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 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 269 181
Rank change year-on-year +54 -88 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 649 545 1,259
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.96% 1.10% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.21% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 515 330 1,138
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,375 £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 61,342 45,212 71,086
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 91.63% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 38,572 23,464 55,607
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,268
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 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 16 February 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 16 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 +64 596 £65,000 +8.33% 179
UK excluding London +36 398 £60,000 +9.09% 154
Work from Home +38 218 £60,000 - 106
London +60 210 £80,000 +18.52% 42
South East +7 143 £60,000 +4.35% 51
North of England +41 109 £63,750 +27.50% 40
Midlands +20 67 £55,000 -4.35% 30
South West +11 46 £60,000 +9.09% 26
North West +27 45 £67,500 +22.73% 22
Yorkshire -5 38 £75,000 +50.00% 12
West Midlands +19 34 £55,000 -6.38% 22
East Midlands 0 33 £55,000 - 8
North East +15 26 £50,000 +17.65% 6
East of England +6 25 £85,000 +88.89% 5
Wales -10 8 £45,000 -29.69% 1
Scotland -30 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland -20 1 £60,000 -33.33% 2

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 649 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 302 (46.53%) React
3 239 (36.83%) JavaScript
4 198 (30.51%) AWS
5 181 (27.89%) TypeScript
6 160 (24.65%) .NET
7 152 (23.42%) Java
8 151 (23.27%) Agile
9 149 (22.96%) C#
10 130 (20.03%) Python
11 129 (19.88%) Azure
12 128 (19.72%) CI/CD
13 127 (19.57%) Node.js
14 119 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
15 111 (17.10%) AngularJS
15 111 (17.10%) CSS
15 111 (17.10%) HTML
16 106 (16.33%) SQL
17 103 (15.87%) Microservices
18 95 (14.64%) DevOps
19 93 (14.33%) REST
20 91 (14.02%) Docker
21 85 (13.10%) Software Engineering
22 82 (12.63%) Git
22 82 (12.63%) Vue
23 78 (12.02%) AI
24 75 (11.56%) Serverless
25 73 (11.25%) Security Cleared
26 70 (10.79%) PostgreSQL
27 62 (9.55%) 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 11 (1.69%) CMS
2 8 (1.23%) Confluence
2 8 (1.23%) OpenStack
3 6 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.62%) nginx
5 3 (0.46%) ColdFusion
5 3 (0.46%) Drupal
5 3 (0.46%) Liferay
6 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) IIS
7 1 (0.15%) Kentico
7 1 (0.15%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 198 (30.51%) AWS
2 129 (19.88%) Azure
3 75 (11.56%) Serverless
4 44 (6.78%) SaaS
5 42 (6.47%) Amazon S3
6 41 (6.32%) GitHub
7 40 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
9 37 (5.70%) GCP
10 29 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (4.16%) Amazon SQS
12 21 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.85%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (0.92%) Amazon EventBridge
17 5 (0.77%) npm
18 4 (0.62%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.31%) AMQP
1 2 (0.31%) Broadband
1 2 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.15%) Internet
2 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (10.79%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (8.47%) SQL Server
3 45 (6.93%) NoSQL
4 41 (6.32%) Relational Database
5 30 (4.62%) MySQL
6 27 (4.16%) MongoDB
7 17 (2.62%) RDBMS
8 14 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.00%) Redis
10 11 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.54%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.39%) Power BI
13 8 (1.23%) DB2
14 3 (0.46%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.46%) ClickHouse
14 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.31%) Pinecone
15 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 2 (0.31%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 82 (12.63%) Git
2 35 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.08%) Cypress.io
4 18 (2.77%) JUnit
5 17 (2.62%) Mockito
6 16 (2.47%) JIRA
7 12 (1.85%) Maven
7 12 (1.85%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.39%) JMeter
9 7 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.08%) Selenium
10 6 (0.92%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.92%) GitLab
10 6 (0.92%) webpack
11 5 (0.77%) git-flow
12 4 (0.62%) Mocha
13 3 (0.46%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.46%) ESLint
13 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.31%) Storybook
General
1 91 (14.02%) Social Skills
2 66 (10.17%) Finance
3 38 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (5.08%) Banking
5 29 (4.47%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.39%) Aviation
7 21 (3.24%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.31%) Front Office
8 15 (2.31%) Retail
9 14 (2.16%) Games
9 14 (2.16%) Law
10 11 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.69%) Legal
11 10 (1.54%) Marketing
12 8 (1.23%) Tech for Good
13 6 (0.92%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.77%) Electronics
14 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.46%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (46.53%) React
2 160 (24.65%) .NET
3 127 (19.57%) Node.js
4 111 (17.10%) AngularJS
4 111 (17.10%) CSS
4 111 (17.10%) HTML
5 93 (14.33%) REST
6 82 (12.63%) Vue
7 62 (9.55%) Spring
8 53 (8.17%) .NET Core
9 51 (7.86%) RESTful
10 40 (6.16%) Spring Boot
11 36 (5.55%) Laravel
12 32 (4.93%) HTML5
13 31 (4.78%) CSS3
14 30 (4.62%) ASP.NET
14 30 (4.62%) Kafka
15 27 (4.16%) Next.js
16 25 (3.85%) Django
17 24 (3.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (4.01%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 25 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.31%) Mobile App
6 12 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.39%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.23%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.08%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.62%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.62%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.62%) IoT
11 4 (0.62%) Sports Betting
12 3 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.31%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.31%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.31%) Linux
2 8 (1.23%) Android
2 8 (1.23%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.31%) Unix
3 2 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 151 (23.27%) Agile
3 128 (19.72%) CI/CD
4 119 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (15.87%) Microservices
6 95 (14.64%) DevOps
7 85 (13.10%) Software Engineering
8 78 (12.02%) AI
9 62 (9.55%) User Experience
10 50 (7.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (7.55%) API Development
11 49 (7.55%) Clean Code
12 48 (7.40%) Scrum
12 48 (7.40%) SDLC
12 48 (7.40%) TDD
13 45 (6.93%) Web Development
14 40 (6.16%) Front End Development
14 40 (6.16%) Mentoring
15 39 (6.01%) Containerisation
16 35 (5.39%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 239 (36.83%) JavaScript
2 181 (27.89%) TypeScript
3 152 (23.42%) Java
4 149 (22.96%) C#
5 130 (20.03%) Python
6 106 (16.33%) SQL
7 45 (6.93%) PHP
8 16 (2.47%) C
9 13 (2.00%) Ruby
10 12 (1.85%) Go
10 12 (1.85%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.39%) Bash
13 7 (1.08%) C++
14 6 (0.92%) R
15 4 (0.62%) XAML
16 3 (0.46%) COBOL
16 3 (0.46%) Groovy
16 3 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.31%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 73 (11.25%) Security Cleared
2 42 (6.47%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.24%) Degree
4 28 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.62%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.08%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.54%) QA
3 8 (1.23%) WCAG
4 2 (0.31%) GDPR
5 1 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 91 (14.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.08%) Terraform
3 10 (1.54%) Kibana
4 8 (1.23%) Ansible
5 4 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.46%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.31%) Argo
7 2 (0.31%) Grafana
7 2 (0.31%) Nagios
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (3.54%) Oracle
2 16 (2.47%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.54%) Dynatrace
4 9 (1.39%) Splunk
5 8 (1.23%) Google
6 7 (1.08%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.62%) Telerik
8 3 (0.46%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.46%) Pega
8 3 (0.46%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.46%) WSO2
8 3 (0.46%) Zoho
9 2 (0.31%) Foundry
9 2 (0.31%) IBM
9 2 (0.31%) iManage
9 2 (0.31%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe
10 1 (0.15%) Databricks
10 1 (0.15%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow