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 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 276 172
Rank change year-on-year +79 -104 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 931 458 1,606
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.09% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.22% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 797 359 1,304
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £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 £95,000
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 81,853 37,403 89,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 89.35% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 52,380 23,534 66,447
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
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 24 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 24 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 +79 846 £65,000 +8.33% 119
UK excluding London +76 635 £60,000 +9.09% 108
Work from Home +57 310 £62,500 +4.17% 70
London +45 229 £80,000 +14.29% 34
North of England +65 201 £70,000 +27.27% 31
South East +37 200 £60,000 +9.09% 40
Midlands +5 97 £60,000 +12.15% 8
North West +33 91 £68,750 +25.00% 13
Yorkshire +11 90 £75,000 +36.36% 11
South West -8 76 £55,000 -8.33% 16
West Midlands +4 53 £60,000 - 4
East Midlands -30 44 £55,000 +15.79% 4
East of England -25 43 £100,000 +122.22% 6
North East -22 20 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Scotland -27 11 £60,000 +14.29% 7
Wales -26 8 £45,000 -26.83% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 931 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 337 (36.20%) React
3 292 (31.36%) JavaScript
4 254 (27.28%) TypeScript
5 225 (24.17%) AWS
6 204 (21.91%) Node.js
7 180 (19.33%) Python
8 177 (19.01%) .NET
9 167 (17.94%) C#
10 164 (17.62%) Java
11 140 (15.04%) Agile
12 134 (14.39%) Azure
12 134 (14.39%) CI/CD
13 124 (13.32%) Software Engineering
14 117 (12.57%) CSS
15 115 (12.35%) AngularJS
15 115 (12.35%) SQL
16 114 (12.24%) Microservices
17 113 (12.14%) DevOps
17 113 (12.14%) HTML
18 106 (11.39%) Vue
19 96 (10.31%) Problem-Solving
20 94 (10.10%) AI
21 90 (9.67%) Web Development
22 89 (9.56%) Docker
23 88 (9.45%) Git
24 85 (9.13%) Serverless
25 77 (8.27%) SaaS
26 76 (8.16%) Security Cleared
27 75 (8.06%) PostgreSQL

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 (1.07%) Confluence
2 8 (0.86%) CMS
2 8 (0.86%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.75%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.32%) Liferay
5 3 (0.32%) nginx
5 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.21%) Drupal
6 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.21%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.11%) Apache
7 1 (0.11%) CICS
7 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.11%) Magento
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 225 (24.17%) AWS
2 134 (14.39%) Azure
3 85 (9.13%) Serverless
4 77 (8.27%) SaaS
5 62 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 46 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (3.97%) GCP
10 32 (3.44%) GitHub
11 24 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.50%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (1.18%) Apigee
14 11 (1.18%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (1.07%) Amazon ECR
15 10 (1.07%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (0.64%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.64%) HTTP
2 4 (0.43%) DNS
3 2 (0.21%) Broadband
3 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.11%) AMQP
4 1 (0.11%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (6.12%) SQL Server
3 46 (4.94%) NoSQL
4 36 (3.87%) MongoDB
5 31 (3.33%) MySQL
6 21 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.15%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (0.97%) Power BI
10 8 (0.86%) Redis
11 7 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.75%) DB2
12 4 (0.43%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.43%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.32%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.32%) TimescaleDB
14 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.21%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.21%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 88 (9.45%) Git
2 31 (3.33%) Cypress.io
3 30 (3.22%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.93%) JIRA
5 13 (1.40%) Maven
6 12 (1.29%) GitLab
7 9 (0.97%) JUnit
8 7 (0.75%) Mockito
9 6 (0.64%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.64%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.54%) Selenium
11 3 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.32%) ESLint
11 3 (0.32%) webpack
12 2 (0.21%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.21%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.21%) NUnit
12 2 (0.21%) Storybook
General
1 83 (8.92%) Social Skills
2 78 (8.38%) Finance
3 34 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (2.69%) Banking
5 24 (2.58%) Aviation
6 23 (2.47%) Retail
7 19 (2.04%) Public Sector
8 13 (1.40%) Games
9 12 (1.29%) Front Office
9 12 (1.29%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.97%) Marketing
11 8 (0.86%) Tech for Good
12 7 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.75%) Local Government
13 6 (0.64%) Advertising
14 5 (0.54%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.54%) Law
15 4 (0.43%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.43%) Publishing
16 3 (0.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (36.20%) React
2 204 (21.91%) Node.js
3 177 (19.01%) .NET
4 117 (12.57%) CSS
5 115 (12.35%) AngularJS
6 113 (12.14%) HTML
7 106 (11.39%) Vue
8 74 (7.95%) REST
9 62 (6.66%) Spring
10 57 (6.12%) RESTful
11 53 (5.69%) .NET Core
11 53 (5.69%) Laravel
12 48 (5.16%) Spring Boot
13 40 (4.30%) Next.js
14 34 (3.65%) GraphQL
14 34 (3.65%) Jest
15 32 (3.44%) React Native
16 31 (3.33%) Ruby on Rails
17 27 (2.90%) ASP.NET
18 26 (2.79%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.73%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (2.15%) Mobile App
4 19 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 8 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.75%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.54%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.54%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.43%) IoT
12 4 (0.43%) NHS
12 4 (0.43%) PropTech
13 3 (0.32%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.32%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.32%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.40%) Linux
2 5 (0.54%) Android
2 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 931 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 140 (15.04%) Agile
3 134 (14.39%) CI/CD
4 124 (13.32%) Software Engineering
5 114 (12.24%) Microservices
6 113 (12.14%) DevOps
7 96 (10.31%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (10.10%) AI
9 90 (9.67%) Web Development
10 57 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (5.26%) Clean Code
12 48 (5.16%) API Development
13 45 (4.83%) Mentoring
14 44 (4.73%) Front End Development
14 44 (4.73%) Scrum
15 43 (4.62%) User Experience
16 40 (4.30%) SDLC
17 38 (4.08%) Containerisation
17 38 (4.08%) Test Automation
18 35 (3.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 292 (31.36%) JavaScript
2 254 (27.28%) TypeScript
3 180 (19.33%) Python
4 167 (17.94%) C#
5 164 (17.62%) Java
6 115 (12.35%) SQL
7 63 (6.77%) PHP
8 31 (3.33%) Ruby
9 18 (1.93%) C
10 11 (1.18%) Bash
10 11 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.07%) Go
12 8 (0.86%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.75%) C++
14 6 (0.64%) Groovy
15 5 (0.54%) R
16 3 (0.32%) COBOL
16 3 (0.32%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.21%) RPG
18 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 60 (6.44%) SC Cleared
3 30 (3.22%) Degree
4 25 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.29%) DV Cleared
6 8 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.83%) QA
2 15 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.21%) HL7
3 2 (0.21%) WCAG
4 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 89 (9.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.36%) Terraform
3 6 (0.64%) Ansible
3 6 (0.64%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.32%) Nagios
6 2 (0.21%) Grafana
6 2 (0.21%) Kibana
6 2 (0.21%) Podman
7 1 (0.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 25 (2.69%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.36%) Oracle
3 9 (0.97%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.43%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.43%) Google
4 4 (0.43%) Pega
4 4 (0.43%) Peregrine
5 3 (0.32%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.32%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.32%) Telerik
5 3 (0.32%) WooCommerce
5 3 (0.32%) Zoho
6 2 (0.21%) Aderant
6 2 (0.21%) Adobe
6 2 (0.21%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.21%) Foundry
6 2 (0.21%) iManage
6 2 (0.21%) Intapp
6 2 (0.21%) SendGrid
6 2 (0.21%) WSO2