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 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 311 205
Rank change year-on-year +79 -106 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 960 429 949
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.81% 0.87% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.97% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 787 312 577
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,375 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -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 109,200 44,128 68,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 89.77% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,173 25,691 39,257
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.22% -8.50% -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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +69 851 £60,000 -4.00% 245
UK excluding London +91 710 £60,000 - 140
Work from Home +75 352 £60,000 - 130
London -22 208 £67,500 -15.63% 113
South East +37 201 £60,000 +4.35% 28
North of England +65 195 £65,000 +8.33% 42
Midlands +30 110 £60,000 - 24
South West +4 105 £65,000 +8.33% 10
Yorkshire +37 99 £70,000 +16.67% 21
North West +7 68 £60,000 -2.04% 18
West Midlands -5 61 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Scotland +40 52 £55,000 -8.33% 8
East Midlands +12 49 £60,000 -7.69% 7
East of England -33 34 £60,000 +41.18% 12
North East -51 28 £46,250 -7.50% 4
Wales -69 13 £70,000 +16.67% 4

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

For the 6 months to 12 October 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.

1 960 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 318 (33.13%) JavaScript
3 288 (30.00%) React
4 285 (29.69%) AWS
5 279 (29.06%) TypeScript
6 204 (21.25%) Node.js
7 194 (20.21%) CI/CD
8 181 (18.85%) Agile
9 176 (18.33%) .NET
10 165 (17.19%) Azure
10 165 (17.19%) Microservices
11 162 (16.88%) C#
12 150 (15.63%) AI
13 148 (15.42%) Java
14 124 (12.92%) Software Engineering
15 119 (12.40%) Docker
16 117 (12.19%) Python
17 115 (11.98%) CSS
18 111 (11.56%) HTML
19 110 (11.46%) AngularJS
20 106 (11.04%) SQL Server
21 102 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
21 102 (10.63%) SaaS
22 98 (10.21%) REST
23 97 (10.10%) Git
24 93 (9.69%) SQL
25 89 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
26 88 (9.17%) DevOps
27 87 (9.06%) Serverless
28 86 (8.96%) GitHub

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 18 (1.88%) Confluence
2 15 (1.56%) WordPress
3 11 (1.15%) CMS
4 7 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.42%) IIS
6 3 (0.31%) nginx
6 3 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.21%) Apache
7 2 (0.21%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Elementor
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.73%) Shopify
2 4 (0.42%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 285 (29.69%) AWS
2 165 (17.19%) Azure
3 102 (10.63%) SaaS
4 87 (9.06%) Serverless
5 86 (8.96%) GitHub
6 75 (7.81%) Amazon S3
7 72 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
9 46 (4.79%) GCP
10 44 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (3.33%) Snowflake
13 31 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (2.81%) GitHub Copilot
16 24 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
17 23 (2.40%) AWS Step Functions
18 18 (1.88%) Anthropic Claude
19 14 (1.46%) Amazon ECR
19 14 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.73%) Broadband
2 3 (0.31%) DNS
2 3 (0.31%) HTTP
3 2 (0.21%) Firewall
3 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (11.04%) SQL Server
2 83 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (5.83%) MongoDB
4 33 (3.44%) DynamoDB
4 33 (3.44%) Redis
5 32 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 29 (3.02%) MySQL
7 22 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.04%) Power BI
10 7 (0.73%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.63%) Spatial Data
12 4 (0.42%) GIS
13 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.21%) ClickHouse
14 1 (0.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.10%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.10%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 97 (10.10%) Git
2 56 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 40 (4.17%) Cypress.io
4 26 (2.71%) GitLab
5 22 (2.29%) Maven
6 21 (2.19%) JUnit
7 19 (1.98%) Claude Code
8 18 (1.88%) JIRA
9 14 (1.46%) Mockito
10 11 (1.15%) Vite
11 10 (1.04%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.04%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.94%) Storybook
13 8 (0.83%) NUnit
14 7 (0.73%) TeamCity
15 6 (0.63%) Postman
16 5 (0.52%) Selenium
17 4 (0.42%) Eclipse
17 4 (0.42%) Subversion
18 3 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 103 (10.73%) Social Skills
2 76 (7.92%) Public Sector
3 53 (5.52%) Finance
4 15 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (1.35%) Legal
5 13 (1.35%) Marketing
5 13 (1.35%) Retail
6 12 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (0.73%) Games
7 7 (0.73%) Legal Technology
8 5 (0.52%) Banking
9 4 (0.42%) Aviation
9 4 (0.42%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.31%) Law
10 3 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.31%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.21%) Automotive
11 2 (0.21%) Front Office
11 2 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (30.00%) React
2 204 (21.25%) Node.js
3 176 (18.33%) .NET
4 115 (11.98%) CSS
5 111 (11.56%) HTML
6 110 (11.46%) AngularJS
7 98 (10.21%) REST
8 80 (8.33%) Vue
9 75 (7.81%) Spring
10 71 (7.40%) RESTful
11 67 (6.98%) Spring Boot
12 57 (5.94%) Next.js
13 50 (5.21%) Jest
14 45 (4.69%) Ruby on Rails
15 39 (4.06%) ASP.NET
16 37 (3.85%) .NET Core
17 36 (3.75%) .NET Framework
18 35 (3.65%) Entity Framework
19 34 (3.54%) Terraform
20 30 (3.13%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.40%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.56%) Mobile App
6 12 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.04%) IoT
8 9 (0.94%) Virtual Team
9 8 (0.83%) AI Agents
9 8 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.42%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.31%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.31%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.21%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.21%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.21%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.21%) PMI
13 2 (0.21%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.56%) Linux
2 3 (0.31%) AIX
3 1 (0.10%) Android
3 1 (0.10%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 960 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 194 (20.21%) CI/CD
3 181 (18.85%) Agile
4 165 (17.19%) Microservices
5 150 (15.63%) AI
6 124 (12.92%) Software Engineering
7 102 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
8 89 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 88 (9.17%) DevOps
10 73 (7.60%) Clean Code
11 62 (6.46%) Computer Science
12 61 (6.35%) Mentoring
13 55 (5.73%) E-Commerce
14 53 (5.52%) Front End Development
14 53 (5.52%) SDLC
15 51 (5.31%) Web Development
16 50 (5.21%) User Experience
17 49 (5.10%) Technical Leadership
18 46 (4.79%) LLM
19 45 (4.69%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 318 (33.13%) JavaScript
2 279 (29.06%) TypeScript
3 162 (16.88%) C#
4 148 (15.42%) Java
5 117 (12.19%) Python
6 93 (9.69%) SQL
7 69 (7.19%) Kotlin
8 50 (5.21%) Ruby
9 46 (4.79%) PHP
10 20 (2.08%) Bash
11 18 (1.88%) Groovy
12 10 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.73%) C++
14 5 (0.52%) Go
14 5 (0.52%) Rust
15 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.21%) Bicep
16 2 (0.21%) Perl
17 1 (0.10%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (6.35%) Degree
2 56 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 53 (5.52%) Security Cleared
4 41 (4.27%) SC Cleared
5 18 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (0.73%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.40%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.25%) WCAG
3 10 (1.04%) QA
4 5 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.10%) GRC
7 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 119 (12.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 75 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.94%) HP Fortify
3 6 (0.63%) Grafana
4 4 (0.42%) Ansible
5 3 (0.31%) Kibana
5 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) Podman
Vendors
1 78 (8.13%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.81%) Oracle
3 20 (2.08%) Google
4 16 (1.67%) OpenAI
5 11 (1.15%) OutSystems
5 11 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 9 (0.94%) OneLogin
7 5 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.42%) Peregrine
9 3 (0.31%) Splunk
10 2 (0.21%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.21%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.10%) Confluent
11 1 (0.10%) Databricks
11 1 (0.10%) Mistral
11 1 (0.10%) NEC
11 1 (0.10%) Plaid
11 1 (0.10%) ServiceNow