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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 294 170
Rank change year-on-year +93 -124 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,049 486 1,299
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.98% 0.97% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.08% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 912 364 908
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,875 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 100,959 44,891 79,128
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.94% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 69,008 26,549 52,423
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £47,863 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.06% -4.27% -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +93 931 £60,000 - 180
UK excluding London +118 809 £60,000 +4.35% 139
Work from Home +85 382 £60,000 - 99
North of England +117 244 £65,000 +8.33% 40
South East +70 232 £60,000 +4.35% 29
London -42 185 £70,000 -6.67% 68
Midlands +30 125 £60,000 +2.13% 22
North West +56 108 £65,000 +10.64% 19
South West +8 106 £57,500 -4.17% 22
Yorkshire +61 105 £75,000 +25.00% 16
West Midlands +15 77 £70,000 +16.67% 16
East Midlands +11 48 £60,000 +26.32% 6
Scotland +25 46 £55,000 -8.33% 12
East of England -17 42 £55,000 +22.22% 9
North East -28 31 £47,500 -52.50% 5
Wales -60 14 £62,500 +4.17%

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 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 1,049 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 361 (34.41%) JavaScript
3 332 (31.65%) React
4 320 (30.51%) TypeScript
5 307 (29.27%) AWS
6 239 (22.78%) Node.js
7 201 (19.16%) CI/CD
8 199 (18.97%) Agile
9 194 (18.49%) .NET
10 181 (17.25%) C#
11 174 (16.59%) Azure
12 170 (16.21%) Python
13 168 (16.02%) Microservices
14 163 (15.54%) Java
15 155 (14.78%) AI
16 141 (13.44%) Software Engineering
17 134 (12.77%) CSS
18 127 (12.11%) HTML
19 126 (12.01%) AngularJS
20 116 (11.06%) SQL
21 114 (10.87%) Docker
22 113 (10.77%) DevOps
22 113 (10.77%) SaaS
23 112 (10.68%) Vue
24 108 (10.30%) Git
25 106 (10.10%) Serverless
26 102 (9.72%) SQL Server
27 97 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
28 95 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
29 91 (8.67%) 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 (1.14%) Confluence
2 11 (1.05%) CMS
2 11 (1.05%) WordPress
3 7 (0.67%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.38%) IIS
5 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.095%) Apache
6 1 (0.095%) CICS
6 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.095%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.095%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Elementor
3 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.095%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 307 (29.27%) AWS
2 174 (16.59%) Azure
3 113 (10.77%) SaaS
4 106 (10.10%) Serverless
5 89 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (7.82%) Amazon S3
7 78 (7.44%) GitHub
8 76 (7.24%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (4.96%) GCP
10 50 (4.77%) Amazon SQS
11 39 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (2.57%) AWS Step Functions
14 26 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
16 20 (1.91%) Snowflake
17 18 (1.72%) Amazon ECR
18 17 (1.62%) Apigee
19 16 (1.53%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.76%) Broadband
2 4 (0.38%) DNS
2 4 (0.38%) HTTP
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.095%) Internet
4 1 (0.095%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (9.72%) SQL Server
2 91 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (5.05%) MongoDB
4 43 (4.10%) DynamoDB
5 37 (3.53%) MySQL
6 32 (3.05%) NoSQL
7 26 (2.48%) Relational Database
8 23 (2.19%) Redis
9 17 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.05%) Power BI
11 8 (0.76%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.38%) GIS
12 4 (0.38%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
15 1 (0.095%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.095%) DocumentDB
15 1 (0.095%) Hazelcast
15 1 (0.095%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 108 (10.30%) Git
2 55 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.10%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.76%) GitLab
5 21 (2.00%) Maven
6 20 (1.91%) JIRA
6 20 (1.91%) JUnit
7 14 (1.33%) Claude Code
8 12 (1.14%) Mockito
9 9 (0.86%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.76%) Storybook
11 6 (0.57%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.57%) Postman
11 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.48%) NUnit
12 5 (0.48%) Selenium
13 4 (0.38%) Subversion
13 4 (0.38%) Vite
14 3 (0.29%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.29%) webpack
General
1 105 (10.01%) Social Skills
2 63 (6.01%) Finance
3 52 (4.96%) Public Sector
4 24 (2.29%) Retail
5 15 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.24%) Marketing
7 12 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.14%) Legal
8 8 (0.76%) Legal Technology
9 6 (0.57%) Advertising
9 6 (0.57%) Banking
9 6 (0.57%) Games
9 6 (0.57%) Tech for Good
10 5 (0.48%) Front Office
10 5 (0.48%) Local Government
11 4 (0.38%) Aviation
11 4 (0.38%) Law
11 4 (0.38%) Publishing
12 3 (0.29%) Automotive
12 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (31.65%) React
2 239 (22.78%) Node.js
3 194 (18.49%) .NET
4 134 (12.77%) CSS
5 127 (12.11%) HTML
6 126 (12.01%) AngularJS
7 112 (10.68%) Vue
8 90 (8.58%) REST
9 76 (7.24%) RESTful
9 76 (7.24%) Spring
10 68 (6.48%) Spring Boot
11 61 (5.82%) Next.js
12 52 (4.96%) Jest
13 50 (4.77%) Ruby on Rails
14 42 (4.00%) .NET Core
14 42 (4.00%) ASP.NET
15 40 (3.81%) .NET Framework
16 38 (3.62%) Entity Framework
17 35 (3.34%) HTML5
18 34 (3.24%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 47 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (1.81%) Mobile App
3 19 (1.81%) Product Ownership
4 15 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (0.86%) IoT
5 9 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (0.67%) Virtual Team
7 6 (0.57%) AI Agents
7 6 (0.57%) NHS
7 6 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (0.48%) Sports Betting
9 4 (0.38%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (0.38%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.38%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.38%) Mainframe
9 4 (0.38%) PropTech
10 3 (0.29%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.43%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.095%) Windows
3 1 (0.095%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,049 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 201 (19.16%) CI/CD
3 199 (18.97%) Agile
4 168 (16.02%) Microservices
5 155 (14.78%) AI
6 141 (13.44%) Software Engineering
7 113 (10.77%) DevOps
8 97 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
9 95 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 88 (8.39%) Web Development
11 76 (7.24%) Clean Code
12 67 (6.39%) Mentoring
13 59 (5.62%) Computer Science
14 57 (5.43%) E-Commerce
14 57 (5.43%) Front End Development
15 55 (5.24%) User Experience
16 52 (4.96%) SDLC
17 48 (4.58%) Technical Leadership
18 46 (4.39%) Test Automation
19 43 (4.10%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 361 (34.41%) JavaScript
2 320 (30.51%) TypeScript
3 181 (17.25%) C#
4 170 (16.21%) Python
5 163 (15.54%) Java
6 116 (11.06%) SQL
7 53 (5.05%) PHP
8 52 (4.96%) Ruby
9 25 (2.38%) Kotlin
10 20 (1.91%) Bash
11 18 (1.72%) Groovy
12 12 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.76%) C++
13 8 (0.76%) Go
14 2 (0.19%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.19%) C
14 2 (0.19%) Perl
14 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.095%) CFML
15 1 (0.095%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (6.77%) Security Cleared
2 62 (5.91%) SC Cleared
3 61 (5.82%) Degree
4 54 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.91%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.48%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.095%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 11 (1.05%) WCAG
3 10 (0.95%) QA
4 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.095%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.095%) HL7
6 1 (0.095%) SLA
6 1 (0.095%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 114 (10.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 44 (4.19%) Terraform
3 9 (0.86%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.57%) Ansible
5 5 (0.48%) Grafana
6 4 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.19%) Argo
7 2 (0.19%) Kibana
7 2 (0.19%) Podman
8 1 (0.095%) Nagios
Vendors
1 66 (6.29%) Microsoft
2 20 (1.91%) Oracle
3 17 (1.62%) Google
4 16 (1.53%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.86%) OneLogin
6 5 (0.48%) Dynatrace
6 5 (0.48%) Peregrine
7 4 (0.38%) Pega
7 4 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.19%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.19%) OutSystems
8 2 (0.19%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.19%) Splunk
8 2 (0.19%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.19%) WSO2
9 1 (0.095%) Aderant
9 1 (0.095%) Adobe
9 1 (0.095%) Confluent
9 1 (0.095%) iManage
9 1 (0.095%) Intapp