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 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 277 180
Rank change year-on-year +40 -97 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 569 568 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.08% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.17% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 437 337 1,044
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,269 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -2.89% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 56,939 48,731 63,682
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 92.28% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 35,361 25,094 49,715
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,663 £29,452
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -5.66%

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 25 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 25 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 +47 521 £65,000 +8.33% 160
UK excluding London +23 344 £60,000 +9.09% 130
London +49 189 £80,000 +18.52% 53
Work from Home +16 174 £60,000 - 97
South East +4 131 £60,000 +6.67% 53
North of England +42 92 £60,000 +26.32% 30
Midlands +14 57 £55,000 -2.22% 24
South West -1 37 £60,000 +9.09% 13
North West +18 36 £65,000 +36.84% 23
Yorkshire 0 32 £75,000 +42.86% 5
East Midlands +6 30 £55,000 - 12
West Midlands +19 27 £60,000 +4.35% 12
North East +18 24 £50,000 +17.65% 2
East of England 0 20 £60,000 +33.33% 8
Wales -2 7 £45,000 -29.69% 3
Scotland -27 3 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 569 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 277 (48.68%) React
3 217 (38.14%) JavaScript
4 185 (32.51%) AWS
5 161 (28.30%) TypeScript
6 150 (26.36%) .NET
7 142 (24.96%) C#
8 140 (24.60%) Agile
9 137 (24.08%) Java
10 127 (22.32%) Azure
11 121 (21.27%) CI/CD
12 112 (19.68%) Python
13 111 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
14 109 (19.16%) Node.js
15 105 (18.45%) SQL
16 103 (18.10%) AngularJS
16 103 (18.10%) CSS
17 102 (17.93%) HTML
18 98 (17.22%) Microservices
19 94 (16.52%) DevOps
20 91 (15.99%) REST
21 81 (14.24%) Docker
22 73 (12.83%) AI
22 73 (12.83%) Git
23 70 (12.30%) Software Engineering
23 70 (12.30%) Vue
24 68 (11.95%) Security Cleared
24 68 (11.95%) Serverless
25 65 (11.42%) PostgreSQL
26 63 (11.07%) 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 (1.41%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.23%) CMS
2 7 (1.23%) Confluence
3 6 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.53%) Liferay
4 3 (0.53%) nginx
5 2 (0.35%) ColdFusion
5 2 (0.35%) Drupal
5 2 (0.35%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) Kentico
6 1 (0.18%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.18%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (32.51%) AWS
2 127 (22.32%) Azure
3 68 (11.95%) Serverless
4 41 (7.21%) GitHub
5 40 (7.03%) SaaS
6 36 (6.33%) Amazon S3
6 36 (6.33%) GCP
7 35 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
8 34 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.58%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (1.05%) Amazon EventBridge
16 5 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
16 5 (0.88%) npm
17 4 (0.70%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.35%) AMQP
1 2 (0.35%) Broadband
1 2 (0.35%) HTTP
2 1 (0.18%) Internet
2 1 (0.18%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (11.42%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (9.84%) SQL Server
3 42 (7.38%) NoSQL
4 39 (6.85%) Relational Database
5 26 (4.57%) MySQL
6 21 (3.69%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.51%) RDBMS
8 15 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.28%) Redis
10 9 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.41%) DB2
12 7 (1.23%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.23%) Power BI
13 3 (0.53%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.35%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.35%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 73 (12.83%) Git
2 34 (5.98%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.34%) JUnit
4 18 (3.16%) Mockito
5 17 (2.99%) Cypress.io
6 14 (2.46%) JIRA
7 12 (2.11%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.76%) JMeter
9 9 (1.58%) Maven
