Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 282 175
Rank change year-on-year +80 -107 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 866 441 1,554
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.08% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.20% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 727 347 1,297
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,269 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -2.89% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 76,620 36,654 87,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 89.66% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 49,282 23,303 65,248
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 9 April 2026.

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 9 April 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
England +86 790 £65,000 +8.33% 164
UK excluding London +72 583 £60,000 +9.09% 139
Work from Home +73 290 £60,000 +4.35% 97
London +41 224 £80,000 +14.29% 43
North of England +44 186 £70,000 +27.27% 45
South East +27 183 £60,000 +9.09% 38
North West +32 91 £70,000 +27.27% 22
Midlands +9 91 £55,000 +8.37% 21
Yorkshire 0 76 £75,000 +36.36% 22
South West +9 66 £55,000 -8.33% 17
West Midlands +4 52 £60,000 +4.35% 12
East of England -12 42 £100,000 +122.22% 10
East Midlands -27 39 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North East -19 19 £50,000 +14.29% 1
Scotland -18 8 £60,000 +15.94% 7
Wales -25 8 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 April 2026, 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.

1 866 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 323 (37.30%) React
3 291 (33.60%) JavaScript
4 227 (26.21%) AWS
4 227 (26.21%) TypeScript
5 189 (21.82%) Node.js
6 182 (21.02%) .NET
7 171 (19.75%) C#
7 171 (19.75%) Python
8 158 (18.24%) Java
9 155 (17.90%) Agile
10 141 (16.28%) CI/CD
11 140 (16.17%) Azure
12 124 (14.32%) CSS
13 119 (13.74%) HTML
14 117 (13.51%) AngularJS
14 117 (13.51%) DevOps
14 117 (13.51%) Microservices
15 114 (13.16%) SQL
16 113 (13.05%) Software Engineering
17 107 (12.36%) Vue
18 102 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
19 93 (10.74%) Serverless
20 92 (10.62%) Docker
20 92 (10.62%) Git
21 91 (10.51%) AI
22 82 (9.47%) REST
23 81 (9.35%) Web Development
24 79 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
25 72 (8.31%) SaaS

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 10 (1.15%) OpenStack
2 8 (0.92%) CMS
2 8 (0.92%) Confluence
3 7 (0.81%) ColdFusion
4 5 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.46%) nginx
6 3 (0.35%) Liferay
6 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.23%) Drupal
7 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.12%) Apache
8 1 (0.12%) CICS
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 227 (26.21%) AWS
2 140 (16.17%) Azure
3 93 (10.74%) Serverless
4 72 (8.31%) SaaS
5 62 (7.16%) AWS Lambda
6 55 (6.35%) Amazon S3
7 49 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
8 39 (4.50%) GCP
9 37 (4.27%) GitHub
10 24 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (1.85%) Power Platform
14 12 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.04%) Apigee
15 9 (1.04%) AWS Step Functions
15 9 (1.04%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (0.92%) Amazon ECR
17 6 (0.69%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.35%) HTTP
2 2 (0.23%) AMQP
3 1 (0.12%) Broadband
3 1 (0.12%) DNS
3 1 (0.12%) Internet
3 1 (0.12%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 47 (5.43%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.16%) MySQL
5 34 (3.93%) MongoDB
6 33 (3.81%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.31%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.27%) Power BI
10 10 (1.15%) Redis
11 8 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.92%) DB2
11 8 (0.92%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.58%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.35%) ClickHouse
14 3 (0.35%) TimescaleDB
15 2 (0.23%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 92 (10.62%) Git
2 37 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 16 (1.85%) JIRA
5 12 (1.39%) Maven
6 11 (1.27%) JUnit
7 10 (1.15%) GitLab
8 9 (1.04%) Mockito
9 8 (0.92%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.69%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.69%) Selenium
11 5 (0.58%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.46%) webpack
13 3 (0.35%) ESLint
13 3 (0.35%) git-flow
13 3 (0.35%) JMeter
14 2 (0.23%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.23%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.23%) NUnit
General
1 89 (10.28%) Social Skills
2 78 (9.01%) Finance
3 36 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (3.35%) Banking
5 24 (2.77%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.66%) Retail
7 22 (2.54%) Aviation
8 15 (1.73%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.62%) Front Office
9 14 (1.62%) Games
10 9 (1.04%) Marketing
11 8 (0.92%) Tech for Good
12 7 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.81%) Local Government
13 6 (0.69%) Advertising
13 6 (0.69%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.58%) Law
15 4 (0.46%) Publishing
16 3 (0.35%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (37.30%) React
2 189 (21.82%) Node.js
3 182 (21.02%) .NET
4 124 (14.32%) CSS
5 119 (13.74%) HTML
6 117 (13.51%) AngularJS
7 107 (12.36%) Vue
8 82 (9.47%) REST
9 60 (6.93%) Spring
10 57 (6.58%) .NET Core
11 54 (6.24%) RESTful
12 48 (5.54%) Laravel
13 47 (5.43%) Spring Boot
14 35 (4.04%) ASP.NET
14 35 (4.04%) Next.js
15 32 (3.70%) Jest
16 29 (3.35%) GraphQL
16 29 (3.35%) Kafka
17 25 (2.89%) .NET Framework
18 24 (2.77%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.27%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 18 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.27%) Fixed Income
7 9 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 7 (0.81%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.46%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.46%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.46%) IoT
11 4 (0.46%) NHS
11 4 (0.46%) PropTech
12 3 (0.35%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.50%) Linux
2 6 (0.69%) Android
2 6 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 866 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 155 (17.90%) Agile
3 141 (16.28%) CI/CD
4 117 (13.51%) DevOps
4 117 (13.51%) Microservices
5 113 (13.05%) Software Engineering
6 102 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (10.51%) AI
8 81 (9.35%) Web Development
9 57 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (5.89%) API Development
10 51 (5.89%) Scrum
11 50 (5.77%) User Experience
12 48 (5.54%) Clean Code
13 45 (5.20%) Front End Development
14 44 (5.08%) Mentoring
15 42 (4.85%) SDLC
16 39 (4.50%) TDD
16 39 (4.50%) Test Automation
17 37 (4.27%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 291 (33.60%) JavaScript
2 227 (26.21%) TypeScript
3 171 (19.75%) C#
3 171 (19.75%) Python
4 158 (18.24%) Java
5 114 (13.16%) SQL
6 57 (6.58%) PHP
7 24 (2.77%) Ruby
8 17 (1.96%) C
9 11 (1.27%) Go
9 11 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.15%) Bash
11 8 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.69%) C++
13 5 (0.58%) Groovy
13 5 (0.58%) R
13 5 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.35%) COBOL
15 2 (0.23%) RPG
15 2 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 71 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 54 (6.24%) SC Cleared
3 34 (3.93%) Degree
4 28 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.31%) QA
2 18 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.35%) WCAG
4 2 (0.23%) HL7
5 1 (0.12%) GDPR
5 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 92 (10.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 50 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.54%) Terraform
3 10 (1.15%) Ansible
4 5 (0.58%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.46%) Kibana
6 3 (0.35%) Nagios
7 2 (0.23%) Grafana
7 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.12%) Argo
8 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (2.77%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.54%) Oracle
3 9 (1.04%) OpenAI
4 7 (0.81%) Pega
5 5 (0.58%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.58%) WSO2
6 4 (0.46%) Telerik
7 3 (0.35%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.35%) Google
7 3 (0.35%) Splunk
7 3 (0.35%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.35%) Zoho
8 2 (0.23%) Aderant
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe
8 2 (0.23%) Foundry
8 2 (0.23%) IBM
8 2 (0.23%) iManage
8 2 (0.23%) Intapp
8 2 (0.23%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.12%) Salesforce