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 17 April 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 261 173
Rank change year-on-year +61 -88 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 898 452 1,588
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.09% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.22% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 762 354 1,306
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,813 £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 79,728 37,132 89,450
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 89.29% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 51,035 23,360 66,363
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
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 17 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 17 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 +76 818 £65,000 +8.33% 117
UK excluding London +70 605 £60,000 +9.09% 101
Work from Home +64 297 £60,000 - 62
London +51 230 £80,000 +14.29% 38
North of England +68 191 £70,000 +27.27% 22
South East +23 189 £60,000 +9.09% 42
Midlands -7 92 £57,500 +9.52% 7
North West +42 91 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Yorkshire +7 82 £75,000 +36.36% 14
South West +4 75 £55,000 -8.33% 14
West Midlands -2 52 £60,000 +2.13% 4
East of England -10 42 £100,000 +122.22% 8
East Midlands -22 40 £55,000 +15.79% 3
North East -25 18 £52,500 +20.00% 5
Scotland -30 9 £60,000 +15.94% 8
Wales -27 8 £45,000 -15.09% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 898 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 331 (36.86%) React
3 295 (32.85%) JavaScript
4 242 (26.95%) TypeScript
5 224 (24.94%) AWS
6 200 (22.27%) Node.js
7 177 (19.71%) .NET
8 175 (19.49%) Python
9 166 (18.49%) C#
10 160 (17.82%) Java
11 146 (16.26%) Agile
12 136 (15.14%) CI/CD
13 133 (14.81%) Azure
14 122 (13.59%) CSS
15 118 (13.14%) HTML
16 117 (13.03%) AngularJS
17 116 (12.92%) Software Engineering
18 115 (12.81%) SQL
19 113 (12.58%) DevOps
19 113 (12.58%) Microservices
20 108 (12.03%) Vue
21 96 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
22 94 (10.47%) AI
23 90 (10.02%) Git
24 88 (9.80%) Serverless
25 87 (9.69%) Docker
25 87 (9.69%) Web Development
26 77 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
27 75 (8.35%) REST
27 75 (8.35%) SaaS

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 9 (1.00%) Confluence
2 8 (0.89%) CMS
3 7 (0.78%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.78%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.45%) nginx
6 3 (0.33%) Liferay
6 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.22%) Drupal
7 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) CICS
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.11%) Magento
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 224 (24.94%) AWS
2 133 (14.81%) Azure
3 88 (9.80%) Serverless
4 75 (8.35%) SaaS
5 63 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (6.24%) Amazon S3
7 46 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (4.34%) Amazon SQS
9 38 (4.23%) GCP
10 35 (3.90%) GitHub
11 24 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.67%) Power Platform
14 14 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.11%) Apigee
16 10 (1.11%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
17 9 (1.00%) Amazon ECR
18 6 (0.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.33%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) AMQP
2 2 (0.22%) Broadband
3 1 (0.11%) DNS
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 46 (5.12%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.01%) MongoDB
5 33 (3.67%) MySQL
6 25 (2.78%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.23%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.11%) Power BI
10 9 (1.00%) Redis
11 8 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.89%) DB2
12 6 (0.67%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.56%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.33%) ClickHouse
14 3 (0.33%) TimescaleDB
15 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.22%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 90 (10.02%) Git
2 33 (3.67%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.34%) Cypress.io
4 17 (1.89%) JIRA
5 12 (1.34%) Maven
6 11 (1.22%) GitLab
7 10 (1.11%) JUnit
8 8 (0.89%) Mockito
9 7 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.67%) Selenium
11 5 (0.56%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.45%) webpack
13 3 (0.33%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.33%) ESLint
14 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.22%) git-flow
14 2 (0.22%) Mocha
14 2 (0.22%) Storybook
General
1 87 (9.69%) Social Skills
2 77 (8.57%) Finance
3 35 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (3.12%) Banking
5 23 (2.56%) Retail
6 21 (2.34%) Aviation
6 21 (2.34%) Public Sector
7 14 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.45%) Front Office
8 13 (1.45%) Games
9 9 (1.00%) Marketing
10 8 (0.89%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.78%) Local Government
12 6 (0.67%) Advertising
13 5 (0.56%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.56%) Law
13 5 (0.56%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.45%) Publishing
15 3 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (36.86%) React
2 200 (22.27%) Node.js
3 177 (19.71%) .NET
4 122 (13.59%) CSS
5 118 (13.14%) HTML
6 117 (13.03%) AngularJS
7 108 (12.03%) Vue
8 75 (8.35%) REST
9 62 (6.90%) Spring
10 58 (6.46%) RESTful
11 56 (6.24%) .NET Core
12 52 (5.79%) Laravel
13 48 (5.35%) Spring Boot
14 37 (4.12%) Next.js
15 33 (3.67%) Jest
16 31 (3.45%) GraphQL
17 30 (3.34%) ASP.NET
18 29 (3.23%) React Native
19 28 (3.12%) Ruby on Rails
20 27 (3.01%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.45%) Cloud Native
2 33 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (2.34%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.12%) Mobile App
4 19 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.22%) Fixed Income
7 9 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.78%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.67%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.67%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.45%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.45%) IoT
11 4 (0.45%) NHS
11 4 (0.45%) PropTech
12 3 (0.33%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (0.33%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.45%) Linux
2 5 (0.56%) Android
2 5 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 898 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 146 (16.26%) Agile
3 136 (15.14%) CI/CD
4 116 (12.92%) Software Engineering
5 113 (12.58%) DevOps
5 113 (12.58%) Microservices
6 96 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (10.47%) AI
8 87 (9.69%) Web Development
9 59 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (5.46%) API Development
11 48 (5.35%) Clean Code
12 46 (5.12%) Scrum
13 45 (5.01%) Mentoring
14 44 (4.90%) User Experience
15 43 (4.79%) Front End Development
16 41 (4.57%) SDLC
17 40 (4.45%) Test Automation
18 37 (4.12%) Unit Testing
19 36 (4.01%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 295 (32.85%) JavaScript
2 242 (26.95%) TypeScript
3 175 (19.49%) Python
4 166 (18.49%) C#
5 160 (17.82%) Java
6 115 (12.81%) SQL
7 61 (6.79%) PHP
8 28 (3.12%) Ruby
9 17 (1.89%) C
10 11 (1.22%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.11%) Bash
11 10 (1.11%) Go
12 8 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.67%) C++
14 5 (0.56%) Groovy
14 5 (0.56%) R
15 4 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.33%) COBOL
17 2 (0.22%) RPG
17 2 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 72 (8.02%) Security Cleared
2 56 (6.24%) SC Cleared
3 32 (3.56%) Degree
4 27 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.34%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.00%) QA
2 17 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.33%) WCAG
4 2 (0.22%) HL7
5 1 (0.11%) GDPR
5 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 87 (9.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.12%) Terraform
3 7 (0.78%) Ansible
4 5 (0.56%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.33%) Kibana
5 3 (0.33%) Nagios
6 2 (0.22%) Grafana
6 2 (0.22%) Podman
6 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (2.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.45%) Oracle
3 9 (1.00%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.56%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.45%) Google
5 4 (0.45%) Pega
5 4 (0.45%) Telerik
6 3 (0.33%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.33%) Peregrine
6 3 (0.33%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.33%) Zoho
7 2 (0.22%) Aderant
7 2 (0.22%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.22%) Foundry
7 2 (0.22%) iManage
7 2 (0.22%) Intapp
7 2 (0.22%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.22%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.22%) Splunk
7 2 (0.22%) WSO2