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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 310 194
Rank change year-on-year +85 -116 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 989 436 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 0.88% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.98% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 828 321 619
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,125 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £58,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.13% +11.90% -8.70%

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 109,727 44,495 71,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 89.76% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 74,858 25,632 41,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,554
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,349 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
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 3 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 IT jobs citing Full-Stack Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +101 879 £60,000 -4.00% 576
UK excluding London +85 738 £60,000 +2.13% 625
Work from Home +83 354 £60,000 - 620
North of England +77 213 £65,000 +8.33% 115
South East +42 208 £60,000 +4.35% 99
London -20 208 £67,500 -14.29% 167
Yorkshire +52 109 £70,000 +16.67% 49
South West +6 109 £60,000 - 65
Midlands +20 107 £60,000 - 76
North West +10 76 £60,000 - 52
West Midlands -9 60 £70,000 +16.67% 44
Scotland +38 51 £55,000 -8.33% 126
East Midlands -1 47 £60,000 +14.29% 32
East of England -32 36 £60,000 +45.45% 55
North East -44 28 £46,250 -7.50% 18
Wales -75 14 £62,500 +4.17% 64

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 989 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 330 (33.37%) JavaScript
3 303 (30.64%) React
4 293 (29.63%) TypeScript
5 286 (28.92%) AWS
6 211 (21.33%) Node.js
7 191 (19.31%) CI/CD
8 185 (18.71%) Agile
9 182 (18.40%) .NET
10 170 (17.19%) Azure
11 167 (16.89%) C#
12 165 (16.68%) Microservices
13 153 (15.47%) AI
14 152 (15.37%) Java
15 132 (13.35%) Python
16 122 (12.34%) Software Engineering
17 119 (12.03%) CSS
17 119 (12.03%) Docker
18 116 (11.73%) HTML
19 113 (11.43%) AngularJS
20 105 (10.62%) SaaS
20 105 (10.62%) SQL Server
21 103 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
22 100 (10.11%) Git
23 97 (9.81%) SQL
24 92 (9.30%) REST
24 92 (9.30%) Serverless
25 90 (9.10%) DevOps
26 89 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
27 84 (8.49%) 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 16 (1.62%) Confluence
2 15 (1.52%) WordPress
3 11 (1.11%) CMS
4 7 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.40%) IIS
6 3 (0.30%) nginx
6 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Shopify
2 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 286 (28.92%) AWS
2 170 (17.19%) Azure
3 105 (10.62%) SaaS
4 92 (9.30%) Serverless
5 81 (8.19%) GitHub
6 78 (7.89%) Amazon S3
6 78 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
7 71 (7.18%) Amazon ECS
8 48 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
9 47 (4.75%) GCP
10 38 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (2.73%) GitHub Copilot
12 27 (2.73%) Snowflake
13 24 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (2.43%) AWS Step Functions
14 18 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
15 16 (1.62%) Amazon ECR
16 15 (1.52%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.71%) Broadband
2 3 (0.30%) DNS
2 3 (0.30%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (10.62%) SQL Server
2 84 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 38 (3.84%) DynamoDB
5 31 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 30 (3.03%) MySQL
6 30 (3.03%) Redis
7 22 (2.22%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.11%) Power BI
10 7 (0.71%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.40%) GIS
11 4 (0.40%) Spatial Data
12 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.20%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.10%) DocumentDB
13 1 (0.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 100 (10.11%) Git
2 56 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 41 (4.15%) Cypress.io
4 27 (2.73%) GitLab
5 21 (2.12%) Maven
6 20 (2.02%) JUnit
7 18 (1.82%) Claude Code
8 16 (1.62%) JIRA
9 13 (1.31%) Mockito
10 10 (1.01%) Vite
11 9 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.91%) Storybook
