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 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 315 197
Rank change year-on-year +101 -118 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,028 438 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.88% 0.89% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.99% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 877 322 681
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
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 £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 108,283 44,200 74,178
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 89.65% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 74,199 25,992 44,363
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 20 September 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 IT jobs citing Full-Stack Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +80 913 £60,000 - 295
UK excluding London +99 782 £60,000 +4.35% 165
Work from Home +86 366 £60,000 - 144
North of England +76 228 £65,000 +8.33% 50
South East +54 224 £60,000 +4.35% 33
London -34 200 £70,000 -9.68% 161
Yorkshire +57 115 £75,000 +25.00% 13
Midlands +25 115 £60,000 - 22
South West +7 110 £60,000 - 25
North West +26 85 £65,000 +8.33% 30
West Midlands -7 67 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Scotland +46 51 £57,500 -4.17% 12
East Midlands -1 48 £60,000 +26.32% 6
East of England -22 40 £70,000 +69.70% 8
North East -42 28 £46,250 -22.92% 8
Wales -69 14 £62,500 +4.17% 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 1,028 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 352 (34.24%) JavaScript
3 311 (30.25%) React
4 309 (30.06%) TypeScript
5 304 (29.57%) AWS
6 221 (21.50%) Node.js
7 197 (19.16%) CI/CD
8 194 (18.87%) Agile
9 192 (18.68%) .NET
10 178 (17.32%) C#
11 172 (16.73%) Azure
12 170 (16.54%) Microservices
13 154 (14.98%) Java
14 152 (14.79%) AI
14 152 (14.79%) Python
15 132 (12.84%) CSS
16 127 (12.35%) HTML
17 123 (11.96%) Software Engineering
18 120 (11.67%) AngularJS
19 118 (11.48%) Docker
20 111 (10.80%) SaaS
21 107 (10.41%) SQL
22 103 (10.02%) Problem-Solving
22 103 (10.02%) SQL Server
23 102 (9.92%) Serverless
24 101 (9.82%) Git
25 100 (9.73%) DevOps
26 96 (9.34%) Vue
27 94 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
28 91 (8.85%) REST

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 15 (1.46%) Confluence
2 14 (1.36%) WordPress
3 11 (1.07%) CMS
4 7 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.49%) ColdFusion
6 4 (0.39%) IIS
7 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.097%) Apache
9 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.097%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.097%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 304 (29.57%) AWS
2 172 (16.73%) Azure
3 111 (10.80%) SaaS
4 102 (9.92%) Serverless
5 86 (8.37%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (8.07%) Amazon S3
7 82 (7.98%) GitHub
8 76 (7.39%) Amazon ECS
9 53 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
10 48 (4.67%) GCP
11 40 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (2.72%) AWS Step Functions
15 27 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
17 25 (2.43%) Snowflake
18 19 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
19 18 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
19 18 (1.75%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) Broadband
2 4 (0.39%) DNS
2 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.097%) Internet
4 1 (0.097%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (10.02%) SQL Server
2 86 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (5.35%) MongoDB
4 44 (4.28%) DynamoDB
5 34 (3.31%) MySQL
6 30 (2.92%) NoSQL
7 29 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 28 (2.72%) Redis
9 19 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.07%) Power BI
11 8 (0.78%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.39%) GIS
12 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
15 1 (0.097%) ClickHouse
15 1 (0.097%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.097%) DocumentDB
15 1 (0.097%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 101 (9.82%) Git
2 56 (5.45%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.28%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.82%) GitLab
5 23 (2.24%) Maven
6 20 (1.95%) JUnit
7 18 (1.75%) JIRA
8 16 (1.56%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.26%) Mockito
10 11 (1.07%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.88%) Visual Studio
12 8 (0.78%) Storybook
12 8 (0.78%) Vite
13 7 (0.68%) NUnit
14 6 (0.58%) Postman
14 6 (0.58%) TeamCity
15 5 (0.49%) Selenium
16 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
16 4 (0.39%) Subversion
17 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 103 (10.02%) Social Skills
2 71 (6.91%) Public Sector
3 53 (5.16%) Finance
4 16 (1.56%) Retail
5 14 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.26%) Marketing
7 12 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.17%) Legal
8 7 (0.68%) Legal Technology
9 5 (0.49%) Banking
9 5 (0.49%) Games
10 4 (0.39%) Advertising
10 4 (0.39%) Aviation
11 3 (0.29%) Automotive
11 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Law
11 3 (0.29%) Local Government
11 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.19%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (30.25%) React
2 221 (21.50%) Node.js
3 192 (18.68%) .NET
4 132 (12.84%) CSS
5 127 (12.35%) HTML
6 120 (11.67%) AngularJS
7 96 (9.34%) Vue
8 91 (8.85%) REST
9 75 (7.30%) Spring
10 73 (7.10%) RESTful
11 68 (6.61%) Spring Boot
12 55 (5.35%) Next.js
13 53 (5.16%) Jest
13 53 (5.16%) Ruby on Rails
14 44 (4.28%) .NET Core
15 42 (4.09%) Terraform
16 40 (3.89%) .NET Framework
17 38 (3.70%) ASP.NET
17 38 (3.70%) Entity Framework
18 33 (3.21%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 79 (7.68%) Cloud Native
2 50 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (0.88%) IoT
7 7 (0.68%) AI Agents
7 7 (0.68%) Virtual Team
8 6 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.39%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.39%) NHS
9 4 (0.39%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.29%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (0.29%) Learning Management System
10 3 (0.29%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.29%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.29%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.36%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.097%) Windows
3 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,028 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 197 (19.16%) CI/CD
3 194 (18.87%) Agile
4 170 (16.54%) Microservices
5 152 (14.79%) AI
6 123 (11.96%) Software Engineering
7 103 (10.02%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (9.73%) DevOps
9 94 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (7.20%) Clean Code
11 70 (6.81%) Web Development
12 66 (6.42%) Mentoring
13 59 (5.74%) Computer Science
14 56 (5.45%) E-Commerce
14 56 (5.45%) SDLC
14 56 (5.45%) User Experience
15 55 (5.35%) Front End Development
16 49 (4.77%) Technical Leadership
17 48 (4.67%) Test Automation
18 44 (4.28%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 352 (34.24%) JavaScript
2 309 (30.06%) TypeScript
3 178 (17.32%) C#
4 154 (14.98%) Java
5 152 (14.79%) Python
6 107 (10.41%) SQL
7 55 (5.35%) Ruby
8 51 (4.96%) PHP
9 44 (4.28%) Kotlin
10 22 (2.14%) Bash
11 20 (1.95%) Groovy
12 10 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.68%) C++
14 3 (0.29%) Go
14 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.19%) Bicep
15 2 (0.19%) Perl
16 1 (0.097%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.097%) C
16 1 (0.097%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (6.71%) Security Cleared
2 61 (5.93%) Degree
3 58 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 54 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.58%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.097%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.097%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.17%) QA
3 11 (1.07%) WCAG
4 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.097%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.097%) GRC
7 1 (0.097%) SLA
System Software
1 118 (11.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.07%) HP Fortify
3 5 (0.49%) Ansible
3 5 (0.49%) Grafana
4 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Kibana
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.097%) Podman
Vendors
1 71 (6.91%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.33%) Oracle
3 17 (1.65%) Google
4 16 (1.56%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.88%) OneLogin
6 7 (0.68%) OutSystems
6 7 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.58%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
9 3 (0.29%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.29%) Splunk
10 2 (0.19%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.19%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.097%) Confluent
11 1 (0.097%) Mistral
11 1 (0.097%) NEC
11 1 (0.097%) Pega
11 1 (0.097%) WSO2