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 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 777 859 592
Rank change year-on-year +82 -267 +173
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer 111 136 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.13% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.15% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 94 86 100
10th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £48,700
25th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% -3.13% +12.28%
75th Percentile £86,250 £99,375 £97,500
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% +3.70%

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 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 8 May 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 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 +49 98 £70,000 -15.15% 30
UK excluding London +6 66 £60,000 -17.24% 4
London +81 44 £82,500 -10.81% 25
Work from Home +52 38 £65,000 -16.13% 15
North of England +58 32 £60,000 -25.00% 2
North West - 22 £60,000 - 2
Wales - 12 £47,500 -
South East +12 10 £60,000 -7.69%
Yorkshire +70 5 £45,000 -43.75%
South West -32 5 £60,000 -17.24%
North East - 5 £65,000 -
East of England +12 4 £70,000 -6.67% 1
Midlands +5 2 £66,250 - 1
East Midlands -12 2 £66,250 - 1
Scotland -58 1 £83,577 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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.

1 111 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 61 (54.95%) JavaScript
3 58 (52.25%) React
4 53 (47.75%) Software Engineering
5 45 (40.54%) TypeScript
6 37 (33.33%) Agile
7 36 (32.43%) Finance
8 34 (30.63%) SQL
9 33 (29.73%) AWS
10 31 (27.93%) Java
11 29 (26.13%) Python
11 29 (26.13%) CSS
11 29 (26.13%) Azure
12 26 (23.42%) Node.js
13 25 (22.52%) Linux
13 25 (22.52%) Docker
13 25 (22.52%) DevOps
14 21 (18.92%) Microservices
15 20 (18.02%) Kubernetes
15 20 (18.02%) C#
16 19 (17.12%) HTML
16 19 (17.12%) AngularJS
16 19 (17.12%) CI/CD
17 18 (16.22%) Fintech
17 18 (16.22%) .NET
18 17 (15.32%) Kafka
19 16 (14.41%) RESTful
19 16 (14.41%) Continuous Integration
19 16 (14.41%) Test Automation
20 15 (13.51%) SDLC

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 (2.70%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.90%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 33 (29.73%) AWS
2 29 (26.13%) Azure
3 10 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.31%) GCP
5 5 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (4.50%) Serverless
6 4 (3.60%) SaaS
7 3 (2.70%) GitHub
7 3 (2.70%) IaaS
8 2 (1.80%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) HTTP
1 3 (2.70%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.11%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.41%) MySQL
4 4 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.80%) Power BI
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.90%) Redis
6 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) GitLab
2 13 (11.71%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.91%) Git
4 5 (4.50%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.60%) Eclipse
5 4 (3.60%) IntelliJ
5 4 (3.60%) JIRA
5 4 (3.60%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.70%) Gradle
6 3 (2.70%) Maven
7 2 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.90%) Jasmine
General
1 36 (32.43%) Finance
2 15 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.61%) Retail
4 13 (11.71%) Law
5 5 (4.50%) Games
5 5 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.50%) Retail Finance
6 4 (3.60%) Health Technology
6 4 (3.60%) Marketing
6 4 (3.60%) Military
6 4 (3.60%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.80%) Electronics
7 2 (1.80%) Legal
7 2 (1.80%) Wearables
8 1 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (52.25%) React
2 29 (26.13%) CSS
3 26 (23.42%) Node.js
4 19 (17.12%) AngularJS
4 19 (17.12%) HTML
5 18 (16.22%) .NET
6 17 (15.32%) Kafka
7 16 (14.41%) RESTful
8 13 (11.71%) Vue
9 12 (10.81%) Django
10 11 (9.91%) Svelte
11 10 (9.01%) Laravel
11 10 (9.01%) Spring
12 9 (8.11%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (8.11%) Symfony
13 7 (6.31%) REST
14 6 (5.41%) Apache Camel
14 6 (5.41%) LAPP Stack
15 5 (4.50%) Lambda Expressions
15 5 (4.50%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.31%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.31%) Legacy Code
3 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.60%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.60%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.80%) IoT
6 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.80%) NHS
7 1 (0.90%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.90%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.90%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.52%) Linux
2 4 (3.60%) AIX
2 4 (3.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 53 (47.75%) Software Engineering
3 37 (33.33%) Agile
4 25 (22.52%) DevOps
5 21 (18.92%) Microservices
6 19 (17.12%) CI/CD
7 18 (16.22%) Fintech
8 16 (14.41%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (14.41%) Test Automation
9 15 (13.51%) Design Patterns
9 15 (13.51%) SDLC
10 14 (12.61%) Wireframes
11 12 (10.81%) Mentoring
12 11 (9.91%) Integration Testing
12 11 (9.91%) Roadmaps
13 10 (9.01%) API Development
13 10 (9.01%) Data Modelling
13 10 (9.01%) Refactoring
13 10 (9.01%) TDD
13 10 (9.01%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 61 (54.95%) JavaScript
2 45 (40.54%) TypeScript
3 34 (30.63%) SQL
4 31 (27.93%) Java
5 29 (26.13%) Python
6 20 (18.02%) C#
7 10 (9.01%) PHP
8 9 (8.11%) C
9 7 (6.31%) Go
10 6 (5.41%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.70%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.80%) C++
12 2 (1.80%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (5.41%) DBS Check
2 5 (4.50%) Degree
3 3 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.70%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.80%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.60%) QA
2 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.80%) IEC 62304
3 2 (1.80%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 25 (22.52%) Docker
2 5 (4.50%) Firmware
3 2 (1.80%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (18.02%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.41%) Terraform
3 5 (4.50%) Ansible
4 3 (2.70%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (5.41%) Oracle
2 4 (3.60%) Rackspace
2 4 (3.60%) Zend
3 3 (2.70%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.70%) Sitecore
4 2 (1.80%) VMware
5 1 (0.90%) SAP