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 27 December 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 278 188
Rank change year-on-year +34 -90 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 533 584 926
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.05% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.12% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 396 353 846
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 54,268 52,045 49,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 93.40% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 33,559 27,623 38,199
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,450 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 +45 482 £62,500 +8.70% 378
UK excluding London +25 327 £60,000 +14.29% 284
London +32 177 £80,000 +14.29% 127
Work from Home +32 164 £60,000 +4.35% 263
South East +8 128 £60,000 +9.09% 96
North of England +38 78 £60,000 +26.32% 86
South West +4 41 £60,000 +9.09% 24
Midlands +17 39 £60,000 +6.67% 45
Yorkshire +16 29 £60,000 +11.63% 30
North West +11 28 £60,000 +45.45% 43
East of England +13 25 £50,000 +11.11% 23
West Midlands +20 22 £60,000 +6.67% 20
North East +26 21 £50,000 +17.65% 13
East Midlands -7 17 £55,000 -5.58% 23
Wales -3 13 £56,250 -25.00% 4
Scotland -9 4 £60,000 +15.94% 8
Northern Ireland -6 2 £60,000 -33.33% 2

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

For the 6 months to 27 December 2025, 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.

1 533 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 281 (52.72%) React
3 231 (43.34%) JavaScript
4 199 (37.34%) AWS
5 166 (31.14%) Agile
6 161 (30.21%) TypeScript
7 146 (27.39%) .NET
8 144 (27.02%) C#
9 142 (26.64%) Azure
10 138 (25.89%) CI/CD
11 128 (24.02%) HTML
12 127 (23.83%) Node.js
13 123 (23.08%) CSS
14 120 (22.51%) Java
15 114 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
16 111 (20.83%) AngularJS
17 108 (20.26%) DevOps
17 108 (20.26%) SQL
18 99 (18.57%) Python
19 92 (17.26%) Git
19 92 (17.26%) REST
20 91 (17.07%) User Experience
21 89 (16.70%) Docker
21 89 (16.70%) Microservices
22 84 (15.76%) RESTful
23 77 (14.45%) Vue
24 66 (12.38%) SQL Server
25 65 (12.20%) Software Engineering
26 64 (12.01%) Kubernetes
26 64 (12.01%) Serverless

