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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 63 135
Rank change year-on-year -39 +72 -53
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 73 211 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.24% 3.49% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 4.38% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 34 104 48
10th Percentile £46,625 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,502 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.69% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,950 £65,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £78,375 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

All Process and 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 2,808 4,819 3,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.21% 79.61% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,784 2,521 2,732
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,375 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Full-Stack Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Full-Stack Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Development 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -17 28 £65,000 +15.55% 22
Staffordshire +7 18 £45,000 -30.77% 17
Coventry +5 10 £37,000 -29.52% 11
Warwickshire +18 7 £65,000 +36.84% 3
Herefordshire +8 3 - - 1
Worcestershire -2 3 £60,000 +60.00% 4
Solihull -1 2 - - 2
Shropshire - 1 £52,500 - 7
Full-Stack Development
England

Full-Stack Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (17.81%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) CMS
2 3 (4.11%) IIS
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.74%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.37%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.37%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (57.53%) Azure
2 36 (49.32%) AWS
3 15 (20.55%) GCP
3 15 (20.55%) SaaS
4 7 (9.59%) Entra ID
5 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (6.85%) Serverless
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.11%) GitHub
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.74%) Contentful
8 2 (2.74%) Figma
8 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Firewall
1 2 (2.74%) LAN
1 2 (2.74%) SD-WAN
1 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.74%) VLAN
1 2 (2.74%) WAN
1 2 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.37%) DHCP
2 1 (1.37%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (54.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.11%) Data Hub
3 3 (4.11%) Hazelcast
3 3 (4.11%) SQL CLR
4 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.74%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (36.99%) GitLab
2 25 (34.25%) Maven
3 24 (32.88%) Bitbucket
3 24 (32.88%) Cucumber
3 24 (32.88%) JIRA
3 24 (32.88%) Selenium
3 24 (32.88%) SonarQube
3 24 (32.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.74%) JMeter
4 2 (2.74%) JUnit
4 2 (2.74%) Mockito
4 2 (2.74%) Storybook
5 1 (1.37%) Git
General
1 30 (41.10%) Finance
2 25 (34.25%) Banking
3 24 (32.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
5 13 (17.81%) Retail
6 11 (15.07%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (15.07%) Investment Banking
7 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (4.11%) Back Office
8 3 (4.11%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.37%) Advertising
9 1 (1.37%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 35 (47.95%) Developer
2 30 (41.10%) Software Engineer
3 27 (36.99%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (16.44%) C# Developer
4 12 (16.44%) Senior
5 11 (15.07%) Software Developer
6 10 (13.70%) Senior Developer
7 9 (12.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (10.96%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 8 (10.96%) Senior C# Developer
9 7 (9.59%) Senior Systems Developer
10 6 (8.22%) Blazor Developer
11 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 5 (6.85%) Java Developer
12 4 (5.48%) Lead
13 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 3 (4.11%) Head of Development
13 3 (4.11%) Java Engineer
13 3 (4.11%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (58.90%) React
2 37 (50.68%) HTML
3 32 (43.84%) Spring
4 29 (39.73%) .NET
4 29 (39.73%) CSS
4 29 (39.73%) Spring Boot
5 25 (34.25%) JPA
6 24 (32.88%) Kafka
6 24 (32.88%) Redux
7 20 (27.40%) REST
8 19 (26.03%) Hibernate
9 14 (19.18%) HTML5
10 13 (17.81%) Blazor
10 13 (17.81%) CSS3
10 13 (17.81%) RESTful
11 12 (16.44%) AngularJS
12 11 (15.07%) Jest
12 11 (15.07%) Sass
13 9 (12.33%) .NET Framework
13 9 (12.33%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.99%) Product Ownership
2 24 (32.88%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (8.22%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.11%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (2.74%) IoT
6 2 (2.74%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.74%) Life Science
6 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.85%) Windows
1 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (58.90%) Agile
2 39 (53.42%) DevOps
2 39 (53.42%) Software Engineering
3 37 (50.68%) Microservices
4 36 (49.32%) CI/CD
5 27 (36.99%) SDLC
6 26 (35.62%) Containerisation
7 25 (34.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (32.88%) Front End Development
8 24 (32.88%) Performance Optimisation
8 24 (32.88%) Test Automation
9 22 (30.14%) TDD
10 21 (28.77%) Clean Code
11 20 (27.40%) User Experience
12 19 (26.03%) Mentoring
13 13 (17.81%) Migration
14 11 (15.07%) Responsive Web Design
14 11 (15.07%) Strategic Thinking
15 10 (13.70%) Software Architecture
16 9 (12.33%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 47 (64.38%) SQL
2 35 (47.95%) JavaScript
3 34 (46.58%) Java
4 30 (41.10%) C#
5 18 (24.66%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.22%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.85%) Bicep
8 4 (5.48%) PL/SQL
9 3 (4.11%) VB
10 2 (2.74%) Python
10 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (4.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.37%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (32.88%) QA
2 11 (15.07%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (36.99%) Docker
2 5 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.74%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (42.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.85%) Terraform
3 2 (2.74%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (32.88%) Solace
2 15 (20.55%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.85%) VMware
4 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.74%) Google
4 2 (2.74%) Splunk
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle
5 1 (1.37%) Xamarin