Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 459 230
Rank change year-on-year +121 -229 +166
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Engineer 851 627 2,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.64% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.70% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 343 344 409
10th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,625 £63,631 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +6.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £110,313 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,351 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.19% +4.56% +19.05%

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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Full Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
UK excluding London +197 672 £60,000 -8.19% 67
England +32 484 £70,000 -12.50% 184
Scotland +128 343 £55,000 -15.84%
London +33 167 £90,000 -5.26% 115
Work from Home -157 134 £62,500 -22.02% 98
North of England +68 99 £60,000 -22.58% 21
Midlands +64 94 £58,500 +15.84% 7
North West +54 86 £60,000 -7.69% 14
East Midlands +51 81 £55,000 - 4
South East +11 75 £60,000 -8.19% 19
South West -39 28 £50,000 -23.49% 8
East of England -9 16 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Wales +6 15 £55,000 -8.33% 6
West Midlands +12 13 £60,000 +18.81% 3
Yorkshire +50 7 £45,000 -43.75% 5
North East -6 6 £65,000 - 2
Northern Ireland +2 2 £47,500 -13.64% 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Full Stack Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 851 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 558 (65.57%) Software Engineering
3 549 (64.51%) Agile
4 517 (60.75%) React
5 478 (56.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 457 (53.70%) Artificial Intelligence
7 431 (50.65%) Finance
8 419 (49.24%) SQL
9 414 (48.65%) Java
10 384 (45.12%) JavaScript
11 362 (42.54%) SDLC
12 356 (41.83%) AngularJS
13 331 (38.90%) Law
14 319 (37.49%) CI/CD
15 293 (34.43%) Machine Learning
16 278 (32.67%) Operational Stability
17 259 (30.43%) NoSQL
18 257 (30.20%) Algorithms
19 255 (29.96%) AWS
20 254 (29.85%) TypeScript
21 246 (28.91%) CSS
22 236 (27.73%) HTML
22 236 (27.73%) Spring
23 234 (27.50%) Azure
24 221 (25.97%) MongoDB
25 207 (24.32%) Python
26 189 (22.21%) PostgreSQL
27 184 (21.62%) Mentoring
28 181 (21.27%) C#
29 178 (20.92%) Node.js

Full Stack Engineer 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 55 (6.46%) FileNet
2 47 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (5.17%) Apache
4 38 (4.47%) nginx
5 36 (4.23%) Camunda
6 18 (2.12%) Cloud Foundry
7 17 (2.00%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.24%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Simulink
2 3 (0.35%) Sketch
3 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) UXPin
4 1 (0.12%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 255 (29.96%) AWS
2 234 (27.50%) Azure
3 149 (17.51%) IBM Cloud
4 92 (10.81%) GCP
5 55 (6.46%) Amazon S3
6 36 (4.23%) OpenShift
7 28 (3.29%) GitHub
8 26 (3.06%) SaaS
9 20 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.12%) BlazeMeter
11 15 (1.76%) Serverless
12 9 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (0.35%) DigitalOcean
15 3 (0.35%) Figma
15 3 (0.35%) IaaS
16 2 (0.24%) Amazon Cognito
16 2 (0.24%) GitHub Actions
16 2 (0.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.71%) MQTT
2 3 (0.35%) HTTP
2 3 (0.35%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.12%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (30.43%) NoSQL
2 221 (25.97%) MongoDB
3 189 (22.21%) PostgreSQL
4 113 (13.28%) DB2
5 79 (9.28%) Elasticsearch
6 55 (6.46%) Apache Cassandra
7 45 (5.29%) Relational Database
8 43 (5.05%) Apache Ignite
9 39 (4.58%) Oracle Database
10 29 (3.41%) MySQL
11 18 (2.12%) Redis
12 15 (1.76%) Apache Hive
12 15 (1.76%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.53%) Big Data
14 9 (1.06%) SQL Server
15 4 (0.47%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (0.35%) HBase
17 2 (0.24%) Power BI
18 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 75 (8.81%) JUnit
2 44 (5.17%) Cypress.io
3 42 (4.94%) Jenkins
4 39 (4.58%) Git
5 23 (2.70%) Jasmine
6 22 (2.59%) Mockito
7 18 (2.12%) JMeter
8 17 (2.00%) GitLab
9 16 (1.88%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.29%) JIRA
11 7 (0.82%) Maven
12 5 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.47%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.47%) IntelliJ
14 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.35%) Gradle
15 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio
15 2 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 478 (56.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 431 (50.65%) Finance
3 331 (38.90%) Law
4 154 (18.10%) Public Sector
5 144 (16.92%) Legal
6 123 (14.45%) Marketing
7 114 (13.40%) Banking
8 73 (8.58%) Front Office
9 59 (6.93%) Social Skills
10 38 (4.47%) Private Banking
11 27 (3.17%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.65%) Aviation
12 14 (1.65%) Retail
13 13 (1.53%) Health Technology
14 12 (1.41%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.29%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.94%) Analytical Skills
17 7 (0.82%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.71%) Automotive
18 6 (0.71%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (60.75%) React
2 356 (41.83%) AngularJS
3 246 (28.91%) CSS
4 236 (27.73%) HTML
4 236 (27.73%) Spring
5 178 (20.92%) Node.js
6 171 (20.09%) .NET
6 171 (20.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 169 (19.86%) jQuery
7 169 (19.86%) Web Services
8 161 (18.92%) Vue
9 154 (18.10%) REST
10 151 (17.74%) Kafka
11 124 (14.57%) ASP.NET
12 119 (13.98%) J2EE
13 115 (13.51%) Ember.js
14 113 (13.28%) ASP.NET Core
14 113 (13.28%) Backbone.js
15 94 (11.05%) Spring Boot
16 92 (10.81%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 257 (30.20%) Algorithms
2 152 (17.86%) Data Structures
3 149 (17.51%) Blockchain
3 149 (17.51%) e-Learning
3 149 (17.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 111 (13.04%) Cloud Native
5 55 (6.46%) Fixed Income
6 47 (5.52%) Reference Data
7 43 (5.05%) Hedge funds
7 43 (5.05%) Public Cloud
8 39 (4.58%) Onboarding
9 27 (3.17%) Equities
10 23 (2.70%) Market Risk
11 22 (2.59%) Private Cloud
12 16 (1.88%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.76%) Product Ownership
14 14 (1.65%) Mobile App
15 12 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
16 11 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
17 9 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 144 (16.92%) Linux
2 120 (14.10%) Windows
3 115 (13.51%) Android
4 113 (13.28%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.94%) Unix
6 4 (0.47%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 851 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 558 (65.57%) Software Engineering
3 549 (64.51%) Agile
4 457 (53.70%) Artificial Intelligence
5 362 (42.54%) SDLC
6 319 (37.49%) CI/CD
7 293 (34.43%) Machine Learning
8 278 (32.67%) Operational Stability
9 184 (21.62%) Mentoring
10 177 (20.80%) Microservices
11 176 (20.68%) Coaching
12 161 (18.92%) OO
13 156 (18.33%) Risk Management
14 154 (18.10%) Design Patterns
15 137 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
16 134 (15.75%) Community of Practice
16 134 (15.75%) User Experience
17 130 (15.28%) Visualisation
18 129 (15.16%) OOP
19 127 (14.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 419 (49.24%) SQL
2 414 (48.65%) Java
3 384 (45.12%) JavaScript
4 254 (29.85%) TypeScript
5 207 (24.32%) Python
6 181 (21.27%) C#
7 36 (4.23%) Lua
8 32 (3.76%) PHP
9 20 (2.35%) Kotlin
10 13 (1.53%) Go
11 9 (1.06%) C
11 9 (1.06%) C++
12 7 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.59%) Ruby
15 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.24%) Rust
16 2 (0.24%) Scala
17 1 (0.12%) Bash
17 1 (0.12%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 58 (6.82%) Degree
2 33 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.65%) SC Cleared
3 14 (1.65%) Security Cleared
4 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.71%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.47%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.24%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.94%) SLA
2 19 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.71%) QA
4 3 (0.35%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.24%) GDPR
5 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.24%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 105 (12.34%) Docker
2 5 (0.59%) Firmware
3 3 (0.35%) HDFS
4 2 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 108 (12.69%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.41%) Terraform
3 3 (0.35%) Ansible
3 3 (0.35%) logstash
4 1 (0.12%) Grafana
Vendors
1 150 (17.63%) Oracle
2 149 (17.51%) IBM
2 149 (17.51%) Red Hat
3 64 (7.52%) Google
4 8 (0.94%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.47%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.35%) Cloudera
6 3 (0.35%) Databricks
6 3 (0.35%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.35%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.35%) Splunk
6 3 (0.35%) Telerik
7 2 (0.24%) Adobe
7 2 (0.24%) Cognizant
7 2 (0.24%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.24%) VMware
7 2 (0.24%) YouTube
8 1 (0.12%) SAP
8 1 (0.12%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.12%) Zend