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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 296 171
Rank change year-on-year +96 -125 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,050 494 1,313
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 0.99% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.10% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 914 368 928
10th Percentile £43,250 £42,125 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,938 £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 £95,000 £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 99,901 44,909 79,263
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.92% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 68,253 26,546 52,909
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +84 929 £60,000 - 120
UK excluding London +109 803 £60,000 +4.35% 98
Work from Home +82 384 £60,000 - 75
North of England +112 248 £65,000 +8.33% 20
South East +81 227 £60,000 +4.35% 25
London -49 189 £75,000 - 37
Midlands +25 121 £60,000 +2.13% 14
North West +72 112 £65,000 +10.64% 9
Yorkshire +60 104 £75,000 +25.00% 11
South West +11 102 £57,500 -4.17% 22
West Midlands +11 75 £70,000 +16.67% 9
Scotland +41 46 £55,000 -8.33% 10
East Midlands +1 46 £60,000 +26.32% 5
East of England -12 45 £60,000 +33.33% 7
North East -28 32 £47,500 -40.63%
Wales -63 13 £70,000 +16.67%
Northern Ireland -72 1 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 13 August 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 1,050 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 354 (33.71%) JavaScript
3 331 (31.52%) React
4 314 (29.90%) TypeScript
5 310 (29.52%) AWS
6 235 (22.38%) Node.js
7 196 (18.67%) Agile
7 196 (18.67%) CI/CD
8 195 (18.57%) .NET
9 183 (17.43%) C#
10 173 (16.48%) Python
11 172 (16.38%) Azure
12 167 (15.90%) Microservices
13 163 (15.52%) Java
14 155 (14.76%) AI
15 144 (13.71%) Software Engineering
16 130 (12.38%) CSS
17 129 (12.29%) AngularJS
18 125 (11.90%) HTML
19 114 (10.86%) SQL
19 114 (10.86%) Vue
20 113 (10.76%) DevOps
21 110 (10.48%) Docker
22 105 (10.00%) Git
22 105 (10.00%) SaaS
22 105 (10.00%) Serverless
23 99 (9.43%) SQL Server
24 95 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
25 94 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
26 93 (8.86%) Web Development

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 12 (1.14%) Confluence
2 11 (1.05%) CMS
2 11 (1.05%) WordPress
3 7 (0.67%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.38%) IIS
5 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.095%) Apache
7 1 (0.095%) CICS
7 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.095%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Elementor
3 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.095%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 310 (29.52%) AWS
2 172 (16.38%) Azure
3 105 (10.00%) SaaS
3 105 (10.00%) Serverless
4 88 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
5 81 (7.71%) Amazon S3
6 76 (7.24%) Amazon ECS
6 76 (7.24%) GitHub
7 53 (5.05%) GCP
8 50 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
9 39 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (2.57%) AWS Step Functions
10 27 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
13 20 (1.90%) Snowflake
14 18 (1.71%) Amazon ECR
15 17 (1.62%) Apigee
16 16 (1.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.76%) Broadband
2 4 (0.38%) DNS
2 4 (0.38%) HTTP
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.095%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 88 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (4.86%) MongoDB
4 42 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 36 (3.43%) MySQL
6 32 (3.05%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 23 (2.19%) Redis
9 17 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.05%) Power BI
11 8 (0.76%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.38%) GIS
12 4 (0.38%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
15 1 (0.095%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.095%) DocumentDB
15 1 (0.095%) Hazelcast
15 1 (0.095%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 105 (10.00%) Git
2 54 (5.14%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 27 (2.57%) GitLab
5 21 (2.00%) Maven
6 20 (1.90%) JIRA
6 20 (1.90%) JUnit
7 14 (1.33%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.14%) Mockito
9 9 (0.86%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.57%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.57%) Postman
11 5 (0.48%) Selenium
11 5 (0.48%) Storybook
