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 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 270 186
Rank change year-on-year +43 -84 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 488 520 849
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.93% 1.08% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.16% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 366 313 782
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,625 £98,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,884 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.29% -7.39% -3.85%

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 47,440 44,776 47,116
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 92.73% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 29,933 23,492 36,893
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -5.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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
London +41 180 £80,000 +16.36% 62
South East +10 129 £60,000 +9.09% 78
North of England +43 78 £56,000 +17.89% 54
Midlands +16 47 £57,500 -4.17% 31
South West +5 37 £60,000 +9.09% 27
Yorkshire +2 29 £75,000 +42.86% 20
North West +18 27 £65,000 +36.84% 22
West Midlands +27 25 £60,000 - 8
North East +19 22 £50,000 +17.65% 12
East Midlands -5 22 £55,000 -5.58% 22
East of England -1 21 £60,000 +33.33% 32
Full-Stack Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 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.

1 488 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 250 (51.23%) React
3 195 (39.96%) JavaScript
4 169 (34.63%) AWS
5 147 (30.12%) TypeScript
6 143 (29.30%) .NET
7 140 (28.69%) Agile
8 136 (27.87%) C#
9 133 (27.25%) Azure
10 121 (24.80%) Java
11 118 (24.18%) CI/CD
12 107 (21.93%) HTML
13 106 (21.72%) CSS
14 102 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (20.90%) Python
15 101 (20.70%) AngularJS
15 101 (20.70%) SQL
16 99 (20.29%) DevOps
16 99 (20.29%) Node.js
17 92 (18.85%) REST
18 85 (17.42%) Microservices
19 83 (17.01%) Docker
20 75 (15.37%) Git
21 72 (14.75%) User Experience
22 71 (14.55%) AI
22 71 (14.55%) Vue
23 64 (13.11%) Software Engineering
24 61 (12.50%) Kubernetes
24 61 (12.50%) RESTful
25 58 (11.89%) Security Cleared

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 8 (1.64%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.43%) Confluence
3 6 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.82%) CMS
5 3 (0.61%) Liferay
5 3 (0.61%) nginx
6 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) Kentico
7 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.41%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 169 (34.63%) AWS
2 133 (27.25%) Azure
3 51 (10.45%) Serverless
4 39 (7.99%) GCP
5 36 (7.38%) GitHub
6 33 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
7 31 (6.35%) SaaS
8 25 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (3.89%) Amazon S3
11 17 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.64%) Power Platform
15 7 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (1.23%) Amazon EventBridge
16 6 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
17 5 (1.02%) npm
18 4 (0.82%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) AMQP
1 2 (0.41%) Broadband
1 2 (0.41%) HTTP
2 1 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 48 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (9.43%) NoSQL
4 41 (8.40%) Relational Database
5 23 (4.71%) MySQL
6 21 (4.30%) RDBMS
7 15 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (2.66%) Redis
9 10 (2.05%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.64%) DB2
11 7 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.43%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.23%) Power BI
13 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.41%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.41%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 1 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 75 (15.37%) Git
2 34 (6.97%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.10%) JUnit
4 19 (3.89%) Mockito
5 12 (2.46%) TeamCity
6 11 (2.25%) JIRA
6 11 (2.25%) JMeter
7 8 (1.64%) Maven
8 7 (1.43%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.43%) Selenium
9 6 (1.23%) webpack
10 5 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.02%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.02%) git-flow
11 4 (0.82%) Mocha
11 4 (0.82%) Storybook
12 3 (0.61%) ESLint
12 3 (0.61%) GitLab
12 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.41%) CircleCI
General
1 101 (20.70%) Social Skills
2 57 (11.68%) Finance
3 32 (6.56%) Public Sector
4 30 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.53%) Banking
6 21 (4.30%) Law
7 20 (4.10%) Investment Banking
8 17 (3.48%) Marketing
9 15 (3.07%) Aviation
10 11 (2.25%) Front Office
10 11 (2.25%) Games
10 11 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.25%) Legal
10 11 (2.25%) Retail
11 8 (1.64%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.02%) Electronics
14 3 (0.61%) Local Government
14 3 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (51.23%) React
2 143 (29.30%) .NET
3 107 (21.93%) HTML
4 106 (21.72%) CSS
5 101 (20.70%) AngularJS
6 99 (20.29%) Node.js
7 92 (18.85%) REST
8 71 (14.55%) Vue
9 61 (12.50%) RESTful
10 54 (11.07%) Spring
11 44 (9.02%) .NET Core
12 38 (7.79%) ASP.NET
13 34 (6.97%) Spring Boot
14 29 (5.94%) .NET Framework
15 28 (5.74%) CSS3
15 28 (5.74%) HTML5
16 27 (5.53%) Kafka
17 24 (4.92%) ASP.NET Core
17 24 (4.92%) Next.js
18 22 (4.51%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (4.30%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.69%) Mobile App
4 18 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.05%) Hedge funds
6 10 (2.05%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.82%) AI Agents
8 4 (0.82%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.41%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.41%) IoT
9 2 (0.41%) Robotics
9 2 (0.41%) Social Media
9 2 (0.41%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.84%) Android
1 9 (1.84%) Apple iOS
2 8 (1.64%) Linux
3 2 (0.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 140 (28.69%) Agile
3 118 (24.18%) CI/CD
4 102 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
5 99 (20.29%) DevOps
6 85 (17.42%) Microservices
7 72 (14.75%) User Experience
8 71 (14.55%) AI
9 64 (13.11%) Software Engineering
10 46 (9.43%) SDLC
11 45 (9.22%) Clean Code
12 44 (9.02%) Scrum
13 43 (8.81%) TDD
14 42 (8.61%) Web Development
15 40 (8.20%) Containerisation
16 38 (7.79%) UX Design
17 35 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (6.76%) Front End Development
19 30 (6.15%) Mentoring
19 30 (6.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 195 (39.96%) JavaScript
2 147 (30.12%) TypeScript
3 136 (27.87%) C#
4 121 (24.80%) Java
5 102 (20.90%) Python
6 101 (20.70%) SQL
7 30 (6.15%) PHP
8 13 (2.66%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.84%) C
9 9 (1.84%) Go
10 8 (1.64%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.43%) C++
12 6 (1.23%) Bash
12 6 (1.23%) R
13 4 (0.82%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.82%) XAML
14 3 (0.61%) COBOL
15 2 (0.41%) RPG
16 1 (0.20%) Ruby
16 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (11.89%) Security Cleared
2 29 (5.94%) Degree
2 29 (5.94%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (3.48%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.56%) QA
2 27 (5.53%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.23%) WCAG
4 2 (0.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 83 (17.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.10%) Terraform
3 11 (2.25%) Kibana
4 8 (1.64%) Ansible
5 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Argo
6 1 (0.20%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (3.69%) Oracle
2 13 (2.66%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.46%) Dynatrace
4 11 (2.25%) Splunk
5 8 (1.64%) Google
6 7 (1.43%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.82%) Telerik
8 3 (0.61%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.61%) Pega
8 3 (0.61%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.61%) WSO2
8 3 (0.61%) Zoho
9 2 (0.41%) Foundry
9 2 (0.41%) IBM
9 2 (0.41%) iManage
9 2 (0.41%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.41%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe
10 1 (0.20%) DevExpress
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat