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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 725 620
Rank change year-on-year +266 -105 +115
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Software Engineer 500 249 759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.24% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.26% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 152 141 137
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,392 £40,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +5.26% +38.18%
75th Percentile £104,375 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year -12.00% +16.28% +10.82%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +240 429 £55,000 -12.00% 11
Scotland +137 343 £55,000 +37.50%
England +45 150 £72,500 -9.38% 23
Work from Home -32 78 £63,750 -20.31% 15
London +87 65 £110,000 +29.41% 12
North of England +45 34 £52,500 -32.26% 3
South East +24 23 £60,000 +4.35% 2
North West +19 23 £56,250 -13.46%
Midlands +13 15 £60,000 +18.81% 3
West Midlands +29 9 £60,000 +18.81% 1
Yorkshire +83 8 £45,000 -45.45% 2
East of England +6 6 £48,500 -9.77% 2
East Midlands -12 6 £57,500 - 2
South West -16 5 £50,000 -23.08% 1
Wales +12 3 £68,750 +14.58%
North East -5 3 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 500 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 500 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 395 (79.00%) Agile
3 389 (77.80%) Finance
4 336 (67.20%) Java
5 329 (65.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 318 (63.60%) Law
7 310 (62.00%) SDLC
8 281 (56.20%) Operational Stability
9 278 (55.60%) CI/CD
10 275 (55.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 270 (54.00%) Machine Learning
12 269 (53.80%) React
13 230 (46.00%) SQL
14 220 (44.00%) AngularJS
15 218 (43.60%) Spring
16 183 (36.60%) AWS
17 155 (31.00%) TypeScript
18 151 (30.20%) JavaScript
19 148 (29.60%) Risk Management
20 142 (28.40%) Microservices
21 137 (27.40%) Algorithms
22 135 (27.00%) Community of Practice
23 134 (26.80%) Kafka
23 134 (26.80%) Python
24 131 (26.20%) Legal
24 131 (26.20%) Continuous Improvement
25 127 (25.40%) Visualisation
25 127 (25.40%) Decision-Making
26 120 (24.00%) 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 53 (10.60%) FileNet
2 32 (6.40%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (5.80%) Apache
4 17 (3.40%) Cloud Foundry
5 16 (3.20%) 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
1 183 (36.60%) AWS
2 62 (12.40%) GCP
3 61 (12.20%) Azure
4 53 (10.60%) Amazon S3
5 25 (5.00%) GitHub
6 17 (3.40%) BlazeMeter
7 11 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.60%) 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%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 1 (0.20%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (24.00%) NoSQL
2 73 (14.60%) Elasticsearch
3 61 (12.20%) MongoDB
4 53 (10.60%) Apache Cassandra
5 52 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (7.80%) Relational Database
7 29 (5.80%) Apache Ignite
8 28 (5.60%) MySQL
9 16 (3.20%) Apache Hive
10 14 (2.80%) RDBMS
11 13 (2.60%) 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 72 (14.40%) JUnit
2 37 (7.40%) Git
3 30 (6.00%) Cypress.io
4 29 (5.80%) Jenkins
5 21 (4.20%) Jasmine
6 20 (4.00%) Mockito
7 17 (3.40%) JMeter
8 14 (2.80%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.40%) 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
1 389 (77.80%) Finance
2 329 (65.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 318 (63.60%) Law
4 131 (26.20%) Legal
5 114 (22.80%) Marketing
6 109 (21.80%) Banking
7 67 (13.40%) Front Office
8 40 (8.00%) Private Banking
9 27 (5.40%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
11 16 (3.20%) Social Skills
12 14 (2.80%) Aviation
13 13 (2.60%) Financial Institution
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
1 269 (53.80%) React
2 220 (44.00%) AngularJS
3 218 (43.60%) Spring
4 134 (26.80%) Kafka
5 116 (23.20%) J2EE
6 104 (20.80%) Node.js
7 102 (20.40%) CSS
7 102 (20.40%) HTML
8 91 (18.20%) JMS
9 89 (17.80%) Hibernate
10 86 (17.20%) Spring Boot
11 84 (16.80%) GraphQL
12 70 (14.00%) RESTful
13 63 (12.60%) JSON
14 57 (11.40%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 55 (11.00%) Web Services
16 54 (10.80%) jQuery
17 53 (10.60%) Spring Integration
18 51 (10.20%) Redux
19 49 (9.80%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 137 (27.40%) Algorithms
2 99 (19.80%) Cloud Native
3 49 (9.80%) Fixed Income
4 47 (9.40%) Reference Data
5 39 (7.80%) Onboarding
5 39 (7.80%) Public Cloud
6 33 (6.60%) Data Structures
7 29 (5.80%) Hedge funds
8 19 (3.80%) Private Cloud
9 17 (3.40%) Market Risk
10 15 (3.00%) Management Information System
11 14 (2.80%) Equities
12 9 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.20%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.80%) CAN bus
14 4 (0.80%) IoT
15 2 (0.40%) Credit Risk
15 2 (0.40%) Educational Technology
15 2 (0.40%) Hackathon
16 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
1 500 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 500 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 395 (79.00%) Agile
3 310 (62.00%) SDLC
4 281 (56.20%) Operational Stability
5 278 (55.60%) CI/CD
6 275 (55.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 270 (54.00%) Machine Learning
8 148 (29.60%) Risk Management
9 142 (28.40%) Microservices
10 135 (27.00%) Community of Practice
11 131 (26.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 127 (25.40%) Decision-Making
12 127 (25.40%) Visualisation
13 102 (20.40%) Asset Management
14 89 (17.80%) Investment Management
15 63 (12.60%) Computer Science
16 53 (10.60%) AOP
16 53 (10.60%) Document Management
17 46 (9.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 336 (67.20%) Java
2 230 (46.00%) SQL
3 155 (31.00%) TypeScript
4 151 (30.20%) JavaScript
5 134 (26.80%) Python
6 41 (8.20%) C#
7 23 (4.60%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.60%) C++
9 7 (1.40%) PHP
10 4 (0.80%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.40%) Ruby
11 2 (0.40%) Rust
11 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.20%) Bash
12 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (7.80%) Degree
2 18 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.60%) SC Cleared
3 8 (1.60%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.40%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.40%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.20%) SLA
2 15 (3.00%) 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 (6.80%) 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 79 (15.80%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 106 (21.20%) Oracle
2 37 (7.40%) 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%) VMware
4 2 (0.40%) YouTube
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft