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 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 273 175
Rank change year-on-year +65 -98 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 821 431 1,542
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.05% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.17% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 682 342 1,296
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £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 £72,500 £75,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,375 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 72,784 36,840 84,649
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 89.99% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 46,735 23,216 63,790
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
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 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 31 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 31 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 +91 747 £65,000 +8.33% 164
UK excluding London +70 543 £60,000 +9.09% 139
Work from Home +72 283 £60,000 +4.35% 97
London +38 219 £80,000 +18.52% 43
South East +17 173 £60,000 +9.09% 38
North of England +54 170 £67,500 +22.73% 45
Midlands +19 86 £55,000 +1.38% 21
North West +43 84 £70,000 +27.27% 22
Yorkshire +6 65 £72,500 +31.82% 22
South West +2 63 £55,000 -8.33% 17
West Midlands +10 48 £60,000 +2.13% 12
East of England -16 38 £100,000 +122.22% 10
East Midlands -18 38 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North East -4 21 £50,000 +14.29% 1
Wales -22 7 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Scotland -40 7 £60,000 +14.29% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 821 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 325 (39.59%) React
3 282 (34.35%) JavaScript
4 227 (27.65%) AWS
5 216 (26.31%) TypeScript
6 181 (22.05%) .NET
7 180 (21.92%) Node.js
8 167 (20.34%) C#
9 163 (19.85%) Java
10 159 (19.37%) Python
11 155 (18.88%) Agile
12 143 (17.42%) CI/CD
13 140 (17.05%) Azure
14 126 (15.35%) CSS
15 121 (14.74%) HTML
16 119 (14.49%) Microservices
16 119 (14.49%) SQL
17 118 (14.37%) AngularJS
18 114 (13.89%) DevOps
19 110 (13.40%) Software Engineering
20 107 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
20 107 (13.03%) Vue
21 94 (11.45%) Docker
22 89 (10.84%) Git
22 89 (10.84%) Serverless
23 88 (10.72%) REST
24 87 (10.60%) AI
25 81 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
26 74 (9.01%) Web Development
27 69 (8.40%) Security Cleared

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 (1.10%) OpenStack
2 8 (0.97%) CMS
2 8 (0.97%) Confluence
3 6 (0.73%) ColdFusion
4 5 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.49%) nginx
6 3 (0.37%) Liferay
6 3 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.24%) Drupal
7 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.24%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.12%) Apache
8 1 (0.12%) CICS
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 227 (27.65%) AWS
2 140 (17.05%) Azure
3 89 (10.84%) Serverless
4 67 (8.16%) SaaS
5 57 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (6.46%) Amazon S3
7 47 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (4.99%) GCP
9 40 (4.87%) GitHub
10 36 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.83%) Power Platform
14 13 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (0.97%) Apigee
16 8 (0.97%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (0.85%) Amazon ECR
17 7 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.24%) AMQP
1 2 (0.24%) Broadband
1 2 (0.24%) HTTP
2 1 (0.12%) Internet
2 1 (0.12%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (7.67%) SQL Server
3 50 (6.09%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.38%) MySQL
5 34 (4.14%) MongoDB
5 34 (4.14%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.95%) DynamoDB
7 12 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.34%) Redis
9 10 (1.22%) Power BI
10 9 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.10%) DB2
10 9 (1.10%) RDBMS
11 8 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.49%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.37%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.37%) ClickHouse
13 3 (0.37%) TimescaleDB
14 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.24%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 89 (10.84%) Git
2 38 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.41%) Cypress.io
4 16 (1.95%) JIRA
5 12 (1.46%) JUnit
5 12 (1.46%) Maven
6 10 (1.22%) GitLab
6 10 (1.22%) Mockito
