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 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 238 186
Rank change year-on-year -18 -52 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 480 763 930
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.17% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.24% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 350 472 861
10th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £78,438 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £96,125 £107,500
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 48,825 61,698 48,588
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.27% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 30,770 34,403 37,837
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,855 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -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 £52,416 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% -0.16% -

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -22 428 £62,500 +4.17% 129
UK excluding London -21 291 £60,000 +9.09% 118
London +6 173 £80,000 +12.68% 45
Work from Home +2 156 £60,000 +9.09% 80
South East +1 107 £57,500 +4.55% 49
North of England +30 66 £60,000 +11.63% 16
Midlands -4 37 £60,000 +20.00% 22
South West +2 33 £60,000 +11.63% 20
North West +27 30 £60,000 +33.33% 7
West Midlands +24 24 £60,000 +6.67% 15
East of England +11 24 £42,500 -5.56% 5
North East +18 18 £50,000 - 5
Yorkshire +6 18 £60,000 - 4
Wales +4 17 £60,000 +13.21% 5
East Midlands -3 13 £62,500 +56.25% 7
Scotland -8 9 £60,000 -5.33% 3
Northern Ireland -4 2 £60,000 -14.29%

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

For the 6 months to 30 November 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.

1 480 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 261 (54.38%) React
3 229 (47.71%) JavaScript
4 209 (43.54%) AWS
5 178 (37.08%) Agile
6 151 (31.46%) TypeScript
7 149 (31.04%) Azure
8 148 (30.83%) CI/CD
9 145 (30.21%) C#
10 142 (29.58%) .NET
11 134 (27.92%) HTML
12 123 (25.63%) AngularJS
13 119 (24.79%) CSS
14 116 (24.17%) Node.js
14 116 (24.17%) SQL
15 114 (23.75%) Java
16 110 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
17 102 (21.25%) DevOps
18 101 (21.04%) Python
19 95 (19.79%) User Experience
20 93 (19.38%) REST
21 92 (19.17%) Git
22 87 (18.13%) Docker
23 86 (17.92%) Vue
24 85 (17.71%) RESTful
25 77 (16.04%) SQL Server
26 75 (15.63%) Microservices
27 65 (13.54%) Kubernetes
27 65 (13.54%) Software Engineering
28 63 (13.13%) 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 (2.08%) CMS
2 8 (1.67%) Headless CMS
3 5 (1.04%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.83%) Confluence
5 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.63%) Drupal
5 3 (0.63%) nginx
6 2 (0.42%) Apache
6 2 (0.42%) ColdFusion
6 2 (0.42%) IIS
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) Kentico
7 1 (0.21%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.63%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.88%) Shopify
2 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 209 (43.54%) AWS
2 149 (31.04%) Azure
3 62 (12.92%) Serverless
4 59 (12.29%) GCP
5 49 (10.21%) SaaS
6 43 (8.96%) GitHub
7 40 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
8 37 (7.71%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (5.21%) Amazon S3
10 24 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (2.29%) Vercel
15 10 (2.08%) Figma
16 9 (1.88%) Power Platform
17 8 (1.67%) Google Analytics
18 7 (1.46%) GitHub Copilot
19 6 (1.25%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.63%) Broadband
2 2 (0.42%) AMQP
2 2 (0.42%) HTTP
3 1 (0.21%) Internet
3 1 (0.21%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (16.04%) SQL Server
2 61 (12.71%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (10.83%) Relational Database
4 46 (9.58%) NoSQL
5 30 (6.25%) MySQL
6 28 (5.83%) RDBMS
7 17 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.92%) Redis
9 13 (2.71%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.88%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.88%) Power BI
11 6 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.04%) Big Data
13 4 (0.83%) DB2
14 3 (0.63%) Apache Hive
14 3 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.63%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.63%) HBase
15 2 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 92 (19.17%) Git
2 33 (6.88%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.79%) JUnit
4 22 (4.58%) Mockito
