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 13 April 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 270 174
Rank change year-on-year +69 -96 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 891 451 1,558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.09% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.22% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 753 354 1,295
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £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 78,459 36,925 87,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 89.59% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 50,370 23,318 65,715
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
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 13 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 13 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 +78 813 £65,000 +8.33% 122
UK excluding London +59 602 £60,000 +9.09% 107
Work from Home +63 295 £60,000 +4.35% 72
London +48 229 £80,000 +14.29% 41
North of England +57 190 £68,750 +25.00% 24
South East +25 190 £60,000 +9.09% 40
North West +30 92 £70,000 +27.27% 9
Midlands +5 92 £57,500 +15.00% 12
Yorkshire +4 79 £75,000 +36.36% 11
South West +4 72 £55,000 -8.33% 14
West Midlands +13 52 £60,000 +4.35% 4
East of England -13 42 £100,000 +122.22% 6
East Midlands -21 40 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North East -18 19 £50,000 +14.29% 4
Scotland -18 9 £60,000 +15.94% 9
Wales -25 8 £45,000 -15.09% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 891 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 332 (37.26%) React
3 296 (33.22%) JavaScript
4 240 (26.94%) TypeScript
5 228 (25.59%) AWS
6 194 (21.77%) Node.js
7 184 (20.65%) .NET
8 172 (19.30%) C#
8 172 (19.30%) Python
9 160 (17.96%) Java
10 153 (17.17%) Agile
11 140 (15.71%) CI/CD
12 137 (15.38%) Azure
13 125 (14.03%) CSS
14 121 (13.58%) HTML
15 120 (13.47%) AngularJS
16 118 (13.24%) SQL
17 116 (13.02%) Microservices
18 114 (12.79%) Software Engineering
19 113 (12.68%) DevOps
20 109 (12.23%) Vue
21 99 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
22 93 (10.44%) AI
23 91 (10.21%) Git
24 90 (10.10%) Docker
25 89 (9.99%) Serverless
26 84 (9.43%) Web Development
27 78 (8.75%) REST
28 76 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
28 76 (8.53%) 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 9 (1.01%) Confluence
2 8 (0.90%) CMS
3 7 (0.79%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.79%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.45%) nginx
6 3 (0.34%) Liferay
6 3 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.22%) Drupal
7 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) CICS
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.11%) Magento
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 228 (25.59%) AWS
2 137 (15.38%) Azure
3 89 (9.99%) Serverless
4 76 (8.53%) SaaS
5 63 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (6.29%) Amazon S3
7 46 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
8 39 (4.38%) GCP
9 36 (4.04%) GitHub
10 24 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (1.68%) Power Platform
14 13 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (1.12%) Apigee
15 10 (1.12%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
16 9 (1.01%) Amazon ECR
17 7 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.34%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) AMQP
3 1 (0.11%) Broadband
3 1 (0.11%) DNS
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (7.18%) SQL Server
3 46 (5.16%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.04%) MySQL
5 34 (3.82%) MongoDB
6 29 (3.25%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.36%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.12%) Power BI
9 10 (1.12%) Redis
10 8 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.90%) DB2
10 8 (0.90%) RDBMS
11 7 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.56%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.34%) ClickHouse
13 3 (0.34%) TimescaleDB
14 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.22%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 91 (10.21%) Git
2 34 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.14%) Cypress.io
4 17 (1.91%) JIRA
5 12 (1.35%) Maven
6 11 (1.23%) GitLab
6 11 (1.23%) JUnit
7 9 (1.01%) Mockito
8 8 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.67%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.67%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.67%) Selenium
10 5 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.45%) webpack
12 3 (0.34%) ESLint
12 3 (0.34%) git-flow
12 3 (0.34%) JMeter
13 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.22%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.22%) NUnit
General
1 89 (9.99%) Social Skills
2 78 (8.75%) Finance
3 36 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (3.25%) Banking
5 23 (2.58%) Retail
6 22 (2.47%) Aviation
6 22 (2.47%) Public Sector
7 15 (1.68%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.57%) Front Office
8 14 (1.57%) Games
9 9 (1.01%) Marketing
10 8 (0.90%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.79%) Local Government
12 6 (0.67%) Advertising
12 6 (0.67%) Law
13 5 (0.56%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.56%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.45%) Publishing
15 3 (0.34%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (37.26%) React
2 194 (21.77%) Node.js
3 184 (20.65%) .NET
4 125 (14.03%) CSS
5 121 (13.58%) HTML
6 120 (13.47%) AngularJS
7 109 (12.23%) Vue
8 78 (8.75%) REST
9 62 (6.96%) Spring
10 58 (6.51%) .NET Core
10 58 (6.51%) RESTful
11 50 (5.61%) Laravel
12 48 (5.39%) Spring Boot
13 36 (4.04%) Next.js
14 32 (3.59%) ASP.NET
14 32 (3.59%) Jest
15 30 (3.37%) GraphQL
15 30 (3.37%) Kafka
16 27 (3.03%) .NET Framework
16 27 (3.03%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.49%) Cloud Native
2 32 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (2.58%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.24%) Mobile App
4 20 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.23%) Fixed Income
7 9 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 7 (0.79%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.67%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.45%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.45%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.45%) IoT
11 4 (0.45%) NHS
11 4 (0.45%) PropTech
12 3 (0.34%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.46%) Linux
2 6 (0.67%) Android
2 6 (0.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 891 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 153 (17.17%) Agile
3 140 (15.71%) CI/CD
4 116 (13.02%) Microservices
5 114 (12.79%) Software Engineering
6 113 (12.68%) DevOps
7 99 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (10.44%) AI
9 84 (9.43%) Web Development
10 60 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (5.72%) Clean Code
12 50 (5.61%) API Development
13 48 (5.39%) User Experience
14 47 (5.27%) Mentoring
15 46 (5.16%) Scrum
16 44 (4.94%) Front End Development
17 42 (4.71%) SDLC
18 40 (4.49%) Test Automation
19 37 (4.15%) TDD
19 37 (4.15%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 296 (33.22%) JavaScript
2 240 (26.94%) TypeScript
3 172 (19.30%) C#
3 172 (19.30%) Python
4 160 (17.96%) Java
5 118 (13.24%) SQL
6 60 (6.73%) PHP
7 26 (2.92%) Ruby
8 17 (1.91%) C
9 11 (1.23%) Go
9 11 (1.23%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.12%) Bash
11 8 (0.90%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.67%) C++
13 5 (0.56%) Groovy
13 5 (0.56%) R
13 5 (0.56%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.34%) COBOL
15 2 (0.22%) RPG
15 2 (0.22%) XAML
Qualifications
1 73 (8.19%) Security Cleared
2 56 (6.29%) SC Cleared
3 32 (3.59%) Degree
4 27 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.24%) QA
2 18 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.34%) WCAG
4 2 (0.22%) HL7
5 1 (0.11%) GDPR
5 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 90 (10.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.24%) Terraform
3 7 (0.79%) Ansible
4 5 (0.56%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.45%) Kibana
6 3 (0.34%) Nagios
7 2 (0.22%) Grafana
7 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.11%) Argo
8 1 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 24 (2.69%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.47%) Oracle
3 9 (1.01%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.67%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.45%) Pega
5 4 (0.45%) Telerik
6 3 (0.34%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.34%) Google
6 3 (0.34%) Splunk
6 3 (0.34%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.34%) Zoho
7 2 (0.22%) Aderant
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe
7 2 (0.22%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.22%) Foundry
7 2 (0.22%) IBM
7 2 (0.22%) iManage
7 2 (0.22%) Intapp
7 2 (0.22%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.22%) WSO2