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 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 275 178
Rank change year-on-year +49 -97 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 594 572 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.10% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 1.20% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 464 341 1,117
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,269 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -2.89% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -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 58,000 47,786 67,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.14% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 36,092 24,542 52,929
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.15% +8.88% -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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +47 543 £65,000 +8.33% 179
UK excluding London +15 361 £60,000 +9.09% 149
London +54 193 £80,000 +18.52% 55
Work from Home +16 187 £60,000 +4.35% 98
South East +14 136 £60,000 +6.67% 60
North of England +36 94 £60,000 +20.00% 38
Midlands +17 59 £55,000 -2.22% 26
South West +9 41 £60,000 +9.09% 18
North West +30 38 £65,000 +33.33% 24
Yorkshire +5 32 £77,500 +47.62% 10
East Midlands +2 30 £55,000 - 13
West Midlands +25 29 £60,000 +4.35% 13
North East +16 24 £50,000 +17.65% 4
East of England +2 23 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Wales -6 8 £45,000 -29.69% 2
Scotland -16 3 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 February 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.

1 594 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 284 (47.81%) React
3 224 (37.71%) JavaScript
4 185 (31.14%) AWS
5 163 (27.44%) TypeScript
6 156 (26.26%) .NET
7 145 (24.41%) C#
8 143 (24.07%) Agile
9 138 (23.23%) Java
10 131 (22.05%) Azure
11 125 (21.04%) CI/CD
12 117 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (19.19%) Node.js
13 114 (19.19%) Python
14 106 (17.85%) CSS
14 106 (17.85%) SQL
15 105 (17.68%) HTML
16 101 (17.00%) AngularJS
17 98 (16.50%) Microservices
18 97 (16.33%) DevOps
19 89 (14.98%) REST
20 85 (14.31%) Docker
21 78 (13.13%) Git
22 74 (12.46%) AI
22 74 (12.46%) Software Engineering
22 74 (12.46%) Vue
23 71 (11.95%) Security Cleared
24 70 (11.78%) Serverless
25 66 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
26 62 (10.44%) User Experience

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 (1.68%) CMS
2 8 (1.35%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.01%) Confluence
3 6 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.67%) nginx
5 3 (0.51%) ColdFusion
5 3 (0.51%) Liferay
6 2 (0.34%) Drupal
6 2 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.34%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) Kentico
7 1 (0.17%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (31.14%) AWS
2 131 (22.05%) Azure
3 70 (11.78%) Serverless
4 42 (7.07%) GitHub
5 41 (6.90%) SaaS
6 38 (6.40%) Amazon S3
7 36 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
8 35 (5.89%) GCP
9 30 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (1.85%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (1.01%) Amazon EventBridge
17 5 (0.84%) npm
18 4 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.34%) AMQP
1 2 (0.34%) Broadband
1 2 (0.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.17%) Internet
2 1 (0.17%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (9.60%) SQL Server
3 44 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 40 (6.73%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.05%) MySQL
6 25 (4.21%) MongoDB
7 18 (3.03%) RDBMS
8 14 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.19%) Redis
10 9 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.35%) DB2
11 8 (1.35%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.35%) Power BI
12 3 (0.51%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.34%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.34%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.34%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 78 (13.13%) Git
2 34 (5.72%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.20%) Cypress.io
4 18 (3.03%) JUnit
5 17 (2.86%) Mockito
6 13 (2.19%) JIRA
7 12 (2.02%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.68%) Maven
9 9 (1.52%) JMeter
10 7 (1.18%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.18%) Selenium
11 6 (1.01%) webpack
12 5 (0.84%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.84%) git-flow
13 4 (0.67%) GitLab
13 4 (0.67%) Mocha
13 4 (0.67%) Storybook
14 3 (0.51%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.51%) ESLint
14 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (15.99%) Social Skills
2 58 (9.76%) Finance
3 35 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (5.05%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.88%) Banking
6 21 (3.54%) Aviation
6 21 (3.54%) Investment Banking
7 14 (2.36%) Law
7 14 (2.36%) Retail
8 12 (2.02%) Games
8 12 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.85%) Legal
10 10 (1.68%) Front Office
11 9 (1.52%) Marketing
12 6 (1.01%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.84%) Electronics
13 5 (0.84%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (47.81%) React
2 156 (26.26%) .NET
3 114 (19.19%) Node.js
4 106 (17.85%) CSS
5 105 (17.68%) HTML
6 101 (17.00%) AngularJS
7 89 (14.98%) REST
8 74 (12.46%) Vue
9 61 (10.27%) Spring
10 55 (9.26%) RESTful
11 51 (8.59%) .NET Core
12 37 (6.23%) Spring Boot
13 35 (5.89%) ASP.NET
14 34 (5.72%) Laravel
15 33 (5.56%) HTML5
16 32 (5.39%) CSS3
17 27 (4.55%) .NET Framework
18 26 (4.38%) Kafka
18 26 (4.38%) Next.js
19 24 (4.04%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 22 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.52%) Hedge funds
7 9 (1.52%) Reference Data
8 6 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.67%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.67%) Client/Server
9 4 (0.67%) IoT
9 4 (0.67%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.51%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.34%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.34%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.19%) Linux
2 10 (1.68%) Android
2 10 (1.68%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.34%) Unix
3 2 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 143 (24.07%) Agile
3 125 (21.04%) CI/CD
4 117 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
5 98 (16.50%) Microservices
6 97 (16.33%) DevOps
7 74 (12.46%) AI
7 74 (12.46%) Software Engineering
8 62 (10.44%) User Experience
9 47 (7.91%) Clean Code
9 47 (7.91%) Scrum
10 46 (7.74%) SDLC
10 46 (7.74%) TDD
11 44 (7.41%) API Development
12 43 (7.24%) Web Development
13 42 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 41 (6.90%) Front End Development
15 36 (6.06%) Containerisation
15 36 (6.06%) Mentoring
16 34 (5.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 224 (37.71%) JavaScript
2 163 (27.44%) TypeScript
3 145 (24.41%) C#
4 138 (23.23%) Java
5 114 (19.19%) Python
6 106 (17.85%) SQL
7 42 (7.07%) PHP
8 16 (2.69%) C
9 13 (2.19%) Ruby
10 11 (1.85%) PL/SQL
10 11 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.52%) Go
12 8 (1.35%) Bash
12 8 (1.35%) C++
13 6 (1.01%) R
14 4 (0.67%) XAML
15 3 (0.51%) COBOL
16 2 (0.34%) Groovy
16 2 (0.34%) RPG
16 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 39 (6.57%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.39%) Degree
4 28 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.87%) QA
3 8 (1.35%) WCAG
4 4 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) HL7
System Software
1 85 (14.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.37%) Terraform
3 9 (1.52%) Kibana
4 8 (1.35%) Ansible
5 3 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.34%) Nagios
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (3.70%) Oracle
2 14 (2.36%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.68%) Dynatrace
4 9 (1.52%) Splunk
5 8 (1.35%) Google
6 7 (1.18%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.67%) Telerik
8 3 (0.51%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.51%) Pega
8 3 (0.51%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.51%) WSO2
8 3 (0.51%) Zoho
9 2 (0.34%) Foundry
9 2 (0.34%) IBM
9 2 (0.34%) iManage
9 2 (0.34%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.34%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe
10 1 (0.17%) IONA
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat