Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 175 153
Rank change year-on-year -1 -22 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 1,653 2,087 4,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 2.12% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.32% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,312 1,370 1,959
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +9.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer.

Salary trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Full Stack Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
England +4 1,493 £60,000 -11.11% 269
UK excluding London -14 1,045 £52,500 -4.55% 181
Work from Home -16 606 £60,000 -7.69% 164
London +4 518 £80,000 +10.34% 142
North of England +43 272 £55,000 +10.00% 34
South East -42 272 £55,000 -15.38% 67
Midlands -19 190 £50,000 -9.09% 31
North West +33 175 £55,000 - 28
South West 0 154 £52,500 +5.00% 28
West Midlands +25 115 £55,000 +10.00% 19
East of England +47 85 £45,000 -14.29% 9
East Midlands -34 75 £50,000 -9.09% 11
Yorkshire +35 67 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Scotland -83 50 £52,500 -19.23% 7
North East -11 30 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Wales -6 21 £50,000 -4.76% 8
Northern Ireland 0 1 £45,000 - 1

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Full Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 1,653 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 943 (57.05%) JavaScript
3 809 (48.94%) React
4 652 (39.44%) C#
5 647 (39.14%) .NET
6 564 (34.12%) Azure
7 556 (33.64%) HTML
8 531 (32.12%) CSS
9 507 (30.67%) SQL
10 482 (29.16%) AngularJS
11 480 (29.04%) Agile
12 457 (27.65%) AWS
13 429 (25.95%) Node.js
14 406 (24.56%) TypeScript
15 398 (24.08%) DevOps
15 398 (24.08%) Java
16 372 (22.50%) Vue
17 368 (22.26%) Python
18 316 (19.12%) MVC
19 299 (18.09%) ASP.NET
20 282 (17.06%) Web Development
21 276 (16.70%) PostgreSQL
22 265 (16.03%) jQuery
23 259 (15.67%) User Experience
24 257 (15.55%) Social Skills
25 251 (15.18%) Git
26 248 (15.00%) Web Services
27 244 (14.76%) PHP
27 244 (14.76%) Finance
28 242 (14.64%) Artificial Intelligence