10 7 (1.23%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.23%) Selenium
11 6 (1.05%) webpack
12 5 (0.88%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.88%) git-flow
13 4 (0.70%) GitLab
13 4 (0.70%) Mocha
13 4 (0.70%) Storybook
14 3 (0.53%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.53%) ESLint
14 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (16.70%) Social Skills
2 60 (10.54%) Finance
3 33 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.10%) Banking
6 21 (3.69%) Investment Banking
7 16 (2.81%) Aviation
8 14 (2.46%) Law
9 13 (2.28%) Retail
10 12 (2.11%) Games
10 12 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.93%) Front Office
11 11 (1.93%) Legal
12 9 (1.58%) Marketing
13 6 (1.05%) Health Technology
13 6 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.88%) Electronics
14 5 (0.88%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (48.68%) React
2 150 (26.36%) .NET
3 109 (19.16%) Node.js
4 103 (18.10%) AngularJS
4 103 (18.10%) CSS
5 102 (17.93%) HTML
6 91 (15.99%) REST
7 70 (12.30%) Vue
8 63 (11.07%) Spring
9 54 (9.49%) RESTful
10 49 (8.61%) .NET Core
11 37 (6.50%) Spring Boot
12 36 (6.33%) ASP.NET
13 31 (5.45%) HTML5
14 30 (5.27%) CSS3
14 30 (5.27%) Laravel
15 28 (4.92%) .NET Framework
16 27 (4.75%) Kafka
17 24 (4.22%) ASP.NET Core
18 23 (4.04%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
2 23 (4.04%) Product Ownership
3 22 (3.87%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.99%) Mobile App
5 14 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.76%) Hedge funds
6 10 (1.76%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (0.70%) AI Agents
8 4 (0.70%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.53%) IoT
9 3 (0.53%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.35%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.35%) Social Media
10 2 (0.35%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.76%) Android
1 10 (1.76%) Apple iOS
1 10 (1.76%) Linux
2 2 (0.35%) Unix
2 2 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 140 (24.60%) Agile
3 121 (21.27%) CI/CD
4 111 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
5 98 (17.22%) Microservices
6 94 (16.52%) DevOps
7 73 (12.83%) AI
8 70 (12.30%) Software Engineering
9 62 (10.90%) User Experience
10 47 (8.26%) Clean Code
10 47 (8.26%) Scrum
11 46 (8.08%) SDLC
11 46 (8.08%) TDD
12 42 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (7.21%) Web Development
14 39 (6.85%) Front End Development
15 38 (6.68%) API Development
16 34 (5.98%) Computer Science
17 33 (5.80%) Containerisation
17 33 (5.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 217 (38.14%) JavaScript
2 161 (28.30%) TypeScript
3 142 (24.96%) C#
4 137 (24.08%) Java
5 112 (19.68%) Python
6 105 (18.45%) SQL
7 39 (6.85%) PHP
8 16 (2.81%) C
9 12 (2.11%) Ruby
9 12 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.76%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.58%) Go
12 8 (1.41%) C++
13 7 (1.23%) Bash
14 6 (1.05%) R
15 4 (0.70%) XAML
16 3 (0.53%) COBOL
17 2 (0.35%) RPG
17 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 68 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 35 (6.15%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.62%) Degree
4 28 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.80%) Accessibility
2 23 (4.04%) QA
3 8 (1.41%) WCAG
4 4 (0.70%) GDPR
5 1 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 81 (14.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (10.02%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.51%) Terraform
3 10 (1.76%) Kibana
4 8 (1.41%) Ansible
5 3 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 2 (0.35%) Nagios
7 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 21 (3.69%) Oracle
2 13 (2.28%) Microsoft
3 11 (1.93%) Dynatrace
4 10 (1.76%) Splunk
5 8 (1.41%) Google
6 7 (1.23%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.70%) Telerik
8 3 (0.53%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.53%) Pega
8 3 (0.53%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.53%) WSO2
8 3 (0.53%) Zoho
9 2 (0.35%) Foundry
9 2 (0.35%) IBM
9 2 (0.35%) iManage
9 2 (0.35%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.35%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.18%) Adobe
10 1 (0.18%) IONA
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat