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 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 242 190
Rank change year-on-year -19 -52 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 495 727 929
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.16% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.23% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 362 451 858
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £78,938 £72,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,375 £95,000 £105,225
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 50,261 59,063 47,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.04% 94.04% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 31,429 32,705 37,339
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -17 443 £62,500 +4.17% 169
UK excluding London -4 301 £60,000 +9.09% 148
London +19 174 £80,000 +11.11% 51
Work from Home -5 155 £60,000 +4.35% 101
South East -2 112 £60,000 +9.09% 54
North of England +21 70 £55,500 +3.26% 40
South West +11 37 £60,000 +9.09% 17
Midlands -15 37 £60,000 +11.11% 22
North West +19 28 £60,000 +33.33% 20
East of England +7 26 £50,000 +11.11% 10
West Midlands +12 25 £60,000 +6.67% 16
Yorkshire 0 23 £60,000 - 6
North East +18 19 £50,000 +11.11% 14
Wales 0 15 £60,000 -2.44% 4
East Midlands -8 12 £62,500 +56.25% 6
Scotland -11 7 £60,000 -5.33% 3
Northern Ireland -8 2 £60,000 -14.29%

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 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.

1 495 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 267 (53.94%) React
3 231 (46.67%) JavaScript
4 206 (41.62%) AWS
5 172 (34.75%) Agile
6 155 (31.31%) TypeScript
7 145 (29.29%) Azure
7 145 (29.29%) CI/CD
8 143 (28.89%) C#
9 139 (28.08%) .NET
10 132 (26.67%) HTML
11 120 (24.24%) Node.js
12 119 (24.04%) AngularJS
13 117 (23.64%) CSS
13 117 (23.64%) Java
14 110 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
14 110 (22.22%) SQL
15 104 (21.01%) DevOps
16 103 (20.81%) Python
17 94 (18.99%) User Experience
18 93 (18.79%) REST
19 91 (18.38%) Git
20 88 (17.78%) Docker
21 83 (16.77%) RESTful
21 83 (16.77%) Vue
22 79 (15.96%) Microservices
23 73 (14.75%) SQL Server
24 68 (13.74%) Software Engineering
25 64 (12.93%) Kubernetes
26 63 (12.73%) Serverless

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 (2.02%) CMS
2 8 (1.62%) Headless CMS
3 6 (1.21%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.01%) Confluence
5 3 (0.61%) Drupal
5 3 (0.61%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.40%) ColdFusion
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.20%) Kentico
7 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.02%) Shopify
2 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 206 (41.62%) AWS
2 145 (29.29%) Azure
3 63 (12.73%) Serverless
4 57 (11.52%) GCP
5 51 (10.30%) SaaS
6 42 (8.48%) Amazon ECS
7 40 (8.08%) GitHub
8 38 (7.68%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (5.25%) Amazon S3
11 24 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
15 10 (2.02%) Figma
16 9 (1.82%) Vercel
17 8 (1.62%) Google Analytics
17 8 (1.62%) Power Platform
18 7 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
19 6 (1.21%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.61%) Broadband
1 3 (0.61%) HTTP
2 2 (0.40%) AMQP
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (14.75%) SQL Server
2 61 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (10.30%) Relational Database
4 48 (9.70%) NoSQL
5 30 (6.06%) MySQL
6 28 (5.66%) RDBMS
7 16 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.83%) Redis
9 13 (2.63%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.62%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.62%) Power BI
11 7 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.01%) DB2
13 3 (0.61%) Big Data
14 2 (0.40%) Apache Hive
14 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.40%) HBase
14 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 91 (18.38%) Git
2 35 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.65%) JUnit
4 22 (4.44%) Mockito
5 18 (3.64%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.64%) JMeter
6 14 (2.83%) JIRA
7 9 (1.82%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.21%) Maven
8 6 (1.21%) webpack
9 5 (1.01%) git-flow
9 5 (1.01%) Mocha
9 5 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.81%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.81%) Selenium
10 4 (0.81%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.61%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.40%) Gradle
12 2 (0.40%) Storybook
General
1 102 (20.61%) Social Skills
2 59 (11.92%) Finance
3 36 (7.27%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.67%) Law
5 25 (5.05%) Marketing
6 23 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (4.44%) Banking
8 19 (3.84%) Front Office
9 17 (3.43%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.42%) Retail
12 11 (2.22%) Legal
13 10 (2.02%) Health Technology
14 9 (1.82%) Aviation
14 9 (1.82%) Games
15 6 (1.21%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.01%) Electronics
17 3 (0.61%) Multimedia
17 3 (0.61%) Tech for Good
18 2 (0.40%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (53.94%) React
2 139 (28.08%) .NET
3 132 (26.67%) HTML
4 120 (24.24%) Node.js
5 119 (24.04%) AngularJS
6 117 (23.64%) CSS
7 93 (18.79%) REST
8 83 (16.77%) RESTful
8 83 (16.77%) Vue
9 63 (12.73%) Spring
10 50 (10.10%) ASP.NET
11 47 (9.49%) GraphQL
12 44 (8.89%) .NET Core
13 37 (7.47%) .NET Framework
14 36 (7.27%) Spring Boot
15 34 (6.87%) Web Services
16 33 (6.67%) Kafka
17 29 (5.86%) HTML5
18 28 (5.66%) CSS3
18 28 (5.66%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (4.04%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.42%) Hedge funds
7 10 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.02%) Reference Data
8 8 (1.62%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.81%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.61%) IoT
10 3 (0.61%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.61%) Smart Home
10 3 (0.61%) Social Media
11 2 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.40%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.41%) Android
1 7 (1.41%) Apple iOS
1 7 (1.41%) Linux
2 5 (1.01%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 172 (34.75%) Agile
3 145 (29.29%) CI/CD
4 110 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (21.01%) DevOps
6 94 (18.99%) User Experience
7 79 (15.96%) Microservices
8 68 (13.74%) Software Engineering
9 59 (11.92%) Clean Code
9 59 (11.92%) Web Development
10 57 (11.52%) UX Design
11 52 (10.51%) AI
12 49 (9.90%) TDD
13 48 (9.70%) SDLC
14 44 (8.89%) Test Automation
15 42 (8.48%) Containerisation
16 38 (7.68%) Scrum
17 36 (7.27%) Front End Development
18 35 (7.07%) Mentoring
19 33 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 231 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 155 (31.31%) TypeScript
3 143 (28.89%) C#
4 117 (23.64%) Java
5 110 (22.22%) SQL
6 103 (20.81%) Python
7 22 (4.44%) PHP
8 18 (3.64%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.23%) Go
10 11 (2.22%) C
11 8 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.21%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.21%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.01%) Ruby
14 4 (0.81%) Bicep
14 4 (0.81%) C++
14 4 (0.81%) XAML
15 3 (0.61%) Bash
15 3 (0.61%) COBOL
15 3 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (10.51%) Security Cleared
2 26 (5.25%) Degree
3 20 (4.04%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.68%) Accessibility
2 33 (6.67%) QA
3 6 (1.21%) WCAG
4 4 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 88 (17.78%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) HDFS
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (12.93%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.65%) Terraform
3 18 (3.64%) Kibana
4 6 (1.21%) Ansible
5 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Argo
6 1 (0.20%) Nagios
Vendors
1 45 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.84%) Splunk
3 18 (3.64%) Dynatrace
4 13 (2.63%) Oracle
5 8 (1.62%) Apple
6 6 (1.21%) Google
7 4 (0.81%) DevExpress
7 4 (0.81%) Telerik
8 3 (0.61%) Databricks
8 3 (0.61%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.61%) Pega
8 3 (0.61%) WSO2
8 3 (0.61%) Zoho
9 2 (0.40%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.40%) iManage
9 2 (0.40%) WooCommerce
9 2 (0.40%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.20%) IBM
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat