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 21 June 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 299 163
Rank change year-on-year +107 -136 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 998 444 1,838
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 0.99% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.10% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 868 345 1,416
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,500 £94,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.00% -4.09%

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 88,632 40,228 103,596
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.47% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60,836 22,885 74,815
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +116 897 £65,000 +4.00% 70
UK excluding London +116 723 £60,000 +4.35% 75
Work from Home +112 359 £62,500 +4.17% 47
North of England +134 250 £67,500 +22.73% 15
South East +76 215 £60,000 +4.35% 17
London +29 215 £80,000 +10.34% 15
North West +85 115 £67,500 +22.73% 8
Yorkshire +49 108 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Midlands +21 101 £60,000 +2.13% 15
South West -10 78 £55,000 -8.33% 12
West Midlands -3 55 £70,000 +14.29% 6
East Midlands +2 46 £55,000 +15.79% 9
East of England -12 40 £82,500 +83.33% 2
Scotland +13 29 £55,000 +4.76% 6
North East -25 27 £50,000 -16.67% 4
Wales -50 8 £62,500 -3.85% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 7

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

For the 6 months to 21 June 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.

1 998 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 319 (31.96%) React
3 309 (30.96%) JavaScript
4 288 (28.86%) TypeScript
5 269 (26.95%) AWS
6 213 (21.34%) Node.js
7 191 (19.14%) .NET
8 190 (19.04%) Python
9 169 (16.93%) C#
10 165 (16.53%) Java
11 153 (15.33%) Agile
12 151 (15.13%) Azure
13 144 (14.43%) CI/CD
14 139 (13.93%) Microservices
15 137 (13.73%) AI
16 135 (13.53%) AngularJS
17 133 (13.33%) Software Engineering
18 125 (12.53%) CSS
19 117 (11.72%) HTML
19 117 (11.72%) Vue
20 110 (11.02%) DevOps
21 109 (10.92%) SQL
22 102 (10.22%) Serverless
23 96 (9.62%) Docker
24 93 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
25 89 (8.92%) SaaS
26 85 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
27 84 (8.42%) Git
27 84 (8.42%) Web Development
28 83 (8.32%) Security Cleared

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 12 (1.20%) CMS
2 11 (1.10%) Confluence
3 8 (0.80%) ColdFusion
4 7 (0.70%) WordPress
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.10%) CICS
8 1 (0.10%) Drupal
8 1 (0.10%) IIS
8 1 (0.10%) Liferay
8 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 269 (26.95%) AWS
2 151 (15.13%) Azure
3 102 (10.22%) Serverless
4 89 (8.92%) SaaS
5 81 (8.12%) AWS Lambda
6 73 (7.31%) Amazon S3
7 68 (6.81%) Amazon ECS
8 48 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
9 41 (4.11%) GitHub
10 40 (4.01%) GCP
11 31 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (2.61%) AWS Step Functions
13 24 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (2.00%) Power Platform
16 18 (1.80%) Amazon ECR
16 18 (1.80%) Apigee
17 14 (1.40%) GitHub Copilot
18 11 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
18 11 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.80%) Broadband
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
2 4 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (6.01%) SQL Server
3 44 (4.41%) MongoDB
4 34 (3.41%) MySQL
5 31 (3.11%) NoSQL
6 28 (2.81%) DynamoDB
7 23 (2.30%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.20%) Power BI
9 10 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.00%) Redis
10 8 (0.80%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.20%) GIS
13 2 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
14 1 (0.10%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 84 (8.42%) Git
2 40 (4.01%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.91%) Cypress.io
4 24 (2.40%) GitLab
5 20 (2.00%) JIRA
5 20 (2.00%) Maven
6 13 (1.30%) JUnit
7 10 (1.00%) Mockito
8 9 (0.90%) Claude Code
8 9 (0.90%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.30%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.20%) ESLint
10 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.20%) JMeter
10 2 (0.20%) NUnit
10 2 (0.20%) Postman
10 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.10%) Storybook
General
1 85 (8.52%) Social Skills
2 75 (7.52%) Finance
3 28 (2.81%) Public Sector
4 27 (2.71%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (2.30%) Retail
6 17 (1.70%) Aviation
7 12 (1.20%) Banking
8 11 (1.10%) Front Office
8 11 (1.10%) Marketing
9 10 (1.00%) Legal
10 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.80%) Local Government
12 7 (0.70%) Games
12 7 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.60%) Advertising
13 6 (0.60%) Law
13 6 (0.60%) Legal Technology
14 4 (0.40%) Publishing
15 3 (0.30%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.20%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (31.96%) React
2 213 (21.34%) Node.js
3 191 (19.14%) .NET
4 135 (13.53%) AngularJS
5 125 (12.53%) CSS
6 117 (11.72%) HTML
6 117 (11.72%) Vue
7 65 (6.51%) REST
8 64 (6.41%) Spring
9 62 (6.21%) RESTful
10 60 (6.01%) Spring Boot
11 49 (4.91%) .NET Core
12 48 (4.81%) Laravel
13 42 (4.21%) Jest
14 41 (4.11%) Next.js
15 38 (3.81%) Ruby on Rails
16 37 (3.71%) GraphQL
17 30 (3.01%) HTML5
18 28 (2.81%) CSS3
19 24 (2.40%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 69 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 25 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (1.90%) Mobile App
4 18 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (1.80%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.10%) Fixed Income
7 10 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.70%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.60%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.50%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (0.40%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.40%) NHS
11 4 (0.40%) PropTech
11 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.60%) Linux
2 2 (0.20%) Android
2 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) AIX
3 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 998 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 153 (15.33%) Agile
3 144 (14.43%) CI/CD
4 139 (13.93%) Microservices
5 137 (13.73%) AI
6 133 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 110 (11.02%) DevOps
8 93 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 84 (8.42%) Web Development
11 64 (6.41%) Mentoring
12 52 (5.21%) Clean Code
13 49 (4.91%) Front End Development
14 48 (4.81%) Computer Science
15 46 (4.61%) Containerisation
15 46 (4.61%) User Experience
16 41 (4.11%) SDLC
17 39 (3.91%) TDD
17 39 (3.91%) Technical Leadership
18 38 (3.81%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 309 (30.96%) JavaScript
2 288 (28.86%) TypeScript
3 190 (19.04%) Python
4 169 (16.93%) C#
5 165 (16.53%) Java
6 109 (10.92%) SQL
7 62 (6.21%) PHP
8 38 (3.81%) Ruby
9 18 (1.80%) Bash
9 18 (1.80%) Groovy
10 12 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.10%) Go
12 8 (0.80%) C++
12 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.60%) C
14 4 (0.40%) R
15 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.20%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 83 (8.32%) Security Cleared
2 72 (7.21%) SC Cleared
3 49 (4.91%) Degree
4 41 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.40%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.50%) QA
2 9 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.50%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.10%) HL7
4 1 (0.10%) SLA
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 96 (9.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.01%) Terraform
3 9 (0.90%) HP Fortify
4 7 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.60%) Ansible
6 5 (0.50%) Grafana
6 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.30%) Argo
7 3 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 40 (4.01%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.00%) Oracle
3 12 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.40%) OneLogin
5 4 (0.40%) Pega
6 3 (0.30%) Google
6 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.30%) WooCommerce
7 2 (0.20%) Aderant
7 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.20%) Foundry
7 2 (0.20%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) Intapp
7 2 (0.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe
8 1 (0.10%) Databricks
8 1 (0.10%) SendGrid