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 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 314 162
Rank change year-on-year +119 -152 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 995 445 1,831
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 0.99% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.10% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 867 345 1,411
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.00% -4.09%

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 89,062 40,399 103,075
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.44% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 61,111 23,040 74,444
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,567
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +122 894 £65,000 +4.00% 82
UK excluding London +120 720 £60,000 +4.35% 85
Work from Home +101 362 £62,500 +4.17% 48
North of England +132 251 £67,500 +22.73% 15
London +23 216 £80,000 +10.34% 21
South East +70 211 £60,000 +4.35% 19
North West +87 115 £67,500 +22.73% 9
Yorkshire +61 109 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Midlands +6 99 £60,000 +2.13% 17
South West -6 80 £55,000 -8.33% 13
West Midlands -3 55 £70,000 +14.29% 9
East Midlands +2 44 £55,000 +15.79% 8
East of England -15 40 £82,500 +83.33% 3
Scotland +24 29 £55,000 +4.76% 11
North East -29 27 £50,000 -16.67% 3
Wales -43 8 £62,500 -3.85% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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.

1 995 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 318 (31.96%) React
3 307 (30.85%) JavaScript
4 290 (29.15%) TypeScript
5 269 (27.04%) AWS
6 212 (21.31%) Node.js
7 189 (18.99%) .NET
8 186 (18.69%) Python
9 168 (16.88%) C#
10 164 (16.48%) Java
11 155 (15.58%) Agile
12 152 (15.28%) Azure
13 145 (14.57%) CI/CD
14 139 (13.97%) Microservices
15 138 (13.87%) AI
16 134 (13.47%) AngularJS
17 133 (13.37%) Software Engineering
18 124 (12.46%) CSS
19 116 (11.66%) HTML
19 116 (11.66%) Vue
20 111 (11.16%) DevOps
21 106 (10.65%) SQL
22 101 (10.15%) Serverless
23 96 (9.65%) Docker
24 92 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
25 88 (8.84%) SaaS
26 86 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
27 85 (8.54%) Git
28 84 (8.44%) Web Development
29 82 (8.24%) Security Cleared

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 13 (1.31%) CMS
2 11 (1.11%) Confluence
3 8 (0.80%) ColdFusion
4 7 (0.70%) WordPress
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.10%) CICS
8 1 (0.10%) Drupal
8 1 (0.10%) Liferay
8 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 269 (27.04%) AWS
2 152 (15.28%) Azure
3 101 (10.15%) Serverless
4 88 (8.84%) SaaS
5 80 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
6 72 (7.24%) Amazon S3
7 68 (6.83%) Amazon ECS
8 48 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
9 43 (4.32%) GitHub
10 42 (4.22%) GCP
11 31 (3.12%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (2.61%) AWS Step Functions
13 24 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (2.01%) Power Platform
16 18 (1.81%) Amazon ECR
16 18 (1.81%) Apigee
17 14 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
18 12 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
19 11 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.80%) Broadband
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
2 4 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.13%) SQL Server
3 44 (4.42%) MongoDB
4 34 (3.42%) MySQL
5 30 (3.02%) NoSQL
6 29 (2.91%) DynamoDB
7 23 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.21%) Power BI
9 11 (1.11%) Redis
10 10 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.80%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.20%) GIS
14 2 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
15 1 (0.10%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 85 (8.54%) Git
2 41 (4.12%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.92%) Cypress.io
4 24 (2.41%) GitLab
5 20 (2.01%) JIRA
5 20 (2.01%) Maven
6 14 (1.41%) JUnit
7 10 (1.01%) Mockito
8 9 (0.90%) Claude Code
8 9 (0.90%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.20%) ESLint
11 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.20%) JMeter
11 2 (0.20%) NUnit
11 2 (0.20%) Postman
11 2 (0.20%) Subversion
11 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 87 (8.74%) Social Skills
2 75 (7.54%) Finance
3 27 (2.71%) Public Sector
4 25 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (2.31%) Retail
6 16 (1.61%) Aviation
7 12 (1.21%) Banking
8 11 (1.11%) Front Office
8 11 (1.11%) Marketing
9 10 (1.01%) Legal
10 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.80%) Local Government
12 7 (0.70%) Games
13 6 (0.60%) Advertising
13 6 (0.60%) Law
13 6 (0.60%) Legal Technology
14 4 (0.40%) Publishing
15 3 (0.30%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (31.96%) React
2 212 (21.31%) Node.js
3 189 (18.99%) .NET
4 134 (13.47%) AngularJS
5 124 (12.46%) CSS
6 116 (11.66%) HTML
6 116 (11.66%) Vue
7 64 (6.43%) REST
7 64 (6.43%) Spring
8 61 (6.13%) RESTful
9 60 (6.03%) Spring Boot
10 49 (4.92%) .NET Core
11 47 (4.72%) Laravel
12 42 (4.22%) Jest
12 42 (4.22%) Next.js
13 38 (3.82%) Ruby on Rails
14 37 (3.72%) GraphQL
15 29 (2.91%) HTML5
16 27 (2.71%) CSS3
17 24 (2.41%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.04%) Cloud Native
2 26 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (1.81%) Mobile App
3 18 (1.81%) Product Ownership
4 17 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.11%) Fixed Income
7 10 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.70%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.60%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.50%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (0.40%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.40%) NHS
11 4 (0.40%) PropTech
11 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.71%) Linux
2 2 (0.20%) Android
2 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) AIX
3 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 995 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 155 (15.58%) Agile
3 145 (14.57%) CI/CD
4 139 (13.97%) Microservices
5 138 (13.87%) AI
6 133 (13.37%) Software Engineering
7 111 (11.16%) DevOps
8 92 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 84 (8.44%) Web Development
11 64 (6.43%) Mentoring
12 53 (5.33%) Clean Code
13 49 (4.92%) Front End Development
14 48 (4.82%) Computer Science
15 45 (4.52%) Containerisation
15 45 (4.52%) User Experience
16 40 (4.02%) SDLC
17 39 (3.92%) E-Commerce
17 39 (3.92%) TDD
17 39 (3.92%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 307 (30.85%) JavaScript
2 290 (29.15%) TypeScript
3 186 (18.69%) Python
4 168 (16.88%) C#
5 164 (16.48%) Java
6 106 (10.65%) SQL
7 62 (6.23%) PHP
8 38 (3.82%) Ruby
9 18 (1.81%) Bash
9 18 (1.81%) Groovy
10 12 (1.21%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.11%) Go
12 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.70%) C++
14 6 (0.60%) C
15 4 (0.40%) R
16 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.10%) CFML
Qualifications
1 82 (8.24%) Security Cleared
2 72 (7.24%) SC Cleared
3 48 (4.82%) Degree
4 41 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.41%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.51%) QA
2 8 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.50%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.10%) HL7
4 1 (0.10%) SLA
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 96 (9.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 31 (3.12%) Terraform
3 9 (0.90%) HP Fortify
4 7 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.60%) Ansible
6 5 (0.50%) Grafana
6 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.30%) Argo
7 3 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 40 (4.02%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.01%) Oracle
3 12 (1.21%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.40%) OneLogin
5 4 (0.40%) Pega
6 3 (0.30%) Google
6 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.30%) WooCommerce
7 2 (0.20%) Aderant
7 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.20%) Foundry
7 2 (0.20%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) Intapp
7 2 (0.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe
8 1 (0.10%) Databricks
8 1 (0.10%) SendGrid