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 25 October 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 311 203
Rank change year-on-year +68 -108 -8
Permanent Full-Stack Developer jobs 945 425 872
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.86% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.95% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 767 302 542
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £107,375 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -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 adverts matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
25 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK matching a recognised job title 111,434 44,511 65,398
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.17% 90.16% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 75,024 26,375 37,255
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £52,500 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -7.09% -5.82%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%

Full-Stack Developer Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Full-Stack Developer job postings 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 Full-Stack Developer jobs over the 6 months to 25 October 2026.

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 Full-Stack Developer jobs within the UK over the 6 months to 25 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
England +56 840 £60,000 - 269
UK excluding London +81 708 £60,000 +4.35% 162
Work from Home +67 344 £60,000 - 136
North of England +50 204 £65,000 +8.33% 52
London -28 201 £65,000 -18.75% 116
South East +12 191 £60,000 +4.35% 33
Midlands +31 114 £55,000 -8.33% 24
Yorkshire +48 103 £70,000 +16.67% 19
South West -7 101 £65,000 +8.33% 15
North West +4 73 £61,250 +2.08% 28
West Midlands 0 67 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Scotland +50 54 £55,000 -8.33% 10
East Midlands -3 47 £55,000 -13.73% 8
East of England -37 31 £60,000 +41.18% 11
North East -54 28 £48,750 -2.50% 6
Wales -73 13 £70,000 +16.67% 4

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

For the 6 months to 25 October 2026, Full-Stack Developer job ads cited 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 Full-Stack Developer job ads.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Full-Stack Development100.0%945
2JavaScript34.0%321
3React29.7%281
4AWS29.4%278
4TypeScript29.4%278
6Node.js21.8%206
7CI/CD21.0%198
8Agile19.4%183
9.NET19.2%181
10Azure18.5%175
11C#17.5%165
12Microservices17.2%163
13AI16.0%151
14Java14.7%139
15Software Engineering13.2%125
16Docker12.7%120
17CSS12.4%117
18HTML12.0%113
19Python11.7%111
20SQL Server11.5%109
21AngularJS11.4%108
22SaaS11.3%107
23Git11.0%104
24REST10.7%101
25Problem-Solving10.6%100
26SQL9.8%93
27DevOps9.6%91
28Continuous Improvement9.4%89
29Serverless9.3%88
30GitHub9.1%86

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Full-Stack Developer20.2%191
2Software Developer15.0%142
3Lead Full-Stack Developer10.9%103
4Full-Stack Java Developer9.6%91
5Full-Stack .NET Developer8.1%77
6Lead Software Developer7.2%68
6React Developer7.2%68
8Full-Stack C# Developer4.3%41
9AWS Developer3.5%33
10Full-Stack Python Developer3.2%30
11Full-Stack Web Developer2.8%26
12C# .NET Developer2.6%25
13Senior React Developer2.4%23
14Full-Stack Engineer2.1%20
14Senior Java Developer2.1%20
16Azure Developer2.0%19
17Angular Developer1.9%18
18Senior Python Developer1.7%16
19.NET Software Developer1.5%14
19Senior Software Developer1.5%14
320 Full-Stack Developer jobs Nationwide