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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 79 104
Rank change year-on-year -25 +25 +39
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 61 173 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.61% 3.36% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 3.89% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50 65 49
10th Percentile £35,675 £39,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,001 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,000 £75,000 £72,500
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 3,059 4,449 3,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.63% 86.41% 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,077 2,019 2,449
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £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% -3.88%
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 2 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 2 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 +9.09% 20
Coventry 0 10 £60,000 +14.29% 15
Solihull -4 5 £100,000 +100.00% 1
Warwickshire +25 2 £65,000 +20.93% 7
Worcestershire +2 2 £35,750 -35.00% 3
Staffordshire -9 2 £45,000 -30.77% 12
Shropshire - 2 £52,500 - 10
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 (3.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.64%) IIS
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (44.26%) Azure
2 21 (34.43%) AWS
3 17 (27.87%) SaaS
4 7 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (11.48%) Entra ID
5 6 (9.84%) Serverless
6 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.92%) Firebase
7 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.28%) GCP
8 2 (3.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) Firewall
1 3 (4.92%) LAN
1 3 (4.92%) SD-WAN
1 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
1 3 (4.92%) VLAN
1 3 (4.92%) WAN
1 3 (4.92%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.28%) DHCP
2 2 (3.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.92%) MySQL
5 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.64%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.64%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.64%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.64%) Redis
6 1 (1.64%) SQL CLR
6 1 (1.64%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) JUnit
1 6 (9.84%) Mockito
2 5 (8.20%) Git
2 5 (8.20%) Maven
3 3 (4.92%) GitLab
3 3 (4.92%) JIRA
4 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.28%) JMeter
General
1 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.84%) Finance
4 1 (1.64%) Advertising
4 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.64%) Automotive
4 1 (1.64%) Back Office
4 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (60.66%) Developer
2 25 (40.98%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (19.67%) Software Engineer
4 10 (16.39%) C# Developer
4 10 (16.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 10 (16.39%) Senior
5 9 (14.75%) Java Developer
5 9 (14.75%) Software Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Senior Developer
7 6 (9.84%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Blazor Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Head of Engineering
8 5 (8.20%) Junior
8 5 (8.20%) Lead
8 5 (8.20%) Lead C# Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Lead Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (45.90%) React
2 19 (31.15%) .NET
3 11 (18.03%) Node.js
3 11 (18.03%) Spring
4 10 (16.39%) HTML
4 10 (16.39%) REST
5 8 (13.11%) AngularJS
5 8 (13.11%) Blazor
6 6 (9.84%) .NET Framework
6 6 (9.84%) Entity Framework
6 6 (9.84%) Spring Boot
7 5 (8.20%) CSS
7 5 (8.20%) Vue
8 4 (6.56%) Hibernate
8 4 (6.56%) RESTful
9 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET
9 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (4.92%) Next.js
9 3 (4.92%) React Native
9 3 (4.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.92%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.28%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.28%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) IoT
5 1 (1.64%) Life Science
5 1 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
1 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.92%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) Software Engineering
2 19 (31.15%) Agile
3 17 (27.87%) Microservices
4 15 (24.59%) CI/CD
4 15 (24.59%) DevOps
5 13 (21.31%) AI
5 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (14.75%) E-Commerce
7 9 (14.75%) Mentoring
7 9 (14.75%) TDD
7 9 (14.75%) User Experience
8 8 (13.11%) Machine Learning
9 7 (11.48%) Clean Code
10 6 (9.84%) Coaching
10 6 (9.84%) CRM
11 5 (8.20%) Collaborative Culture
11 5 (8.20%) Scrum
11 5 (8.20%) SDLC
11 5 (8.20%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.98%) C#
2 23 (37.70%) JavaScript
3 18 (29.51%) SQL
4 15 (24.59%) Java
5 12 (19.67%) TypeScript
6 10 (16.39%) Python
7 6 (9.84%) PL/SQL
7 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.56%) Bicep
9 3 (4.92%) PHP
10 2 (3.28%) Bash
10 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.28%) VB
11 1 (1.64%) C
11 1 (1.64%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Docker
2 4 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Kibana
4 1 (1.64%) Nagios
4 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.20%) Oracle
3 4 (6.56%) VMware
4 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.28%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Foundry
5 1 (1.64%) Palantir