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 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 295 163
Rank change year-on-year +99 -132 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,007 487 1,758
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.02% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.14% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 882 380 1,347
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,938 £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 £76,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 91,032 42,825 99,548
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 89.92% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 62,489 24,971 71,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,772 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.54% - -5.76%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +106 898 £65,000 +8.33% 123
UK excluding London +103 747 £60,000 +4.35% 104
Work from Home +87 367 £62,500 +4.17% 80
North of England +122 254 £65,000 +8.33% 20
South East +69 210 £60,000 +4.35% 27
London -4 203 £80,000 +6.67% 36
North West +60 116 £65,000 +18.18% 13
Yorkshire +57 106 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Midlands +18 103 £60,000 +4.35% 25
South West -9 91 £57,500 -4.17% 13
West Midlands -6 57 £70,000 +16.67% 15
East Midlands +9 46 £57,500 +21.05% 10
East of England -20 40 £82,500 +83.33% 7
Scotland +29 36 £55,000 -4.35% 8
North East -16 32 £50,000 -37.50% 3
Wales -49 11 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Northern Ireland -48 2 £60,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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 1,007 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 323 (32.08%) JavaScript
3 317 (31.48%) React
4 298 (29.59%) TypeScript
5 283 (28.10%) AWS
6 223 (22.14%) Node.js
7 186 (18.47%) Python
8 184 (18.27%) .NET
9 170 (16.88%) Java
10 166 (16.48%) C#
11 165 (16.39%) Agile
12 160 (15.89%) CI/CD
13 153 (15.19%) Azure
14 144 (14.30%) Microservices
15 141 (14.00%) Software Engineering
16 138 (13.70%) AngularJS
17 134 (13.31%) AI
18 125 (12.41%) CSS
19 122 (12.12%) Vue
20 121 (12.02%) HTML
21 110 (10.92%) DevOps
22 105 (10.43%) Serverless
23 104 (10.33%) Docker
23 104 (10.33%) SQL
24 94 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
24 94 (9.33%) SaaS
25 90 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
26 85 (8.44%) Git
27 84 (8.34%) AWS Lambda
28 81 (8.04%) 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 (1.29%) CMS
1 13 (1.29%) Confluence
2 9 (0.89%) WordPress
3 8 (0.79%) ColdFusion
4 4 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.20%) Apache
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
6 2 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.099%) CICS
7 1 (0.099%) Drupal
7 1 (0.099%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.099%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.099%) Magento
2 1 (0.099%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 283 (28.10%) AWS
2 153 (15.19%) Azure
3 105 (10.43%) Serverless
4 94 (9.33%) SaaS
5 84 (8.34%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (7.45%) Amazon S3
7 70 (6.95%) Amazon ECS
8 51 (5.06%) GitHub
9 46 (4.57%) GCP
10 45 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
11 30 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
13 27 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (1.99%) Amazon ECR
15 20 (1.99%) Apigee
16 19 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
17 18 (1.79%) Power Platform
18 16 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
19 13 (1.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.79%) Broadband
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
2 4 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.099%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (6.65%) SQL Server
3 45 (4.47%) MongoDB
4 40 (3.97%) MySQL
5 34 (3.38%) DynamoDB
6 28 (2.78%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.48%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.49%) Redis
9 12 (1.19%) Power BI
10 9 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.79%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.20%) GIS
14 2 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
15 1 (0.099%) Apache Arrow
15 1 (0.099%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 85 (8.44%) Git
2 47 (4.67%) Jenkins
3 40 (3.97%) Cypress.io
4 27 (2.68%) GitLab
5 23 (2.28%) JIRA
6 21 (2.09%) Maven
7 15 (1.49%) JUnit
