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 28 February 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 279 184
Rank change year-on-year +65 -95 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 683 511 1,272
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.08% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.18% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 553 329 1,135
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,140 £46,250
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,500 £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 64,045 43,160 71,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 91.32% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 40,457 23,120 55,854
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,280
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +70 625 £65,000 +8.33% 158
UK excluding London +46 427 £60,000 +9.09% 144
Work from Home +50 237 £60,000 - 86
London +52 212 £80,000 +14.29% 34
South East -7 146 £60,000 +9.09% 42
North of England +66 120 £65,000 +18.18% 44
Midlands +22 73 £55,000 -4.35% 24
North West +30 54 £68,750 +25.00% 22
South West +17 52 £55,000 -8.33% 21
Yorkshire -2 41 £72,500 +38.10% 13
West Midlands +20 39 £60,000 +2.13% 18
East Midlands -10 34 £55,000 - 6
East of England +8 28 £100,000 +122.22% 7
North East +9 25 £50,000 +17.65% 10
Wales -6 8 £45,000 -15.09% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1
Scotland -32 1 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 28 February 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.

1 683 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 303 (44.36%) React
3 250 (36.60%) JavaScript
4 203 (29.72%) AWS
5 195 (28.55%) TypeScript
6 170 (24.89%) .NET
7 161 (23.57%) C#
8 152 (22.25%) Agile
9 150 (21.96%) Java
10 139 (20.35%) Node.js
11 133 (19.47%) Azure
12 130 (19.03%) Python
13 128 (18.74%) CI/CD
14 118 (17.28%) CSS
15 117 (17.13%) HTML
16 111 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
17 110 (16.11%) AngularJS
18 108 (15.81%) Microservices
19 105 (15.37%) SQL
20 100 (14.64%) DevOps
21 92 (13.47%) Docker
22 90 (13.18%) REST
23 89 (13.03%) Software Engineering
24 87 (12.74%) Vue
25 81 (11.86%) Git
26 78 (11.42%) AI
26 78 (11.42%) Serverless
27 71 (10.40%) Security Cleared
28 70 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
29 59 (8.64%) Kubernetes

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 11 (1.61%) CMS
2 9 (1.32%) Confluence
3 8 (1.17%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.59%) nginx
6 3 (0.44%) ColdFusion
6 3 (0.44%) Drupal
6 3 (0.44%) Liferay
6 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.29%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.15%) Apache
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) Kentico
8 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 203 (29.72%) AWS
2 133 (19.47%) Azure
3 78 (11.42%) Serverless
4 50 (7.32%) SaaS
5 45 (6.59%) Amazon S3
6 44 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
8 37 (5.42%) GCP
8 37 (5.42%) GitHub
9 29 (4.25%) Amazon SQS
10 26 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (2.05%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.17%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (0.88%) Amazon EventBridge
17 4 (0.59%) Amazon Cognito
17 4 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.29%) AMQP
1 2 (0.29%) HTTP
2 1 (0.15%) Broadband
2 1 (0.15%) Internet
2 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (8.35%) SQL Server
3 43 (6.30%) NoSQL
4 39 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 29 (4.25%) MongoDB
6 28 (4.10%) MySQL
7 14 (2.05%) RDBMS
7 14 (2.05%) Redis
8 12 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.46%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.32%) Power BI
11 8 (1.17%) DB2
12 3 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.44%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.44%) TimescaleDB
13 2 (0.29%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 81 (11.86%) Git
2 35 (5.12%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.07%) Cypress.io
4 18 (2.64%) JUnit
5 16 (2.34%) Mockito
6 15 (2.20%) JIRA
7 12 (1.76%) Maven
7 12 (1.76%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.17%) JMeter
9 7 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.02%) GitLab
9 7 (1.02%) Selenium
10 6 (0.88%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.73%) git-flow
