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 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 310 197
Rank change year-on-year +78 -113 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 962 432 939
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.81% 0.88% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.98% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 788 314 569
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £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 £98,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -6.10%

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 109,855 44,157 67,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.76% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 74,567 25,766 38,707
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,500 £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 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 14 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 14 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 +79 853 £60,000 -4.00% 277
UK excluding London +76 715 £60,000 - 155
Work from Home +84 352 £60,000 - 138
London -16 207 £67,500 -15.63% 131
North of England +65 199 £65,000 +8.33% 51
South East +43 199 £60,000 +4.35% 30
Midlands +28 112 £60,000 - 23
South West +10 104 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Yorkshire +48 101 £70,000 +16.67% 22
North West +8 70 £60,000 -2.04% 25
West Midlands 0 62 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Scotland +48 54 £55,000 -8.33% 12
East Midlands +5 50 £60,000 -7.69% 7
East of England -25 34 £60,000 +41.18% 13
North East -55 28 £46,250 -7.50% 5
Wales -72 13 £70,000 +16.67% 4

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 962 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 319 (33.16%) JavaScript
3 288 (29.94%) React
4 284 (29.52%) AWS
5 283 (29.42%) TypeScript
6 203 (21.10%) Node.js
7 198 (20.58%) CI/CD
8 181 (18.81%) Agile
9 179 (18.61%) .NET
10 171 (17.78%) Azure
11 165 (17.15%) C#
12 164 (17.05%) Microservices
13 152 (15.80%) AI
14 147 (15.28%) Java
15 129 (13.41%) Software Engineering
16 122 (12.68%) Docker
17 119 (12.37%) Python
18 117 (12.16%) CSS
19 113 (11.75%) HTML
20 110 (11.43%) AngularJS
21 107 (11.12%) SQL Server
22 103 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
22 103 (10.71%) SaaS
23 100 (10.40%) Git
23 100 (10.40%) REST
24 95 (9.88%) SQL
25 91 (9.46%) DevOps
26 88 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
26 88 (9.15%) Serverless
27 86 (8.94%) 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 (1.87%) Confluence
2 17 (1.77%) WordPress
3 11 (1.14%) 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
7 2 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Hedera
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
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 284 (29.52%) AWS
2 171 (17.78%) Azure
3 103 (10.71%) SaaS
4 88 (9.15%) Serverless
5 86 (8.94%) GitHub
6 74 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 71 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
8 68 (7.07%) Amazon ECS
9 45 (4.68%) GCP
10 43 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
11 36 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (3.33%) Snowflake
13 31 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (2.81%) GitHub Copilot
15 24 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (2.39%) AWS Step Functions
17 20 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
18 14 (1.46%) Amazon ECR
18 14 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.62%) 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
1 107 (11.12%) SQL Server
2 84 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (5.61%) MongoDB
4 34 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 33 (3.43%) DynamoDB
5 33 (3.43%) Redis
6 31 (3.22%) MySQL
7 21 (2.18%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.04%) Power BI
10 8 (0.83%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.62%) 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
1 100 (10.40%) Git
2 56 (5.82%) Jenkins
3 38 (3.95%) Cypress.io
4 26 (2.70%) GitLab
5 22 (2.29%) Maven
6 21 (2.18%) JUnit
7 19 (1.98%) Claude Code
8 18 (1.87%) JIRA
9 14 (1.46%) Mockito
10 11 (1.14%) Visual Studio
10 11 (1.14%) Vite
11 10 (1.04%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.94%) NUnit
12 9 (0.94%) Storybook
13 8 (0.83%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.62%) Postman
15 5 (0.52%) Selenium
16 4 (0.42%) Eclipse
16 4 (0.42%) Subversion
17 3 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 104 (10.81%) Social Skills
2 77 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 55 (5.72%) Finance
4 15 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (1.46%) Retail
6 13 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (1.35%) Legal
6 13 (1.35%) Marketing
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%) Billing
11 2 (0.21%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (29.94%) React
2 203 (21.10%) Node.js
3 179 (18.61%) .NET
4 117 (12.16%) CSS
5 113 (11.75%) HTML
6 110 (11.43%) AngularJS
7 100 (10.40%) REST
8 79 (8.21%) Vue
9 74 (7.69%) Spring
10 73 (7.59%) RESTful
11 66 (6.86%) Spring Boot
12 58 (6.03%) Next.js
13 49 (5.09%) Jest
14 43 (4.47%) Ruby on Rails
15 39 (4.05%) ASP.NET
16 38 (3.95%) .NET Core
17 37 (3.85%) .NET Framework
18 36 (3.74%) Entity Framework
19 34 (3.53%) Terraform
20 31 (3.22%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.28%) Cloud Native
2 48 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.18%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.66%) 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 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.62%) 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%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.21%) NHS
13 2 (0.21%) Sports Betting
13 2 (0.21%) Web Conferencing
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
1 962 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 198 (20.58%) CI/CD
3 181 (18.81%) Agile
4 164 (17.05%) Microservices
5 152 (15.80%) AI
6 129 (13.41%) Software Engineering
7 103 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (9.46%) DevOps
9 88 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (7.69%) Clean Code
11 62 (6.44%) Computer Science
12 61 (6.34%) Mentoring
13 57 (5.93%) E-Commerce
14 53 (5.51%) Front End Development
14 53 (5.51%) SDLC
15 52 (5.41%) User Experience
16 50 (5.20%) Web Development
17 49 (5.09%) Technical Leadership
18 46 (4.78%) LLM
19 45 (4.68%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 319 (33.16%) JavaScript
2 283 (29.42%) TypeScript
3 165 (17.15%) C#
4 147 (15.28%) Java
5 119 (12.37%) Python
6 95 (9.88%) SQL
7 72 (7.48%) Kotlin
8 49 (5.09%) Ruby
9 47 (4.89%) PHP
10 20 (2.08%) Bash
11 18 (1.87%) Groovy
12 10 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.73%) C++
14 6 (0.62%) Rust
15 5 (0.52%) Go
16 4 (0.42%) Bicep
17 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.21%) Perl
19 1 (0.10%) Apex Code
19 1 (0.10%) C
Qualifications
1 61 (6.34%) Degree
2 56 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 53 (5.51%) Security Cleared
4 41 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 18 (1.87%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (0.73%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.62%) 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 25 (2.60%) 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
1 122 (12.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (7.90%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.94%) HP Fortify
3 6 (0.62%) Grafana
4 4 (0.42%) Ansible
4 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.31%) Kibana
5 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.21%) Argo
Vendors
1 79 (8.21%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.81%) Oracle
3 19 (1.98%) Google
4 16 (1.66%) OpenAI
5 11 (1.14%) OutSystems
5 11 (1.14%) Red Hat
6 9 (0.94%) OneLogin
7 5 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.42%) WooCommerce
9 3 (0.31%) Peregrine
9 3 (0.31%) Splunk
10 2 (0.21%) Databricks
10 2 (0.21%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.10%) Confluent
11 1 (0.10%) Mistral
11 1 (0.10%) NEC
11 1 (0.10%) Plaid
11 1 (0.10%) ServiceNow