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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 93 67
Rank change year-on-year +23 -26 +64
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 140 81 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.81% 2.66% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 3.03% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 118 32 243
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,800 £35,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,125 £42,500
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 £70,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £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 5,342 2,674 6,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 68.88% 87.87% 80.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,967 1,650 4,643
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 27 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 27 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 +16 54 £65,000 - 10
Staffordshire +1 18 £70,000 +47.37% 4
Coventry -11 16 £60,000 - 3
Solihull +20 12 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Worcestershire -7 9 £50,000 -16.67% 4
Wolverhampton - 8 £65,000 - 2
Shropshire - 6 £52,500 - 3
Warwickshire -15 4 £60,000 +13.21% 5
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 5 (3.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.71%) CMS
2 1 (0.71%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.71%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 47 (33.57%) Azure
2 21 (15.00%) AWS
3 8 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.71%) GitHub
3 8 (5.71%) GitHub Copilot
4 6 (4.29%) Azure AI
4 6 (4.29%) SaaS
5 4 (2.86%) Serverless
6 3 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.43%) AWS IoT
7 2 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.43%) GCP
7 2 (1.43%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) Internet
2 1 (0.71%) BGP
2 1 (0.71%) Firewall
2 1 (0.71%) LAN
2 1 (0.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.71%) WAN
2 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 22 (15.71%) MongoDB
3 10 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.43%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.43%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.43%) Redis
6 2 (1.43%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (0.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.71%) JUnit
1 8 (5.71%) Maven
1 8 (5.71%) Mockito
2 4 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
General
1 8 (5.71%) Advertising
1 8 (5.71%) Banking
1 8 (5.71%) Finance
1 8 (5.71%) Investment Banking
2 5 (3.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (2.86%) Marketing
3 4 (2.86%) Retail
4 2 (1.43%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (79.29%) Developer
2 56 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 32 (22.86%) Senior
4 30 (21.43%) .NET Developer
5 25 (17.86%) Senior Developer
6 22 (15.71%) Software Developer
7 18 (12.86%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 13 (9.29%) Java Developer
10 12 (8.57%) Java Engineer
11 10 (7.14%) C# Developer
12 9 (6.43%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 9 (6.43%) Software Engineer
13 8 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 8 (5.71%) Lead
13 8 (5.71%) Lead Developer
14 7 (5.00%) Angular Developer
14 7 (5.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 7 (5.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 5 (3.57%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (30.00%) .NET
2 41 (29.29%) React
3 29 (20.71%) .NET Core
4 28 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 26 (18.57%) Node.js
6 24 (17.14%) ASP.NET
7 23 (16.43%) ASP.NET Core
8 18 (12.86%) REST
9 15 (10.71%) Spring
10 12 (8.57%) Blazor
10 12 (8.57%) HTML
11 11 (7.86%) CSS
11 11 (7.86%) RESTful
12 10 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
12 10 (7.14%) Spring Boot
13 8 (5.71%) Entity Framework
13 8 (5.71%) Vue
14 7 (5.00%) LINQ
15 6 (4.29%) .NET Framework
15 6 (4.29%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.43%) IoT
5 2 (1.43%) iPhone
5 2 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.71%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (24.29%) Agile
2 23 (16.43%) DevOps
3 22 (15.71%) Software Engineering
4 21 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 21 (15.00%) Microservices
5 18 (12.86%) AI
6 16 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (11.43%) TDD
7 14 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 14 (10.00%) Scrum
8 13 (9.29%) API Development
9 10 (7.14%) Test Automation
10 9 (6.43%) Containerisation
11 8 (5.71%) Architectural Patterns
11 8 (5.71%) Design Patterns
11 8 (5.71%) Observability
11 8 (5.71%) Secure Coding
11 8 (5.71%) Sprint Planning
12 7 (5.00%) LLM
13 6 (4.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 67 (47.86%) C#
2 38 (27.14%) SQL
3 30 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 29 (20.71%) Java
5 28 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.71%) Bash
6 8 (5.71%) PL/SQL
7 7 (5.00%) Python
8 5 (3.57%) C
9 3 (2.14%) C++
9 3 (2.14%) R
10 2 (1.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (5.71%) SC Cleared
1 8 (5.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.71%) CCNA
2 1 (0.71%) CCNP
2 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 21 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (12.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.43%) Nagios
2 2 (1.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.71%) Oracle
3 7 (5.00%) Facebook
4 3 (2.14%) YouTube
5 2 (1.43%) Google
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco
6 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.71%) Meraki
6 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow