Full-Stack Developer Jobs in Cardiff

Full-Stack Developer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in Cardiff is £61,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 50 43
Rank change year-on-year +27 -7 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 8 15 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.42% 2.27% 4.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.57% 2.42% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 8
10th Percentile - £43,500 £43,650
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £50,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £66,875
90th Percentile £75,750 £57,000 £73,625
South Wales median annual salary £61,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 175 619 525
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.69% 93.79% 90.99%
Number of salaries quoted 124 539 400
10th Percentile £25,436 £27,157 £30,738
25th Percentile £35,438 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,205
Median % change year-on-year - -0.41% -4.37%
75th Percentile £65,344 £65,766 £67,070
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £52,000 £45,000 £45,496
% change year-on-year +15.56% -1.09% -9.01%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in Cardiff

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Full-Stack Developer in Cardiff

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 across the Cardiff region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) HTML
1 8 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (87.50%) CSS
3 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (75.00%) AWS
4 5 (62.50%) Node.js
4 5 (62.50%) Agile
4 5 (62.50%) TDD
4 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
4 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
4 5 (62.50%) React
5 4 (50.00%) Vue
5 4 (50.00%) CMS
5 4 (50.00%) Git
5 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (37.50%) Contentful
6 3 (37.50%) Serverless
6 3 (37.50%) NestJS
6 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (37.50%) REST
6 3 (37.50%) Confluence
6 3 (37.50%) Google
6 3 (37.50%) Web Development
6 3 (37.50%) JIRA
6 3 (37.50%) Symfony
6 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
6 3 (37.50%) MySQL
6 3 (37.50%) GCP
6 3 (37.50%) Microservices
6 3 (37.50%) Azure

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 4 (50.00%) CMS
2 3 (37.50%) Confluence
2 3 (37.50%) Headless CMS
3 2 (25.00%) Apache
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Contentful
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Grunt
3 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) HTML
2 7 (87.50%) CSS
3 5 (62.50%) Node.js
3 5 (62.50%) React
4 4 (50.00%) Vue
5 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (37.50%) Bootstrap
5 3 (37.50%) Express.js
5 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
5 3 (37.50%) hapi
5 3 (37.50%) NestJS
5 3 (37.50%) OpenLayers
5 3 (37.50%) React Native
5 3 (37.50%) REST
5 3 (37.50%) Symfony
6 2 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (12.50%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
2 5 (62.50%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) API Development
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Mobile Application Development
4 3 (37.50%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (37.50%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (37.50%) Web Development
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Coaching
5 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (25.00%) Functional Programming
5 2 (25.00%) Kanban
5 2 (25.00%) MapReduce
5 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
3 2 (25.00%) PHP
3 2 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
1 3 (37.50%) Google