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 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 293 171
Rank change year-on-year +110 -122 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 998 447 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.02% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.14% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 858 350 1,297
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £46,250
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 £86,375 £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 84,295 39,140 91,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 89.50% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 55,489 23,203 67,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,670 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +9.74% -12.42%
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 12 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 12 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 +120 903 £65,000 +8.33% 119
UK excluding London +124 695 £60,000 +9.09% 102
Work from Home +110 343 £65,000 +8.33% 56
London +59 235 £80,000 +12.28% 30
South East +81 228 £60,000 +4.35% 32
North of England +101 215 £70,000 +27.27% 36
Yorkshire +28 99 £75,000 +36.36% 12
Midlands +15 98 £60,000 +14.29% 19
North West +62 97 £68,750 +25.00% 14
South West +5 80 £55,000 -8.33% 12
West Midlands -3 54 £65,000 +10.64% 11
East of England 0 46 £100,000 +122.22% 2
East Midlands -4 44 £60,000 +26.32% 8
Scotland +3 20 £60,000 +17.65% 3
North East -25 19 £50,000 -2.44% 10
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 12 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.

1 998 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 347 (34.77%) React
3 324 (32.46%) JavaScript
4 281 (28.16%) TypeScript
5 239 (23.95%) AWS
6 226 (22.65%) Node.js
7 191 (19.14%) .NET
8 189 (18.94%) Python
9 175 (17.54%) C#
10 164 (16.43%) Java
11 140 (14.03%) Agile
12 139 (13.93%) Azure
13 137 (13.73%) CI/CD
14 134 (13.43%) Software Engineering
15 131 (13.13%) CSS
16 129 (12.93%) Microservices
17 124 (12.42%) HTML
18 120 (12.02%) DevOps
19 117 (11.72%) AngularJS
20 114 (11.42%) AI
21 113 (11.32%) SQL
22 110 (11.02%) Vue
23 96 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
24 95 (9.52%) Docker
25 94 (9.42%) Web Development
26 93 (9.32%) Git
27 91 (9.12%) SaaS
28 87 (8.72%) Serverless
29 83 (8.32%) Security Cleared
30 82 (8.22%) 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 14 (1.40%) Confluence
2 11 (1.10%) CMS
3 9 (0.90%) ColdFusion
4 7 (0.70%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.40%) WordPress
7 3 (0.30%) Liferay
7 3 (0.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) Drupal
8 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.10%) CICS
9 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 4 (0.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 239 (23.95%) AWS
2 139 (13.93%) Azure
3 91 (9.12%) SaaS
4 87 (8.72%) Serverless
5 64 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (5.81%) Amazon S3
7 50 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (3.71%) GCP
10 36 (3.61%) GitHub
11 28 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (1.70%) Power Platform
14 15 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (1.30%) Apigee
15 13 (1.30%) AWS Step Functions
16 12 (1.20%) Amazon ECR
17 11 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
18 9 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
19 8 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.60%) HTTP
2 5 (0.50%) Broadband
3 4 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.20%) 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 82 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (6.71%) SQL Server
3 41 (4.11%) MongoDB
3 41 (4.11%) NoSQL
4 34 (3.41%) MySQL
5 21 (2.10%) DynamoDB
6 18 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (1.20%) Power BI
8 10 (1.00%) Redis
9 8 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.70%) DB2
11 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
12 3 (0.30%) TimescaleDB
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.20%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 93 (9.32%) Git
2 34 (3.41%) Cypress.io
2 34 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.20%) JIRA
4 16 (1.60%) GitLab
4 16 (1.60%) Maven
5 9 (0.90%) JUnit
6 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.70%) Mockito
7 6 (0.60%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.50%) Selenium
9 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.30%) ESLint
9 3 (0.30%) webpack
10 2 (0.20%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.20%) Storybook
10 2 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 89 (8.92%) Social Skills
2 79 (7.92%) Finance
3 33 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (2.61%) Retail
5 25 (2.51%) Aviation
6 21 (2.10%) Public Sector
7 20 (2.00%) Banking
8 11 (1.10%) Front Office
8 11 (1.10%) Games
9 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
10 8 (0.80%) Marketing
11 7 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.70%) Local Government
12 6 (0.60%) Advertising
12 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.60%) Law
13 5 (0.50%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.40%) Legal
14 4 (0.40%) Publishing
15 3 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (34.77%) React
2 226 (22.65%) Node.js
3 191 (19.14%) .NET
4 131 (13.13%) CSS
5 124 (12.42%) HTML
6 117 (11.72%) AngularJS
7 110 (11.02%) Vue
8 69 (6.91%) REST
9 67 (6.71%) Spring
10 66 (6.61%) RESTful
11 56 (5.61%) Laravel
12 55 (5.51%) Spring Boot
13 53 (5.31%) .NET Core
14 45 (4.51%) Next.js
15 38 (3.81%) GraphQL
15 38 (3.81%) Jest
16 35 (3.51%) React Native
17 34 (3.41%) HTML5
18 33 (3.31%) CSS3
19 32 (3.21%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.71%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (2.30%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.90%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.10%) Fixed Income
8 8 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (0.80%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.60%) AI Agents
9 6 (0.60%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.50%) Virtual Team
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
12 3 (0.30%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.50%) 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
1 998 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 140 (14.03%) Agile
3 137 (13.73%) CI/CD
4 134 (13.43%) Software Engineering
5 129 (12.93%) Microservices
6 120 (12.02%) DevOps
7 114 (11.42%) AI
8 96 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
9 94 (9.42%) Web Development
10 66 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (5.91%) Mentoring
12 51 (5.11%) Clean Code
13 49 (4.91%) Front End Development
13 49 (4.91%) User Experience
14 45 (4.51%) API Development
15 43 (4.31%) Scrum
16 42 (4.21%) Containerisation
17 41 (4.11%) SDLC
18 40 (4.01%) Computer Science
19 39 (3.91%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 324 (32.46%) JavaScript
2 281 (28.16%) TypeScript
3 189 (18.94%) Python
4 175 (17.54%) C#
5 164 (16.43%) Java
6 113 (11.32%) SQL
7 69 (6.91%) PHP
8 32 (3.21%) Ruby
9 13 (1.30%) Bash
9 13 (1.30%) C
10 12 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.00%) Go
12 8 (0.80%) Groovy
12 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.70%) C++
14 5 (0.50%) R
15 3 (0.30%) COBOL
16 2 (0.20%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) RPG
16 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (8.32%) Security Cleared
2 69 (6.91%) SC Cleared
3 39 (3.91%) Degree
4 33 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 9 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.50%) 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 17 (1.70%) QA
2 14 (1.40%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.20%) HL7
3 2 (0.20%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 95 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 50 (5.01%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.30%) Terraform
3 8 (0.80%) Ansible
4 6 (0.60%) HP Fortify
5 5 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.50%) 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 29 (2.91%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.20%) Oracle
3 12 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.50%) 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%) WSO2
8 1 (0.10%) Databricks