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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 287 172
Rank change year-on-year +97 -115 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 990 455 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.05% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.17% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 855 355 1,297
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,050
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £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 84,369 38,923 91,211
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 89.45% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 55,003 23,201 67,042
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +9.90% -12.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

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 May 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 May 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 +122 897 £65,000 +8.33% 114
UK excluding London +108 687 £60,000 +9.09% 99
Work from Home +99 338 £65,000 +8.33% 57
London +46 235 £80,000 +14.29% 28
South East +73 224 £60,000 +4.35% 31
North of England +78 215 £70,000 +27.27% 37
Yorkshire +24 99 £75,000 +36.36% 13
North West +48 97 £68,750 +25.00% 14
Midlands +6 97 £60,000 +14.29% 14
South West +2 79 £55,000 -8.33% 14
West Midlands -14 52 £65,000 +10.64% 5
East of England +8 46 £100,000 +122.22% 3
East Midlands +4 45 £60,000 +26.32% 9
North East -34 19 £50,000 -2.44% 10
Scotland -10 18 £60,000 +17.65% 3
Wales -29 9 £48,750 -20.73%
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 990 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 343 (34.65%) React
3 318 (32.12%) JavaScript
4 276 (27.88%) TypeScript
5 235 (23.74%) AWS
6 226 (22.83%) Node.js
7 189 (19.09%) .NET
7 189 (19.09%) Python
8 173 (17.47%) C#
9 161 (16.26%) Java
10 137 (13.84%) Azure
11 136 (13.74%) Agile
12 132 (13.33%) CI/CD
12 132 (13.33%) Software Engineering
13 129 (13.03%) CSS
14 125 (12.63%) Microservices
15 122 (12.32%) HTML
16 117 (11.82%) AngularJS
16 117 (11.82%) DevOps
17 112 (11.31%) SQL
18 110 (11.11%) AI
19 108 (10.91%) Vue
20 94 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
20 94 (9.49%) Web Development
21 92 (9.29%) Docker
22 90 (9.09%) Git
22 90 (9.09%) SaaS
23 88 (8.89%) Serverless
24 82 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
25 79 (7.98%) 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 (1.31%) Confluence
2 11 (1.11%) CMS
3 9 (0.91%) ColdFusion
4 7 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.40%) WordPress
6 3 (0.30%) Liferay
6 3 (0.30%) nginx
6 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) Drupal
7 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.10%) CICS
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 235 (23.74%) AWS
2 137 (13.84%) Azure
3 90 (9.09%) SaaS
4 88 (8.89%) Serverless
5 65 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (5.96%) Amazon S3
7 50 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
8 42 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (3.74%) GCP
9 37 (3.74%) GitHub
10 27 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (1.62%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (1.31%) Apigee
14 13 (1.31%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (1.21%) Amazon ECR
15 12 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
16 9 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.61%) HTTP
2 4 (0.40%) Broadband
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) AMQP
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.46%) SQL Server
3 42 (4.24%) NoSQL
4 41 (4.14%) MongoDB
5 34 (3.43%) MySQL
6 21 (2.12%) DynamoDB
7 18 (1.82%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.11%) Power BI
10 9 (0.91%) Redis
11 7 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.71%) DB2
12 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.30%) TimescaleDB
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.20%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.20%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 90 (9.09%) Git
2 35 (3.54%) Cypress.io
3 33 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.12%) JIRA
5 15 (1.52%) GitLab
6 13 (1.31%) Maven
7 7 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.71%) JUnit
8 6 (0.61%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.61%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.51%) Mockito
9 5 (0.51%) Selenium
10 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.30%) ESLint
10 3 (0.30%) webpack
11 2 (0.20%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.20%) Storybook
11 2 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 85 (8.59%) Social Skills
2 76 (7.68%) Finance
3 34 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (2.63%) Retail
5 25 (2.53%) Aviation
6 20 (2.02%) Banking
6 20 (2.02%) Public Sector
7 11 (1.11%) Front Office
7 11 (1.11%) Games
8 9 (0.91%) Marketing
8 9 (0.91%) Tech for Good
9 7 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (0.71%) Investment Banking
9 7 (0.71%) Local Government
10 6 (0.61%) Advertising
10 6 (0.61%) Law
11 5 (0.51%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.40%) Legal
12 4 (0.40%) Publishing
13 3 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (34.65%) React
2 226 (22.83%) Node.js
3 189 (19.09%) .NET
4 129 (13.03%) CSS
5 122 (12.32%) HTML
6 117 (11.82%) AngularJS
7 108 (10.91%) Vue
8 67 (6.77%) REST
9 63 (6.36%) Spring
10 62 (6.26%) RESTful
11 55 (5.56%) Laravel
12 53 (5.35%) .NET Core
12 53 (5.35%) Spring Boot
13 43 (4.34%) Next.js
14 38 (3.84%) Jest
15 37 (3.74%) GraphQL
16 35 (3.54%) React Native
17 33 (3.33%) HTML5
17 33 (3.33%) Ruby on Rails
18 32 (3.23%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.75%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (2.32%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.11%) Fixed Income
8 8 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (0.81%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.61%) AI Agents
9 6 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.40%) IoT
11 4 (0.40%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.40%) NHS
11 4 (0.40%) PropTech
11 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.30%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.31%) Linux
2 4 (0.40%) Android
2 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 990 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 136 (13.74%) Agile
3 132 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 132 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 125 (12.63%) Microservices
5 117 (11.82%) DevOps
6 110 (11.11%) AI
7 94 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (9.49%) Web Development
8 62 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (5.35%) Mentoring
10 50 (5.05%) Clean Code
11 49 (4.95%) Front End Development
12 48 (4.85%) User Experience
13 46 (4.65%) API Development
14 41 (4.14%) Scrum
15 40 (4.04%) Containerisation
15 40 (4.04%) SDLC
16 38 (3.84%) Computer Science
17 37 (3.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 318 (32.12%) JavaScript
2 276 (27.88%) TypeScript
3 189 (19.09%) Python
4 173 (17.47%) C#
5 161 (16.26%) Java
6 112 (11.31%) SQL
7 68 (6.87%) PHP
8 33 (3.33%) Ruby
9 13 (1.31%) C
10 11 (1.11%) Bash
11 10 (1.01%) Go
11 10 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.81%) Groovy
12 8 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.71%) C++
14 5 (0.51%) R
15 3 (0.30%) COBOL
16 2 (0.20%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) RPG
16 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (7.98%) Security Cleared
2 66 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 37 (3.74%) Degree
4 31 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (0.91%) AWS Certification
5 9 (0.91%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.62%) QA
2 14 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.20%) HL7
3 2 (0.20%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 92 (9.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.12%) Terraform
3 7 (0.71%) Ansible
4 6 (0.61%) HP Fortify
5 5 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Nagios
7 2 (0.20%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
8 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (2.93%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.02%) Oracle
3 12 (1.21%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.51%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.40%) Google
5 4 (0.40%) Pega
5 4 (0.40%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.30%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.30%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.20%) Aderant
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe
7 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.20%) Foundry
7 2 (0.20%) IBM
7 2 (0.20%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) Intapp
7 2 (0.20%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2
8 1 (0.10%) Databricks