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 4 March 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 288 180
Rank change year-on-year +69 -108 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 707 485 1,325
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.06% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.17% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 576 325 1,184
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,140 £46,250
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,000 £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 65,273 41,513 74,477
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 91.10% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 41,213 22,694 57,615
10th Percentile £29,520 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.21%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +69 647 £65,000 +8.33% 348
UK excluding London +54 449 £60,000 +9.09% 340
Work from Home +69 248 £60,000 - 224
London +69 213 £80,000 +14.29% 49
South East -10 150 £60,000 +9.09% 99
North of England +61 131 £65,000 +18.18% 73
Midlands +19 76 £55,000 -4.35% 36
North West +43 62 £70,000 +27.27% 34
South West +11 53 £55,000 -8.33% 52
Yorkshire -5 44 £70,000 +27.27% 25
West Midlands +23 42 £60,000 +2.13% 21
East Midlands -9 34 £55,000 - 14
East of England +4 30 £100,000 +122.22% 52
North East +3 25 £50,000 +17.65% 15
Wales -8 8 £45,000 -14.69% 14
Scotland -23 2 £65,000 +25.60% 16
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 7

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

For the 6 months to 4 March 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.

1 707 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 309 (43.71%) React
3 259 (36.63%) JavaScript
4 208 (29.42%) AWS
5 198 (28.01%) TypeScript
6 172 (24.33%) .NET
7 161 (22.77%) C#
8 155 (21.92%) Java
9 152 (21.50%) Agile
10 148 (20.93%) Node.js
11 136 (19.24%) Python
12 135 (19.09%) Azure
13 131 (18.53%) CI/CD
14 119 (16.83%) CSS
15 118 (16.69%) HTML
16 113 (15.98%) AngularJS
17 112 (15.84%) Microservices
18 109 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
19 105 (14.85%) SQL
20 103 (14.57%) DevOps
21 97 (13.72%) Software Engineering
22 93 (13.15%) Docker
22 93 (13.15%) Vue
23 91 (12.87%) REST
24 83 (11.74%) Git
25 81 (11.46%) AI
25 81 (11.46%) Serverless
26 72 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
27 71 (10.04%) Security Cleared
28 61 (8.63%) Spring

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 (1.41%) CMS
2 9 (1.27%) Confluence
3 8 (1.13%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.57%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.57%) nginx
6 3 (0.42%) Drupal
6 3 (0.42%) Liferay
6 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.14%) Apache
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 208 (29.42%) AWS
2 135 (19.09%) Azure
3 81 (11.46%) Serverless
4 54 (7.64%) SaaS
5 47 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (6.51%) Amazon S3
7 42 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (5.52%) GCP
9 38 (5.37%) GitHub
10 30 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
11 26 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.98%) Power Platform
15 11 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
17 8 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
18 6 (0.85%) Amazon EventBridge
19 5 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
20 4 (0.57%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.28%) AMQP
1 2 (0.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.14%) Broadband
2 1 (0.14%) Internet
2 1 (0.14%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 44 (6.22%) NoSQL
4 39 (5.52%) Relational Database
5 30 (4.24%) MongoDB
5 30 (4.24%) MySQL
6 14 (1.98%) RDBMS
6 14 (1.98%) Redis
7 12 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.41%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.27%) Power BI
10 8 (1.13%) DB2
11 3 (0.42%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.42%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.42%) TimescaleDB
12 2 (0.28%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 83 (11.74%) Git
2 37 (5.23%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.11%) Cypress.io
4 18 (2.55%) JUnit
5 16 (2.26%) Mockito
6 14 (1.98%) JIRA
7 12 (1.70%) Maven
7 12 (1.70%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.13%) GitLab
8 8 (1.13%) JMeter
9 7 (0.99%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.99%) Selenium
10 6 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.71%) git-flow
11 5 (0.71%) webpack
12 3 (0.42%) ESLint
12 3 (0.42%) Mocha
12 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.28%) Storybook
13 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (13.01%) Social Skills
2 72 (10.18%) Finance
3 39 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (4.67%) Banking
5 26 (3.68%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.11%) Aviation
7 20 (2.83%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.69%) Retail
9 17 (2.40%) Front Office
10 15 (2.12%) Games
11 12 (1.70%) Law
12 11 (1.56%) Legal
13 10 (1.41%) Marketing
14 9 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.13%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.85%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.71%) Electronics
17 5 (0.71%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.42%) Local Government
18 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (43.71%) React
2 172 (24.33%) .NET
3 148 (20.93%) Node.js
4 119 (16.83%) CSS
5 118 (16.69%) HTML
6 113 (15.98%) AngularJS
7 93 (13.15%) Vue
8 91 (12.87%) REST
9 61 (8.63%) Spring
10 54 (7.64%) .NET Core
11 50 (7.07%) RESTful
12 42 (5.94%) Spring Boot
13 40 (5.66%) Laravel
14 34 (4.81%) ASP.NET
15 33 (4.67%) Kafka
16 31 (4.38%) Next.js
17 27 (3.82%) GraphQL
17 27 (3.82%) HTML5
18 26 (3.68%) CSS3
19 24 (3.39%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.96%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
2 24 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.12%) Mobile App
6 11 (1.56%) Fixed Income
7 10 (1.41%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.99%) Hedge funds
10 6 (0.85%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.71%) Sports Betting
12 4 (0.57%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.57%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.57%) IoT
13 2 (0.28%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.12%) Linux
2 8 (1.13%) Android
2 8 (1.13%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.28%) Windows
4 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 152 (21.50%) Agile
3 131 (18.53%) CI/CD
4 112 (15.84%) Microservices
5 109 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
6 103 (14.57%) DevOps
7 97 (13.72%) Software Engineering
8 81 (11.46%) AI
9 58 (8.20%) User Experience
10 52 (7.36%) Web Development
11 51 (7.21%) API Development
11 51 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (6.51%) SDLC
13 45 (6.36%) Front End Development
13 45 (6.36%) Scrum
14 44 (6.22%) Clean Code
14 44 (6.22%) Mentoring
14 44 (6.22%) TDD
15 38 (5.37%) Containerisation
16 36 (5.09%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 259 (36.63%) JavaScript
2 198 (28.01%) TypeScript
3 161 (22.77%) C#
4 155 (21.92%) Java
5 136 (19.24%) Python
6 105 (14.85%) SQL
7 47 (6.65%) PHP
8 17 (2.40%) C
9 16 (2.26%) Ruby
10 14 (1.98%) Go
11 12 (1.70%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.41%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.27%) Bash
14 6 (0.85%) C++
14 6 (0.85%) R
15 5 (0.71%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.57%) XAML
17 3 (0.42%) COBOL
17 3 (0.42%) Groovy
18 2 (0.28%) RPG
Qualifications
1 71 (10.04%) Security Cleared
2 45 (6.36%) SC Cleared
3 34 (4.81%) Degree
4 29 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.12%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.39%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.25%) QA
3 5 (0.71%) WCAG
4 2 (0.28%) HL7
5 1 (0.14%) GDPR
5 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 93 (13.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (8.35%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.69%) Terraform
3 9 (1.27%) Kibana
4 8 (1.13%) Ansible
5 5 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.42%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.42%) Nagios
7 2 (0.28%) Argo
7 2 (0.28%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (3.25%) Oracle
2 19 (2.69%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.27%) Dynatrace
3 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
4 8 (1.13%) Splunk
5 7 (0.99%) Google
6 4 (0.57%) iManage
6 4 (0.57%) Telerik
7 3 (0.42%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.42%) Pega
7 3 (0.42%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.42%) WSO2
7 3 (0.42%) Zoho
8 2 (0.28%) Aderant
8 2 (0.28%) Foundry
8 2 (0.28%) IBM
8 2 (0.28%) Intapp
8 2 (0.28%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.14%) Databricks
9 1 (0.14%) ServiceNow