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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 91 57
Rank change year-on-year +8 -34 +90
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 134 86 276
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.59% 2.68% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 3.00% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 116 39 245
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year - +8.75% +5.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -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 6,141 2,865 6,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 73.03% 89.17% 82.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,679 1,690 4,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,313 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 11 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 11 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 +25 58 £60,000 -11.11% 7
Coventry -16 15 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Staffordshire -17 14 £70,000 +47.37% 6
Solihull +20 10 £65,000 +18.18%
Worcestershire -16 10 £35,750 -40.42% 2
Wolverhampton -14 8 £65,000 -23.53% 1
Shropshire - 5 £52,500 -
Warwickshire -31 4 £60,000 +14.29% 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 5 (3.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.39%) Azure
2 19 (14.18%) AWS
3 6 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.48%) SaaS
4 4 (2.99%) GitHub
5 3 (2.24%) Azure AI
5 3 (2.24%) GCP
5 3 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (2.24%) Serverless
6 2 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.49%) Google Play
7 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) Internet
2 1 (0.75%) DHCP
2 1 (0.75%) DNS
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.75%) LAN
2 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.75%) VLAN
2 1 (0.75%) WAN
2 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.46%) Azure SQL Database
1 10 (7.46%) MongoDB
2 5 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.99%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.24%) Redis
4 3 (2.24%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (1.49%) MySQL
5 2 (1.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (4.48%) JUnit
1 6 (4.48%) Maven
1 6 (4.48%) Mockito
2 5 (3.73%) Git
3 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.75%) GitLab
General
1 7 (5.22%) Banking
1 7 (5.22%) Investment Banking
1 7 (5.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (4.48%) Finance
3 4 (2.99%) Advertising
4 2 (1.49%) Retail
5 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 100 (74.63%) Developer
2 53 (39.55%) Full-Stack Developer
3 27 (20.15%) Senior
4 22 (16.42%) Software Developer
5 21 (15.67%) Senior Developer
6 18 (13.43%) .NET Developer
7 17 (12.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 15 (11.19%) Java Developer
9 14 (10.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (9.70%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) C# Developer
11 8 (5.97%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 7 (5.22%) Angular Developer
12 7 (5.22%) Software Engineer
13 6 (4.48%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 6 (4.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 6 (4.48%) Lead
13 6 (4.48%) Lead Developer
14 5 (3.73%) Senior Java Developer
15 4 (2.99%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (28.36%) React
2 29 (21.64%) .NET
3 24 (17.91%) AngularJS
4 23 (17.16%) Node.js
5 16 (11.94%) .NET Core
5 16 (11.94%) REST
6 13 (9.70%) Spring
7 11 (8.21%) ASP.NET
7 11 (8.21%) Spring Boot
8 10 (7.46%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (5.97%) RESTful
10 6 (4.48%) HTML
10 6 (4.48%) Vue
11 5 (3.73%) Blazor
12 4 (2.99%) .NET Framework
12 4 (2.99%) ASP.NET Web API
12 4 (2.99%) CSS
13 3 (2.24%) Entity Framework
13 3 (2.24%) LINQ
13 3 (2.24%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.46%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.49%) iPhone
5 2 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.48%) Linux
2 2 (1.49%) Android
3 1 (0.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.64%) Agile
2 25 (18.66%) Software Engineering
3 23 (17.16%) DevOps
4 15 (11.19%) AI
4 15 (11.19%) Microservices
4 15 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (10.45%) API Development
6 10 (7.46%) CI/CD
6 10 (7.46%) TDD
6 10 (7.46%) Test Automation
7 9 (6.72%) Mentoring
8 8 (5.97%) Scrum
9 7 (5.22%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (5.22%) Containerisation
9 7 (5.22%) Design Patterns
9 7 (5.22%) Machine Learning
9 7 (5.22%) Observability
9 7 (5.22%) Secure Coding
9 7 (5.22%) User Experience
10 6 (4.48%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 54 (40.30%) C#
2 34 (25.37%) Java
3 29 (21.64%) TypeScript
4 25 (18.66%) JavaScript
5 23 (17.16%) SQL
6 11 (8.21%) Python
7 7 (5.22%) C
8 6 (4.48%) Bash
8 6 (4.48%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.99%) R
10 3 (2.24%) C++
11 2 (1.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (4.48%) SC Cleared
1 6 (4.48%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.49%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.21%) QA
System Software
1 13 (9.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.24%) Nagios
2 3 (2.24%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.48%) Oracle
3 2 (1.49%) Facebook
3 2 (1.49%) Google
4 1 (0.75%) VMware
4 1 (0.75%) YouTube