) QA
System Software
1 17 (12.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.13%) Nagios
2 3 (2.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (9.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.38%) Oracle
3 2 (1.42%) Facebook
3 2 (1.42%) Google
4 1 (0.71%) YouTube