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 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 307 160
Rank change year-on-year +117 -147 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 983 441 1,815
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 0.99% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.11% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 849 342 1,399
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,625
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.26% -4.32%

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 87,136 39,736 101,635
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 89.46% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 59,740 22,466 73,347
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,849 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +119 888 £65,000 +8.33% 60
UK excluding London +123 708 £60,000 +4.35% 59
Work from Home +96 350 £65,000 +8.33% 44
North of England +120 242 £70,000 +27.27% 17
South East +83 217 £60,000 +4.35% 18
London +46 216 £80,000 +10.34% 13
North West +81 110 £67,500 +22.73% 7
Yorkshire +50 107 £75,000 +25.00% 5
Midlands +23 100 £60,000 +2.13% 5
South West -10 75 £55,000 -8.33% 12
West Midlands -2 56 £70,000 +14.29% 1
East Midlands +4 44 £55,000 +15.79% 4
East of England -13 40 £82,500 +83.33% 2
Scotland +22 25 £60,000 +14.29% 4
North East -19 25 £50,000 -16.67% 5
Wales -46 7 £55,000 -15.38% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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.

1 983 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 314 (31.94%) React
3 303 (30.82%) JavaScript
4 281 (28.59%) TypeScript
5 259 (26.35%) AWS
6 211 (21.46%) Node.js
7 193 (19.63%) .NET
8 183 (18.62%) Python
9 172 (17.50%) C#
10 162 (16.48%) Java
11 149 (15.16%) Agile
11 149 (15.16%) Azure
12 140 (14.24%) Microservices
13 137 (13.94%) CI/CD
14 133 (13.53%) AI
15 131 (13.33%) AngularJS
16 128 (13.02%) Software Engineering
17 126 (12.82%) CSS
18 117 (11.90%) HTML
19 113 (11.50%) Vue
20 110 (11.19%) DevOps
21 109 (11.09%) SQL
22 98 (9.97%) Serverless
23 93 (9.46%) Docker
24 90 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
24 90 (9.16%) SaaS
25 83 (8.44%) Git
25 83 (8.44%) Security Cleared
26 82 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
26 82 (8.34%) Web Development

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 12 (1.22%) CMS
1 12 (1.22%) Confluence
2 8 (0.81%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.71%) WordPress
4 6 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.31%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.20%) Apache
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
6 2 (0.20%) Liferay
6 2 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.10%) CICS
7 1 (0.10%) Drupal
7 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 259 (26.35%) AWS
2 149 (15.16%) Azure
3 98 (9.97%) Serverless
4 90 (9.16%) SaaS
5 78 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
6 70 (7.12%) Amazon S3
7 64 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
8 46 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (3.76%) GCP
9 37 (3.76%) GitHub
10 31 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (2.24%) AWS Step Functions
12 21 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (2.03%) Power Platform
14 17 (1.73%) Amazon ECR
14 17 (1.73%) Apigee
15 14 (1.42%) GitHub Copilot
16 10 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.81%) Broadband
2 4 (0.41%) DNS
2 4 (0.41%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.31%) SQL Server
3 43 (4.37%) MongoDB
4 32 (3.26%) MySQL
5 31 (3.15%) NoSQL
6 27 (2.75%) DynamoDB
7 20 (2.03%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.22%) Power BI
9 11 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.92%) Redis
11 6 (0.61%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.41%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.31%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.20%) Db2
14 2 (0.20%) GIS
14 2 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 83 (8.44%) Git
2 38 (3.87%) Cypress.io
3 35 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.14%) GitLab
4 21 (2.14%) JIRA
5 20 (2.03%) Maven
6 14 (1.42%) JUnit
7 11 (1.12%) Mockito
8 9 (0.92%) Claude Code
9 8 (0.81%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.31%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.31%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.31%) ESLint
11 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.20%) JMeter
11 2 (0.20%) NUnit
11 2 (0.20%) Postman
11 2 (0.20%) Selenium
11 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (8.65%) Social Skills
2 80 (8.14%) Finance
3 28 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (2.64%) Public Sector
5 23 (2.34%) Retail
6 18 (1.83%) Aviation
7 13 (1.32%) Banking
8 11 (1.12%) Front Office
8 11 (1.12%) Marketing
9 9 (0.92%) Tech for Good
10 8 (0.81%) Legal
10 8 (0.81%) Local Government
11 7 (0.71%) Games
12 6 (0.61%) Advertising
12 6 (0.61%) Law
13 5 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.41%) Legal Technology
14 4 (0.41%) Publishing
15 3 (0.31%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (31.94%) React
2 211 (21.46%) Node.js
3 193 (19.63%) .NET
4 131 (13.33%) AngularJS
5 126 (12.82%) CSS
6 117 (11.90%) HTML
7 113 (11.50%) Vue
8 64 (6.51%) REST
9 63 (6.41%) Spring
10 62 (6.31%) RESTful
11 58 (5.90%) Spring Boot
12 49 (4.98%) .NET Core
13 47 (4.78%) Laravel
14 41 (4.17%) Jest
15 40 (4.07%) Next.js
16 37 (3.76%) GraphQL
17 36 (3.66%) Ruby on Rails
18 29 (2.95%) HTML5
19 28 (2.85%) CSS3
20 26 (2.64%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 64 (6.51%) Cloud Native
2 22 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (2.03%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (1.93%) Product Ownership
5 14 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.12%) Fixed Income
7 10 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.71%) Sports Betting
9 5 (0.51%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.51%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.51%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.41%) Augmented Reality
10 4 (0.41%) NHS
10 4 (0.41%) PropTech
10 4 (0.41%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.31%) IoT
11 3 (0.31%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.73%) Linux
2 3 (0.31%) Android
2 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) AIX
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 983 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 149 (15.16%) Agile
3 140 (14.24%) Microservices
4 137 (13.94%) CI/CD
5 133 (13.53%) AI
6 128 (13.02%) Software Engineering
7 110 (11.19%) DevOps
8 90 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 82 (8.34%) Web Development
10 65 (6.61%) Mentoring
11 50 (5.09%) Clean Code
12 48 (4.88%) Front End Development
13 47 (4.78%) Computer Science
13 47 (4.78%) User Experience
14 46 (4.68%) Containerisation
15 40 (4.07%) SDLC
15 40 (4.07%) TDD
16 38 (3.87%) Scrum
16 38 (3.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 303 (30.82%) JavaScript
2 281 (28.59%) TypeScript
3 183 (18.62%) Python
4 172 (17.50%) C#
5 162 (16.48%) Java
6 109 (11.09%) SQL
7 62 (6.31%) PHP
8 36 (3.66%) Ruby
9 18 (1.83%) Bash
10 15 (1.53%) Groovy
11 13 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.02%) Go
13 8 (0.81%) C++
13 8 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.71%) C
15 5 (0.51%) R
16 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 83 (8.44%) Security Cleared
2 73 (7.43%) SC Cleared
3 47 (4.78%) Degree
4 39 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.73%) QA
2 7 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.31%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.10%) HL7
4 1 (0.10%) SLA
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 93 (9.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (4.98%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.85%) Terraform
3 8 (0.81%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.61%) Ansible
4 6 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.41%) Grafana
7 3 (0.31%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Argo
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 39 (3.97%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.14%) Oracle
3 12 (1.22%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.61%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.51%) Peregrine
6 4 (0.41%) Pega
6 4 (0.41%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.31%) Google
7 3 (0.31%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.20%) Aderant
8 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.20%) Foundry
8 2 (0.20%) iManage
8 2 (0.20%) Intapp
8 2 (0.20%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.20%) Splunk
8 2 (0.20%) WSO2
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe
9 1 (0.10%) Confluent
9 1 (0.10%) Databricks