Full-Stack Developer Jobs

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 179 176
Rank change year-on-year -159 -3 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 455 1,620 2,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 1.63% 2.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 1.73% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 355 1,295 1,407
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,550 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,356 93,784 92,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,595 67,216 58,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full-Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer.

Salary trend for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 May 2025. 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
England -177 408 £60,000 - 283
UK excluding London -130 278 £55,000 +4.76% 195
Work from Home -74 193 £60,000 - 202
London -104 156 £70,000 -12.50% 125
South East -31 97 £57,500 +4.55% 64
Midlands -52 50 £52,500 +5.00% 30
North of England -119 50 £55,000 - 43
West Midlands -20 33 £58,750 +6.82% 13
East of England -8 31 £45,000 - 28
South West +1 28 £60,000 +14.29% 24
North West -119 28 £55,000 - 33
Scotland +99 17 £51,000 -2.86% 8
East Midlands -8 17 £47,500 -5.00% 17
Yorkshire +7 14 £55,000 - 9
Wales +32 8 £61,500 +23.00% 4
North East +30 8 £51,250 -14.58% 2

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, Full-Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 455 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 240 (52.75%) JavaScript
3 229 (50.33%) React
4 189 (41.54%) AWS
5 157 (34.51%) C#
6 148 (32.53%) Agile
7 145 (31.87%) .NET
8 138 (30.33%) TypeScript
9 133 (29.23%) AngularJS
10 130 (28.57%) HTML
11 128 (28.13%) SQL
12 118 (25.93%) Azure
13 115 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
14 113 (24.84%) Python
15 110 (24.18%) Node.js
16 107 (23.52%) CSS
17 99 (21.76%) SQL Server
18 96 (21.10%) CI/CD
19 93 (20.44%) Social Skills
20 89 (19.56%) Git
21 86 (18.90%) Docker
22 84 (18.46%) Vue
22 84 (18.46%) Java
23 82 (18.02%) Finance
24 80 (17.58%) Software Engineering
25 79 (17.36%) Microservices
26 78 (17.14%) DevOps
26 78 (17.14%) MySQL
27 70 (15.38%) TDD
27 70 (15.38%) RESTful

