Full-Stack Developer Jobs in Scotland

Full-Stack Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in Scotland is £51,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 226 135
Rank change year-on-year +98 -91 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 17 51 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.60% 0.76% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.78% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5 33 45
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £56,250 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £57,000 £79,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +7.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,557 6,524 4,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 96.85% 90.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,620 2,315
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £31,569
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,449
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in Scotland

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Full-Stack Developer in Scotland

Full-Stack Developer
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +9 9 £55,000 +7.32% 1
Glasgow +160 6 £51,750 -20.38% 4
Fife - 2 £47,500 - 1
Full-Stack Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Scotland region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
3 8 (47.06%) C#
3 8 (47.06%) .NET
3 8 (47.06%) React
4 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (41.18%) Java
4 7 (41.18%) CSS
4 7 (41.18%) Agile
5 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET
5 6 (35.29%) AngularJS
5 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
5 6 (35.29%) SDLC
5 6 (35.29%) Next.js
6 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
6 5 (29.41%) Azure
6 5 (29.41%) AWS
7 4 (23.53%) Umbraco
7 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
7 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
7 4 (23.53%) Finance
7 4 (23.53%) CMS
7 4 (23.53%) Web Development
7 4 (23.53%) Degree
7 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
8 3 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Strategy
8 3 (17.65%) Strategic Thinking
8 3 (17.65%) Optimizely
8 3 (17.65%) Compass CSS Framework

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (23.53%) CMS
1 4 (23.53%) Umbraco
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Solr
2 3 (17.65%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (5.88%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (17.65%) MSBuild
1 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
1 3 (17.65%) webpack
2 2 (11.76%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Marketing
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) .NET
1 8 (47.06%) React
2 7 (41.18%) CSS
3 6 (35.29%) AngularJS
3 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET
3 6 (35.29%) Next.js
4 3 (17.65%) Compass CSS Framework
4 3 (17.65%) HTML
4 3 (17.65%) Sass
4 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 3 (17.65%) Vue
5 2 (11.76%) Node.js
5 2 (11.76%) REST
5 2 (11.76%) RESTful
5 2 (11.76%) SOAP
6 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.88%) CSS3
6 1 (5.88%) HTML5
6 1 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (35.29%) SDLC
4 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
5 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
5 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Web Development
6 3 (17.65%) API Design
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
6 3 (17.65%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Strategy
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (17.65%) Personalization
6 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
6 3 (17.65%) Secure Coding
6 3 (17.65%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
7 2 (11.76%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) JavaScript
2 8 (47.06%) C#
3 7 (41.18%) Java
4 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 3 (17.65%) Scala
5 3 (17.65%) SQL
6 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Optimizely
1 3 (17.65%) Sitecore
2 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk