Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 310 199
Rank change year-on-year +91 -111 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,022 434 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.88% 0.89% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.99% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 863 320 656
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.00% -8.26%

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 108,680 43,895 71,874
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 89.63% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,405 25,767 42,756
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 September 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 23 September 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 +95 907 £60,000 - 305
UK excluding London +96 771 £60,000 +4.35% 180
Work from Home +79 361 £60,000 - 163
North of England +83 224 £67,500 +12.50% 62
South East +56 218 £60,000 +4.35% 37
London -24 205 £67,500 -12.90% 139
Midlands +16 114 £60,000 - 27
Yorkshire +55 113 £75,000 +25.00% 24
South West +3 109 £60,000 - 19
North West +18 83 £61,250 +2.08% 34
West Midlands 0 67 £70,000 +16.67% 20
Scotland +46 52 £57,500 -4.17% 10
East Midlands +1 47 £60,000 +26.32% 7
East of England -26 40 £70,000 +69.70% 13
North East -50 28 £46,250 -22.92% 5
Wales -78 14 £62,500 +4.17% 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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 1,022 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 351 (34.34%) JavaScript
3 310 (30.33%) React
4 308 (30.14%) TypeScript
5 302 (29.55%) AWS
6 220 (21.53%) Node.js
7 197 (19.28%) CI/CD
8 194 (18.98%) Agile
9 189 (18.49%) .NET
10 177 (17.32%) C#
11 173 (16.93%) Azure
12 171 (16.73%) Microservices
13 157 (15.36%) Java
14 154 (15.07%) AI
15 151 (14.77%) Python
16 130 (12.72%) CSS
17 125 (12.23%) HTML
18 123 (12.04%) Software Engineering
19 120 (11.74%) AngularJS
19 120 (11.74%) Docker
20 107 (10.47%) SaaS
21 106 (10.37%) SQL
22 105 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
23 102 (9.98%) Git
23 102 (9.98%) Serverless
23 102 (9.98%) SQL Server
24 100 (9.78%) DevOps
25 94 (9.20%) Vue
26 93 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
27 91 (8.90%) REST

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 (1.47%) Confluence
2 14 (1.37%) WordPress
3 11 (1.08%) CMS
4 7 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.39%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.39%) IIS
6 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.098%) Apache
8 1 (0.098%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.098%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.098%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 302 (29.55%) AWS
2 173 (16.93%) Azure
3 107 (10.47%) SaaS
4 102 (9.98%) Serverless
5 86 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (8.12%) Amazon S3
6 83 (8.12%) GitHub
7 76 (7.44%) Amazon ECS
8 53 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
9 48 (4.70%) GCP
10 40 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (2.74%) AWS Step Functions
14 27 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (2.64%) GitHub Copilot
14 27 (2.64%) Snowflake
15 19 (1.86%) Amazon ECR
16 18 (1.76%) Anthropic Claude
16 18 (1.76%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) Broadband
2 4 (0.39%) DNS
2 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.098%) Internet
4 1 (0.098%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (9.98%) SQL Server
2 86 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (5.48%) MongoDB
4 44 (4.31%) DynamoDB
5 34 (3.33%) MySQL
6 29 (2.84%) NoSQL
6 29 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 28 (2.74%) Redis
8 19 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.17%) Power BI
10 8 (0.78%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.39%) GIS
12 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.29%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.098%) ClickHouse
14 1 (0.098%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.098%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.098%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 102 (9.98%) Git
2 56 (5.48%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.31%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.84%) GitLab
5 23 (2.25%) Maven
6 20 (1.96%) JUnit
7 18 (1.76%) JIRA
8 17 (1.66%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.27%) Mockito
10 11 (1.08%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.88%) Visual Studio
12 8 (0.78%) Storybook
