Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 281 164
Rank change year-on-year +80 -117 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,022 504 1,425
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.02% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.14% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 894 382 1,039
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 95,905 44,405 83,583
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 90.07% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 65,604 26,372 57,917
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.87%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +93 905 £60,000 - 120
UK excluding London +97 774 £60,000 +4.35% 104
Work from Home +83 396 £60,000 - 68
North of England +120 249 £65,000 +8.33% 25
South East +74 220 £60,000 +4.35% 30
London -36 190 £76,750 +2.33% 35
North West +75 113 £65,000 +18.18% 15
Midlands +22 112 £60,000 +2.13% 15
Yorkshire +48 104 £75,000 +25.00% 9
South West +2 96 £55,000 -8.33% 18
West Midlands +16 66 £60,000 - 9
East Midlands +6 46 £60,000 +26.32% 6
Scotland +36 42 £55,000 -4.35% 7
East of England -13 42 £75,000 +66.67% 8
North East -18 32 £47,500 -40.63% 1
Wales -65 11 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Northern Ireland -68 2 £60,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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 1,022 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 345 (33.76%) JavaScript
3 327 (32.00%) React
4 307 (30.04%) TypeScript
5 297 (29.06%) AWS
6 232 (22.70%) Node.js
7 197 (19.28%) .NET
8 190 (18.59%) Agile
9 182 (17.81%) CI/CD
9 182 (17.81%) Python
10 181 (17.71%) C#
11 166 (16.24%) Java
12 162 (15.85%) Azure
13 156 (15.26%) Microservices
14 145 (14.19%) AI
15 140 (13.70%) Software Engineering
16 135 (13.21%) AngularJS
17 130 (12.72%) CSS
18 124 (12.13%) HTML
19 121 (11.84%) Vue
20 114 (11.15%) DevOps
21 113 (11.06%) SQL
22 111 (10.86%) Docker
23 106 (10.37%) Serverless
24 104 (10.18%) Git
25 101 (9.88%) SaaS
26 92 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
27 91 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
27 91 (8.90%) Web Development
28 89 (8.71%) SQL Server

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 16 (1.57%) CMS
2 13 (1.27%) Confluence
3 11 (1.08%) WordPress
4 7 (0.68%) ColdFusion
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.39%) IIS
7 3 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.098%) Apache
9 1 (0.098%) CICS
9 1 (0.098%) Drupal
9 1 (0.098%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.098%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.098%) Magento
2 1 (0.098%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 297 (29.06%) AWS
2 162 (15.85%) Azure
3 106 (10.37%) Serverless
4 101 (9.88%) SaaS
5 87 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (7.73%) Amazon S3
7 77 (7.53%) Amazon ECS
8 67 (6.56%) GitHub
9 50 (4.89%) Amazon SQS
10 47 (4.60%) GCP
11 36 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 29 (2.84%) AWS Step Functions
13 24 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (2.35%) GitHub Copilot
14 23 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (1.96%) Amazon ECR
15 20 (1.96%) Apigee
16 18 (1.76%) Power Platform
17 15 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.78%) Broadband
2 4 (0.39%) DNS
2 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.098%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (8.71%) SQL Server
2 86 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (5.09%) MongoDB
4 41 (4.01%) DynamoDB
4 41 (4.01%) MySQL
5 35 (3.42%) NoSQL
6 27 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.86%) Redis
8 15 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.17%) Power BI
10 8 (0.78%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.29%) GIS
12 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 1 (0.098%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.098%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 104 (10.18%) Git
2 53 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 40 (3.91%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.84%) GitLab
5 23 (2.25%) JIRA
6 22 (2.15%) Maven
7 16 (1.57%) JUnit
8 13 (1.27%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 10 (0.98%) Mockito
11 5 (0.49%) Selenium
12 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.39%) Postman
12 4 (0.39%) Vite
13 3 (0.29%) Storybook
13 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.29%) webpack
14 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.20%) JMeter
14 2 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 91 (8.90%) Social Skills
2 67 (6.56%) Finance
3 29 (2.84%) Public Sector
4 25 (2.45%) Retail
5 18 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (1.17%) Marketing
7 11 (1.08%) Front Office
7 11 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.08%) Legal
8 8 (0.78%) Aviation
8 8 (0.78%) Banking
9 7 (0.68%) Advertising
9 7 (0.68%) Legal Technology
9 7 (0.68%) Tech for Good
10 6 (0.59%) Games
11 5 (0.49%) Law
11 5 (0.49%) Local Government
12 4 (0.39%) Publishing
13 3 (0.29%) Automotive
13 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (32.00%) React
2 232 (22.70%) Node.js
3 197 (19.28%) .NET
4 135 (13.21%) AngularJS
5 130 (12.72%) CSS
6 124 (12.13%) HTML
7 121 (11.84%) Vue
8 85 (8.32%) REST
9 73 (7.14%) Spring
10 68 (6.65%) Spring Boot
11 66 (6.46%) RESTful
12 50 (4.89%) Next.js
13 48 (4.70%) Jest
14 43 (4.21%) .NET Core
15 42 (4.11%) Ruby on Rails
16 40 (3.91%) Laravel
17 39 (3.82%) ASP.NET
18 37 (3.62%) .NET Framework
18 37 (3.62%) GraphQL
19 36 (3.52%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 74 (7.24%) Cloud Native
2 38 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (1.66%) Mobile App
4 17 (1.66%) Product Ownership
5 16 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (0.98%) Fixed Income
6 10 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (0.78%) IoT
8 7 (0.68%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.59%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.49%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.39%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (0.39%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.39%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.39%) NHS
11 4 (0.39%) PropTech
12 3 (0.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.76%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.098%) Windows
3 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,022 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 190 (18.59%) Agile
3 182 (17.81%) CI/CD
4 156 (15.26%) Microservices
5 145 (14.19%) AI
6 140 (13.70%) Software Engineering
7 114 (11.15%) DevOps
8 92 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 91 (8.90%) Web Development
10 68 (6.65%) Clean Code
11 66 (6.46%) Mentoring
12 55 (5.38%) E-Commerce
13 54 (5.28%) Front End Development
14 53 (5.19%) User Experience
15 51 (4.99%) Computer Science
16 50 (4.89%) SDLC
17 44 (4.31%) Containerisation
18 42 (4.11%) Technical Leadership
18 42 (4.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 345 (33.76%) JavaScript
2 307 (30.04%) TypeScript
3 182 (17.81%) Python
4 181 (17.71%) C#
5 166 (16.24%) Java
6 113 (11.06%) SQL
7 59 (5.77%) PHP
8 42 (4.11%) Ruby
9 20 (1.96%) Bash
9 20 (1.96%) Groovy
10 12 (1.17%) Go
11 11 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.88%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.59%) C++
14 2 (0.20%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.20%) C
14 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.098%) Bicep
15 1 (0.098%) CFML
15 1 (0.098%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (7.34%) Security Cleared
2 66 (6.46%) SC Cleared
3 54 (5.28%) Degree
4 46 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.15%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.098%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.37%) Accessibility
2 9 (0.88%) QA
2 9 (0.88%) WCAG
3 2 (0.20%) GDPR
3 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.098%) HL7
4 1 (0.098%) SLA
4 1 (0.098%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 111 (10.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 38 (3.72%) Terraform
3 11 (1.08%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.59%) Ansible
4 6 (0.59%) Grafana
5 5 (0.49%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.29%) Kibana
7 2 (0.20%) Argo
7 2 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.098%) Nagios
Vendors
1 62 (6.07%) Microsoft
2 17 (1.66%) Oracle
3 15 (1.47%) Google
4 10 (0.98%) OpenAI
5 8 (0.78%) OneLogin
6 5 (0.49%) Dynatrace
6 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
7 4 (0.39%) Pega
7 4 (0.39%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.20%) Aderant
8 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.20%) iManage
8 2 (0.20%) Intapp
8 2 (0.20%) Splunk
8 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.20%) WSO2
9 1 (0.098%) Adobe
9 1 (0.098%) Confluent
9 1 (0.098%) Databricks