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 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 306 158
Rank change year-on-year +117 -148 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,004 444 1,840
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 0.99% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.11% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 871 344 1,418
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 88,029 40,047 103,056
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.54% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 60,387 22,686 74,432
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,620
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 £98,474 £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 18 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 18 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 +118 904 £65,000 +8.33% 74
UK excluding London +121 726 £60,000 +4.35% 73
Work from Home +95 357 £65,000 +8.33% 45
North of England +124 248 £70,000 +27.27% 16
South East +83 218 £60,000 +4.35% 19
London +32 217 £80,000 +10.34% 17
North West +84 114 £67,500 +22.73% 9
Yorkshire +55 108 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Midlands +21 104 £60,000 +2.13% 13
South West -8 79 £55,000 -8.33% 13
West Midlands +3 57 £70,000 +14.29% 3
East Midlands +4 47 £55,000 +15.79% 10
East of England -14 40 £82,500 +83.33% 2
Scotland +21 27 £57,500 +9.52% 5
North East -26 26 £50,000 -16.67% 3
Wales -45 8 £62,500 -3.85% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 18 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
2 322 (32.07%) React
3 311 (30.98%) JavaScript
4 286 (28.49%) TypeScript
5 272 (27.09%) AWS
6 215 (21.41%) Node.js
7 196 (19.52%) .NET
8 189 (18.82%) Python
9 172 (17.13%) C#
10 168 (16.73%) Java
11 154 (15.34%) Azure
12 153 (15.24%) Agile
13 146 (14.54%) Microservices
14 142 (14.14%) CI/CD
15 137 (13.65%) AI
15 137 (13.65%) AngularJS
16 131 (13.05%) Software Engineering
17 125 (12.45%) CSS
18 118 (11.75%) Vue
19 117 (11.65%) HTML
20 112 (11.16%) DevOps
21 110 (10.96%) SQL
22 101 (10.06%) Serverless
23 97 (9.66%) Docker
24 93 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
25 90 (8.96%) SaaS
26 84 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
26 84 (8.37%) Security Cleared
27 83 (8.27%) Web Development
28 82 (8.17%) 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 12 (1.20%) CMS
1 12 (1.20%) 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%) Liferay
6 2 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.100%) CICS
7 1 (0.100%) Drupal
7 1 (0.100%) IIS
7 1 (0.100%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.100%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.100%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.100%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.100%) Magento
2 1 (0.100%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 272 (27.09%) AWS
2 154 (15.34%) Azure
3 101 (10.06%) Serverless
4 90 (8.96%) SaaS
5 81 (8.07%) AWS Lambda
6 73 (7.27%) Amazon S3
7 68 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
8 48 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
9 41 (4.08%) GCP
10 40 (3.98%) GitHub
11 32 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (2.49%) AWS Step Functions
13 23 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (1.99%) Power Platform
16 17 (1.69%) Amazon ECR
16 17 (1.69%) Apigee
17 14 (1.39%) GitHub Copilot
18 11 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
18 11 (1.10%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.08%) SQL Server
3 44 (4.38%) MongoDB
4 33 (3.29%) MySQL
5 31 (3.09%) NoSQL
6 27 (2.69%) DynamoDB
7 22 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.20%) Power BI
9 11 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.00%) 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 (8.07%) Git
2 40 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.88%) Cypress.io
4 23 (2.29%) GitLab
5 21 (2.09%) JIRA
6 20 (1.99%) Maven
7 14 (1.39%) JUnit
8 11 (1.10%) Mockito
9 9 (0.90%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.80%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.30%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.20%) ESLint
12 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.20%) JMeter
12 2 (0.20%) NUnit
12 2 (0.20%) Postman
12 2 (0.20%) Selenium
12 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (8.47%) Social Skills
2 80 (7.97%) Finance
3 28 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (2.79%) Public Sector
4 23 (2.29%) Retail
5 18 (1.79%) Aviation
6 13 (1.29%) Banking
7 11 (1.10%) Front Office
7 11 (1.10%) Marketing
8 10 (1.00%) Legal
9 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
10 8 (0.80%) Local Government
11 7 (0.70%) Games
11 7 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.60%) Advertising
12 6 (0.60%) Law
12 6 (0.60%) Legal Technology
13 4 (0.40%) Publishing
14 3 (0.30%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (32.07%) React
2 215 (21.41%) Node.js
3 196 (19.52%) .NET
4 137 (13.65%) AngularJS
5 125 (12.45%) CSS
6 118 (11.75%) Vue
7 117 (11.65%) HTML
8 65 (6.47%) Spring
9 63 (6.27%) REST
9 63 (6.27%) RESTful
10 60 (5.98%) Spring Boot
11 50 (4.98%) .NET Core
12 47 (4.68%) Laravel
13 42 (4.18%) Jest
13 42 (4.18%) Next.js
14 39 (3.88%) Ruby on Rails
15 37 (3.69%) GraphQL
16 29 (2.89%) HTML5
17 28 (2.79%) CSS3
18 26 (2.59%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 68 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 25 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (1.99%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.10%) Fixed Income
8 10 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.70%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.60%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.50%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.50%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
12 4 (0.40%) NHS
12 4 (0.40%) PropTech
12 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.69%) Linux
2 3 (0.30%) Android
2 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.100%) AIX
4 1 (0.100%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,004 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 153 (15.24%) Agile
3 146 (14.54%) Microservices
4 142 (14.14%) CI/CD
5 137 (13.65%) AI
6 131 (13.05%) Software Engineering
7 112 (11.16%) DevOps
8 93 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 83 (8.27%) Web Development
11 64 (6.37%) Mentoring
12 51 (5.08%) Clean Code
13 49 (4.88%) Computer Science
14 48 (4.78%) Containerisation
14 48 (4.78%) Front End Development
15 47 (4.68%) User Experience
16 40 (3.98%) SDLC
16 40 (3.98%) TDD
17 39 (3.88%) Technical Leadership
18 38 (3.78%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 311 (30.98%) JavaScript
2 286 (28.49%) TypeScript
3 189 (18.82%) Python
4 172 (17.13%) C#
5 168 (16.73%) Java
6 110 (10.96%) SQL
7 61 (6.08%) PHP
8 39 (3.88%) Ruby
9 18 (1.79%) Bash
10 17 (1.69%) Groovy
11 13 (1.29%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.00%) 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 (0.100%) Dart
Qualifications
1 84 (8.37%) Security Cleared
2 73 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 49 (4.88%) Degree
4 41 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.29%) 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 (0.100%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.100%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.100%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.100%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.59%) QA
2 9 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.50%) 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 97 (9.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.99%) 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 (3.88%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.09%) Oracle
3 12 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.40%) OneLogin
5 4 (0.40%) Pega
5 4 (0.40%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.30%) Google
6 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.20%) Aderant
7 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.20%) Foundry
7 2 (0.20%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) Intapp
7 2 (0.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2
8 1 (0.100%) Adobe
8 1 (0.100%) Confluent
8 1 (0.100%) Databricks