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 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 277 175
Rank change year-on-year +62 -102 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 757 469 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.09% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.21% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 623 349 1,260
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 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
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 68,739 38,903 80,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.47% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43,768 23,119 61,505
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,500 £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 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -5.23%

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 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 17 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 +85 691 £65,000 +8.33% 164
UK excluding London +61 491 £60,000 +9.09% 130
Work from Home +65 265 £60,000 - 102
London +53 214 £80,000 +14.29% 52
South East +15 159 £60,000 +9.09% 41
North of England +57 146 £65,000 +18.18% 41
Midlands +19 82 £55,000 -2.22% 21
North West +41 74 £70,000 +27.27% 22
South West +7 57 £55,000 -8.33% 16
Yorkshire -4 49 £72,500 +31.82% 16
West Midlands +23 46 £60,000 +2.13% 13
East Midlands -6 36 £55,000 +11.11% 8
East of England -6 35 £100,000 +122.22% 7
North East -5 23 £50,000 +17.65% 3
Wales -13 8 £45,000 -14.29%
Scotland -36 5 £62,500 +20.77% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 757 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 315 (41.61%) React
3 268 (35.40%) JavaScript
4 211 (27.87%) AWS
5 202 (26.68%) TypeScript
6 177 (23.38%) .NET
7 166 (21.93%) C#
8 164 (21.66%) Node.js
9 160 (21.14%) Java
10 153 (20.21%) Agile
11 142 (18.76%) Azure
12 139 (18.36%) Python
13 137 (18.10%) CI/CD
14 120 (15.85%) CSS
15 116 (15.32%) HTML
16 115 (15.19%) Microservices
17 114 (15.06%) AngularJS
17 114 (15.06%) SQL
18 108 (14.27%) DevOps
19 107 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
19 107 (14.13%) Software Engineering
20 95 (12.55%) Docker
20 95 (12.55%) REST
20 95 (12.55%) Vue
21 87 (11.49%) Git
22 85 (11.23%) AI
23 82 (10.83%) Serverless
24 76 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
25 64 (8.45%) Security Cleared
25 64 (8.45%) Web Development

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 10 (1.32%) CMS
2 9 (1.19%) Confluence
2 9 (1.19%) OpenStack
3 6 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.66%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.53%) nginx
6 3 (0.40%) Drupal
6 3 (0.40%) Liferay
6 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.26%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.13%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) CICS
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 211 (27.87%) AWS
2 142 (18.76%) Azure
3 82 (10.83%) Serverless
4 61 (8.06%) SaaS
5 50 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
6 49 (6.47%) Amazon S3
7 44 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (5.15%) GCP
9 37 (4.89%) GitHub
10 32 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.85%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.06%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (0.79%) Amazon EventBridge
17 5 (0.66%) Amazon ECR
17 5 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.26%) AMQP
1 2 (0.26%) Broadband
1 2 (0.26%) HTTP
2 1 (0.13%) Internet
2 1 (0.13%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (8.32%) SQL Server
3 45 (5.94%) NoSQL
4 38 (5.02%) Relational Database
5 33 (4.36%) MongoDB
5 33 (4.36%) MySQL
6 13 (1.72%) Redis
7 12 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (1.59%) RDBMS
8 11 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.45%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.19%) DB2
9 9 (1.19%) Power BI
10 3 (0.40%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.40%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.40%) TimescaleDB
11 2 (0.26%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.26%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 87 (11.49%) Git
2 39 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 25 (3.30%) Cypress.io
4 16 (2.11%) JUnit
5 14 (1.85%) JIRA
5 14 (1.85%) Mockito
6 12 (1.59%) Maven
7 11 (1.45%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.06%) GitLab
9 7 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.92%) Selenium
10 6 (0.79%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.79%) JMeter
