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 to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 180 158
Rank change year-on-year -3 -22 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 1,593 2,222 4,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 2.09% 2.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.28% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,300 1,465 2,046
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 91,989 97,583 147,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.61% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 66,379 61,119 85,881
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer.

Salary trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 +9 1,440 £60,000 -8.40% 211
UK excluding London -18 1,023 £52,500 -4.55% 124
Work from Home -21 617 £60,000 -7.69% 126
London 0 489 £75,000 - 88
North of England +46 278 £55,000 +10.00% 32
South East -37 267 £55,000 -8.33% 21
Midlands +14 187 £50,000 -9.09% 26
North West +52 181 £55,000 +4.76% 19
South West -13 141 £52,750 +5.50% 19
West Midlands +49 114 £55,000 +12.82% 13
East of England +70 83 £45,000 -18.18% 15
East Midlands -36 73 £50,000 -9.09% 13
Yorkshire +45 67 £55,000 +22.22% 9
Scotland -92 50 £51,250 -14.58% 6
North East -9 30 £60,000 - 5
Wales -8 16 £50,000 -2.44% 9
Northern Ireland -2 1 £45,000 -10.89%

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Full Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 1,593 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 938 (58.88%) JavaScript
3 789 (49.53%) React
4 621 (38.98%) C#
5 611 (38.36%) .NET
6 520 (32.64%) HTML
7 519 (32.58%) Azure
8 498 (31.26%) CSS
9 479 (30.07%) SQL
9 479 (30.07%) AngularJS
10 460 (28.88%) Agile
11 449 (28.19%) AWS
12 419 (26.30%) TypeScript
13 416 (26.11%) Node.js
14 390 (24.48%) Java
15 362 (22.72%) DevOps
16 354 (22.22%) Vue
17 345 (21.66%) Python
18 300 (18.83%) MVC
19 277 (17.39%) ASP.NET
20 271 (17.01%) Web Development
21 253 (15.88%) Social Skills
22 251 (15.76%) User Experience
23 243 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
24 242 (15.19%) Git
25 240 (15.07%) jQuery
26 235 (14.75%) PHP
27 226 (14.19%) Finance
28 224 (14.06%) Web Services
29 223 (14.00%) Software Engineering

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (3.45%) CMS
2 39 (2.45%) Apache
3 37 (2.32%) WordPress
4 26 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (1.26%) Umbraco
6 17 (1.07%) nginx
7 15 (0.94%) IIS
8 14 (0.88%) OpenStack
9 13 (0.82%) Apache Spark
9 13 (0.82%) Confluence
10 12 (0.75%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.69%) SharePoint
12 9 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.19%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.19%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.19%) Orchard CMS
15 2 (0.13%) JBoss
15 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 17 (1.07%) Photoshop
2 7 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (1.38%) SDL Web 8
2 20 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
3 11 (0.69%) Shopify
4 9 (0.56%) Magento
5 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.19%) R3 Corda
7 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.13%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.13%) nopCommerce
7 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 519 (32.58%) Azure
2 449 (28.19%) AWS
3 209 (13.12%) Serverless
4 196 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
5 121 (7.60%) Azure Functions
6 118 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 112 (7.03%) Azure Logic Apps
8 110 (6.91%) Azure API Management
8 110 (6.91%) IBM Cloud
8 110 (6.91%) SaaS
9 101 (6.34%) GCP
10 73 (4.58%) GitHub
11 47 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (2.01%) Power Platform
13 30 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
18 17 (1.07%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.82%) MQTT
2 12 (0.75%) HTTP
3 7 (0.44%) Internet
4 5 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.31%) VPN
5 4 (0.25%) DNS
6 2 (0.13%) SSH
6 2 (0.13%) SSL
7 1 (0.063%) Firewall
7 1 (0.063%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
2 195 (12.24%) SQL Server
3 186 (11.68%) Relational Database
4 179 (11.24%) NoSQL
5 172 (10.80%) MongoDB
6 170 (10.67%) MySQL
7 118 (7.41%) DB2
8 27 (1.69%) Redis
9 26 (1.63%) Apache Ignite
9 26 (1.63%) DynamoDB
10 17 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (1.00%) Power BI
12 15 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.82%) Apache Hive
13 13 (0.82%) Big Data
13 13 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (0.82%) Oracle Database
13 13 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 242 (15.19%) Git
2 87 (5.46%) JIRA
3 69 (4.33%) Visual Studio
4 50 (3.14%) GitLab
5 44 (2.76%) NUnit
6 42 (2.64%) TeamCity
7 39 (2.45%) Jenkins
8 28 (1.76%) Moq
9 25 (1.57%) Cypress.io
10 24 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
11 18 (1.13%) MSTest
11 18 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
12 15 (0.94%) SpecFlow
13 14 (0.88%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.82%) git-flow
14 13 (0.82%) Sourcetree
15 12 (0.75%) JUnit
15 12 (0.75%) webpack
16 11 (0.69%) IntelliJ
16 11 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 253 (15.88%) Social Skills
2 226 (14.19%) Finance
3 202 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 94 (5.90%) Banking
5 66 (4.14%) Marketing
6 65 (4.08%) Retail
7 50 (3.14%) Front Office
8 40 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
9 35 (2.20%) Games
10 31 (1.95%) Law
11 29 (1.82%) Tech for Good
12 25 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.51%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.07%) Health Technology
15 17 (1.07%) Legal
16 16 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (0.94%) Advertising
18 13 (0.82%) Automotive
18 13 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 789 (49.53%) React
2 611 (38.36%) .NET
3 520 (32.64%) HTML
4 498 (31.26%) CSS
5 479 (30.07%) AngularJS
6 416 (26.11%) Node.js
7 354 (22.22%) Vue
8 277 (17.39%) ASP.NET
9 240 (15.07%) jQuery
10 224 (14.06%) Web Services
11 195 (12.24%) REST
12 182 (11.42%) Laravel
13 176 (11.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 153 (9.60%) RESTful
15 147 (9.23%) .NET Framework
16 133 (8.35%) .NET Core
17 129 (8.10%) ASP.NET Core
18 112 (7.03%) Ember.js
19 109 (6.84%) Backbone.js
20 106 (6.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 137 (8.60%) Data Structures
2 128 (8.04%) Algorithms
3 121 (7.60%) Blockchain
4 110 (6.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 99 (6.21%) Greenfield Project
6 52 (3.26%) Mobile App
7 48 (3.01%) Fixed Income
8 38 (2.39%) Hedge funds
8 38 (2.39%) Private Cloud
9 29 (1.82%) Product Ownership
10 28 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
11 26 (1.63%) Legacy Code
12 22 (1.38%) Cloud Native
12 22 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 21 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
14 19 (1.19%) IoT
15 18 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.88%) Blog
16 14 (0.88%) Client/Server
17 12 (0.75%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 170 (10.67%) Linux
2 128 (8.04%) Windows
3 116 (7.28%) Android
3 116 (7.28%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.31%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.25%) Unix
6 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.063%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.063%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,593 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 460 (28.88%) Agile
3 362 (22.72%) DevOps
4 300 (18.83%) MVC
5 271 (17.01%) Web Development
6 251 (15.76%) User Experience
7 223 (14.00%) Software Engineering
8 222 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
9 214 (13.43%) Artificial Intelligence
10 202 (12.68%) CI/CD
11 191 (11.99%) Design Patterns
12 180 (11.30%) OOP
13 163 (10.23%) OO
14 160 (10.04%) SOLID
15 146 (9.17%) TDD
16 141 (8.85%) Responsive Web Design
17 133 (8.35%) Microservices
18 132 (8.29%) Computer Science
19 121 (7.60%) Scrum
20 118 (7.41%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 938 (58.88%) JavaScript
2 621 (38.98%) C#
3 479 (30.07%) SQL
4 419 (26.30%) TypeScript
5 390 (24.48%) Java
6 345 (21.66%) Python
7 235 (14.75%) PHP
8 66 (4.14%) T-SQL
9 44 (2.76%) Go
10 27 (1.69%) Kotlin
11 26 (1.63%) Ruby
12 18 (1.13%) Delphi
13 15 (0.94%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.88%) XPath
15 10 (0.63%) C++
15 10 (0.63%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.50%) Bash
17 7 (0.44%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.44%) VBA
18 5 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 166 (10.42%) Degree
2 97 (6.09%) Security Cleared
3 75 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 23 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (0.94%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.69%) Postgraduate
9 6 (0.38%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.25%) HND
11 3 (0.19%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.13%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.063%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.063%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.14%) QA
2 33 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.82%) GDPR
4 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.19%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.19%) PMO
6 2 (0.13%) HL7
6 2 (0.13%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.13%) WAI
7 1 (0.063%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.063%) SLA
7 1 (0.063%) WCAG
System Software
1 200 (12.55%) Docker
2 9 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.38%) Firmware
4 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 114 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 60 (3.77%) Terraform
3 21 (1.32%) Ansible
4 7 (0.44%) Kibana
5 6 (0.38%) Grafana
6 5 (0.31%) Control-M
7 4 (0.25%) Rancher
8 1 (0.063%) Consul
8 1 (0.063%) Kiali
8 1 (0.063%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.063%) Packer
8 1 (0.063%) Puppet
Vendors
1 115 (7.22%) IBM
2 110 (6.91%) Red Hat
3 93 (5.84%) Microsoft
4 50 (3.14%) Google
5 29 (1.82%) Adobe
5 29 (1.82%) Oracle
6 16 (1.00%) Sitecore
7 14 (0.88%) WSO2
8 13 (0.82%) Cognizant
8 13 (0.82%) OpenAI
9 10 (0.63%) SAP
10 8 (0.50%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.44%) F5
12 6 (0.38%) UiPath
12 6 (0.38%) VMware
12 6 (0.38%) Xamarin
13 5 (0.31%) Facebook
13 5 (0.31%) PayPal
13 5 (0.31%) WorldPay
14 4 (0.25%) Jaspersoft