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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 83 115
Rank change year-on-year -27 +32 +39
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 65 142 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.26% 3.19% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 3.55% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59 50 50
10th Percentile £35,600 £42,125 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,892 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.31% -6.57% +6.82%
75th Percentile £70,149 £63,438 £65,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 4,322 4,001 2,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.50% 89.93% 91.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,220 1,809 2,391
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £35,000
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 £81,500 £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 20 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 20 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 -3 37 £60,000 +9.31% 11
Coventry +2 11 £52,500 +16.67% 8
Worcestershire -10 4 £35,750 -15.88% 3
Staffordshire -20 4 £65,000 +40.54% 7
Warwickshire +3 3 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Solihull -7 3 £100,000 +100.00% 1
Shropshire - 2 £52,500 - 2
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 (3.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (40.00%) Azure
2 21 (32.31%) AWS
3 14 (21.54%) SaaS
4 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.15%) Serverless
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.62%) Firebase
6 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.08%) GCP
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.54%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Firewall
1 3 (4.62%) LAN
1 3 (4.62%) SD-WAN
1 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
1 3 (4.62%) VLAN
1 3 (4.62%) WAN
1 3 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.08%) DHCP
2 2 (3.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.15%) MySQL
2 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.54%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.54%) Redis
5 1 (1.54%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) JUnit
2 4 (6.15%) Maven
2 4 (6.15%) Mockito
3 3 (4.62%) JIRA
4 2 (3.08%) GitLab
General
1 9 (13.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.15%) Finance
4 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.54%) Advertising
5 1 (1.54%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 37 (56.92%) Developer
2 21 (32.31%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (18.46%) Software Engineer
4 10 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) C# Developer
5 9 (13.85%) Senior
5 9 (13.85%) Software Developer
6 8 (12.31%) Head of Engineering
6 8 (12.31%) Java Developer
7 7 (10.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Junior
8 5 (7.69%) Lead
8 5 (7.69%) Lead C# Developer
8 5 (7.69%) Lead Developer
8 5 (7.69%) Senior Developer
8 5 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 3 (4.62%) Blazor Developer
10 3 (4.62%) IT Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (43.08%) React
2 16 (24.62%) .NET
3 11 (16.92%) Node.js
4 9 (13.85%) Spring
5 7 (10.77%) AngularJS
5 7 (10.77%) HTML
5 7 (10.77%) Vue
6 6 (9.23%) REST
7 5 (7.69%) CSS
7 5 (7.69%) Laravel
7 5 (7.69%) Spring Boot
8 4 (6.15%) Blazor
9 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
9 3 (4.62%) .NET Framework
9 3 (4.62%) Entity Framework
9 3 (4.62%) Next.js
9 3 (4.62%) React Native
9 3 (4.62%) RESTful
10 2 (3.08%) Hibernate
10 2 (3.08%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
1 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.62%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.08%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Windows
1 3 (4.62%) Windows 10
1 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Software Engineering
2 16 (24.62%) Agile
3 14 (21.54%) AI
3 14 (21.54%) Microservices
4 12 (18.46%) DevOps
4 12 (18.46%) E-Commerce
4 12 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (16.92%) Machine Learning
6 10 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 10 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (13.85%) Mentoring
8 8 (12.31%) User Experience
9 6 (9.23%) Coaching
10 5 (7.69%) SDLC
10 5 (7.69%) TDD
10 5 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (6.15%) Architectural Patterns
11 4 (6.15%) Conflict Resolution
11 4 (6.15%) Decision-Making
11 4 (6.15%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 23 (35.38%) C#
3 15 (23.08%) Java
4 13 (20.00%) SQL
4 13 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 12 (18.46%) Python
6 5 (7.69%) PHP
7 4 (6.15%) PL/SQL
7 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.08%) Bash
8 2 (3.08%) Bicep
9 1 (1.54%) C
9 1 (1.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) Degree
3 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.62%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (12.31%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Nagios
3 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle
3 3 (4.62%) VMware
4 1 (1.54%) Foundry
4 1 (1.54%) Palantir