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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 310 189
Rank change year-on-year +99 -121 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,034 440 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 0.89% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.99% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 884 322 692
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 - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,250 £96,125
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 107,222 44,266 74,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 89.67% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73,597 26,014 44,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,400 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 17 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 17 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 +93 915 £60,000 - 336
UK excluding London +107 789 £60,000 +4.35% 197
Work from Home +92 367 £60,000 - 165
North of England +92 232 £65,000 +8.33% 57
South East +54 227 £60,000 +4.35% 32
London -22 196 £70,000 -9.68% 178
Midlands +30 115 £60,000 - 28
Yorkshire +56 114 £75,000 +25.00% 13
South West 0 109 £60,000 - 29
North West +31 89 £65,000 +8.33% 36
West Midlands +4 67 £70,000 +16.67% 20
Scotland +36 52 £60,000 - 18
East Midlands -7 48 £60,000 +26.32% 8
East of England -19 40 £70,000 +69.70% 15
North East -43 29 £47,500 -24.00% 9
Wales -74 14 £62,500 +4.17%

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 1,034 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 358 (34.62%) JavaScript
3 316 (30.56%) React
4 313 (30.27%) TypeScript
5 304 (29.40%) AWS
6 225 (21.76%) Node.js
7 196 (18.96%) CI/CD
8 193 (18.67%) Agile
9 189 (18.28%) .NET
10 176 (17.02%) C#
11 172 (16.63%) Azure
12 170 (16.44%) Microservices
13 156 (15.09%) Java
14 155 (14.99%) Python
15 152 (14.70%) AI
16 132 (12.77%) CSS
17 127 (12.28%) HTML
18 124 (11.99%) Software Engineering
19 119 (11.51%) AngularJS
20 117 (11.32%) Docker
21 112 (10.83%) SaaS
22 108 (10.44%) SQL
23 102 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
23 102 (9.86%) Serverless
24 101 (9.77%) Git
24 101 (9.77%) SQL Server
25 100 (9.67%) DevOps
26 97 (9.38%) Vue
27 93 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
28 90 (8.70%) 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 (1.35%) Confluence
1 14 (1.35%) WordPress
2 11 (1.06%) CMS
3 7 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.48%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.39%) IIS
6 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.097%) Apache
8 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.097%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 304 (29.40%) AWS
2 172 (16.63%) Azure
3 112 (10.83%) SaaS
4 102 (9.86%) Serverless
5 86 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (8.03%) Amazon S3
7 80 (7.74%) GitHub
8 76 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
9 53 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
10 47 (4.55%) GCP
11 40 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (2.71%) AWS Step Functions
15 27 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
16 25 (2.42%) Snowflake
17 19 (1.84%) Amazon ECR
18 18 (1.74%) Anthropic Claude
18 18 (1.74%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) 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 (9.77%) SQL Server
2 88 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (5.32%) MongoDB
4 44 (4.26%) DynamoDB
5 34 (3.29%) MySQL
6 31 (3.00%) NoSQL
7 28 (2.71%) Redis
7 28 (2.71%) Relational Database
8 19 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.06%) Power BI
10 8 (0.77%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.39%) GIS
11 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.097%) ClickHouse
14 1 (0.097%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.097%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.097%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 101 (9.77%) Git
2 55 (5.32%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.26%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.80%) GitLab
5 23 (2.22%) Maven
6 20 (1.93%) JUnit
7 18 (1.74%) JIRA
8 16 (1.55%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.26%) Mockito
10 11 (1.06%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.77%) Storybook
11 8 (0.77%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.77%) Vite
12 6 (0.58%) Postman
13 5 (0.48%) NUnit
13 5 (0.48%) Selenium
13 5 (0.48%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.39%) Subversion
15 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 100 (9.67%) Social Skills
2 71 (6.87%) Public Sector
3 54 (5.22%) Finance
4 17 (1.64%) Retail
5 14 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.26%) Marketing
7 12 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.16%) Legal
8 7 (0.68%) Legal Technology
9 5 (0.48%) Advertising
9 5 (0.48%) Banking
9 5 (0.48%) Games
10 4 (0.39%) Aviation
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
1 316 (30.56%) React
2 225 (21.76%) Node.js
3 189 (18.28%) .NET
4 132 (12.77%) CSS
5 127 (12.28%) HTML
6 119 (11.51%) AngularJS
7 97 (9.38%) Vue
8 90 (8.70%) REST
9 76 (7.35%) Spring
10 74 (7.16%) RESTful
11 69 (6.67%) Spring Boot
12 56 (5.42%) Next.js
13 53 (5.13%) Jest
13 53 (5.13%) Ruby on Rails
14 44 (4.26%) .NET Core
15 41 (3.97%) Terraform
16 39 (3.77%) .NET Framework
16 39 (3.77%) ASP.NET
17 37 (3.58%) Entity Framework
18 33 (3.19%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.74%) Cloud Native
2 50 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (1.93%) Mobile App
5 19 (1.84%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (0.87%) IoT
8 8 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.68%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.68%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
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%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (0.29%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.29%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.29%) PKI
12 3 (0.29%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.35%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.097%) Windows
3 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,034 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 196 (18.96%) CI/CD
3 193 (18.67%) Agile
4 170 (16.44%) Microservices
5 152 (14.70%) AI
6 124 (11.99%) Software Engineering
7 102 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (9.67%) DevOps
9 93 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (7.06%) Clean Code
11 71 (6.87%) Web Development
12 66 (6.38%) Mentoring
13 58 (5.61%) Computer Science
14 57 (5.51%) User Experience
15 55 (5.32%) E-Commerce
15 55 (5.32%) SDLC
16 54 (5.22%) Front End Development
17 49 (4.74%) Technical Leadership
17 49 (4.74%) Test Automation
18 44 (4.26%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 358 (34.62%) JavaScript
2 313 (30.27%) TypeScript
3 176 (17.02%) C#
4 156 (15.09%) Java
5 155 (14.99%) Python
6 108 (10.44%) SQL
7 55 (5.32%) Ruby
8 51 (4.93%) PHP
9 42 (4.06%) Kotlin
10 22 (2.13%) Bash
11 20 (1.93%) 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%) Perl
16 1 (0.097%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.097%) Bicep
16 1 (0.097%) C
16 1 (0.097%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 60 (5.80%) Degree
3 58 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 53 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.03%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
7 10 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.097%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.097%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.03%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.16%) QA
3 11 (1.06%) WCAG
4 5 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.097%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.097%) GRC
7 1 (0.097%) SLA
System Software
1 117 (11.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.06%) HP Fortify
3 5 (0.48%) Ansible
3 5 (0.48%) Grafana
4 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Kibana
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.097%) Podman
Vendors
1 71 (6.87%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.32%) Oracle
3 17 (1.64%) Google
4 16 (1.55%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.87%) OneLogin
6 7 (0.68%) OutSystems
6 7 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.58%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.48%) Peregrine
9 3 (0.29%) 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%) NEC
11 1 (0.097%) Pega
11 1 (0.097%) WSO2