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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 305 188
Rank change year-on-year +94 -117 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,025 444 1,123
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 0.90% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.00% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 888 325 703
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
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 £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 106,119 44,341 74,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.67% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,014 26,036 45,320
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 September 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 September 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 +100 908 £60,000 - 298
UK excluding London +104 785 £60,000 +4.35% 170
Work from Home +79 363 £60,000 - 149
North of England +93 229 £65,000 +8.33% 49
South East +61 226 £60,000 +4.35% 27
London -32 191 £70,000 -9.68% 167
Midlands +23 116 £60,000 +2.13% 22
Yorkshire +61 112 £75,000 +25.00% 13
South West 0 108 £60,000 - 23
North West +41 88 £63,750 +6.25% 28
West Midlands +4 67 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Scotland +40 51 £60,000 - 15
East Midlands +2 49 £60,000 +26.32% 5
East of England -14 41 £65,000 +52.94% 19
North East -38 29 £47,500 -13.64% 9
Wales -73 14 £62,500 +4.17% 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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 1,025 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 354 (34.54%) JavaScript
3 308 (30.05%) React
3 308 (30.05%) TypeScript
4 296 (28.88%) AWS
5 221 (21.56%) Node.js
6 190 (18.54%) CI/CD
7 189 (18.44%) Agile
8 187 (18.24%) .NET
9 176 (17.17%) C#
10 168 (16.39%) Azure
11 163 (15.90%) Microservices
12 153 (14.93%) Java
12 153 (14.93%) Python
13 147 (14.34%) AI
14 129 (12.59%) CSS
15 124 (12.10%) HTML
16 119 (11.61%) AngularJS
16 119 (11.61%) Software Engineering
17 111 (10.83%) Docker
18 110 (10.73%) SaaS
19 105 (10.24%) SQL
20 100 (9.76%) Serverless
21 99 (9.66%) SQL Server
22 98 (9.56%) DevOps
22 98 (9.56%) Problem-Solving
23 97 (9.46%) Git
23 97 (9.46%) Vue
24 94 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
25 85 (8.29%) AWS Lambda

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 14 (1.37%) WordPress
2 12 (1.17%) Confluence
3 11 (1.07%) CMS
4 7 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.49%) ColdFusion
6 4 (0.39%) IIS
7 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.098%) Apache
8 1 (0.098%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.098%) nginx
8 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.098%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 296 (28.88%) AWS
2 168 (16.39%) Azure
3 110 (10.73%) SaaS
4 100 (9.76%) Serverless
5 85 (8.29%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (7.90%) Amazon S3
7 78 (7.61%) GitHub
8 75 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (5.07%) Amazon SQS
10 47 (4.59%) GCP
11 39 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
13 28 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
14 27 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (2.44%) Snowflake
16 24 (2.34%) GitHub Copilot
17 19 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
18 18 (1.76%) Apigee
19 17 (1.66%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.78%) Broadband
2 4 (0.39%) DNS
2 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.098%) Internet
4 1 (0.098%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 85 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (5.27%) MongoDB
4 44 (4.29%) DynamoDB
5 32 (3.12%) MySQL
6 30 (2.93%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.44%) Redis
7 25 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.07%) Power BI
10 8 (0.78%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.39%) GIS
12 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.29%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.098%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.098%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 97 (9.46%) Git
2 54 (5.27%) Jenkins
3 45 (4.39%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.83%) GitLab
5 23 (2.24%) Maven
6 20 (1.95%) JUnit
7 17 (1.66%) JIRA
8 14 (1.37%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.27%) Mockito
10 11 (1.07%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.78%) Storybook
11 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.59%) Postman
12 6 (0.59%) Vite
13 5 (0.49%) NUnit
13 5 (0.49%) Selenium
13 5 (0.49%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.39%) Subversion
15 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 99 (9.66%) Social Skills
2 68 (6.63%) Public Sector
3 52 (5.07%) Finance
4 17 (1.66%) Retail
5 13 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (1.27%) Marketing
6 12 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.07%) Legal
8 7 (0.68%) Legal Technology
9 5 (0.49%) Advertising
9 5 (0.49%) Banking
10 4 (0.39%) Aviation
10 4 (0.39%) Games
10 4 (0.39%) Local Government
11 3 (0.29%) Automotive
11 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Law
11 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (30.05%) React
2 221 (21.56%) Node.js
3 187 (18.24%) .NET
4 129 (12.59%) CSS
5 124 (12.10%) HTML
6 119 (11.61%) AngularJS
7 97 (9.46%) Vue
8 85 (8.29%) REST
9 73 (7.12%) Spring
10 70 (6.83%) RESTful
11 66 (6.44%) Spring Boot
12 53 (5.17%) Jest
12 53 (5.17%) Next.js
12 53 (5.17%) Ruby on Rails
13 43 (4.20%) .NET Core
14 41 (4.00%) Terraform
15 39 (3.80%) .NET Framework
15 39 (3.80%) ASP.NET
16 37 (3.61%) Entity Framework
17 33 (3.22%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 79 (7.71%) Cloud Native
2 50 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (1.95%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (1.76%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (0.88%) IoT
8 8 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.68%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.68%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.39%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.39%) NHS
11 4 (0.39%) Sports Betting
12 3 (0.29%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.29%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.29%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.29%) PKI
12 3 (0.29%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.37%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.098%) Windows
3 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,025 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 190 (18.54%) CI/CD
3 189 (18.44%) Agile
4 163 (15.90%) Microservices
5 147 (14.34%) AI
6 119 (11.61%) Software Engineering
7 98 (9.56%) DevOps
7 98 (9.56%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (7.41%) Web Development
10 74 (7.22%) Clean Code
11 65 (6.34%) Mentoring
12 56 (5.46%) Computer Science
12 56 (5.46%) User Experience
13 55 (5.37%) E-Commerce
14 53 (5.17%) SDLC
15 50 (4.88%) Front End Development
16 49 (4.78%) Technical Leadership
17 47 (4.59%) Test Automation
18 43 (4.20%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 354 (34.54%) JavaScript
2 308 (30.05%) TypeScript
3 176 (17.17%) C#
4 153 (14.93%) Java
4 153 (14.93%) Python
5 105 (10.24%) SQL
6 55 (5.37%) Ruby
7 50 (4.88%) PHP
8 41 (4.00%) Kotlin
9 22 (2.15%) Bash
10 20 (1.95%) Groovy
11 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.68%) C++
13 3 (0.29%) Go
13 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.20%) Perl
15 1 (0.098%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.098%) Bicep
15 1 (0.098%) C
15 1 (0.098%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (6.73%) Security Cleared
2 58 (5.66%) Degree
2 58 (5.66%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (2.05%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.098%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.05%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.17%) QA
3 11 (1.07%) WCAG
4 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.098%) GRC
6 1 (0.098%) SLA
System Software
1 111 (10.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.07%) HP Fortify
3 5 (0.49%) Ansible
3 5 (0.49%) Grafana
4 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Kibana
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Argo
6 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 67 (6.54%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.34%) Oracle
3 18 (1.76%) Google
4 15 (1.46%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.88%) OneLogin
6 7 (0.68%) OutSystems
6 7 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.59%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
9 3 (0.29%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.29%) Splunk
10 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.098%) Confluent
11 1 (0.098%) Mistral
11 1 (0.098%) Pega
11 1 (0.098%) WSO2