Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

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 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 232 193
Rank change year-on-year -33 -39 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 497 785 934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.18% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 1.26% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 365 483 865
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,000 £95,000 £108,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 48,849 62,485 48,786
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.31% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 30,833 34,885 37,936
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend

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

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

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 17 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 29 November 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 -19 440 £61,250 +2.08% 194
UK excluding London -28 306 £60,000 +9.09% 187
London +9 174 £80,000 +12.68% 46
Work from Home +3 168 £60,000 +9.09% 78
South East +3 112 £57,500 +4.55% 64
North of England +33 68 £57,500 +4.55% 31
Midlands -1 38 £60,000 +20.00% 36
North West +34 32 £60,000 +33.33% 14
South West -6 32 £60,000 +14.29% 28
East of England +14 28 £42,500 -5.56% 17
West Midlands +27 25 £60,000 +9.09% 22
Wales +4 19 £60,000 +13.21% 7
North East +23 18 £50,000 - 6
Yorkshire -4 18 £60,000 - 11
East Midlands -4 13 £62,500 +56.25% 13
Scotland -12 11 £60,000 -5.33% 6
Northern Ireland -3 2 £60,000 -14.29% 1

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, 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 featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 497 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 267 (53.72%) React
3 243 (48.89%) JavaScript
4 217 (43.66%) AWS
5 187 (37.63%) Agile
6 159 (31.99%) CI/CD
7 158 (31.79%) TypeScript
8 157 (31.59%) Azure
8 157 (31.59%) C#
9 152 (30.58%) .NET
10 142 (28.57%) HTML
11 128 (25.75%) AngularJS
12 127 (25.55%) CSS
13 124 (24.95%) SQL
14 120 (24.14%) Java
14 120 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
15 119 (23.94%) Node.js
16 108 (21.73%) Python
17 106 (21.33%) DevOps
18 100 (20.12%) Git
18 100 (20.12%) User Experience
19 97 (19.52%) REST
20 94 (18.91%) Vue
21 93 (18.71%) Docker
22 91 (18.31%) RESTful
23 82 (16.50%) SQL Server
24 79 (15.90%) Microservices
25 70 (14.08%) Kubernetes
26 69 (13.88%) Software Engineering
27 66 (13.28%) PostgreSQL

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (2.62%) CMS
2 8 (1.61%) Headless CMS
3 5 (1.01%) IIS
3 5 (1.01%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.80%) Confluence
4 4 (0.80%) nginx
4 4 (0.80%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.60%) Apache
5 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.60%) Drupal
6 2 (0.40%) ColdFusion
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Kentico
7 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.81%) Shopify
2 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 217 (43.66%) AWS
2 157 (31.59%) Azure
3 62 (12.47%) Serverless
4 61 (12.27%) GCP
5 51 (10.26%) SaaS
6 46 (9.26%) GitHub
7 40 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
8 37 (7.44%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (5.03%) Amazon S3
10 24 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (2.21%) Figma
14 11 (2.21%) Vercel
15 9 (1.81%) Power Platform
16 8 (1.61%) Google Analytics
16 8 (1.61%) npm
17 7 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) Broadband
2 2 (0.40%) AMQP
2 2 (0.40%) HTTP
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (16.50%) SQL Server
2 66 (13.28%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (10.66%) Relational Database
4 49 (9.86%) NoSQL
5 35 (7.04%) MySQL
6 28 (5.63%) RDBMS
7 17 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (3.42%) Redis
8 15 (3.02%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.81%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.81%) Power BI
10 6 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.01%) Big Data
12 4 (0.80%) DB2
12 4 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.60%) Apache Hive
13 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.60%) HBase
13 3 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 100 (20.12%) Git
2 35 (7.04%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.83%) JUnit
4 23 (4.63%) Mockito
5 18 (3.62%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.62%) JMeter
6 16 (3.22%) JIRA
7 10 (2.01%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.81%) Maven
9 6 (1.21%) webpack
10 5 (1.01%) git-flow
10 5 (1.01%) Mocha
10 5 (1.01%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.80%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.80%) Vite
12 3 (0.60%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.60%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.60%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.60%) Storybook
General
1 105 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 66 (13.28%) Finance
3 37 (7.44%) Law
3 37 (7.44%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.63%) Marketing
5 25 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.63%) Banking
7 21 (4.23%) Front Office
8 17 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.22%) Investment Banking
10 14 (2.82%) Retail
11 12 (2.41%) Legal
12 11 (2.21%) Games
13 10 (2.01%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.61%) Aviation
15 6 (1.21%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.01%) Electronics
17 3 (0.60%) Multimedia
17 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (53.72%) React
2 152 (30.58%) .NET
3 142 (28.57%) HTML
4 128 (25.75%) AngularJS
5 127 (25.55%) CSS
6 119 (23.94%) Node.js
7 97 (19.52%) REST
8 94 (18.91%) Vue
9 91 (18.31%) RESTful
10 65 (13.08%) Spring
11 55 (11.07%) ASP.NET
12 48 (9.66%) GraphQL
13 47 (9.46%) .NET Core
14 38 (7.65%) .NET Framework
14 38 (7.65%) Spring Boot
14 38 (7.65%) Web Services
15 36 (7.24%) HTML5
16 35 (7.04%) CSS3
17 34 (6.84%) Kafka
18 30 (6.04%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (4.63%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (3.42%) Mobile App
4 17 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.62%) Hedge funds
7 11 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.01%) Reference Data
9 9 (1.81%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.01%) Legacy Code
11 4 (0.80%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.60%) Equities
12 3 (0.60%) Online Games
12 3 (0.60%) Smart Home
12 3 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.61%) Linux
2 7 (1.41%) Android
2 7 (1.41%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.41%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 187 (37.63%) Agile
3 159 (31.99%) CI/CD
4 120 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (21.33%) DevOps
6 100 (20.12%) User Experience
7 79 (15.90%) Microservices
8 69 (13.88%) Software Engineering
9 65 (13.08%) Clean Code
10 60 (12.07%) AI
11 58 (11.67%) UX Design
11 58 (11.67%) Web Development
12 53 (10.66%) SDLC
12 53 (10.66%) TDD
13 46 (9.26%) Test Automation
14 45 (9.05%) Containerisation
15 44 (8.85%) Scrum
16 43 (8.65%) Mentoring
17 36 (7.24%) Front End Development
18 34 (6.84%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 243 (48.89%) JavaScript
2 158 (31.79%) TypeScript
3 157 (31.59%) C#
4 124 (24.95%) SQL
5 120 (24.14%) Java
6 108 (21.73%) Python
7 22 (4.43%) PHP
8 19 (3.82%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.22%) Go
10 12 (2.41%) C
11 10 (2.01%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.81%) VB.NET
13 6 (1.21%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.01%) C++
15 4 (0.80%) Bicep
15 4 (0.80%) Ruby
15 4 (0.80%) XAML
16 3 (0.60%) Bash
16 3 (0.60%) COBOL
16 3 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 51 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 35 (7.04%) Degree
3 28 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (3.82%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.22%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.85%) Accessibility
2 36 (7.24%) QA
3 6 (1.21%) GDPR
3 6 (1.21%) WCAG
4 1 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 93 (18.71%) Docker
2 3 (0.60%) HDFS
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (14.08%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.84%) Terraform
3 18 (3.62%) Kibana
4 6 (1.21%) Ansible
5 1 (0.20%) Argo
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.23%) Splunk
3 19 (3.82%) Dynatrace
4 11 (2.21%) Oracle
5 8 (1.61%) Apple
5 8 (1.61%) Google
6 7 (1.41%) DevExpress
7 4 (0.80%) Databricks
7 4 (0.80%) Telerik
8 3 (0.60%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.60%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.60%) Pega
8 3 (0.60%) Rollbar
8 3 (0.60%) WSO2
8 3 (0.60%) Zoho
9 2 (0.40%) iManage
9 2 (0.40%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe
10 1 (0.20%) IONA
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat