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 20 January 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 279 184
Rank change year-on-year +34 -95 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 544 566 1,031
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.07% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.16% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 414 335 936
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,750 £100,000
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 55,541 49,002 57,717
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 92.63% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 34,360 25,280 44,689
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,272 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.04%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 +48 497 £65,000 +13.04% 188
UK excluding London +19 325 £60,000 +9.09% 167
London +59 183 £80,000 +18.52% 49
Work from Home +17 162 £60,000 +2.13% 101
South East +3 125 £60,000 +9.09% 65
North of England +36 84 £58,000 +22.11% 38
Midlands +25 51 £55,000 -6.38% 31
South West +14 38 £60,000 +9.09% 12
North West +18 30 £65,000 +36.84% 20
Yorkshire +5 30 £75,000 +42.86% 12
East Midlands -2 26 £55,000 -5.58% 20
West Midlands +21 25 £60,000 +2.13% 11
North East +24 24 £50,000 +17.65% 6
East of England +6 20 £60,000 +33.33% 13
Wales -4 7 £45,000 -29.69% 6
Scotland -16 3 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 20 January 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.

1 544 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 270 (49.63%) React
3 211 (38.79%) JavaScript
4 185 (34.01%) AWS
5 159 (29.23%) TypeScript
6 148 (27.21%) .NET
7 144 (26.47%) Agile
8 140 (25.74%) C#
9 134 (24.63%) Java
10 128 (23.53%) Azure
11 124 (22.79%) CI/CD
12 108 (19.85%) Python
13 107 (19.67%) AngularJS
13 107 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (19.49%) Node.js
14 106 (19.49%) SQL
15 102 (18.75%) CSS
15 102 (18.75%) HTML
16 97 (17.83%) Microservices
17 95 (17.46%) DevOps
18 92 (16.91%) REST
19 82 (15.07%) Docker
20 72 (13.24%) AI
20 72 (13.24%) Git
21 69 (12.68%) Vue
22 68 (12.50%) Serverless
22 68 (12.50%) Software Engineering
23 66 (12.13%) Security Cleared
24 65 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
25 64 (11.76%) Spring

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 8 (1.47%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.29%) Confluence
3 6 (1.10%) CMS
3 6 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.55%) Liferay
4 3 (0.55%) nginx
5 2 (0.37%) ColdFusion
5 2 (0.37%) Drupal
5 2 (0.37%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) Kentico
6 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.37%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (34.01%) AWS
2 128 (23.53%) Azure
3 68 (12.50%) Serverless
4 43 (7.90%) GitHub
5 39 (7.17%) SaaS
6 36 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (6.62%) GCP
7 34 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 33 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
9 32 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.47%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.29%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (1.10%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (0.92%) npm
16 4 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) AMQP
1 2 (0.37%) Broadband
1 2 (0.37%) HTTP
2 1 (0.18%) Internet
2 1 (0.18%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (10.48%) SQL Server
3 43 (7.90%) NoSQL
4 39 (7.17%) Relational Database
5 26 (4.78%) MySQL
6 21 (3.86%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.86%) RDBMS
7 15 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (2.39%) Redis
9 9 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.47%) DB2
11 7 (1.29%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.10%) Power BI
13 3 (0.55%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.37%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 72 (13.24%) Git
2 35 (6.43%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.68%) JUnit
4 19 (3.49%) Mockito
5 16 (2.94%) Cypress.io
6 14 (2.57%) JIRA
7 12 (2.21%) TeamCity
8 11 (2.02%) JMeter
9 9 (1.65%) Maven
10 7 (1.29%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.29%) Selenium
11 6 (1.10%) webpack
12 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.92%) git-flow
13 4 (0.74%) GitLab
13 4 (0.74%) Mocha
13 4 (0.74%) Storybook
14 3 (0.55%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.55%) ESLint
14 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (17.46%) Social Skills
2 59 (10.85%) Finance
3 32 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 29 (5.33%) Banking
5 21 (3.86%) Investment Banking
6 14 (2.57%) Aviation
6 14 (2.57%) Law
7 13 (2.39%) Retail
8 12 (2.21%) Games
8 12 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.02%) Front Office
9 11 (2.02%) Legal
10 9 (1.65%) Marketing
11 7 (1.29%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.92%) Electronics
13 5 (0.92%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (49.63%) React
2 148 (27.21%) .NET
3 107 (19.67%) AngularJS
4 106 (19.49%) Node.js
5 102 (18.75%) CSS
5 102 (18.75%) HTML
6 92 (16.91%) REST
7 69 (12.68%) Vue
8 64 (11.76%) Spring
9 56 (10.29%) RESTful
10 49 (9.01%) .NET Core
11 38 (6.99%) Spring Boot
12 37 (6.80%) ASP.NET
13 30 (5.51%) HTML5
14 29 (5.33%) .NET Framework
14 29 (5.33%) CSS3
15 27 (4.96%) Kafka
16 26 (4.78%) Laravel
17 24 (4.41%) ASP.NET Core
18 23 (4.23%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 14 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.84%) Hedge funds
7 10 (1.84%) Reference Data
8 8 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.74%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.74%) Client/Server
9 4 (0.74%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.37%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.37%) IoT
11 2 (0.37%) Social Media
11 2 (0.37%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.84%) Android
1 10 (1.84%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.65%) Linux
3 2 (0.37%) Unix
3 2 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 144 (26.47%) Agile
3 124 (22.79%) CI/CD
4 107 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
5 97 (17.83%) Microservices
6 95 (17.46%) DevOps
7 72 (13.24%) AI
8 68 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 63 (11.58%) User Experience
10 47 (8.64%) Clean Code
10 47 (8.64%) Scrum
10 47 (8.64%) SDLC
10 47 (8.64%) TDD
11 40 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (7.35%) Front End Development
11 40 (7.35%) Web Development
12 36 (6.62%) API Development
13 35 (6.43%) Containerisation
14 33 (6.07%) Computer Science
14 33 (6.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 211 (38.79%) JavaScript
2 159 (29.23%) TypeScript
3 140 (25.74%) C#
4 134 (24.63%) Java
5 108 (19.85%) Python
6 106 (19.49%) SQL
7 34 (6.25%) PHP
8 15 (2.76%) C
9 13 (2.39%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.02%) Ruby
11 10 (1.84%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.65%) Go
13 7 (1.29%) Bash
13 7 (1.29%) C++
14 6 (1.10%) R
15 4 (0.74%) XAML
16 3 (0.55%) COBOL
16 3 (0.55%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.37%) RPG
17 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (12.13%) Security Cleared
2 32 (5.88%) Degree
2 32 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 27 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.86%) DV Cleared
5 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.07%) Accessibility
2 24 (4.41%) QA
3 8 (1.47%) WCAG
4 4 (0.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 82 (15.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.86%) Terraform
3 11 (2.02%) Kibana
4 8 (1.47%) Ansible
5 2 (0.37%) Argo
5 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (3.86%) Oracle
2 13 (2.39%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.21%) Dynatrace
4 11 (2.02%) Splunk
5 8 (1.47%) Google
6 7 (1.29%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.74%) Telerik
8 3 (0.55%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.55%) Pega
8 3 (0.55%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.55%) WSO2
8 3 (0.55%) Zoho
9 2 (0.37%) Foundry
9 2 (0.37%) IBM
9 2 (0.37%) iManage
9 2 (0.37%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.37%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.18%) Adobe
10 1 (0.18%) IONA
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat