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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 175 154
Rank change year-on-year +1 -21 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 1,622 2,142 4,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 2.11% 2.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.31% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,297 1,409 1,969
10th Percentile £39,050 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 8 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 8 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 +2 1,470 £60,000 -11.11% 199
UK excluding London -30 1,026 £52,500 -4.55% 115
Work from Home -27 601 £60,000 -7.69% 132
London +9 511 £80,000 +10.34% 87
South East -43 271 £55,000 -12.00% 19
North of England +36 270 £55,000 +15.79% 34
Midlands 0 186 £50,000 -9.09% 24
North West +40 172 £55,000 +4.76% 26
South West -17 147 £52,625 +5.25% 16
West Midlands +28 113 £55,000 +15.79% 12
East of England +51 85 £45,000 -14.29% 12
East Midlands -36 73 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Yorkshire +31 69 £55,000 +22.22% 6
Scotland -88 50 £52,500 -12.50% 6
North East -7 29 £60,000 +9.09% 2
Wales -8 16 £50,000 -2.44% 6
Northern Ireland -1 1 £45,000 -10.89% 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 1,622 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 936 (57.71%) JavaScript
3 804 (49.57%) React
4 631 (38.90%) C#
5 623 (38.41%) .NET
6 544 (33.54%) Azure
7 541 (33.35%) HTML
8 517 (31.87%) CSS
9 501 (30.89%) SQL
10 488 (30.09%) AngularJS
11 465 (28.67%) Agile
12 454 (27.99%) AWS
13 433 (26.70%) Node.js
14 408 (25.15%) TypeScript
15 401 (24.72%) Java
16 381 (23.49%) DevOps
17 371 (22.87%) Vue
18 361 (22.26%) Python
19 312 (19.24%) MVC
20 294 (18.13%) ASP.NET
21 284 (17.51%) Web Development
22 269 (16.58%) PostgreSQL
23 259 (15.97%) User Experience
23 259 (15.97%) jQuery
24 252 (15.54%) Social Skills
25 244 (15.04%) Finance
26 243 (14.98%) PHP
27 239 (14.73%) Web Services
27 239 (14.73%) Git
28 234 (14.43%) 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 58 (3.58%) CMS
2 54 (3.33%) Apache
3 39 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (2.28%) WordPress
5 20 (1.23%) Umbraco
6 18 (1.11%) nginx
7 14 (0.86%) IIS
7 14 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 13 (0.80%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.80%) Confluence
9 12 (0.74%) Tomcat
10 11 (0.68%) SharePoint
11 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.31%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.18%) Orchard CMS
15 2 (0.12%) Ethereum
15 2 (0.12%) Hyperledger
15 2 (0.12%) JBoss
15 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 18 (1.11%) Photoshop
2 7 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 26 (1.60%) SDL Web 8
2 18 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
3 11 (0.68%) Shopify
4 9 (0.55%) Magento
5 5 (0.31%) 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
7 1 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 544 (33.54%) Azure
2 454 (27.99%) AWS
3 224 (13.81%) Serverless
4 212 (13.07%) Azure DevOps
5 137 (8.45%) Azure Functions
6 134 (8.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 128 (7.89%) Azure Logic Apps
8 126 (7.77%) Azure API Management
8 126 (7.77%) IBM Cloud
9 114 (7.03%) SaaS
10 108 (6.66%) GCP
11 73 (4.50%) GitHub
12 45 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (1.85%) Power Platform
14 29 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (0.99%) Amazon S3
18 16 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.74%) MQTT
2 11 (0.68%) HTTP
3 6 (0.37%) Internet
4 5 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.31%) VPN
5 4 (0.25%) DNS
6 2 (0.12%) SSH
6 2 (0.12%) SSL
7 1 (0.062%) Firewall
7 1 (0.062%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (16.58%) PostgreSQL
2 200 (12.33%) Relational Database
3 195 (12.02%) SQL Server
4 189 (11.65%) NoSQL
5 188 (11.59%) MongoDB
6 172 (10.60%) MySQL
7 135 (8.32%) DB2
8 39 (2.40%) Apache Ignite
9 24 (1.48%) Redis
10 23 (1.42%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.86%) Power BI
12 14 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.80%) Apache Hive
13 13 (0.80%) Big Data
13 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.68%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 239 (14.73%) Git
2 91 (5.61%) JIRA
3 66 (4.07%) Visual Studio
4 54 (3.33%) GitLab
5 47 (2.90%) NUnit
6 43 (2.65%) TeamCity
7 42 (2.59%) Jenkins
8 32 (1.97%) Cypress.io
8 32 (1.97%) Moq
9 21 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 18 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
11 17 (1.05%) MSTest
12 16 (0.99%) SpecFlow
13 14 (0.86%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.86%) git-flow
13 14 (0.86%) JUnit
13 14 (0.86%) Sourcetree
14 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
15 11 (0.68%) webpack
16 10 (0.62%) IntelliJ
General
1 252 (15.54%) Social Skills
2 244 (15.04%) Finance
3 211 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 108 (6.66%) Banking
5 71 (4.38%) Marketing
6 64 (3.95%) Retail
