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 to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 181 156
Rank change year-on-year +1 -25 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 1,598 2,197 4,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.63% 2.10% 2.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 2.29% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,290 1,452 1,991
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer.

Salary trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 April 2024. 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 +6 1,444 £60,000 -11.11% 191
UK excluding London -20 1,025 £52,500 -4.55% 116
Work from Home -25 603 £60,000 -7.69% 117
London -6 491 £77,500 +3.33% 76
North of England +44 273 £55,000 +15.79% 33
South East -34 269 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Midlands 0 187 £50,000 -4.76% 24
North West +49 174 £55,000 +4.76% 21
South West -1 145 £52,750 +5.50% 18
West Midlands +40 112 £55,000 +15.79% 12
East of England +49 83 £45,000 -18.18% 13
East Midlands -33 75 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Yorkshire +38 69 £55,000 +22.22% 10
Scotland -95 51 £52,500 -12.50% 6
North East -8 30 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Wales -2 16 £50,000 -4.76% 4
Northern Ireland +3 1 £45,000 -10.89%

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Full Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 1,598 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 935 (58.51%) JavaScript
3 791 (49.50%) React
4 624 (39.05%) C#
5 615 (38.49%) .NET
6 528 (33.04%) HTML
7 523 (32.73%) Azure
8 507 (31.73%) CSS
9 491 (30.73%) SQL
10 479 (29.97%) AngularJS
11 458 (28.66%) Agile
12 445 (27.85%) AWS
13 424 (26.53%) Node.js
14 410 (25.66%) TypeScript
15 393 (24.59%) Java
16 371 (23.22%) DevOps
17 362 (22.65%) Vue
18 351 (21.96%) Python
19 306 (19.15%) MVC
20 285 (17.83%) ASP.NET
21 277 (17.33%) Web Development
22 256 (16.02%) PostgreSQL
22 256 (16.02%) Social Skills
23 254 (15.89%) User Experience
24 250 (15.64%) jQuery
25 241 (15.08%) Git
26 235 (14.71%) Web Services
26 235 (14.71%) PHP
27 233 (14.58%) Finance
28 223 (13.95%) Problem-Solving

