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 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 270 189
Rank change year-on-year +27 -81 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 530 572 966
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.07% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.15% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 397 343 878
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,750
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 £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 53,744 49,685 53,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 92.91% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 33,208 25,763 41,197
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 12 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 12 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 +47 488 £65,000 +13.04% 274
UK excluding London +10 318 £60,000 +9.09% 244
London +53 180 £80,000 +16.36% 62
Work from Home +4 156 £60,000 +2.13% 155
South East +7 128 £60,000 +9.09% 78
North of England +35 78 £56,000 +17.89% 55
Midlands +15 48 £55,000 -8.33% 32
South West +13 37 £60,000 +9.09% 28
Yorkshire +7 29 £75,000 +42.86% 21
North West +27 27 £65,000 +36.84% 22
West Midlands +15 25 £60,000 - 8
East Midlands -4 23 £55,000 -5.58% 23
North East +18 22 £50,000 +17.65% 12
East of England +5 21 £60,000 +33.33% 32
Wales -9 7 £45,000 -40.00% 11
Scotland -14 2 - - 8

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 530 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 275 (51.89%) React
3 211 (39.81%) JavaScript
4 186 (35.09%) AWS
5 154 (29.06%) TypeScript
6 148 (27.92%) Agile
7 147 (27.74%) .NET
8 139 (26.23%) C#
9 134 (25.28%) Azure
10 130 (24.53%) Java
11 126 (23.77%) CI/CD
12 111 (20.94%) Node.js
13 110 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
14 108 (20.38%) Python
15 107 (20.19%) CSS
15 107 (20.19%) HTML
15 107 (20.19%) SQL
16 106 (20.00%) AngularJS
17 99 (18.68%) DevOps
18 95 (17.92%) Microservices
19 92 (17.36%) REST
20 82 (15.47%) Docker
21 79 (14.91%) Git
22 72 (13.58%) AI
22 72 (13.58%) User Experience
22 72 (13.58%) Vue
23 66 (12.45%) Software Engineering
24 65 (12.26%) RESTful
25 64 (12.08%) Security Cleared
26 63 (11.89%) 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 8 (1.51%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.32%) Confluence
3 6 (1.13%) CMS
3 6 (1.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.57%) Liferay
4 3 (0.57%) nginx
5 2 (0.38%) ColdFusion
5 2 (0.38%) Drupal
5 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.19%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Kentico
6 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.38%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 186 (35.09%) AWS
2 134 (25.28%) Azure
3 62 (11.70%) Serverless
4 42 (7.92%) GitHub
5 40 (7.55%) GCP
6 35 (6.60%) SaaS
7 34 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
8 33 (6.23%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (5.66%) Amazon S3
10 28 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.51%) Power Platform
15 7 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (1.13%) Amazon EventBridge
16 6 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
17 5 (0.94%) npm
18 4 (0.75%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.38%) AMQP
1 2 (0.38%) Broadband
1 2 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.19%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (11.13%) SQL Server
3 47 (8.87%) NoSQL
4 41 (7.74%) Relational Database
5 25 (4.72%) MySQL
6 21 (3.96%) RDBMS
7 20 (3.77%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.45%) Redis
10 9 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.51%) DB2
12 7 (1.32%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.13%) Power BI
14 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.38%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 79 (14.91%) Git
2 34 (6.42%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.77%) JUnit
4 19 (3.58%) Mockito
5 14 (2.64%) Cypress.io
5 14 (2.64%) JIRA
6 12 (2.26%) TeamCity
7 11 (2.08%) JMeter
8 8 (1.51%) Maven
9 7 (1.32%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.32%) Selenium
10 6 (1.13%) webpack
11 5 (0.94%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.94%) git-flow
12 4 (0.75%) Mocha
12 4 (0.75%) Storybook
13 3 (0.57%) ESLint
13 3 (0.57%) GitLab
13 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.38%) CircleCI
General
1 103 (19.43%) Social Skills
2 58 (10.94%) Finance
3 33 (6.23%) Public Sector
4 31 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.09%) Banking
6 20 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.58%) Law
8 15 (2.83%) Aviation
8 15 (2.83%) Marketing
9 13 (2.45%) Retail
10 12 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.08%) Front Office
11 11 (2.08%) Games
11 11 (2.08%) Legal
12 8 (1.51%) Health Technology
13 6 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.94%) Electronics
15 3 (0.57%) Local Government
15 3 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (51.89%) React
2 147 (27.74%) .NET
3 111 (20.94%) Node.js
4 107 (20.19%) CSS
4 107 (20.19%) HTML
5 106 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 92 (17.36%) REST
7 72 (13.58%) Vue
8 65 (12.26%) RESTful
9 62 (11.70%) Spring
10 46 (8.68%) .NET Core
11 38 (7.17%) ASP.NET
12 35 (6.60%) Spring Boot
13 30 (5.66%) .NET Framework
13 30 (5.66%) HTML5
14 29 (5.47%) CSS3
15 27 (5.09%) Kafka
16 25 (4.72%) Next.js
17 24 (4.53%) ASP.NET Core
18 23 (4.34%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (4.34%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.40%) Mobile App
5 14 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.89%) Hedge funds
6 10 (1.89%) Reference Data
7 7 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.75%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.75%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.38%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.38%) IoT
10 2 (0.38%) Robotics
10 2 (0.38%) Social Media
10 2 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.70%) Android
1 9 (1.70%) Apple iOS
1 9 (1.70%) Linux
2 2 (0.38%) Unix
3 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 148 (27.92%) Agile
3 126 (23.77%) CI/CD
4 110 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
5 99 (18.68%) DevOps
6 95 (17.92%) Microservices
7 72 (13.58%) AI
7 72 (13.58%) User Experience
8 66 (12.45%) Software Engineering
9 49 (9.25%) Clean Code
10 48 (9.06%) Web Development
11 47 (8.87%) Scrum
11 47 (8.87%) TDD
12 46 (8.68%) SDLC
13 38 (7.17%) Containerisation
13 38 (7.17%) Front End Development
14 37 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (6.79%) UX Design
16 33 (6.23%) API Development
17 32 (6.04%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 211 (39.81%) JavaScript
2 154 (29.06%) TypeScript
3 139 (26.23%) C#
4 130 (24.53%) Java
5 108 (20.38%) Python
6 107 (20.19%) SQL
7 31 (5.85%) PHP
8 15 (2.83%) C
9 13 (2.45%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.89%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.89%) Ruby
11 9 (1.70%) Go
12 7 (1.32%) C++
13 6 (1.13%) Bash
13 6 (1.13%) R
14 4 (0.75%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.75%) XAML
15 3 (0.57%) COBOL
16 2 (0.38%) RPG
17 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 64 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 31 (5.85%) Degree
3 30 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.42%) Accessibility
2 30 (5.66%) QA
3 8 (1.51%) WCAG
4 4 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 82 (15.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (11.13%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.77%) Terraform
3 11 (2.08%) Kibana
4 8 (1.51%) Ansible
5 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Argo
6 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (3.77%) Oracle
2 13 (2.45%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.26%) Dynatrace
4 11 (2.08%) Splunk
5 8 (1.51%) Google
6 7 (1.32%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.75%) Telerik
8 3 (0.57%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.57%) Pega
8 3 (0.57%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.57%) WSO2
8 3 (0.57%) Zoho
9 2 (0.38%) Foundry
9 2 (0.38%) IBM
9 2 (0.38%) iManage
9 2 (0.38%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.38%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.19%) Adobe
10 1 (0.19%) DevExpress
10 1 (0.19%) Red Hat