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 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 307 196
Rank change year-on-year +83 -111 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,011 431 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 0.88% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.98% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 850 319 620
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £39,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

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 109,377 44,042 71,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 89.72% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,715 25,470 41,572
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £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 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
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 29 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 29 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 +85 899 £60,000 - 257
UK excluding London +104 755 £60,000 +4.35% 162
Work from Home +84 357 £60,000 - 143
North of England +73 219 £65,000 +8.33% 55
South East +42 212 £60,000 +4.35% 29
London -17 211 £67,500 -11.48% 106
Midlands +18 113 £60,000 - 24
Yorkshire +62 110 £72,000 +20.00% 24
South West +2 110 £60,000 - 15
North West +23 81 £60,000 - 29
West Midlands -6 66 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Scotland +47 51 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East Midlands -6 47 £60,000 +20.00% 7
East of England -23 36 £62,500 +51.52% 17
North East -50 28 £46,250 -7.50% 4
Wales -72 14 £62,500 +4.17% 2

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 1,011 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 339 (33.53%) JavaScript
3 308 (30.46%) React
4 301 (29.77%) TypeScript
5 293 (28.98%) AWS
6 216 (21.36%) Node.js
7 195 (19.29%) CI/CD
8 189 (18.69%) Agile
9 183 (18.10%) .NET
10 173 (17.11%) Azure
11 171 (16.91%) C#
11 171 (16.91%) Microservices
12 156 (15.43%) AI
13 154 (15.23%) Java
14 138 (13.65%) Python
15 126 (12.46%) Software Engineering
16 122 (12.07%) Docker
17 120 (11.87%) CSS
18 117 (11.57%) HTML
19 116 (11.47%) AngularJS
20 108 (10.68%) SaaS
21 104 (10.29%) SQL Server
22 103 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
23 102 (10.09%) Git
24 99 (9.79%) SQL
25 95 (9.40%) DevOps
25 95 (9.40%) Serverless
26 94 (9.30%) REST
27 91 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
28 86 (8.51%) PostgreSQL

