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 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 290 168
Rank change year-on-year +80 -122 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 792 438 1,519
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.06% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.18% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 655 342 1,281
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 £73,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,625
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.51% -4.32%

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 70,818 37,087 82,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 90.12% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,208 22,964 62,728
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,750 £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 £79,500 £72,500
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 25 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 25 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 +82 719 £65,000 +8.33% 170
UK excluding London +59 522 £60,000 +9.09% 142
Work from Home +65 277 £60,000 +4.35% 99
London +41 213 £80,000 +16.36% 45
South East +15 169 £60,000 +9.09% 38
North of England +52 157 £65,000 +18.18% 47
Midlands +10 85 £55,000 - 23
North West +35 81 £70,000 +27.27% 22
South West -6 61 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Yorkshire 0 55 £70,000 +27.27% 24
West Midlands +17 48 £60,000 +2.13% 14
East Midlands -16 37 £55,000 +15.79% 9
East of England -7 36 £100,000 +122.22% 11
North East -9 21 £50,000 +17.65% 1
Wales -17 8 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Scotland -31 7 £60,000 +15.94% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 792 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 324 (40.91%) React
3 277 (34.97%) JavaScript
4 219 (27.65%) AWS
5 211 (26.64%) TypeScript
6 177 (22.35%) .NET
7 175 (22.10%) Node.js
8 164 (20.71%) C#
9 161 (20.33%) Java
10 156 (19.70%) Agile
11 149 (18.81%) Python
12 142 (17.93%) CI/CD
13 140 (17.68%) Azure
14 124 (15.66%) CSS
15 119 (15.03%) HTML
15 119 (15.03%) Microservices
16 118 (14.90%) SQL
17 116 (14.65%) AngularJS
18 109 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
18 109 (13.76%) Software Engineering
19 108 (13.64%) DevOps
20 101 (12.75%) Vue
21 94 (11.87%) Docker
22 91 (11.49%) REST
23 89 (11.24%) Git
24 85 (10.73%) AI
25 84 (10.61%) Serverless
26 79 (9.97%) PostgreSQL
27 70 (8.84%) Web Development
28 66 (8.33%) SaaS

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 (1.14%) Confluence
1 9 (1.14%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.01%) CMS
3 6 (0.76%) ColdFusion
3 6 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.51%) nginx
5 3 (0.38%) Liferay
5 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.25%) Drupal
6 2 (0.25%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.25%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) CICS
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 219 (27.65%) AWS
2 140 (17.68%) Azure
3 84 (10.61%) Serverless
4 66 (8.33%) SaaS
5 52 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
6 50 (6.31%) Amazon S3
7 44 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (5.05%) GCP
9 38 (4.80%) GitHub
10 33 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.77%) Power Platform
15 12 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (1.01%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (1.01%) GitHub Copilot
17 6 (0.76%) Amazon EventBridge
17 6 (0.76%) Apigee
18 5 (0.63%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) AMQP
1 2 (0.25%) Broadband
1 2 (0.25%) HTTP
2 1 (0.13%) Internet
2 1 (0.13%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (9.97%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (7.95%) SQL Server
3 48 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 35 (4.42%) MySQL
6 33 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 12 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (1.52%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.39%) Redis
9 10 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.26%) RDBMS
10 9 (1.14%) DB2
10 9 (1.14%) Power BI
11 8 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.38%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.38%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.38%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.38%) TimescaleDB
13 2 (0.25%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 89 (11.24%) Git
2 38 (4.80%) Jenkins
3 26 (3.28%) Cypress.io
4 16 (2.02%) JIRA
5 15 (1.89%) JUnit
6 13 (1.64%) Maven