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 59 (3.69%) CMS
2 43 (2.69%) Apache
3 36 (2.25%) WordPress
4 29 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (1.25%) Umbraco
6 17 (1.06%) nginx
7 15 (0.94%) IIS
8 14 (0.88%) OpenStack
9 13 (0.81%) Apache Spark
9 13 (0.81%) Confluence
10 12 (0.75%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.69%) SharePoint
12 8 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.19%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.19%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.19%) Orchard CMS
15 2 (0.13%) JBoss
15 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 18 (1.13%) Photoshop
2 7 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 26 (1.63%) SDL Web 8
2 19 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
3 11 (0.69%) Shopify
4 9 (0.56%) Magento
5 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.19%) R3 Corda
7 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.13%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.13%) nopCommerce
7 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 523 (32.73%) Azure
2 445 (27.85%) AWS
3 216 (13.52%) Serverless
4 201 (12.58%) Azure DevOps
5 129 (8.07%) Azure Functions
6 126 (7.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 120 (7.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 118 (7.38%) Azure API Management
8 118 (7.38%) IBM Cloud
9 112 (7.01%) SaaS
10 100 (6.26%) GCP
11 72 (4.51%) GitHub
12 46 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (1.94%) Power Platform
14 30 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
16 23 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
19 16 (1.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.81%) MQTT
2 12 (0.75%) HTTP
3 7 (0.44%) Internet
4 5 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.31%) VPN
5 4 (0.25%) DNS
6 2 (0.13%) SSH
6 2 (0.13%) SSL
7 1 (0.063%) Firewall
7 1 (0.063%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (16.02%) PostgreSQL
2 194 (12.14%) SQL Server
3 192 (12.02%) Relational Database
4 186 (11.64%) NoSQL
5 181 (11.33%) MongoDB
6 172 (10.76%) MySQL
7 126 (7.88%) DB2
8 29 (1.81%) Apache Ignite
9 27 (1.69%) Redis
10 26 (1.63%) DynamoDB
11 17 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.94%) Power BI
13 13 (0.81%) Apache Hive
13 13 (0.81%) Big Data
13 13 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.75%) Oracle Database
14 12 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 241 (15.08%) Git
2 89 (5.57%) JIRA
3 67 (4.19%) Visual Studio
4 53 (3.32%) GitLab
5 48 (3.00%) NUnit
6 44 (2.75%) TeamCity
7 41 (2.57%) Jenkins
8 32 (2.00%) Moq
9 26 (1.63%) Cypress.io
10 22 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
11 19 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
12 18 (1.13%) MSTest
13 16 (1.00%) SpecFlow
14 14 (0.88%) Bitbucket
14 14 (0.88%) git-flow
14 14 (0.88%) Sourcetree
15 13 (0.81%) JUnit
16 12 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
17 11 (0.69%) IntelliJ
17 11 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 256 (16.02%) Social Skills
2 233 (14.58%) Finance
3 207 (12.95%) Public Sector
4 98 (6.13%) Banking
5 71 (4.44%) Marketing
6 64 (4.01%) Retail
7 52 (3.25%) Front Office
8 39 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (2.19%) Games
10 31 (1.94%) Law
11 30 (1.88%) Tech for Good
12 24 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.44%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.13%) Health Technology
16 17 (1.06%) Legal
17 16 (1.00%) Advertising
18 15 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
19 13 (0.81%) Investment Banking
19 13 (0.81%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 791 (49.50%) React
2 615 (38.49%) .NET
3 528 (33.04%) HTML
4 507 (31.73%) CSS
5 479 (29.97%) AngularJS
6 424 (26.53%) Node.js
7 362 (22.65%) Vue
8 285 (17.83%) ASP.NET
9 250 (15.64%) jQuery
10 235 (14.71%) Web Services
11 204 (12.77%) REST
12 185 (11.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 184 (11.51%) Laravel
14 156 (9.76%) RESTful
15 145 (9.07%) .NET Framework
16 138 (8.64%) ASP.NET Core
17 128 (8.01%) .NET Core
18 120 (7.51%) Ember.js
19 117 (7.32%) Backbone.js
20 105 (6.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 144 (9.01%) Data Structures
2 136 (8.51%) Algorithms
3 129 (8.07%) Blockchain
4 118 (7.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 97 (6.07%) Greenfield Project
6 53 (3.32%) Mobile App
7 49 (3.07%) Fixed Income
8 41 (2.57%) Hedge funds
9 38 (2.38%) Private Cloud
10 30 (1.88%) Legacy Code
11 28 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.56%) Product Ownership
13 22 (1.38%) Cloud Native
13 22 (1.38%) Onboarding
14 20 (1.25%) IoT
14 20 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.88%) Blog
16 14 (0.88%) Client/Server
16 14 (0.88%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 179 (11.20%) Linux
2 136 (8.51%) Windows
3 124 (7.76%) Android
3 124 (7.76%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.31%) Unix
4 5 (0.31%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.063%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.063%) Solaris
7 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,598 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 458 (28.66%) Agile
3 371 (23.22%) DevOps
4 306 (19.15%) MVC
5 277 (17.33%) Web Development
6 254 (15.89%) User Experience
7 223 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
8 221 (13.83%) Artificial Intelligence
9 217 (13.58%) Software Engineering
10 200 (12.52%) Design Patterns
11 197 (12.33%) CI/CD
12 189 (11.83%) OOP
13 171 (10.70%) OO
14 167 (10.45%) SOLID
15 151 (9.45%) Responsive Web Design
16 150 (9.39%) TDD
17 136 (8.51%) Computer Science
18 125 (7.82%) Microservices
19 123 (7.70%) Generative AI
19 123 (7.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 935 (58.51%) JavaScript
2 624 (39.05%) C#
3 491 (30.73%) SQL
4 410 (25.66%) TypeScript
5 393 (24.59%) Java
6 351 (21.96%) Python
7 235 (14.71%) PHP
8 66 (4.13%) T-SQL
9 44 (2.75%) Go
10 26 (1.63%) Ruby
11 25 (1.56%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.06%) Delphi
13 15 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 15 (0.94%) XPath
14 10 (0.63%) C++
14 10 (0.63%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.44%) Bash
15 7 (0.44%) VB.NET
15 7 (0.44%) VBA
16 6 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 166 (10.39%) Degree
2 96 (6.01%) Security Cleared
3 75 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (4.32%) SC Cleared
5 23 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (0.94%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.69%) Postgraduate
9 7 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.25%) HND
11 3 (0.19%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.063%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.13%) QA
2 33 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.81%) GDPR
4 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.19%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.19%) PMO
6 2 (0.13%) HL7
6 2 (0.13%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.13%) WAI
7 1 (0.063%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.063%) SLA
System Software
1 193 (12.08%) Docker
2 9 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.38%) Firmware
4 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 109 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 60 (3.75%) Terraform
3 21 (1.31%) Ansible
4 7 (0.44%) Grafana
4 7 (0.44%) Kibana
5 5 (0.31%) Control-M
6 4 (0.25%) Rancher
7 1 (0.063%) Consul
7 1 (0.063%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.063%) Kiali
7 1 (0.063%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.063%) Packer
7 1 (0.063%) Puppet
Vendors
1 122 (7.63%) IBM
2 118 (7.38%) Red Hat
3 86 (5.38%) Microsoft
4 52 (3.25%) Google
5 29 (1.81%) Adobe
5 29 (1.81%) Oracle
6 16 (1.00%) Sitecore
7 14 (0.88%) Cognizant
7 14 (0.88%) WSO2
8 13 (0.81%) OpenAI
9 10 (0.63%) SAP
10 9 (0.56%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.44%) F5
12 6 (0.38%) UiPath
12 6 (0.38%) VMware
12 6 (0.38%) Xamarin
13 5 (0.31%) Facebook
13 5 (0.31%) PayPal
13 5 (0.31%) WorldPay
14 4 (0.25%) Splunk