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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 92 73
Rank change year-on-year +28 -19 +42
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 159 80 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.91% 2.35% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 2.76% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 136 33 147
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -10.71%

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 5,736 2,896 5,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 68.98% 85.10% 79.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,306 1,856 3,426
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,235 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,387 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% +4.77% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,185 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -11.29%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +7 64 £69,653 +7.16% 16
Staffordshire +1 22 £55,000 +15.79% 4
Coventry -12 20 £60,000 +64.38% 5
Solihull +26 15 £65,000 - 2
Shropshire - 8 £46,250 - 5
Worcestershire -12 7 £55,000 -8.33% 4
Dudley - 6 £55,000 - 3
Warwickshire -13 5 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Wolverhampton - 5 £45,000 - 2
Herefordshire -19 3 £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 (3.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.63%) CMS
2 1 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.63%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 57 (35.85%) Azure
2 24 (15.09%) AWS
3 11 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (6.92%) GitHub
3 11 (6.92%) SaaS
4 10 (6.29%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (4.40%) Azure AI
6 4 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.89%) AWS IoT
7 3 (1.89%) GCP
7 3 (1.89%) Serverless
8 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.26%) Google Play
9 1 (0.63%) Figma
9 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.77%) Internet
2 1 (0.63%) BGP
2 1 (0.63%) Firewall
2 1 (0.63%) LAN
2 1 (0.63%) Network Security
2 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.63%) WAN
2 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (20.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 31 (19.50%) MongoDB
3 14 (8.81%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.26%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.26%) Redis
5 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.63%) MySQL
6 1 (0.63%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (5.03%) JUnit
1 8 (5.03%) Maven
1 8 (5.03%) Mockito
2 5 (3.14%) Git
3 2 (1.26%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.63%) NUnit
General
1 11 (6.92%) Advertising
2 8 (5.03%) Banking
2 8 (5.03%) Finance
2 8 (5.03%) Investment Banking
3 6 (3.77%) Retail
4 5 (3.14%) Marketing
5 2 (1.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.63%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 128 (80.50%) Developer
2 67 (42.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 36 (22.64%) .NET Developer
4 35 (22.01%) Senior
5 32 (20.13%) Senior Developer
6 25 (15.72%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (14.47%) Software Developer
8 15 (9.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (7.55%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.29%) C# Developer
10 10 (6.29%) Java Developer
11 9 (5.66%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 9 (5.66%) React Developer
12 8 (5.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 8 (5.03%) Java Engineer
12 8 (5.03%) Lead
13 7 (4.40%) Lead Developer
14 6 (3.77%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (3.77%) Senior React Developer
15 5 (3.14%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (31.45%) .NET
2 45 (28.30%) React
3 40 (25.16%) .NET Core
4 32 (20.13%) ASP.NET
4 32 (20.13%) ASP.NET Core
5 30 (18.87%) Node.js
6 29 (18.24%) AngularJS
7 19 (11.95%) REST
8 17 (10.69%) Spring
9 16 (10.06%) Blazor
9 16 (10.06%) HTML
10 15 (9.43%) ASP.NET Web API
10 15 (9.43%) CSS
10 15 (9.43%) RESTful
11 13 (8.18%) Entity Framework
12 12 (7.55%) Vue
13 11 (6.92%) LINQ
14 9 (5.66%) Spring Boot
15 7 (4.40%) ML.NET
16 6 (3.77%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.32%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (6.29%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.89%) IoT
5 2 (1.26%) iPhone
5 2 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.26%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.63%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.03%) Linux
2 2 (1.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (21.38%) Agile
2 29 (18.24%) CI/CD
3 27 (16.98%) Software Engineering
4 26 (16.35%) DevOps
5 25 (15.72%) Microservices
6 22 (13.84%) AI
7 18 (11.32%) TDD
8 17 (10.69%) Mentoring
9 16 (10.06%) Scrum
10 13 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (7.55%) Test Automation
12 10 (6.29%) API Development
12 10 (6.29%) LLM
13 9 (5.66%) Containerisation
14 8 (5.03%) Architectural Patterns
14 8 (5.03%) Design Patterns
14 8 (5.03%) Multithreading
14 8 (5.03%) Observability
14 8 (5.03%) Secure Coding
14 8 (5.03%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 78 (49.06%) C#
2 49 (30.82%) SQL
3 31 (19.50%) TypeScript
4 30 (18.87%) JavaScript
5 22 (13.84%) Java
6 8 (5.03%) Bash
6 8 (5.03%) PL/SQL
6 8 (5.03%) Python
7 3 (1.89%) Ruby
8 2 (1.26%) C++
8 2 (1.26%) Go
9 1 (0.63%) C
9 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (5.03%) SC Cleared
1 8 (5.03%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.63%) CCNA
2 1 (0.63%) CCNP
2 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.14%) QA
2 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (14.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (12.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.26%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.63%) Nagios
3 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.29%) Facebook
3 8 (5.03%) Oracle
4 5 (3.14%) YouTube
5 3 (1.89%) Google
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco
6 1 (0.63%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.63%) Meraki
6 1 (0.63%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow