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 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 311 186
Rank change year-on-year +103 -125 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,029 447 1,130
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.90% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.01% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 893 328 711
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
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 £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 106,084 44,466 74,570
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.67% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,032 26,165 45,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +93 911 £60,000 - 177
UK excluding London +115 790 £60,000 +4.35% 94
Work from Home +79 368 £60,000 - 86
North of England +96 232 £65,000 +8.33% 31
South East +66 227 £60,000 +4.35% 18
London -24 190 £70,000 -11.11% 107
Midlands +17 116 £60,000 +2.13% 14
Yorkshire +52 113 £75,000 +25.00% 9
South West +9 108 £60,000 - 14
North West +43 89 £65,000 +8.33% 18
West Midlands +1 67 £70,000 +16.67% 11
Scotland +42 52 £57,500 -4.17% 6
East Midlands 0 49 £60,000 +26.32% 3
East of England -18 41 £65,000 +52.94% 7
North East -36 30 £46,250 -15.91% 5
Wales -75 14 £62,500 +4.17%

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 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.

1 1,029 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 355 (34.50%) JavaScript
3 310 (30.13%) React
3 310 (30.13%) TypeScript
4 296 (28.77%) AWS
5 224 (21.77%) Node.js
6 191 (18.56%) CI/CD
7 189 (18.37%) Agile
8 188 (18.27%) .NET
9 176 (17.10%) C#
10 169 (16.42%) Azure
11 163 (15.84%) Microservices
12 154 (14.97%) Python
13 152 (14.77%) Java
14 147 (14.29%) AI
15 129 (12.54%) CSS
16 124 (12.05%) HTML
17 121 (11.76%) Software Engineering
18 119 (11.56%) AngularJS
19 111 (10.79%) Docker
20 110 (10.69%) SaaS
21 107 (10.40%) SQL
22 101 (9.82%) SQL Server
23 100 (9.72%) Serverless
24 99 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
25 98 (9.52%) DevOps
25 98 (9.52%) Git
25 98 (9.52%) Vue
26 94 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
27 87 (8.45%) REST

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 14 (1.36%) WordPress
2 12 (1.17%) Confluence
3 11 (1.07%) CMS
4 7 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.49%) ColdFusion
6 4 (0.39%) IIS
7 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.097%) Apache
8 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.097%) nginx
8 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.097%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 296 (28.77%) AWS
2 169 (16.42%) Azure
3 110 (10.69%) SaaS
4 100 (9.72%) Serverless
5 85 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (7.87%) Amazon S3
7 78 (7.58%) GitHub
8 75 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
10 47 (4.57%) GCP
11 39 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (2.72%) AWS Step Functions
13 28 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
14 27 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
15 24 (2.33%) Snowflake
16 19 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
17 18 (1.75%) Apigee
18 17 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.78%) Broadband
2 4 (0.39%) DNS
2 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.097%) Internet
4 1 (0.097%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (9.82%) SQL Server
2 85 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (5.25%) MongoDB
4 44 (4.28%) DynamoDB
5 32 (3.11%) MySQL
6 30 (2.92%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.43%) Redis
7 25 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.07%) Power BI
10 8 (0.78%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.39%) GIS
12 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.29%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.097%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.097%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 98 (9.52%) Git
2 54 (5.25%) Jenkins
3 45 (4.37%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.82%) GitLab
5 23 (2.24%) Maven
6 20 (1.94%) JUnit
7 17 (1.65%) JIRA
8 14 (1.36%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.26%) Mockito
10 11 (1.07%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.78%) Storybook
11 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.58%) Postman
12 6 (0.58%) Vite
13 5 (0.49%) NUnit
13 5 (0.49%) Selenium
13 5 (0.49%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.39%) Subversion
15 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 99 (9.62%) Social Skills
2 68 (6.61%) Public Sector
3 54 (5.25%) Finance
4 17 (1.65%) Retail
5 13 (1.26%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (1.26%) Marketing
6 12 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.07%) Legal
8 7 (0.68%) Legal Technology
9 5 (0.49%) Advertising
9 5 (0.49%) Banking
10 4 (0.39%) Aviation
10 4 (0.39%) Games
10 4 (0.39%) Local Government
11 3 (0.29%) Automotive
11 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Law
11 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (30.13%) React
2 224 (21.77%) Node.js
3 188 (18.27%) .NET
4 129 (12.54%) CSS
5 124 (12.05%) HTML
6 119 (11.56%) AngularJS
7 98 (9.52%) Vue
8 87 (8.45%) REST
9 73 (7.09%) Spring
10 70 (6.80%) RESTful
11 66 (6.41%) Spring Boot
12 53 (5.15%) Jest
12 53 (5.15%) Next.js
12 53 (5.15%) Ruby on Rails
13 43 (4.18%) .NET Core
14 41 (3.98%) Terraform
15 39 (3.79%) .NET Framework
15 39 (3.79%) ASP.NET
16 37 (3.60%) Entity Framework
17 33 (3.21%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 50 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (1.94%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 15 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (0.87%) IoT
8 8 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.68%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.68%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.39%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.39%) NHS
11 4 (0.39%) Sports Betting
12 3 (0.29%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.29%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.29%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.29%) PKI
12 3 (0.29%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.36%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.097%) Windows
3 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,029 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 191 (18.56%) CI/CD
3 189 (18.37%) Agile
4 163 (15.84%) Microservices
5 147 (14.29%) AI
6 121 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 99 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (9.52%) DevOps
9 94 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 76 (7.39%) Web Development
11 75 (7.29%) Clean Code
12 65 (6.32%) Mentoring
13 56 (5.44%) Computer Science
13 56 (5.44%) User Experience
14 55 (5.34%) E-Commerce
15 53 (5.15%) SDLC
16 50 (4.86%) Front End Development
17 49 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
18 47 (4.57%) Test Automation
19 43 (4.18%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 355 (34.50%) JavaScript
2 310 (30.13%) TypeScript
3 176 (17.10%) C#
4 154 (14.97%) Python
5 152 (14.77%) Java
6 107 (10.40%) SQL
7 55 (5.34%) Ruby
8 50 (4.86%) PHP
9 40 (3.89%) Kotlin
10 22 (2.14%) Bash
11 20 (1.94%) Groovy
12 10 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.68%) C++
14 3 (0.29%) Go
14 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.19%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.19%) Perl
16 1 (0.097%) Bicep
16 1 (0.097%) C
16 1 (0.097%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (6.71%) Security Cleared
2 58 (5.64%) Degree
2 58 (5.64%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (0.58%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.097%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.17%) QA
3 11 (1.07%) WCAG
4 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.097%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.097%) GRC
6 1 (0.097%) SLA
System Software
1 111 (10.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.07%) HP Fortify
3 5 (0.49%) Ansible
3 5 (0.49%) Grafana
4 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Kibana
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.19%) Argo
6 2 (0.19%) Podman
Vendors
1 67 (6.51%) Microsoft
2 23 (2.24%) Oracle
3 18 (1.75%) Google
4 15 (1.46%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.87%) OneLogin
6 6 (0.58%) Dynatrace
6 6 (0.58%) OutSystems
6 6 (0.58%) Red Hat
7 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
8 4 (0.39%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.29%) Splunk
10 2 (0.19%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.19%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.097%) Confluent
11 1 (0.097%) Mistral
11 1 (0.097%) Pega
11 1 (0.097%) WSO2