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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 86 104
Rank change year-on-year -35 +18 +43
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 60 166 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.29% 3.33% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 3.81% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 49 64 48
10th Percentile £35,600 £39,125 £40,875
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% +6.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,251 £66,250
90th Percentile £84,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

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 3,904 4,360 3,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.62% 87.46% 92.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,123 1,988 2,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,175 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
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 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 9 December 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 9 December 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 -1 35 £60,000 +9.09% 12
Coventry -1 10 £60,000 +14.29% 14
Solihull -3 5 £100,000 +100.00% 1
Staffordshire -23 3 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Warwickshire +7 2 £65,000 +23.81% 8
Worcestershire -9 2 £35,750 -15.88% 3
Shropshire - 2 £52,500 - 6
Herefordshire - 1 £60,000 - 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 2 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.67%) IIS
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (43.33%) Azure
2 21 (35.00%) AWS
3 16 (26.67%) SaaS
4 6 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.00%) Serverless
5 4 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (5.00%) Firebase
6 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.33%) GCP
7 2 (3.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Firewall
1 3 (5.00%) LAN
1 3 (5.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (5.00%) VLAN
1 3 (5.00%) WAN
1 3 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.33%) DHCP
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.00%) MySQL
5 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.67%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.67%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.67%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.67%) Redis
6 1 (1.67%) SQL CLR
6 1 (1.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) JUnit
1 6 (10.00%) Mockito
2 5 (8.33%) Git
3 4 (6.67%) Maven
4 3 (5.00%) GitLab
4 3 (5.00%) JIRA
5 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.33%) JMeter
General
1 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (1.67%) Advertising
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Automotive
4 1 (1.67%) Back Office
4 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (60.00%) Developer
2 24 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 10 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 10 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 10 (16.67%) Senior
5 8 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 8 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 7 (11.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (8.33%) Head of Engineering
8 5 (8.33%) Junior
8 5 (8.33%) Lead
8 5 (8.33%) Lead C# Developer
8 5 (8.33%) Lead Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Blazor Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (45.00%) React
2 18 (30.00%) .NET
3 11 (18.33%) Node.js
4 10 (16.67%) HTML
4 10 (16.67%) Spring
5 9 (15.00%) REST
6 8 (13.33%) AngularJS
7 7 (11.67%) Blazor
8 6 (10.00%) Vue
9 5 (8.33%) .NET Framework
9 5 (8.33%) CSS
9 5 (8.33%) Entity Framework
9 5 (8.33%) Spring Boot
10 4 (6.67%) Hibernate
10 4 (6.67%) Laravel
11 3 (5.00%) ASP.NET
11 3 (5.00%) Next.js
11 3 (5.00%) React Native
11 3 (5.00%) RESTful
11 3 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) IoT
6 1 (1.67%) Life Science
6 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Windows
1 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 3 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (30.00%) Agile
3 16 (26.67%) Microservices
4 14 (23.33%) DevOps
5 13 (21.67%) CI/CD
5 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (20.00%) AI
6 12 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (15.00%) E-Commerce
7 9 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 9 (15.00%) TDD
8 8 (13.33%) Machine Learning
8 8 (13.33%) User Experience
9 6 (10.00%) Clean Code
9 6 (10.00%) Coaching
10 5 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
10 5 (8.33%) CRM
10 5 (8.33%) SDLC
10 5 (8.33%) Software Architecture
10 5 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.00%) C#
2 22 (36.67%) JavaScript
3 16 (26.67%) SQL
4 14 (23.33%) Java
5 12 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 10 (16.67%) Python
7 5 (8.33%) PL/SQL
7 5 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.67%) PHP
9 3 (5.00%) Bicep
10 2 (3.33%) Bash
10 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.67%) C
11 1 (1.67%) C++
11 1 (1.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Kibana
4 1 (1.67%) Nagios
4 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle
2 4 (6.67%) VMware
3 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.33%) Splunk
4 1 (1.67%) Foundry
4 1 (1.67%) Palantir