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 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 316 196
Rank change year-on-year +97 -120 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,020 439 1,049
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.87% 0.89% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.99% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 863 322 658
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

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 109,088 44,314 73,256
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 89.71% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 74,631 25,938 43,073
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,641 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 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 September 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 +96 908 £60,000 - 302
UK excluding London +84 767 £60,000 +4.35% 178
Work from Home +84 357 £60,000 - 167
North of England +81 225 £67,500 +12.50% 58
South East +42 216 £60,000 +4.35% 42
London -14 208 £67,500 -11.48% 143
Yorkshire +57 114 £75,000 +25.00% 24
Midlands +31 113 £60,000 - 24
South West +5 109 £60,000 - 16
North West +19 83 £61,250 +2.08% 30
West Midlands -6 66 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Scotland +43 51 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East Midlands +3 47 £60,000 +26.32% 8
East of England -9 39 £65,000 +62.50% 13
North East -53 28 £46,250 -7.50% 6
Wales -70 14 £62,500 +4.17% 2

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

For the 6 months to 25 September 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 1,020 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 346 (33.92%) JavaScript
3 309 (30.29%) React
4 304 (29.80%) TypeScript
5 297 (29.12%) AWS
6 218 (21.37%) Node.js
7 195 (19.12%) CI/CD
8 191 (18.73%) Agile
9 190 (18.63%) .NET
10 177 (17.35%) C#
11 174 (17.06%) Azure
12 171 (16.76%) Microservices
13 156 (15.29%) Java
14 155 (15.20%) AI
15 146 (14.31%) Python
16 126 (12.35%) CSS
17 123 (12.06%) Software Engineering
18 122 (11.96%) HTML
19 120 (11.76%) Docker
20 118 (11.57%) AngularJS
21 107 (10.49%) SaaS
22 104 (10.20%) SQL
22 104 (10.20%) SQL Server
23 103 (10.10%) Git
24 102 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
25 99 (9.71%) DevOps
25 99 (9.71%) Serverless
26 94 (9.22%) REST
27 91 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
28 90 (8.82%) Vue

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 15 (1.47%) Confluence
2 14 (1.37%) WordPress
3 11 (1.08%) CMS
4 7 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.39%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.39%) IIS
5 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.29%) nginx
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.098%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.098%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.098%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 297 (29.12%) AWS
2 174 (17.06%) Azure
3 107 (10.49%) SaaS
4 99 (9.71%) Serverless
5 84 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (8.04%) Amazon S3
7 81 (7.94%) GitHub
8 75 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
10 48 (4.71%) GCP
11 39 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (2.65%) AWS Step Functions
14 27 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
14 27 (2.65%) Snowflake
15 26 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (1.76%) Amazon ECR
16 18 (1.76%) Anthropic Claude
17 17 (1.67%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.69%) Broadband
2 4 (0.39%) DNS
2 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.098%) Internet
4 1 (0.098%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 86 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (5.39%) MongoDB
4 43 (4.22%) DynamoDB
5 33 (3.24%) MySQL
6 30 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.84%) Redis
8 27 (2.65%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.18%) Power BI
11 8 (0.78%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.39%) GIS
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.29%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
15 1 (0.098%) ClickHouse
15 1 (0.098%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.098%) DocumentDB
15 1 (0.098%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 103 (10.10%) Git
2 56 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.22%) Cypress.io
4 28 (2.75%) GitLab
5 22 (2.16%) Maven
6 20 (1.96%) JUnit
7 17 (1.67%) Claude Code
7 17 (1.67%) JIRA
8 13 (1.27%) Mockito
9 10 (0.98%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.88%) Storybook
10 9 (0.88%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.88%) Vite
11 7 (0.69%) NUnit
12 6 (0.59%) Postman
12 6 (0.59%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.49%) Selenium
14 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.39%) Subversion
15 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 103 (10.10%) Social Skills
2 76 (7.45%) Public Sector
3 53 (5.20%) Finance
4 16 (1.57%) Retail
5 14 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.27%) Marketing
7 12 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.18%) Legal
8 7 (0.69%) Legal Technology
9 5 (0.49%) Banking
10 4 (0.39%) Aviation
10 4 (0.39%) Games
11 3 (0.29%) Advertising
11 3 (0.29%) Automotive
11 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Law
11 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.20%) Front Office
12 2 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (30.29%) React
2 218 (21.37%) Node.js
3 190 (18.63%) .NET
4 126 (12.35%) CSS
5 122 (11.96%) HTML
6 118 (11.57%) AngularJS
7 94 (9.22%) REST
8 90 (8.82%) Vue
9 78 (7.65%) Spring
10 75 (7.35%) RESTful
11 70 (6.86%) Spring Boot
12 56 (5.49%) Next.js
13 51 (5.00%) Jest
14 50 (4.90%) Ruby on Rails
15 44 (4.31%) .NET Core
16 40 (3.92%) .NET Framework
16 40 (3.92%) Terraform
17 38 (3.73%) ASP.NET
17 38 (3.73%) Entity Framework
18 33 (3.24%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 77 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 50 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (1.86%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 13 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (0.88%) IoT
8 8 (0.78%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.69%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.39%) Sports Betting
12 3 (0.29%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (0.29%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.29%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.29%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.20%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.20%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.20%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.37%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.098%) Windows
3 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,020 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 195 (19.12%) CI/CD
3 191 (18.73%) Agile
4 171 (16.76%) Microservices
5 155 (15.20%) AI
6 123 (12.06%) Software Engineering
7 102 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (9.71%) DevOps
9 91 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (7.16%) Clean Code
11 66 (6.47%) Web Development
12 65 (6.37%) Mentoring
13 59 (5.78%) Computer Science
14 57 (5.59%) User Experience
15 56 (5.49%) SDLC
16 55 (5.39%) E-Commerce
17 52 (5.10%) Front End Development
18 50 (4.90%) Technical Leadership
19 46 (4.51%) Containerisation
19 46 (4.51%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 346 (33.92%) JavaScript
2 304 (29.80%) TypeScript
3 177 (17.35%) C#
4 156 (15.29%) Java
5 146 (14.31%) Python
6 104 (10.20%) SQL
7 53 (5.20%) Ruby
8 52 (5.10%) Kotlin
9 49 (4.80%) PHP
10 21 (2.06%) Bash
11 19 (1.86%) Groovy
12 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.69%) C++
14 3 (0.29%) Go
14 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.20%) Bicep
15 2 (0.20%) Perl
15 2 (0.20%) Rust
16 1 (0.098%) C
16 1 (0.098%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (6.76%) Security Cleared
2 61 (5.98%) Degree
3 57 (5.59%) SC Cleared
4 54 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 10 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.69%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.098%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.16%) Accessibility
2 13 (1.27%) QA
3 12 (1.18%) WCAG
4 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.098%) GRC
7 1 (0.098%) SLA
System Software
1 120 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 75 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 10 (0.98%) HP Fortify
3 5 (0.49%) Ansible
3 5 (0.49%) Grafana
4 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Kibana
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.098%) Podman
Vendors
1 76 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.55%) Oracle
3 19 (1.86%) Google
4 16 (1.57%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.88%) OneLogin
5 9 (0.88%) OutSystems
5 9 (0.88%) Red Hat
6 6 (0.59%) Dynatrace
7 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
8 3 (0.29%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.29%) Splunk
9 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.098%) Confluent
10 1 (0.098%) Databricks
10 1 (0.098%) Mistral
10 1 (0.098%) NEC
10 1 (0.098%) Pega
10 1 (0.098%) WSO2