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 17 October 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 311 202
Rank change year-on-year +73 -109 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 959 430 908
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.88% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.98% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 780 311 558
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 £100,000 £105,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -6.78%

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
17 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 110,560 43,931 66,554
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 89.93% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 74,960 25,802 38,157
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,188 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -5.36% -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 £45,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.22% -8.50% -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 17 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 17 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 +75 850 £60,000 - 292
UK excluding London +61 713 £60,000 - 195
Work from Home +64 350 £60,000 - 158
London -18 207 £65,000 -18.75% 120
North of England +49 198 £65,000 +8.33% 60
South East +19 198 £60,000 +4.35% 31
Midlands +22 115 £60,000 - 30
Yorkshire +46 101 £70,000 +16.67% 22
South West +2 101 £65,000 +8.33% 15
North West -4 69 £60,000 - 29
West Midlands -5 65 £70,000 +16.67% 23
Scotland +47 55 £55,000 -8.33% 14
East Midlands +13 50 £60,000 -5.88% 7
East of England -26 33 £60,000 +41.18% 20
North East -51 28 £47,500 -5.00% 10
Wales -73 13 £70,000 +16.67% 5

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

For the 6 months to 17 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%959
2JavaScript33.2%318
3React30.1%289
4TypeScript29.8%286
5AWS29.6%284
6Node.js21.2%203
7CI/CD21.0%201
8.NET19.2%184
9Agile19.1%183
10Azure18.6%178
11C#17.7%170
12Microservices17.3%166
13AI16.1%154
14Java15.1%145
15Software Engineering13.8%132
16Docker12.9%124
17Python12.3%118
18CSS12.2%117
19HTML11.8%113
20AngularJS11.6%111
21SQL Server11.3%108
22Problem-Solving10.8%104
23SaaS10.7%103
24Git10.6%102
25REST10.5%101
26DevOps9.9%95
26SQL9.9%95
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 Developer18.6%178
2Software Developer14.5%139
3Lead Full-Stack Developer10.4%100
4Full-Stack Java Developer9.8%94
5Full-Stack .NET Developer8.0%77
6Lead Software Developer6.7%64
6React Developer6.7%64
8Full-Stack C# Developer4.3%41
9AWS Developer3.3%32
9Full-Stack Python Developer3.3%32
11Full-Stack Web Developer2.9%28
12C# .NET Developer2.4%23
13Senior Java Developer2.1%20
14Full-Stack Engineer2.0%19
15Angular Developer1.9%18
15Azure 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
363 Full-Stack Developer jobs Nationwide