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 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 276 168
Rank change year-on-year +79 -108 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 967 453 1,618
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.07% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.19% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 834 354 1,303
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £45,000
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £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 83,975 37,966 90,660
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 89.30% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 54,064 23,403 66,761
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.21%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +111 873 £65,000 +8.33% 102
UK excluding London +86 666 £60,000 +9.09% 89
Work from Home +82 326 £62,500 +4.17% 60
London +51 231 £80,000 +14.29% 28
South East +62 216 £60,000 +9.09% 28
North of England +67 206 £70,000 +27.27% 28
Midlands +9 97 £60,000 +12.15% 9
Yorkshire +18 94 £75,000 +36.36% 12
North West +42 92 £70,000 +27.27% 11
South West -5 79 £55,000 -8.33% 14
West Midlands -1 53 £62,500 +4.17% 5
East of England -4 44 £100,000 +122.22% 6
East Midlands -10 44 £55,000 +15.79% 4
North East -21 20 £50,000 -2.44% 5
Scotland -21 16 £60,000 +17.65% 5
Wales -27 9 £48,750 -20.73%
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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.

1 967 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 340 (35.16%) React
3 307 (31.75%) JavaScript
4 269 (27.82%) TypeScript
5 228 (23.58%) AWS
6 220 (22.75%) Node.js
7 188 (19.44%) Python
8 180 (18.61%) .NET
9 167 (17.27%) C#
10 160 (16.55%) Java
11 137 (14.17%) Agile
12 134 (13.86%) Azure
13 132 (13.65%) CI/CD
14 127 (13.13%) Software Engineering
15 124 (12.82%) CSS
16 119 (12.31%) HTML
17 117 (12.10%) AngularJS
18 116 (12.00%) Microservices
19 115 (11.89%) DevOps
20 114 (11.79%) SQL
21 107 (11.07%) Vue
22 102 (10.55%) AI
23 96 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
24 94 (9.72%) Web Development
25 90 (9.31%) Docker
26 87 (9.00%) Git
27 86 (8.89%) Serverless
28 85 (8.79%) SaaS
29 79 (8.17%) Security Cleared
30 78 (8.07%) 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 (1.24%) Confluence
2 9 (0.93%) CMS
2 9 (0.93%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.72%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.31%) Liferay
5 3 (0.31%) nginx
5 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.21%) Apache
6 2 (0.21%) Drupal
6 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.21%) IIS
6 2 (0.21%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.10%) CICS
7 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 228 (23.58%) AWS
2 134 (13.86%) Azure
3 86 (8.89%) Serverless
4 85 (8.79%) SaaS
5 64 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (6.00%) Amazon S3
7 48 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (3.83%) GCP
9 37 (3.83%) GitHub
10 26 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (1.65%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (1.24%) Apigee
14 12 (1.24%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (1.24%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (1.14%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.62%) HTTP
2 4 (0.41%) DNS
3 3 (0.31%) Broadband
4 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) AMQP
5 1 (0.10%) Firewall
5 1 (0.10%) Internet
5 1 (0.10%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (6.20%) SQL Server
3 43 (4.45%) NoSQL
4 38 (3.93%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.31%) MySQL
6 21 (2.17%) DynamoDB
7 18 (1.86%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.14%) Power BI
10 8 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.83%) Redis
11 7 (0.72%) DB2
12 4 (0.41%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.31%) TimescaleDB
14 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.21%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.21%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.21%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 87 (9.00%) Git
2 33 (3.41%) Cypress.io
3 31 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 20 (2.07%) JIRA
5 14 (1.45%) GitLab
6 12 (1.24%) Maven
7 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.72%) JUnit
8 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.62%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.52%) Mockito
