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 28 June 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 294 161
Rank change year-on-year +99 -133 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,004 466 1,773
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.01% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.13% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 876 363 1,358
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £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 £75,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 89,842 41,384 100,134
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 89.50% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 61,632 23,849 72,187
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -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 28 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 28 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 +104 898 £65,000 +8.33% 102
UK excluding London +113 732 £60,000 +4.35% 99
Work from Home +101 368 £62,500 +4.17% 62
North of England +113 253 £67,500 +17.39% 17
London +21 213 £80,000 +6.67% 27
South East +66 210 £60,000 +4.35% 27
North West +79 116 £66,250 +20.45% 12
Yorkshire +54 108 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Midlands +11 102 £60,000 +4.35% 20
South West -14 83 £55,000 -8.33% 16
West Midlands -3 56 £70,000 +16.67% 9
East Midlands +10 46 £55,000 +15.79% 11
East of England -10 40 £82,500 +83.33% 5
Scotland +31 32 £55,000 - 8
North East -21 29 £50,000 -37.50% 2
Wales -41 10 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Northern Ireland -31 2 £60,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 1,004 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 320 (31.87%) React
3 318 (31.67%) JavaScript
4 297 (29.58%) TypeScript
5 280 (27.89%) AWS
6 221 (22.01%) Node.js
7 190 (18.92%) Python
8 186 (18.53%) .NET
9 170 (16.93%) Java
10 167 (16.63%) C#
11 158 (15.74%) Agile
12 156 (15.54%) CI/CD
13 153 (15.24%) Azure
14 145 (14.44%) Microservices
15 140 (13.94%) AI
16 138 (13.75%) AngularJS
17 136 (13.55%) Software Engineering
18 128 (12.75%) CSS
19 122 (12.15%) HTML
20 119 (11.85%) Vue
21 110 (10.96%) DevOps
22 109 (10.86%) SQL
23 105 (10.46%) Serverless
24 102 (10.16%) Docker
25 95 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
26 92 (9.16%) SaaS
27 88 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
28 87 (8.67%) Git
29 85 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
29 85 (8.47%) 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 (1.29%) CMS
2 12 (1.20%) Confluence
3 9 (0.90%) WordPress
4 8 (0.80%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.100%) CICS
8 1 (0.100%) Drupal
8 1 (0.100%) Liferay
8 1 (0.100%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.100%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.100%) Magento
2 1 (0.100%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 280 (27.89%) AWS
2 153 (15.24%) Azure
3 105 (10.46%) Serverless
4 92 (9.16%) SaaS
5 85 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
6 76 (7.57%) Amazon S3
7 70 (6.97%) Amazon ECS
8 49 (4.88%) GitHub
9 47 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
10 43 (4.28%) GCP
11 31 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
12 27 (2.69%) AWS Step Functions
13 26 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (1.89%) Amazon ECR
15 19 (1.89%) Apigee
15 19 (1.89%) Power Platform
16 18 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
17 14 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.80%) Broadband
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
2 4 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.100%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (6.47%) SQL Server
3 47 (4.68%) MongoDB
4 39 (3.88%) MySQL
5 32 (3.19%) DynamoDB
6 30 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 24 (2.39%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.29%) Redis
9 12 (1.20%) Power BI
10 10 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.80%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
15 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
15 2 (0.20%) GIS
15 2 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
16 1 (0.100%) Apache Arrow
16 1 (0.100%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 87 (8.67%) Git
2 45 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 40 (3.98%) Cypress.io
4 26 (2.59%) GitLab
5 22 (2.19%) JIRA
6 20 (1.99%) Maven
7 14 (1.39%) JUnit
8 11 (1.10%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.00%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.90%) Mockito
11 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.30%) Postman
13 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.20%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.20%) JMeter
13 2 (0.20%) Karma Test Runner
13 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.20%) YouTrack
General
1 89 (8.86%) Social Skills
2 73 (7.27%) Finance
3 28 (2.79%) Public Sector
4 24 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (2.39%) Retail
5 15 (1.49%) Aviation
6 11 (1.10%) Banking
6 11 (1.10%) Front Office
7 10 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.00%) Legal
7 10 (1.00%) Marketing
8 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
9 7 (0.70%) Games
9 7 (0.70%) Local Government
10 6 (0.60%) Advertising
10 6 (0.60%) Law
10 6 (0.60%) Legal Technology
11 4 (0.40%) Publishing
12 2 (0.20%) Automotive
12 2 (0.20%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (31.87%) React
2 221 (22.01%) Node.js
3 186 (18.53%) .NET
4 138 (13.75%) AngularJS
5 128 (12.75%) CSS
6 122 (12.15%) HTML
7 119 (11.85%) Vue
8 69 (6.87%) REST
8 69 (6.87%) Spring
9 66 (6.57%) Spring Boot
10 62 (6.18%) RESTful
11 46 (4.58%) .NET Core
11 46 (4.58%) Laravel
12 43 (4.28%) Jest
12 43 (4.28%) Next.js
13 39 (3.88%) Ruby on Rails
14 38 (3.78%) GraphQL
15 29 (2.89%) HTML5
16 27 (2.69%) CSS3
17 25 (2.49%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 25 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (1.69%) Mobile App
3 17 (1.69%) Product Ownership
4 16 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.10%) Fixed Income
5 11 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (0.70%) Sports Betting
7 5 (0.50%) AI Agents
7 5 (0.50%) IoT
8 4 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
8 4 (0.40%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.40%) NHS
8 4 (0.40%) PropTech
8 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.30%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.69%) Linux
2 2 (0.20%) AIX
2 2 (0.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.100%) Android
3 1 (0.100%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.100%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,004 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 158 (15.74%) Agile
3 156 (15.54%) CI/CD
4 145 (14.44%) Microservices
5 140 (13.94%) AI
6 136 (13.55%) Software Engineering
7 110 (10.96%) DevOps
8 95 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
9 88 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 80 (7.97%) Web Development
11 64 (6.37%) Mentoring
12 58 (5.78%) Clean Code
13 50 (4.98%) Front End Development
14 49 (4.88%) Computer Science
15 47 (4.68%) User Experience
16 46 (4.58%) Containerisation
17 40 (3.98%) SDLC
18 39 (3.88%) TDD
18 39 (3.88%) Technical Leadership
19 38 (3.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 318 (31.67%) JavaScript
2 297 (29.58%) TypeScript
3 190 (18.92%) Python
4 170 (16.93%) Java
5 167 (16.63%) C#
6 109 (10.86%) SQL
7 61 (6.08%) PHP
8 39 (3.88%) Ruby
9 19 (1.89%) Groovy
10 18 (1.79%) Bash
11 12 (1.20%) Go
12 11 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.70%) C++
15 5 (0.50%) C
16 3 (0.30%) R
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.100%) CFML
Qualifications
1 85 (8.47%) Security Cleared
2 75 (7.47%) SC Cleared
3 50 (4.98%) Degree
4 43 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 10 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.100%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.100%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.20%) QA
2 11 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.70%) WCAG
4 1 (0.100%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.100%) HL7
4 1 (0.100%) SLA
4 1 (0.100%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 102 (10.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.29%) Terraform
3 10 (1.00%) HP Fortify
4 7 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.60%) Ansible
5 6 (0.60%) Grafana
6 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.30%) Argo
7 3 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 43 (4.28%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.99%) Oracle
3 12 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.60%) OneLogin
5 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
6 4 (0.40%) Pega
7 3 (0.30%) Google
7 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.20%) Aderant
8 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.20%) iManage
8 2 (0.20%) Intapp
8 2 (0.20%) Splunk
8 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.20%) WSO2
9 1 (0.100%) Adobe
9 1 (0.100%) Confluent
9 1 (0.100%) Databricks
9 1 (0.100%) Foundry