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 15 (1.48%) Confluence
2 14 (1.38%) WordPress
3 11 (1.09%) CMS
4 7 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.40%) IIS
5 4 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.30%) ColdFusion
6 3 (0.30%) nginx
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.099%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.099%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 293 (28.98%) AWS
2 173 (17.11%) Azure
3 108 (10.68%) SaaS
4 95 (9.40%) Serverless
5 80 (7.91%) Amazon S3
5 80 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (7.81%) GitHub
7 74 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
8 50 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
9 49 (4.85%) GCP
10 39 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (2.67%) Snowflake
13 26 (2.57%) GitHub Copilot
14 25 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (2.47%) AWS Step Functions
15 18 (1.78%) Anthropic Claude
16 17 (1.68%) Amazon ECR
17 16 (1.58%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.69%) Broadband
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
2 4 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.099%) Internet
4 1 (0.099%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 86 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (5.44%) MongoDB
4 39 (3.86%) DynamoDB
5 33 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 31 (3.07%) MySQL
7 30 (2.97%) Redis
8 25 (2.47%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.09%) Power BI
11 8 (0.79%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.40%) GIS
13 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.20%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.099%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.099%) DocumentDB
15 1 (0.099%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 102 (10.09%) Git
2 58 (5.74%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.25%) Cypress.io
4 28 (2.77%) GitLab
5 22 (2.18%) Maven
6 20 (1.98%) JUnit
7 17 (1.68%) Claude Code
8 16 (1.58%) JIRA
9 13 (1.29%) Mockito
10 10 (0.99%) SonarQube
10 10 (0.99%) Vite
11 9 (0.89%) Storybook
11 9 (0.89%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.69%) NUnit
13 6 (0.59%) Postman
13 6 (0.59%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.49%) Selenium
15 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.40%) Subversion
16 3 (0.30%) JMeter
General
1 102 (10.09%) Social Skills
2 75 (7.42%) Public Sector
3 53 (5.24%) Finance
4 15 (1.48%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (1.48%) Retail
5 13 (1.29%) Legal
5 13 (1.29%) Marketing
6 12 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (0.69%) Legal Technology
8 4 (0.40%) Aviation
8 4 (0.40%) Banking
8 4 (0.40%) Games
9 3 (0.30%) Automotive
9 3 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.30%) Law
9 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.30%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.20%) Advertising
10 2 (0.20%) Local Government
10 2 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (30.46%) React
2 216 (21.36%) Node.js
3 183 (18.10%) .NET
4 120 (11.87%) CSS
5 117 (11.57%) HTML
6 116 (11.47%) AngularJS
7 94 (9.30%) REST
8 84 (8.31%) Vue
9 79 (7.81%) Spring
10 75 (7.42%) RESTful
11 71 (7.02%) Spring Boot
12 56 (5.54%) Next.js
13 50 (4.95%) Jest
14 49 (4.85%) Ruby on Rails
15 41 (4.06%) .NET Core
16 39 (3.86%) Terraform
17 38 (3.76%) .NET Framework
18 37 (3.66%) Entity Framework
19 36 (3.56%) ASP.NET
20 31 (3.07%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 76 (7.52%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (1.98%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.48%) Mobile App
6 12 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (0.89%) IoT
9 8 (0.79%) AI Agents
10 7 (0.69%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.30%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.30%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.30%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.20%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.20%) Augmented Reality
13 2 (0.20%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.20%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.20%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.38%) Linux
2 3 (0.30%) AIX
3 1 (0.099%) Windows
3 1 (0.099%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,011 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 195 (19.29%) CI/CD
3 189 (18.69%) Agile
4 171 (16.91%) Microservices
5 156 (15.43%) AI
6 126 (12.46%) Software Engineering
7 103 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (9.40%) DevOps
9 91 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (7.32%) Clean Code
11 63 (6.23%) Web Development
12 62 (6.13%) Mentoring
13 60 (5.93%) Computer Science
14 55 (5.44%) E-Commerce
14 55 (5.44%) SDLC
14 55 (5.44%) User Experience
15 51 (5.04%) Front End Development
16 49 (4.85%) Technical Leadership
17 47 (4.65%) LLM
18 45 (4.45%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 339 (33.53%) JavaScript
2 301 (29.77%) TypeScript
3 171 (16.91%) C#
4 154 (15.23%) Java
5 138 (13.65%) Python
6 99 (9.79%) SQL
7 55 (5.44%) Kotlin
8 53 (5.24%) Ruby
9 48 (4.75%) PHP
10 21 (2.08%) Bash
11 19 (1.88%) Groovy
12 10 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.69%) C++
14 4 (0.40%) Rust
15 3 (0.30%) Go
15 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.20%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) Perl
17 1 (0.099%) C
17 1 (0.099%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (6.43%) Security Cleared
2 61 (6.03%) Degree
3 55 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 53 (5.24%) SC Cleared
5 19 (1.88%) AWS Certification
6 10 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (0.69%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.099%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.18%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.19%) QA
2 12 (1.19%) WCAG
3 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.099%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.099%) GRC
6 1 (0.099%) SLA
System Software
1 122 (12.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 77 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (0.99%) HP Fortify
3 6 (0.59%) Ansible
3 6 (0.59%) Grafana
4 4 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.30%) Kibana
5 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.099%) Podman
Vendors
1 76 (7.52%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.57%) Oracle
3 19 (1.88%) Google
4 16 (1.58%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.89%) OneLogin
5 9 (0.89%) OutSystems
5 9 (0.89%) Red Hat
6 7 (0.69%) Dynatrace
7 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
8 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.30%) Splunk
9 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.099%) Confluent
10 1 (0.099%) Databricks
10 1 (0.099%) Mistral
10 1 (0.099%) NEC
10 1 (0.099%) Pega
10 1 (0.099%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.099%) WSO2