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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 95 50
Rank change year-on-year +6 -45 +86
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 102 112 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.66% 2.94% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 3.13% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 94 43 206
10th Percentile £35,225 £42,500 £36,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

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 4,836 3,573 4,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 78.54% 93.88% 86.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 1,660 3,784
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,475 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,200 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +11 43 £60,000 +9.09% 11
Coventry -7 15 £45,000 - 9
Worcestershire -3 11 £35,000 -
Wolverhampton -8 7 £85,000 -
Staffordshire -8 6 £70,000 +51.35% 3
Shropshire - 5 £52,500 - 1
Solihull 0 3 £100,000 +95.12% 1
Warwickshire -8 3 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Herefordshire - 1 £60,000 -
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 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.49%) AWS
1 26 (25.49%) Azure
2 11 (10.78%) SaaS
3 6 (5.88%) Serverless
4 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
4 3 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.94%) Firebase
5 2 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (1.96%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.96%) GCP
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.98%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) DHCP
1 2 (1.96%) DNS
1 2 (1.96%) Firewall
1 2 (1.96%) LAN
1 2 (1.96%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.96%) VLAN
1 2 (1.96%) WAN
1 2 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.90%) MySQL
3 3 (2.94%) Redis
3 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.94%) TimescaleDB
4 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.98%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.98%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (7.84%) JUnit
1 8 (7.84%) Maven
1 8 (7.84%) Mockito
2 7 (6.86%) Git
3 3 (2.94%) JIRA
4 2 (1.96%) GitLab
General
1 13 (12.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.84%) Finance
3 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.96%) Advertising
4 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 66 (64.71%) Developer
2 39 (38.24%) Full-Stack Developer
3 19 (18.63%) Java Developer
4 15 (14.71%) Senior
5 13 (12.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 11 (10.78%) Software Developer
6 11 (10.78%) Software Engineer
7 10 (9.80%) .NET Developer
8 8 (7.84%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 8 (7.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (7.84%) Head of Engineering
8 8 (7.84%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.84%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Angular Developer
9 6 (5.88%) C# Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (4.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Junior
11 4 (3.92%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (33.33%) React
2 23 (22.55%) .NET
3 17 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 13 (12.75%) Node.js
5 12 (11.76%) REST
6 11 (10.78%) Spring
7 7 (6.86%) Spring Boot
8 6 (5.88%) .NET Core
8 6 (5.88%) HTML
8 6 (5.88%) Vue
9 5 (4.90%) Laravel
10 4 (3.92%) CSS
10 4 (3.92%) React Native
11 3 (2.94%) .NET Framework
11 3 (2.94%) GraphQL
11 3 (2.94%) Hibernate
11 3 (2.94%) JPA
11 3 (2.94%) Next.js
12 2 (1.96%) RESTful
13 1 (0.98%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (1.96%) Windows
2 2 (1.96%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (29.41%) Agile
2 25 (24.51%) Software Engineering
3 19 (18.63%) Microservices
4 17 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (15.69%) AI
6 15 (14.71%) DevOps
7 12 (11.76%) E-Commerce
8 11 (10.78%) CI/CD
8 11 (10.78%) Machine Learning
8 11 (10.78%) User Experience
9 9 (8.82%) API Development
9 9 (8.82%) Computer Science
9 9 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.82%) TDD
10 8 (7.84%) Decision-Making
10 8 (7.84%) Scrum
11 7 (6.86%) Mentoring
11 7 (6.86%) SDLC
11 7 (6.86%) Unit Testing
12 6 (5.88%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 35 (34.31%) Java
2 34 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 31 (30.39%) C#
4 23 (22.55%) TypeScript
5 19 (18.63%) SQL
6 14 (13.73%) Python
7 8 (7.84%) PL/SQL
8 7 (6.86%) C
9 6 (5.88%) Bash
10 5 (4.90%) PHP
11 4 (3.92%) R
12 3 (2.94%) C++
13 2 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.90%) Degree
4 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.82%) QA
System Software
1 12 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.96%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.94%) Nagios
2 3 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (7.84%) Oracle
2 2 (1.96%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.96%) VMware
3 1 (0.98%) Foundry
3 1 (0.98%) Palantir