11 9 (0.91%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.71%) NUnit
13 6 (0.61%) Postman
13 6 (0.61%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.51%) Selenium
15 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.40%) Subversion
16 3 (0.30%) JMeter
General
1 102 (10.31%) Social Skills
2 76 (7.68%) Public Sector
3 51 (5.16%) Finance
4 15 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (1.52%) Retail
5 13 (1.31%) Legal
5 13 (1.31%) Marketing
6 12 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (0.71%) Legal Technology
8 4 (0.40%) Aviation
8 4 (0.40%) Banking
8 4 (0.40%) Games
9 3 (0.30%) Automotive
9 3 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.30%) Law
9 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.30%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.20%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.20%) Front Office
10 2 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (30.64%) React
2 211 (21.33%) Node.js
3 182 (18.40%) .NET
4 119 (12.03%) CSS
5 116 (11.73%) HTML
6 113 (11.43%) AngularJS
7 92 (9.30%) REST
8 83 (8.39%) Vue
9 78 (7.89%) Spring
10 75 (7.58%) RESTful
11 69 (6.98%) Spring Boot
12 57 (5.76%) Next.js
13 49 (4.95%) Jest
14 48 (4.85%) Ruby on Rails
15 41 (4.15%) .NET Core
16 38 (3.84%) .NET Framework
17 37 (3.74%) ASP.NET
17 37 (3.74%) Entity Framework
17 37 (3.74%) Terraform
18 31 (3.13%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 73 (7.38%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 11 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (0.91%) IoT
9 8 (0.81%) AI Agents
10 7 (0.71%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.30%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.30%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.30%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.20%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.20%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.20%) NHS
13 2 (0.20%) Sports Betting
13 2 (0.20%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.42%) Linux
2 3 (0.30%) AIX
3 1 (0.10%) Android
3 1 (0.10%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 989 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 191 (19.31%) CI/CD
3 185 (18.71%) Agile
4 165 (16.68%) Microservices
5 153 (15.47%) AI
6 122 (12.34%) Software Engineering
7 103 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
8 90 (9.10%) DevOps
9 89 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (7.38%) Clean Code
11 63 (6.37%) Mentoring
12 61 (6.17%) Computer Science
13 58 (5.86%) Web Development
14 55 (5.56%) User Experience
15 54 (5.46%) E-Commerce
16 53 (5.36%) SDLC
17 51 (5.16%) Front End Development
18 49 (4.95%) Technical Leadership
19 46 (4.65%) LLM
20 45 (4.55%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 330 (33.37%) JavaScript
2 293 (29.63%) TypeScript
3 167 (16.89%) C#
4 152 (15.37%) Java
5 132 (13.35%) Python
6 97 (9.81%) SQL
7 60 (6.07%) Kotlin
8 52 (5.26%) Ruby
9 48 (4.85%) PHP
10 20 (2.02%) Bash
11 18 (1.82%) Groovy
12 10 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.71%) C++
14 4 (0.40%) Rust
15 3 (0.30%) Go
15 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.20%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) Perl
17 1 (0.10%) C
17 1 (0.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (6.27%) Degree
1 62 (6.27%) Security Cleared
2 56 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 18 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 9 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (0.71%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.21%) QA
2 12 (1.21%) WCAG
3 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.10%) GRC
6 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 119 (12.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (7.68%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.91%) HP Fortify
3 6 (0.61%) Grafana
4 5 (0.51%) Ansible
5 3 (0.30%) Kibana
5 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) Podman
Vendors
1 76 (7.68%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.53%) Oracle
3 19 (1.92%) Google
4 16 (1.62%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.91%) OneLogin
5 9 (0.91%) OutSystems
5 9 (0.91%) Red Hat
6 7 (0.71%) Dynatrace
7 5 (0.51%) Peregrine
8 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.30%) Splunk
9 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.10%) Confluent
10 1 (0.10%) Databricks
10 1 (0.10%) Mistral
10 1 (0.10%) NEC
10 1 (0.10%) ServiceNow