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 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 300 169
Rank change year-on-year +104 -131 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 972 448 1,729
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.02% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.14% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 838 354 1,346
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
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% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,250 £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 86,877 39,175 97,799
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 89.43% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 58,375 22,028 71,043
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.78% -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 5 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 5 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 +107 879 £65,000 +8.33% 101
UK excluding London +106 690 £60,000 +9.09% 87
Work from Home +96 343 £62,500 +4.17% 63
North of England +99 239 £70,000 +27.27% 20
London +45 223 £80,000 +10.34% 25
South East +61 214 £60,000 +4.35% 30
North West +65 109 £67,500 +22.73% 7
Yorkshire +42 105 £75,000 +25.00% 8
Midlands +10 98 £60,000 +9.09% 15
South West -15 67 £55,000 -8.33% 16
West Midlands -13 53 £62,500 - 8
East Midlands -1 45 £55,000 +15.79% 7
East of England -20 40 £82,500 +83.33% 2
North East -28 25 £50,000 -14.89% 5
Scotland +15 24 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Wales -43 6 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 972 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 313 (32.20%) React
3 303 (31.17%) JavaScript
4 272 (27.98%) TypeScript
5 248 (25.51%) AWS
6 210 (21.60%) Node.js
7 195 (20.06%) .NET
8 184 (18.93%) Python
9 172 (17.70%) C#
10 160 (16.46%) Java
11 144 (14.81%) Agile
12 141 (14.51%) Azure
13 138 (14.20%) Microservices
14 131 (13.48%) CI/CD
14 131 (13.48%) Software Engineering
15 128 (13.17%) AngularJS
16 127 (13.07%) CSS
17 126 (12.96%) AI
18 118 (12.14%) HTML
19 111 (11.42%) Vue
20 110 (11.32%) DevOps
21 108 (11.11%) SQL
22 96 (9.88%) Serverless
23 94 (9.67%) Docker
24 91 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
25 88 (9.05%) SaaS
26 82 (8.44%) Git
26 82 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
26 82 (8.44%) Security Cleared
26 82 (8.44%) 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 14 (1.44%) Confluence
2 12 (1.23%) CMS
3 8 (0.82%) ColdFusion
4 7 (0.72%) WordPress
5 6 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.31%) Liferay
7 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.21%) Apache
8 2 (0.21%) IIS
8 2 (0.21%) nginx
9 1 (0.10%) CICS
9 1 (0.10%) Drupal
9 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
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
1 248 (25.51%) AWS
2 141 (14.51%) Azure
3 96 (9.88%) Serverless
4 88 (9.05%) SaaS
5 73 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
6 65 (6.69%) Amazon S3
7 62 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
8 44 (4.53%) Amazon SQS
9 34 (3.50%) GCP
9 34 (3.50%) GitHub
10 30 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (1.95%) AWS Step Functions
12 19 (1.95%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.54%) Amazon ECR
13 15 (1.54%) Apigee
14 13 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.82%) Broadband
2 4 (0.41%) DNS
2 4 (0.41%) HTTP
3 2 (0.21%) Firewall
3 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.38%) SQL Server
3 43 (4.42%) MongoDB
4 35 (3.60%) NoSQL
5 31 (3.19%) MySQL
6 24 (2.47%) DynamoDB
7 19 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.23%) Power BI
9 10 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.62%) Redis
11 5 (0.51%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.41%) Db2
12 4 (0.41%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.31%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.21%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.21%) GIS
14 2 (0.21%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 82 (8.44%) Git
2 36 (3.70%) Cypress.io
2 36 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 23 (2.37%) JIRA
4 18 (1.85%) GitLab
4 18 (1.85%) Maven
5 13 (1.34%) JUnit
6 11 (1.13%) Mockito
7 7 (0.72%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.51%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.41%) Selenium
11 3 (0.31%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.31%) ESLint
11 3 (0.31%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.21%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.21%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.21%) Storybook
12 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
General
1 82 (8.44%) Social Skills
2 79 (8.13%) Finance
3 29 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (2.47%) Public Sector
5 23 (2.37%) Retail
6 19 (1.95%) Aviation
7 15 (1.54%) Banking
8 11 (1.13%) Front Office
9 10 (1.03%) Marketing
10 9 (0.93%) Games
10 9 (0.93%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.72%) Legal
11 7 (0.72%) Local Government
12 6 (0.62%) Advertising
12 6 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.62%) Law
13 4 (0.41%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.41%) Publishing
14 2 (0.21%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (32.20%) React
2 210 (21.60%) Node.js
3 195 (20.06%) .NET
4 128 (13.17%) AngularJS
5 127 (13.07%) CSS
6 118 (12.14%) HTML
7 111 (11.42%) Vue
8 67 (6.89%) REST
9 65 (6.69%) Spring
10 61 (6.28%) RESTful
11 57 (5.86%) Spring Boot
12 50 (5.14%) .NET Core
13 47 (4.84%) Laravel
14 40 (4.12%) Jest
15 39 (4.01%) Next.js
16 37 (3.81%) GraphQL
17 35 (3.60%) Ruby on Rails
18 30 (3.09%) CSS3
18 30 (3.09%) HTML5
19 28 (2.88%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.07%) Cloud Native
2 22 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (2.16%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.06%) Mobile App
5 19 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.13%) Fixed Income
8 10 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.72%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.62%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.51%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.51%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.41%) Augmented Reality
12 4 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.41%) NHS
12 4 (0.41%) PropTech
13 3 (0.31%) IoT
13 3 (0.31%) PKI
13 3 (0.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.65%) Linux
2 3 (0.31%) Android
2 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.21%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) AIX
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 972 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 144 (14.81%) Agile
3 138 (14.20%) Microservices
4 131 (13.48%) CI/CD
4 131 (13.48%) Software Engineering
5 126 (12.96%) AI
6 110 (11.32%) DevOps
7 91 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (8.44%) Web Development
9 76 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (6.58%) Mentoring
11 46 (4.73%) Containerisation
11 46 (4.73%) User Experience
12 45 (4.63%) Front End Development
12 45 (4.63%) Scrum
13 44 (4.53%) Clean Code
13 44 (4.53%) TDD
14 43 (4.42%) Computer Science
15 40 (4.12%) SDLC
16 39 (4.01%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 303 (31.17%) JavaScript
2 272 (27.98%) TypeScript
3 184 (18.93%) Python
4 172 (17.70%) C#
5 160 (16.46%) Java
6 108 (11.11%) SQL
7 63 (6.48%) PHP
8 35 (3.60%) Ruby
9 16 (1.65%) Bash
10 13 (1.34%) Groovy
10 13 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.03%) Go
12 8 (0.82%) C++
12 8 (0.82%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.72%) C
14 5 (0.51%) R
15 4 (0.41%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.21%) Bicep
16 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 82 (8.44%) Security Cleared
2 72 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.42%) Degree
4 35 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.13%) AWS Certification
6 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (0.62%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.85%) QA
2 8 (0.82%) 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 94 (9.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.57%) Terraform
3 8 (0.82%) Ansible
4 6 (0.62%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.62%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.41%) Grafana
7 3 (0.31%) Kibana
8 2 (0.21%) Argo
8 2 (0.21%) Nagios
8 2 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 37 (3.81%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.16%) Oracle
3 11 (1.13%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.62%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.51%) Peregrine
6 4 (0.41%) Google
6 4 (0.41%) Pega
6 4 (0.41%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.31%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.21%) Aderant
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe
8 2 (0.21%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.21%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.21%) Foundry
8 2 (0.21%) iManage
8 2 (0.21%) Intapp
8 2 (0.21%) SendGrid
8 2 (0.21%) Splunk
8 2 (0.21%) WSO2
9 1 (0.10%) Databricks