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 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 284 175
Rank change year-on-year +76 -109 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 836 431 1,535
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.05% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.17% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 695 341 1,290
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £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 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.27% -4.09%

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 73,572 36,772 85,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 89.92% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 47,294 23,163 64,083
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 2 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 2 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 +82 761 £65,000 +8.33% 164
UK excluding London +73 555 £60,000 +9.09% 139
Work from Home +67 286 £60,000 +4.35% 97
London +52 222 £80,000 +18.52% 43
South East +21 176 £60,000 +9.09% 38
North of England +50 174 £67,500 +22.73% 45
Midlands +16 90 £55,000 +2.80% 21
North West +39 87 £70,000 +27.27% 22
Yorkshire +1 66 £72,500 +31.82% 22
South West +7 63 £55,000 -8.33% 17
West Midlands +7 52 £60,000 +2.13% 12
East of England -15 38 £100,000 +122.22% 10
East Midlands -20 38 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North East -10 21 £50,000 +14.29% 1
Scotland -34 8 £60,000 +15.94% 7
Wales -20 7 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 836 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 325 (38.88%) React
3 289 (34.57%) JavaScript
4 228 (27.27%) AWS
5 221 (26.44%) TypeScript
6 186 (22.25%) Node.js
7 180 (21.53%) .NET
8 168 (20.10%) C#
9 163 (19.50%) Python
10 162 (19.38%) Java
11 158 (18.90%) Agile
12 147 (17.58%) CI/CD
13 141 (16.87%) Azure
14 126 (15.07%) CSS
15 122 (14.59%) HTML
15 122 (14.59%) Microservices
16 121 (14.47%) SQL
17 119 (14.23%) AngularJS
18 116 (13.88%) DevOps
19 112 (13.40%) Software Engineering
20 107 (12.80%) Vue
21 106 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
22 96 (11.48%) Docker
23 91 (10.89%) Git
24 90 (10.77%) AI
24 90 (10.77%) Serverless
25 88 (10.53%) REST
26 83 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
27 78 (9.33%) Web Development
28 70 (8.37%) Security Cleared

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 (1.20%) OpenStack
2 8 (0.96%) CMS
2 8 (0.96%) Confluence
3 7 (0.84%) ColdFusion
4 5 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.48%) nginx
6 3 (0.36%) Liferay
6 3 (0.36%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.24%) Drupal
7 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.24%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.12%) Apache
8 1 (0.12%) CICS
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 228 (27.27%) AWS
2 141 (16.87%) Azure
3 90 (10.77%) Serverless
4 69 (8.25%) SaaS
5 57 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (6.34%) Amazon S3
7 48 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
8 42 (5.02%) GCP
9 40 (4.78%) GitHub
10 36 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.79%) Power Platform
14 13 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.08%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (0.96%) Apigee
16 8 (0.96%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (0.84%) Amazon ECR
17 7 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.36%) HTTP
2 2 (0.24%) AMQP
2 2 (0.24%) Broadband
3 1 (0.12%) DNS
3 1 (0.12%) Internet
3 1 (0.12%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (7.54%) SQL Server
3 52 (6.22%) NoSQL
4 37 (4.43%) MySQL
5 35 (4.19%) Relational Database
6 34 (4.07%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.91%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.32%) Redis
10 10 (1.20%) Power BI
11 9 (1.08%) DB2
11 9 (1.08%) RDBMS
12 8 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.48%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.36%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.36%) ClickHouse
14 3 (0.36%) TimescaleDB
15 2 (0.24%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.24%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 91 (10.89%) Git
2 39 (4.67%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.35%) Cypress.io
4 17 (2.03%) JIRA
5 12 (1.44%) JUnit
5 12 (1.44%) Maven
6 10 (1.20%) GitLab
6 10 (1.20%) Mockito
6 10 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.84%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.84%) Selenium
