Full-Stack Developer Jobs

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 7 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 166 164
Rank change year-on-year -157 -2 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 488 1,747 1,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 1.64% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.73% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 378 1,335 1,300
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,313 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 53,714 100,740 80,928
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.91% 94.82% 91.28%
Number of salaries quoted 29,328 70,958 54,765
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,501 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.24%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -170 430 £60,000 - 271
UK excluding London -139 304 £57,500 +4.55% 174
Work from Home -93 212 £60,000 - 173
London -77 172 £75,000 -3.23% 135
South East -77 86 £57,500 +4.55% 42
Midlands -56 56 £57,500 +15.00% 20
North of England -120 55 £60,000 +9.09% 36
East of England -6 42 £45,000 - 31
West Midlands -16 38 £60,000 +9.09% 5
North West -122 37 £55,000 - 28
South West -22 31 £60,000 +14.29% 19
Scotland +68 21 £57,500 -13.86% 11
East Midlands -35 18 £47,500 - 15
Wales +18 16 £60,000 +23.08% 17
Yorkshire -15 14 £60,000 +9.09% 7
North East +20 4 £80,000 +45.45% 2
Northern Ireland +35 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 July 2025, 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.

1 488 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 262 (53.69%) JavaScript
3 223 (45.70%) React
4 220 (45.08%) AWS
5 181 (37.09%) Agile
6 172 (35.25%) C#
7 154 (31.56%) .NET
8 153 (31.35%) HTML
9 151 (30.94%) TypeScript
10 145 (29.71%) AngularJS
11 139 (28.48%) SQL
12 133 (27.25%) CI/CD
13 131 (26.84%) Azure
14 119 (24.39%) Python
15 118 (24.18%) CSS
15 118 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
16 113 (23.16%) Node.js
17 104 (21.31%) Vue
18 99 (20.29%) Git
19 98 (20.08%) Finance
20 97 (19.88%) Software Engineering
21 95 (19.47%) SQL Server
21 95 (19.47%) Social Skills
22 94 (19.26%) RESTful
23 84 (17.21%) Java
23 84 (17.21%) DevOps
24 78 (15.98%) Microsoft
25 76 (15.57%) Microservices
26 75 (15.37%) Docker
27 73 (14.96%) MySQL

