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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 304 158
Rank change year-on-year +114 -146 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 995 442 1,833
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 0.99% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.11% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 864 342 1,410
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,250 £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 £93,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.00% -4.09%

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 87,667 39,868 102,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.44% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 60,134 22,590 73,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £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 £98,501 £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 16 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 16 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 +116 898 £65,000 +8.33% 75
UK excluding London +128 719 £60,000 +4.35% 70
Work from Home +92 354 £65,000 +8.33% 47
North of England +128 246 £70,000 +27.27% 19
South East +79 217 £60,000 +4.35% 19
London +29 217 £80,000 +10.34% 17
North West +82 113 £67,500 +22.73% 10
Yorkshire +50 107 £75,000 +25.00% 6
Midlands +32 102 £60,000 +2.13% 10
South West -6 78 £55,000 -8.33% 11
West Midlands 0 57 £70,000 +14.29% 2
East Midlands +4 45 £55,000 +15.79% 8
East of England -15 40 £82,500 +83.33% 2
Scotland +11 27 £57,500 +9.52% 6
North East -23 26 £50,000 -16.67% 3
Wales -45 7 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 995 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 319 (32.06%) React
3 306 (30.75%) JavaScript
4 285 (28.64%) TypeScript
5 265 (26.63%) AWS
6 212 (21.31%) Node.js
7 194 (19.50%) .NET
8 187 (18.79%) Python
9 172 (17.29%) C#
10 164 (16.48%) Java
11 152 (15.28%) Agile
12 151 (15.18%) Azure
13 143 (14.37%) Microservices
14 140 (14.07%) CI/CD
15 137 (13.77%) AI
16 134 (13.47%) AngularJS
17 129 (12.96%) Software Engineering
18 125 (12.56%) CSS
19 117 (11.76%) HTML
20 116 (11.66%) Vue
21 111 (11.16%) DevOps
22 109 (10.95%) SQL
23 99 (9.95%) Serverless
24 95 (9.55%) Docker
25 91 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
26 90 (9.05%) SaaS
27 83 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
27 83 (8.34%) Security Cleared
28 82 (8.24%) Web Development
29 81 (8.14%) Git

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 12 (1.21%) CMS
1 12 (1.21%) Confluence
2 8 (0.80%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.70%) WordPress
4 6 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.20%) Apache
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
6 2 (0.20%) Liferay
6 2 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.10%) CICS
7 1 (0.10%) Drupal
7 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
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
1 265 (26.63%) AWS
2 151 (15.18%) Azure
3 99 (9.95%) Serverless
4 90 (9.05%) SaaS
5 79 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
6 71 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 66 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
8 46 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
9 39 (3.92%) GCP
9 39 (3.92%) GitHub
10 31 (3.12%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (2.41%) AWS Step Functions
12 22 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (2.01%) Power Platform
15 17 (1.71%) Amazon ECR
15 17 (1.71%) Apigee
16 14 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
17 11 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
18 10 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
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 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.23%) SQL Server
3 43 (4.32%) MongoDB
4 32 (3.22%) MySQL
5 31 (3.12%) NoSQL
6 27 (2.71%) DynamoDB
7 22 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.21%) Power BI
9 11 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.90%) Redis
11 8 (0.80%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.20%) Db2
14 2 (0.20%) GIS
14 2 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 81 (8.14%) Git
2 38 (3.82%) Cypress.io
2 38 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.21%) GitLab
4 21 (2.11%) JIRA
5 20 (2.01%) Maven
6 14 (1.41%) JUnit
7 11 (1.11%) Mockito
8 9 (0.90%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.80%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.30%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.20%) ESLint
11 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.20%) JMeter
11 2 (0.20%) NUnit
11 2 (0.20%) Postman
11 2 (0.20%) Selenium
11 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (8.54%) Social Skills
2 80 (8.04%) Finance
3 28 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (2.71%) Public Sector
5 23 (2.31%) Retail
6 18 (1.81%) Aviation
7 13 (1.31%) Banking
8 11 (1.11%) Front Office
8 11 (1.11%) Marketing
9 9 (0.90%) Legal
9 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
10 8 (0.80%) Local Government
11 7 (0.70%) Games
12 6 (0.60%) Advertising
12 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.60%) Law
13 5 (0.50%) Legal Technology
14 4 (0.40%) Publishing
15 3 (0.30%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (32.06%) React
2 212 (21.31%) Node.js
3 194 (19.50%) .NET
4 134 (13.47%) AngularJS
5 125 (12.56%) CSS
6 117 (11.76%) HTML
7 116 (11.66%) Vue
8 64 (6.43%) Spring
9 63 (6.33%) REST
10 62 (6.23%) RESTful
11 59 (5.93%) Spring Boot
12 49 (4.92%) .NET Core
13 47 (4.72%) Laravel
14 41 (4.12%) Jest
14 41 (4.12%) Next.js
15 37 (3.72%) GraphQL
15 37 (3.72%) Ruby on Rails
16 29 (2.91%) HTML5
17 28 (2.81%) CSS3
18 26 (2.61%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.63%) Cloud Native
2 25 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (2.01%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (1.91%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.11%) Fixed Income
7 10 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.70%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.60%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.50%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.50%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (0.40%) NHS
11 4 (0.40%) PropTech
11 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.30%) IoT
12 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.71%) Linux
2 3 (0.30%) Android
2 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) AIX
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 995 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 152 (15.28%) Agile
3 143 (14.37%) Microservices
4 140 (14.07%) CI/CD
5 137 (13.77%) AI
6 129 (12.96%) Software Engineering
7 111 (11.16%) DevOps
8 91 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 82 (8.24%) Web Development
11 64 (6.43%) Mentoring
12 51 (5.13%) Clean Code
13 49 (4.92%) Front End Development
14 48 (4.82%) Computer Science
15 47 (4.72%) Containerisation
15 47 (4.72%) User Experience
16 40 (4.02%) SDLC
16 40 (4.02%) TDD
17 38 (3.82%) Scrum
17 38 (3.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 306 (30.75%) JavaScript
2 285 (28.64%) TypeScript
3 187 (18.79%) Python
4 172 (17.29%) C#
5 164 (16.48%) Java
6 109 (10.95%) SQL
7 62 (6.23%) PHP
8 37 (3.72%) Ruby
9 18 (1.81%) Bash
10 16 (1.61%) Groovy
11 13 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.01%) Go
13 8 (0.80%) C++
13 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.70%) C
15 5 (0.50%) R
16 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 83 (8.34%) Security Cleared
2 73 (7.34%) SC Cleared
3 48 (4.82%) Degree
4 40 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.31%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.71%) QA
2 8 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.40%) 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 95 (9.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.02%) Terraform
3 8 (0.80%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.60%) Ansible
4 6 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.40%) Grafana
7 3 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Argo
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 39 (3.92%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.11%) Oracle
3 12 (1.21%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.60%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
6 4 (0.40%) Pega
6 4 (0.40%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.30%) Google
7 3 (0.30%) OneLogin
7 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.20%) Aderant
8 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.20%) Foundry
8 2 (0.20%) iManage
8 2 (0.20%) Intapp
8 2 (0.20%) Splunk
8 2 (0.20%) WSO2
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe
9 1 (0.10%) Confluent
9 1 (0.10%) Databricks