Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 278 179
Rank change year-on-year +99 -99 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 769 320 1,051
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.07% 0.95% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.06% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 697 244 793
10th Percentile £43,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.37%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 68,088 30,221 67,123
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 89.44% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 47,187 17,297 47,231
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,958 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,806
% change year-on-year - +4.15% -11.99%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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 +112 254 £65,000 +8.33% 12
South East +62 220 £60,000 +4.35% 25
North West +76 117 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Midlands +19 108 £60,000 +4.35% 19
Yorkshire +56 106 £75,000 +25.00% 3
South West +1 93 £56,250 -6.25% 6
West Midlands +3 61 £60,000 - 12
East Midlands +14 47 £60,000 +26.32% 7
Scotland +32 40 £55,000 -4.35% 5
East of England -13 40 £77,500 +72.22% 7
North East -26 31 £50,000 -37.50% 3
Wales -57 12 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Northern Ireland -61 2 £60,000 -
Full-Stack Developer
UK

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 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 UK excluding London region featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 769 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 259 (33.68%) JavaScript
3 225 (29.26%) TypeScript
4 207 (26.92%) React
5 202 (26.27%) AWS
6 160 (20.81%) Node.js
7 151 (19.64%) .NET
8 137 (17.82%) C#
9 128 (16.64%) Java
10 127 (16.51%) Agile
11 123 (15.99%) CI/CD
12 122 (15.86%) Python
13 107 (13.91%) Azure
14 105 (13.65%) CSS
15 101 (13.13%) HTML
16 96 (12.48%) Software Engineering
17 92 (11.96%) Microservices
18 91 (11.83%) DevOps
19 90 (11.70%) AngularJS
20 87 (11.31%) SQL
20 87 (11.31%) Web Development
21 84 (10.92%) AI
22 82 (10.66%) Vue
23 77 (10.01%) SaaS
24 75 (9.75%) SQL Server
25 70 (9.10%) Serverless
26 69 (8.97%) Docker
27 66 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
28 65 (8.45%) Git
28 65 (8.45%) Problem-Solving

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.21%) CMS
2 12 (1.56%) Confluence
3 11 (1.43%) WordPress
4 8 (1.04%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.52%) IIS
6 3 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.26%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.26%) Elementor
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 202 (26.27%) AWS
2 107 (13.91%) Azure
3 77 (10.01%) SaaS
4 70 (9.10%) Serverless
5 52 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
6 48 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
6 48 (6.24%) Amazon S3
7 35 (4.55%) GitHub
8 28 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
9 25 (3.25%) GCP
10 21 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (2.47%) Amazon ECR
11 19 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (2.47%) Apigee
12 13 (1.69%) Snowflake
13 12 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.56%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.78%) Broadband
2 2 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (9.75%) SQL Server
2 39 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (4.03%) MySQL
4 29 (3.77%) DynamoDB
5 25 (3.25%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.60%) MongoDB
7 19 (2.47%) Redis
8 12 (1.56%) Power BI
9 11 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.91%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.39%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.26%) GIS
13 2 (0.26%) TimescaleDB
14 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
14 1 (0.13%) Db2
14 1 (0.13%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.13%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 65 (8.45%) Git
2 41 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.86%) GitLab
4 18 (2.34%) JIRA
5 17 (2.21%) Maven
6 14 (1.82%) Cypress.io
6 14 (1.82%) JUnit
7 10 (1.30%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.04%) Mockito
9 4 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.52%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.52%) Postman
10 3 (0.39%) Selenium
10 3 (0.39%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.26%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.26%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.26%) JMeter
11 2 (0.26%) NUnit
11 2 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 53 (6.89%) Social Skills
2 30 (3.90%) Finance
3 24 (3.12%) Retail
4 17 (2.21%) Public Sector
5 14 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (1.43%) Aviation
6 11 (1.43%) Marketing
7 8 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.04%) Legal
8 7 (0.91%) Games
9 6 (0.78%) Banking
10 5 (0.65%) Advertising
10 5 (0.65%) Local Government
10 5 (0.65%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.52%) Legal Technology
11 4 (0.52%) Publishing
12 3 (0.39%) Automotive
12 3 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.26%) Law
13 2 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (26.92%) React
2 160 (20.81%) Node.js
3 151 (19.64%) .NET
4 105 (13.65%) CSS
5 101 (13.13%) HTML
6 90 (11.70%) AngularJS
7 82 (10.66%) Vue
8 61 (7.93%) REST
9 55 (7.15%) Spring
10 51 (6.63%) Spring Boot
11 38 (4.94%) Laravel
12 37 (4.81%) RESTful
13 35 (4.55%) .NET Core
14 29 (3.77%) ASP.NET
14 29 (3.77%) Entity Framework
15 27 (3.51%) .NET Framework
16 23 (2.99%) HTML5
16 23 (2.99%) jQuery
17 22 (2.86%) Next.js
18 21 (2.73%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.29%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (1.95%) Product Ownership
4 14 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.56%) Mobile App
6 10 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (0.91%) Sports Betting
8 6 (0.78%) IoT
9 5 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.52%) Augmented Reality
10 4 (0.52%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.52%) Mainframe
11 3 (0.39%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.39%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.39%) NHS
11 3 (0.39%) PKI
12 2 (0.26%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.26%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.26%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.08%) Linux
2 3 (0.39%) AIX
3 2 (0.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 127 (16.51%) Agile
3 123 (15.99%) CI/CD
4 96 (12.48%) Software Engineering
5 92 (11.96%) Microservices
6 91 (11.83%) DevOps
7 87 (11.31%) Web Development
8 84 (10.92%) AI
9 66 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (7.41%) Clean Code
12 50 (6.50%) Front End Development
13 44 (5.72%) E-Commerce
14 40 (5.20%) Mentoring
15 39 (5.07%) MVC
16 37 (4.81%) SDLC
17 35 (4.55%) TDD
18 32 (4.16%) User Experience
19 31 (4.03%) Test Automation
20 30 (3.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 259 (33.68%) JavaScript
2 225 (29.26%) TypeScript
3 137 (17.82%) C#
4 128 (16.64%) Java
5 122 (15.86%) Python
6 87 (11.31%) SQL
7 60 (7.80%) PHP
8 19 (2.47%) Groovy
9 17 (2.21%) Bash
9 17 (2.21%) Ruby
10 10 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.78%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.39%) C++
13 2 (0.26%) C
13 2 (0.26%) Go
13 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.13%) Bicep
14 1 (0.13%) CFML
14 1 (0.13%) R
14 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (4.68%) Security Cleared
2 35 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 29 (3.77%) Degree
4 25 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 10 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.04%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.78%) WCAG
3 5 (0.65%) QA
4 1 (0.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 69 (8.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (5.20%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.99%) Terraform
3 10 (1.30%) HP Fortify
4 4 (0.52%) Ansible
4 4 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.39%) Kibana
6 2 (0.26%) Grafana
6 2 (0.26%) Nagios
7 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 13 (1.69%) Google
2 13 (1.69%) Oracle
3 8 (1.04%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.78%) OneLogin
5 5 (0.65%) Peregrine
6 4 (0.52%) Pega
7 3 (0.39%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.39%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.26%) Splunk
8 2 (0.26%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.26%) WSO2
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe
9 1 (0.13%) Confluent