9 5 (0.52%) Selenium
10 3 (0.31%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.31%) ESLint
10 3 (0.31%) webpack
11 2 (0.21%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.21%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.21%) Storybook
11 2 (0.21%) Vite
General
1 83 (8.58%) Social Skills
2 76 (7.86%) Finance
3 34 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (2.59%) Aviation
4 25 (2.59%) Retail
5 22 (2.28%) Banking
6 18 (1.86%) Public Sector
7 12 (1.24%) Games
8 11 (1.14%) Front Office
9 9 (0.93%) Investment Banking
9 9 (0.93%) Marketing
9 9 (0.93%) Tech for Good
10 8 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.72%) Local Government
12 6 (0.62%) Advertising
12 6 (0.62%) Law
13 5 (0.52%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.41%) Publishing
15 3 (0.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (35.16%) React
2 220 (22.75%) Node.js
3 180 (18.61%) .NET
4 124 (12.82%) CSS
5 119 (12.31%) HTML
6 117 (12.10%) AngularJS
7 107 (11.07%) Vue
8 68 (7.03%) REST
9 61 (6.31%) Spring
10 58 (6.00%) RESTful
11 55 (5.69%) Laravel
12 53 (5.48%) .NET Core
13 49 (5.07%) Spring Boot
14 43 (4.45%) Next.js
15 36 (3.72%) Jest
16 35 (3.62%) GraphQL
17 34 (3.52%) React Native
18 32 (3.31%) Ruby on Rails
19 31 (3.21%) HTML5
20 30 (3.10%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.14%) Fixed Income
8 8 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.72%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.62%) AI Agents
10 6 (0.62%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.41%) IoT
12 4 (0.41%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.41%) NHS
12 4 (0.41%) PropTech
12 4 (0.41%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.31%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.31%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.34%) Linux
2 4 (0.41%) Android
2 4 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.21%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 967 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 137 (14.17%) Agile
3 132 (13.65%) CI/CD
4 127 (13.13%) Software Engineering
5 116 (12.00%) Microservices
6 115 (11.89%) DevOps
7 102 (10.55%) AI
8 96 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
9 94 (9.72%) Web Development
10 57 (5.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (5.07%) API Development
11 49 (5.07%) Clean Code
11 49 (5.07%) Mentoring
12 48 (4.96%) Front End Development
13 47 (4.86%) User Experience
14 42 (4.34%) Scrum
15 39 (4.03%) Containerisation
16 38 (3.93%) SDLC
16 38 (3.93%) Test Automation
17 36 (3.72%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 307 (31.75%) JavaScript
2 269 (27.82%) TypeScript
3 188 (19.44%) Python
4 167 (17.27%) C#
5 160 (16.55%) Java
6 114 (11.79%) SQL
7 66 (6.83%) PHP
8 32 (3.31%) Ruby
9 17 (1.76%) C
10 11 (1.14%) Bash
11 10 (1.03%) Go
11 10 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.83%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.72%) C++
13 7 (0.72%) Groovy
14 5 (0.52%) R
15 3 (0.31%) COBOL
16 2 (0.21%) Bicep
16 2 (0.21%) RPG
16 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (8.17%) Security Cleared
2 64 (6.62%) SC Cleared
3 32 (3.31%) Degree
4 26 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.31%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.65%) QA
2 14 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.21%) HL7
3 2 (0.21%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 90 (9.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.28%) Terraform
3 6 (0.62%) Ansible
3 6 (0.62%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.52%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.31%) Nagios
6 2 (0.21%) Grafana
6 2 (0.21%) Podman
7 1 (0.10%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (2.79%) Microsoft
2 20 (2.07%) Oracle
3 10 (1.03%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.52%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.41%) Google
5 4 (0.41%) Pega
6 3 (0.31%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.31%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.31%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.31%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.31%) Zoho
7 2 (0.21%) Aderant
7 2 (0.21%) Adobe
7 2 (0.21%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.21%) Foundry
7 2 (0.21%) iManage
7 2 (0.21%) Intapp
7 2 (0.21%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.21%) Telerik
7 2 (0.21%) WSO2