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 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 227 189
Rank change year-on-year -38 -38 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 496 809 920
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.20% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 1.28% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 364 497 852
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £107,325
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 48,668 63,346 48,348
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.33% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 30,738 35,437 37,585
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 -36 438 £60,000 - 241
UK excluding London -18 305 £57,500 +8.49% 219
London +1 174 £80,000 +12.68% 63
Work from Home +3 172 £60,000 +9.09% 103
South East +1 111 £57,500 +4.55% 78
North of England +31 66 £58,750 +9.30% 31
Midlands -13 38 £60,000 +33.33% 43
North West +31 33 £60,000 +33.33% 15
South West -10 31 £60,000 +14.29% 35
East of England +13 28 £42,500 -5.56% 18
West Midlands +33 24 £60,000 +9.09% 28
Wales -1 19 £60,000 -14.29% 10
North East +25 18 £50,000 +11.11% 6
Yorkshire -3 15 £60,000 - 10
East Midlands -7 14 £62,500 +56.25% 14
Scotland -5 12 £60,000 -5.33% 6
Northern Ireland -2 2 £60,000 -14.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, 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.

1 496 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 261 (52.62%) React
3 247 (49.80%) JavaScript
4 222 (44.76%) AWS
5 190 (38.31%) Agile
6 163 (32.86%) CI/CD
7 162 (32.66%) C#
8 159 (32.06%) Azure
9 156 (31.45%) TypeScript
10 155 (31.25%) .NET
11 147 (29.64%) HTML
12 131 (26.41%) AngularJS
13 130 (26.21%) CSS
13 130 (26.21%) SQL
14 126 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
15 119 (23.99%) Java
16 116 (23.39%) Node.js
17 110 (22.18%) DevOps
18 107 (21.57%) Python
19 105 (21.17%) Git
20 100 (20.16%) REST
20 100 (20.16%) User Experience
21 97 (19.56%) Vue
22 92 (18.55%) Docker
22 92 (18.55%) RESTful
23 85 (17.14%) SQL Server
24 77 (15.52%) Microservices
25 69 (13.91%) Software Engineering
26 67 (13.51%) Kubernetes
27 66 (13.31%) 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 12 (2.42%) CMS
2 8 (1.61%) Headless CMS
3 6 (1.21%) IIS
4 4 (0.81%) Apache
4 4 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.81%) nginx
4 4 (0.81%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.60%) Confluence
5 3 (0.60%) Drupal
5 3 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.40%) ColdFusion
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Kentico
7 1 (0.20%) MetaMask
7 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.42%) Shopify
2 3 (0.60%) Magento
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 222 (44.76%) AWS
2 159 (32.06%) Azure
3 63 (12.70%) GCP
4 62 (12.50%) Serverless
5 52 (10.48%) SaaS
6 47 (9.48%) GitHub
7 38 (7.66%) Amazon ECS
8 35 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (4.84%) Amazon S3
11 20 (4.03%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (2.42%) Vercel
14 11 (2.22%) Figma
15 9 (1.81%) Power Platform
16 8 (1.61%) Google Analytics
16 8 (1.61%) npm
17 7 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) Broadband
2 2 (0.40%) AMQP
2 2 (0.40%) HTTP
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 66 (13.31%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (10.28%) Relational Database
4 49 (9.88%) NoSQL
5 37 (7.46%) MySQL
6 28 (5.65%) RDBMS
7 18 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (3.43%) Redis
9 15 (3.02%) MongoDB
10 10 (2.02%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.81%) Power BI
12 7 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.41%) Big Data
13 5 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.81%) Apache Hive
14 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.81%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.81%) HBase
15 3 (0.60%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (0.60%) DB2
Development Applications
1 105 (21.17%) Git
2 32 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.64%) JUnit
3 23 (4.64%) Mockito
4 18 (3.63%) Cypress.io
4 18 (3.63%) JIRA
4 18 (3.63%) JMeter
5 10 (2.02%) Maven
5 10 (2.02%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.01%) git-flow
6 5 (1.01%) Mocha
6 5 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.01%) webpack
7 4 (0.81%) Gradle
7 4 (0.81%) Jasmine
7 4 (0.81%) NUnit
7 4 (0.81%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.81%) Vite
8 3 (0.60%) CircleCI
General
1 111 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 70 (14.11%) Finance
3 39 (7.86%) Law
4 36 (7.26%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.05%) Marketing
6 23 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (4.44%) Banking
8 21 (4.23%) Front Office
9 19 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (3.23%) Investment Banking
11 15 (3.02%) Retail
12 13 (2.62%) Games
13 12 (2.42%) Legal
14 9 (1.81%) Health Technology
15 8 (1.61%) Aviation
16 6 (1.21%) Electronics
16 6 (1.21%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.60%) Multimedia
17 3 (0.60%) Private Banking
17 3 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (52.62%) React
2 155 (31.25%) .NET
3 147 (29.64%) HTML
4 131 (26.41%) AngularJS
5 130 (26.21%) CSS
6 116 (23.39%) Node.js
7 100 (20.16%) REST
8 97 (19.56%) Vue
9 92 (18.55%) RESTful
10 63 (12.70%) Spring
11 58 (11.69%) ASP.NET
12 49 (9.88%) GraphQL
13 47 (9.48%) .NET Core
14 39 (7.86%) .NET Framework
15 38 (7.66%) HTML5
16 37 (7.46%) Web Services
17 36 (7.26%) CSS3
17 36 (7.26%) Spring Boot
18 32 (6.45%) Kafka
19 31 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.64%) Cloud Native
1 23 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
1 23 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (3.43%) Mobile App
2 17 (3.43%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 13 (2.62%) Hedge funds
4 13 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.02%) Reference Data
6 9 (1.81%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.01%) Legacy Code
8 4 (0.81%) Client/Server
9 3 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (0.60%) Equities
9 3 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.60%) Online Games
9 3 (0.60%) Smart Home
9 3 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.81%) Unix
2 8 (1.61%) Linux
3 7 (1.41%) Android
3 7 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 190 (38.31%) Agile
3 163 (32.86%) CI/CD
4 126 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (22.18%) DevOps
6 100 (20.16%) User Experience
7 77 (15.52%) Microservices
8 69 (13.91%) Software Engineering
9 63 (12.70%) Clean Code
10 61 (12.30%) AI
11 58 (11.69%) UX Design
11 58 (11.69%) Web Development
12 54 (10.89%) TDD
13 53 (10.69%) SDLC
14 48 (9.68%) Test Automation
15 45 (9.07%) Containerisation
16 44 (8.87%) Mentoring
17 41 (8.27%) Scrum
18 38 (7.66%) Front End Development
19 36 (7.26%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 247 (49.80%) JavaScript
2 162 (32.66%) C#
3 156 (31.45%) TypeScript
4 130 (26.21%) SQL
5 119 (23.99%) Java
6 107 (21.57%) Python
7 23 (4.64%) PHP
8 19 (3.83%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.23%) Go
10 12 (2.42%) C
11 11 (2.22%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.81%) VB.NET
13 6 (1.21%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.01%) C++
15 4 (0.81%) Bicep
15 4 (0.81%) Ruby
15 4 (0.81%) XAML
16 3 (0.60%) Bash
16 3 (0.60%) COBOL
16 3 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 41 (8.27%) Degree
3 30 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (3.83%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.02%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.66%) Accessibility
2 37 (7.46%) QA
3 6 (1.21%) GDPR
3 6 (1.21%) WCAG
4 1 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 92 (18.55%) Docker
2 4 (0.81%) HDFS
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.45%) Terraform
3 18 (3.63%) Kibana
4 6 (1.21%) Ansible
5 1 (0.20%) Argo
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.44%) Splunk
3 19 (3.83%) Dynatrace
4 12 (2.42%) Oracle
5 9 (1.81%) Google
6 8 (1.61%) Apple
7 7 (1.41%) DevExpress
8 5 (1.01%) Databricks
9 4 (0.81%) Cloudera
9 4 (0.81%) Rollbar
9 4 (0.81%) Telerik
10 3 (0.60%) Pega
10 3 (0.60%) WSO2
10 3 (0.60%) Zoho
11 2 (0.40%) iManage
11 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.40%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.20%) Adobe
12 1 (0.20%) IONA
12 1 (0.20%) Red Hat