Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in England

Full-Stack Developer
UK > England

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 286 163
Rank change year-on-year +85 -123 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 905 449 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.03% 1.04% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.15% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 810 345 1,121
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 82,591 39,177 83,567
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 90.42% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 58,075 23,624 60,974
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,233 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in England

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in England

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in England over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in England

Full-Stack Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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
North of England +130 255 £65,000 +8.33% 9
South East +73 220 £60,000 +4.35% 33
London -21 195 £80,000 +6.67% 26
North West +75 118 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Yorkshire +53 106 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Midlands +28 106 £60,000 +4.35% 21
South West +4 93 £56,250 -6.25% 4
West Midlands -6 60 £60,000 - 14
East Midlands -7 46 £60,000 +26.32% 7
East of England -14 39 £80,000 +77.78% 8
North East -27 31 £50,000 -37.50% 2
Full-Stack Developer
UK

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 July 2026, Full-Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 905 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 288 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 279 (30.83%) TypeScript
4 276 (30.50%) React
5 244 (26.96%) AWS
6 194 (21.44%) Node.js
7 188 (20.77%) .NET
8 172 (19.01%) C#
9 165 (18.23%) Python
10 158 (17.46%) Agile
11 149 (16.46%) Azure
12 144 (15.91%) CI/CD
13 141 (15.58%) Java
14 134 (14.81%) AI
15 129 (14.25%) AngularJS
16 121 (13.37%) Software Engineering
17 115 (12.71%) CSS
18 113 (12.49%) Vue
19 111 (12.27%) HTML
20 109 (12.04%) Microservices
21 107 (11.82%) DevOps
22 98 (10.83%) SQL
23 96 (10.61%) SaaS
24 90 (9.94%) Docker
25 86 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
25 86 (9.50%) Web Development
26 84 (9.28%) Git
27 82 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
28 77 (8.51%) Serverless
29 72 (7.96%) SQL Server

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (1.88%) CMS
2 10 (1.10%) Confluence
2 10 (1.10%) WordPress
3 7 (0.77%) ColdFusion
4 4 (0.44%) IIS
5 3 (0.33%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.22%) Apache
6 2 (0.22%) nginx
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.11%) CICS
7 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Elementor
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) Magento
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 244 (26.96%) AWS
2 149 (16.46%) Azure
3 96 (10.61%) SaaS
4 77 (8.51%) Serverless
5 58 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (5.86%) GitHub
7 51 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
8 49 (5.41%) Amazon S3
9 43 (4.75%) GCP
10 29 (3.20%) AWS Step Functions
11 27 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (2.21%) Amazon ECR
15 20 (2.21%) Apigee
16 17 (1.88%) Power Platform
17 15 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
18 14 (1.55%) Snowflake
19 11 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.44%) DNS
1 4 (0.44%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) Broadband
2 2 (0.22%) Firewall
2 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (7.96%) SQL Server
2 55 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (3.87%) DynamoDB
4 33 (3.65%) MySQL
5 32 (3.54%) NoSQL
6 26 (2.87%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.32%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.10%) Redis
9 12 (1.33%) Power BI
10 11 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.88%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.44%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.33%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.22%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.22%) GIS
14 2 (0.22%) TimescaleDB
15 1 (0.11%) Apache Arrow
15 1 (0.11%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 84 (9.28%) Git
2 44 (4.86%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.98%) GitLab
4 19 (2.10%) JIRA
4 19 (2.10%) Maven
5 17 (1.88%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.33%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.22%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.10%) JUnit
9 7 (0.77%) Mockito
10 4 (0.44%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.44%) Postman
11 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.22%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.22%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.22%) JMeter
12 2 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.22%) NUnit
12 2 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 85 (9.39%) Social Skills
2 63 (6.96%) Finance
3 25 (2.76%) Retail
4 24 (2.65%) Public Sector
5 19 (2.10%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (1.33%) Front Office
7 11 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.22%) Legal
8 10 (1.10%) Aviation
8 10 (1.10%) Marketing
9 9 (0.99%) Tech for Good
10 8 (0.88%) Banking
11 7 (0.77%) Advertising
11 7 (0.77%) Games
11 7 (0.77%) Legal Technology
12 5 (0.55%) Law
13 4 (0.44%) Publishing
14 3 (0.33%) Automotive
15 2 (0.22%) Back Office
15 2 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (30.50%) React
2 194 (21.44%) Node.js
3 188 (20.77%) .NET
4 129 (14.25%) AngularJS
5 115 (12.71%) CSS
6 113 (12.49%) Vue
7 111 (12.27%) HTML
8 65 (7.18%) REST
9 58 (6.41%) RESTful
9 58 (6.41%) Spring
10 56 (6.19%) Spring Boot
11 44 (4.86%) Laravel
12 43 (4.75%) Next.js
13 38 (4.20%) GraphQL
14 37 (4.09%) .NET Core
15 32 (3.54%) ASP.NET
16 28 (3.09%) .NET Framework
16 28 (3.09%) Entity Framework
17 26 (2.87%) HTML5
18 24 (2.65%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.97%) Cloud Native
2 21 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (1.44%) Mobile App
6 11 (1.22%) Fixed Income
6 11 (1.22%) Product Ownership
7 8 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.77%) IoT
8 7 (0.77%) Sports Betting
9 5 (0.55%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.44%) Augmented Reality
10 4 (0.44%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.44%) PropTech
10 4 (0.44%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.33%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.33%) NHS
11 3 (0.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.66%) Linux
2 2 (0.22%) Windows
3 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 905 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 158 (17.46%) Agile
3 144 (15.91%) CI/CD
4 134 (14.81%) AI
5 121 (13.37%) Software Engineering
6 109 (12.04%) Microservices
7 107 (11.82%) DevOps
8 86 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
8 86 (9.50%) Web Development
9 82 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (6.85%) Clean Code
11 60 (6.63%) Mentoring
12 51 (5.64%) Front End Development
13 50 (5.52%) E-Commerce
14 46 (5.08%) Computer Science
14 46 (5.08%) User Experience
15 42 (4.64%) SDLC
16 40 (4.42%) Technical Leadership
17 38 (4.20%) Containerisation
18 36 (3.98%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 288 (31.82%) JavaScript
2 279 (30.83%) TypeScript
3 172 (19.01%) C#
4 165 (18.23%) Python
5 141 (15.58%) Java
6 98 (10.83%) SQL
7 59 (6.52%) PHP
8 20 (2.21%) Groovy
9 17 (1.88%) Bash
10 15 (1.66%) Ruby
11 12 (1.33%) Go
12 9 (0.99%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.88%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.66%) C++
15 3 (0.33%) C
16 2 (0.22%) Bicep
16 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.11%) CFML
17 1 (0.11%) R
17 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (6.19%) Security Cleared
2 54 (5.97%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.41%) Degree
4 43 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.11%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.22%) Accessibility
2 9 (0.99%) QA
3 6 (0.66%) WCAG
4 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (9.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 31 (3.43%) Terraform
3 11 (1.22%) HP Fortify
4 7 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.66%) Ansible
5 6 (0.66%) Grafana
6 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.33%) Kibana
8 2 (0.22%) Argo
8 2 (0.22%) Nagios
8 2 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 55 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 13 (1.44%) Google
3 11 (1.22%) Oracle
4 10 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 5 (0.55%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.55%) OneLogin
5 5 (0.55%) Peregrine
6 4 (0.44%) Pega
7 2 (0.22%) Aderant
7 2 (0.22%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.22%) iManage
7 2 (0.22%) Intapp
7 2 (0.22%) Splunk
7 2 (0.22%) WooCommerce
7 2 (0.22%) WSO2
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe
8 1 (0.11%) Confluent
8 1 (0.11%) Databricks