Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 271 184
Rank change year-on-year +14 -87 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 508 605 900
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.87% 1.06% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.12% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 376 374 827
10th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -14.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,875 £98,375 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 52,799 53,782 46,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 93.79% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,457 29,075 36,182
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +34 458 £65,000 +13.04% 150
UK excluding London +5 307 £60,000 +14.29% 130
London +24 177 £80,000 +14.29% 48
Work from Home +21 163 £60,000 +4.35% 78
South East +8 115 £60,000 +9.09% 44
North of England +32 75 £56,000 +12.00% 35
South West +21 39 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Midlands +1 34 £60,000 +9.09% 20
North West +12 29 £60,000 +41.18% 15
East of England +6 26 £50,000 +11.11% 9
Yorkshire -1 25 £60,000 +9.09% 12
North East +16 21 £50,000 +14.29% 8
West Midlands +9 21 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Wales -1 15 £60,000 -20.00% 2
East Midlands -10 13 £62,500 +66.67% 11
Scotland -11 4 £60,000 +14.29% 7
Northern Ireland -4 2 £60,000 -33.33%

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, 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.

1 508 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 272 (53.54%) React
3 234 (46.06%) JavaScript
4 203 (39.96%) AWS
5 171 (33.66%) Agile
6 160 (31.50%) TypeScript
7 144 (28.35%) C#
8 141 (27.76%) .NET
8 141 (27.76%) CI/CD
9 139 (27.36%) Azure
10 132 (25.98%) HTML
11 126 (24.80%) Node.js
12 122 (24.02%) CSS
13 119 (23.43%) Java
14 113 (22.24%) AngularJS
15 111 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
16 107 (21.06%) SQL
17 105 (20.67%) DevOps
18 98 (19.29%) Python
19 94 (18.50%) Git
19 94 (18.50%) User Experience
20 92 (18.11%) REST
21 89 (17.52%) Docker
22 85 (16.73%) RESTful
23 83 (16.34%) Microservices
24 81 (15.94%) Vue
25 71 (13.98%) SQL Server
26 67 (13.19%) Software Engineering
27 64 (12.60%) Kubernetes
28 62 (12.20%) 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 10 (1.97%) CMS
2 8 (1.57%) Headless CMS
2 8 (1.57%) OpenStack
3 7 (1.38%) Confluence
4 3 (0.59%) Drupal
4 3 (0.59%) nginx
5 2 (0.39%) ColdFusion
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.20%) Kentico
6 1 (0.20%) Liferay
6 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.59%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.97%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 203 (39.96%) AWS
2 139 (27.36%) Azure
3 62 (12.20%) Serverless
4 55 (10.83%) GCP
5 50 (9.84%) SaaS
6 42 (8.27%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (7.68%) GitHub
8 37 (7.28%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (5.31%) Amazon S3
10 24 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (4.53%) Amazon SQS
12 21 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (2.17%) Figma
14 9 (1.77%) Vercel
15 8 (1.57%) Google Analytics
16 7 (1.38%) GitHub Copilot
17 6 (1.18%) npm
17 6 (1.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.59%) Broadband
1 3 (0.59%) HTTP
2 2 (0.39%) AMQP
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (13.98%) SQL Server
2 62 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (10.24%) NoSQL
4 46 (9.06%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.91%) MySQL
6 25 (4.92%) RDBMS
7 15 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (2.95%) MongoDB
8 14 (2.76%) Redis
9 7 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (1.38%) DB2
9 7 (1.38%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.18%) Power BI
11 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.20%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 94 (18.50%) Git
2 36 (7.09%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.94%) JUnit
4 19 (3.74%) Cypress.io
4 19 (3.74%) Mockito
5 16 (3.15%) JIRA
6 15 (2.95%) JMeter
7 11 (2.17%) TeamCity
8 7 (1.38%) webpack
9 6 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.18%) Selenium
10 5 (0.98%) git-flow
10 5 (0.98%) Mocha
10 5 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.79%) Maven
11 4 (0.79%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.59%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.59%) Storybook
12 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 55 (10.83%) Finance
3 33 (6.50%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.51%) Law
5 24 (4.72%) Banking
6 23 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (4.33%) Marketing
8 18 (3.54%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.35%) Front Office
10 13 (2.56%) Retail
11 11 (2.17%) Games
11 11 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.17%) Legal
12 10 (1.97%) Aviation
13 9 (1.77%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.98%) Electronics
16 3 (0.59%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.59%) Tech for Good
17 2 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (53.54%) React
2 141 (27.76%) .NET
3 132 (25.98%) HTML
4 126 (24.80%) Node.js
5 122 (24.02%) CSS
6 113 (22.24%) AngularJS
7 92 (18.11%) REST
8 85 (16.73%) RESTful
9 81 (15.94%) Vue
10 61 (12.01%) Spring
11 49 (9.65%) ASP.NET
12 46 (9.06%) GraphQL
13 45 (8.86%) .NET Core
14 36 (7.09%) .NET Framework
15 35 (6.89%) Spring Boot
16 33 (6.50%) Kafka
17 32 (6.30%) Web Services
18 30 (5.91%) HTML5
18 30 (5.91%) Next.js
19 29 (5.71%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
1 26 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (3.94%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.15%) Mobile App
6 10 (1.97%) Hedge funds
6 10 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.97%) Reference Data
7 8 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.18%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.79%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.59%) IoT
10 3 (0.59%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.59%) Smart Home
10 3 (0.59%) Social Media
11 2 (0.39%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.39%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.38%) Android
1 7 (1.38%) Apple iOS
1 7 (1.38%) Linux
2 3 (0.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 171 (33.66%) Agile
3 141 (27.76%) CI/CD
4 111 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (20.67%) DevOps
6 94 (18.50%) User Experience
7 83 (16.34%) Microservices
8 67 (13.19%) Software Engineering
9 59 (11.61%) Web Development
10 58 (11.42%) Clean Code
11 56 (11.02%) UX Design
12 50 (9.84%) AI
13 46 (9.06%) SDLC
13 46 (9.06%) TDD
14 45 (8.86%) Scrum
15 43 (8.46%) Test Automation
16 42 (8.27%) Containerisation
17 38 (7.48%) Front End Development
18 36 (7.09%) Mentoring
19 35 (6.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 234 (46.06%) JavaScript
2 160 (31.50%) TypeScript
3 144 (28.35%) C#
4 119 (23.43%) Java
5 107 (21.06%) SQL
6 98 (19.29%) Python
7 25 (4.92%) PHP
8 16 (3.15%) Go
8 16 (3.15%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.17%) C
10 6 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.18%) Ruby
10 6 (1.18%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.79%) C++
11 4 (0.79%) XAML
12 3 (0.59%) Bash
12 3 (0.59%) COBOL
12 3 (0.59%) R
13 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.39%) RPG
Qualifications
1 51 (10.04%) Security Cleared
2 25 (4.92%) Degree
3 20 (3.94%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.15%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.87%) Accessibility
2 35 (6.89%) QA
3 7 (1.38%) WCAG
4 4 (0.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 89 (17.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (12.60%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.74%) Terraform
3 15 (2.95%) Kibana
4 8 (1.57%) Ansible
5 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Argo
6 1 (0.20%) Nagios
Vendors
1 42 (8.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.95%) Dynatrace
2 15 (2.95%) Splunk
3 13 (2.56%) Oracle
4 8 (1.57%) Apple
5 7 (1.38%) Google
6 4 (0.79%) DevExpress
6 4 (0.79%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.79%) Telerik
7 3 (0.59%) Pega
7 3 (0.59%) WSO2
7 3 (0.59%) Zoho
8 2 (0.39%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.39%) IBM
8 2 (0.39%) iManage
8 2 (0.39%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.39%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.20%) Sybase