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 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 242 187
Rank change year-on-year -28 -55 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 485 748 926
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.15% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.22% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 354 465 857
10th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,125 £95,750 £108,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 48,887 61,129 48,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 94.26% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 30,843 33,997 37,695
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,656 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 -19 431 £62,500 +4.17% 173
UK excluding London -24 293 £60,000 +9.09% 149
London +10 174 £80,000 +12.68% 50
Work from Home +2 154 £60,000 +9.09% 93
South East +5 106 £57,500 +4.55% 50
North of England +6 64 £60,000 +11.63% 37
Midlands 0 38 £60,000 +13.21% 27
South West -2 35 £60,000 +11.63% 20
North West +21 28 £60,000 +33.33% 13
East of England +7 26 £42,500 -5.56% 9
West Midlands +29 25 £60,000 +4.35% 19
North East +22 18 £50,000 - 15
Yorkshire -1 18 £60,000 - 9
Wales +6 17 £60,000 +13.21% 5
East Midlands -3 13 £62,500 +56.25% 8
Scotland -6 9 £60,000 -5.33% 3
Northern Ireland -7 2 £60,000 -14.29%

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, 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.

1 485 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 261 (53.81%) React
3 227 (46.80%) JavaScript
4 206 (42.47%) AWS
5 175 (36.08%) Agile
6 148 (30.52%) TypeScript
7 147 (30.31%) CI/CD
8 146 (30.10%) Azure
9 145 (29.90%) C#
10 141 (29.07%) .NET
11 132 (27.22%) HTML
12 121 (24.95%) AngularJS
13 117 (24.12%) Node.js
14 116 (23.92%) CSS
15 115 (23.71%) Java
15 115 (23.71%) SQL
16 109 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
17 102 (21.03%) DevOps
18 100 (20.62%) Python
19 94 (19.38%) User Experience
20 93 (19.18%) REST
21 89 (18.35%) Git
22 86 (17.73%) Docker
23 83 (17.11%) RESTful
23 83 (17.11%) Vue
24 76 (15.67%) Microservices
25 75 (15.46%) SQL Server
26 65 (13.40%) Software Engineering
27 64 (13.20%) Kubernetes
27 64 (13.20%) 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 10 (2.06%) CMS
2 8 (1.65%) Headless CMS
3 5 (1.03%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.82%) Confluence
5 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.62%) Drupal
5 3 (0.62%) nginx
6 2 (0.41%) Apache
6 2 (0.41%) ColdFusion
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) Kentico
7 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.62%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.86%) Shopify
2 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 206 (42.47%) AWS
2 146 (30.10%) Azure
3 62 (12.78%) Serverless
4 57 (11.75%) GCP
5 49 (10.10%) SaaS
6 42 (8.66%) GitHub
7 40 (8.25%) Amazon ECS
8 37 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (5.15%) Amazon S3
10 24 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (2.06%) Figma
14 10 (2.06%) Vercel
15 8 (1.65%) Google Analytics
15 8 (1.65%) Power Platform
16 7 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
17 6 (1.24%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.62%) Broadband
2 2 (0.41%) AMQP
2 2 (0.41%) HTTP
3 1 (0.21%) Internet
3 1 (0.21%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (15.46%) SQL Server
2 60 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (10.72%) Relational Database
4 46 (9.48%) NoSQL
5 29 (5.98%) MySQL
6 28 (5.77%) RDBMS
7 17 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (2.68%) MongoDB
8 13 (2.68%) Redis
9 9 (1.86%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.65%) Power BI
11 6 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.03%) Big Data
13 4 (0.82%) DB2
14 3 (0.62%) Apache Hive
14 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.62%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.62%) HBase
15 2 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 89 (18.35%) Git
2 33 (6.80%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.74%) JUnit
4 22 (4.54%) Mockito
5 18 (3.71%) JMeter
6 17 (3.51%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.68%) JIRA
8 8 (1.65%) Maven
9 7 (1.44%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.24%) webpack
11 5 (1.03%) git-flow
11 5 (1.03%) Mocha
11 5 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.62%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.62%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.62%) Gradle
13 3 (0.62%) Selenium
13 3 (0.62%) Storybook
13 3 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 99 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 62 (12.78%) Finance
3 37 (7.63%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.42%) Law
5 27 (5.57%) Marketing
6 24 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (4.33%) Banking
8 20 (4.12%) Front Office
9 16 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.30%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.68%) Retail
11 11 (2.27%) Health Technology
11 11 (2.27%) Legal
12 8 (1.65%) Aviation
12 8 (1.65%) Games
13 6 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.03%) Electronics
15 3 (0.62%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (53.81%) React
2 141 (29.07%) .NET
3 132 (27.22%) HTML
4 121 (24.95%) AngularJS
5 117 (24.12%) Node.js
6 116 (23.92%) CSS
7 93 (19.18%) REST
8 83 (17.11%) RESTful
8 83 (17.11%) Vue
9 64 (13.20%) Spring
10 49 (10.10%) ASP.NET
11 48 (9.90%) GraphQL
12 43 (8.87%) .NET Core
13 37 (7.63%) Spring Boot
14 36 (7.42%) .NET Framework
15 35 (7.22%) Web Services
16 32 (6.60%) Kafka
17 30 (6.19%) HTML5
18 29 (5.98%) CSS3
19 28 (5.77%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
1 24 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (4.33%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 15 (3.09%) Mobile App
6 14 (2.89%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.47%) Hedge funds
8 11 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.06%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.65%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.82%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.82%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.62%) Smart Home
12 3 (0.62%) Social Media
13 2 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.41%) Equities
13 2 (0.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.65%) Linux
2 6 (1.24%) Android
2 6 (1.24%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.24%) Unix
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 175 (36.08%) Agile
3 147 (30.31%) CI/CD
4 109 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (21.03%) DevOps
6 94 (19.38%) User Experience
7 76 (15.67%) Microservices
8 65 (13.40%) Software Engineering
9 59 (12.16%) Clean Code
10 57 (11.75%) Web Development
11 56 (11.55%) UX Design
12 55 (11.34%) AI
13 50 (10.31%) TDD
14 49 (10.10%) SDLC
15 44 (9.07%) Containerisation
15 44 (9.07%) Test Automation
16 38 (7.84%) Scrum
17 37 (7.63%) Mentoring
18 33 (6.80%) Front End Development
19 31 (6.39%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 227 (46.80%) JavaScript
2 148 (30.52%) TypeScript
3 145 (29.90%) C#
4 115 (23.71%) Java
4 115 (23.71%) SQL
5 100 (20.62%) Python
6 19 (3.92%) PHP
7 18 (3.71%) Shell Script
8 16 (3.30%) Go
9 10 (2.06%) C
9 10 (2.06%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.65%) VB.NET
11 6 (1.24%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.82%) Bicep
12 4 (0.82%) Ruby
12 4 (0.82%) XAML
13 3 (0.62%) Bash
13 3 (0.62%) C++
13 3 (0.62%) COBOL
13 3 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (10.72%) Security Cleared
2 28 (5.77%) Degree
3 21 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.30%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.84%) Accessibility
2 34 (7.01%) QA
3 6 (1.24%) WCAG
4 5 (1.03%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 86 (17.73%) Docker
2 3 (0.62%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (13.20%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.15%) Terraform
3 18 (3.71%) Kibana
4 6 (1.24%) Ansible
5 1 (0.21%) Argo
5 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (9.48%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.12%) Splunk
3 18 (3.71%) Dynatrace
4 10 (2.06%) Oracle
5 8 (1.65%) Apple
6 7 (1.44%) Google
7 6 (1.24%) DevExpress
8 4 (0.82%) Databricks
8 4 (0.82%) Telerik
9 3 (0.62%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.62%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.62%) Pega
9 3 (0.62%) WSO2
9 3 (0.62%) Zoho
10 2 (0.41%) iManage
10 2 (0.41%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.21%) IBM
11 1 (0.21%) IONA
11 1 (0.21%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.21%) WooCommerce