11 5 (0.73%) webpack
12 3 (0.44%) ESLint
12 3 (0.44%) Mocha
12 3 (0.44%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.29%) Storybook
13 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 89 (13.03%) Social Skills
2 69 (10.10%) Finance
3 37 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (4.83%) Banking
5 26 (3.81%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.22%) Aviation
7 20 (2.93%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.49%) Retail
9 15 (2.20%) Front Office
9 15 (2.20%) Games
10 14 (2.05%) Law
11 12 (1.76%) Legal
12 10 (1.46%) Marketing
13 9 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.02%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.88%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.73%) Electronics
16 5 (0.73%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.44%) Local Government
17 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (44.36%) React
2 170 (24.89%) .NET
3 139 (20.35%) Node.js
4 118 (17.28%) CSS
5 117 (17.13%) HTML
6 110 (16.11%) AngularJS
7 90 (13.18%) REST
8 87 (12.74%) Vue
9 58 (8.49%) Spring
10 55 (8.05%) .NET Core
11 48 (7.03%) RESTful
12 39 (5.71%) Laravel
12 39 (5.71%) Spring Boot
13 34 (4.98%) ASP.NET
14 30 (4.39%) Kafka
15 29 (4.25%) HTML5
15 29 (4.25%) Next.js
16 28 (4.10%) CSS3
17 24 (3.51%) .NET Framework
17 24 (3.51%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.10%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
2 24 (3.51%) Product Ownership
2 24 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.20%) Mobile App
5 10 (1.46%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.32%) Fixed Income
7 8 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.02%) Hedge funds
9 6 (0.88%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.73%) Sports Betting
11 4 (0.59%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.59%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.59%) IoT
12 2 (0.29%) Animation
12 2 (0.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.05%) Linux
2 8 (1.17%) Android
2 8 (1.17%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.29%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 152 (22.25%) Agile
3 128 (18.74%) CI/CD
4 111 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (15.81%) Microservices
6 100 (14.64%) DevOps
7 89 (13.03%) Software Engineering
8 78 (11.42%) AI
9 59 (8.64%) User Experience
10 52 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (7.47%) API Development
12 48 (7.03%) Web Development
13 46 (6.73%) Scrum
14 45 (6.59%) Clean Code
14 45 (6.59%) SDLC
15 44 (6.44%) TDD
16 43 (6.30%) Front End Development
16 43 (6.30%) Mentoring
17 38 (5.56%) Containerisation
18 34 (4.98%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 250 (36.60%) JavaScript
2 195 (28.55%) TypeScript
3 161 (23.57%) C#
4 150 (21.96%) Java
5 130 (19.03%) Python
6 105 (15.37%) SQL
7 45 (6.59%) PHP
8 17 (2.49%) C
9 15 (2.20%) Ruby
10 12 (1.76%) Go
10 12 (1.76%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.46%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.32%) Bash
13 6 (0.88%) C++
14 5 (0.73%) R
15 4 (0.59%) XAML
16 3 (0.44%) COBOL
16 3 (0.44%) Groovy
16 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 71 (10.40%) Security Cleared
2 45 (6.59%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.69%) Degree
4 27 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.59%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.95%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.37%) QA
3 6 (0.88%) WCAG
4 2 (0.29%) HL7
5 1 (0.15%) GDPR
5 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 92 (13.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.78%) Terraform
3 9 (1.32%) Kibana
4 8 (1.17%) Ansible
5 5 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.44%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.44%) Nagios
7 2 (0.29%) Argo
7 2 (0.29%) Grafana
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (3.37%) Oracle
2 18 (2.64%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.32%) Dynatrace
3 9 (1.32%) OpenAI
4 8 (1.17%) Splunk
5 7 (1.02%) Google
6 4 (0.59%) iManage
6 4 (0.59%) Telerik
7 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.44%) Pega
7 3 (0.44%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.44%) WSO2
7 3 (0.44%) Zoho
8 2 (0.29%) Aderant
8 2 (0.29%) Foundry
8 2 (0.29%) IBM
8 2 (0.29%) Intapp
8 2 (0.29%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe
9 1 (0.15%) Databricks