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 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 304 172
Rank change year-on-year +120 -132 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 992 438 1,625
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.09% 1.00% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.12% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 850 344 1,296
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,625
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% - -8.05%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
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 85,212 39,160 91,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 89.49% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,182 22,791 67,021
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 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,344 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.48% +4.69% -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 16 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 16 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 +120 900 £65,000 +8.33% 112
UK excluding London +119 695 £60,000 +9.09% 94
Work from Home +109 340 £65,000 +8.33% 471
London +62 233 £80,000 +10.34% 30
South East +81 231 £60,000 +4.35% 24
North of England +108 220 £70,000 +27.27% 34
Yorkshire +32 103 £75,000 +30.43% 12
North West +74 98 £67,500 +22.73% 14
Midlands +19 97 £60,000 +13.21% 18
South West -3 76 £55,000 -8.33% 12
West Midlands -17 54 £65,000 +10.64% 9
East of England +1 45 £100,000 +122.22% 3
East Midlands -2 43 £55,000 +15.79% 9
Scotland +3 20 £60,000 +17.07% 4
North East -28 19 £50,000 -2.44% 8
Wales -27 7 £52,500 -25.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 992 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 338 (34.07%) React
3 319 (32.16%) JavaScript
4 274 (27.62%) TypeScript
5 239 (24.09%) AWS
6 226 (22.78%) Node.js
7 190 (19.15%) .NET
8 188 (18.95%) Python
9 173 (17.44%) C#
10 164 (16.53%) Java
11 139 (14.01%) Agile
12 138 (13.91%) Software Engineering
13 135 (13.61%) Azure
14 132 (13.31%) Microservices
15 131 (13.21%) CSS
16 130 (13.10%) CI/CD
17 126 (12.70%) HTML
18 117 (11.79%) DevOps
19 116 (11.69%) AngularJS
20 114 (11.49%) AI
21 111 (11.19%) Vue
22 109 (10.99%) SQL
23 94 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
24 93 (9.38%) Docker
25 91 (9.17%) Serverless
26 90 (9.07%) SaaS
26 90 (9.07%) Web Development
27 89 (8.97%) Git
28 83 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
28 83 (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 15 (1.51%) Confluence
2 11 (1.11%) CMS
3 9 (0.91%) ColdFusion
4 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.40%) WordPress
7 3 (0.30%) Liferay
7 3 (0.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) Drupal
8 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.10%) CICS
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 4 (0.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 239 (24.09%) AWS
2 135 (13.61%) Azure
3 91 (9.17%) Serverless
4 90 (9.07%) SaaS
5 65 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (6.05%) Amazon S3
7 55 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
8 43 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (3.73%) GCP
10 35 (3.53%) GitHub
11 28 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (1.81%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
15 13 (1.31%) Apigee
16 12 (1.21%) Amazon ECR
16 12 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
17 8 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.60%) HTTP
2 5 (0.50%) Broadband
3 4 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) AMQP
5 1 (0.10%) Firewall
5 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.35%) SQL Server
3 42 (4.23%) MongoDB
4 37 (3.73%) NoSQL
5 33 (3.33%) MySQL
6 20 (2.02%) DynamoDB
6 20 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.31%) Power BI
8 12 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (0.91%) Redis
10 8 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.71%) 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 89 (8.97%) Git
2 38 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.53%) Cypress.io
4 23 (2.32%) JIRA
5 16 (1.61%) GitLab
5 16 (1.61%) Maven
6 11 (1.11%) JUnit
7 9 (0.91%) Mockito
8 7 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.50%) Selenium
11 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.30%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.30%) ESLint
11 3 (0.30%) webpack
12 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.20%) Storybook
General
1 85 (8.57%) Social Skills
2 80 (8.06%) Finance
3 31 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (2.42%) Retail
5 23 (2.32%) Aviation
5 23 (2.32%) Public Sector
6 19 (1.92%) Banking
7 11 (1.11%) Front Office
7 11 (1.11%) Games
8 9 (0.91%) Tech for Good
9 8 (0.81%) Marketing
10 7 (0.71%) Local Government
11 6 (0.60%) Advertising
11 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.60%) Law
12 4 (0.40%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.40%) Legal
12 4 (0.40%) Publishing
13 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (34.07%) React
2 226 (22.78%) Node.js
3 190 (19.15%) .NET
4 131 (13.21%) CSS
5 126 (12.70%) HTML
6 116 (11.69%) AngularJS
7 111 (11.19%) Vue
8 68 (6.85%) RESTful
9 67 (6.75%) Spring
10 64 (6.45%) REST
11 57 (5.75%) Spring Boot
12 54 (5.44%) .NET Core
13 53 (5.34%) Laravel
14 43 (4.33%) Next.js
15 39 (3.93%) Jest
16 37 (3.73%) GraphQL
17 35 (3.53%) React Native
18 34 (3.43%) HTML5
19 33 (3.33%) CSS3
19 33 (3.33%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.94%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (2.42%) Mobile App
4 18 (1.81%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.11%) Fixed Income
8 10 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (0.81%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.60%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.50%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.50%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
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
1 992 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 139 (14.01%) Agile
3 138 (13.91%) Software Engineering
4 132 (13.31%) Microservices
5 130 (13.10%) CI/CD
6 117 (11.79%) DevOps
7 114 (11.49%) AI
8 94 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (9.07%) Web Development
10 69 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (6.15%) Mentoring
12 50 (5.04%) User Experience
13 48 (4.84%) Clean Code
14 47 (4.74%) Front End Development
15 46 (4.64%) Scrum
16 44 (4.44%) Containerisation
16 44 (4.44%) SDLC
17 43 (4.33%) API Development
18 42 (4.23%) TDD
19 39 (3.93%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 319 (32.16%) JavaScript
2 274 (27.62%) TypeScript
3 188 (18.95%) Python
4 173 (17.44%) C#
5 164 (16.53%) Java
6 109 (10.99%) SQL
7 65 (6.55%) PHP
8 33 (3.33%) Ruby
9 13 (1.31%) Bash
10 12 (1.21%) C
10 12 (1.21%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.91%) Go
11 9 (0.91%) Groovy
12 8 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.71%) 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 (8.37%) Security Cleared
2 70 (7.06%) SC Cleared
3 38 (3.83%) Degree
4 32 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (0.91%) AWS Certification
5 9 (0.91%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.30%) 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 10 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.20%) HL7
3 2 (0.20%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 93 (9.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.22%) Terraform
3 8 (0.81%) Ansible
4 6 (0.60%) HP Fortify
5 5 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Kibana
6 3 (0.30%) Nagios
7 2 (0.20%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
Vendors
1 30 (3.02%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.22%) Oracle
3 11 (1.11%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.40%) Google
5 4 (0.40%) Pega
5 4 (0.40%) WooCommerce
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