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 29 January 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 275 175
Rank change year-on-year +47 -100 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 583 568 1,163
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.08% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.17% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 451 336 1,058
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,884 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.29% -3.53% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,125 £97,500
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 57,468 48,384 64,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 92.28% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 35,727 24,872 50,479
10th Percentile £28,785 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,648 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 29 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 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 29 January 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 +51 533 £65,000 +10.64% 167
UK excluding London +13 350 £60,000 +9.09% 143
London +62 195 £80,000 +18.52% 50
Work from Home +18 179 £60,000 - 91
South East +2 134 £60,000 +9.09% 60
North of England +48 92 £60,000 +26.32% 34
Midlands +8 57 £55,000 -2.22% 26
South West +8 37 £60,000 +9.09% 14
North West +26 36 £65,000 +36.84% 19
Yorkshire +3 32 £77,500 +47.62% 12
East Midlands -3 30 £55,000 - 13
West Midlands +22 27 £60,000 +4.35% 13
North East +14 24 £50,000 +17.65% 3
East of England +3 22 £60,000 +33.33% 6
Wales +1 8 £45,000 -29.69% 2
Scotland -17 3 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 29 January 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.

1 583 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 283 (48.54%) React
3 223 (38.25%) JavaScript
4 185 (31.73%) AWS
5 164 (28.13%) TypeScript
6 154 (26.42%) .NET
7 143 (24.53%) Agile
7 143 (24.53%) C#
8 138 (23.67%) Java
9 131 (22.47%) Azure
10 124 (21.27%) CI/CD
11 115 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
12 114 (19.55%) Python
13 110 (18.87%) Node.js
14 106 (18.18%) CSS
14 106 (18.18%) HTML
14 106 (18.18%) SQL
15 103 (17.67%) AngularJS
16 98 (16.81%) Microservices
17 96 (16.47%) DevOps
18 90 (15.44%) REST
19 83 (14.24%) Docker
20 75 (12.86%) Git
21 73 (12.52%) AI
21 73 (12.52%) Software Engineering
22 70 (12.01%) Serverless
22 70 (12.01%) Vue
23 69 (11.84%) Security Cleared
24 66 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
25 63 (10.81%) Spring

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 8 (1.37%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.20%) CMS
2 7 (1.20%) Confluence
3 6 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.51%) ColdFusion
4 3 (0.51%) Liferay
5 2 (0.34%) Drupal
5 2 (0.34%) nginx
5 2 (0.34%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) Kentico
6 1 (0.17%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (31.73%) AWS
2 131 (22.47%) Azure
3 70 (12.01%) Serverless
4 43 (7.38%) GitHub
5 40 (6.86%) SaaS
6 37 (6.35%) Amazon S3
7 36 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
7 36 (6.17%) GCP
8 35 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (1.72%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (1.03%) Amazon EventBridge
17 5 (0.86%) npm
18 4 (0.69%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.34%) AMQP
1 2 (0.34%) Broadband
1 2 (0.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.17%) Internet
2 1 (0.17%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (9.78%) SQL Server
3 42 (7.20%) NoSQL
4 40 (6.86%) Relational Database
5 27 (4.63%) MySQL
6 21 (3.60%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.43%) RDBMS
8 15 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.23%) Redis
10 9 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.37%) DB2
11 8 (1.37%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.20%) Power BI
13 3 (0.51%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.34%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.34%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.34%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 75 (12.86%) Git
2 35 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.26%) JUnit
4 18 (3.09%) Cypress.io
4 18 (3.09%) Mockito
5 14 (2.40%) JIRA
6 12 (2.06%) TeamCity
7 10 (1.72%) JMeter
7 10 (1.72%) Maven
8 7 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.20%) Selenium
9 6 (1.03%) webpack
10 5 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.86%) git-flow
11 4 (0.69%) GitLab
11 4 (0.69%) Mocha
11 4 (0.69%) Storybook
12 3 (0.51%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.51%) ESLint
12 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 96 (16.47%) Social Skills
2 61 (10.46%) Finance
3 36 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.32%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.97%) Banking
6 21 (3.60%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.26%) Aviation
8 14 (2.40%) Law
8 14 (2.40%) Retail
9 12 (2.06%) Front Office
9 12 (2.06%) Games
9 12 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.89%) Legal
11 9 (1.54%) Marketing
12 6 (1.03%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.86%) Electronics
13 5 (0.86%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.51%) Local Government
14 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (48.54%) React
2 154 (26.42%) .NET
3 110 (18.87%) Node.js
4 106 (18.18%) CSS
4 106 (18.18%) HTML
5 103 (17.67%) AngularJS
6 90 (15.44%) REST
7 70 (12.01%) Vue
8 63 (10.81%) Spring
9 55 (9.43%) RESTful
10 50 (8.58%) .NET Core
11 38 (6.52%) Spring Boot
12 36 (6.17%) ASP.NET
13 33 (5.66%) HTML5
14 32 (5.49%) CSS3
15 30 (5.15%) Laravel
16 28 (4.80%) .NET Framework
16 28 (4.80%) Kafka
17 26 (4.46%) Next.js
18 24 (4.12%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 17 (2.92%) Mobile App
7 14 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.72%) Hedge funds
8 10 (1.72%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.69%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.69%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.69%) IoT
11 3 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.51%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.51%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.34%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.34%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.72%) Android
1 10 (1.72%) Apple iOS
1 10 (1.72%) Linux
2 2 (0.34%) Unix
2 2 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 143 (24.53%) Agile
3 124 (21.27%) CI/CD
4 115 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
5 98 (16.81%) Microservices
6 96 (16.47%) DevOps
7 73 (12.52%) AI
7 73 (12.52%) Software Engineering
8 62 (10.63%) User Experience
9 47 (8.06%) Clean Code
9 47 (8.06%) Scrum
9 47 (8.06%) SDLC
9 47 (8.06%) TDD
10 42 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (7.20%) Web Development
11 40 (6.86%) API Development
11 40 (6.86%) Front End Development
12 36 (6.17%) Mentoring
13 34 (5.83%) Computer Science
13 34 (5.83%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 223 (38.25%) JavaScript
2 164 (28.13%) TypeScript
3 143 (24.53%) C#
4 138 (23.67%) Java
5 114 (19.55%) Python
6 106 (18.18%) SQL
7 38 (6.52%) PHP
8 16 (2.74%) C
9 12 (2.06%) Ruby
9 12 (2.06%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.89%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.54%) Go
12 8 (1.37%) Bash
12 8 (1.37%) C++
13 6 (1.03%) R
14 4 (0.69%) XAML
15 3 (0.51%) COBOL
16 2 (0.34%) Groovy
16 2 (0.34%) RPG
16 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 36 (6.17%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.49%) Degree
4 28 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.60%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.66%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.95%) QA
3 8 (1.37%) WCAG
4 4 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) HL7
System Software
1 83 (14.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (9.95%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.43%) Terraform
3 10 (1.72%) Kibana
4 8 (1.37%) Ansible
5 3 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.34%) Nagios
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (3.77%) Oracle
2 14 (2.40%) Microsoft
3 11 (1.89%) Dynatrace
4 10 (1.72%) Splunk
5 8 (1.37%) Google
6 7 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.69%) Telerik
8 3 (0.51%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.51%) Pega
8 3 (0.51%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.51%) WSO2
8 3 (0.51%) Zoho
9 2 (0.34%) Foundry
9 2 (0.34%) IBM
9 2 (0.34%) iManage
9 2 (0.34%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.34%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe
10 1 (0.17%) IONA
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat