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 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 293 170
Rank change year-on-year +107 -123 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 990 436 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.00% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.12% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 849 341 1,291
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,250
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £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 84,829 38,939 91,215
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 89.48% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 55,870 22,758 66,964
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,508
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.51% -12.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £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% -5.66%

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 15 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 15 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 +125 897 £65,000 +8.33% 111
UK excluding London +124 693 £60,000 +9.09% 92
Work from Home +116 339 £65,000 +8.33% 51
London +44 233 £80,000 +10.34% 33
South East +75 229 £60,000 +4.35% 28
North of England +107 219 £70,000 +27.27% 31
Yorkshire +31 102 £75,000 +30.43% 9
North West +66 98 £67,500 +22.73% 14
Midlands +11 97 £60,000 +14.29% 16
South West -4 76 £55,000 -8.33% 11
West Midlands -9 54 £65,000 +10.64% 7
East of England +1 45 £100,000 +122.22% 3
East Midlands +5 43 £60,000 +26.32% 9
Scotland +3 20 £60,000 +17.07% 5
North East -25 19 £50,000 -2.44% 8
Wales -29 8 £52,500 -25.00%
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 990 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 338 (34.14%) React
3 320 (32.32%) JavaScript
4 273 (27.58%) TypeScript
5 238 (24.04%) AWS
6 227 (22.93%) Node.js
7 188 (18.99%) .NET
7 188 (18.99%) Python
8 171 (17.27%) C#
9 163 (16.46%) Java
10 138 (13.94%) Agile
11 137 (13.84%) Software Engineering
12 133 (13.43%) Azure
13 131 (13.23%) CI/CD
13 131 (13.23%) Microservices
14 130 (13.13%) CSS
15 125 (12.63%) HTML
16 116 (11.72%) DevOps
17 115 (11.62%) AngularJS
18 112 (11.31%) AI
18 112 (11.31%) Vue
19 109 (11.01%) SQL
20 92 (9.29%) Docker
20 92 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
21 91 (9.19%) Web Development
22 90 (9.09%) SaaS
22 90 (9.09%) Serverless
23 89 (8.99%) Git
24 83 (8.38%) Security Cleared
25 82 (8.28%) 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 15 (1.52%) Confluence
2 11 (1.11%) CMS
3 9 (0.91%) ColdFusion
4 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.40%) WordPress
7 3 (0.30%) Liferay
7 3 (0.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) Drupal
8 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.10%) CICS
9 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 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
1 238 (24.04%) AWS
2 133 (13.43%) Azure
3 90 (9.09%) SaaS
3 90 (9.09%) Serverless
4 64 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
5 59 (5.96%) Amazon S3
6 54 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
7 42 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
8 37 (3.74%) GCP
9 34 (3.43%) GitHub
10 28 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
11 27 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.72%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (1.31%) Apigee
14 13 (1.31%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (1.21%) Amazon ECR
15 12 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
17 8 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.61%) HTTP
2 5 (0.51%) Broadband
3 4 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) AMQP
5 1 (0.10%) Firewall
5 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.26%) SQL Server
3 41 (4.14%) MongoDB
4 37 (3.74%) NoSQL
5 32 (3.23%) MySQL
6 20 (2.02%) DynamoDB
6 20 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (1.21%) Power BI
8 9 (0.91%) Redis
9 8 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.71%) DB2
11 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
12 3 (0.30%) TimescaleDB
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 89 (8.99%) Git
2 37 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.54%) Cypress.io
4 23 (2.32%) JIRA
5 16 (1.62%) GitLab
5 16 (1.62%) Maven
6 11 (1.11%) JUnit
7 9 (0.91%) Mockito
8 7 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.61%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.61%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.51%) Selenium
11 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.30%) ESLint
11 3 (0.30%) webpack
12 2 (0.20%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.20%) Storybook
General
1 83 (8.38%) Social Skills
2 79 (7.98%) Finance
3 31 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (2.42%) Retail
5 23 (2.32%) Aviation
5 23 (2.32%) Public Sector
6 19 (1.92%) Banking
7 11 (1.11%) Front Office
7 11 (1.11%) Games
8 9 (0.91%) Tech for Good
9 8 (0.81%) Marketing
10 7 (0.71%) Local Government
11 6 (0.61%) Advertising
11 6 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.61%) Law
12 4 (0.40%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.40%) Legal
12 4 (0.40%) Publishing
13 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (34.14%) React
2 227 (22.93%) Node.js
3 188 (18.99%) .NET
4 130 (13.13%) CSS
5 125 (12.63%) HTML
6 115 (11.62%) AngularJS
7 112 (11.31%) Vue
8 67 (6.77%) RESTful
9 66 (6.67%) Spring
10 65 (6.57%) REST
11 56 (5.66%) Spring Boot
12 54 (5.45%) .NET Core
13 53 (5.35%) Laravel
14 43 (4.34%) Next.js
15 39 (3.94%) Jest
16 37 (3.74%) GraphQL
17 35 (3.54%) React Native
18 33 (3.33%) HTML5
18 33 (3.33%) Ruby on Rails
19 32 (3.23%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 48 (4.85%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (2.42%) Mobile App
4 18 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.11%) Fixed Income
8 10 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (0.81%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.61%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.51%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.51%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.40%) IoT
12 4 (0.40%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.40%) NHS
12 4 (0.40%) PropTech
13 3 (0.30%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.41%) Linux
2 4 (0.40%) Android
2 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 990 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 138 (13.94%) Agile
3 137 (13.84%) Software Engineering
4 131 (13.23%) CI/CD
4 131 (13.23%) Microservices
5 116 (11.72%) DevOps
6 112 (11.31%) AI
7 92 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (9.19%) Web Development
9 68 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (6.16%) Mentoring
11 48 (4.85%) Clean Code
11 48 (4.85%) User Experience
12 47 (4.75%) Front End Development
13 45 (4.55%) Scrum
14 44 (4.44%) SDLC
15 43 (4.34%) API Development
15 43 (4.34%) Containerisation
16 42 (4.24%) TDD
17 39 (3.94%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 320 (32.32%) JavaScript
2 273 (27.58%) TypeScript
3 188 (18.99%) Python
4 171 (17.27%) C#
5 163 (16.46%) Java
6 109 (11.01%) SQL
7 65 (6.57%) PHP
8 33 (3.33%) Ruby
9 13 (1.31%) Bash
10 12 (1.21%) C
10 12 (1.21%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.91%) Go
12 8 (0.81%) Groovy
12 8 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.71%) C++
14 5 (0.51%) R
15 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.30%) COBOL
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) RPG
Qualifications
1 83 (8.38%) Security Cleared
2 70 (7.07%) SC Cleared
3 38 (3.84%) Degree
4 32 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (0.91%) AWS Certification
5 9 (0.91%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.72%) QA
2 10 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.20%) HL7
3 2 (0.20%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 92 (9.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.22%) Terraform
3 8 (0.81%) Ansible
4 6 (0.61%) HP Fortify
5 5 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Kibana
6 3 (0.30%) Nagios
7 2 (0.20%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
Vendors
1 29 (2.93%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.22%) Oracle
3 11 (1.11%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.51%) Dynatrace
4 5 (0.51%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.40%) Google
5 4 (0.40%) Pega
5 4 (0.40%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.30%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.20%) Aderant
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe
7 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.20%) Foundry
7 2 (0.20%) IBM
7 2 (0.20%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) Intapp
7 2 (0.20%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2