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 9 February 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 269 178
Rank change year-on-year +44 -91 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 621 557 1,250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.11% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.20% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 490 334 1,135
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,750 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,125 £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 59,580 46,251 70,577
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.08% 91.84% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 37,171 23,847 55,273
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +50 570 £65,000 +8.33% 178
UK excluding London +22 380 £60,000 +9.09% 152
London +61 202 £80,000 +14.29% 51
Work from Home +23 202 £60,000 - 117
South East +5 143 £60,000 +4.35% 53
North of England +49 102 £62,500 +28.21% 41
Midlands +19 61 £55,000 -4.35% 26
South West +3 43 £58,750 +6.82% 23
North West +31 41 £65,000 +30.00% 23
Yorkshire -3 37 £75,000 +50.00% 11
East Midlands -5 31 £55,000 - 13
West Midlands +21 30 £57,500 -2.13% 13
North East +15 24 £50,000 +17.65% 7
East of England 0 23 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Wales -5 8 £45,000 -29.69% 2
Scotland -28 3 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 February 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.

1 621 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 295 (47.50%) React
3 233 (37.52%) JavaScript
4 194 (31.24%) AWS
5 172 (27.70%) TypeScript
6 157 (25.28%) .NET
7 147 (23.67%) Java
8 146 (23.51%) Agile
8 146 (23.51%) C#
9 132 (21.26%) Azure
10 127 (20.45%) CI/CD
11 124 (19.97%) Python
12 122 (19.65%) Node.js
13 118 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
14 109 (17.55%) CSS
14 109 (17.55%) HTML
15 108 (17.39%) SQL
16 106 (17.07%) AngularJS
17 102 (16.43%) Microservices
18 96 (15.46%) DevOps
19 93 (14.98%) REST
20 88 (14.17%) Docker
21 82 (13.20%) Software Engineering
22 81 (13.04%) Vue
23 80 (12.88%) Git
24 76 (12.24%) AI
25 74 (11.92%) Serverless
26 72 (11.59%) Security Cleared
27 68 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
28 63 (10.14%) User Experience

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 11 (1.77%) CMS
2 8 (1.29%) OpenStack
3 7 (1.13%) Confluence
4 6 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.64%) nginx
6 3 (0.48%) ColdFusion
6 3 (0.48%) Liferay
7 2 (0.32%) Drupal
7 2 (0.32%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Kentico
8 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 194 (31.24%) AWS
2 132 (21.26%) Azure
3 74 (11.92%) Serverless
4 44 (7.09%) SaaS
5 43 (6.92%) GitHub
6 41 (6.60%) Amazon S3
7 39 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (6.12%) GCP
9 29 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (1.93%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.29%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (0.97%) Amazon EventBridge
17 5 (0.81%) npm
18 4 (0.64%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.32%) AMQP
1 2 (0.32%) Broadband
1 2 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.16%) Internet
2 1 (0.16%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (9.18%) SQL Server
3 46 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 40 (6.44%) Relational Database
5 31 (4.99%) MySQL
6 26 (4.19%) MongoDB
7 17 (2.74%) RDBMS
8 13 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (2.09%) Redis
9 10 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.61%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.45%) Power BI
11 8 (1.29%) DB2
12 3 (0.48%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.48%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.32%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.32%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 80 (12.88%) Git
2 35 (5.64%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.22%) Cypress.io
4 18 (2.90%) JUnit
5 17 (2.74%) Mockito
6 15 (2.42%) JIRA
7 12 (1.93%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.77%) Maven
9 9 (1.45%) JMeter
10 7 (1.13%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.13%) Selenium
11 6 (0.97%) GitLab
11 6 (0.97%) webpack
12 5 (0.81%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.81%) git-flow
13 4 (0.64%) Mocha
14 3 (0.48%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.48%) ESLint
14 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (14.65%) Social Skills
2 61 (9.82%) Finance
3 37 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.15%) Banking
5 30 (4.83%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.54%) Aviation
7 21 (3.38%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.25%) Law
8 14 (2.25%) Retail
9 12 (1.93%) Front Office
9 12 (1.93%) Games
10 11 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.77%) Legal
11 10 (1.61%) Marketing
12 6 (0.97%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.97%) Tech for Good
13 5 (0.81%) Electronics
13 5 (0.81%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (47.50%) React
2 157 (25.28%) .NET
3 122 (19.65%) Node.js
4 109 (17.55%) CSS
4 109 (17.55%) HTML
5 106 (17.07%) AngularJS
6 93 (14.98%) REST
7 81 (13.04%) Vue
8 62 (9.98%) Spring
9 54 (8.70%) RESTful
10 52 (8.37%) .NET Core
11 40 (6.44%) Spring Boot
12 35 (5.64%) Laravel
13 34 (5.48%) ASP.NET
14 33 (5.31%) HTML5
15 32 (5.15%) CSS3
16 28 (4.51%) Kafka
17 26 (4.19%) Next.js
18 24 (3.86%) Django
19 23 (3.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.42%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.29%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.29%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.64%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.64%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.64%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.64%) IoT
10 4 (0.64%) Sports Betting
11 3 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.32%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.25%) Linux
2 8 (1.29%) Android
2 8 (1.29%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.32%) Unix
3 2 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 621 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 146 (23.51%) Agile
3 127 (20.45%) CI/CD
4 118 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (16.43%) Microservices
6 96 (15.46%) DevOps
7 82 (13.20%) Software Engineering
8 76 (12.24%) AI
9 63 (10.14%) User Experience
10 49 (7.89%) Clean Code
10 49 (7.89%) SDLC
11 48 (7.73%) Scrum
12 47 (7.57%) TDD
13 46 (7.41%) API Development
13 46 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (6.92%) Web Development
15 38 (6.12%) Front End Development
15 38 (6.12%) Mentoring
16 37 (5.96%) Containerisation
17 34 (5.48%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 233 (37.52%) JavaScript
2 172 (27.70%) TypeScript
3 147 (23.67%) Java
4 146 (23.51%) C#
5 124 (19.97%) Python
6 108 (17.39%) SQL
7 43 (6.92%) PHP
8 16 (2.58%) C
9 13 (2.09%) Ruby
10 12 (1.93%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.77%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.61%) Go
13 9 (1.45%) Bash
14 7 (1.13%) C++
15 6 (0.97%) R
16 4 (0.64%) XAML
17 3 (0.48%) COBOL
17 3 (0.48%) Groovy
18 2 (0.32%) RPG
18 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.60%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.31%) Degree
4 28 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.22%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.64%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.15%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.70%) QA
3 8 (1.29%) WCAG
4 2 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 88 (14.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (9.34%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.22%) Terraform
3 9 (1.45%) Kibana
4 8 (1.29%) Ansible
5 3 (0.48%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.32%) Argo
6 2 (0.32%) Nagios
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (3.70%) Oracle
2 15 (2.42%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.61%) Dynatrace
4 9 (1.45%) Splunk
5 8 (1.29%) Google
6 7 (1.13%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.64%) Telerik
8 3 (0.48%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.48%) Pega
8 3 (0.48%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.48%) WSO2
8 3 (0.48%) Zoho
9 2 (0.32%) Foundry
9 2 (0.32%) IBM
9 2 (0.32%) iManage
9 2 (0.32%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe
10 1 (0.16%) IONA
10 1 (0.16%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.16%) SAP