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 30 (6.15%) CMS
2 19 (3.89%) IIS
3 17 (3.48%) Headless CMS
4 12 (2.46%) Confluence
5 10 (2.05%) Umbraco
5 10 (2.05%) WordPress
6 6 (1.23%) Apache
6 6 (1.23%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.82%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.41%) Drupal
8 2 (0.41%) Kentico
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.41%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) DNN
9 1 (0.20%) MetaMask
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.41%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 15 (3.07%) Shopify
2 8 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (1.23%) Magento
4 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 220 (45.08%) AWS
2 131 (26.84%) Azure
3 64 (13.11%) Serverless
4 60 (12.30%) GCP
5 59 (12.09%) SaaS
6 38 (7.79%) GitHub
7 25 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (4.30%) Amazon S3
10 20 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (3.07%) Figma
14 14 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.66%) Power Platform
16 11 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.25%) Vercel
17 10 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
17 10 (2.05%) Cloudflare
18 9 (1.84%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.02%) Internet
2 4 (0.82%) MQTT
2 4 (0.82%) SMS
2 4 (0.82%) VPN
3 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (19.47%) SQL Server
2 73 (14.96%) MySQL
3 61 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (7.79%) NoSQL
5 34 (6.97%) MongoDB
6 28 (5.74%) Relational Database
7 19 (3.89%) Redis
8 13 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.46%) Power BI
10 11 (2.25%) DynamoDB
11 10 (2.05%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.84%) Big Data
13 8 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.43%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (1.02%) Apache Hive
16 5 (1.02%) Hadoop
16 5 (1.02%) HBase
17 4 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
17 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 99 (20.29%) Git
2 31 (6.35%) JIRA
3 17 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 15 (3.07%) GitLab
4 15 (3.07%) JMeter
5 14 (2.87%) Visual Studio
6 13 (2.66%) JUnit
7 11 (2.25%) Mockito
8 10 (2.05%) Bitbucket
8 10 (2.05%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.05%) Jasmine
8 10 (2.05%) NUnit
8 10 (2.05%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.43%) Maven
10 6 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (1.23%) PHPUnit
10 6 (1.23%) Storybook
10 6 (1.23%) Vite
11 5 (1.02%) Gradle
12 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
General
1 98 (20.08%) Finance
2 95 (19.47%) Social Skills
3 32 (6.56%) Front Office
4 24 (4.92%) Marketing
5 21 (4.30%) Law
6 20 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.10%) Retail
7 19 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (3.89%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.25%) Banking
8 11 (2.25%) Games
9 8 (1.64%) Advertising
10 6 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.02%) Automotive
11 5 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.82%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.82%) Legal
12 4 (0.82%) Private Banking
12 4 (0.82%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (45.70%) React
2 154 (31.56%) .NET
3 153 (31.35%) HTML
4 145 (29.71%) AngularJS
5 118 (24.18%) CSS
6 113 (23.16%) Node.js
7 104 (21.31%) Vue
8 94 (19.26%) RESTful
9 66 (13.52%) ASP.NET
10 61 (12.50%) REST
11 55 (11.27%) GraphQL
12 50 (10.25%) .NET Core
13 48 (9.84%) Spring
14 43 (8.81%) HTML5
15 42 (8.61%) Web Services
16 35 (7.17%) CSS3
17 34 (6.97%) Spring Boot
18 31 (6.35%) Laravel
18 31 (6.35%) Next.js
19 30 (6.15%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.94%) Mobile App
2 28 (5.74%) Fixed Income
3 25 (5.12%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (4.71%) Hedge funds
5 18 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.46%) Equities
7 12 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.84%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.64%) IoT
10 6 (1.23%) Life Science
10 6 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 5 (1.02%) EPoS
11 5 (1.02%) Legacy Code
12 4 (0.82%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.82%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.82%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.28%) Linux
2 10 (2.05%) Unix
3 6 (1.23%) Android
4 5 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 181 (37.09%) Agile
3 133 (27.25%) CI/CD
4 118 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
5 97 (19.88%) Software Engineering
6 84 (17.21%) DevOps
7 76 (15.57%) Microservices
8 69 (14.14%) User Experience
9 65 (13.32%) TDD
9 65 (13.32%) Web Development
10 59 (12.09%) MVC
11 55 (11.27%) Artificial Intelligence
11 55 (11.27%) Mentoring
12 53 (10.86%) Clean Code
13 47 (9.63%) Analytics
14 45 (9.22%) API Development
15 43 (8.81%) SDLC
16 42 (8.61%) Front End Development
17 41 (8.40%) Test Automation
18 39 (7.99%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 262 (53.69%) JavaScript
2 172 (35.25%) C#
3 151 (30.94%) TypeScript
4 139 (28.48%) SQL
5 119 (24.39%) Python
6 84 (17.21%) Java
7 42 (8.61%) PHP
8 12 (2.46%) C++
8 12 (2.46%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.25%) Go
10 10 (2.05%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.05%) VB.NET
11 8 (1.64%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.23%) C
13 5 (1.02%) Delphi
14 4 (0.82%) Bicep
15 3 (0.61%) R
15 3 (0.61%) VB
16 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (9.43%) Degree
2 24 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.10%) Security Cleared
4 14 (2.87%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.82%) AWS Certification
5 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.20%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.12%) QA
2 20 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.41%) GDPR
3 2 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (15.37%) Docker
2 5 (1.02%) HDFS
3 3 (0.61%) LXC
4 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.41%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.97%) Terraform
3 10 (2.05%) Kibana
4 3 (0.61%) Grafana
5 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.20%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 78 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.51%) Google
3 16 (3.28%) Splunk
4 12 (2.46%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.05%) Rollbar
6 8 (1.64%) DevExpress
7 7 (1.43%) Apple
7 7 (1.43%) Databricks
8 6 (1.23%) PayPal
9 5 (1.02%) Cloudera
10 4 (0.82%) SAP
11 3 (0.61%) Adobe
11 3 (0.61%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.61%) IBM
11 3 (0.61%) Oracle
11 3 (0.61%) Xamarin
12 2 (0.41%) Sage
12 2 (0.41%) Sun
13 1 (0.20%) Sitecore
13 1 (0.20%) Telerik