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 9 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 283 177
Rank change year-on-year +67 -106 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 728 485 1,398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.10% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.21% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 596 345 1,244
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,000 £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 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £92,500
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 66,178 40,037 79,004
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 90.84% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 42,020 23,148 60,868
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £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 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +77 667 £65,000 +8.33% 169
UK excluding London +57 467 £60,000 +9.09% 148
Work from Home +63 248 £60,000 - 91
London +52 213 £80,000 +14.29% 40
South East -5 151 £60,000 +9.09% 44
North of England +68 141 £65,000 +18.18% 44
Midlands +22 80 £55,000 -4.35% 22
North West +41 71 £70,000 +27.27% 23
South West +4 52 £55,000 -8.33% 22
West Midlands +17 45 £60,000 +2.13% 15
Yorkshire -6 45 £70,000 +27.27% 15
East Midlands 0 35 £55,000 +3.29% 7
East of England +5 33 £100,000 +122.22% 9
North East +2 25 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Wales -7 8 £45,000 -14.69% 2
Scotland -27 3 £65,000 +25.60% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 March 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.

1 728 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 311 (42.72%) React
3 259 (35.58%) JavaScript
4 206 (28.30%) AWS
5 200 (27.47%) TypeScript
6 172 (23.63%) .NET
7 162 (22.25%) C#
8 159 (21.84%) Java
9 153 (21.02%) Node.js
10 150 (20.60%) Agile
11 136 (18.68%) Azure
12 134 (18.41%) Python
13 133 (18.27%) CI/CD
14 120 (16.48%) CSS
15 117 (16.07%) HTML
16 116 (15.93%) AngularJS
17 111 (15.25%) Microservices
18 107 (14.70%) DevOps
18 107 (14.70%) SQL
19 106 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
20 103 (14.15%) Software Engineering
21 92 (12.64%) Docker
21 92 (12.64%) REST
21 92 (12.64%) Vue
22 85 (11.68%) Git
23 83 (11.40%) AI
24 79 (10.85%) Serverless
25 71 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
26 68 (9.34%) Security Cleared
27 61 (8.38%) Spring

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 (1.37%) CMS
2 9 (1.24%) Confluence
3 8 (1.10%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.55%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.55%) nginx
6 3 (0.41%) Drupal
6 3 (0.41%) Liferay
6 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.27%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.14%) Apache
8 1 (0.14%) CICS
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Shopify
2 1 (0.14%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 206 (28.30%) AWS
2 136 (18.68%) Azure
3 79 (10.85%) Serverless
4 57 (7.83%) SaaS
5 47 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (6.32%) Amazon S3
7 41 (5.63%) GCP
8 40 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
9 38 (5.22%) GitHub
10 30 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.92%) Power Platform
15 11 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.37%) GitHub Copilot
17 8 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
18 6 (0.82%) Amazon EventBridge
19 5 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
20 4 (0.55%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.27%) AMQP
1 2 (0.27%) HTTP
2 1 (0.14%) Broadband
2 1 (0.14%) Internet
2 1 (0.14%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (7.83%) SQL Server
3 44 (6.04%) NoSQL
4 38 (5.22%) Relational Database
5 31 (4.26%) MySQL
6 29 (3.98%) MongoDB
7 14 (1.92%) Redis
8 13 (1.79%) RDBMS
9 12 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.37%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.24%) DB2
11 9 (1.24%) Power BI
12 3 (0.41%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.41%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.41%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.41%) TimescaleDB
13 2 (0.27%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 85 (11.68%) Git
2 38 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.02%) Cypress.io
4 16 (2.20%) JUnit
5 14 (1.92%) JIRA
5 14 (1.92%) Mockito
6 12 (1.65%) Maven
6 12 (1.65%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.10%) GitLab
8 7 (0.96%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.96%) Selenium
9 6 (0.82%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.82%) JMeter
10 5 (0.69%) git-flow
10 5 (0.69%) webpack
11 3 (0.41%) ESLint
11 3 (0.41%) Mocha
11 3 (0.41%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.27%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.27%) Storybook
General
1 93 (12.77%) Social Skills
2 74 (10.16%) Finance
3 39 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (4.53%) Banking
5 24 (3.30%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.02%) Aviation
7 21 (2.88%) Retail
8 20 (2.75%) Investment Banking
9 17 (2.34%) Front Office
10 15 (2.06%) Games
11 11 (1.51%) Law
12 10 (1.37%) Marketing
13 9 (1.24%) Legal
14 8 (1.10%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.96%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.69%) Electronics
16 5 (0.69%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (42.72%) React
2 172 (23.63%) .NET
3 153 (21.02%) Node.js
4 120 (16.48%) CSS
5 117 (16.07%) HTML
6 116 (15.93%) AngularJS
7 92 (12.64%) REST
7 92 (12.64%) Vue
8 61 (8.38%) Spring
9 52 (7.14%) .NET Core
9 52 (7.14%) RESTful
10 42 (5.77%) Spring Boot
11 41 (5.63%) Laravel
12 36 (4.95%) Kafka
13 34 (4.67%) ASP.NET
14 32 (4.40%) Next.js
15 29 (3.98%) GraphQL
16 28 (3.85%) HTML5
17 27 (3.71%) CSS3
18 23 (3.16%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.71%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
2 24 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (3.16%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.06%) Mobile App
6 11 (1.51%) Fixed Income
7 10 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.96%) Hedge funds
10 6 (0.82%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.69%) Sports Betting
12 4 (0.55%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.55%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.55%) IoT
13 2 (0.27%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.06%) Linux
2 8 (1.10%) Android
2 8 (1.10%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 150 (20.60%) Agile
3 133 (18.27%) CI/CD
4 111 (15.25%) Microservices
5 107 (14.70%) DevOps
6 106 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (14.15%) Software Engineering
8 83 (11.40%) AI
9 58 (7.97%) User Experience
10 55 (7.55%) Web Development
11 51 (7.01%) API Development
12 50 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (6.32%) Scrum
14 44 (6.04%) Front End Development
14 44 (6.04%) Mentoring
14 44 (6.04%) SDLC
15 43 (5.91%) Clean Code
16 42 (5.77%) TDD
17 39 (5.36%) Containerisation
18 37 (5.08%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 259 (35.58%) JavaScript
2 200 (27.47%) TypeScript
3 162 (22.25%) C#
4 159 (21.84%) Java
5 134 (18.41%) Python
6 107 (14.70%) SQL
7 49 (6.73%) PHP
8 17 (2.34%) C
9 16 (2.20%) Ruby
10 14 (1.92%) Go
10 14 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.24%) Bash
12 8 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.96%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.82%) C++
14 6 (0.82%) R
15 4 (0.55%) XAML
16 3 (0.41%) COBOL
16 3 (0.41%) Groovy
17 2 (0.27%) RPG
Qualifications
1 68 (9.34%) Security Cleared
2 44 (6.04%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.81%) Degree
4 30 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.16%) Accessibility
1 23 (3.16%) QA
2 4 (0.55%) WCAG
3 2 (0.27%) HL7
4 1 (0.14%) GDPR
4 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 92 (12.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (7.83%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.61%) Terraform
3 8 (1.10%) Ansible
4 7 (0.96%) Kibana
5 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.41%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.41%) Nagios
7 2 (0.27%) Argo
7 2 (0.27%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (3.30%) Oracle
2 19 (2.61%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.24%) OpenAI
4 7 (0.96%) Dynatrace
4 7 (0.96%) Google
5 6 (0.82%) Splunk
6 5 (0.69%) Pega
7 4 (0.55%) iManage
7 4 (0.55%) Telerik
8 3 (0.41%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.41%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.41%) WSO2
8 3 (0.41%) Zoho
9 2 (0.27%) Aderant
9 2 (0.27%) Foundry
9 2 (0.27%) IBM
9 2 (0.27%) Intapp
9 2 (0.27%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe
10 1 (0.14%) Databricks