11 5 (0.48%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.38%) NUnit
12 4 (0.38%) Subversion
12 4 (0.38%) Vite
13 3 (0.29%) webpack
14 2 (0.19%) CircleCI
General
1 102 (9.71%) Social Skills
2 66 (6.29%) Finance
3 48 (4.57%) Public Sector
4 25 (2.38%) Retail
5 15 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.24%) Legal
6 13 (1.24%) Marketing
7 12 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (0.86%) Legal Technology
9 8 (0.76%) Front Office
10 7 (0.67%) Banking
10 7 (0.67%) Games
11 6 (0.57%) Advertising
11 6 (0.57%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.48%) Law
12 5 (0.48%) Local Government
13 4 (0.38%) Aviation
13 4 (0.38%) Publishing
14 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (31.52%) React
2 235 (22.38%) Node.js
3 195 (18.57%) .NET
4 130 (12.38%) CSS
5 129 (12.29%) AngularJS
6 125 (11.90%) HTML
7 114 (10.86%) Vue
8 86 (8.19%) REST
9 75 (7.14%) RESTful
10 74 (7.05%) Spring
11 66 (6.29%) Spring Boot
12 57 (5.43%) Next.js
13 51 (4.86%) Jest
14 49 (4.67%) Ruby on Rails
15 43 (4.10%) .NET Core
16 40 (3.81%) ASP.NET
17 39 (3.71%) .NET Framework
17 39 (3.71%) Entity Framework
18 35 (3.33%) GraphQL
19 34 (3.24%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 81 (7.71%) Cloud Native
2 46 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (1.81%) Mobile App
3 19 (1.81%) Product Ownership
4 15 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (0.76%) IoT
7 7 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (0.67%) Fixed Income
7 7 (0.67%) Virtual Team
8 6 (0.57%) AI Agents
8 6 (0.57%) NHS
8 6 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (0.48%) Sports Betting
10 4 (0.38%) Augmented Reality
10 4 (0.38%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.38%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.38%) PropTech
11 3 (0.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.43%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.095%) Windows
3 1 (0.095%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,050 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 196 (18.67%) Agile
2 196 (18.67%) CI/CD
3 167 (15.90%) Microservices
4 155 (14.76%) AI
5 144 (13.71%) Software Engineering
6 113 (10.76%) DevOps
7 95 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (8.86%) Web Development
10 74 (7.05%) Clean Code
11 66 (6.29%) Mentoring
12 58 (5.52%) Computer Science
13 57 (5.43%) E-Commerce
13 57 (5.43%) Front End Development
14 54 (5.14%) User Experience
15 49 (4.67%) SDLC
16 48 (4.57%) Technical Leadership
17 42 (4.00%) Containerisation
17 42 (4.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 354 (33.71%) JavaScript
2 314 (29.90%) TypeScript
3 183 (17.43%) C#
4 173 (16.48%) Python
5 163 (15.52%) Java
6 114 (10.86%) SQL
7 53 (5.05%) PHP
8 51 (4.86%) Ruby
9 22 (2.10%) Kotlin
10 20 (1.90%) Bash
11 18 (1.71%) Groovy
12 12 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.95%) Go
14 8 (0.76%) C++
15 2 (0.19%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.19%) C
15 2 (0.19%) Perl
15 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.095%) Bicep
16 1 (0.095%) R
Qualifications
1 73 (6.95%) Security Cleared
2 64 (6.10%) SC Cleared
3 60 (5.71%) Degree
4 53 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.90%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.48%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.095%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 10 (0.95%) WCAG
3 9 (0.86%) QA
4 3 (0.29%) GDPR
5 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.095%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.095%) HL7
6 1 (0.095%) SLA
6 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 110 (10.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (6.48%) Kubernetes
2 43 (4.10%) Terraform
3 9 (0.86%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.57%) Ansible
5 5 (0.48%) Grafana
6 4 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.19%) Argo
7 2 (0.19%) Kibana
7 2 (0.19%) Podman
8 1 (0.095%) Nagios
Vendors
1 65 (6.19%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.90%) Oracle
3 17 (1.62%) Google
4 16 (1.52%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.86%) OneLogin
6 5 (0.48%) Dynatrace
6 5 (0.48%) Peregrine
7 4 (0.38%) Pega
7 4 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.19%) Aderant
8 2 (0.19%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.19%) iManage
8 2 (0.19%) Intapp
8 2 (0.19%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.19%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.19%) Splunk
8 2 (0.19%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.19%) WSO2
9 1 (0.095%) Adobe
9 1 (0.095%) Confluent