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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 84 83
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 +81
Permanent jobs citing Full-Stack Development 78 137 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.48% 3.21% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 3.54% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 69 45 90
10th Percentile £35,000 - £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 4,338 3,872 3,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.42% 90.76% 88.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,242 1,727 2,585
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £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 £69,960 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -1 41 £60,000 +11.63% 32
Coventry +3 14 £45,000 - 27
Worcestershire -10 7 £35,000 - 23
Staffordshire -14 4 £65,000 +40.54% 23
Warwickshire -1 3 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Solihull -3 3 £100,000 +95.12% 1
Shropshire - 2 £52,500 - 43
Wolverhampton -12 1 £85,000 - 27
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 5 (6.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.62%) Azure
2 24 (30.77%) AWS
3 11 (14.10%) SaaS
4 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.13%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.13%) Serverless
5 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.85%) Firebase
5 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) Firewall
1 3 (3.85%) LAN
1 3 (3.85%) SD-WAN
1 3 (3.85%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.85%) VLAN
1 3 (3.85%) WAN
1 3 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.56%) DHCP
2 2 (2.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.13%) MySQL
3 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.28%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.28%) Redis
5 1 (1.28%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (8.97%) JUnit
1 7 (8.97%) Maven
1 7 (8.97%) Mockito
2 6 (7.69%) Git
3 3 (3.85%) JIRA
4 2 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 12 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.97%) Finance
3 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.28%) Advertising
5 1 (1.28%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 45 (57.69%) Developer
2 23 (29.49%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (17.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 14 (17.95%) Java Developer
4 12 (15.38%) Senior
5 11 (14.10%) Software Engineer
6 9 (11.54%) C# Developer
6 9 (11.54%) Software Developer
7 8 (10.26%) Head of Engineering
7 8 (10.26%) Senior Developer
7 8 (10.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (8.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Java Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Junior
10 5 (6.41%) Lead
10 5 (6.41%) Lead C# Developer
10 5 (6.41%) Lead Developer
10 5 (6.41%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (5.13%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (37.18%) React
2 19 (24.36%) .NET
3 11 (14.10%) Node.js
4 9 (11.54%) AngularJS
4 9 (11.54%) REST
4 9 (11.54%) Spring
5 7 (8.97%) Vue
6 6 (7.69%) .NET Core
6 6 (7.69%) HTML
7 5 (6.41%) Laravel
7 5 (6.41%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.13%) CSS
9 3 (3.85%) Next.js
9 3 (3.85%) React Native
10 2 (2.56%) Blazor
10 2 (2.56%) Hibernate
10 2 (2.56%) JPA
10 2 (2.56%) RESTful
11 1 (1.28%) .NET Framework
11 1 (1.28%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.28%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.28%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Linux
2 3 (3.85%) Windows
2 3 (3.85%) Windows 10
2 3 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.77%) Agile
2 23 (29.49%) Software Engineering
3 17 (21.79%) Microservices
4 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (16.67%) AI
6 12 (15.38%) E-Commerce
7 11 (14.10%) Machine Learning
8 10 (12.82%) DevOps
8 10 (12.82%) User Experience
9 9 (11.54%) CI/CD
9 9 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (11.54%) Mentoring
10 8 (10.26%) TDD
11 7 (8.97%) Computer Science
11 7 (8.97%) Decision-Making
11 7 (8.97%) Scrum
11 7 (8.97%) SDLC
12 6 (7.69%) Coaching
12 6 (7.69%) Unit Testing
13 5 (6.41%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 29 (37.18%) JavaScript
2 26 (33.33%) C#
2 26 (33.33%) Java
3 18 (23.08%) SQL
4 14 (17.95%) TypeScript
5 12 (15.38%) Python
6 7 (8.97%) PL/SQL
7 5 (6.41%) Bash
7 5 (6.41%) PHP
8 4 (5.13%) C
9 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.85%) R
10 1 (1.28%) Bicep
10 1 (1.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.13%) Degree
4 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) QA
System Software
1 9 (11.54%) Docker
2 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.85%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (14.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.28%) Nagios
2 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (8.97%) Oracle
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.85%) VMware
4 1 (1.28%) Foundry
4 1 (1.28%) Palantir