5 18 (3.75%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.75%) JMeter
6 13 (2.71%) JIRA
7 8 (1.67%) Maven
7 8 (1.67%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.25%) webpack
9 5 (1.04%) git-flow
9 5 (1.04%) Mocha
9 5 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.83%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.63%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.63%) Gradle
11 3 (0.63%) Selenium
11 3 (0.63%) Storybook
11 3 (0.63%) Vite
General
1 101 (21.04%) Social Skills
2 64 (13.33%) Finance
3 37 (7.71%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.50%) Law
5 28 (5.83%) Marketing
6 24 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (4.38%) Banking
7 21 (4.38%) Front Office
8 16 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.71%) Retail
10 11 (2.29%) Health Technology
10 11 (2.29%) Legal
11 9 (1.88%) Games
12 8 (1.67%) Aviation
13 6 (1.25%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.04%) Electronics
15 3 (0.63%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (54.38%) React
2 142 (29.58%) .NET
3 134 (27.92%) HTML
4 123 (25.63%) AngularJS
5 119 (24.79%) CSS
6 116 (24.17%) Node.js
7 93 (19.38%) REST
8 86 (17.92%) Vue
9 85 (17.71%) RESTful
10 63 (13.13%) Spring
11 51 (10.63%) ASP.NET
12 48 (10.00%) GraphQL
13 43 (8.96%) .NET Core
14 36 (7.50%) .NET Framework
14 36 (7.50%) Spring Boot
14 36 (7.50%) Web Services
15 32 (6.67%) HTML5
15 32 (6.67%) Kafka
16 31 (6.46%) CSS3
17 29 (6.04%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
1 24 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (4.38%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 14 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.71%) Hedge funds
8 11 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.08%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.08%) Reference Data
10 9 (1.88%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.83%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.83%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.63%) Equities
12 3 (0.63%) Smart Home
12 3 (0.63%) Social Media
13 2 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.42%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.67%) Linux
2 6 (1.25%) Android
2 6 (1.25%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.25%) Unix
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 178 (37.08%) Agile
3 148 (30.83%) CI/CD
4 110 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (21.25%) DevOps
6 95 (19.79%) User Experience
7 75 (15.63%) Microservices
8 65 (13.54%) Software Engineering
9 59 (12.29%) Clean Code
10 57 (11.88%) AI
11 56 (11.67%) UX Design
12 55 (11.46%) Web Development
13 51 (10.63%) TDD
14 50 (10.42%) SDLC
15 45 (9.38%) Containerisation
16 44 (9.17%) Test Automation
17 39 (8.13%) Scrum
18 37 (7.71%) Mentoring
19 33 (6.88%) Front End Development
20 31 (6.46%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 229 (47.71%) JavaScript
2 151 (31.46%) TypeScript
3 145 (30.21%) C#
4 116 (24.17%) SQL
5 114 (23.75%) Java
6 101 (21.04%) Python
7 20 (4.17%) PHP
8 18 (3.75%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.33%) Go
10 10 (2.08%) C
10 10 (2.08%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.67%) VB.NET
12 6 (1.25%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.83%) Bicep
13 4 (0.83%) Ruby
13 4 (0.83%) XAML
14 3 (0.63%) Bash
14 3 (0.63%) C++
14 3 (0.63%) COBOL
14 3 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 51 (10.63%) Security Cleared
2 28 (5.83%) Degree
3 21 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (3.96%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.33%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.92%) Accessibility
2 34 (7.08%) QA
3 6 (1.25%) GDPR
3 6 (1.25%) WCAG
4 1 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 87 (18.13%) Docker
2 3 (0.63%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (13.54%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.42%) Terraform
3 18 (3.75%) Kibana
4 6 (1.25%) Ansible
5 1 (0.21%) Argo
5 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.17%) Splunk
3 18 (3.75%) Dynatrace
4 10 (2.08%) Oracle
5 8 (1.67%) Apple
5 8 (1.67%) Google
6 6 (1.25%) DevExpress
7 4 (0.83%) Databricks
7 4 (0.83%) Telerik
8 3 (0.63%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.63%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.63%) Pega
8 3 (0.63%) WSO2
8 3 (0.63%) Zoho
9 2 (0.42%) iManage
9 2 (0.42%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.21%) IONA
10 1 (0.21%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.21%) SAP
10 1 (0.21%) Sybase