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 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 299 171
Rank change year-on-year +102 -128 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 995 417 1,662
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 0.98% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.09% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 856 324 1,318
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £39,100
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,438 £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 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £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 87,062 38,144 94,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 89.31% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 57,930 21,418 69,018
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
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 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -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 28 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 28 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 +108 903 £65,000 +8.33% 81
UK excluding London +126 708 £60,000 +9.09% 74
Work from Home +107 341 £65,000 +8.33% 52
North of England +110 239 £70,000 +27.27% 22
London +29 226 £80,000 +10.34% 19
South East +87 223 £60,000 +4.35% 26
Yorkshire +41 109 £75,000 +36.36% 12
North West +70 105 £67,500 +22.73% 5
Midlands +18 101 £60,000 +12.15% 13
South West -11 74 £55,000 -8.33% 7
West Midlands -8 55 £65,000 +8.33% 6
East Midlands +3 46 £55,000 +15.79% 7
East of England -14 45 £100,000 +122.22% 2
North East -26 25 £50,000 -13.04% 5
Scotland +10 23 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Wales -40 4 £53,750 -23.21% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 995 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 330 (33.17%) React
3 315 (31.66%) JavaScript
4 278 (27.94%) TypeScript
5 249 (25.03%) AWS
6 217 (21.81%) Node.js
7 199 (20.00%) .NET
8 187 (18.79%) Python
9 176 (17.69%) C#
10 161 (16.18%) Java
11 146 (14.67%) Agile
12 141 (14.17%) Azure
13 138 (13.87%) Software Engineering
14 137 (13.77%) Microservices
15 134 (13.47%) CI/CD
16 131 (13.17%) CSS
17 123 (12.36%) HTML
18 121 (12.16%) AI
18 121 (12.16%) AngularJS
19 112 (11.26%) DevOps
20 111 (11.16%) Vue
21 110 (11.06%) SQL
22 97 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
23 96 (9.65%) Docker
24 95 (9.55%) Serverless
25 91 (9.15%) Git
26 90 (9.05%) SaaS
27 89 (8.94%) Web Development
28 85 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
29 83 (8.34%) 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 14 (1.41%) Confluence
2 12 (1.21%) CMS
3 8 (0.80%) ColdFusion
3 8 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.70%) WordPress
5 6 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.30%) Liferay
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%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 249 (25.03%) AWS
2 141 (14.17%) Azure
3 95 (9.55%) Serverless
4 90 (9.05%) SaaS
5 69 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
6 64 (6.43%) Amazon S3
7 61 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
8 45 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
9 35 (3.52%) GCP
10 33 (3.32%) GitHub
11 30 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
12 24 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (1.81%) Power Platform
14 17 (1.71%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (1.51%) Apigee
16 14 (1.41%) Amazon ECR
17 11 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
18 8 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.70%) Broadband
2 5 (0.50%) HTTP
3 4 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.20%) Firewall
4 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.33%) SQL Server
3 42 (4.22%) MongoDB
4 36 (3.62%) NoSQL
5 34 (3.42%) MySQL
6 23 (2.31%) DynamoDB
7 19 (1.91%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.21%) Power BI
9 8 (0.80%) Redis
10 5 (0.50%) DB2
11 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.30%) RDBMS
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%) GIS
Development Applications
1 91 (9.15%) Git
2 39 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 36 (3.62%) Cypress.io
4 22 (2.21%) JIRA
5 18 (1.81%) GitLab
5 18 (1.81%) Maven
6 13 (1.31%) JUnit
7 11 (1.11%) Mockito
8 6 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.50%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.50%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.40%) Selenium
11 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.30%) ESLint
12 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.20%) Storybook
12 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 88 (8.84%) Social Skills
2 79 (7.94%) Finance
3 30 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (2.41%) Retail
5 23 (2.31%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.01%) Aviation
7 17 (1.71%) Banking
8 11 (1.11%) Front Office
8 11 (1.11%) Marketing
9 10 (1.01%) Games
10 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.70%) Legal
11 7 (0.70%) Local Government
12 6 (0.60%) Advertising
12 6 (0.60%) Law
13 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.50%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.40%) Publishing
15 3 (0.30%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (33.17%) React
2 217 (21.81%) Node.js
3 199 (20.00%) .NET
4 131 (13.17%) CSS
5 123 (12.36%) HTML
6 121 (12.16%) AngularJS
7 111 (11.16%) Vue
8 68 (6.83%) REST
9 67 (6.73%) Spring
10 64 (6.43%) RESTful
11 58 (5.83%) Spring Boot
12 53 (5.33%) Laravel
13 51 (5.13%) .NET Core
14 42 (4.22%) Next.js
15 39 (3.92%) Jest
16 38 (3.82%) GraphQL
17 34 (3.42%) Ruby on Rails
18 32 (3.22%) React Native
19 30 (3.02%) CSS3
19 30 (3.02%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 53 (5.33%) Cloud Native
2 26 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (2.31%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.91%) Product Ownership
4 19 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.11%) Fixed Income
7 9 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (0.80%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.60%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.50%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (0.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.40%) IoT
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%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.61%) 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
1 995 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 146 (14.67%) Agile
3 138 (13.87%) Software Engineering
4 137 (13.77%) Microservices
5 134 (13.47%) CI/CD
6 121 (12.16%) AI
7 112 (11.26%) DevOps
8 97 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (8.94%) Web Development
10 78 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (6.53%) Mentoring
12 48 (4.82%) Clean Code
12 48 (4.82%) Scrum
13 47 (4.72%) Front End Development
14 46 (4.62%) Containerisation
14 46 (4.62%) User Experience
15 45 (4.52%) TDD
16 44 (4.42%) SDLC
17 43 (4.32%) Computer Science
18 40 (4.02%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 315 (31.66%) JavaScript
2 278 (27.94%) TypeScript
3 187 (18.79%) Python
4 176 (17.69%) C#
5 161 (16.18%) Java
6 110 (11.06%) SQL
7 68 (6.83%) PHP
8 34 (3.42%) Ruby
9 16 (1.61%) Bash
10 13 (1.31%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.21%) Groovy
12 10 (1.01%) Go
13 9 (0.90%) C++
14 8 (0.80%) C
14 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.50%) R
16 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 83 (8.34%) Security Cleared
2 72 (7.24%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.32%) Degree
4 35 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.11%) AWS Certification
6 7 (0.70%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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 (1.71%) QA
2 7 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.20%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) HL7
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 96 (9.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (5.53%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.31%) Terraform
3 7 (0.70%) Ansible
3 7 (0.70%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.60%) HP Fortify
5 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.40%) Grafana
7 3 (0.30%) Kibana
7 3 (0.30%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Argo
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 36 (3.62%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.41%) Oracle
3 12 (1.21%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
4 5 (0.50%) WooCommerce
5 4 (0.40%) Google
5 4 (0.40%) Pega
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%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) Intapp
7 2 (0.20%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2
8 1 (0.10%) Databricks