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 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 297 169
Rank change year-on-year +107 -128 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 996 439 1,633
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 1.00% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.11% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 854 345 1,303
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,400
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% - -8.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £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 85,926 39,497 91,995
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 89.64% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,850 22,880 67,465
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.66%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +110 905 £65,000 +8.33% 118
UK excluding London +121 702 £60,000 +9.09% 102
Work from Home +124 342 £65,000 +8.33% 60
South East +83 232 £60,000 +4.35% 29
London +46 232 £80,000 +10.34% 32
North of England +116 226 £70,000 +27.27% 34
Yorkshire +40 107 £75,000 +30.43% 13
North West +78 100 £67,500 +22.73% 13
Midlands +15 96 £60,000 +13.21% 16
South West -8 76 £55,000 -8.33% 12
West Midlands +2 53 £65,000 +10.64% 7
East of England -3 46 £100,000 +122.22% 6
East Midlands 0 43 £55,000 +15.79% 9
Scotland +8 22 £60,000 +17.07% 4
North East -27 19 £50,000 -2.44% 8
Wales -35 5 £52,500 -25.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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.

1 996 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 335 (33.63%) React
3 317 (31.83%) JavaScript
4 276 (27.71%) TypeScript
5 239 (24.00%) AWS
6 220 (22.09%) Node.js
7 194 (19.48%) .NET
8 190 (19.08%) Python
9 177 (17.77%) C#
10 164 (16.47%) Java
11 141 (14.16%) Agile
11 141 (14.16%) Software Engineering
12 134 (13.45%) Azure
12 134 (13.45%) Microservices
13 133 (13.35%) CSS
14 129 (12.95%) CI/CD
15 128 (12.85%) HTML
16 118 (11.85%) AngularJS
17 116 (11.65%) AI
18 115 (11.55%) DevOps
19 112 (11.24%) Vue
20 109 (10.94%) SQL
21 93 (9.34%) Docker
21 93 (9.34%) Problem-Solving
22 92 (9.24%) Git
22 92 (9.24%) SaaS
23 91 (9.14%) Serverless
24 90 (9.04%) Web Development
25 83 (8.33%) Security Cleared
26 81 (8.13%) 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 15 (1.51%) Confluence
2 11 (1.10%) CMS
3 9 (0.90%) ColdFusion
4 8 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.60%) WordPress
6 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.30%) Liferay
7 3 (0.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.10%) CICS
9 1 (0.10%) Drupal
9 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 239 (24.00%) AWS
2 134 (13.45%) Azure
3 92 (9.24%) SaaS
4 91 (9.14%) Serverless
5 65 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 56 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
8 42 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
9 36 (3.61%) GCP
10 34 (3.41%) GitHub
11 27 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (1.81%) Power Platform
14 16 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.51%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (1.41%) Apigee
17 13 (1.31%) Amazon ECR
18 12 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
19 11 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
20 8 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.60%) Broadband
1 6 (0.60%) HTTP
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) AMQP
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.33%) SQL Server
3 41 (4.12%) MongoDB
4 36 (3.61%) NoSQL
5 33 (3.31%) MySQL
6 21 (2.11%) DynamoDB
7 19 (1.91%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.31%) Power BI
9 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.90%) Redis
11 7 (0.70%) DB2
12 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
13 3 (0.30%) TimescaleDB
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 92 (9.24%) Git
2 39 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.51%) Cypress.io
4 23 (2.31%) JIRA
5 17 (1.71%) GitLab
6 16 (1.61%) Maven
7 11 (1.10%) JUnit
8 9 (0.90%) Mockito
9 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.50%) Selenium
12 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.30%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.30%) ESLint
12 3 (0.30%) webpack
13 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.20%) Storybook
13 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (8.53%) Social Skills
2 80 (8.03%) Finance
3 31 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (2.51%) Retail
5 24 (2.41%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.31%) Aviation
7 18 (1.81%) Banking
8 11 (1.10%) Front Office
8 11 (1.10%) Games
9 9 (0.90%) Marketing
9 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
10 7 (0.70%) Local Government
11 6 (0.60%) Advertising
11 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.60%) Law
12 5 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.50%) Legal
13 4 (0.40%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.40%) Publishing
14 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (33.63%) React
2 220 (22.09%) Node.js
3 194 (19.48%) .NET
4 133 (13.35%) CSS
5 128 (12.85%) HTML
6 118 (11.85%) AngularJS
7 112 (11.24%) Vue
8 68 (6.83%) RESTful
8 68 (6.83%) Spring
9 65 (6.53%) REST
10 58 (5.82%) Spring Boot
11 54 (5.42%) Laravel
12 53 (5.32%) .NET Core
13 42 (4.22%) Next.js
14 38 (3.82%) GraphQL
14 38 (3.82%) Jest
15 35 (3.51%) React Native
16 33 (3.31%) CSS3
16 33 (3.31%) HTML5
17 32 (3.21%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.02%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (2.41%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.91%) Product Ownership
5 18 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.10%) Fixed Income
8 10 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (0.80%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.60%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.50%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.50%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.40%) IoT
12 4 (0.40%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.40%) NHS
12 4 (0.40%) PropTech
13 3 (0.30%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.41%) Linux
2 4 (0.40%) Android
2 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 996 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 141 (14.16%) Agile
2 141 (14.16%) Software Engineering
3 134 (13.45%) Microservices
4 129 (12.95%) CI/CD
5 116 (11.65%) AI
6 115 (11.55%) DevOps
7 93 (9.34%) Problem-Solving
8 90 (9.04%) Web Development
9 73 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 63 (6.33%) Mentoring
11 49 (4.92%) Clean Code
12 48 (4.82%) Front End Development
13 47 (4.72%) User Experience
14 46 (4.62%) Scrum
14 46 (4.62%) SDLC
15 43 (4.32%) TDD
16 42 (4.22%) API Development
16 42 (4.22%) Containerisation
17 40 (4.02%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 317 (31.83%) JavaScript
2 276 (27.71%) TypeScript
3 190 (19.08%) Python
4 177 (17.77%) C#
5 164 (16.47%) Java
6 109 (10.94%) SQL
7 68 (6.83%) PHP
8 32 (3.21%) Ruby
9 13 (1.31%) Bash
10 12 (1.20%) C
10 12 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.00%) Go
11 10 (1.00%) Groovy
12 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.70%) C++
14 5 (0.50%) R
15 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.30%) COBOL
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) RPG
Qualifications
1 83 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 70 (7.03%) SC Cleared
3 39 (3.92%) Degree
4 33 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (0.90%) AWS Certification
5 9 (0.90%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.71%) QA
2 8 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.20%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) HL7
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 93 (9.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.31%) Terraform
3 8 (0.80%) Ansible
4 6 (0.60%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Grafana
6 3 (0.30%) Kibana
6 3 (0.30%) Nagios
7 2 (0.20%) Argo
7 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 32 (3.21%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.21%) Oracle
3 12 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
4 5 (0.50%) WooCommerce
5 4 (0.40%) Google
5 4 (0.40%) Pega
6 3 (0.30%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.20%) Aderant
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe
7 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.20%) Foundry
7 2 (0.20%) IBM
7 2 (0.20%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) Intapp
7 2 (0.20%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2