Full-Stack Developer Jobs

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 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 178 176
Rank change year-on-year -145 -2 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 453 1,618 2,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 1.64% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.74% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 354 1,303 1,438
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 47,358 93,248 95,013
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,451 66,908 59,769
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.21% +5.50%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full-Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer.

Salary trend for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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 3 May 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 -146 406 £60,000 - 246
UK excluding London -109 276 £55,000 +4.76% 175
Work from Home -61 190 £60,000 - 172
London -101 157 £70,000 -9.68% 94
South East -25 96 £55,000 - 47
North of England -108 51 £55,000 - 41
Midlands -50 50 £53,500 +7.00% 33
West Midlands -25 34 £60,000 +9.09% 12
East of England -3 29 £45,000 - 30
North West -102 29 £55,000 - 28
South West +5 28 £60,000 +13.74% 20
Scotland +100 17 £51,000 -2.86% 7
East Midlands -9 16 £47,500 -5.00% 20
Yorkshire +18 14 £55,000 - 12
Wales +27 8 £61,500 +23.00% 5
North East +27 8 £51,250 -14.58% 2

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Full-Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 453 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 237 (52.32%) JavaScript
3 226 (49.89%) React
4 185 (40.84%) AWS
5 159 (35.10%) C#
6 152 (33.55%) Agile
7 148 (32.67%) .NET
8 137 (30.24%) TypeScript
9 134 (29.58%) AngularJS
10 130 (28.70%) HTML
11 129 (28.48%) SQL
12 120 (26.49%) Azure
13 118 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
14 112 (24.72%) Python
15 109 (24.06%) Node.js
16 108 (23.84%) CSS
17 99 (21.85%) SQL Server
18 96 (21.19%) CI/CD
19 91 (20.09%) Git
19 91 (20.09%) Social Skills
20 86 (18.98%) Java
21 85 (18.76%) Vue
22 83 (18.32%) Docker
23 81 (17.88%) Finance
24 80 (17.66%) DevOps
25 79 (17.44%) Microservices
26 77 (17.00%) Software Engineering
27 74 (16.34%) MySQL
28 69 (15.23%) TDD
29 68 (15.01%) Web Development

