Senior Full Stack Developer Jobs

Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £67,500 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 572 416 547
Rank change year-on-year -156 +131 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full Stack Developer 335 771 964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.76% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.83% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 290 247 370
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,750 £95,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.52% +11.54% +22.64%

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%

Senior Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Full Stack Developer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Full Stack Developer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Full Stack Developer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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 -149 291 £67,500 -10.00% 42
UK excluding London -273 159 £61,250 -15.52% 22
London +93 144 £80,000 - 22
Work from Home +40 138 £67,500 -10.00% 30
South East -69 47 £65,000 -13.33% 4
North of England -64 44 £62,500 +2.04% 6
North West -11 27 £67,500 +3.85% 5
Midlands -110 27 £65,000 - 3
South West -54 25 £60,000 - 2
East Midlands -77 15 £72,500 +31.82% 2
Yorkshire +13 14 £55,000 +27.91% 1
West Midlands -38 12 £62,500 -7.41% 1
Wales 0 11 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Scotland -95 4 £70,000 +30.23% 2
North East -27 3 £60,000 -
East of England +1 1 £80,000 +10.34% 2

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 335 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 185 (55.22%) JavaScript
3 155 (46.27%) React
4 111 (33.13%) C#
5 105 (31.34%) .NET
6 101 (30.15%) Azure
7 95 (28.36%) Agile
8 86 (25.67%) HTML
9 84 (25.07%) TypeScript
10 83 (24.78%) CSS
11 79 (23.58%) AngularJS
12 78 (23.28%) AWS
12 78 (23.28%) SQL
13 72 (21.49%) DevOps
14 71 (21.19%) Java
15 70 (20.90%) Node.js
15 70 (20.90%) Social Skills
16 66 (19.70%) CI/CD
17 64 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
18 63 (18.81%) Vue
19 56 (16.72%) Finance
20 50 (14.93%) Python
21 49 (14.63%) RESTful
22 47 (14.03%) Git
23 41 (12.24%) PHP
23 41 (12.24%) Laravel
24 39 (11.64%) Docker
25 38 (11.34%) Front End Development
25 38 (11.34%) Mentoring
25 38 (11.34%) User Experience

Senior 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 22 (6.57%) CMS
2 7 (2.09%) Apache
2 7 (2.09%) nginx
3 5 (1.49%) Confluence
3 5 (1.49%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.90%) WordPress
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 14 (4.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (4.18%) SDL Web 8
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 101 (30.15%) Azure
2 78 (23.28%) AWS
3 33 (9.85%) SaaS
4 24 (7.16%) GCP
5 17 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (5.07%) GitHub
6 14 (4.18%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 14 (4.18%) NuGet
7 10 (2.99%) Serverless
8 7 (2.09%) npm
9 6 (1.79%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.49%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (1.49%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.49%) Stripe
10 5 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.19%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.19%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.49%) MQTT
1 5 (1.49%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (1.49%) VPN
2 2 (0.60%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.75%) SQL Server
2 33 (9.85%) MySQL
3 22 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (6.27%) Relational Database
5 18 (5.37%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.69%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.79%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.60%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (14.03%) Git
2 28 (8.36%) JIRA
3 17 (5.07%) NUnit
4 16 (4.78%) Visual Studio
5 14 (4.18%) git-flow
5 14 (4.18%) Moq
5 14 (4.18%) Octopus Deploy
5 14 (4.18%) Sourcetree
5 14 (4.18%) SpecFlow
5 14 (4.18%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.49%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.49%) PHPUnit
6 5 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.90%) MSTest
7 3 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.90%) webpack
8 2 (0.60%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.60%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.60%) JUnit
General
1 70 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.72%) Finance
3 27 (8.06%) Banking
4 24 (7.16%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.07%) Marketing
6 12 (3.58%) Health Technology
7 11 (3.28%) French Language
7 11 (3.28%) Retail
8 10 (2.99%) Games
9 9 (2.69%) Tech for Good
10 8 (2.39%) Legal
11 5 (1.49%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.19%) Advertising
12 4 (1.19%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.60%) Electronics
13 2 (0.60%) Music Industry
13 2 (0.60%) Wearables
14 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (46.27%) React
2 105 (31.34%) .NET
3 86 (25.67%) HTML
4 83 (24.78%) CSS
5 79 (23.58%) AngularJS
6 70 (20.90%) Node.js
7 63 (18.81%) Vue
8 49 (14.63%) RESTful
9 41 (12.24%) Laravel
10 36 (10.75%) ASP.NET
10 36 (10.75%) Web Services
11 30 (8.96%) .NET Framework
12 27 (8.06%) Spring
13 25 (7.46%) Entity Framework
14 22 (6.57%) jQuery
15 20 (5.97%) Hibernate
16 18 (5.37%) JMS
17 16 (4.78%) ASP.NET MVC 5
17 16 (4.78%) Tailwind CSS
18 15 (4.48%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.25%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.48%) Legacy Code
3 15 (4.48%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.58%) IoT
5 11 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.69%) Online Banking
6 9 (2.69%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.39%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.79%) NHS
9 5 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.19%) Podcast
11 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.60%) iPhone
12 2 (0.60%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.30%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.30%) Housing Association
13 1 (0.30%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.69%) Linux
2 4 (1.19%) Android
2 4 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.60%) Windows
4 1 (0.30%) Solaris
4 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 95 (28.36%) Agile
3 72 (21.49%) DevOps
4 66 (19.70%) CI/CD
5 64 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (11.34%) Front End Development
6 38 (11.34%) Mentoring
6 38 (11.34%) User Experience
7 35 (10.45%) Software Engineering
8 34 (10.15%) API Development
9 33 (9.85%) TDD
10 31 (9.25%) Scrum
11 30 (8.96%) Computer Science
11 30 (8.96%) MVC
12 28 (8.36%) Software Testing
13 27 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns
14 24 (7.16%) Unit Testing
15 23 (6.87%) Fintech
15 23 (6.87%) Machine Learning
15 23 (6.87%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 185 (55.22%) JavaScript
2 111 (33.13%) C#
3 84 (25.07%) TypeScript
4 78 (23.28%) SQL
5 71 (21.19%) Java
6 50 (14.93%) Python
7 41 (12.24%) PHP
8 29 (8.66%) T-SQL
9 15 (4.48%) Go
10 14 (4.18%) XPath
11 8 (2.39%) Ruby
12 5 (1.49%) Delphi
12 5 (1.49%) JSX
12 5 (1.49%) R
13 3 (0.90%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.60%) C++
14 2 (0.60%) VBA
15 1 (0.30%) Bash
15 1 (0.30%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 34 (10.15%) Degree
2 25 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.07%) BPSS Clearance
3 17 (5.07%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.60%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.37%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.58%) QA
3 3 (0.90%) PMO
4 2 (0.60%) GDPR
4 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.60%) IEC 62304
4 2 (0.60%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 39 (11.64%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.60%) Firmware
2 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.09%) Terraform
3 1 (0.30%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (4.18%) Adobe
1 14 (4.18%) Cognizant
2 10 (2.99%) Google
2 10 (2.99%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.39%) OpenAI
4 6 (1.79%) F5
5 5 (1.49%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.49%) PayPal
5 5 (1.49%) WorldPay
6 4 (1.19%) Sitecore
7 3 (0.90%) New Relic
7 3 (0.90%) Oracle
8 2 (0.60%) VMware
9 1 (0.30%) Apple
9 1 (0.30%) Monzo
9 1 (0.30%) SAP
9 1 (0.30%) Sony
9 1 (0.30%) Sybase