Senior Full Stack Engineer Jobs

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack 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 782 828 598
Rank change year-on-year +46 -230 +180
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer 114 142 805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.14% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.15% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 97 90 96
10th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £46,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% -1.56% +14.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £99,375 £94,063
90th Percentile £92,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% +7.69%

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%

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Full Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Full Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Top 15 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 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
England +78 98 £70,000 -15.15% 37
UK excluding London +26 68 £60,000 -17.24% 7
London +87 44 £82,500 -10.81% 29
Work from Home +72 39 £67,500 -15.63% 25
North of England +67 32 £60,000 -27.27% 3
North West - 22 £60,000 - 1
Wales - 12 £47,500 -
South East +25 11 £60,000 -7.69%
Yorkshire +82 5 £45,000 -45.45% 2
South West -8 5 £60,000 -17.24% 1
North East - 5 £65,000 -
East of England +13 4 £70,000 -6.67%
Scotland -62 3 £83,577 +23.82% 1
Midlands +7 1 £65,000 -18.75% 2
East Midlands -15 1 £65,000 -18.75% 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Full Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 114 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 65 (57.02%) JavaScript
3 62 (54.39%) React
4 54 (47.37%) Software Engineering
5 46 (40.35%) TypeScript
6 41 (35.96%) Agile
7 38 (33.33%) Finance
8 36 (31.58%) SQL
9 33 (28.95%) AWS
10 32 (28.07%) CSS
11 31 (27.19%) Java
11 31 (27.19%) Azure
12 29 (25.44%) Node.js
13 28 (24.56%) Python
14 26 (22.81%) Linux
14 26 (22.81%) Docker
14 26 (22.81%) DevOps
15 24 (21.05%) C#
16 22 (19.30%) HTML
16 22 (19.30%) Kubernetes
16 22 (19.30%) AngularJS
17 21 (18.42%) Microservices
17 21 (18.42%) .NET
18 20 (17.54%) CI/CD
19 19 (16.67%) RESTful
20 18 (15.79%) Fintech
21 17 (14.91%) Kafka
22 16 (14.04%) Social Skills
22 16 (14.04%) Test Automation
22 16 (14.04%) Continuous Integration

Senior 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 3 (2.63%) Cloud Foundry
1 3 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.88%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 33 (28.95%) AWS
2 31 (27.19%) Azure
3 11 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (7.02%) GCP
5 6 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (4.39%) Serverless
7 3 (2.63%) GitHub
7 3 (2.63%) IaaS
7 3 (2.63%) SaaS
8 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) HTTP
1 3 (2.63%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.77%) MongoDB
3 9 (7.89%) MySQL
4 4 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.75%) Power BI
7 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.88%) Redis
7 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (12.28%) Git
1 14 (12.28%) GitLab
2 13 (11.40%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.26%) JIRA
4 5 (4.39%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.51%) Eclipse
5 4 (3.51%) IntelliJ
5 4 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.63%) Gradle
6 3 (2.63%) Maven
7 2 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.75%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.88%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.88%) webpack
General
1 38 (33.33%) Finance
2 16 (14.04%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.28%) Retail
4 13 (11.40%) Law
5 5 (4.39%) Games
5 5 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.39%) Retail Finance
6 4 (3.51%) Health Technology
6 4 (3.51%) Military
6 4 (3.51%) Tech for Good
7 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Banking
7 3 (2.63%) Marketing
8 2 (1.75%) Electronics
8 2 (1.75%) Legal
8 2 (1.75%) Wearables
9 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (54.39%) React
2 32 (28.07%) CSS
3 29 (25.44%) Node.js
4 22 (19.30%) AngularJS
4 22 (19.30%) HTML
5 21 (18.42%) .NET
6 19 (16.67%) RESTful
7 17 (14.91%) Kafka
8 12 (10.53%) Django
8 12 (10.53%) Vue
9 11 (9.65%) Svelte
10 10 (8.77%) Laravel
10 10 (8.77%) Spring
11 9 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (7.89%) Symfony
12 7 (6.14%) REST
13 6 (5.26%) Apache Camel
13 6 (5.26%) LAPP Stack
14 5 (4.39%) Lambda Expressions
14 5 (4.39%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.02%) Legacy Code
2 8 (7.02%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.51%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.63%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.75%) IoT
7 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.75%) NHS
8 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.88%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.88%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.81%) Linux
2 4 (3.51%) AIX
2 4 (3.51%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 54 (47.37%) Software Engineering
3 41 (35.96%) Agile
4 26 (22.81%) DevOps
5 21 (18.42%) Microservices
6 20 (17.54%) CI/CD
7 18 (15.79%) Fintech
8 16 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (14.04%) Design Patterns
8 16 (14.04%) Test Automation
9 15 (13.16%) SDLC
10 14 (12.28%) Wireframes
11 13 (11.40%) API Development
12 11 (9.65%) Integration Testing
12 11 (9.65%) Mentoring
12 11 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (9.65%) Roadmaps
13 10 (8.77%) TDD
14 9 (7.89%) Data Modelling
14 9 (7.89%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 65 (57.02%) JavaScript
2 46 (40.35%) TypeScript
3 36 (31.58%) SQL
4 31 (27.19%) Java
5 28 (24.56%) Python
6 24 (21.05%) C#
7 10 (8.77%) PHP
8 9 (7.89%) C
9 8 (7.02%) Go
10 6 (5.26%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.63%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.63%) VBA
12 2 (1.75%) C++
12 2 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (5.26%) DBS Check
2 5 (4.39%) Degree
3 3 (2.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.75%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.51%) QA
2 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.75%) GDPR
3 2 (1.75%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.75%) IEC 62304
3 2 (1.75%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 26 (22.81%) Docker
2 5 (4.39%) Firmware
3 2 (1.75%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (19.30%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.26%) Terraform
3 5 (4.39%) Ansible
4 3 (2.63%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (5.26%) Oracle
2 4 (3.51%) Rackspace
2 4 (3.51%) Zend
3 3 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.63%) Sitecore
4 2 (1.75%) VMware
5 1 (0.88%) Google
5 1 (0.88%) SAP