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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 307 160
Rank change year-on-year +115 -147 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,000 448 1,838
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.00% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.11% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 867 349 1,417
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.00% -4.09%

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 88,490 40,188 103,482
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 89.54% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 60,699 22,814 74,733
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +104 899 £65,000 +8.33% 77
UK excluding London +124 724 £60,000 +4.35% 77
Work from Home +101 358 £62,500 +2.04% 52
North of England +135 248 £67,500 +22.73% 17
South East +81 216 £60,000 +4.35% 18
London +26 216 £80,000 +10.34% 19
North West +80 115 £67,500 +22.73% 9
Yorkshire +50 107 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Midlands +20 103 £57,500 -2.13% 14
South West -12 78 £55,000 -8.33% 13
West Midlands +2 56 £70,000 +14.29% 6
East Midlands -5 47 £55,000 +15.79% 8
East of England -10 40 £82,500 +83.33% 2
Scotland +21 29 £55,000 +4.76% 7
North East -28 26 £50,000 -16.67% 5
Wales -45 8 £62,500 -3.85% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 1,000 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 320 (32.00%) React
3 310 (31.00%) JavaScript
4 288 (28.80%) TypeScript
5 269 (26.90%) AWS
6 212 (21.20%) Node.js
7 193 (19.30%) .NET
8 189 (18.90%) Python
9 169 (16.90%) C#
10 167 (16.70%) Java
11 152 (15.20%) Agile
12 151 (15.10%) Azure
13 142 (14.20%) CI/CD
13 142 (14.20%) Microservices
14 137 (13.70%) AI
15 135 (13.50%) AngularJS
16 132 (13.20%) Software Engineering
17 125 (12.50%) CSS
18 117 (11.70%) HTML
18 117 (11.70%) Vue
19 110 (11.00%) DevOps
19 110 (11.00%) SQL
20 101 (10.10%) Serverless
21 95 (9.50%) Docker
21 95 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
22 89 (8.90%) SaaS
23 84 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
23 84 (8.40%) Security Cleared
23 84 (8.40%) Web Development
24 83 (8.30%) Git

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 12 (1.20%) CMS
2 11 (1.10%) Confluence
3 8 (0.80%) ColdFusion
4 7 (0.70%) WordPress
5 6 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) Liferay
7 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.10%) CICS
8 1 (0.10%) Drupal
8 1 (0.10%) IIS
8 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 269 (26.90%) AWS
2 151 (15.10%) Azure
3 101 (10.10%) Serverless
4 89 (8.90%) SaaS
5 80 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 72 (7.20%) Amazon S3
7 67 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
8 47 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
9 40 (4.00%) GCP
9 40 (4.00%) GitHub
10 31 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
12 23 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (2.00%) Power Platform
15 17 (1.70%) Amazon ECR
15 17 (1.70%) Apigee
16 14 (1.40%) GitHub Copilot
17 11 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.80%) Broadband
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
2 4 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 43 (4.30%) MongoDB
4 33 (3.30%) MySQL
5 31 (3.10%) NoSQL
6 27 (2.70%) DynamoDB
7 23 (2.30%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.20%) Power BI
9 10 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.00%) Redis
10 8 (0.80%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.20%) GIS
13 2 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
14 1 (0.10%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 83 (8.30%) Git
2 39 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 38 (3.80%) Cypress.io
4 23 (2.30%) GitLab
5 20 (2.00%) JIRA
5 20 (2.00%) Maven
6 14 (1.40%) JUnit
7 11 (1.10%) Mockito
8 9 (0.90%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.80%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.30%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.20%) ESLint
11 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.20%) JMeter
11 2 (0.20%) NUnit
11 2 (0.20%) Postman
11 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.10%) Storybook
General
1 86 (8.60%) Social Skills
2 77 (7.70%) Finance
3 28 (2.80%) Public Sector
4 27 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (2.30%) Retail
6 17 (1.70%) Aviation
7 12 (1.20%) Banking
8 11 (1.10%) Front Office
8 11 (1.10%) Marketing
9 10 (1.00%) Legal
10 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.80%) Local Government
12 7 (0.70%) Games
12 7 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.60%) Advertising
13 6 (0.60%) Law
13 6 (0.60%) Legal Technology
14 4 (0.40%) Publishing
15 3 (0.30%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (32.00%) React
2 212 (21.20%) Node.js
3 193 (19.30%) .NET
4 135 (13.50%) AngularJS
5 125 (12.50%) CSS
6 117 (11.70%) HTML
6 117 (11.70%) Vue
7 65 (6.50%) Spring
8 64 (6.40%) REST
9 62 (6.20%) RESTful
10 60 (6.00%) Spring Boot
11 50 (5.00%) .NET Core
12 47 (4.70%) Laravel
13 43 (4.30%) Next.js
14 41 (4.10%) Jest
15 38 (3.80%) Ruby on Rails
16 37 (3.70%) GraphQL
17 29 (2.90%) HTML5
18 28 (2.80%) CSS3
19 26 (2.60%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 68 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 26 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (1.90%) Mobile App
4 18 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (1.80%) Product Ownership
5 14 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.10%) Fixed Income
7 10 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.70%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.60%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.50%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.50%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (0.40%) NHS
11 4 (0.40%) PropTech
11 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.70%) Linux
2 2 (0.20%) Android
2 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) AIX
3 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 152 (15.20%) Agile
3 142 (14.20%) CI/CD
3 142 (14.20%) Microservices
4 137 (13.70%) AI
5 132 (13.20%) Software Engineering
6 110 (11.00%) DevOps
7 95 (9.50%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (8.40%) Web Development
9 63 (6.30%) Mentoring
10 52 (5.20%) Clean Code
11 49 (4.90%) Computer Science
12 48 (4.80%) Front End Development
13 47 (4.70%) Containerisation
14 46 (4.60%) User Experience
15 41 (4.10%) SDLC
16 40 (4.00%) TDD
17 39 (3.90%) Technical Leadership
18 38 (3.80%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 310 (31.00%) JavaScript
2 288 (28.80%) TypeScript
3 189 (18.90%) Python
4 169 (16.90%) C#
5 167 (16.70%) Java
6 110 (11.00%) SQL
7 62 (6.20%) PHP
8 38 (3.80%) Ruby
9 18 (1.80%) Bash
10 17 (1.70%) Groovy
11 13 (1.30%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.00%) Go
13 8 (0.80%) C++
13 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.70%) C
15 5 (0.50%) R
16 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 84 (8.40%) Security Cleared
2 73 (7.30%) SC Cleared
3 49 (4.90%) Degree
4 41 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.30%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.60%) QA
2 9 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.50%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.10%) HL7
4 1 (0.10%) SLA
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 95 (9.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.00%) Terraform
3 8 (0.80%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.60%) Ansible
4 6 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.40%) Grafana
7 3 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Argo
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 39 (3.90%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.10%) Oracle
3 12 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.40%) OneLogin
5 4 (0.40%) Pega
6 3 (0.30%) Google
6 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.30%) WooCommerce
7 2 (0.20%) Aderant
7 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.20%) Foundry
7 2 (0.20%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) Intapp
7 2 (0.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe
8 1 (0.10%) Databricks
8 1 (0.10%) SendGrid