Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 314 193
Rank change year-on-year +101 -121 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,027 442 1,111
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 0.89% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.00% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 879 326 687
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £74,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 107,455 44,314 74,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 89.66% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 73,770 26,055 44,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 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 18 September 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 +94 912 £62,500 +4.17% 304
UK excluding London +107 784 £60,000 +4.35% 179
Work from Home +91 365 £60,000 - 148
North of England +76 228 £65,000 +8.33% 54
South East +61 226 £60,000 +4.35% 33
London -30 197 £70,000 -9.68% 157
Midlands +28 115 £60,000 - 24
Yorkshire +50 114 £75,000 +25.00% 13
South West -9 110 £60,000 - 27
North West +36 86 £65,000 +8.33% 33
West Midlands -4 67 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Scotland +38 51 £57,500 -4.17% 17
East Midlands -8 48 £60,000 +26.32% 8
East of England -17 40 £70,000 +69.70% 12
North East -49 28 £46,250 -22.92% 9
Wales -70 14 £62,500 +4.17%

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 1,027 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 354 (34.47%) JavaScript
3 312 (30.38%) React
4 309 (30.09%) TypeScript
5 303 (29.50%) AWS
6 221 (21.52%) Node.js
7 196 (19.08%) CI/CD
8 193 (18.79%) Agile
9 190 (18.50%) .NET
10 176 (17.14%) C#
11 171 (16.65%) Azure
12 170 (16.55%) Microservices
13 154 (15.00%) Java
13 154 (15.00%) Python
14 152 (14.80%) AI
15 131 (12.76%) CSS
16 126 (12.27%) HTML
17 123 (11.98%) Software Engineering
18 120 (11.68%) AngularJS
19 118 (11.49%) Docker
20 112 (10.91%) SaaS
21 108 (10.52%) SQL
22 103 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
23 102 (9.93%) Git
23 102 (9.93%) Serverless
23 102 (9.93%) SQL Server
24 100 (9.74%) DevOps
25 97 (9.44%) Vue
26 93 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
27 91 (8.86%) REST

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 (1.36%) Confluence
1 14 (1.36%) WordPress
2 11 (1.07%) CMS
3 7 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.49%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.39%) IIS
6 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.097%) Apache
8 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.097%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 303 (29.50%) AWS
2 171 (16.65%) Azure
3 112 (10.91%) SaaS
4 102 (9.93%) Serverless
5 86 (8.37%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (8.08%) Amazon S3
7 81 (7.89%) GitHub
8 76 (7.40%) Amazon ECS
9 53 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
10 47 (4.58%) GCP
11 40 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
15 27 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
17 25 (2.43%) Snowflake
18 19 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
19 18 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
19 18 (1.75%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) Broadband
2 4 (0.39%) DNS
2 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.097%) Internet
4 1 (0.097%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (9.93%) SQL Server
2 87 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (5.36%) MongoDB
4 44 (4.28%) DynamoDB
5 34 (3.31%) MySQL
6 31 (3.02%) NoSQL
7 28 (2.73%) Redis
7 28 (2.73%) Relational Database
8 19 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.07%) Power BI
10 8 (0.78%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.39%) GIS
11 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.097%) ClickHouse
14 1 (0.097%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.097%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.097%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 102 (9.93%) Git
2 55 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.28%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.82%) GitLab
5 23 (2.24%) Maven
6 20 (1.95%) JUnit
7 18 (1.75%) JIRA
8 16 (1.56%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.27%) Mockito
10 11 (1.07%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.78%) Storybook
11 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.78%) Vite
12 6 (0.58%) NUnit
12 6 (0.58%) Postman
13 5 (0.49%) Selenium
13 5 (0.49%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
14 4 (0.39%) Subversion
15 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 101 (9.83%) Social Skills
2 71 (6.91%) Public Sector
3 52 (5.06%) Finance
4 17 (1.66%) Retail
5 14 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.27%) Marketing
7 12 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.17%) Legal
8 7 (0.68%) Legal Technology
9 5 (0.49%) Advertising
9 5 (0.49%) Banking
9 5 (0.49%) Games
10 4 (0.39%) Aviation
11 3 (0.29%) Automotive
11 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Law
11 3 (0.29%) Local Government
11 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (30.38%) React
2 221 (21.52%) Node.js
3 190 (18.50%) .NET
4 131 (12.76%) CSS
5 126 (12.27%) HTML
6 120 (11.68%) AngularJS
7 97 (9.44%) Vue
8 91 (8.86%) REST
9 76 (7.40%) Spring
10 74 (7.21%) RESTful
11 69 (6.72%) Spring Boot
12 55 (5.36%) Next.js
13 53 (5.16%) Jest
13 53 (5.16%) Ruby on Rails
14 43 (4.19%) .NET Core
15 42 (4.09%) Terraform
16 39 (3.80%) .NET Framework
17 38 (3.70%) ASP.NET
18 37 (3.60%) Entity Framework
19 33 (3.21%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 79 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 49 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (1.85%) Mobile App
5 18 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (0.88%) IoT
8 7 (0.68%) AI Agents
8 7 (0.68%) Virtual Team
9 6 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.39%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.39%) NHS
10 4 (0.39%) Sports Betting
11 3 (0.29%) Augmented Reality
11 3 (0.29%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.29%) Mainframe
11 3 (0.29%) PKI
11 3 (0.29%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.36%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.097%) Windows
3 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,027 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 196 (19.08%) CI/CD
3 193 (18.79%) Agile
4 170 (16.55%) Microservices
5 152 (14.80%) AI
6 123 (11.98%) Software Engineering
7 103 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (9.74%) DevOps
9 93 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (7.11%) Clean Code
11 71 (6.91%) Web Development
12 66 (6.43%) Mentoring
13 58 (5.65%) Computer Science
14 56 (5.45%) SDLC
14 56 (5.45%) User Experience
15 55 (5.36%) E-Commerce
16 54 (5.26%) Front End Development
17 49 (4.77%) Technical Leadership
18 48 (4.67%) Test Automation
19 44 (4.28%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 354 (34.47%) JavaScript
2 309 (30.09%) TypeScript
3 176 (17.14%) C#
4 154 (15.00%) Java
4 154 (15.00%) Python
5 108 (10.52%) SQL
6 55 (5.36%) Ruby
7 51 (4.97%) PHP
8 43 (4.19%) Kotlin
9 22 (2.14%) Bash
10 20 (1.95%) Groovy
11 10 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.68%) C++
13 3 (0.29%) Go
13 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.19%) Bicep
14 2 (0.19%) Perl
15 1 (0.097%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.097%) C
15 1 (0.097%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (6.72%) Security Cleared
2 60 (5.84%) Degree
3 58 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 53 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.58%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.097%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.097%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.17%) QA
3 11 (1.07%) WCAG
4 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.097%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.097%) GRC
7 1 (0.097%) SLA
System Software
1 118 (11.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (7.01%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.07%) HP Fortify
3 5 (0.49%) Ansible
3 5 (0.49%) Grafana
4 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Kibana
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.097%) Podman
Vendors
1 71 (6.91%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.34%) Oracle
3 17 (1.66%) Google
4 16 (1.56%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.88%) OneLogin
6 7 (0.68%) OutSystems
6 7 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.58%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
9 3 (0.29%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.29%) Splunk
10 2 (0.19%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.19%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.097%) Confluent
11 1 (0.097%) Mistral
11 1 (0.097%) NEC
11 1 (0.097%) Pega
11 1 (0.097%) WSO2