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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 301 164
Rank change year-on-year +112 -137 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 978 453 1,775
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.02% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.15% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 845 353 1,375
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £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 £93,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -5.26%

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 86,325 39,559 100,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.42% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 58,991 22,376 72,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £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 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +112 883 £65,000 +8.33% 85
UK excluding London +105 699 £60,000 +6.67% 75
Work from Home +99 348 £62,500 +4.17% 58
North of England +116 243 £70,000 +27.27% 25
London +27 220 £80,000 +10.34% 17
South East +80 215 £60,000 +4.35% 20
North West +80 111 £67,500 +22.73% 15
Yorkshire +45 105 £75,000 +25.00% 6
Midlands +22 100 £60,000 +6.67% 9
South West -7 67 £55,000 -8.33% 14
West Midlands +2 55 £67,500 +8.00% 4
East Midlands +1 45 £55,000 +15.79% 5
East of England -7 40 £82,500 +83.33% 3
North East -22 27 £50,000 -14.89% 4
Scotland +14 25 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Wales -41 7 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 978 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 317 (32.41%) React
3 305 (31.19%) JavaScript
4 277 (28.32%) TypeScript
5 250 (25.56%) AWS
6 210 (21.47%) Node.js
7 197 (20.14%) .NET
8 184 (18.81%) Python
9 175 (17.89%) C#
10 160 (16.36%) Java
11 144 (14.72%) Azure
12 143 (14.62%) Agile
13 138 (14.11%) Microservices
14 132 (13.50%) CI/CD
15 131 (13.39%) Software Engineering
16 129 (13.19%) AngularJS
17 128 (13.09%) CSS
18 127 (12.99%) AI
19 119 (12.17%) HTML
20 111 (11.35%) Vue
21 110 (11.25%) DevOps
22 107 (10.94%) SQL
23 97 (9.92%) Serverless
24 92 (9.41%) Docker
25 89 (9.10%) Problem-Solving
26 87 (8.90%) SaaS
27 85 (8.69%) Git
28 83 (8.49%) Web Development
29 82 (8.38%) Security Cleared
30 81 (8.28%) PostgreSQL

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 (1.33%) Confluence
2 12 (1.23%) CMS
3 8 (0.82%) ColdFusion
4 7 (0.72%) WordPress
5 6 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.31%) Liferay
7 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 2 (0.20%) nginx
9 1 (0.10%) CICS
9 1 (0.10%) Drupal
9 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 250 (25.56%) AWS
2 144 (14.72%) Azure
3 97 (9.92%) Serverless
4 87 (8.90%) SaaS
5 74 (7.57%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (6.75%) Amazon S3
7 64 (6.54%) Amazon ECS
8 44 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
9 35 (3.58%) GCP
10 34 (3.48%) GitHub
11 30 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
13 20 (2.04%) Power Platform
14 19 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.53%) Amazon ECR
15 15 (1.53%) Apigee
16 13 (1.33%) GitHub Copilot
17 12 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
18 8 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.82%) Broadband
2 4 (0.41%) DNS
2 4 (0.41%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.24%) SQL Server
3 43 (4.40%) MongoDB
4 34 (3.48%) NoSQL
5 32 (3.27%) MySQL
6 24 (2.45%) DynamoDB
7 20 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.23%) Power BI
9 10 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.61%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.61%) Redis
11 4 (0.41%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.31%) Db2
12 3 (0.31%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.20%) GIS
13 2 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 85 (8.69%) Git
2 36 (3.68%) Cypress.io
3 34 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.25%) JIRA
5 18 (1.84%) GitLab
5 18 (1.84%) Maven
6 13 (1.33%) JUnit
7 11 (1.12%) Mockito
8 8 (0.82%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.61%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.41%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.31%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.31%) ESLint
11 3 (0.31%) Selenium
12 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.20%) JMeter
12 2 (0.20%) NUnit
12 2 (0.20%) Storybook
12 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (8.28%) Social Skills
2 80 (8.18%) Finance
3 28 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (2.45%) Public Sector
5 23 (2.35%) Retail
6 19 (1.94%) Aviation
7 15 (1.53%) Banking
8 11 (1.12%) Front Office
8 11 (1.12%) Marketing
9 9 (0.92%) Games
9 9 (0.92%) Tech for Good
10 7 (0.72%) Legal
10 7 (0.72%) Local Government
11 6 (0.61%) Advertising
11 6 (0.61%) Law
12 4 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.41%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.41%) Publishing
13 2 (0.20%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (32.41%) React
2 210 (21.47%) Node.js
3 197 (20.14%) .NET
4 129 (13.19%) AngularJS
5 128 (13.09%) CSS
6 119 (12.17%) HTML
7 111 (11.35%) Vue
8 68 (6.95%) REST
9 65 (6.65%) Spring
10 59 (6.03%) RESTful
11 57 (5.83%) Spring Boot
12 51 (5.21%) .NET Core
13 48 (4.91%) Laravel
14 40 (4.09%) Jest
15 39 (3.99%) Next.js
16 37 (3.78%) GraphQL
17 35 (3.58%) Ruby on Rails
18 30 (3.07%) HTML5
19 29 (2.97%) CSS3
20 28 (2.86%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 61 (6.24%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
2 20 (2.04%) Mobile App
2 20 (2.04%) Product Ownership
2 20 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (1.12%) Fixed Income
5 10 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (0.72%) Sports Betting
7 6 (0.61%) Data Structures
7 6 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.51%) AI Agents
8 5 (0.51%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.41%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (0.41%) NHS
9 4 (0.41%) PropTech
9 4 (0.41%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.31%) IoT
10 3 (0.31%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.64%) Linux
2 3 (0.31%) Android
2 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) AIX
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 978 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 143 (14.62%) Agile
3 138 (14.11%) Microservices
4 132 (13.50%) CI/CD
5 131 (13.39%) Software Engineering
6 127 (12.99%) AI
7 110 (11.25%) DevOps
8 89 (9.10%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (8.49%) Web Development
10 76 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (6.65%) Mentoring
12 46 (4.70%) Front End Development
13 45 (4.60%) Containerisation
14 44 (4.50%) Clean Code
14 44 (4.50%) TDD
14 44 (4.50%) User Experience
15 43 (4.40%) Computer Science
15 43 (4.40%) Scrum
16 39 (3.99%) SDLC
17 38 (3.89%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 305 (31.19%) JavaScript
2 277 (28.32%) TypeScript
3 184 (18.81%) Python
4 175 (17.89%) C#
5 160 (16.36%) Java
6 107 (10.94%) SQL
7 64 (6.54%) PHP
8 35 (3.58%) Ruby
9 16 (1.64%) Bash
10 13 (1.33%) Groovy
10 13 (1.33%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.02%) Go
12 8 (0.82%) C++
12 8 (0.82%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.72%) C
14 5 (0.51%) R
15 4 (0.41%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.20%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 82 (8.38%) Security Cleared
2 72 (7.36%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.40%) Degree
4 35 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (0.61%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.84%) QA
2 7 (0.72%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.31%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.10%) HL7
4 1 (0.10%) SLA
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 92 (9.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.76%) Terraform
3 8 (0.82%) Ansible
4 6 (0.61%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.41%) Grafana
7 3 (0.31%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Argo
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 39 (3.99%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.15%) Oracle
3 10 (1.02%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.61%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.51%) Peregrine
6 4 (0.41%) Google
6 4 (0.41%) Pega
6 4 (0.41%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.31%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.20%) Aderant
8 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.20%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.20%) Foundry
8 2 (0.20%) iManage
8 2 (0.20%) Intapp
8 2 (0.20%) SendGrid
8 2 (0.20%) Splunk
8 2 (0.20%) WSO2
9 1 (0.10%) Confluent
9 1 (0.10%) OneLogin