Senior Full-Stack Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 460 485
Rank change year-on-year -98 +25 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 122 78 130
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 109 51 91
10th Percentile £60,000 - £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £63,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -3.45%

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 80,470 31,061 49,429
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 89.52% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 55,562 17,295 27,523
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,125 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,566 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.11% -6.87% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -0.91% -8.33%

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

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

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

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior 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 Senior Full-Stack Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 October 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 -28 42 £70,000 - 26
Midlands -28 36 £70,000 +9.80% 12
Yorkshire - 26 £70,000 - 11
West Midlands -21 22 £80,000 +25.49% 9
South West -63 16 £70,000 +14.29% 6
South East -70 16 £65,000 +13.04% 5
North West -19 14 £70,000 - 15
East Midlands - 14 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +1 6 £90,000 - 3
Wales -73 4 £72,500 +20.83%
East of England -28 2 £60,000 -14.29% 4
North East -65 2 £52,000 -23.53% 1
Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 2026, Senior 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 Senior Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 122 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 52 (42.62%) AWS
3 31 (25.41%) CI/CD
4 29 (23.77%) React
5 24 (19.67%) TypeScript
6 23 (18.85%) JavaScript
7 22 (18.03%) AI
7 22 (18.03%) Azure
7 22 (18.03%) C#
7 22 (18.03%) Kotlin
8 21 (17.21%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (17.21%) Node.js
8 21 (17.21%) Serverless
9 19 (15.57%) Amazon S3
10 18 (14.75%) .NET
10 18 (14.75%) Agile
10 18 (14.75%) Java
10 18 (14.75%) Mentoring
11 17 (13.93%) Microservices
11 17 (13.93%) Python
12 15 (12.30%) Docker
13 14 (11.48%) AngularJS
13 14 (11.48%) Kubernetes
13 14 (11.48%) SQL
14 13 (10.66%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (10.66%) DevOps
14 13 (10.66%) GitHub
14 13 (10.66%) HTML
14 13 (10.66%) LLM
14 13 (10.66%) REST

Senior 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 7 (5.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (4.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 52 (42.62%) AWS
2 22 (18.03%) Azure
3 21 (17.21%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (17.21%) Serverless
4 19 (15.57%) Amazon S3
5 13 (10.66%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (10.66%) GitHub
6 9 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (7.38%) Anthropic Claude
6 9 (7.38%) SaaS
7 6 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (4.92%) AWS CodePipeline
7 6 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.10%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.46%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.64%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.02%) DynamoDB
1 11 (9.02%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.38%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.74%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.46%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.46%) MySQL
5 3 (2.46%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.46%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.46%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.64%) GIS
7 1 (0.82%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) JUnit
2 7 (5.74%) Git
2 7 (5.74%) Maven
2 7 (5.74%) Mockito
3 6 (4.92%) JIRA
4 3 (2.46%) Claude Code
4 3 (2.46%) Selenium
5 2 (1.64%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.64%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.64%) NUnit
5 2 (1.64%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.64%) YouTrack
General
1 13 (10.66%) Public Sector
2 7 (5.74%) Finance
3 5 (4.10%) Social Skills
4 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.77%) React
2 21 (17.21%) Node.js
3 18 (14.75%) .NET
4 14 (11.48%) AngularJS
5 13 (10.66%) HTML
5 13 (10.66%) REST
5 13 (10.66%) Spring
6 11 (9.02%) CSS
7 9 (7.38%) ASP.NET
8 8 (6.56%) .NET Framework
8 8 (6.56%) Entity Framework
8 8 (6.56%) Terraform
9 7 (5.74%) Laravel
10 6 (4.92%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (4.92%) MediatR
10 6 (4.92%) OAuth
10 6 (4.92%) OAuth2
10 6 (4.92%) RESTful
10 6 (4.92%) Ruby on Rails
10 6 (4.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.46%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.64%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.74%) Linux
2 3 (2.46%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 31 (25.41%) CI/CD
3 22 (18.03%) AI
4 18 (14.75%) Agile
4 18 (14.75%) Mentoring
5 17 (13.93%) Microservices
6 13 (10.66%) DevOps
6 13 (10.66%) LLM
6 13 (10.66%) TDD
7 12 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (9.02%) Event-Driven
8 11 (9.02%) Roadmaps
8 11 (9.02%) Software Engineering
9 10 (8.20%) Observability
9 10 (8.20%) Scrum
10 9 (7.38%) Containerisation
10 9 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (7.38%) Product Roadmap
10 9 (7.38%) Sprint Planning
11 8 (6.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.67%) TypeScript
2 23 (18.85%) JavaScript
3 22 (18.03%) C#
3 22 (18.03%) Kotlin
4 18 (14.75%) Java
5 17 (13.93%) Python
6 14 (11.48%) SQL
7 7 (5.74%) Bash
7 7 (5.74%) PHP
7 7 (5.74%) PL/SQL
8 6 (4.92%) Ruby
9 1 (0.82%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (10.66%) SC Cleared
1 13 (10.66%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.56%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.92%) AWS Certified Developer
3 6 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.46%) Degree
5 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.46%) WCAG
2 1 (0.82%) GRC
2 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 15 (12.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (8.20%) Oracle
2 4 (3.28%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.46%) OneLogin
4 1 (0.82%) OpenAI