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 (1.50%) CMS
1 8 (1.50%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.31%) Confluence
2 7 (1.31%) Headless CMS
3 3 (0.56%) nginx
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.38%) ColdFusion
4 2 (0.38%) Drupal
4 2 (0.38%) Liferay
4 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) Kentico
5 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.38%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (2.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 199 (37.34%) AWS
2 142 (26.64%) Azure
3 64 (12.01%) Serverless
4 55 (10.32%) SaaS
5 52 (9.76%) GCP
6 41 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 40 (7.50%) GitHub
8 35 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (5.63%) Amazon S3
10 28 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
12 24 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.88%) Figma
15 8 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.50%) Vercel
16 7 (1.31%) GitHub Copilot
16 7 (1.31%) Google Analytics
16 7 (1.31%) Power Platform
17 6 (1.13%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.56%) Broadband
1 3 (0.56%) HTTP
2 2 (0.38%) AMQP
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.38%) SQL Server
2 62 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (9.94%) NoSQL
4 43 (8.07%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.63%) MySQL
6 23 (4.32%) RDBMS
7 16 (3.00%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.44%) Redis
10 9 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.50%) DB2
12 7 (1.31%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.13%) Power BI
14 2 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 1 (0.19%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 92 (17.26%) Git
2 35 (6.57%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.75%) Cypress.io
4 19 (3.56%) JUnit
5 18 (3.38%) Mockito
6 15 (2.81%) JIRA
7 13 (2.44%) JMeter
8 12 (2.25%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.31%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.31%) Selenium
9 7 (1.31%) webpack
10 5 (0.94%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.94%) git-flow
10 5 (0.94%) Maven
10 5 (0.94%) Mocha
11 4 (0.75%) Storybook
12 3 (0.56%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.38%) ESLint
General
1 110 (20.64%) Social Skills
2 57 (10.69%) Finance
3 33 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.25%) Law
5 27 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.88%) Banking
7 22 (4.13%) Marketing
8 19 (3.56%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.44%) Aviation
9 13 (2.44%) Front Office
9 13 (2.44%) Retail
10 11 (2.06%) Games
10 11 (2.06%) Legal
11 10 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.50%) Health Technology
13 6 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.94%) Electronics
15 3 (0.56%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.56%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (52.72%) React
2 146 (27.39%) .NET
3 128 (24.02%) HTML
4 127 (23.83%) Node.js
5 123 (23.08%) CSS
6 111 (20.83%) AngularJS
7 92 (17.26%) REST
8 84 (15.76%) RESTful
9 77 (14.45%) Vue
10 61 (11.44%) Spring
11 45 (8.44%) .NET Core
12 44 (8.26%) ASP.NET
13 35 (6.57%) GraphQL
14 34 (6.38%) Spring Boot
15 33 (6.19%) .NET Framework
16 32 (6.00%) HTML5
17 31 (5.82%) CSS3
18 30 (5.63%) Next.js
19 29 (5.44%) Kafka
20 27 (5.07%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (3.94%) Cloud Native
5 20 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.56%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.06%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.88%) Hedge funds
8 10 (1.88%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.31%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.75%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.56%) Smart Home
11 3 (0.56%) Social Media
12 2 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.38%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.38%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.38%) IoT
12 2 (0.38%) Robotics
12 2 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.69%) Android
1 9 (1.69%) Apple iOS
2 8 (1.50%) Linux
3 3 (0.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 166 (31.14%) Agile
3 138 (25.89%) CI/CD
4 114 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (20.26%) DevOps
6 91 (17.07%) User Experience
7 89 (16.70%) Microservices
8 65 (12.20%) Software Engineering
9 59 (11.07%) Web Development
10 57 (10.69%) AI
11 54 (10.13%) Clean Code
12 53 (9.94%) UX Design
13 47 (8.82%) Scrum
14 46 (8.63%) SDLC
14 46 (8.63%) TDD
15 45 (8.44%) Test Automation
16 43 (8.07%) Containerisation
17 39 (7.32%) Front End Development
18 36 (6.75%) Continuous Improvement
19 34 (6.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 231 (43.34%) JavaScript
2 161 (30.21%) TypeScript
3 144 (27.02%) C#
4 120 (22.51%) Java
5 108 (20.26%) SQL
6 99 (18.57%) Python
7 30 (5.63%) PHP
8 15 (2.81%) Shell Script
9 12 (2.25%) C
9 12 (2.25%) Go
10 8 (1.50%) Ruby
11 7 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.13%) VB.NET
13 5 (0.94%) C++
14 4 (0.75%) Bash
14 4 (0.75%) R
14 4 (0.75%) XAML
15 3 (0.56%) COBOL
16 2 (0.38%) RPG
17 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 28 (5.25%) Degree
3 22 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.94%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.19%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 36 (6.75%) QA
3 8 (1.50%) WCAG
4 4 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 89 (16.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (12.01%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.38%) Terraform
3 13 (2.44%) Kibana
4 8 (1.50%) Ansible
5 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Argo
6 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (7.13%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.63%) Dynatrace
2 14 (2.63%) Oracle
3 13 (2.44%) Splunk
4 8 (1.50%) Google
5 7 (1.31%) Apple
6 5 (0.94%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.75%) Telerik
7 4 (0.75%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.56%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.56%) DevExpress
8 3 (0.56%) Pega
8 3 (0.56%) WSO2
8 3 (0.56%) Zoho
9 2 (0.38%) IBM
9 2 (0.38%) iManage
9 2 (0.38%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.38%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.19%) Foundry
10 1 (0.19%) IONA