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (7.25%) CMS
2 13 (2.86%) WordPress
3 12 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.20%) Confluence
4 10 (2.20%) Headless CMS
4 10 (2.20%) IIS
4 10 (2.20%) Umbraco
5 8 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.88%) Drupal
6 4 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.66%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.66%) Kentico
7 3 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.44%) Apache
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.22%) nginx
9 1 (0.22%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.22%) InVision
4 1 (0.22%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.64%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (1.54%) Shopify
3 3 (0.66%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 189 (41.54%) AWS
2 118 (25.93%) Azure
3 60 (13.19%) Serverless
4 47 (10.33%) SaaS
5 45 (9.89%) GCP
6 41 (9.01%) GitHub
7 22 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (4.18%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.74%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.64%) Azure Functions
13 11 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (1.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (1.76%) Contentful
15 8 (1.76%) dbt
16 7 (1.54%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.32%) MQTT
1 6 (1.32%) SMS
1 6 (1.32%) VPN
2 5 (1.10%) Internet
3 2 (0.44%) Broadband
3 2 (0.44%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (21.76%) SQL Server
2 78 (17.14%) MySQL
3 53 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (9.67%) MongoDB
5 43 (9.45%) NoSQL
6 24 (5.27%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.52%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.86%) Redis
9 9 (1.98%) Power BI
10 8 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.76%) Apache Hive
10 8 (1.76%) SQLite
11 6 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.10%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.10%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.44%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 89 (19.56%) Git
2 22 (4.84%) Jenkins
2 22 (4.84%) JIRA
3 16 (3.52%) Visual Studio
4 15 (3.30%) GitLab
5 9 (1.98%) JMeter
6 8 (1.76%) JUnit
7 7 (1.54%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.32%) webpack
9 5 (1.10%) Mockito
9 5 (1.10%) Storybook
10 4 (0.88%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.88%) NUnit
10 4 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.88%) PHPUnit
10 4 (0.88%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.66%) Maven
11 3 (0.66%) Postman
11 3 (0.66%) Selenium
11 3 (0.66%) Vite
General
1 93 (20.44%) Social Skills
2 82 (18.02%) Finance
3 30 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (4.62%) Front Office
4 21 (4.62%) Retail
5 14 (3.08%) Marketing
5 14 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (1.98%) Banking
8 8 (1.76%) Advertising
8 8 (1.76%) Law
8 8 (1.76%) Tech for Good
9 7 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.32%) Games
11 5 (1.10%) Automotive
11 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.66%) Legal
12 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (50.33%) React
2 145 (31.87%) .NET
3 133 (29.23%) AngularJS
4 130 (28.57%) HTML
5 110 (24.18%) Node.js
6 107 (23.52%) CSS
7 84 (18.46%) Vue
8 70 (15.38%) RESTful
9 55 (12.09%) REST
10 51 (11.21%) ASP.NET
11 48 (10.55%) .NET Core
11 48 (10.55%) GraphQL
12 41 (9.01%) Laravel
12 41 (9.01%) Spring
13 34 (7.47%) HTML5
14 33 (7.25%) Spring Boot
15 32 (7.03%) Blazor
16 31 (6.81%) Next.js
17 27 (5.93%) CSS3
17 27 (5.93%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.93%) Greenfield Project
1 27 (5.93%) Mobile App
2 23 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.96%) Hedge funds
4 17 (3.74%) Fixed Income
5 14 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.54%) Equities
7 7 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.54%) IoT
7 7 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.10%) Life Science
8 5 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.10%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.66%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.66%) EPoS
10 3 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.62%) Linux
2 10 (2.20%) Android
3 7 (1.54%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.10%) Unix
5 4 (0.88%) Windows
6 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 148 (32.53%) Agile
3 115 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (21.10%) CI/CD
5 80 (17.58%) Software Engineering
6 79 (17.36%) Microservices
7 78 (17.14%) DevOps
8 70 (15.38%) TDD
9 68 (14.95%) Web Development
10 66 (14.51%) User Experience
11 56 (12.31%) MVC
12 48 (10.55%) SDLC
13 44 (9.67%) Front End Development
14 42 (9.23%) API Development
15 37 (8.13%) Mentoring
16 36 (7.91%) Analytics
16 36 (7.91%) Clean Code
16 36 (7.91%) Code Quality
17 34 (7.47%) Fintech
18 32 (7.03%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 240 (52.75%) JavaScript
2 157 (34.51%) C#
3 138 (30.33%) TypeScript
4 128 (28.13%) SQL
5 113 (24.84%) Python
6 84 (18.46%) Java
7 57 (12.53%) PHP
8 10 (2.20%) C++
9 6 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.10%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.88%) Go
12 3 (0.66%) Bash
12 3 (0.66%) C
12 3 (0.66%) Delphi
12 3 (0.66%) Groovy
12 3 (0.66%) Scala
12 3 (0.66%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (10.11%) Degree
2 25 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 22 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.22%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.40%) QA
2 14 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.44%) WCAG
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (18.90%) Docker
2 4 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.66%) LXC
4 2 (0.44%) Firmware
5 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (9.67%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.40%) Terraform
3 5 (1.10%) Ansible
4 4 (0.88%) Kibana
5 3 (0.66%) Grafana
6 2 (0.44%) Istio
6 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.44%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 40 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.49%) Google
3 6 (1.32%) PayPal
4 5 (1.10%) Dynatrace
4 5 (1.10%) SAP
4 5 (1.10%) Splunk
5 4 (0.88%) Rollbar
5 4 (0.88%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.66%) Adobe
6 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.66%) Optimizely
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle
6 3 (0.66%) Sage
6 3 (0.66%) Xamarin
7 2 (0.44%) Sun
8 1 (0.22%) Apple
8 1 (0.22%) Databricks
8 1 (0.22%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.22%) Telerik