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 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 292 168
Rank change year-on-year +97 -124 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 986 452 1,619
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.04% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.16% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 849 353 1,298
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 £75,938
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 84,854 38,887 90,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 89.46% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 54,818 23,400 66,698
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +11.79% -12.04%
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 6 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 6 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 +118 891 £65,000 +8.33% 108
UK excluding London +100 682 £60,000 +9.09% 98
Work from Home +91 333 £65,000 +8.33% 57
London +37 233 £80,000 +14.29% 27
South East +65 223 £60,000 +9.09% 33
North of England +80 210 £70,000 +27.27% 30
Yorkshire +26 97 £75,000 +36.36% 11
Midlands +8 97 £60,000 +12.15% 10
North West +40 94 £70,000 +27.27% 13
South West +1 81 £55,000 -8.33% 14
West Midlands -2 53 £62,500 +4.17% 5
East of England +4 46 £100,000 +122.22% 6
East Midlands -13 44 £57,500 +21.05% 5
North East -18 19 £50,000 -2.44% 6
Scotland -15 17 £60,000 +17.65% 6
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 6 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.

1 986 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 344 (34.89%) React
3 314 (31.85%) JavaScript
4 274 (27.79%) TypeScript
5 234 (23.73%) AWS
6 226 (22.92%) Node.js
7 190 (19.27%) Python
8 183 (18.56%) .NET
9 169 (17.14%) C#
10 161 (16.33%) Java
11 138 (14.00%) Agile
12 134 (13.59%) Azure
13 132 (13.39%) CI/CD
14 130 (13.18%) Software Engineering
15 125 (12.68%) CSS
16 120 (12.17%) HTML
16 120 (12.17%) Microservices
17 118 (11.97%) AngularJS
18 117 (11.87%) DevOps
19 112 (11.36%) SQL
20 108 (10.95%) Vue
21 104 (10.55%) AI
22 96 (9.74%) Web Development
23 95 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
24 91 (9.23%) Docker
25 89 (9.03%) Git
25 89 (9.03%) Serverless
26 87 (8.82%) SaaS
27 83 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
28 82 (8.32%) 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 (1.32%) Confluence
2 9 (0.91%) CMS
2 9 (0.91%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.71%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.30%) Liferay
5 3 (0.30%) nginx
5 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.20%) Apache
6 2 (0.20%) Drupal
6 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
6 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.20%) WordPress
7 1 (0.10%) CICS
7 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 5 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 234 (23.73%) AWS
2 134 (13.59%) Azure
3 89 (9.03%) Serverless
4 87 (8.82%) SaaS
5 66 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (6.09%) Amazon S3
7 51 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
8 42 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
9 38 (3.85%) GitHub
10 37 (3.75%) GCP
11 26 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (1.62%) Power Platform
13 13 (1.32%) Apigee
13 13 (1.32%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (1.22%) Amazon ECR
14 12 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
15 10 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.61%) HTTP
2 4 (0.41%) Broadband
2 4 (0.41%) DNS
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) AMQP
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.29%) SQL Server
3 43 (4.36%) NoSQL
4 41 (4.16%) MongoDB
5 34 (3.45%) MySQL
6 22 (2.23%) DynamoDB
7 19 (1.93%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.12%) Power BI
10 9 (0.91%) Redis
11 8 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.71%) DB2
13 4 (0.41%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.30%) TimescaleDB
15 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
15 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.20%) Pinecone
15 2 (0.20%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 89 (9.03%) Git
2 35 (3.55%) Cypress.io
3 33 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.13%) JIRA
5 15 (1.52%) GitLab
6 12 (1.22%) Maven
7 7 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.71%) JUnit
8 6 (0.61%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.61%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.51%) Mockito
9 5 (0.51%) Selenium
10 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.30%) ESLint
10 3 (0.30%) webpack
11 2 (0.20%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.20%) Storybook
11 2 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 85 (8.62%) Social Skills
2 76 (7.71%) Finance
3 32 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (2.64%) Retail
5 25 (2.54%) Aviation
6 21 (2.13%) Banking
7 19 (1.93%) Public Sector
8 11 (1.12%) Front Office
8 11 (1.12%) Games
9 9 (0.91%) Tech for Good
10 8 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.71%) Local Government
11 7 (0.71%) Marketing
12 6 (0.61%) Advertising
12 6 (0.61%) Law
13 5 (0.51%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.41%) Publishing
15 3 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (34.89%) React
2 226 (22.92%) Node.js
3 183 (18.56%) .NET
4 125 (12.68%) CSS
5 120 (12.17%) HTML
6 118 (11.97%) AngularJS
7 108 (10.95%) Vue
8 68 (6.90%) REST
9 63 (6.39%) Spring
10 61 (6.19%) RESTful
11 55 (5.58%) Laravel
12 54 (5.48%) .NET Core
13 52 (5.27%) Spring Boot
14 44 (4.46%) Next.js
15 38 (3.85%) Jest
16 37 (3.75%) GraphQL
17 35 (3.55%) React Native
18 33 (3.35%) Ruby on Rails
19 32 (3.25%) HTML5
20 31 (3.14%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 46 (4.67%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.93%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.12%) Fixed Income
8 8 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (0.81%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.61%) AI Agents
9 6 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.41%) IoT
11 4 (0.41%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.41%) NHS
11 4 (0.41%) PropTech
11 4 (0.41%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.32%) Linux
2 4 (0.41%) Android
2 4 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 986 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 138 (14.00%) Agile
3 132 (13.39%) CI/CD
4 130 (13.18%) Software Engineering
5 120 (12.17%) Microservices
6 117 (11.87%) DevOps
7 104 (10.55%) AI
8 96 (9.74%) Web Development
9 95 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (5.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (5.07%) Clean Code
11 50 (5.07%) Mentoring
12 48 (4.87%) Front End Development
12 48 (4.87%) User Experience
13 47 (4.77%) API Development
14 43 (4.36%) Scrum
15 39 (3.96%) Containerisation
15 39 (3.96%) SDLC
16 38 (3.85%) Test Automation
17 36 (3.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 314 (31.85%) JavaScript
2 274 (27.79%) TypeScript
3 190 (19.27%) Python
4 169 (17.14%) C#
5 161 (16.33%) Java
6 112 (11.36%) SQL
7 67 (6.80%) PHP
8 33 (3.35%) Ruby
9 16 (1.62%) C
10 11 (1.12%) Bash
11 10 (1.01%) Go
11 10 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.81%) Groovy
12 8 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.71%) C++
14 5 (0.51%) R
15 3 (0.30%) COBOL
16 2 (0.20%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) RPG
16 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (8.32%) Security Cleared
2 67 (6.80%) SC Cleared
3 33 (3.35%) Degree
4 27 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.62%) QA
2 15 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.20%) HL7
3 2 (0.20%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 91 (9.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (4.56%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.23%) Terraform
3 7 (0.71%) Ansible
4 6 (0.61%) HP Fortify
5 5 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Nagios
7 2 (0.20%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
8 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (2.84%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.03%) Oracle
3 10 (1.01%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.51%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.41%) Google
5 4 (0.41%) Pega
5 4 (0.41%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.30%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.30%) Dynatrace
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%) Telerik
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2