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 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 274 172
Rank change year-on-year +78 -102 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 941 458 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.09% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.22% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 805 358 1,299
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £45,000
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 £75,000
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 82,554 37,391 90,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 88.97% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 52,923 23,445 66,615
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £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% -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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +88 854 £65,000 +8.33% 124
UK excluding London +67 643 £60,000 +9.09% 114
Work from Home +72 312 £62,500 +4.17% 99
London +40 230 £80,000 +14.29% 33
South East +37 205 £60,000 +6.67% 39
North of England +68 202 £70,000 +27.27% 36
Midlands +3 97 £60,000 +12.15% 10
North West +36 91 £68,750 +25.00% 16
Yorkshire +15 91 £75,000 +36.36% 13
South West +4 77 £55,000 -8.33% 15
West Midlands -9 53 £60,000 - 6
East Midlands -29 44 £55,000 +15.79% 4
East of England -19 43 £100,000 +122.22% 7
North East -31 20 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Scotland -25 12 £60,000 +17.65% 7
Wales -29 8 £45,000 -26.83% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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.

1 941 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 338 (35.92%) React
3 296 (31.46%) JavaScript
4 256 (27.21%) TypeScript
5 225 (23.91%) AWS
6 207 (22.00%) Node.js
7 182 (19.34%) Python
8 179 (19.02%) .NET
9 167 (17.75%) C#
10 164 (17.43%) Java
11 140 (14.88%) Agile
12 134 (14.24%) Azure
12 134 (14.24%) CI/CD
13 124 (13.18%) Software Engineering
14 120 (12.75%) CSS
15 118 (12.54%) AngularJS
16 116 (12.33%) HTML
17 115 (12.22%) SQL
18 114 (12.11%) DevOps
18 114 (12.11%) Microservices
19 108 (11.48%) Vue
20 96 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
21 95 (10.10%) AI
22 91 (9.67%) Web Development
23 89 (9.46%) Docker
24 87 (9.25%) Git
25 85 (9.03%) Serverless
26 79 (8.40%) Security Cleared
27 78 (8.29%) SaaS
28 75 (7.97%) 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 10 (1.06%) Confluence
2 8 (0.85%) CMS
2 8 (0.85%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.74%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.32%) Liferay
5 3 (0.32%) nginx
5 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.21%) Drupal
6 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.21%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.11%) Apache
7 1 (0.11%) CICS
7 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.11%) Magento
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 225 (23.91%) AWS
2 134 (14.24%) Azure
3 85 (9.03%) Serverless
4 78 (8.29%) SaaS
5 62 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (5.95%) Amazon S3
7 46 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (4.25%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (3.93%) GCP
10 34 (3.61%) GitHub
11 24 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.59%) Power Platform
14 14 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
16 11 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (1.17%) Apigee
16 11 (1.17%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (1.06%) Amazon ECR
18 6 (0.64%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.64%) HTTP
2 4 (0.43%) DNS
3 2 (0.21%) Broadband
3 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.11%) AMQP
4 1 (0.11%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (6.16%) SQL Server
3 45 (4.78%) NoSQL
4 36 (3.83%) MongoDB
5 31 (3.29%) MySQL
6 21 (2.23%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.13%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.06%) Power BI
10 8 (0.85%) Redis
11 7 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.74%) DB2
12 4 (0.43%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.43%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.32%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.32%) TimescaleDB
14 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.21%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.21%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 87 (9.25%) Git
2 31 (3.29%) Cypress.io
3 30 (3.19%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.91%) JIRA
5 13 (1.38%) Maven
6 12 (1.28%) GitLab
7 9 (0.96%) JUnit
8 7 (0.74%) Mockito
