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 7 May 2026.

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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 297 171
Rank change year-on-year +107 -126 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 989 451 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.03% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.15% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 851 352 1,299
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,150
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £45,625
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 85,003 39,091 90,887
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 89.48% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 54,917 23,430 66,891
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +10.38% -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% -5.66%

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 7 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 7 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 +111 895 £65,000 +8.33% 100
UK excluding London +106 682 £60,000 +9.09% 89
Work from Home +98 334 £65,000 +10.64% 51
London +51 237 £80,000 +14.29% 25
South East +68 222 £60,000 +9.09% 28
North of England +82 211 £70,000 +27.27% 27
Yorkshire +23 98 £75,000 +36.36% 9
Midlands +22 98 £60,000 +14.29% 13
North West +50 94 £70,000 +27.27% 13
South West -4 80 £55,000 -8.33% 14
West Midlands -1 54 £62,500 +6.38% 5
East of England +1 46 £100,000 +122.22% 4
East Midlands -4 44 £57,500 +21.05% 8
North East -16 19 £50,000 -2.44% 5
Scotland -13 17 £60,000 +17.65% 4
Wales -25 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 7 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.

1 989 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 347 (35.09%) React
3 317 (32.05%) JavaScript
4 277 (28.01%) TypeScript
5 235 (23.76%) AWS
6 225 (22.75%) Node.js
7 189 (19.11%) Python
8 186 (18.81%) .NET
9 171 (17.29%) C#
10 163 (16.48%) Java
11 139 (14.05%) Agile
12 135 (13.65%) Azure
13 132 (13.35%) CI/CD
13 132 (13.35%) Software Engineering
14 124 (12.54%) CSS
15 123 (12.44%) Microservices
16 119 (12.03%) HTML
17 117 (11.83%) AngularJS
17 117 (11.83%) DevOps
18 112 (11.32%) SQL
19 107 (10.82%) Vue
20 106 (10.72%) AI
21 96 (9.71%) Web Development
22 95 (9.61%) Problem-Solving
23 93 (9.40%) Docker
24 90 (9.10%) Git
25 88 (8.90%) Serverless
26 87 (8.80%) SaaS
27 83 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
28 81 (8.19%) Security Cleared

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 13 (1.31%) Confluence
2 9 (0.91%) CMS
2 9 (0.91%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.71%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.30%) Liferay
5 3 (0.30%) nginx
5 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.20%) Apache
6 2 (0.20%) Drupal
6 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
6 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.20%) WordPress
7 1 (0.10%) CICS
7 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 235 (23.76%) AWS
2 135 (13.65%) Azure
3 88 (8.90%) Serverless
4 87 (8.80%) SaaS
5 65 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (5.97%) Amazon S3
7 50 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
8 42 (4.25%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (3.74%) GCP
9 37 (3.74%) GitHub
10 26 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (1.52%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.31%) Apigee
12 13 (1.31%) AWS Step Functions
13 12 (1.21%) Amazon ECR
13 12 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.61%) HTTP
2 4 (0.40%) Broadband
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) AMQP
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.27%) SQL Server
3 42 (4.25%) NoSQL
4 41 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 34 (3.44%) MySQL
6 21 (2.12%) DynamoDB
7 19 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.01%) Power BI
10 9 (0.91%) Redis
11 7 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.71%) DB2
12 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.30%) TimescaleDB
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.20%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.20%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 90 (9.10%) Git
2 35 (3.54%) Cypress.io
3 33 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.12%) JIRA
5 15 (1.52%) GitLab
6 14 (1.42%) Maven
7 8 (0.81%) JUnit
8 7 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.61%) Mockito
9 6 (0.61%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.61%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.51%) Selenium
11 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.30%) ESLint
11 3 (0.30%) webpack
12 2 (0.20%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.20%) Storybook
12 2 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 85 (8.59%) Social Skills
2 78 (7.89%) Finance
3 33 (3.34%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (2.53%) Aviation
4 25 (2.53%) Retail
5 21 (2.12%) Banking
6 19 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 11 (1.11%) Front Office
7 11 (1.11%) Games
8 9 (0.91%) Tech for Good
9 8 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.71%) Local Government
10 7 (0.71%) Marketing
11 6 (0.61%) Advertising
11 6 (0.61%) Law
12 5 (0.51%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.40%) Publishing
14 3 (0.30%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (35.09%) React
2 225 (22.75%) Node.js
3 186 (18.81%) .NET
4 124 (12.54%) CSS
5 119 (12.03%) HTML
6 117 (11.83%) AngularJS
7 107 (10.82%) Vue
8 68 (6.88%) REST
9 65 (6.57%) Spring
10 61 (6.17%) RESTful
11 55 (5.56%) Laravel
12 53 (5.36%) .NET Core
12 53 (5.36%) Spring Boot
13 44 (4.45%) Next.js
14 38 (3.84%) Jest
15 37 (3.74%) GraphQL
16 35 (3.54%) React Native
17 33 (3.34%) Ruby on Rails
18 32 (3.24%) HTML5
19 31 (3.13%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.75%) Cloud Native
2 32 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.11%) Fixed Income
8 8 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (0.81%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.61%) AI Agents
9 6 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.40%) IoT
11 4 (0.40%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.40%) NHS
11 4 (0.40%) PropTech
11 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.30%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.42%) Linux
2 4 (0.40%) Android
2 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 989 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 139 (14.05%) Agile
3 132 (13.35%) CI/CD
3 132 (13.35%) Software Engineering
4 123 (12.44%) Microservices
5 117 (11.83%) DevOps
6 106 (10.72%) AI
7 96 (9.71%) Web Development
8 95 (9.61%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (6.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (5.26%) Mentoring
11 49 (4.95%) Clean Code
12 48 (4.85%) Front End Development
12 48 (4.85%) User Experience
13 46 (4.65%) API Development
14 43 (4.35%) Scrum
15 40 (4.04%) Containerisation
16 39 (3.94%) SDLC
17 38 (3.84%) Test Automation
18 37 (3.74%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 317 (32.05%) JavaScript
2 277 (28.01%) TypeScript
3 189 (19.11%) Python
4 171 (17.29%) C#
5 163 (16.48%) Java
6 112 (11.32%) SQL
7 67 (6.77%) PHP
8 33 (3.34%) Ruby
9 15 (1.52%) C
10 12 (1.21%) Bash
11 11 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.01%) Go
13 8 (0.81%) Groovy
13 8 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.71%) C++
15 5 (0.51%) R
16 3 (0.30%) COBOL
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) RPG
17 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (8.19%) Security Cleared
2 67 (6.77%) SC Cleared
3 34 (3.44%) Degree
4 28 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.30%) 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 (1.62%) QA
2 15 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.20%) HL7
3 2 (0.20%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 93 (9.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (4.75%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.12%) Terraform
3 7 (0.71%) Ansible
4 6 (0.61%) HP Fortify
5 5 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Nagios
7 2 (0.20%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
8 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (2.83%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.22%) Oracle
3 10 (1.01%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.51%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.40%) Google
5 4 (0.40%) Pega
5 4 (0.40%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.30%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.30%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.20%) Aderant
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe
7 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.20%) Foundry
7 2 (0.20%) IBM
7 2 (0.20%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) Intapp
7 2 (0.20%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.20%) Telerik
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2