6 10 (1.22%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.85%) Selenium
8 6 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.61%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.61%) webpack
10 4 (0.49%) git-flow
10 4 (0.49%) JMeter
11 3 (0.37%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.37%) ESLint
11 3 (0.37%) Mocha
12 2 (0.24%) Storybook
General
1 94 (11.45%) Social Skills
2 77 (9.38%) Finance
3 37 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (3.90%) Banking
5 23 (2.80%) Public Sector
5 23 (2.80%) Retail
6 22 (2.68%) Aviation
7 17 (2.07%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.83%) Front Office
8 15 (1.83%) Games
9 9 (1.10%) Marketing
10 8 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.97%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.85%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.73%) Law
12 6 (0.73%) Local Government
12 6 (0.73%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.61%) Advertising
14 4 (0.49%) Legal
14 4 (0.49%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (39.59%) React
2 181 (22.05%) .NET
3 180 (21.92%) Node.js
4 126 (15.35%) CSS
5 121 (14.74%) HTML
6 118 (14.37%) AngularJS
7 107 (13.03%) Vue
8 88 (10.72%) REST
9 61 (7.43%) Spring
10 56 (6.82%) .NET Core
11 53 (6.46%) RESTful
12 48 (5.85%) Spring Boot
13 46 (5.60%) Laravel
14 35 (4.26%) ASP.NET
15 34 (4.14%) Next.js
16 33 (4.02%) Kafka
17 31 (3.78%) Jest
18 28 (3.41%) GraphQL
19 25 (3.05%) .NET Framework
19 25 (3.05%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.14%) Cloud Native
2 29 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (2.92%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (2.07%) Mobile App
6 11 (1.34%) Fixed Income
7 9 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (0.97%) Management Information System
9 7 (0.85%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.73%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.61%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.49%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.49%) IoT
12 4 (0.49%) NHS
12 4 (0.49%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.37%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.71%) Linux
2 7 (0.85%) Android
2 7 (0.85%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 155 (18.88%) Agile
3 143 (17.42%) CI/CD
4 119 (14.49%) Microservices
5 114 (13.89%) DevOps
6 110 (13.40%) Software Engineering
7 107 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (10.60%) AI
9 74 (9.01%) Web Development
10 58 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (6.21%) User Experience
12 50 (6.09%) API Development
13 49 (5.97%) Clean Code
14 48 (5.85%) Scrum
15 47 (5.72%) Front End Development
15 47 (5.72%) Mentoring
16 46 (5.60%) SDLC
17 42 (5.12%) TDD
18 37 (4.51%) Computer Science
18 37 (4.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 282 (34.35%) JavaScript
2 216 (26.31%) TypeScript
3 167 (20.34%) C#
4 163 (19.85%) Java
5 159 (19.37%) Python
6 119 (14.49%) SQL
7 55 (6.70%) PHP
8 23 (2.80%) Ruby
9 17 (2.07%) C
10 14 (1.71%) Go
11 11 (1.34%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.22%) Bash
13 8 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.73%) C++
14 6 (0.73%) R
14 6 (0.73%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.61%) Groovy
16 3 (0.37%) COBOL
16 3 (0.37%) XAML
17 2 (0.24%) RPG
Qualifications
1 69 (8.40%) Security Cleared
2 49 (5.97%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.38%) Degree
4 30 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.68%) QA
2 20 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.37%) WCAG
4 2 (0.24%) HL7
5 1 (0.12%) GDPR
5 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 94 (11.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.56%) Terraform
3 9 (1.10%) Ansible
4 5 (0.61%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.61%) Kibana
4 5 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.37%) Nagios
6 2 (0.24%) Argo
6 2 (0.24%) Grafana
7 1 (0.12%) Podman
7 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (2.80%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.56%) Oracle
3 9 (1.10%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.73%) Pega
5 5 (0.61%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.61%) Google
6 4 (0.49%) Splunk
6 4 (0.49%) Telerik
6 4 (0.49%) WSO2
7 3 (0.37%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.37%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.37%) Zoho
8 2 (0.24%) Aderant
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe
8 2 (0.24%) Foundry
8 2 (0.24%) IBM
8 2 (0.24%) iManage
8 2 (0.24%) Intapp
8 2 (0.24%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.12%) Red Hat