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 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 498 486
Rank change year-on-year +63 -12 +131
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 71 74 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 49 38 71
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,375 £48,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £70,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -

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 38,179 33,328 33,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,318 16,178 25,075
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +37 32 £68,750 +10.00% 9
Midlands +25 19 £66,250 +10.42% 2
East Midlands -7 10 £62,500 -10.71% 2
North of England +31 9 £80,000 +45.45% 4
West Midlands +22 9 £70,000 +16.67%
Yorkshire -2 7 £80,000 +39.13% 4
East of England +28 6 £100,000 - 1
Wales -4 3 £50,000 -33.33%
South West -3 2 £62,500 +13.64%
North West +26 1 £75,000 +50.00%
North East +4 1 £76,000 +38.18%
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 13 January 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 71 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 39 (54.93%) React
3 33 (46.48%) AWS
4 31 (43.66%) Azure
5 29 (40.85%) JavaScript
6 26 (36.62%) .NET
7 24 (33.80%) SQL
8 23 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (30.99%) CSS
9 22 (30.99%) HTML
9 22 (30.99%) Web Development
10 21 (29.58%) C#
10 21 (29.58%) CI/CD
11 20 (28.17%) Agile
11 20 (28.17%) Microservices
12 17 (23.94%) Node.js
13 16 (22.54%) AngularJS
13 16 (22.54%) QA
14 15 (21.13%) REST
15 14 (19.72%) DevOps
15 14 (19.72%) Docker
16 13 (18.31%) GCP
17 12 (16.90%) Kubernetes
18 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
18 11 (15.49%) Git
18 11 (15.49%) RESTful
18 11 (15.49%) TypeScript
18 11 (15.49%) User Experience
19 10 (14.08%) NoSQL
20 9 (12.68%) API Development

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 4 (5.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.82%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) AWS
2 31 (43.66%) Azure
3 13 (18.31%) GCP
4 9 (12.68%) Serverless
5 8 (11.27%) Amazon S3
5 8 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (9.86%) GitHub
7 6 (8.45%) SaaS
8 5 (7.04%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (7.04%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.45%) MySQL
3 5 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.04%) DynamoDB
3 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (15.49%) Git
2 6 (8.45%) JUnit
2 6 (8.45%) Maven
2 6 (8.45%) Mockito
3 5 (7.04%) git-flow
4 1 (1.41%) Moq
General
1 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.72%) Finance
3 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Law
4 6 (8.45%) Marketing
5 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.82%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (54.93%) React
2 26 (36.62%) .NET
3 22 (30.99%) CSS
3 22 (30.99%) HTML
4 17 (23.94%) Node.js
5 16 (22.54%) AngularJS
6 15 (21.13%) REST
7 11 (15.49%) RESTful
8 6 (8.45%) .NET Framework
9 5 (7.04%) AWS CDK
9 5 (7.04%) Django
9 5 (7.04%) Kafka
9 5 (7.04%) Material-UI
9 5 (7.04%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (5.63%) ASP.NET
10 4 (5.63%) HTML5
11 3 (4.23%) Bootstrap
11 3 (4.23%) CSS3
11 3 (4.23%) Vue
12 2 (2.82%) hapi
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.82%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 23 (32.39%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (30.99%) Web Development
4 21 (29.58%) CI/CD
5 20 (28.17%) Agile
5 20 (28.17%) Microservices
6 14 (19.72%) DevOps
7 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
7 11 (15.49%) User Experience
8 9 (12.68%) API Development
9 8 (11.27%) Design Patterns
9 8 (11.27%) Scrum
9 8 (11.27%) TDD
9 8 (11.27%) UX Design
10 7 (9.86%) Computer Science
10 7 (9.86%) Data Modelling
10 7 (9.86%) Mentoring
10 7 (9.86%) Sprint Planning
10 7 (9.86%) Test Automation
11 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.85%) JavaScript
2 24 (33.80%) SQL
3 21 (29.58%) C#
4 11 (15.49%) TypeScript
5 8 (11.27%) PL/SQL
5 8 (11.27%) Python
6 6 (8.45%) Java
7 4 (5.63%) Bash
7 4 (5.63%) C
7 4 (5.63%) R
8 2 (2.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
1 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.23%) Degree
3 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.54%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.41%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (19.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (11.27%) Oracle