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 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 311 203
Rank change year-on-year +86 -108 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 995 438 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 0.88% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.98% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 835 321 621
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -6.78%

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 109,690 44,526 71,445
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 89.77% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,912 25,656 41,522
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,825 £36,250 £40,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,000 £73,775 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +81 885 £60,000 -4.00% 328
UK excluding London +92 741 £60,000 +4.35% 201
Work from Home +84 356 £60,000 - 161
North of England +76 214 £65,000 +8.33% 60
London -18 211 £67,500 -12.90% 154
South East +47 209 £60,000 +4.35% 41
South West +12 110 £60,000 - 20
Yorkshire +62 109 £70,000 +16.67% 25
Midlands +14 108 £60,000 - 31
North West +11 77 £60,000 - 31
West Midlands -11 61 £70,000 +16.67% 23
Scotland +44 51 £55,000 -8.33% 17
East Midlands -2 47 £60,000 +14.29% 8
East of England -33 35 £60,000 +45.45% 20
North East -44 28 £46,250 -7.50% 6
Wales -77 14 £62,500 +4.17% 2

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

For the 6 months to 2 October 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.

1 995 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 333 (33.47%) JavaScript
3 304 (30.55%) React
4 295 (29.65%) TypeScript
5 287 (28.84%) AWS
6 212 (21.31%) Node.js
7 193 (19.40%) CI/CD
8 185 (18.59%) Agile
9 182 (18.29%) .NET
10 170 (17.09%) Azure
11 167 (16.78%) C#
11 167 (16.78%) Microservices
12 155 (15.58%) AI
13 152 (15.28%) Java
14 133 (13.37%) Python
15 123 (12.36%) Software Engineering
16 120 (12.06%) Docker
17 119 (11.96%) CSS
18 116 (11.66%) HTML
19 113 (11.36%) AngularJS
20 106 (10.65%) SaaS
21 104 (10.45%) SQL Server
22 103 (10.35%) Problem-Solving
23 100 (10.05%) Git
24 97 (9.75%) SQL
25 93 (9.35%) REST
26 92 (9.25%) Serverless
27 90 (9.05%) DevOps
28 89 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
29 83 (8.34%) 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 15 (1.51%) Confluence
1 15 (1.51%) WordPress
2 11 (1.11%) CMS
3 7 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.40%) IIS
5 3 (0.30%) ColdFusion
5 3 (0.30%) nginx
5 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Shopify
2 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 287 (28.84%) AWS
2 170 (17.09%) Azure
3 106 (10.65%) SaaS
4 92 (9.25%) Serverless
5 80 (8.04%) GitHub
6 78 (7.84%) Amazon S3
6 78 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
7 71 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
8 48 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
9 47 (4.72%) GCP
10 38 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (2.71%) GitHub Copilot
12 27 (2.71%) Snowflake
13 24 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (2.41%) AWS Step Functions
14 18 (1.81%) Anthropic Claude
15 16 (1.61%) Amazon ECR
16 15 (1.51%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.70%) Broadband
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
2 4 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (10.45%) SQL Server
2 83 (8.34%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (5.43%) MongoDB
4 38 (3.82%) DynamoDB
5 32 (3.22%) Relational Database
6 30 (3.02%) MySQL
6 30 (3.02%) Redis
7 22 (2.21%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.11%) Power BI
10 8 (0.80%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.40%) GIS
12 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.20%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.10%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 100 (10.05%) Git
2 56 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 41 (4.12%) Cypress.io
4 27 (2.71%) GitLab
5 21 (2.11%) Maven
6 20 (2.01%) JUnit
7 18 (1.81%) Claude Code
8 15 (1.51%) JIRA
9 13 (1.31%) Mockito
10 10 (1.01%) Vite
11 9 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.90%) Storybook
11 9 (0.90%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.70%) NUnit
13 6 (0.60%) Postman
13 6 (0.60%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.50%) Selenium
15 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.40%) Subversion
16 3 (0.30%) JMeter
General
1 102 (10.25%) Social Skills
2 76 (7.64%) Public Sector
3 52 (5.23%) Finance
4 15 (1.51%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (1.51%) Retail
5 13 (1.31%) Legal
5 13 (1.31%) Marketing
6 12 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (0.70%) Legal Technology
8 4 (0.40%) Aviation
8 4 (0.40%) Banking
8 4 (0.40%) Games
9 3 (0.30%) Automotive
9 3 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.30%) Law
9 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.30%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.20%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.20%) Front Office
10 2 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (30.55%) React
2 212 (21.31%) Node.js
3 182 (18.29%) .NET
4 119 (11.96%) CSS
5 116 (11.66%) HTML
6 113 (11.36%) AngularJS
7 93 (9.35%) REST
8 83 (8.34%) Vue
9 78 (7.84%) Spring
10 74 (7.44%) RESTful
11 69 (6.93%) Spring Boot
12 57 (5.73%) Next.js
13 48 (4.82%) Jest
13 48 (4.82%) Ruby on Rails
14 41 (4.12%) .NET Core
15 38 (3.82%) .NET Framework
15 38 (3.82%) Terraform
16 37 (3.72%) Entity Framework
17 36 (3.62%) ASP.NET
18 31 (3.12%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 75 (7.54%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (1.91%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 12 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (0.90%) IoT
9 8 (0.80%) AI Agents
10 7 (0.70%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.30%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.30%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.30%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.20%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.20%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.20%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.20%) PMI
13 2 (0.20%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.41%) Linux
2 3 (0.30%) AIX
3 1 (0.10%) Android
3 1 (0.10%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 995 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 193 (19.40%) CI/CD
3 185 (18.59%) Agile
4 167 (16.78%) Microservices
5 155 (15.58%) AI
6 123 (12.36%) Software Engineering
7 103 (10.35%) Problem-Solving
8 90 (9.05%) DevOps
9 89 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (7.34%) Clean Code
11 62 (6.23%) Mentoring
12 61 (6.13%) Computer Science
13 60 (6.03%) Web Development
14 55 (5.53%) E-Commerce
14 55 (5.53%) User Experience
15 53 (5.33%) SDLC
16 51 (5.13%) Front End Development
17 49 (4.92%) Technical Leadership
18 47 (4.72%) LLM
19 45 (4.52%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 333 (33.47%) JavaScript
2 295 (29.65%) TypeScript
3 167 (16.78%) C#
4 152 (15.28%) Java
5 133 (13.37%) Python
6 97 (9.75%) SQL
7 61 (6.13%) Kotlin
8 52 (5.23%) Ruby
9 49 (4.92%) PHP
10 20 (2.01%) Bash
11 18 (1.81%) Groovy
12 10 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.70%) C++
14 4 (0.40%) Rust
15 3 (0.30%) Go
15 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.20%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) Perl
17 1 (0.10%) C
17 1 (0.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (6.33%) Security Cleared
2 62 (6.23%) Degree
3 56 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 51 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 18 (1.81%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.31%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.21%) QA
2 12 (1.21%) WCAG
3 5 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.10%) GRC
6 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 120 (12.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.90%) HP Fortify
3 6 (0.60%) Grafana
4 5 (0.50%) Ansible
5 4 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Kibana
6 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.20%) Argo
8 1 (0.10%) Podman
Vendors
1 76 (7.64%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.61%) Oracle
3 19 (1.91%) Google
4 16 (1.61%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.90%) OneLogin
5 9 (0.90%) OutSystems
5 9 (0.90%) Red Hat
6 7 (0.70%) Dynatrace
7 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
8 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.30%) Splunk
9 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.10%) Confluent
10 1 (0.10%) Databricks
10 1 (0.10%) Mistral
10 1 (0.10%) NEC
10 1 (0.10%) ServiceNow