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 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 281 171
Rank change year-on-year +80 -110 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 926 459 1,605
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.09% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.23% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 791 359 1,304
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
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 £75,000
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 81,705 37,434 89,731
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 89.27% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 52,263 23,569 66,364
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £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% -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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +89 841 £65,000 +8.33% 116
UK excluding London +82 633 £60,000 +9.09% 103
Work from Home +80 308 £62,500 +4.17% 68
London +41 226 £80,000 +14.29% 40
North of England +61 200 £70,000 +27.27% 28
South East +39 200 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Midlands +10 97 £60,000 +12.15% 8
North West +33 91 £68,750 +25.00% 10
Yorkshire +19 90 £75,000 +36.36% 11
South West +1 76 £55,000 -8.33% 17
West Midlands -4 53 £60,000 - 4
East Midlands -20 44 £55,000 +15.79% 4
East of England -23 42 £100,000 +122.22% 5
North East -32 19 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Scotland -25 11 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Wales -22 8 £45,000 -26.83% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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.

1 926 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 335 (36.18%) React
3 292 (31.53%) JavaScript
4 253 (27.32%) TypeScript
5 225 (24.30%) AWS
6 202 (21.81%) Node.js
7 178 (19.22%) Python
8 176 (19.01%) .NET
9 167 (18.03%) C#
10 164 (17.71%) Java
11 142 (15.33%) Agile
12 135 (14.58%) CI/CD
13 133 (14.36%) Azure
14 123 (13.28%) Software Engineering
15 118 (12.74%) CSS
16 115 (12.42%) AngularJS
16 115 (12.42%) Microservices
16 115 (12.42%) SQL
17 114 (12.31%) DevOps
17 114 (12.31%) HTML
18 106 (11.45%) Vue
19 96 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
20 93 (10.04%) AI
21 90 (9.72%) Web Development
22 89 (9.61%) Docker
23 87 (9.40%) Git
24 86 (9.29%) Serverless
25 77 (8.32%) SaaS
26 76 (8.21%) Security Cleared
27 75 (8.10%) 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 10 (1.08%) Confluence
2 8 (0.86%) CMS
2 8 (0.86%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.76%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.32%) Liferay
5 3 (0.32%) nginx
5 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.22%) Drupal
6 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.22%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.11%) Apache
7 1 (0.11%) CICS
7 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.11%) Magento
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 225 (24.30%) AWS
2 133 (14.36%) Azure
3 86 (9.29%) Serverless
4 77 (8.32%) SaaS
5 63 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (6.16%) Amazon S3
7 46 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
9 38 (4.10%) GCP
10 33 (3.56%) GitHub
11 24 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (1.51%) Power Platform
15 11 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (1.19%) Apigee
15 11 (1.19%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (1.08%) Amazon ECR
16 10 (1.08%) GitHub Copilot
17 7 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.65%) HTTP
2 4 (0.43%) DNS
3 2 (0.22%) Broadband
3 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.11%) AMQP
4 1 (0.11%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (6.26%) SQL Server
3 47 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 36 (3.89%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.46%) MySQL
6 21 (2.27%) DynamoDB
6 21 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (0.97%) Power BI
9 8 (0.86%) Redis
10 7 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.76%) DB2
11 4 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.43%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.43%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.32%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.32%) TimescaleDB
13 2 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.22%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.22%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 87 (9.40%) Git
2 31 (3.35%) Cypress.io
3 30 (3.24%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.94%) JIRA
5 13 (1.40%) Maven
6 12 (1.30%) GitLab
7 9 (0.97%) JUnit
8 7 (0.76%) Mockito
9 6 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.65%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.65%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.54%) Selenium
11 3 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.32%) ESLint
11 3 (0.32%) webpack
12 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.22%) git-flow
12 2 (0.22%) NUnit
12 2 (0.22%) Storybook
General
1 85 (9.18%) Social Skills
2 77 (8.32%) Finance
3 34 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (2.70%) Banking
5 24 (2.59%) Aviation
6 23 (2.48%) Retail
7 19 (2.05%) Public Sector
8 13 (1.40%) Games
9 12 (1.30%) Front Office
9 12 (1.30%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.97%) Marketing
11 8 (0.86%) Tech for Good
12 7 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.76%) Local Government
13 6 (0.65%) Advertising
14 5 (0.54%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.54%) Law
15 4 (0.43%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.43%) Publishing
16 3 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (36.18%) React
2 202 (21.81%) Node.js
3 176 (19.01%) .NET
4 118 (12.74%) CSS
5 115 (12.42%) AngularJS
6 114 (12.31%) HTML
7 106 (11.45%) Vue
8 74 (7.99%) REST
9 62 (6.70%) Spring
10 57 (6.16%) RESTful
11 53 (5.72%) .NET Core
11 53 (5.72%) Laravel
12 48 (5.18%) Spring Boot
13 40 (4.32%) Next.js
14 34 (3.67%) Jest
15 33 (3.56%) GraphQL
16 32 (3.46%) React Native
17 30 (3.24%) Ruby on Rails
18 28 (3.02%) ASP.NET
19 26 (2.81%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.86%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (2.16%) Mobile App
3 20 (2.16%) Product Ownership
4 16 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.19%) Fixed Income
7 8 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.76%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.65%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.54%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.43%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.43%) IoT
11 4 (0.43%) NHS
11 4 (0.43%) PropTech
12 3 (0.32%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (0.32%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.32%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.40%) Linux
2 5 (0.54%) Android
2 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 926 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 142 (15.33%) Agile
3 135 (14.58%) CI/CD
4 123 (13.28%) Software Engineering
5 115 (12.42%) Microservices
6 114 (12.31%) DevOps
7 96 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (10.04%) AI
9 90 (9.72%) Web Development
10 57 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (5.29%) Clean Code
12 48 (5.18%) API Development
13 45 (4.86%) Mentoring
13 45 (4.86%) Scrum
14 43 (4.64%) Front End Development
14 43 (4.64%) User Experience
15 39 (4.21%) SDLC
16 38 (4.10%) Containerisation
16 38 (4.10%) Test Automation
17 36 (3.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 292 (31.53%) JavaScript
2 253 (27.32%) TypeScript
3 178 (19.22%) Python
4 167 (18.03%) C#
5 164 (17.71%) Java
6 115 (12.42%) SQL
7 63 (6.80%) PHP
8 30 (3.24%) Ruby
9 17 (1.84%) C
10 11 (1.19%) Bash
10 11 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.08%) Go
12 8 (0.86%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.65%) C++
13 6 (0.65%) Groovy
14 5 (0.54%) R
15 3 (0.32%) COBOL
15 3 (0.32%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.22%) RPG
17 1 (0.11%) XAML
Qualifications
1 76 (8.21%) Security Cleared
2 60 (6.48%) SC Cleared
3 30 (3.24%) Degree
4 25 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.30%) DV Cleared
6 8 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.94%) QA
2 16 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.22%) HL7
3 2 (0.22%) WCAG
4 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 89 (9.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.38%) Terraform
3 6 (0.65%) Ansible
3 6 (0.65%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.32%) Nagios
6 2 (0.22%) Grafana
6 2 (0.22%) Kibana
6 2 (0.22%) Podman
7 1 (0.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (2.59%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.38%) Oracle
3 9 (0.97%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.43%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.43%) Google
4 4 (0.43%) Pega
4 4 (0.43%) Peregrine
4 4 (0.43%) Telerik
5 3 (0.32%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.32%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.32%) WooCommerce
5 3 (0.32%) Zoho
6 2 (0.22%) Aderant
6 2 (0.22%) Adobe
6 2 (0.22%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.22%) Foundry
6 2 (0.22%) iManage
6 2 (0.22%) Intapp
6 2 (0.22%) SendGrid
6 2 (0.22%) WSO2