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 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 309 195
Rank change year-on-year +94 -114 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,020 436 1,088
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.88% 0.89% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.99% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 866 321 678
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 £75,000
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 108,248 44,029 73,823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 89.64% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 74,086 25,880 44,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 21 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 21 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 +93 905 £60,000 - 319
UK excluding London +106 775 £60,000 +4.35% 180
Work from Home +83 361 £60,000 - 160
North of England +73 223 £67,500 +12.50% 54
South East +50 222 £60,000 +4.35% 33
London -37 199 £70,000 -9.68% 174
Midlands +21 115 £60,000 - 25
Yorkshire +58 112 £75,000 +25.00% 13
South West +7 109 £60,000 - 26
North West +17 83 £63,750 +6.25% 33
West Midlands -8 67 £70,000 +16.67% 21
Scotland +49 52 £57,500 -4.17% 13
East Midlands +2 48 £60,000 +26.32% 4
East of England -24 40 £70,000 +69.70% 11
North East -40 28 £46,250 -22.92% 9
Wales -72 14 £62,500 +4.17% 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 1,020 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 348 (34.12%) JavaScript
3 309 (30.29%) React
4 308 (30.20%) TypeScript
5 300 (29.41%) AWS
6 220 (21.57%) Node.js
7 196 (19.22%) CI/CD
8 192 (18.82%) Agile
9 190 (18.63%) .NET
10 176 (17.25%) C#
11 172 (16.86%) Azure
12 169 (16.57%) Microservices
13 155 (15.20%) Java
14 153 (15.00%) AI
15 149 (14.61%) Python
16 130 (12.75%) CSS
17 125 (12.25%) HTML
18 121 (11.86%) Software Engineering
19 120 (11.76%) AngularJS
20 118 (11.57%) Docker
21 108 (10.59%) SaaS
22 107 (10.49%) SQL
23 103 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
23 103 (10.10%) SQL Server
24 102 (10.00%) Serverless
25 101 (9.90%) Git
26 100 (9.80%) DevOps
27 92 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
27 92 (9.02%) Vue
28 91 (8.92%) 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 15 (1.47%) Confluence
2 14 (1.37%) WordPress
3 11 (1.08%) CMS
4 7 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.49%) ColdFusion
6 4 (0.39%) IIS
7 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.20%) nginx
9 1 (0.098%) Apache
9 1 (0.098%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.098%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.098%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 300 (29.41%) AWS
2 172 (16.86%) Azure
3 108 (10.59%) SaaS
4 102 (10.00%) Serverless
5 86 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (8.14%) Amazon S3
7 82 (8.04%) GitHub
8 76 (7.45%) Amazon ECS
9 53 (5.20%) Amazon SQS
10 48 (4.71%) GCP
11 40 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (2.75%) AWS Step Functions
15 27 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
17 25 (2.45%) Snowflake
18 19 (1.86%) Amazon ECR
19 18 (1.76%) Anthropic Claude
19 18 (1.76%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.69%) Broadband
2 4 (0.39%) DNS
2 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.098%) Internet
4 1 (0.098%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (10.10%) SQL Server
2 85 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (5.39%) MongoDB
4 44 (4.31%) DynamoDB
5 33 (3.24%) MySQL
6 30 (2.94%) NoSQL
7 29 (2.84%) Relational Database
8 28 (2.75%) Redis
9 19 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.08%) Power BI
11 8 (0.78%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.39%) GIS
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.29%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
15 1 (0.098%) ClickHouse
15 1 (0.098%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.098%) DocumentDB
15 1 (0.098%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 101 (9.90%) Git
2 56 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.31%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.84%) GitLab
5 23 (2.25%) Maven
6 20 (1.96%) JUnit
7 18 (1.76%) JIRA
8 16 (1.57%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.27%) Mockito
10 11 (1.08%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.88%) Visual Studio
12 8 (0.78%) Storybook
12 8 (0.78%) Vite
13 7 (0.69%) NUnit
14 6 (0.59%) Postman
14 6 (0.59%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.49%) Selenium
16 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
16 4 (0.39%) Subversion
17 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 101 (9.90%) Social Skills
2 69 (6.76%) Public Sector
3 53 (5.20%) Finance
4 16 (1.57%) Retail
5 14 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.27%) Marketing
7 12 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.18%) Legal
8 7 (0.69%) Legal Technology
9 5 (0.49%) Games
10 4 (0.39%) Advertising
10 4 (0.39%) Aviation
10 4 (0.39%) Banking
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 (0.20%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (30.29%) React
2 220 (21.57%) Node.js
3 190 (18.63%) .NET
4 130 (12.75%) CSS
5 125 (12.25%) HTML
6 120 (11.76%) AngularJS
7 92 (9.02%) Vue
8 91 (8.92%) REST
9 76 (7.45%) Spring
10 73 (7.16%) RESTful
11 69 (6.76%) Spring Boot
12 55 (5.39%) Next.js
13 53 (5.20%) Jest
13 53 (5.20%) Ruby on Rails
14 44 (4.31%) .NET Core
15 42 (4.12%) Terraform
16 40 (3.92%) .NET Framework
17 38 (3.73%) ASP.NET
17 38 (3.73%) Entity Framework
18 33 (3.24%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 77 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 50 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (1.86%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.86%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (0.88%) IoT
7 7 (0.69%) AI Agents
7 7 (0.69%) Virtual Team
8 6 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.39%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.39%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.29%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (0.29%) Learning Management System
10 3 (0.29%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.29%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.29%) PKI
11 2 (0.20%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.37%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.098%) Windows
3 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,020 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 196 (19.22%) CI/CD
3 192 (18.82%) Agile
4 169 (16.57%) Microservices
5 153 (15.00%) AI
6 121 (11.86%) Software Engineering
7 103 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (9.80%) DevOps
9 92 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (7.25%) Clean Code
11 69 (6.76%) Web Development
12 64 (6.27%) Mentoring
13 59 (5.78%) Computer Science
14 56 (5.49%) E-Commerce
14 56 (5.49%) User Experience
15 54 (5.29%) Front End Development
15 54 (5.29%) SDLC
16 49 (4.80%) Technical Leadership
17 46 (4.51%) Test Automation
18 45 (4.41%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 348 (34.12%) JavaScript
2 308 (30.20%) TypeScript
3 176 (17.25%) C#
4 155 (15.20%) Java
5 149 (14.61%) Python
6 107 (10.49%) SQL
7 55 (5.39%) Ruby
8 51 (5.00%) PHP
9 44 (4.31%) Kotlin
10 22 (2.16%) Bash
11 20 (1.96%) Groovy
12 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.69%) C++
14 3 (0.29%) Go
14 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.20%) Bicep
15 2 (0.20%) Perl
16 1 (0.098%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.098%) C
16 1 (0.098%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (6.76%) Security Cleared
2 61 (5.98%) Degree
3 58 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 54 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.098%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.06%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.18%) QA
3 11 (1.08%) WCAG
4 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.098%) GRC
7 1 (0.098%) SLA
System Software
1 118 (11.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.08%) 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 (0.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.098%) Podman
Vendors
1 71 (6.96%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.35%) Oracle
3 17 (1.67%) Google
4 16 (1.57%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.88%) OneLogin
6 7 (0.69%) OutSystems
6 7 (0.69%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.59%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
9 3 (0.29%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.29%) Splunk
10 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.098%) Confluent
11 1 (0.098%) Mistral
11 1 (0.098%) NEC
11 1 (0.098%) Pega
11 1 (0.098%) WSO2