8 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.60%) webpack
10 4 (0.48%) git-flow
10 4 (0.48%) JMeter
11 3 (0.36%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.36%) ESLint
11 3 (0.36%) Mocha
12 2 (0.24%) Storybook
General
1 94 (11.24%) Social Skills
2 78 (9.33%) Finance
3 36 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (3.71%) Banking
5 24 (2.87%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.75%) Retail
7 22 (2.63%) Aviation
8 16 (1.91%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.79%) Games
10 14 (1.67%) Front Office
11 9 (1.08%) Marketing
12 8 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.96%) Tech for Good
13 7 (0.84%) Local Government
14 6 (0.72%) Advertising
14 6 (0.72%) Law
14 6 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.60%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.48%) Legal
16 4 (0.48%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (38.88%) React
2 186 (22.25%) Node.js
3 180 (21.53%) .NET
4 126 (15.07%) CSS
5 122 (14.59%) HTML
6 119 (14.23%) AngularJS
7 107 (12.80%) Vue
8 88 (10.53%) REST
9 62 (7.42%) Spring
10 54 (6.46%) .NET Core
10 54 (6.46%) RESTful
11 48 (5.74%) Spring Boot
12 46 (5.50%) Laravel
13 35 (4.19%) Next.js
14 34 (4.07%) ASP.NET
15 32 (3.83%) Kafka
16 31 (3.71%) Jest
17 28 (3.35%) GraphQL
18 25 (2.99%) Django
19 24 (2.87%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.43%) Cloud Native
2 30 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
3 25 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (2.27%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.32%) Fixed Income
7 9 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.84%) Management Information System
8 7 (0.84%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.72%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.48%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.48%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.48%) IoT
11 4 (0.48%) NHS
12 3 (0.36%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (0.36%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.67%) Linux
2 7 (0.84%) Android
2 7 (0.84%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 158 (18.90%) Agile
3 147 (17.58%) CI/CD
4 122 (14.59%) Microservices
5 116 (13.88%) DevOps
6 112 (13.40%) Software Engineering
7 106 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
8 90 (10.77%) AI
9 78 (9.33%) Web Development
10 59 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (6.10%) API Development
11 51 (6.10%) User Experience
12 50 (5.98%) Clean Code
12 50 (5.98%) Scrum
13 47 (5.62%) Front End Development
13 47 (5.62%) Mentoring
14 46 (5.50%) SDLC
15 42 (5.02%) TDD
16 38 (4.55%) Test Automation
17 37 (4.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 289 (34.57%) JavaScript
2 221 (26.44%) TypeScript
3 168 (20.10%) C#
4 163 (19.50%) Python
5 162 (19.38%) Java
6 121 (14.47%) SQL
7 56 (6.70%) PHP
8 23 (2.75%) Ruby
9 17 (2.03%) C
10 12 (1.44%) Go
11 11 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.20%) Bash
13 9 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.72%) C++
14 6 (0.72%) R
14 6 (0.72%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.60%) Groovy
16 3 (0.36%) COBOL
16 3 (0.36%) XAML
17 2 (0.24%) RPG
Qualifications
1 70 (8.37%) Security Cleared
2 50 (5.98%) SC Cleared
3 34 (4.07%) Degree
4 29 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.39%) Accessibility
1 20 (2.39%) QA
2 3 (0.36%) WCAG
3 2 (0.24%) HL7
4 1 (0.12%) GDPR
4 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 96 (11.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (6.34%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.75%) Terraform
3 10 (1.20%) Ansible
4 5 (0.60%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.60%) Kibana
4 5 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.36%) Nagios
6 2 (0.24%) Argo
6 2 (0.24%) Grafana
6 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (2.75%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.63%) Oracle
3 9 (1.08%) OpenAI
4 7 (0.84%) Pega
5 5 (0.60%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.60%) Google
5 5 (0.60%) WSO2
6 4 (0.48%) Splunk
6 4 (0.48%) Telerik
7 3 (0.36%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.36%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.36%) Zoho
8 2 (0.24%) Aderant
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe
8 2 (0.24%) Foundry
8 2 (0.24%) IBM
8 2 (0.24%) iManage
8 2 (0.24%) Intapp
8 2 (0.24%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.12%) SAP