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 65 (3.93%) CMS
2 58 (3.51%) Apache
3 43 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (2.12%) WordPress
5 20 (1.21%) Umbraco
6 18 (1.09%) nginx
7 15 (0.91%) OpenStack
8 13 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.79%) Confluence
8 13 (0.79%) IIS
9 12 (0.73%) SharePoint
9 12 (0.73%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.36%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.18%) JBoss
12 3 (0.18%) Orchard CMS
12 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
13 2 (0.12%) Ethereum
13 2 (0.12%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 20 (1.21%) Photoshop
2 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 32 (1.94%) SDL Web 8
2 18 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
3 10 (0.60%) Shopify
4 9 (0.54%) Magento
5 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.12%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.12%) nopCommerce
6 2 (0.12%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 564 (34.12%) Azure
2 457 (27.65%) AWS
3 227 (13.73%) Serverless
4 215 (13.01%) Azure DevOps
5 137 (8.29%) Azure Functions
6 136 (8.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 129 (7.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 126 (7.62%) Azure API Management
8 126 (7.62%) IBM Cloud
9 117 (7.08%) SaaS
10 108 (6.53%) GCP
11 73 (4.42%) GitHub
12 46 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (1.75%) Power Platform
15 27 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (0.97%) Amazon S3
18 16 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.73%) MQTT
2 11 (0.67%) HTTP
3 5 (0.30%) Internet
3 5 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (0.30%) VPN
4 4 (0.24%) DNS
5 3 (0.18%) SSH
6 2 (0.12%) SSL
7 1 (0.060%) Firewall
7 1 (0.060%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (16.70%) PostgreSQL
2 206 (12.46%) Relational Database
2 206 (12.46%) SQL Server
3 187 (11.31%) NoSQL
4 184 (11.13%) MongoDB
5 173 (10.47%) MySQL
6 135 (8.17%) DB2
7 43 (2.60%) Apache Ignite
8 25 (1.51%) Redis
9 21 (1.27%) DynamoDB
10 16 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (0.79%) Apache Hive
11 13 (0.79%) Big Data
11 13 (0.79%) Power BI
11 13 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (0.60%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 251 (15.18%) Git
2 100 (6.05%) JIRA
3 65 (3.93%) Visual Studio
4 60 (3.63%) GitLab
5 53 (3.21%) NUnit
6 48 (2.90%) TeamCity
7 41 (2.48%) Jenkins
8 38 (2.30%) Moq
9 36 (2.18%) Cypress.io
10 20 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
11 19 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
12 18 (1.09%) SpecFlow
13 17 (1.03%) MSTest
14 16 (0.97%) git-flow
14 16 (0.97%) JUnit
14 16 (0.97%) Sourcetree
15 14 (0.85%) Bitbucket
16 12 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
17 11 (0.67%) webpack
18 9 (0.54%) Cucumber
General
1 257 (15.55%) Social Skills
2 244 (14.76%) Finance
3 214 (12.95%) Public Sector
4 113 (6.84%) Banking
5 77 (4.66%) Marketing
6 62 (3.75%) Front Office
7 61 (3.69%) Retail
8 41 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
9 38 (2.30%) Games
10 32 (1.94%) Tech for Good
11 31 (1.88%) Law
12 23 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.39%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.15%) Health Technology
13 19 (1.15%) Legal
14 18 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.91%) Advertising
15 15 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.79%) Automotive
16 13 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 809 (48.94%) React
2 647 (39.14%) .NET
3 556 (33.64%) HTML
4 531 (32.12%) CSS
5 482 (29.16%) AngularJS
6 429 (25.95%) Node.js
7 372 (22.50%) Vue
8 299 (18.09%) ASP.NET
9 265 (16.03%) jQuery
10 248 (15.00%) Web Services
11 213 (12.89%) REST
12 196 (11.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 192 (11.62%) Laravel
14 169 (10.22%) RESTful
15 157 (9.50%) .NET Framework
16 151 (9.13%) ASP.NET Core
17 138 (8.35%) .NET Core
18 128 (7.74%) Ember.js
19 125 (7.56%) Backbone.js
20 115 (6.96%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.20%) Data Structures
2 145 (8.77%) Algorithms
3 136 (8.23%) Blockchain
4 126 (7.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 99 (5.99%) Greenfield Project
6 58 (3.51%) Hedge funds
7 57 (3.45%) Fixed Income
8 56 (3.39%) Mobile App
9 40 (2.42%) Private Cloud
10 36 (2.18%) Legacy Code
11 29 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.57%) Cloud Native
12 26 (1.57%) Equities
13 24 (1.45%) Onboarding
13 24 (1.45%) Product Ownership
14 23 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (1.15%) IoT
16 18 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (0.85%) Blog
17 14 (0.85%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 187 (11.31%) Linux
2 146 (8.83%) Windows
3 130 (7.86%) Android
3 130 (7.86%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.36%) Unix
5 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.060%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.060%) Solaris
7 1 (0.060%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,653 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 480 (29.04%) Agile
3 398 (24.08%) DevOps
4 316 (19.12%) MVC
5 282 (17.06%) Web Development
6 259 (15.67%) User Experience
7 242 (14.64%) Artificial Intelligence
8 232 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
9 228 (13.79%) Software Engineering
10 208 (12.58%) Design Patterns
11 206 (12.46%) CI/CD
12 205 (12.40%) OOP
13 190 (11.49%) OO
14 173 (10.47%) SOLID
15 165 (9.98%) Responsive Web Design
16 159 (9.62%) TDD
17 140 (8.47%) Computer Science
18 131 (7.92%) Generative AI
18 131 (7.92%) Scrum
19 125 (7.56%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 943 (57.05%) JavaScript
2 652 (39.44%) C#
3 507 (30.67%) SQL
4 406 (24.56%) TypeScript
5 398 (24.08%) Java
6 368 (22.26%) Python
7 244 (14.76%) PHP
8 69 (4.17%) T-SQL
9 46 (2.78%) Go
10 26 (1.57%) Ruby
11 18 (1.09%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.03%) XPath
13 15 (0.91%) Delphi
13 15 (0.91%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.54%) C++
15 8 (0.48%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.48%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.42%) VBA
17 6 (0.36%) R
18 5 (0.30%) Bash
Qualifications
1 167 (10.10%) Degree
2 102 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 73 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 72 (4.36%) SC Cleared
5 27 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.67%) Postgraduate
9 7 (0.42%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.24%) HND
10 4 (0.24%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.12%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.060%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.060%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.060%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.15%) QA
2 36 (2.18%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.79%) GDPR
4 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.18%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.18%) PMO
6 2 (0.12%) HL7
6 2 (0.12%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.060%) SLA
7 1 (0.060%) WAI
System Software
1 181 (10.95%) Docker
2 10 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.30%) Firmware
3 5 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.18%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.060%) KVM
6 1 (0.060%) Varnish
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 105 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.51%) Terraform
3 22 (1.33%) Ansible
4 7 (0.42%) Grafana
4 7 (0.42%) Kibana
5 4 (0.24%) Rancher
6 3 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.060%) Consul
7 1 (0.060%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.060%) Kiali
7 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.060%) Packer
Vendors
1 127 (7.68%) IBM
2 126 (7.62%) Red Hat
3 83 (5.02%) Microsoft
4 63 (3.81%) Google
5 27 (1.63%) Adobe
5 27 (1.63%) Oracle
6 17 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 16 (0.97%) Cognizant
7 16 (0.97%) Sitecore
8 15 (0.91%) WSO2
9 10 (0.60%) SAP
9 10 (0.60%) Xamarin
10 9 (0.54%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.42%) F5
11 7 (0.42%) UiPath
12 6 (0.36%) VMware
13 5 (0.30%) Facebook
13 5 (0.30%) PayPal
13 5 (0.30%) WorldPay
13 5 (0.30%) Zend