11 5 (0.66%) git-flow
11 5 (0.66%) webpack
12 3 (0.40%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.40%) ESLint
12 3 (0.40%) Mocha
12 3 (0.40%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.26%) NUnit
General
1 93 (12.29%) Social Skills
2 75 (9.91%) Finance
3 38 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (4.23%) Banking
5 24 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.91%) Aviation
6 22 (2.91%) Retail
7 19 (2.51%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.11%) Front Office
9 15 (1.98%) Games
10 11 (1.45%) Law
11 10 (1.32%) Marketing
12 9 (1.19%) Legal
13 8 (1.06%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.06%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.79%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.66%) Electronics
16 4 (0.53%) Local Government
17 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (41.61%) React
2 177 (23.38%) .NET
3 164 (21.66%) Node.js
4 120 (15.85%) CSS
5 116 (15.32%) HTML
6 114 (15.06%) AngularJS
7 95 (12.55%) REST
7 95 (12.55%) Vue
8 62 (8.19%) Spring
9 55 (7.27%) .NET Core
10 53 (7.00%) RESTful
11 44 (5.81%) Spring Boot
12 43 (5.68%) Laravel
13 35 (4.62%) ASP.NET
13 35 (4.62%) Kafka
13 35 (4.62%) Next.js
14 29 (3.83%) GraphQL
15 26 (3.43%) Jest
16 24 (3.17%) .NET Framework
16 24 (3.17%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 26 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (1.72%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.45%) Fixed Income
7 11 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.19%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.79%) Hedge funds
10 5 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.66%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.66%) Sports Betting
11 4 (0.53%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.53%) IoT
12 3 (0.40%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.40%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.98%) Linux
2 8 (1.06%) Android
2 8 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.26%) Windows
4 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 153 (20.21%) Agile
3 137 (18.10%) CI/CD
4 115 (15.19%) Microservices
5 108 (14.27%) DevOps
6 107 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (14.13%) Software Engineering
7 85 (11.23%) AI
8 64 (8.45%) Web Development
9 58 (7.66%) User Experience
10 53 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (6.74%) API Development
12 49 (6.47%) Clean Code
13 48 (6.34%) Scrum
14 46 (6.08%) Front End Development
15 45 (5.94%) SDLC
16 43 (5.68%) Mentoring
16 43 (5.68%) TDD
17 40 (5.28%) Containerisation
18 38 (5.02%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 268 (35.40%) JavaScript
2 202 (26.68%) TypeScript
3 166 (21.93%) C#
4 160 (21.14%) Java
5 139 (18.36%) Python
6 114 (15.06%) SQL
7 51 (6.74%) PHP
8 18 (2.38%) Ruby
9 17 (2.25%) C
10 14 (1.85%) Go
10 14 (1.85%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.19%) Bash
12 8 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.92%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.79%) C++
14 6 (0.79%) R
15 4 (0.53%) XAML
16 3 (0.40%) COBOL
16 3 (0.40%) Groovy
17 2 (0.26%) RPG
Qualifications
1 64 (8.45%) Security Cleared
2 40 (5.28%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.76%) Degree
4 31 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.98%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.53%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.04%) Accessibility
1 23 (3.04%) QA
2 4 (0.53%) WCAG
3 2 (0.26%) HL7
4 1 (0.13%) GDPR
4 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 95 (12.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (7.66%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.64%) Terraform
3 9 (1.19%) Ansible
4 7 (0.92%) Kibana
5 5 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.40%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.40%) Nagios
7 2 (0.26%) Argo
7 2 (0.26%) Grafana
8 1 (0.13%) Podman
8 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (3.17%) Oracle
2 22 (2.91%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.19%) OpenAI
4 7 (0.92%) Dynatrace
5 6 (0.79%) Google
5 6 (0.79%) Pega
5 6 (0.79%) Splunk
6 4 (0.53%) iManage
6 4 (0.53%) Telerik
6 4 (0.53%) WSO2
7 3 (0.40%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.40%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.40%) Zoho
8 2 (0.26%) Aderant
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe
8 2 (0.26%) Foundry
8 2 (0.26%) IBM
8 2 (0.26%) Intapp
8 2 (0.26%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.13%) ServiceNow