6 13 (1.64%) Mockito
7 10 (1.26%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.14%) GitLab
9 7 (0.88%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.88%) Selenium
10 6 (0.76%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.63%) git-flow
11 5 (0.63%) JMeter
11 5 (0.63%) webpack
12 4 (0.51%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.38%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.38%) ESLint
13 3 (0.38%) Mocha
14 2 (0.25%) NUnit
General
1 94 (11.87%) Social Skills
2 77 (9.72%) Finance
3 37 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (3.91%) Banking
5 25 (3.16%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.90%) Retail
7 22 (2.78%) Aviation
8 17 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.89%) Front Office
9 15 (1.89%) Games
10 9 (1.14%) Law
10 9 (1.14%) Marketing
11 8 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.01%) Tech for Good
12 7 (0.88%) Health Technology
12 7 (0.88%) Legal
13 6 (0.76%) Local Government
13 6 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.51%) Advertising
14 4 (0.51%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (40.91%) React
2 177 (22.35%) .NET
3 175 (22.10%) Node.js
4 124 (15.66%) CSS
5 119 (15.03%) HTML
6 116 (14.65%) AngularJS
7 101 (12.75%) Vue
8 91 (11.49%) REST
9 62 (7.83%) Spring
10 55 (6.94%) .NET Core
11 54 (6.82%) RESTful
12 46 (5.81%) Spring Boot
13 45 (5.68%) Laravel
14 34 (4.29%) ASP.NET
14 34 (4.29%) Kafka
14 34 (4.29%) Next.js
15 28 (3.54%) GraphQL
15 28 (3.54%) Jest
16 25 (3.16%) Django
17 24 (3.03%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 28 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
3 25 (3.16%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.39%) Fixed Income
8 10 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.01%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.63%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.63%) Hedge funds
10 5 (0.63%) Sports Betting
11 4 (0.51%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.51%) IoT
11 4 (0.51%) NHS
11 4 (0.51%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.25%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.89%) Linux
2 7 (0.88%) Android
2 7 (0.88%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 156 (19.70%) Agile
3 142 (17.93%) CI/CD
4 119 (15.03%) Microservices
5 109 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (13.76%) Software Engineering
6 108 (13.64%) DevOps
7 85 (10.73%) AI
8 70 (8.84%) Web Development
9 58 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (6.82%) User Experience
11 51 (6.44%) API Development
12 50 (6.31%) Clean Code
12 50 (6.31%) Scrum
13 47 (5.93%) Front End Development
14 46 (5.81%) SDLC
15 45 (5.68%) Mentoring
16 43 (5.43%) TDD
17 38 (4.80%) Computer Science
18 36 (4.55%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 277 (34.97%) JavaScript
2 211 (26.64%) TypeScript
3 164 (20.71%) C#
4 161 (20.33%) Java
5 149 (18.81%) Python
6 118 (14.90%) SQL
7 53 (6.69%) PHP
8 21 (2.65%) Ruby
9 17 (2.15%) C
10 14 (1.77%) Go
10 14 (1.77%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.26%) Bash
12 7 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.76%) C++
13 6 (0.76%) R
14 4 (0.51%) Groovy
15 3 (0.38%) COBOL
15 3 (0.38%) XAML
16 2 (0.25%) RPG
Qualifications
1 64 (8.08%) Security Cleared
2 42 (5.30%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.55%) Degree
4 31 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 5 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.90%) QA
2 22 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.51%) WCAG
4 2 (0.25%) HL7
5 1 (0.13%) GDPR
5 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 94 (11.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.53%) Terraform
3 9 (1.14%) Ansible
4 6 (0.76%) Kibana
5 5 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.51%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.38%) Nagios
8 2 (0.25%) Argo
8 2 (0.25%) Grafana
9 1 (0.13%) Podman
9 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (3.03%) Oracle
2 21 (2.65%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.14%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.76%) Dynatrace
4 6 (0.76%) Pega
5 5 (0.63%) Google
5 5 (0.63%) Splunk
6 4 (0.51%) Telerik
6 4 (0.51%) WSO2
7 3 (0.38%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.38%) iManage
7 3 (0.38%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.38%) Zoho
8 2 (0.25%) Aderant
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe
8 2 (0.25%) Foundry
8 2 (0.25%) IBM
8 2 (0.25%) Intapp
8 2 (0.25%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.13%) ServiceNow