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 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 189 189
Rank change year-on-year -122 0 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 441 1,115 1,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 1.43% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.50% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 323 694 988
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,938 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £97,125 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +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 44,338 74,395 56,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.25% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26,053 44,780 43,966
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -127 395 £60,000 - 174
UK excluding London -100 275 £57,500 +4.55% 129
Work from Home -61 170 £60,000 +4.35% 111
London -55 165 £77,500 -3.13% 84
South East -35 94 £57,500 -0.86% 40
North of England -54 52 £60,000 +9.09% 40
Midlands -51 41 £60,000 +16.50% 15
North West -47 33 £60,000 +29.73% 22
South West +11 28 £60,000 +33.33% 14
East of England -42 28 £41,250 -8.33% 13
West Midlands -4 27 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Scotland +38 18 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Wales -3 15 £60,000 +17.07% 3
East Midlands -28 14 £47,500 -5.00% 5
Yorkshire +6 11 £60,000 +9.09% 6
North East +17 8 £62,500 +25.00% 12
Northern Ireland +12 2 £60,000 -14.29% 2

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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.

1 441 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 244 (55.33%) JavaScript
3 227 (51.47%) AWS
4 224 (50.79%) React
5 189 (42.86%) Agile
6 153 (34.69%) HTML
6 153 (34.69%) CI/CD
7 148 (33.56%) C#
8 142 (32.20%) .NET
9 141 (31.97%) TypeScript
10 136 (30.84%) Azure
11 132 (29.93%) AngularJS
12 127 (28.80%) CSS
13 125 (28.34%) SQL
14 118 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
15 117 (26.53%) Node.js
16 107 (24.26%) Git
17 106 (24.04%) RESTful
18 104 (23.58%) Social Skills
19 103 (23.36%) Vue
20 93 (21.09%) DevOps
21 92 (20.86%) SQL Server
21 92 (20.86%) Python
22 89 (20.18%) User Experience
23 86 (19.50%) Software Engineering
24 84 (19.05%) Docker
25 81 (18.37%) Java
25 81 (18.37%) Finance
26 73 (16.55%) GCP
27 67 (15.19%) Microsoft

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 23 (5.22%) CMS
2 18 (4.08%) IIS
3 17 (3.85%) Headless CMS
4 9 (2.04%) Confluence
4 9 (2.04%) Umbraco
5 5 (1.13%) Apache
5 5 (1.13%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.68%) WordPress
7 2 (0.45%) Drupal
7 2 (0.45%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) MetaMask
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.68%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 16 (3.63%) Shopify
2 6 (1.36%) Magento
3 3 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 227 (51.47%) AWS
2 136 (30.84%) Azure
3 73 (16.55%) GCP
4 54 (12.24%) Serverless
5 53 (12.02%) SaaS
6 41 (9.30%) GitHub
7 31 (7.03%) Amazon ECS
8 25 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (4.99%) Amazon S3
10 21 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (3.63%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (3.63%) Figma
14 13 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (2.49%) Vercel
16 10 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (2.27%) Cloudflare
17 8 (1.81%) Contentful
17 8 (1.81%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.13%) Internet
2 4 (0.91%) MQTT
2 4 (0.91%) SMS
2 4 (0.91%) VPN
3 2 (0.45%) Broadband
4 1 (0.23%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (20.86%) SQL Server
2 63 (14.29%) MySQL
3 61 (13.83%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (9.52%) NoSQL
5 36 (8.16%) Relational Database
6 28 (6.35%) MongoDB
7 21 (4.76%) RDBMS
8 16 (3.63%) Redis
9 13 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.04%) Big Data
10 9 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.59%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.59%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.36%) Power BI
13 5 (1.13%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.13%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.13%) HBase
14 4 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 107 (24.26%) Git
2 28 (6.35%) JIRA
3 21 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 19 (4.31%) JMeter
5 18 (4.08%) JUnit
6 17 (3.85%) Mockito
7 11 (2.49%) Cypress.io
7 11 (2.49%) TeamCity
8 10 (2.27%) Jasmine
8 10 (2.27%) NUnit
9 8 (1.81%) GitLab
9 8 (1.81%) Storybook
9 8 (1.81%) Visual Studio
10 7 (1.59%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.59%) Maven
11 6 (1.36%) PHPUnit
12 5 (1.13%) Gradle
12 5 (1.13%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (1.13%) Vite
General
1 104 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 81 (18.37%) Finance
3 39 (8.84%) Law
4 34 (7.71%) Marketing
5 29 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.67%) Front Office
7 24 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (2.95%) Banking
10 12 (2.72%) Retail
11 10 (2.27%) Games
12 6 (1.36%) Advertising
13 5 (1.13%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.13%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.13%) Legal
13 5 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.91%) Private Banking
15 3 (0.68%) Back Office
15 3 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (50.79%) React
2 153 (34.69%) HTML
3 142 (32.20%) .NET
4 132 (29.93%) AngularJS
5 127 (28.80%) CSS
6 117 (26.53%) Node.js
7 106 (24.04%) RESTful
8 103 (23.36%) Vue
9 66 (14.97%) REST
10 62 (14.06%) ASP.NET
11 57 (12.93%) GraphQL
12 47 (10.66%) Spring
12 47 (10.66%) Web Services
13 45 (10.20%) HTML5
14 44 (9.98%) .NET Core
15 40 (9.07%) CSS3
16 35 (7.94%) .NET Framework
17 32 (7.26%) Spring Boot
18 28 (6.35%) JSON
19 27 (6.12%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.71%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.03%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.22%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.76%) Fixed Income
5 15 (3.40%) Hedge funds
5 15 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.72%) Equities
7 12 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.59%) IoT
10 5 (1.13%) EPoS
10 5 (1.13%) Legacy Code
10 5 (1.13%) Life Science
10 5 (1.13%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.13%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.04%) Unix
2 8 (1.81%) Linux
3 3 (0.68%) Android
3 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 189 (42.86%) Agile
3 153 (34.69%) CI/CD
4 118 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (21.09%) DevOps
6 89 (20.18%) User Experience
7 86 (19.50%) Software Engineering
8 64 (14.51%) Microservices
9 58 (13.15%) Clean Code
9 58 (13.15%) TDD
9 58 (13.15%) Web Development
10 54 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence
11 51 (11.56%) Mentoring
11 51 (11.56%) Test Automation
12 47 (10.66%) SDLC
13 45 (10.20%) UX Design
14 44 (9.98%) MVC
15 35 (7.94%) Front End Development
16 34 (7.71%) Analytics
16 34 (7.71%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 244 (55.33%) JavaScript
2 148 (33.56%) C#
3 141 (31.97%) TypeScript
4 125 (28.34%) SQL
5 92 (20.86%) Python
6 81 (18.37%) Java
7 24 (5.44%) PHP
8 17 (3.85%) Shell Script
9 12 (2.72%) VB.NET
10 11 (2.49%) Go
11 8 (1.81%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.81%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.36%) C++
13 5 (1.13%) Bicep
13 5 (1.13%) Delphi
13 5 (1.13%) R
14 4 (0.91%) C
15 3 (0.68%) VB
16 2 (0.45%) Rust
16 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (8.62%) Degree
2 34 (7.71%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.59%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.80%) QA
2 28 (6.35%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.13%) GDPR
3 5 (1.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (19.05%) Docker
2 5 (1.13%) HDFS
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (12.93%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.48%) Terraform
3 16 (3.63%) Kibana
4 2 (0.45%) Grafana
4 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 67 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.22%) Google
3 22 (4.99%) Splunk
4 18 (4.08%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.27%) DevExpress
5 10 (2.27%) Rollbar
6 8 (1.81%) Apple
7 6 (1.36%) Databricks
8 5 (1.13%) Cloudera
8 5 (1.13%) Xamarin
9 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.68%) IBM
9 3 (0.68%) Oracle
10 1 (0.23%) Adobe
10 1 (0.23%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.23%) IONA
10 1 (0.23%) Mapbox
10 1 (0.23%) Sybase
10 1 (0.23%) Telerik
10 1 (0.23%) WooCommerce