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 21 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 268 182
Rank change year-on-year +47 -86 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 662 536 1,272
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.96% 1.10% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.21% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 530 331 1,136
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 62,841 44,387 71,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 91.47% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 39,642 23,421 55,777
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +65 608 £65,000 +8.33% 163
UK excluding London +31 410 £60,000 +9.09% 142
Work from Home +37 227 £60,000 - 98
London +63 211 £80,000 +16.36% 36
South East -9 143 £60,000 +4.35% 47
North of England +38 114 £65,000 +23.81% 39
Midlands +19 68 £55,000 -4.35% 29
South West +13 51 £57,500 +4.55% 22
North West +20 49 £67,500 +22.73% 20
Yorkshire -4 39 £75,000 +42.86% 13
West Midlands +7 34 £57,500 -2.13% 22
East Midlands -10 34 £55,000 - 7
East of England +5 26 £92,500 +105.56% 3
North East +4 26 £50,000 +17.65% 6
Wales -10 8 £45,000 -29.69%
Northern Ireland -26 2 £60,000 -33.33% 1
Scotland -18 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 21 February 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.

1 662 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 300 (45.32%) React
3 243 (36.71%) JavaScript
4 199 (30.06%) AWS
5 184 (27.79%) TypeScript
6 161 (24.32%) .NET
7 151 (22.81%) C#
8 150 (22.66%) Java
9 149 (22.51%) Agile
10 131 (19.79%) Azure
10 131 (19.79%) Node.js
10 131 (19.79%) Python
11 127 (19.18%) CI/CD
12 114 (17.22%) CSS
12 114 (17.22%) HTML
12 114 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
13 109 (16.47%) AngularJS
14 106 (16.01%) Microservices
15 105 (15.86%) SQL
16 95 (14.35%) DevOps
17 93 (14.05%) REST
18 92 (13.90%) Docker
19 84 (12.69%) Software Engineering
20 81 (12.24%) Vue
21 80 (12.08%) Git
22 77 (11.63%) AI
22 77 (11.63%) Serverless
23 73 (11.03%) Security Cleared
24 70 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
25 61 (9.21%) Kubernetes

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 (1.66%) CMS
2 8 (1.21%) Confluence
2 8 (1.21%) OpenStack
3 6 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.60%) nginx
5 3 (0.45%) ColdFusion
5 3 (0.45%) Drupal
5 3 (0.45%) Liferay
6 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) IIS
7 1 (0.15%) Kentico
7 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 199 (30.06%) AWS
2 131 (19.79%) Azure
3 77 (11.63%) Serverless
4 45 (6.80%) SaaS
5 43 (6.50%) Amazon S3
6 42 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (5.89%) GitHub
9 36 (5.44%) GCP
10 28 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
10 28 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (1.96%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (0.91%) Amazon EventBridge
17 4 (0.60%) Amazon ECR
17 4 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.30%) AMQP
1 2 (0.30%) Broadband
1 2 (0.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.15%) Internet
2 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 44 (6.65%) NoSQL
4 40 (6.04%) Relational Database
5 30 (4.53%) MySQL
6 28 (4.23%) MongoDB
7 16 (2.42%) RDBMS
8 13 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (1.96%) Redis
9 12 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.51%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.36%) Power BI
12 8 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.21%) DB2
13 3 (0.45%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.45%) ClickHouse
13 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.30%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.30%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 80 (12.08%) Git
2 36 (5.44%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.17%) Cypress.io
4 18 (2.72%) JUnit
5 17 (2.57%) Mockito
6 15 (2.27%) JIRA
7 12 (1.81%) Maven
7 12 (1.81%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.36%) JMeter
9 7 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.06%) GitLab
9 7 (1.06%) Selenium
10 6 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.91%) webpack
11 5 (0.76%) git-flow
12 4 (0.60%) Mocha
13 3 (0.45%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.45%) ESLint
13 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.30%) Storybook
General
1 89 (13.44%) Social Skills
2 66 (9.97%) Finance
3 38 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (5.14%) Banking
5 29 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.32%) Aviation
7 21 (3.17%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.27%) Retail
9 14 (2.11%) Front Office
9 14 (2.11%) Games
10 13 (1.96%) Law
11 11 (1.66%) Legal
12 10 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.51%) Marketing
13 7 (1.06%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.06%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.76%) Electronics
14 5 (0.76%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.45%) Local Government
15 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (45.32%) React
2 161 (24.32%) .NET
3 131 (19.79%) Node.js
4 114 (17.22%) CSS
4 114 (17.22%) HTML
5 109 (16.47%) AngularJS
6 93 (14.05%) REST
7 81 (12.24%) Vue
8 60 (9.06%) Spring
9 51 (7.70%) .NET Core
10 48 (7.25%) RESTful
11 40 (6.04%) Spring Boot
12 37 (5.59%) Laravel
13 31 (4.68%) ASP.NET
14 30 (4.53%) HTML5
15 29 (4.38%) CSS3
15 29 (4.38%) Kafka
16 27 (4.08%) Next.js
17 24 (3.63%) Django
17 24 (3.63%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.23%) Cloud Native
2 26 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.66%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.21%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.06%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.06%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.60%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.60%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.60%) IoT
11 4 (0.60%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.30%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.27%) Linux
2 8 (1.21%) Android
2 8 (1.21%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.30%) Unix
3 2 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 149 (22.51%) Agile
3 127 (19.18%) CI/CD
4 114 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (16.01%) Microservices
6 95 (14.35%) DevOps
7 84 (12.69%) Software Engineering
8 77 (11.63%) AI
9 58 (8.76%) User Experience
10 50 (7.55%) API Development
11 49 (7.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (7.25%) Scrum
13 47 (7.10%) Clean Code
13 47 (7.10%) SDLC
13 47 (7.10%) TDD
13 47 (7.10%) Web Development
14 42 (6.34%) Front End Development
15 41 (6.19%) Mentoring
16 40 (6.04%) Containerisation
17 34 (5.14%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 243 (36.71%) JavaScript
2 184 (27.79%) TypeScript
3 151 (22.81%) C#
4 150 (22.66%) Java
5 131 (19.79%) Python
6 105 (15.86%) SQL
7 45 (6.80%) PHP
8 16 (2.42%) C
9 14 (2.11%) Ruby
10 12 (1.81%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.66%) Go
11 11 (1.66%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.36%) Bash
13 6 (0.91%) C++
13 6 (0.91%) R
14 4 (0.60%) XAML
15 3 (0.45%) COBOL
15 3 (0.45%) Groovy
15 3 (0.45%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.30%) RPG
Qualifications
1 73 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 44 (6.65%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.83%) Degree
4 27 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.57%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.38%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.47%) QA
3 6 (0.91%) WCAG
4 1 (0.15%) GDPR
4 1 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 92 (13.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (9.21%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.87%) Terraform
3 10 (1.51%) Kibana
4 8 (1.21%) Ansible
5 4 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.45%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.30%) Argo
7 2 (0.30%) Grafana
7 2 (0.30%) Nagios
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (3.47%) Oracle
2 16 (2.42%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.51%) Dynatrace
4 9 (1.36%) Splunk
5 8 (1.21%) Google
5 8 (1.21%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.60%) Telerik
7 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.45%) iManage
7 3 (0.45%) Pega
7 3 (0.45%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.45%) WSO2
7 3 (0.45%) Zoho
8 2 (0.30%) Foundry
8 2 (0.30%) IBM
8 2 (0.30%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.15%) SAP
9 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow