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 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 275 175
Rank change year-on-year +71 -100 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 865 441 1,533
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 1,286
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £86,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.27% -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 76,515 36,725 86,098
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 89.80% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 49,212 23,272 64,527
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,501
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -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 8 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 8 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 +81 789 £65,000 +8.33% 164
UK excluding London +78 583 £60,000 +9.09% 139
Work from Home +58 290 £60,000 +4.35% 97
London +47 223 £80,000 +16.36% 43
North of England +59 187 £67,500 +22.73% 45
South East +24 182 £60,000 +9.09% 38
Midlands +6 91 £55,000 +8.37% 21
North West +28 90 £70,000 +27.27% 22
Yorkshire +8 76 £75,000 +36.36% 22
South West +3 66 £55,000 -8.33% 17
West Midlands +20 52 £60,000 +4.35% 12
East of England -23 42 £100,000 +122.22% 10
East Midlands -30 39 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North East -11 21 £50,000 +14.29% 1
Wales -23 8 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Scotland -31 8 £60,000 +15.94% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 865 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 325 (37.57%) React
3 294 (33.99%) JavaScript
4 228 (26.36%) AWS
5 227 (26.24%) TypeScript
6 190 (21.97%) Node.js
7 181 (20.92%) .NET
8 171 (19.77%) Python
9 170 (19.65%) C#
10 159 (18.38%) Java
11 155 (17.92%) Agile
12 143 (16.53%) CI/CD
13 141 (16.30%) Azure
14 125 (14.45%) CSS
15 120 (13.87%) HTML
16 118 (13.64%) Microservices
17 117 (13.53%) AngularJS
17 117 (13.53%) DevOps
18 116 (13.41%) SQL
19 113 (13.06%) Software Engineering
20 106 (12.25%) Vue
21 104 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
22 95 (10.98%) Docker
23 92 (10.64%) AI
23 92 (10.64%) Serverless
24 91 (10.52%) Git
25 83 (9.60%) REST
26 81 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
26 81 (9.36%) Web Development
27 73 (8.44%) 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 (1.16%) 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
1 228 (26.36%) AWS
2 141 (16.30%) Azure
3 92 (10.64%) Serverless
4 73 (8.44%) SaaS
5 61 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
6 55 (6.36%) Amazon S3
7 49 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (4.62%) GCP
9 38 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
9 38 (4.39%) 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%) Amazon EventBridge
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 81 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (7.28%) SQL Server
3 47 (5.43%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.16%) MySQL
5 34 (3.93%) MongoDB
6 33 (3.82%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.20%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.27%) Power BI
9 11 (1.27%) Redis
10 9 (1.04%) DB2
11 8 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
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 91 (10.52%) Git
2 38 (4.39%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.24%) Cypress.io
4 16 (1.85%) JIRA
5 12 (1.39%) Maven
6 11 (1.27%) JUnit
7 10 (1.16%) GitLab
7 10 (1.16%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.04%) Mockito
9 7 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.81%) Selenium
10 6 (0.69%) Bitbucket
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 91 (10.52%) Social Skills
2 79 (9.13%) Finance
3 36 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (3.47%) Banking
5 23 (2.66%) Public Sector
5 23 (2.66%) Retail
6 22 (2.54%) Aviation
7 15 (1.73%) Games
7 15 (1.73%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.62%) Front Office
9 9 (1.04%) Marketing
10 8 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.92%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.81%) Local Government
12 6 (0.69%) Advertising
12 6 (0.69%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.58%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.58%) Law
14 4 (0.46%) Electronics
14 4 (0.46%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (37.57%) React
2 190 (21.97%) Node.js
3 181 (20.92%) .NET
4 125 (14.45%) CSS
5 120 (13.87%) HTML
6 117 (13.53%) AngularJS
7 106 (12.25%) Vue
8 83 (9.60%) REST
9 60 (6.94%) Spring
10 55 (6.36%) .NET Core
11 54 (6.24%) RESTful
12 48 (5.55%) Laravel
13 47 (5.43%) Spring Boot
14 36 (4.16%) Next.js
15 34 (3.93%) ASP.NET
16 32 (3.70%) Jest
17 30 (3.47%) Kafka
18 29 (3.35%) GraphQL
19 25 (2.89%) Django
20 24 (2.77%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.16%) Cloud Native
2 32 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (2.20%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.20%) 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%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.50%) Linux
2 7 (0.81%) Android
2 7 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 155 (17.92%) Agile
3 143 (16.53%) CI/CD
4 118 (13.64%) Microservices
5 117 (13.53%) DevOps
6 113 (13.06%) Software Engineering
7 104 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (10.64%) AI
9 81 (9.36%) Web Development
10 58 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (5.90%) API Development
11 51 (5.90%) Scrum
12 49 (5.66%) User Experience
13 48 (5.55%) Clean Code
14 46 (5.32%) Front End Development
14 46 (5.32%) Mentoring
15 43 (4.97%) SDLC
16 39 (4.51%) TDD
17 38 (4.39%) Test Automation
18 37 (4.28%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 294 (33.99%) JavaScript
2 227 (26.24%) TypeScript
3 171 (19.77%) Python
4 170 (19.65%) C#
5 159 (18.38%) Java
6 116 (13.41%) SQL
7 57 (6.59%) PHP
8 24 (2.77%) Ruby
9 17 (1.97%) C
10 11 (1.27%) Go
10 11 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.16%) Bash
12 8 (0.92%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.69%) C++
14 5 (0.58%) Groovy
14 5 (0.58%) R
14 5 (0.58%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.35%) COBOL
15 3 (0.35%) XAML
16 2 (0.23%) RPG
Qualifications
1 70 (8.09%) Security Cleared
2 53 (6.13%) SC Cleared
3 34 (3.93%) Degree
4 28 (3.24%) 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
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.20%) 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 95 (10.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.66%) Terraform
3 10 (1.16%) 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 23 (2.66%) 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