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (7.73%) CMS
2 13 (2.87%) WordPress
3 12 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.21%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.21%) Confluence
4 10 (2.21%) Headless CMS
4 10 (2.21%) IIS
4 10 (2.21%) Umbraco
5 8 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.10%) Drupal
7 4 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.66%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.66%) Kentico
8 3 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.44%) Apache
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.44%) Sitefinity
9 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.22%) InVision
4 1 (0.22%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.65%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (1.55%) Shopify
3 2 (0.44%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 185 (40.84%) AWS
2 120 (26.49%) Azure
3 63 (13.91%) Serverless
4 46 (10.15%) SaaS
5 42 (9.27%) GCP
6 41 (9.05%) GitHub
7 23 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (4.19%) Power Platform
9 16 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (3.53%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (2.87%) Azure Functions
12 11 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (1.77%) Contentful
14 8 (1.77%) dbt
15 7 (1.55%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.32%) MQTT
2 5 (1.10%) Internet
2 5 (1.10%) SMS
2 5 (1.10%) VPN
3 2 (0.44%) Broadband
3 2 (0.44%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.22%) DNS
4 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (21.85%) SQL Server
2 74 (16.34%) MySQL
3 53 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (9.05%) MongoDB
5 40 (8.83%) NoSQL
6 23 (5.08%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.53%) DynamoDB
8 12 (2.65%) Redis
9 9 (1.99%) Power BI
9 9 (1.99%) SQLite
10 8 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.77%) Apache Hive
11 6 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.10%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.66%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.44%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 91 (20.09%) Git
2 24 (5.30%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.86%) JIRA
4 16 (3.53%) Visual Studio
5 15 (3.31%) GitLab
6 9 (1.99%) JMeter
6 9 (1.99%) JUnit
7 8 (1.77%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.32%) Mockito
8 6 (1.32%) webpack
9 5 (1.10%) Storybook
10 4 (0.88%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.88%) Maven
10 4 (0.88%) NUnit
10 4 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.88%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.66%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.66%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.66%) Postman
11 3 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 91 (20.09%) Social Skills
2 81 (17.88%) Finance
3 31 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (4.42%) Front Office
4 20 (4.42%) Retail
5 15 (3.31%) Public Sector
6 13 (2.87%) Marketing
6 13 (2.87%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (1.99%) Banking
8 8 (1.77%) Advertising
8 8 (1.77%) Law
8 8 (1.77%) Tech for Good
9 7 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.32%) Games
11 5 (1.10%) Automotive
11 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.88%) Legal
12 4 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (49.89%) React
2 148 (32.67%) .NET
3 134 (29.58%) AngularJS
4 130 (28.70%) HTML
5 109 (24.06%) Node.js
6 108 (23.84%) CSS
7 85 (18.76%) Vue
8 68 (15.01%) RESTful
9 56 (12.36%) REST
10 51 (11.26%) ASP.NET
11 48 (10.60%) .NET Core
11 48 (10.60%) GraphQL
12 42 (9.27%) Spring
13 40 (8.83%) Laravel
14 36 (7.95%) HTML5
15 33 (7.28%) Blazor
15 33 (7.28%) Spring Boot
16 31 (6.84%) Next.js
17 29 (6.40%) Web Services
18 28 (6.18%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.96%) Greenfield Project
1 27 (5.96%) Mobile App
2 23 (5.08%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.75%) Hedge funds
4 16 (3.53%) Fixed Income
4 16 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.55%) IoT
6 7 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 6 (1.32%) Equities
7 6 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.10%) Life Science
8 5 (1.10%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.88%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.66%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.66%) NHS
11 2 (0.44%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.42%) Linux
2 10 (2.21%) Android
3 7 (1.55%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.10%) Unix
5 4 (0.88%) Windows
6 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 152 (33.55%) Agile
3 118 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (21.19%) CI/CD
5 80 (17.66%) DevOps
6 79 (17.44%) Microservices
7 77 (17.00%) Software Engineering
8 69 (15.23%) TDD
9 68 (15.01%) User Experience
9 68 (15.01%) Web Development
10 55 (12.14%) MVC
11 47 (10.38%) SDLC
12 46 (10.15%) Front End Development
13 44 (9.71%) API Development
14 36 (7.95%) Clean Code
14 36 (7.95%) Code Quality
14 36 (7.95%) Mentoring
15 34 (7.51%) Analytics
16 33 (7.28%) Test Automation
17 32 (7.06%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 237 (52.32%) JavaScript
2 159 (35.10%) C#
3 137 (30.24%) TypeScript
4 129 (28.48%) SQL
5 112 (24.72%) Python
6 86 (18.98%) Java
7 57 (12.58%) PHP
8 10 (2.21%) C++
9 6 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.10%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.88%) Go
12 3 (0.66%) Bash
12 3 (0.66%) C
12 3 (0.66%) Groovy
12 3 (0.66%) Scala
12 3 (0.66%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.44%) Delphi
13 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (10.15%) Degree
2 26 (5.74%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.22%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.64%) QA
2 15 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.44%) WCAG
4 1 (0.22%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (18.32%) Docker
2 4 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.66%) LXC
4 2 (0.44%) Firmware
5 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (9.71%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.42%) Terraform
3 5 (1.10%) Ansible
4 4 (0.88%) Kibana
5 3 (0.66%) Grafana
6 2 (0.44%) Istio
6 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.44%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 41 (9.05%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.52%) Google
3 6 (1.32%) PayPal
4 5 (1.10%) Dynatrace
4 5 (1.10%) SAP
4 5 (1.10%) Splunk
5 4 (0.88%) Rollbar
5 4 (0.88%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.66%) Adobe
6 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.66%) Optimizely
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle
6 3 (0.66%) Sage
6 3 (0.66%) Xamarin
7 2 (0.44%) Sun
7 2 (0.44%) Telerik
8 1 (0.22%) Apple
8 1 (0.22%) Databricks
8 1 (0.22%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.22%) Mapbox