8 12 (1.19%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.09%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.89%) Mockito
11 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.30%) Postman
12 3 (0.30%) Selenium
13 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.20%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.20%) Karma Test Runner
13 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.20%) YouTrack
General
1 88 (8.74%) Social Skills
2 72 (7.15%) Finance
3 28 (2.78%) Public Sector
4 24 (2.38%) Retail
5 22 (2.18%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (1.39%) Aviation
7 11 (1.09%) Front Office
7 11 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (0.99%) Banking
8 10 (0.99%) Legal
8 10 (0.99%) Marketing
9 9 (0.89%) Tech for Good
10 7 (0.70%) Games
11 6 (0.60%) Advertising
11 6 (0.60%) Law
11 6 (0.60%) Legal Technology
12 5 (0.50%) Local Government
13 4 (0.40%) Publishing
14 3 (0.30%) Automotive
14 3 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (31.48%) React
2 223 (22.14%) Node.js
3 184 (18.27%) .NET
4 138 (13.70%) AngularJS
5 125 (12.41%) CSS
6 122 (12.12%) Vue
7 121 (12.02%) HTML
8 70 (6.95%) REST
9 69 (6.85%) Spring
10 67 (6.65%) Spring Boot
11 62 (6.16%) RESTful
12 46 (4.57%) Laravel
13 44 (4.37%) .NET Core
13 44 (4.37%) Jest
14 42 (4.17%) Next.js
15 39 (3.87%) Ruby on Rails
16 38 (3.77%) GraphQL
17 30 (2.98%) HTML5
18 28 (2.78%) CSS3
19 25 (2.48%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.05%) Cloud Native
2 30 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 17 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 16 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.09%) Fixed Income
8 7 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.70%) Sports Betting
9 5 (0.50%) IoT
10 4 (0.40%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
10 4 (0.40%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.40%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.40%) NHS
10 4 (0.40%) PropTech
10 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.69%) Linux
2 3 (0.30%) AIX
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.099%) Android
4 1 (0.099%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.099%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,007 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 165 (16.39%) Agile
3 160 (15.89%) CI/CD
4 144 (14.30%) Microservices
5 141 (14.00%) Software Engineering
6 134 (13.31%) AI
7 110 (10.92%) DevOps
8 94 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (7.85%) Web Development
11 64 (6.36%) Mentoring
12 61 (6.06%) Clean Code
13 51 (5.06%) Front End Development
14 50 (4.97%) Computer Science
15 47 (4.67%) User Experience
16 45 (4.47%) Containerisation
17 43 (4.27%) E-Commerce
18 41 (4.07%) SDLC
19 40 (3.97%) TDD
20 39 (3.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 323 (32.08%) JavaScript
2 298 (29.59%) TypeScript
3 186 (18.47%) Python
4 170 (16.88%) Java
5 166 (16.48%) C#
6 104 (10.33%) SQL
7 60 (5.96%) PHP
8 39 (3.87%) Ruby
9 20 (1.99%) Groovy
10 19 (1.89%) Bash
11 12 (1.19%) Go
12 11 (1.09%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.70%) C++
15 5 (0.50%) C
16 3 (0.30%) R
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.099%) CFML
Qualifications
1 81 (8.04%) Security Cleared
2 71 (7.05%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.06%) Degree
4 44 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.099%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.19%) Accessibility
2 11 (1.09%) QA
3 9 (0.89%) WCAG
4 1 (0.099%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.099%) HL7
4 1 (0.099%) SLA
4 1 (0.099%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 104 (10.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.28%) Terraform
3 11 (1.09%) HP Fortify
4 7 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.60%) Ansible
5 6 (0.60%) Grafana
6 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.30%) Argo
7 3 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 46 (4.57%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.99%) Oracle
3 11 (1.09%) OpenAI
4 8 (0.79%) OneLogin
5 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.50%) Google
5 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
6 4 (0.40%) Pega
7 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.20%) Aderant
8 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.20%) iManage
8 2 (0.20%) Intapp
8 2 (0.20%) Splunk
8 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.20%) WSO2
9 1 (0.099%) Adobe
9 1 (0.099%) Confluent
9 1 (0.099%) Databricks