Full-Stack Engineer Job Trends in England

Full-Stack Engineer
UK > England

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 March 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 395 474
Rank change year-on-year +88 +79 +92
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 409 246 350
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 0.64% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.70% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 314 160 269
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £43,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £104,000 £115,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -13.33%

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 60,673 34,988 70,427
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 90.44% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 39,568 21,209 55,516
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £28,501
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

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

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in England

Full-Stack Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 March 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 +102 240 £90,000 +20.00% 86
North of England -11 67 £70,000 +21.74% 18
South East -1 38 £80,000 +23.08% 22
North West -7 29 £70,000 +12.00% 10
Yorkshire -33 23 £67,500 +50.00% 8
Midlands -12 22 £60,000 +14.29% 1
South West -37 22 £60,000 -4.00% 9
East of England -6 15 £47,500 -17.39% 7
North East -12 15 £70,000 -
West Midlands -5 12 £52,500 - 1
East Midlands -30 10 £60,000 -
Full-Stack Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 March 2026, Full-Stack Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 409 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 177 (43.28%) TypeScript
3 171 (41.81%) React
4 169 (41.32%) Software Engineering
5 151 (36.92%) AWS
6 108 (26.41%) Java
7 103 (25.18%) JavaScript
8 93 (22.74%) Agile
9 91 (22.25%) Python
10 90 (22.00%) Node.js
11 83 (20.29%) AI
12 82 (20.05%) .NET
13 74 (18.09%) CI/CD
14 62 (15.16%) Azure
15 58 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 57 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
17 50 (12.22%) Clean Code
18 49 (11.98%) C#
19 47 (11.49%) Microservices
20 45 (11.00%) Test Automation
20 45 (11.00%) User Experience
21 44 (10.76%) GCP
22 40 (9.78%) AngularJS
23 38 (9.29%) Kubernetes
24 37 (9.05%) Docker
25 35 (8.56%) Containerisation
25 35 (8.56%) DevOps
26 34 (8.31%) Computer Science
26 34 (8.31%) SaaS
27 33 (8.07%) Degree

Full-Stack Engineer 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 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 151 (36.92%) AWS
2 62 (15.16%) Azure
3 44 (10.76%) GCP
4 34 (8.31%) SaaS
5 33 (8.07%) Serverless
6 25 (6.11%) GitHub
7 16 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (2.44%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (1.96%) dbt
11 8 (1.96%) Figma
12 7 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.47%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (1.47%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.22%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (1.22%) Azure AKS
15 4 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (0.98%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.73%) HTTP
2 2 (0.49%) Broadband
3 1 (0.24%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.89%) NoSQL
1 20 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.42%) DynamoDB
3 11 (2.69%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.44%) MySQL
4 10 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.98%) Power BI
6 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.49%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.24%) Big Data
8 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.24%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (5.38%) Git
2 13 (3.18%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.71%) TeamCity
4 6 (1.47%) Vite
5 5 (1.22%) GitLab
6 4 (0.98%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.98%) JUnit
7 3 (0.73%) JIRA
8 2 (0.49%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.49%) ESLint
8 2 (0.49%) Storybook
9 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.24%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.24%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.24%) MSTest
9 1 (0.24%) NUnit
9 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (14.67%) Social Skills
2 36 (8.80%) Finance
3 14 (3.42%) Front Office
3 14 (3.42%) Public Sector
4 11 (2.69%) Banking
4 11 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (2.69%) Law
4 11 (2.69%) Tech for Good
5 8 (1.96%) Retail
6 7 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.71%) Manufacturing
6 7 (1.71%) Marketing
7 4 (0.98%) Legal
8 2 (0.49%) Aviation
8 2 (0.49%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.24%) Automotive
9 1 (0.24%) Games
9 1 (0.24%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (41.81%) React
2 90 (22.00%) Node.js
3 82 (20.05%) .NET
4 40 (9.78%) AngularJS
5 31 (7.58%) Next.js
6 30 (7.33%) CSS
6 30 (7.33%) Spring
7 29 (7.09%) Vue
8 28 (6.85%) HTML
9 27 (6.60%) Spring Boot
10 19 (4.65%) REST
10 19 (4.65%) RESTful
11 18 (4.40%) Kafka
11 18 (4.40%) Redux
12 17 (4.16%) .NET Core
13 12 (2.93%) GraphQL
13 12 (2.93%) LangChain
14 11 (2.69%) AWS CDK
15 9 (2.20%) FastAPI
16 8 (1.96%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.87%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (2.93%) IoT
4 12 (2.93%) Smart Energy
5 11 (2.69%) AI Agents
6 9 (2.20%) Fixed Income
6 9 (2.20%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.71%) Blog
8 5 (1.22%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.98%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.98%) NHS
10 3 (0.73%) Derivative
10 3 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.73%) Robotics
10 3 (0.73%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.49%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.98%) Linux
2 2 (0.49%) Android
2 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 169 (41.32%) Software Engineering
3 93 (22.74%) Agile
4 83 (20.29%) AI
5 74 (18.09%) CI/CD
6 58 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 57 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (12.22%) Clean Code
9 47 (11.49%) Microservices
10 45 (11.00%) Test Automation
10 45 (11.00%) User Experience
11 35 (8.56%) Containerisation
11 35 (8.56%) DevOps
12 34 (8.31%) Computer Science
13 28 (6.85%) Mentoring
13 28 (6.85%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (4.89%) Collaborative Culture
15 19 (4.65%) Fintech
15 19 (4.65%) Prototyping
15 19 (4.65%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 177 (43.28%) TypeScript
2 108 (26.41%) Java
3 103 (25.18%) JavaScript
4 91 (22.25%) Python
5 49 (11.98%) C#
6 23 (5.62%) SQL
7 11 (2.69%) Go
8 8 (1.96%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.98%) C++
9 4 (0.98%) Rust
10 3 (0.73%) Ruby
11 2 (0.49%) PHP
12 1 (0.24%) Bash
12 1 (0.24%) Elm
12 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (8.07%) Degree
2 31 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.38%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.24%) MBA
7 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.47%) QA
3 4 (0.98%) GDPR
3 4 (0.98%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.49%) ECSS
System Software
1 37 (9.05%) Docker
2 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (9.29%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.38%) Terraform
3 13 (3.18%) Grafana
4 6 (1.47%) Argo
4 6 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.73%) Podman
6 1 (0.24%) Ansible
6 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (2.69%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.44%) OpenAI
3 6 (1.47%) Google
4 3 (0.73%) Palantir
4 3 (0.73%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.49%) Aderant
5 2 (0.49%) Foundry
5 2 (0.49%) iManage
5 2 (0.49%) Intapp
5 2 (0.49%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe
6 1 (0.24%) Databricks
6 1 (0.24%) VMware