Lead Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in England

Lead Full-Stack Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Full-Stack Developer salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 652 660
Rank change year-on-year +93 +8 +252
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Full-Stack Developer 38 27 30
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.073% 0.056% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.061% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 25 17 26
10th Percentile £70,500 £58,250 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +5.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £94,063
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £76,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.23% -4.06% +5.17%

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 47,437 44,591 47,245
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 92.72% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 29,917 23,336 37,002
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -5.75%
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%

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Lead Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in England

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

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

Lead Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Full-Stack Developer in England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Lead Full-Stack Developer in England

Lead 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 Lead Full-Stack Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +73 24 £100,000 +8.11% 5
North of England - 7 £75,000 - 2
North West - 6 £75,000 - 2
Midlands +22 4 £75,000 +11.11% 1
South West +14 3 £72,500 +18.37%
East Midlands -5 3 £75,000 +15.38% 1
West Midlands +23 1 £75,000 +7.14%
Yorkshire - 1 £65,000 -
Lead Full-Stack Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Lead 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 Lead Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (68.42%) AI
3 24 (63.16%) React
4 18 (47.37%) Python
5 15 (39.47%) AWS
6 13 (34.21%) SQL
7 12 (31.58%) Node.js
8 11 (28.95%) GitHub
8 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (26.32%) Azure
9 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
9 10 (26.32%) Vue
10 9 (23.68%) TypeScript
11 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
11 8 (21.05%) Laravel
12 7 (18.42%) AngularJS
12 7 (18.42%) API Development
12 7 (18.42%) CSS
12 7 (18.42%) Django
12 7 (18.42%) Docker
12 7 (18.42%) FastAPI
12 7 (18.42%) Flask
12 7 (18.42%) Java
12 7 (18.42%) LLM
12 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
12 7 (18.42%) SaaS
12 7 (18.42%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (18.42%) User Experience
13 6 (15.79%) Amazon S3
13 6 (15.79%) AWS Lambda

Lead 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 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (39.47%) AWS
2 11 (28.95%) GitHub
3 10 (26.32%) Azure
4 7 (18.42%) SaaS
5 6 (15.79%) Amazon S3
5 6 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (15.79%) Serverless
6 5 (13.16%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.63%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (7.89%) MySQL
3 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.63%) DB2
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) ESLint
1 3 (7.89%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Selenium
2 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.63%) webpack
General
1 9 (23.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Local Government
5 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (63.16%) React
2 12 (31.58%) Node.js
3 10 (26.32%) Vue
4 8 (21.05%) Laravel
5 7 (18.42%) AngularJS
5 7 (18.42%) CSS
5 7 (18.42%) Django
5 7 (18.42%) FastAPI
5 7 (18.42%) Flask
6 5 (13.16%) .NET
6 5 (13.16%) Hugging Face
6 5 (13.16%) RESTful
7 4 (10.53%) .NET Core
7 4 (10.53%) HTML
7 4 (10.53%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (7.89%) Alpine.js
8 3 (7.89%) React Native
8 3 (7.89%) WebAssembly
9 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (2.63%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.89%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.26%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (68.42%) AI
3 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
5 7 (18.42%) API Development
5 7 (18.42%) LLM
5 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
5 7 (18.42%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (18.42%) User Experience
6 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
6 6 (15.79%) Machine Learning
6 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.16%) Clean Code
7 5 (13.16%) Generative AI
7 5 (13.16%) Prompt Engineering
7 5 (13.16%) Responsive Web Design
7 5 (13.16%) UX Design
8 4 (10.53%) Agile
8 4 (10.53%) Event-Driven
8 4 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Python
2 13 (34.21%) SQL
3 9 (23.68%) TypeScript
4 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
5 7 (18.42%) Java
6 6 (15.79%) PHP
7 5 (13.16%) C#
8 1 (2.63%) RPG
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) OpenAI
2 2 (5.26%) Foundry
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) IBM