Full-Stack Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 415 287
Rank change year-on-year +121 -128 +273
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 353 121 651
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.41% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.46% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 250 58 193
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +12.07% -11.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -18.75%

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 63,411 26,495 74,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 88.99% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,940 14,354 53,488
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,274 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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

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 the UK excluding London.

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

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

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

Full-Stack Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 June 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 +91 154 £65,000 +4.00% 24
North West +78 85 £65,000 - 12
South East +29 64 £80,000 +23.08% 27
Yorkshire -2 49 £65,000 +8.33% 6
South West -24 47 £60,000 -7.69% 14
Midlands +24 42 £50,000 -4.76% 1
East of England +7 29 £47,500 -20.83% 4
East Midlands +2 25 £65,000 - 1
North East - 20 £67,500 - 6
Northern Ireland - 20 £70,000 - 2
West Midlands -9 17 £50,000 -4.76%
Wales -42 3 £60,000 -
Scotland -45 2 £70,000 +8.53% 6
Full-Stack Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 353 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 174 (49.29%) Software Engineering
3 100 (28.33%) AWS
4 95 (26.91%) React
5 79 (22.38%) TypeScript
6 78 (22.10%) Java
7 75 (21.25%) .NET
8 67 (18.98%) C#
9 65 (18.41%) JavaScript
10 55 (15.58%) Agile
11 46 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (12.75%) Microservices
13 44 (12.46%) Node.js
14 43 (12.18%) Vue
15 41 (11.61%) Spring
16 39 (11.05%) Test Automation
17 37 (10.48%) AngularJS
17 37 (10.48%) DevOps
18 36 (10.20%) AI
19 35 (9.92%) CI/CD
19 35 (9.92%) Mentoring
20 34 (9.63%) SaaS
20 34 (9.63%) Serverless
21 33 (9.35%) Product Vision
22 31 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
23 29 (8.22%) Docker
23 29 (8.22%) REST
24 28 (7.93%) Python
25 27 (7.65%) CSS
25 27 (7.65%) HTML

Full-Stack Engineer 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 2 (0.57%) Confluence
2 1 (0.28%) CMS
2 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (28.33%) AWS
2 34 (9.63%) SaaS
2 34 (9.63%) Serverless
3 25 (7.08%) Azure
4 15 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (3.68%) GitHub
6 11 (3.12%) Amazon S3
7 10 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (2.83%) GCP
8 9 (2.55%) Amazon Cognito
8 9 (2.55%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (1.42%) Figma
10 4 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.57%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.57%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.28%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.97%) MongoDB
2 14 (3.97%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.12%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.83%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.98%) MySQL
6 5 (1.42%) GIS
7 3 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.85%) Redis
7 3 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.57%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.57%) Power BI
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.28%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 17 (4.82%) Git
2 8 (2.27%) GitLab
3 4 (1.13%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.13%) JIRA
4 3 (0.85%) JUnit
5 2 (0.57%) Mocha
5 2 (0.57%) Selenium
5 2 (0.57%) Spock
5 2 (0.57%) Vite
6 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (5.38%) Social Skills
2 13 (3.68%) Finance
3 8 (2.27%) Banking
3 8 (2.27%) Investment Banking
3 8 (2.27%) Tech for Good
4 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (1.13%) Public Sector
6 3 (0.85%) Marketing
7 2 (0.57%) Advertising
7 2 (0.57%) Local Government
7 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.28%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.28%) Aviation
8 1 (0.28%) Games
8 1 (0.28%) Law
8 1 (0.28%) Legal
8 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (26.91%) React
2 75 (21.25%) .NET
3 44 (12.46%) Node.js
4 43 (12.18%) Vue
5 41 (11.61%) Spring
6 37 (10.48%) AngularJS
7 29 (8.22%) REST
8 27 (7.65%) CSS
8 27 (7.65%) HTML
8 27 (7.65%) Spring Boot
9 20 (5.67%) Next.js
10 16 (4.53%) .NET Core
11 13 (3.68%) AWS CDK
12 9 (2.55%) RESTful
13 8 (2.27%) ASP.NET
13 8 (2.27%) HTML5
14 7 (1.98%) Django
14 7 (1.98%) Web Services
15 6 (1.70%) jQuery
15 6 (1.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.22%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (2.55%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.70%) IoT
4 6 (1.70%) Smart Energy
4 6 (1.70%) Sports Betting
5 5 (1.42%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.42%) Robotics
5 5 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.13%) Legacy Code
6 4 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.85%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.57%) Learning Management System
8 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.28%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 174 (49.29%) Software Engineering
3 55 (15.58%) Agile
4 46 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 45 (12.75%) Microservices
6 39 (11.05%) Test Automation
7 37 (10.48%) DevOps
8 36 (10.20%) AI
9 35 (9.92%) CI/CD
9 35 (9.92%) Mentoring
10 33 (9.35%) Product Vision
11 31 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (7.37%) Clean Code
13 25 (7.08%) Observability
14 24 (6.80%) Personalization
15 22 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (5.95%) Re-Platforming
17 18 (5.10%) Containerisation
17 18 (5.10%) Decision-Making
17 18 (5.10%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 79 (22.38%) TypeScript
2 78 (22.10%) Java
3 67 (18.98%) C#
4 65 (18.41%) JavaScript
5 28 (7.93%) Python
6 19 (5.38%) SQL
7 4 (1.13%) Go
8 2 (0.57%) C++
8 2 (0.57%) PHP
8 2 (0.57%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.28%) Bash
9 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (7.65%) Security Cleared
2 15 (4.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.12%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.85%) Degree
4 3 (0.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.70%) QA
2 5 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.85%) GDPR
3 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (8.22%) Docker
2 5 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.55%) Terraform
3 1 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (1.70%) Foundry
2 3 (0.85%) Adobe
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.57%) AppDynamics
3 2 (0.57%) Splunk