Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 274 190
Rank change year-on-year +16 -84 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 508 604 888
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.05% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.12% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 376 372 815
10th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% -14.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,875 £98,625 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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 52,958 53,740 46,330
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 93.73% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,584 29,046 35,911
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,885 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 17 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 17 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 +21 458 £65,000 +13.04% 158
UK excluding London +9 308 £60,000 +14.29% 136
London +36 176 £80,000 +12.68% 50
Work from Home +28 162 £60,000 +4.35% 82
South East +14 116 £60,000 +9.09% 51
North of England +34 75 £56,000 +12.00% 35
South West +9 39 £60,000 +9.09% 17
Midlands +2 34 £60,000 +9.09% 19
North West +24 29 £60,000 +41.18% 16
East of England +12 26 £50,000 +11.11% 9
Yorkshire 0 25 £60,000 +9.09% 12
North East +18 21 £50,000 +14.29% 7
West Midlands +11 21 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Wales +3 15 £60,000 -20.00% 3
East Midlands -6 13 £62,500 +72.41% 10
Scotland -13 4 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Northern Ireland -2 2 £60,000 -33.33%

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 508 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 272 (53.54%) React
3 232 (45.67%) JavaScript
4 203 (39.96%) AWS
5 170 (33.46%) Agile
6 160 (31.50%) TypeScript
7 144 (28.35%) C#
8 141 (27.76%) .NET
8 141 (27.76%) CI/CD
9 137 (26.97%) Azure
10 130 (25.59%) HTML
11 125 (24.61%) Node.js
12 120 (23.62%) CSS
13 119 (23.43%) Java
14 112 (22.05%) AngularJS
15 111 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
16 106 (20.87%) SQL
17 105 (20.67%) DevOps
18 98 (19.29%) Python
19 94 (18.50%) User Experience
20 93 (18.31%) Git
21 91 (17.91%) REST
22 88 (17.32%) Docker
23 85 (16.73%) RESTful
24 83 (16.34%) Microservices
25 82 (16.14%) Vue
26 71 (13.98%) SQL Server
27 67 (13.19%) Software Engineering
28 64 (12.60%) Kubernetes
29 62 (12.20%) 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 9 (1.77%) CMS
2 8 (1.57%) Headless CMS
2 8 (1.57%) OpenStack
3 7 (1.38%) Confluence
4 3 (0.59%) Drupal
4 3 (0.59%) nginx
5 2 (0.39%) ColdFusion
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.20%) Kentico
6 1 (0.20%) Liferay
6 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.59%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.97%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 203 (39.96%) AWS
2 137 (26.97%) Azure
3 61 (12.01%) Serverless
4 55 (10.83%) GCP
5 51 (10.04%) SaaS
6 42 (8.27%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (7.68%) GitHub
8 37 (7.28%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (5.31%) Amazon S3
10 24 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (4.53%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.17%) Figma
14 9 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (1.77%) Vercel
15 8 (1.57%) Google Analytics
16 7 (1.38%) GitHub Copilot
17 6 (1.18%) npm
17 6 (1.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.59%) Broadband
1 3 (0.59%) HTTP
2 2 (0.39%) AMQP
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (13.98%) SQL Server
2 62 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (10.24%) NoSQL
4 46 (9.06%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.91%) MySQL
6 25 (4.92%) RDBMS
7 15 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.76%) MongoDB
9 13 (2.56%) Redis
10 7 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.38%) DB2
10 7 (1.38%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.18%) Power BI
12 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
13 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (18.31%) Git
2 36 (7.09%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.94%) JUnit
4 19 (3.74%) Cypress.io
4 19 (3.74%) Mockito
5 16 (3.15%) JIRA
6 15 (2.95%) JMeter
7 11 (2.17%) TeamCity
8 7 (1.38%) webpack
9 6 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.18%) Selenium
10 5 (0.98%) git-flow
10 5 (0.98%) Mocha
11 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.79%) Maven
11 4 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.59%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.59%) Storybook
12 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 106 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 55 (10.83%) Finance
3 33 (6.50%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.51%) Law
5 24 (4.72%) Banking
6 23 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (4.33%) Marketing
8 18 (3.54%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.35%) Front Office
10 13 (2.56%) Retail
11 11 (2.17%) Games
11 11 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.17%) Legal
12 10 (1.97%) Aviation
13 9 (1.77%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.98%) Electronics
16 3 (0.59%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.59%) Tech for Good
17 2 (0.39%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (53.54%) React
2 141 (27.76%) .NET
3 130 (25.59%) HTML
4 125 (24.61%) Node.js
5 120 (23.62%) CSS
6 112 (22.05%) AngularJS
7 91 (17.91%) REST
8 85 (16.73%) RESTful
9 82 (16.14%) Vue
10 61 (12.01%) Spring
11 49 (9.65%) ASP.NET
12 44 (8.66%) .NET Core
12 44 (8.66%) GraphQL
13 36 (7.09%) .NET Framework
14 35 (6.89%) Spring Boot
15 33 (6.50%) Kafka
16 31 (6.10%) Web Services
17 30 (5.91%) HTML5
17 30 (5.91%) Next.js
18 29 (5.71%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (3.94%) Cloud Native
5 18 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.15%) Mobile App
7 10 (1.97%) Hedge funds
7 10 (1.97%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.97%) Reference Data
8 8 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.18%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.79%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.59%) IoT
11 3 (0.59%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.59%) Smart Home
11 3 (0.59%) Social Media
12 2 (0.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.39%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.38%) Android
1 7 (1.38%) Apple iOS
1 7 (1.38%) Linux
2 3 (0.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 170 (33.46%) Agile
3 141 (27.76%) CI/CD
4 111 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (20.67%) DevOps
6 94 (18.50%) User Experience
7 83 (16.34%) Microservices
8 67 (13.19%) Software Engineering
9 59 (11.61%) Web Development
10 58 (11.42%) Clean Code
11 56 (11.02%) UX Design
12 51 (10.04%) AI
13 46 (9.06%) SDLC
13 46 (9.06%) TDD
14 45 (8.86%) Scrum
15 44 (8.66%) Test Automation
16 41 (8.07%) Containerisation
17 38 (7.48%) Front End Development
18 35 (6.89%) Continuous Improvement
18 35 (6.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 232 (45.67%) JavaScript
2 160 (31.50%) TypeScript
3 144 (28.35%) C#
4 119 (23.43%) Java
5 106 (20.87%) SQL
6 98 (19.29%) Python
7 26 (5.12%) PHP
8 16 (3.15%) Go
8 16 (3.15%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.17%) C
10 6 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.18%) Ruby
10 6 (1.18%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.79%) C++
11 4 (0.79%) XAML
12 3 (0.59%) Bash
12 3 (0.59%) COBOL
12 3 (0.59%) R
13 2 (0.39%) Bicep
13 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 51 (10.04%) Security Cleared
2 25 (4.92%) Degree
3 20 (3.94%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.15%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.87%) Accessibility
2 34 (6.69%) QA
3 7 (1.38%) WCAG
4 4 (0.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 88 (17.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (12.60%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.74%) Terraform
3 15 (2.95%) Kibana
4 8 (1.57%) Ansible
5 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Argo
6 1 (0.20%) Nagios
Vendors
1 41 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.95%) Dynatrace
2 15 (2.95%) Splunk
3 13 (2.56%) Oracle
4 8 (1.57%) Apple
5 7 (1.38%) Google
6 4 (0.79%) DevExpress
6 4 (0.79%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.79%) Telerik
7 3 (0.59%) Pega
7 3 (0.59%) WSO2
7 3 (0.59%) Zoho
8 2 (0.39%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.39%) IBM
8 2 (0.39%) iManage
8 2 (0.39%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.39%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.20%) IONA
9 1 (0.20%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.20%) Sybase