Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 284 169
Rank change year-on-year +91 -115 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 963 457 1,618
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.08% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.21% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 830 357 1,304
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 83,558 37,679 90,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 89.07% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 53,734 23,343 66,736
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,625 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,800 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% +12.83% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 1 May 2026.

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 1 May 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 +100 870 £65,000 +8.33% 99
UK excluding London +86 661 £60,000 +9.09% 84
Work from Home +75 322 £62,500 +4.17% 60
London +32 231 £80,000 +14.29% 31
South East +54 213 £60,000 +4.35% 28
North of England +63 205 £70,000 +27.27% 24
Midlands +6 98 £60,000 +12.15% 9
North West +37 93 £70,000 +27.27% 9
Yorkshire +15 92 £75,000 +36.36% 9
South West -6 79 £55,000 -8.33% 13
West Midlands -8 54 £62,500 +4.17% 5
East Midlands -17 44 £55,000 +15.79% 4
East of England -8 43 £100,000 +122.22% 6
North East -24 20 £50,000 -2.44% 6
Scotland -29 15 £60,000 +17.65% 5
Wales -27 9 £48,750 -20.73%
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 963 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 341 (35.41%) React
3 304 (31.57%) JavaScript
4 266 (27.62%) TypeScript
5 227 (23.57%) AWS
6 217 (22.53%) Node.js
7 186 (19.31%) Python
8 181 (18.80%) .NET
9 167 (17.34%) C#
10 162 (16.82%) Java
11 138 (14.33%) Agile
12 136 (14.12%) Azure
13 131 (13.60%) CI/CD
14 128 (13.29%) Software Engineering
15 122 (12.67%) CSS
16 119 (12.36%) AngularJS
17 117 (12.15%) HTML
18 116 (12.05%) Microservices
19 115 (11.94%) SQL
20 114 (11.84%) DevOps
21 107 (11.11%) Vue
22 99 (10.28%) AI
23 96 (9.97%) Problem-Solving
24 93 (9.66%) Web Development
25 91 (9.45%) Docker
26 87 (9.03%) Git
27 86 (8.93%) Serverless
28 83 (8.62%) SaaS
29 81 (8.41%) Security Cleared
30 77 (8.00%) PostgreSQL

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 11 (1.14%) Confluence
2 9 (0.93%) CMS
2 9 (0.93%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.73%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.31%) Liferay
5 3 (0.31%) nginx
5 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.21%) Apache
6 2 (0.21%) Drupal
6 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.21%) IIS
6 2 (0.21%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.10%) CICS
7 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 227 (23.57%) AWS
2 136 (14.12%) Azure
3 86 (8.93%) Serverless
4 83 (8.62%) SaaS
5 64 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 48 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (3.84%) GCP
10 36 (3.74%) GitHub
11 25 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (1.56%) Power Platform
13 12 (1.25%) Apigee
13 12 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
13 12 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
14 11 (1.14%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (0.73%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.62%) HTTP
2 4 (0.42%) DNS
3 3 (0.31%) Broadband
4 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) AMQP
5 1 (0.10%) Firewall
5 1 (0.10%) Internet
5 1 (0.10%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (5.92%) SQL Server
3 44 (4.57%) NoSQL
4 37 (3.84%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.32%) MySQL
6 21 (2.18%) DynamoDB
7 18 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.04%) Power BI
10 8 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.73%) DB2
11 7 (0.73%) Redis
12 4 (0.42%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.31%) TimescaleDB
14 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.21%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.21%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.21%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 87 (9.03%) Git
2 33 (3.43%) Cypress.io
3 31 (3.22%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.97%) JIRA
5 14 (1.45%) GitLab
6 13 (1.35%) Maven
7 8 (0.83%) JUnit
8 7 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.62%) Mockito
9 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.62%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.52%) Selenium
11 3 (0.31%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.31%) ESLint
11 3 (0.31%) webpack
12 2 (0.21%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.21%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.21%) Storybook
12 2 (0.21%) Vite
General
1 82 (8.52%) Social Skills
2 77 (8.00%) Finance
3 34 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (2.60%) Aviation
4 25 (2.60%) Retail
5 23 (2.39%) Banking
6 19 (1.97%) Public Sector
7 12 (1.25%) Games
8 11 (1.14%) Front Office
9 10 (1.04%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.93%) Marketing
10 9 (0.93%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.73%) Local Government
13 6 (0.62%) Advertising
13 6 (0.62%) Law
14 5 (0.52%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.42%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.42%) Publishing
16 3 (0.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (35.41%) React
2 217 (22.53%) Node.js
3 181 (18.80%) .NET
4 122 (12.67%) CSS
5 119 (12.36%) AngularJS
6 117 (12.15%) HTML
7 107 (11.11%) Vue
8 70 (7.27%) REST
9 62 (6.44%) Spring
10 56 (5.82%) RESTful
11 55 (5.71%) Laravel
12 54 (5.61%) .NET Core
13 49 (5.09%) Spring Boot
14 41 (4.26%) Next.js
15 35 (3.63%) Jest
16 34 (3.53%) GraphQL
16 34 (3.53%) React Native
17 32 (3.32%) Ruby on Rails
18 30 (3.12%) HTML5
19 29 (3.01%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.67%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (2.39%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.97%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.14%) Fixed Income
8 8 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.73%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.62%) AI Agents
10 6 (0.62%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.42%) IoT
12 4 (0.42%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.42%) NHS
12 4 (0.42%) PropTech
13 3 (0.31%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.31%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.35%) Linux
2 4 (0.42%) Android
2 4 (0.42%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.21%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 963 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 138 (14.33%) Agile
3 131 (13.60%) CI/CD
4 128 (13.29%) Software Engineering
5 116 (12.05%) Microservices
6 114 (11.84%) DevOps
7 99 (10.28%) AI
8 96 (9.97%) Problem-Solving
9 93 (9.66%) Web Development
10 57 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (5.09%) API Development
11 49 (5.09%) Clean Code
12 48 (4.98%) Front End Development
12 48 (4.98%) Mentoring
13 45 (4.67%) User Experience
14 43 (4.47%) Scrum
15 39 (4.05%) Containerisation
15 39 (4.05%) SDLC
16 38 (3.95%) Test Automation
17 37 (3.84%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 304 (31.57%) JavaScript
2 266 (27.62%) TypeScript
3 186 (19.31%) Python
4 167 (17.34%) C#
5 162 (16.82%) Java
6 115 (11.94%) SQL
7 66 (6.85%) PHP
8 32 (3.32%) Ruby
9 18 (1.87%) C
10 11 (1.14%) Bash
10 11 (1.14%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.04%) Go
12 8 (0.83%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.73%) C++
13 7 (0.73%) Groovy
14 5 (0.52%) R
15 3 (0.31%) COBOL
16 2 (0.21%) Bicep
16 2 (0.21%) RPG
16 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (8.41%) Security Cleared
2 65 (6.75%) SC Cleared
3 31 (3.22%) Degree
4 25 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.31%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.77%) QA
2 14 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.21%) HL7
3 2 (0.21%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 91 (9.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.28%) Terraform
3 6 (0.62%) Ansible
3 6 (0.62%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.52%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.31%) Nagios
6 2 (0.21%) Grafana
6 2 (0.21%) Podman
7 1 (0.10%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (2.80%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.18%) Oracle
3 10 (1.04%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.52%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.42%) Google
5 4 (0.42%) Pega
6 3 (0.31%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.31%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.31%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.31%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.31%) Zoho
7 2 (0.21%) Aderant
7 2 (0.21%) Adobe
7 2 (0.21%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.21%) Foundry
7 2 (0.21%) iManage
7 2 (0.21%) Intapp
7 2 (0.21%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.21%) Telerik
7 2 (0.21%) WSO2