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 14 May 2026.

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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 302 169
Rank change year-on-year +114 -133 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 996 438 1,618
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.01% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.13% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 855 342 1,293
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,400
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% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,375 £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 84,582 38,850 91,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 89.47% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,708 22,832 66,939
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%
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 14 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 14 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 +120 900 £65,000 +8.33% 113
UK excluding London +116 696 £60,000 +9.09% 95
Work from Home +105 340 £65,000 +8.33% 54
London +54 234 £80,000 +10.34% 33
South East +77 230 £60,000 +4.35% 29
North of England +107 218 £70,000 +27.27% 32
Yorkshire +22 101 £75,000 +36.36% 10
North West +70 98 £67,500 +22.73% 13
Midlands +10 97 £60,000 +14.29% 17
South West +5 78 £55,000 -8.33% 11
West Midlands -2 54 £65,000 +10.64% 8
East of England -1 45 £100,000 +122.22% 3
East Midlands 0 43 £60,000 +26.32% 9
Scotland +4 20 £60,000 +17.07% 5
North East -24 19 £50,000 -2.44% 9
Wales -27 9 £48,750 -30.36%
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 996 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 342 (34.34%) React
3 325 (32.63%) JavaScript
4 274 (27.51%) TypeScript
5 240 (24.10%) AWS
6 227 (22.79%) Node.js
7 190 (19.08%) Python
8 189 (18.98%) .NET
9 172 (17.27%) C#
10 165 (16.57%) Java
11 141 (14.16%) Agile
12 137 (13.76%) Software Engineering
13 136 (13.65%) Azure
14 135 (13.55%) CI/CD
15 133 (13.35%) Microservices
16 130 (13.05%) CSS
17 125 (12.55%) HTML
18 119 (11.95%) DevOps
19 116 (11.65%) AngularJS
20 112 (11.24%) AI
20 112 (11.24%) Vue
21 111 (11.14%) SQL
22 95 (9.54%) Docker
22 95 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
23 94 (9.44%) Web Development
24 93 (9.34%) Git
25 91 (9.14%) SaaS
26 90 (9.04%) Serverless
27 85 (8.53%) Security Cleared
28 84 (8.43%) 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
2 11 (1.10%) CMS
3 9 (0.90%) ColdFusion
4 8 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.40%) WordPress
7 3 (0.30%) Liferay
7 3 (0.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) Drupal
8 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.10%) CICS
9 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
9 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
1 240 (24.10%) AWS
2 136 (13.65%) Azure
3 91 (9.14%) SaaS
4 90 (9.04%) Serverless
5 64 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (5.92%) Amazon S3
7 54 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
8 42 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (3.71%) GCP
10 34 (3.41%) GitHub
11 28 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.71%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (1.31%) Apigee
14 13 (1.31%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (1.20%) Amazon ECR
15 12 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
17 7 (0.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.60%) HTTP
2 5 (0.50%) Broadband
3 4 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) AMQP
5 1 (0.10%) Firewall
5 1 (0.10%) Internet
5 1 (0.10%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.33%) SQL Server
3 42 (4.22%) MongoDB
4 39 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 33 (3.31%) MySQL
6 20 (2.01%) DynamoDB
6 20 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (1.20%) Power BI
8 9 (0.90%) Redis
9 8 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.70%) DB2
11 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
12 3 (0.30%) TimescaleDB
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.20%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 93 (9.34%) Git
2 37 (3.71%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.51%) Cypress.io
4 23 (2.31%) JIRA
5 16 (1.61%) GitLab
5 16 (1.61%) Maven
6 11 (1.10%) JUnit
7 9 (0.90%) Mockito
8 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.50%) Selenium
11 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.30%) ESLint
11 3 (0.30%) webpack
12 2 (0.20%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.20%) Storybook
12 2 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 86 (8.63%) Social Skills
2 78 (7.83%) Finance
3 32 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (2.41%) Aviation
4 24 (2.41%) Retail
5 23 (2.31%) Public Sector
6 19 (1.91%) Banking
7 11 (1.10%) Front Office
7 11 (1.10%) Games
8 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
9 8 (0.80%) Marketing
10 7 (0.70%) Local Government
11 6 (0.60%) Advertising
11 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.60%) Law
12 5 (0.50%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.40%) Legal
13 4 (0.40%) Publishing
14 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 342 (34.34%) React
2 227 (22.79%) Node.js
3 189 (18.98%) .NET
4 130 (13.05%) CSS
5 125 (12.55%) HTML
6 116 (11.65%) AngularJS
7 112 (11.24%) Vue
8 69 (6.93%) Spring
9 68 (6.83%) RESTful
10 67 (6.73%) REST
11 58 (5.82%) Spring Boot
12 54 (5.42%) .NET Core
12 54 (5.42%) Laravel
13 44 (4.42%) Next.js
14 39 (3.92%) Jest
15 38 (3.82%) GraphQL
16 35 (3.51%) React Native
17 33 (3.31%) HTML5
17 33 (3.31%) Ruby on Rails
18 32 (3.21%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.72%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (2.41%) Mobile App
4 18 (1.81%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.10%) Fixed Income
8 10 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (0.80%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.60%) AI Agents
10 6 (0.60%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.50%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.40%) IoT
12 4 (0.40%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.40%) NHS
12 4 (0.40%) PropTech
13 3 (0.30%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.51%) 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
1 996 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 141 (14.16%) Agile
3 137 (13.76%) Software Engineering
4 135 (13.55%) CI/CD
5 133 (13.35%) Microservices
6 119 (11.95%) DevOps
7 112 (11.24%) AI
8 95 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
9 94 (9.44%) Web Development
10 68 (6.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (6.12%) Mentoring
12 50 (5.02%) Clean Code
13 49 (4.92%) User Experience
14 47 (4.72%) Front End Development
15 45 (4.52%) Scrum
16 44 (4.42%) API Development
16 44 (4.42%) Containerisation
16 44 (4.42%) SDLC
17 42 (4.22%) TDD
18 39 (3.92%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 325 (32.63%) JavaScript
2 274 (27.51%) TypeScript
3 190 (19.08%) Python
4 172 (17.27%) C#
5 165 (16.57%) Java
6 111 (11.14%) SQL
7 67 (6.73%) PHP
8 33 (3.31%) Ruby
9 13 (1.31%) Bash
9 13 (1.31%) C
10 12 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.90%) Go
12 8 (0.80%) Groovy
12 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.70%) C++
14 5 (0.50%) R
15 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.30%) COBOL
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) RPG
Qualifications
1 85 (8.53%) Security Cleared
2 71 (7.13%) SC Cleared
3 38 (3.82%) Degree
4 32 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.71%) QA
2 11 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.20%) HL7
3 2 (0.20%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 95 (9.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.31%) Terraform
3 8 (0.80%) Ansible
4 6 (0.60%) HP Fortify
5 5 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Kibana
6 3 (0.30%) Nagios
7 2 (0.20%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
Vendors
1 28 (2.81%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.21%) Oracle
3 12 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 5 (0.50%) 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%) 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%) Splunk
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2