9 6 (0.64%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.64%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.53%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.53%) Selenium
11 3 (0.32%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.32%) ESLint
11 3 (0.32%) webpack
12 2 (0.21%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.21%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.21%) NUnit
12 2 (0.21%) Storybook
General
1 83 (8.82%) Social Skills
2 78 (8.29%) Finance
3 34 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (2.55%) Aviation
4 24 (2.55%) Banking
5 23 (2.44%) Retail
6 19 (2.02%) Public Sector
7 13 (1.38%) Games
8 12 (1.28%) Front Office
9 11 (1.17%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.96%) Marketing
11 8 (0.85%) Tech for Good
12 7 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.74%) Local Government
13 6 (0.64%) Advertising
14 5 (0.53%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.53%) Law
15 4 (0.43%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.43%) Publishing
16 3 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (35.92%) React
2 207 (22.00%) Node.js
3 179 (19.02%) .NET
4 120 (12.75%) CSS
5 118 (12.54%) AngularJS
6 116 (12.33%) HTML
7 108 (11.48%) Vue
8 72 (7.65%) REST
9 63 (6.70%) Spring
10 57 (6.06%) RESTful
11 53 (5.63%) .NET Core
11 53 (5.63%) Laravel
12 49 (5.21%) Spring Boot
13 40 (4.25%) Next.js
14 34 (3.61%) GraphQL
14 34 (3.61%) Jest
15 32 (3.40%) React Native
16 31 (3.29%) Ruby on Rails
17 27 (2.87%) ASP.NET
18 26 (2.76%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.68%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
3 22 (2.34%) Mobile App
4 19 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.17%) Fixed Income
8 8 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.74%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.53%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.53%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.43%) IoT
12 4 (0.43%) NHS
12 4 (0.43%) PropTech
13 3 (0.32%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.32%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.38%) Linux
2 5 (0.53%) Android
2 5 (0.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 941 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 140 (14.88%) Agile
3 134 (14.24%) CI/CD
4 124 (13.18%) Software Engineering
5 114 (12.11%) DevOps
5 114 (12.11%) Microservices
6 96 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
7 95 (10.10%) AI
8 91 (9.67%) Web Development
9 57 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (5.10%) API Development
10 48 (5.10%) Clean Code
11 47 (4.99%) Mentoring
12 46 (4.89%) Front End Development
13 44 (4.68%) Scrum
13 44 (4.68%) User Experience
14 40 (4.25%) SDLC
15 38 (4.04%) Containerisation
15 38 (4.04%) Test Automation
16 37 (3.93%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 296 (31.46%) JavaScript
2 256 (27.21%) TypeScript
3 182 (19.34%) Python
4 167 (17.75%) C#
5 164 (17.43%) Java
6 115 (12.22%) SQL
7 63 (6.70%) PHP
8 31 (3.29%) Ruby
9 18 (1.91%) C
10 11 (1.17%) Bash
10 11 (1.17%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.06%) Go
12 8 (0.85%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.74%) C++
14 6 (0.64%) Groovy
15 5 (0.53%) R
16 3 (0.32%) COBOL
16 3 (0.32%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.21%) RPG
18 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (8.40%) Security Cleared
2 63 (6.70%) SC Cleared
3 30 (3.19%) Degree
4 25 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.28%) DV Cleared
6 8 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.81%) QA
2 15 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.21%) HL7
3 2 (0.21%) WCAG
4 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 89 (9.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.34%) Terraform
3 6 (0.64%) Ansible
3 6 (0.64%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.53%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.32%) Nagios
6 2 (0.21%) Grafana
6 2 (0.21%) Kibana
6 2 (0.21%) Podman
7 1 (0.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 25 (2.66%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.34%) Oracle
3 9 (0.96%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.53%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.43%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.43%) Google
5 4 (0.43%) Pega
6 3 (0.32%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.32%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.32%) Telerik
6 3 (0.32%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.32%) Zoho
7 2 (0.21%) Aderant
7 2 (0.21%) Adobe
7 2 (0.21%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.21%) Foundry
7 2 (0.21%) IBM
7 2 (0.21%) Intapp
7 2 (0.21%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.21%) WSO2