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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

full-stack development

252 live US technical postings name full-stack development in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 252 postings naming full-stack development that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer82.5%
  2. 2Full-Stack Engineer10.3%
  3. 3AI Engineer4.4%
  4. 4Backend Engineer1.2%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where full-stack development is named
n = 127
10th
$143k
25th
$175k
Median
$204k
75th
$230k
90th
$288k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA29%
  2. 2New York, NY17.9%
  3. 3Remote9.9%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.7%
  5. 5Washington, DC4.4%
  6. 6Austin, TX2.4%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2%
  8. 8Boston, MA1.6%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.