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 4 June 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 301 167
Rank change year-on-year +103 -134 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 971 447 1,721
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.02% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.14% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 838 352 1,345
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £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 £89,750 £95,000
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 86,819 39,086 97,392
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 89.49% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 58,219 21,927 70,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
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 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,550 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.09% +1.10% -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 4 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 4 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 +108 881 £65,000 +8.33% 107
UK excluding London +108 691 £60,000 +9.09% 91
Work from Home +100 341 £65,000 +8.33% 68
North of England +105 240 £70,000 +27.27% 20
London +42 222 £80,000 +10.34% 29
South East +71 215 £60,000 +4.35% 30
North West +73 108 £67,500 +22.73% 6
Yorkshire +46 107 £75,000 +25.00% 9
Midlands +2 98 £60,000 +9.09% 15
South West -14 68 £55,000 -8.33% 16
West Midlands -12 53 £65,000 +4.00% 9
East Midlands 0 45 £55,000 +15.79% 6
East of England -23 41 £85,000 +88.89% 5
North East -17 25 £50,000 -14.89% 5
Scotland +16 23 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Wales -41 5 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 971 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 315 (32.44%) React
3 303 (31.20%) JavaScript
4 273 (28.12%) TypeScript
5 248 (25.54%) AWS
6 209 (21.52%) Node.js
7 195 (20.08%) .NET
8 185 (19.05%) Python
9 172 (17.71%) C#
10 160 (16.48%) Java
11 143 (14.73%) Agile
12 140 (14.42%) Azure
13 137 (14.11%) Microservices
14 133 (13.70%) Software Engineering
15 131 (13.49%) CI/CD
16 128 (13.18%) AngularJS
17 126 (12.98%) CSS
18 125 (12.87%) AI
19 117 (12.05%) HTML
20 111 (11.43%) Vue
21 109 (11.23%) DevOps
22 108 (11.12%) SQL
23 96 (9.89%) Serverless
24 93 (9.58%) Docker
25 92 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
26 87 (8.96%) SaaS
27 83 (8.55%) Git
27 83 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
27 83 (8.55%) Web Development
28 81 (8.34%) Security Cleared

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 13 (1.34%) Confluence
2 12 (1.24%) CMS
3 8 (0.82%) ColdFusion
4 7 (0.72%) WordPress
5 6 (0.62%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.31%) Liferay
6 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.21%) Apache
7 2 (0.21%) IIS
7 2 (0.21%) nginx
8 1 (0.10%) CICS
8 1 (0.10%) Drupal
8 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 248 (25.54%) AWS
2 140 (14.42%) Azure
3 96 (9.89%) Serverless
4 87 (8.96%) SaaS
5 72 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
6 65 (6.69%) Amazon S3
7 63 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
8 45 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
9 34 (3.50%) GCP
10 33 (3.40%) GitHub
11 30 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
13 19 (1.96%) Power Platform
14 15 (1.54%) Amazon ECR
14 15 (1.54%) Apigee
15 12 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (1.24%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.72%) Broadband
2 4 (0.41%) DNS
2 4 (0.41%) HTTP
3 2 (0.21%) Firewall
3 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.39%) SQL Server
3 43 (4.43%) MongoDB
4 35 (3.60%) NoSQL
5 32 (3.30%) MySQL
6 23 (2.37%) DynamoDB
7 20 (2.06%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.24%) Power BI
9 10 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.62%) Redis
11 5 (0.51%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.41%) DB2
12 4 (0.41%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.31%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.21%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.21%) GIS
14 2 (0.21%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 83 (8.55%) Git
2 37 (3.81%) Jenkins
3 36 (3.71%) Cypress.io
4 22 (2.27%) JIRA
5 18 (1.85%) GitLab
5 18 (1.85%) Maven
6 12 (1.24%) JUnit
7 11 (1.13%) Mockito
8 6 (0.62%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.51%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.31%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.31%) ESLint
10 3 (0.31%) Selenium
10 3 (0.31%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.21%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.21%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.21%) Storybook
11 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 83 (8.55%) Social Skills
2 79 (8.14%) Finance
3 29 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (2.37%) Public Sector
4 23 (2.37%) Retail
5 19 (1.96%) Aviation
6 15 (1.54%) Banking
7 11 (1.13%) Front Office
8 10 (1.03%) Marketing
9 9 (0.93%) Games
9 9 (0.93%) Tech for Good
10 7 (0.72%) Legal
10 7 (0.72%) Local Government
11 6 (0.62%) Advertising
11 6 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.62%) Law
12 4 (0.41%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.41%) Publishing
13 2 (0.21%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (32.44%) React
2 209 (21.52%) Node.js
3 195 (20.08%) .NET
4 128 (13.18%) AngularJS
5 126 (12.98%) CSS
6 117 (12.05%) HTML
7 111 (11.43%) Vue
8 67 (6.90%) REST
9 65 (6.69%) Spring
10 61 (6.28%) RESTful
11 57 (5.87%) Spring Boot
12 50 (5.15%) .NET Core
13 49 (5.05%) Laravel
14 40 (4.12%) Jest
15 39 (4.02%) Next.js
16 37 (3.81%) GraphQL
17 34 (3.50%) Ruby on Rails
18 29 (2.99%) CSS3
18 29 (2.99%) HTML5
18 29 (2.99%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.87%) Cloud Native
2 23 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (2.16%) Mobile App
4 20 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 19 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.13%) Fixed Income
8 9 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.72%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.62%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.51%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.51%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.41%) Augmented Reality
12 4 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.41%) NHS
12 4 (0.41%) PropTech
13 3 (0.31%) IoT
13 3 (0.31%) PKI
13 3 (0.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.65%) Linux
2 3 (0.31%) Android
2 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.21%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 971 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 143 (14.73%) Agile
3 137 (14.11%) Microservices
4 133 (13.70%) Software Engineering
5 131 (13.49%) CI/CD
6 125 (12.87%) AI
7 109 (11.23%) DevOps
8 92 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (8.55%) Web Development
10 76 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (6.59%) Mentoring
12 46 (4.74%) Containerisation
13 45 (4.63%) Clean Code
13 45 (4.63%) Front End Development
13 45 (4.63%) Scrum
13 45 (4.63%) User Experience
14 44 (4.53%) TDD
15 43 (4.43%) Computer Science
16 41 (4.22%) SDLC
17 39 (4.02%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 303 (31.20%) JavaScript
2 273 (28.12%) TypeScript
3 185 (19.05%) Python
4 172 (17.71%) C#
5 160 (16.48%) Java
6 108 (11.12%) SQL
7 65 (6.69%) PHP
8 34 (3.50%) Ruby
9 16 (1.65%) Bash
10 13 (1.34%) Groovy
10 13 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.03%) Go
12 8 (0.82%) C++
12 8 (0.82%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.72%) C
14 5 (0.51%) R
15 4 (0.41%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.21%) Bicep
16 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.10%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 81 (8.34%) Security Cleared
2 71 (7.31%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.43%) Degree
4 35 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.13%) AWS Certification
6 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (0.62%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.96%) QA
2 8 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.21%) 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 93 (9.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.47%) Terraform
3 8 (0.82%) Ansible
4 6 (0.62%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.62%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.41%) Grafana
7 3 (0.31%) Kibana
8 2 (0.21%) Argo
8 2 (0.21%) Nagios
8 2 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 37 (3.81%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.16%) Oracle
3 11 (1.13%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.62%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.51%) Peregrine
6 4 (0.41%) Google
6 4 (0.41%) Pega
6 4 (0.41%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.31%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.21%) Aderant
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe
8 2 (0.21%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.21%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.21%) Foundry
8 2 (0.21%) iManage
8 2 (0.21%) Intapp
8 2 (0.21%) SendGrid
8 2 (0.21%) Splunk
8 2 (0.21%) WSO2
9 1 (0.10%) Databricks