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 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 312 204
Rank change year-on-year +79 -108 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 968 436 951
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.88% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.98% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 796 316 579
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -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 109,479 44,337 68,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 89.81% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,234 25,787 39,430
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,015 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +82 858 £60,000 -4.00% 279
UK excluding London +95 719 £60,000 - 158
Work from Home +76 352 £60,000 - 149
London -15 207 £67,500 -15.63% 131
South East +39 202 £60,000 +4.35% 32
North of England +56 199 £65,000 +8.33% 48
Midlands +26 111 £60,000 - 27
South West +7 106 £65,000 +8.33% 12
Yorkshire +38 100 £70,000 +16.67% 21
North West +15 71 £60,000 -2.04% 24
West Midlands -14 61 £70,000 +16.67% 19
Scotland +48 53 £55,000 -8.33% 11
East Midlands +13 50 £60,000 -7.69% 8
East of England -36 35 £60,000 +41.18% 13
North East -51 28 £46,250 -7.50% 4
Wales -77 13 £70,000 +16.67% 4

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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.

1 968 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 321 (33.16%) JavaScript
3 292 (30.17%) React
4 286 (29.55%) AWS
5 281 (29.03%) TypeScript
6 204 (21.07%) Node.js
7 194 (20.04%) CI/CD
8 182 (18.80%) Agile
9 178 (18.39%) .NET
10 166 (17.15%) Azure
11 165 (17.05%) Microservices
12 163 (16.84%) C#
13 149 (15.39%) AI
13 149 (15.39%) Java
14 124 (12.81%) Software Engineering
15 120 (12.40%) Docker
16 117 (12.09%) CSS
16 117 (12.09%) Python
17 114 (11.78%) AngularJS
18 113 (11.67%) HTML
19 106 (10.95%) SQL Server
20 102 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
21 101 (10.43%) SaaS
22 98 (10.12%) Git
22 98 (10.12%) REST
23 94 (9.71%) SQL
24 89 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
24 89 (9.19%) DevOps
25 87 (8.99%) GitHub
25 87 (8.99%) 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 18 (1.86%) Confluence
2 15 (1.55%) WordPress
3 11 (1.14%) CMS
4 7 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.41%) IIS
6 3 (0.31%) nginx
6 3 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.21%) Apache
7 2 (0.21%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Elementor
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.62%) Shopify
2 4 (0.41%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 286 (29.55%) AWS
2 166 (17.15%) Azure
3 101 (10.43%) SaaS
4 87 (8.99%) GitHub
4 87 (8.99%) Serverless
5 75 (7.75%) Amazon S3
6 72 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
7 69 (7.13%) Amazon ECS
8 46 (4.75%) GCP
9 44 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (3.20%) Snowflake
12 29 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (2.89%) GitHub Copilot
14 24 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
16 18 (1.86%) Anthropic Claude
17 14 (1.45%) Amazon ECR
17 14 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.72%) Broadband
2 3 (0.31%) DNS
2 3 (0.31%) HTTP
3 2 (0.21%) Firewall
3 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 84 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (5.79%) MongoDB
4 33 (3.41%) DynamoDB
5 32 (3.31%) Redis
5 32 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 29 (3.00%) MySQL
7 22 (2.27%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.03%) Power BI
10 7 (0.72%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.62%) Spatial Data
12 4 (0.41%) GIS
13 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.21%) ClickHouse
14 1 (0.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.10%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.10%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 98 (10.12%) Git
2 57 (5.89%) Jenkins
3 40 (4.13%) Cypress.io
4 27 (2.79%) GitLab
5 22 (2.27%) Maven
6 21 (2.17%) JUnit
7 19 (1.96%) Claude Code
8 18 (1.86%) JIRA
9 14 (1.45%) Mockito
10 11 (1.14%) Vite
11 10 (1.03%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.03%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.93%) Storybook
13 8 (0.83%) NUnit
14 7 (0.72%) TeamCity
15 6 (0.62%) Postman
16 5 (0.52%) Selenium
17 4 (0.41%) Eclipse
17 4 (0.41%) Subversion
18 3 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 104 (10.74%) Social Skills
2 77 (7.95%) Public Sector
3 53 (5.48%) Finance
4 15 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (1.45%) Retail
6 13 (1.34%) Legal
6 13 (1.34%) Marketing
7 12 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (0.72%) Games
8 7 (0.72%) Legal Technology
9 5 (0.52%) Banking
10 4 (0.41%) Aviation
10 4 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.31%) Law
11 3 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.31%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.21%) Automotive
12 2 (0.21%) Front Office
12 2 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (30.17%) React
2 204 (21.07%) Node.js
3 178 (18.39%) .NET
4 117 (12.09%) CSS
5 114 (11.78%) AngularJS
6 113 (11.67%) HTML
7 98 (10.12%) REST
8 81 (8.37%) Vue
9 76 (7.85%) Spring
10 72 (7.44%) RESTful
11 68 (7.02%) Spring Boot
12 57 (5.89%) Next.js
13 50 (5.17%) Jest
14 45 (4.65%) Ruby on Rails
15 39 (4.03%) ASP.NET
16 38 (3.93%) .NET Core
17 37 (3.82%) .NET Framework
18 36 (3.72%) Entity Framework
19 35 (3.62%) Terraform
20 30 (3.10%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.33%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.65%) Mobile App
6 12 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.03%) IoT
8 8 (0.83%) AI Agents
8 8 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (0.83%) Virtual Team
9 6 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.41%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.31%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.31%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.21%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.21%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.21%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.21%) PMI
12 2 (0.21%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.55%) Linux
2 3 (0.31%) AIX
3 1 (0.10%) Android
3 1 (0.10%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 968 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 194 (20.04%) CI/CD
3 182 (18.80%) Agile
4 165 (17.05%) Microservices
5 149 (15.39%) AI
6 124 (12.81%) Software Engineering
7 102 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
8 89 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 89 (9.19%) DevOps
9 72 (7.44%) Clean Code
10 63 (6.51%) Mentoring
11 61 (6.30%) Computer Science
12 55 (5.68%) E-Commerce
13 53 (5.48%) Front End Development
13 53 (5.48%) SDLC
14 52 (5.37%) Web Development
15 50 (5.17%) User Experience
16 49 (5.06%) Technical Leadership
17 46 (4.75%) Containerisation
17 46 (4.75%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 321 (33.16%) JavaScript
2 281 (29.03%) TypeScript
3 163 (16.84%) C#
4 149 (15.39%) Java
5 117 (12.09%) Python
6 94 (9.71%) SQL
7 69 (7.13%) Kotlin
8 50 (5.17%) Ruby
9 49 (5.06%) PHP
10 20 (2.07%) Bash
11 18 (1.86%) Groovy
12 10 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.72%) C++
14 5 (0.52%) Go
14 5 (0.52%) Rust
15 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.21%) Bicep
16 2 (0.21%) Perl
17 1 (0.10%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (6.20%) Degree
2 55 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 55 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 43 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 18 (1.86%) AWS Certification
5 9 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (0.72%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.24%) WCAG
3 10 (1.03%) QA
4 5 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.41%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.10%) GRC
7 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 120 (12.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (7.85%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.93%) HP Fortify
3 6 (0.62%) Grafana
4 5 (0.52%) Ansible
5 3 (0.31%) Kibana
5 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) Podman
Vendors
1 79 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.79%) Oracle
3 20 (2.07%) Google
4 16 (1.65%) OpenAI
5 11 (1.14%) OutSystems
5 11 (1.14%) Red Hat
6 9 (0.93%) OneLogin
7 5 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.41%) Peregrine
9 3 (0.31%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.31%) Splunk
10 2 (0.21%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.10%) Confluent
11 1 (0.10%) Databricks
11 1 (0.10%) Mistral
11 1 (0.10%) NEC
11 1 (0.10%) Plaid
11 1 (0.10%) ServiceNow