7 61 (3.76%) Front Office
8 37 (2.28%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (2.28%) Games
9 32 (1.97%) Tech for Good
10 31 (1.91%) Law
11 24 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.17%) Health Technology
14 17 (1.05%) Legal
14 17 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 16 (0.99%) Advertising
16 15 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.80%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.80%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 804 (49.57%) React
2 623 (38.41%) .NET
3 541 (33.35%) HTML
4 517 (31.87%) CSS
5 488 (30.09%) AngularJS
6 433 (26.70%) Node.js
7 371 (22.87%) Vue
8 294 (18.13%) ASP.NET
9 259 (15.97%) jQuery
10 239 (14.73%) Web Services
11 212 (13.07%) REST
12 196 (12.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 190 (11.71%) Laravel
14 155 (9.56%) RESTful
15 147 (9.06%) ASP.NET Core
16 146 (9.00%) .NET Framework
17 133 (8.20%) .NET Core
18 128 (7.89%) Ember.js
19 125 (7.71%) Backbone.js
20 110 (6.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.37%) Data Structures
2 144 (8.88%) Algorithms
3 136 (8.38%) Blockchain
4 126 (7.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 99 (6.10%) Greenfield Project
6 57 (3.51%) Fixed Income
7 52 (3.21%) Hedge funds
8 51 (3.14%) Mobile App
9 38 (2.34%) Private Cloud
10 30 (1.85%) Legacy Code
11 28 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 24 (1.48%) Product Ownership
13 22 (1.36%) Cloud Native
13 22 (1.36%) Equities
14 20 (1.23%) IoT
14 20 (1.23%) Onboarding
15 19 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
16 14 (0.86%) Blog
16 14 (0.86%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 186 (11.47%) Linux
2 145 (8.94%) Windows
3 130 (8.01%) Android
3 130 (8.01%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.31%) Unix
4 5 (0.31%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.062%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.062%) Solaris
7 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,622 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 465 (28.67%) Agile
3 381 (23.49%) DevOps
4 312 (19.24%) MVC
5 284 (17.51%) Web Development
6 259 (15.97%) User Experience
7 234 (14.43%) Artificial Intelligence
8 221 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
8 221 (13.63%) Software Engineering
9 207 (12.76%) Design Patterns
10 199 (12.27%) OOP
11 195 (12.02%) CI/CD
12 181 (11.16%) OO
13 173 (10.67%) SOLID
14 159 (9.80%) Responsive Web Design
15 149 (9.19%) TDD
16 134 (8.26%) Computer Science
17 131 (8.08%) Generative AI
18 125 (7.71%) API Management
18 125 (7.71%) Co-Creation
Programming Languages
1 936 (57.71%) JavaScript
2 631 (38.90%) C#
3 501 (30.89%) SQL
4 408 (25.15%) TypeScript
5 401 (24.72%) Java
6 361 (22.26%) Python
7 243 (14.98%) PHP
8 66 (4.07%) T-SQL
9 44 (2.71%) Go
10 26 (1.60%) Ruby
11 23 (1.42%) Kotlin
12 16 (0.99%) Delphi
13 15 (0.92%) Shell Script
13 15 (0.92%) XPath
14 9 (0.55%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.49%) C++
16 7 (0.43%) Bash
16 7 (0.43%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.43%) VBA
17 6 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 160 (9.86%) Degree
2 96 (5.92%) Security Cleared
3 73 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (4.25%) SC Cleared
5 23 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (0.92%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.68%) Postgraduate
9 7 (0.43%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.25%) HND
11 3 (0.18%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.12%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.062%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.062%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.062%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.08%) QA
2 34 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.80%) GDPR
4 5 (0.31%) 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 (0.062%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.062%) SLA
7 1 (0.062%) WAI
System Software
1 187 (11.53%) Docker
2 9 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.31%) Firmware
4 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.18%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.062%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 104 (6.41%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.64%) Terraform
3 21 (1.29%) Ansible
4 7 (0.43%) Grafana
4 7 (0.43%) Kibana
5 4 (0.25%) Control-M
5 4 (0.25%) Rancher
6 1 (0.062%) Consul
6 1 (0.062%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.062%) Kiali
6 1 (0.062%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.062%) Packer
6 1 (0.062%) Puppet
Vendors
1 129 (7.95%) IBM
2 126 (7.77%) Red Hat
3 85 (5.24%) Microsoft
4 60 (3.70%) Google
5 27 (1.66%) Adobe
5 27 (1.66%) Oracle
6 16 (0.99%) Sitecore
7 14 (0.86%) Cognizant
7 14 (0.86%) OpenAI
7 14 (0.86%) WSO2
8 9 (0.55%) Atlassian
8 9 (0.55%) SAP
9 7 (0.43%) F5
10 6 (0.37%) UiPath
10 6 (0.37%) VMware
10 6 (0.37%) Xamarin
11 5 (0.31%) Facebook
11 5 (0.31%) PayPal
11 5 (0.31%) WorldPay
11 5 (0.31%) Zend