12 8 (0.78%) Vite
13 7 (0.68%) NUnit
14 6 (0.59%) Postman
14 6 (0.59%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.49%) Selenium
16 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
16 4 (0.39%) Subversion
17 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 103 (10.08%) Social Skills
2 70 (6.85%) Public Sector
3 53 (5.19%) Finance
4 16 (1.57%) Retail
5 14 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.27%) Marketing
7 12 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.17%) Legal
8 7 (0.68%) Legal Technology
9 5 (0.49%) Banking
10 4 (0.39%) Advertising
10 4 (0.39%) Aviation
10 4 (0.39%) Games
11 3 (0.29%) Automotive
11 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Law
11 3 (0.29%) Local Government
11 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.20%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (30.33%) React
2 220 (21.53%) Node.js
3 189 (18.49%) .NET
4 130 (12.72%) CSS
5 125 (12.23%) HTML
6 120 (11.74%) AngularJS
7 94 (9.20%) Vue
8 91 (8.90%) REST
9 77 (7.53%) Spring
10 75 (7.34%) RESTful
11 70 (6.85%) Spring Boot
12 55 (5.38%) Next.js
13 53 (5.19%) Jest
14 52 (5.09%) Ruby on Rails
15 44 (4.31%) .NET Core
16 42 (4.11%) Terraform
17 40 (3.91%) .NET Framework
18 38 (3.72%) ASP.NET
18 38 (3.72%) Entity Framework
19 33 (3.23%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 77 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 50 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 19 (1.86%) Mobile App
6 14 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (0.88%) IoT
8 8 (0.78%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.68%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.39%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.39%) Sports Betting
12 3 (0.29%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (0.29%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.29%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.29%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.29%) PKI
13 2 (0.20%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.37%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.098%) Windows
3 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,022 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 197 (19.28%) CI/CD
3 194 (18.98%) Agile
4 171 (16.73%) Microservices
5 154 (15.07%) AI
6 123 (12.04%) Software Engineering
7 105 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (9.78%) DevOps
9 93 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (7.24%) Clean Code
11 68 (6.65%) Web Development
12 66 (6.46%) Mentoring
13 59 (5.77%) Computer Science
14 57 (5.58%) User Experience
15 55 (5.38%) E-Commerce
15 55 (5.38%) SDLC
16 54 (5.28%) Front End Development
17 50 (4.89%) Technical Leadership
18 46 (4.50%) Test Automation
19 45 (4.40%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 351 (34.34%) JavaScript
2 308 (30.14%) TypeScript
3 177 (17.32%) C#
4 157 (15.36%) Java
5 151 (14.77%) Python
6 106 (10.37%) SQL
7 55 (5.38%) Ruby
8 50 (4.89%) PHP
9 47 (4.60%) Kotlin
10 22 (2.15%) Bash
11 20 (1.96%) Groovy
12 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.68%) C++
14 3 (0.29%) Go
14 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.20%) Bicep
15 2 (0.20%) Perl
16 1 (0.098%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.098%) C
16 1 (0.098%) Rust
Qualifications
1 70 (6.85%) Security Cleared
2 61 (5.97%) Degree
3 58 (5.68%) SC Cleared
4 54 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.098%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.05%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.17%) QA
3 11 (1.08%) WCAG
4 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.098%) GRC
7 1 (0.098%) SLA
System Software
1 120 (11.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 73 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.08%) HP Fortify
3 5 (0.49%) Ansible
3 5 (0.49%) Grafana
4 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Kibana
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.098%) Podman
Vendors
1 74 (7.24%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.54%) Oracle
3 18 (1.76%) Google
4 16 (1.57%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.88%) OneLogin
5 9 (0.88%) OutSystems
5 9 (0.88%) Red Hat
6 6 (0.59%) Dynatrace
7 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
8 3 (0.29%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.29%) Splunk
9 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.098%) Confluent
10 1 (0.098%) Databricks
10 1 (0.098%) Mistral
10 1 (0.098%) NEC
10 1 (0.098%) Pega
10 1 (0.098%) WSO2