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 28 January 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 277 174
Rank change year-on-year +43 -103 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 579 565 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.08% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.17% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 447 334 1,062
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
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 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,375 £99,750
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 57,321 48,360 64,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.27% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 35,616 24,820 50,671
10th Percentile £28,964 £33,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.37%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,600 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 28 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 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 28 January 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 +43 530 £65,000 +8.33% 165
UK excluding London +19 347 £60,000 +9.09% 141
London +58 195 £80,000 +18.52% 52
Work from Home +15 176 £60,000 - 92
South East +3 133 £60,000 +9.09% 56
North of England +47 91 £60,000 +26.32% 32
Midlands +10 57 £55,000 -2.22% 26
South West +8 37 £60,000 +9.09% 16
North West +22 36 £65,000 +36.84% 19
Yorkshire -3 31 £77,500 +47.62% 10
East Midlands 0 30 £55,000 - 12
West Midlands +20 27 £60,000 +4.35% 14
North East +13 24 £50,000 +17.65% 3
East of England +2 21 £60,000 +33.33% 6
Wales -3 8 £45,000 -29.69% 3
Scotland -21 3 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 28 January 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.

1 579 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 283 (48.88%) React
3 222 (38.34%) JavaScript
4 185 (31.95%) AWS
5 164 (28.32%) TypeScript
6 153 (26.42%) .NET
7 143 (24.70%) C#
8 142 (24.53%) Agile
9 138 (23.83%) Java
10 129 (22.28%) Azure
11 123 (21.24%) CI/CD
12 114 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
12 114 (19.69%) Python
13 110 (19.00%) Node.js
14 107 (18.48%) CSS
15 106 (18.31%) HTML
15 106 (18.31%) SQL
16 103 (17.79%) AngularJS
17 98 (16.93%) Microservices
18 96 (16.58%) DevOps
19 91 (15.72%) REST
20 82 (14.16%) Docker
21 74 (12.78%) Git
22 73 (12.61%) AI
22 73 (12.61%) Software Engineering
23 70 (12.09%) Vue
24 69 (11.92%) Security Cleared
25 68 (11.74%) Serverless
26 66 (11.40%) PostgreSQL
27 63 (10.88%) 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 8 (1.38%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.21%) CMS
2 7 (1.21%) Confluence
3 6 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.52%) ColdFusion
4 3 (0.52%) Liferay
4 3 (0.52%) nginx
5 2 (0.35%) Drupal
5 2 (0.35%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) Kentico
6 1 (0.17%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (31.95%) AWS
2 129 (22.28%) Azure
3 68 (11.74%) Serverless
4 43 (7.43%) GitHub
5 40 (6.91%) SaaS
6 36 (6.22%) Amazon S3
6 36 (6.22%) GCP
7 35 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
8 34 (5.87%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.55%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (1.04%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
16 5 (0.86%) npm
17 4 (0.69%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.35%) AMQP
1 2 (0.35%) Broadband
1 2 (0.35%) HTTP
2 1 (0.17%) Internet
2 1 (0.17%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (11.40%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (9.84%) SQL Server
3 42 (7.25%) NoSQL
4 40 (6.91%) Relational Database
5 27 (4.66%) MySQL
6 21 (3.63%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.45%) RDBMS
8 15 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.25%) Redis
10 9 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.38%) DB2
12 7 (1.21%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.21%) Power BI
13 3 (0.52%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.52%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.35%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.35%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 74 (12.78%) Git
2 34 (5.87%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.28%) JUnit
4 18 (3.11%) Mockito
5 17 (2.94%) Cypress.io
6 14 (2.42%) JIRA
7 12 (2.07%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.73%) JMeter
