Full-Stack Software Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 485 425
Rank change year-on-year +30 -60 +190
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer 81 57 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.17% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.19% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 56 37 59
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,691
25th Percentile £53,438 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67,813 £72,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,375 £78,750 £66,250
UK median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% -7.14% +7.69%

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 43,170 30,002 47,195
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 91.68% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,900 14,726 36,691
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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

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

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

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

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

Full-Stack Software 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 Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
South East +35 22 £61,250 -5.77% 7
North of England +12 20 £60,000 +33.33% 2
South West -13 17 £60,000 -4.00% 3
East of England +23 11 £45,000 -12.20% 4
North West +13 8 £60,000 +33.33% 2
Yorkshire -25 8 £60,000 +33.33%
Midlands +13 7 £60,000 +14.29%
West Midlands +18 5 £62,500 +19.05%
North East -2 4 £60,000 -
Wales +2 3 £60,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
Scotland -22 1 £67,500 -15.17%
Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 February 2026, Full-Stack Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 81 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 28 (34.57%) Java
3 24 (29.63%) AWS
4 20 (24.69%) React
5 19 (23.46%) DevOps
6 18 (22.22%) Agile
7 17 (20.99%) .NET
7 17 (20.99%) AI
8 15 (18.52%) CI/CD
8 15 (18.52%) Security Cleared
9 14 (17.28%) AngularJS
9 14 (17.28%) Azure
9 14 (17.28%) JavaScript
9 14 (17.28%) Kubernetes
10 13 (16.05%) Spring
10 13 (16.05%) Spring Boot
11 12 (14.81%) Python
12 11 (13.58%) Coaching
12 11 (13.58%) Microservices
12 11 (13.58%) SC Cleared
13 9 (11.11%) C#
13 9 (11.11%) Machine Learning
14 8 (9.88%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (9.88%) Amazon S3
14 8 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (9.88%) Energy Management
14 8 (9.88%) Node.js
14 8 (9.88%) Scrum
14 8 (9.88%) Serverless

Full-Stack Software 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 1 (1.23%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 24 (29.63%) AWS
2 14 (17.28%) Azure
3 8 (9.88%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (9.88%) Amazon S3
3 8 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (9.88%) Serverless
4 5 (6.17%) SaaS
5 2 (2.47%) GCP
5 2 (2.47%) GitHub
5 2 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.23%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.23%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.23%) Big Data
3 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.23%) MySQL
3 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Git
2 3 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
2 3 (3.70%) Finance
2 3 (3.70%) Games
2 3 (3.70%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.47%) Aviation
4 1 (1.23%) Automotive
4 1 (1.23%) Banking
4 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.23%) Marketing
4 1 (1.23%) Retail
4 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (24.69%) React
2 17 (20.99%) .NET
3 14 (17.28%) AngularJS
4 13 (16.05%) Spring
4 13 (16.05%) Spring Boot
5 8 (9.88%) Node.js
6 7 (8.64%) Vue
7 4 (4.94%) REST
8 3 (3.70%) CSS
8 3 (3.70%) HTML
9 2 (2.47%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.47%) FastAPI
9 2 (2.47%) Kafka
9 2 (2.47%) RESTful
10 1 (1.23%) Blazor
10 1 (1.23%) Jest
10 1 (1.23%) Material-UI
10 1 (1.23%) Playwright
10 1 (1.23%) PrimeNG
10 1 (1.23%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.88%) IoT
2 8 (9.88%) Smart Energy
3 3 (3.70%) Robotics
4 2 (2.47%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 81 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (23.46%) DevOps
3 18 (22.22%) Agile
4 17 (20.99%) AI
5 15 (18.52%) CI/CD
6 11 (13.58%) Coaching
6 11 (13.58%) Microservices
7 9 (11.11%) Machine Learning
8 8 (9.88%) Energy Management
8 8 (9.88%) Scrum
8 8 (9.88%) Storage Management
8 8 (9.88%) User Experience
9 7 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (8.64%) Data Science
9 7 (8.64%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (8.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (7.41%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (7.41%) Decision-Making
11 5 (6.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (34.57%) Java
2 14 (17.28%) JavaScript
3 12 (14.81%) Python
4 9 (11.11%) C#
5 8 (9.88%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.17%) SQL
7 3 (3.70%) C++
8 2 (2.47%) Go
9 1 (1.23%) Bash
9 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) ECSS
2 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.23%) GDPR
2 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 7 (8.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (17.28%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (1.23%) Adobe
1 1 (1.23%) Foundry
1 1 (1.23%) Google
1 1 (1.23%) Palantir