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 18 October 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 307 199
Rank change year-on-year +72 -108 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 955 431 908
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.88% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.98% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 775 310 559
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £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 £99,000 £105,125 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year - +13.74% -4.95%

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.

6 months to
18 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 110,370 44,004 66,431
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 89.88% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74,737 25,905 38,039
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -6.25% -6.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,390 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.17% -9.22% -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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +68 846 £60,000 - 251
UK excluding London +75 711 £60,000 - 154
Work from Home +59 349 £60,000 - 133
London -26 205 £65,000 -18.75% 107
North of England +47 198 £65,000 +8.33% 46
South East +24 197 £60,000 +4.35% 29
Midlands +41 115 £60,000 - 23
Yorkshire +49 100 £70,000 +16.67% 20
South West +5 100 £65,000 +8.33% 13
North West -5 70 £60,000 - 22
West Midlands -4 66 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Scotland +45 55 £55,000 -8.33% 10
East Midlands +15 49 £57,500 -9.80% 7
East of England -37 33 £60,000 +41.18% 14
North East -56 28 £47,500 -5.00% 5
Wales -75 13 £70,000 +16.67% 5

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

For the 6 months to 18 October 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Full-Stack Development100.0%955
2JavaScript33.3%318
3React30.2%288
4TypeScript29.6%283
5AWS29.5%282
6Node.js21.4%204
7CI/CD20.8%199
8.NET19.3%184
9Agile19.1%182
10Azure18.7%179
11C#17.6%168
12Microservices17.2%164
13AI16.1%154
14Java15.0%143
15Software Engineering13.5%129
16Docker12.8%122
17CSS12.3%117
17Python12.3%117
19HTML11.8%113
20AngularJS11.6%111
21SQL Server11.3%108
22Git10.8%103
22Problem-Solving10.8%103
22SaaS10.8%103
25REST10.5%100
26DevOps9.7%93
26SQL9.7%93
28Serverless9.4%90
29Continuous Improvement9.3%89
30GitHub9.1%87

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Full-Stack Developer18.7%179
2Software Developer14.5%138
3Lead Full-Stack Developer10.4%99
4Full-Stack Java Developer9.8%94
5Full-Stack .NET Developer8.1%77
6React Developer6.9%66
7Lead Software Developer6.7%64
8Full-Stack C# Developer4.4%42
9AWS Developer3.4%32
10Full-Stack Python Developer3.2%31
11Full-Stack Web Developer2.9%28
12C# .NET Developer2.5%24
13Senior Java Developer2.1%20
14Azure Developer2.0%19
14Full-Stack Engineer2.0%19
16Angular Developer1.9%18
17Senior React Developer1.8%17
18Senior Python Developer1.7%16
19.NET Software Developer1.5%14
19Full-Stack PHP Developer1.5%14
308 Full-Stack Developer jobs Nationwide