9 9 (1.55%) Maven
10 7 (1.21%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.21%) Selenium
11 6 (1.04%) webpack
12 5 (0.86%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.86%) git-flow
13 4 (0.69%) GitLab
13 4 (0.69%) Mocha
13 4 (0.69%) Storybook
14 3 (0.52%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.52%) ESLint
14 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 96 (16.58%) Social Skills
2 61 (10.54%) Finance
3 34 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.35%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.01%) Banking
6 21 (3.63%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.11%) Aviation
8 14 (2.42%) Law
8 14 (2.42%) Retail
9 12 (2.07%) Front Office
9 12 (2.07%) Games
9 12 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.90%) Legal
11 9 (1.55%) Marketing
12 6 (1.04%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.86%) Electronics
13 5 (0.86%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (48.88%) React
2 153 (26.42%) .NET
3 110 (19.00%) Node.js
4 107 (18.48%) CSS
5 106 (18.31%) HTML
6 103 (17.79%) AngularJS
7 91 (15.72%) REST
8 70 (12.09%) Vue
9 63 (10.88%) Spring
10 55 (9.50%) RESTful
11 49 (8.46%) .NET Core
12 37 (6.39%) Spring Boot
13 36 (6.22%) ASP.NET
14 33 (5.70%) HTML5
15 32 (5.53%) CSS3
16 30 (5.18%) Laravel
17 28 (4.84%) .NET Framework
18 27 (4.66%) Kafka
19 24 (4.15%) ASP.NET Core
19 24 (4.15%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
2 24 (4.15%) Product Ownership
3 23 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 17 (2.94%) Mobile App
6 14 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.73%) Hedge funds
7 10 (1.73%) Reference Data
8 7 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.69%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.69%) Client/Server
9 4 (0.69%) IoT
10 3 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.52%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.35%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.35%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.73%) Android
1 10 (1.73%) Apple iOS
1 10 (1.73%) Linux
2 2 (0.35%) Unix
2 2 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 142 (24.53%) Agile
3 123 (21.24%) CI/CD
4 114 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
5 98 (16.93%) Microservices
6 96 (16.58%) DevOps
7 73 (12.61%) AI
7 73 (12.61%) Software Engineering
8 63 (10.88%) User Experience
9 47 (8.12%) Clean Code
9 47 (8.12%) Scrum
9 47 (8.12%) TDD
10 46 (7.94%) SDLC
11 42 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (7.25%) Web Development
12 40 (6.91%) API Development
12 40 (6.91%) Front End Development
13 34 (5.87%) Computer Science
13 34 (5.87%) Containerisation
13 34 (5.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 222 (38.34%) JavaScript
2 164 (28.32%) TypeScript
3 143 (24.70%) C#
4 138 (23.83%) Java
5 114 (19.69%) Python
6 106 (18.31%) SQL
7 39 (6.74%) PHP
8 16 (2.76%) C
9 12 (2.07%) Ruby
9 12 (2.07%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.90%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.55%) Go
12 8 (1.38%) C++
13 7 (1.21%) Bash
14 6 (1.04%) R
15 4 (0.69%) XAML
16 3 (0.52%) COBOL
17 2 (0.35%) RPG
17 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 69 (11.92%) Security Cleared
2 36 (6.22%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.53%) Degree
4 28 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.63%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.70%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.97%) QA
3 8 (1.38%) WCAG
4 4 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) HL7
System Software
1 82 (14.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.45%) Terraform
3 10 (1.73%) Kibana
4 8 (1.38%) Ansible
5 4 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 2 (0.35%) Nagios
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 22 (3.80%) Oracle
2 13 (2.25%) Microsoft
3 11 (1.90%) Dynatrace
4 10 (1.73%) Splunk
5 8 (1.38%) Google
6 7 (1.21%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.69%) Telerik
8 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.52%) Pega
8 3 (0.52%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.52%) WSO2
8 3 (0.52%) Zoho
9 2 (0.35%) Foundry
9 2 (0.35%) IBM
9 2 (0.35%) iManage
9 2 (0.35%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.35%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe
10 1 (0.17%) IONA
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat