Full Stack Software Engineer Jobs

Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Software 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 468 695 614
Rank change year-on-year +227 -81 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Software Engineer 498 263 827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.27% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.30% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 160 155 149
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,392 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,438 £62,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +26.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £114,063 £113,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% +5.00%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Full Stack Software 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 +220 420 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Scotland +143 341 £55,000 +37.50%
England -5 151 £75,000 -11.76% 24
London +87 71 £110,000 +10.00% 14
Work from Home -87 61 £58,750 -28.79% 17
North of England +35 27 £52,500 -32.26% 2
South East -6 23 £60,000 -4.00% 4
North West +9 19 £56,250 -13.46% 1
Midlands -1 14 £60,000 +18.81%
West Midlands +12 8 £60,000 +18.81%
East of England -8 7 £48,500 -
East Midlands -13 6 £57,500 -
South West -32 6 £50,000 -23.08% 2
Yorkshire +66 5 £45,000 -41.94% 1
North East -9 3 £60,000 -
Wales +1 2 £68,750 +14.58%

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

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

1 498 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 498 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 388 (77.91%) Agile
3 384 (77.11%) Finance
4 330 (66.27%) Java
5 328 (65.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 317 (63.65%) Law
7 308 (61.85%) SDLC
8 290 (58.23%) Artificial Intelligence
9 285 (57.23%) Machine Learning
10 279 (56.02%) CI/CD
11 278 (55.82%) Operational Stability
12 266 (53.41%) React
13 236 (47.39%) SQL
14 218 (43.78%) Spring
15 210 (42.17%) AngularJS
16 187 (37.55%) AWS
17 165 (33.13%) TypeScript
18 151 (30.32%) Risk Management
19 147 (29.52%) JavaScript
20 146 (29.32%) Microservices
21 139 (27.91%) Python
22 137 (27.51%) Kafka
23 136 (27.31%) Algorithms
24 134 (26.91%) Legal
24 134 (26.91%) Community of Practice
25 130 (26.10%) Continuous Improvement
26 126 (25.30%) Visualisation
26 126 (25.30%) Decision-Making
27 121 (24.30%) NoSQL

Full Stack Software 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 (11.04%) FileNet
2 46 (9.24%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (8.63%) Apache
4 18 (3.61%) Cloud Foundry
5 15 (3.01%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Simulink
2 3 (0.60%) Sketch
3 2 (0.40%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.20%) UXPin
4 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 187 (37.55%) AWS
2 76 (15.26%) Azure
3 68 (13.65%) GCP
4 55 (11.04%) Amazon S3
5 26 (5.22%) GitHub
6 18 (3.61%) BlazeMeter
7 11 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.61%) Serverless
10 6 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.00%) SaaS
12 3 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.60%) IaaS
13 2 (0.40%) Figma
13 2 (0.40%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.20%) AWS CodePipeline
14 1 (0.20%) AWS Fargate
14 1 (0.20%) AWS IoT
14 1 (0.20%) BrowserStack
14 1 (0.20%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (24.30%) NoSQL
2 76 (15.26%) Elasticsearch
3 56 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (11.04%) Apache Cassandra
5 53 (10.64%) MongoDB
6 43 (8.63%) Apache Ignite
7 38 (7.63%) Relational Database
8 17 (3.41%) MySQL
9 15 (3.01%) Apache Hive
10 13 (2.61%) RDBMS
11 12 (2.41%) Big Data
12 6 (1.20%) Redis
12 6 (1.20%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.60%) HBase
13 3 (0.60%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 74 (14.86%) JUnit
2 41 (8.23%) Cypress.io
3 30 (6.02%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.22%) Git
5 22 (4.42%) Jasmine
6 21 (4.22%) Mockito
7 18 (3.61%) JMeter
8 15 (3.01%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.41%) JIRA
10 5 (1.00%) GitLab
10 5 (1.00%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.60%) Gradle
11 3 (0.60%) Maven
12 2 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.40%) webpack
13 1 (0.20%) Mocha
General
1 384 (77.11%) Finance
2 328 (65.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 317 (63.65%) Law
4 134 (26.91%) Legal
5 112 (22.49%) Marketing
6 110 (22.09%) Banking
7 73 (14.66%) Front Office
8 38 (7.63%) Private Banking
9 27 (5.42%) Investment Banking
10 16 (3.21%) Social Skills
11 14 (2.81%) Aviation
12 12 (2.41%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Automotive
14 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.00%) Retail
15 5 (1.00%) Retail Finance
16 4 (0.80%) Public Sector
17 2 (0.40%) Aeronautics
17 2 (0.40%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (53.41%) React
2 218 (43.78%) Spring
3 210 (42.17%) AngularJS
4 137 (27.51%) Kafka
5 118 (23.69%) J2EE
6 93 (18.67%) CSS
6 93 (18.67%) HTML
7 92 (18.47%) JMS
8 90 (18.07%) Hibernate
9 89 (17.87%) Node.js
10 83 (16.67%) Spring Boot
11 78 (15.66%) GraphQL
12 64 (12.85%) JSON
13 58 (11.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 57 (11.45%) Redux
14 57 (11.45%) RESTful
15 55 (11.04%) jQuery
15 55 (11.04%) Material-UI
15 55 (11.04%) Spring Integration
16 54 (10.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 136 (27.31%) Algorithms
2 99 (19.88%) Cloud Native
3 55 (11.04%) Fixed Income
4 47 (9.44%) Reference Data
5 43 (8.63%) Hedge funds
6 39 (7.83%) Onboarding
7 37 (7.43%) Public Cloud
8 32 (6.43%) Data Structures
9 26 (5.22%) Equities
10 20 (4.02%) Private Cloud
11 18 (3.61%) Market Risk
12 15 (3.01%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.20%) Product Ownership
15 4 (0.80%) CAN bus
15 4 (0.80%) IoT
16 2 (0.40%) Credit Risk
16 2 (0.40%) Educational Technology
17 1 (0.20%) Renewable Energy
17 1 (0.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.20%) Unix
2 4 (0.80%) Linux
3 3 (0.60%) Windows
4 2 (0.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 498 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 388 (77.91%) Agile
3 308 (61.85%) SDLC
4 290 (58.23%) Artificial Intelligence
5 285 (57.23%) Machine Learning
6 279 (56.02%) CI/CD
7 278 (55.82%) Operational Stability
8 151 (30.32%) Risk Management
9 146 (29.32%) Microservices
10 134 (26.91%) Community of Practice
11 130 (26.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 126 (25.30%) Decision-Making
12 126 (25.30%) Visualisation
13 105 (21.08%) Asset Management
14 93 (18.67%) Investment Management
15 61 (12.25%) Computer Science
16 55 (11.04%) AOP
16 55 (11.04%) Document Management
17 47 (9.44%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 330 (66.27%) Java
2 236 (47.39%) SQL
3 165 (33.13%) TypeScript
4 147 (29.52%) JavaScript
5 139 (27.91%) Python
6 42 (8.43%) C#
7 15 (3.01%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.61%) C++
8 8 (1.61%) PHP
9 4 (0.80%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.60%) Ruby
11 2 (0.40%) Rust
12 1 (0.20%) Bash
12 1 (0.20%) Go
12 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (7.63%) Degree
2 18 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (1.61%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.41%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.40%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.02%) SLA
2 14 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.60%) ISO 13485
4 2 (0.40%) GDPR
4 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.40%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 34 (6.83%) Docker
2 3 (0.60%) HDFS
3 2 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.40%) Firmware
3 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 80 (16.06%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.01%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 108 (21.69%) Oracle
2 51 (10.24%) Google
3 3 (0.60%) Cloudera
3 3 (0.60%) Databricks
3 3 (0.60%) Dynatrace
3 3 (0.60%) Splunk
4 2 (0.40%) Adobe
4 2 (0.40%) Cognizant
4 2 (0.40%) VMware
4 2 (0.40%) YouTube
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.20%) Xamarin