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 9 January 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 275 185
Rank change year-on-year +32 -90 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 534 571 955
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.89% 1.06% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.14% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 396 342 869
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,269 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -6.77% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,813 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +2.86% -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 54,127 49,926 51,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 92.94% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 33,436 25,964 39,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £30,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 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 9 January 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 +47 492 £65,000 +13.04% 248
UK excluding London +13 324 £60,000 +11.11% 218
London +44 178 £80,000 +14.29% 60
Work from Home +19 160 £60,000 - 126
South East +13 134 £60,000 +9.09% 72
North of England +37 79 £55,500 +16.84% 51
Midlands +21 46 £57,500 -2.13% 34
South West +6 37 £60,000 +9.09% 20
Yorkshire +12 30 £75,000 +42.86% 20
North West +16 27 £65,000 +36.84% 24
West Midlands +17 24 £60,000 +2.13% 10
North East +21 22 £50,000 +17.65% 7
East of England +2 22 £60,000 +33.33% 26
East Midlands -3 22 £55,000 -5.58% 24
Wales -6 7 £45,000 -40.00% 9
Scotland -10 2 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 9 January 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.

1 534 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 285 (53.37%) React
3 222 (41.57%) JavaScript
4 195 (36.52%) AWS
5 156 (29.21%) TypeScript
6 155 (29.03%) Agile
7 148 (27.72%) .NET
8 143 (26.78%) Azure
9 142 (26.59%) C#
10 135 (25.28%) CI/CD
11 128 (23.97%) Java
12 123 (23.03%) Node.js
13 117 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
14 116 (21.72%) CSS
14 116 (21.72%) HTML
15 109 (20.41%) SQL
16 108 (20.22%) DevOps
17 106 (19.85%) AngularJS
17 106 (19.85%) Python
18 93 (17.42%) Microservices
19 91 (17.04%) REST
20 90 (16.85%) Git
21 89 (16.67%) Docker
22 82 (15.36%) User Experience
23 74 (13.86%) RESTful
24 72 (13.48%) Vue
25 68 (12.73%) AI
26 67 (12.55%) Software Engineering
27 66 (12.36%) Kubernetes
28 63 (11.80%) 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 8 (1.50%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.31%) Confluence
3 6 (1.12%) CMS
4 5 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.56%) Liferay
5 3 (0.56%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) ColdFusion
6 2 (0.37%) Drupal
6 2 (0.37%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.19%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) Kentico
7 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.37%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 195 (36.52%) AWS
2 143 (26.78%) Azure
3 62 (11.61%) Serverless
4 49 (9.18%) GCP
5 41 (7.68%) GitHub
6 34 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (6.37%) SaaS
7 33 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
8 30 (5.62%) Amazon S3
9 28 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (1.50%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.31%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (1.12%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
15 6 (1.12%) npm
16 4 (0.75%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.56%) Broadband
2 2 (0.37%) AMQP
2 2 (0.37%) HTTP
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (11.42%) SQL Server
3 48 (8.99%) NoSQL
4 41 (7.68%) Relational Database
5 27 (5.06%) MySQL
6 21 (3.93%) RDBMS
7 20 (3.75%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.43%) Redis
10 9 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.50%) DB2
12 7 (1.31%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.12%) Power BI
14 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.37%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.37%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (16.85%) Git
2 34 (6.37%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.56%) JUnit
4 18 (3.37%) Mockito
5 15 (2.81%) Cypress.io
5 15 (2.81%) JIRA
6 12 (2.25%) TeamCity
7 11 (2.06%) JMeter
8 7 (1.31%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.31%) Maven
8 7 (1.31%) Selenium
8 7 (1.31%) webpack
9 5 (0.94%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.94%) git-flow
9 5 (0.94%) Mocha
10 4 (0.75%) Storybook
11 3 (0.56%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.56%) ESLint
11 3 (0.56%) GitLab
11 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 110 (20.60%) Social Skills
2 56 (10.49%) Finance
3 33 (6.18%) Public Sector
4 31 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.24%) Law
6 27 (5.06%) Banking
7 23 (4.31%) Marketing
8 20 (3.75%) Investment Banking
9 15 (2.81%) Aviation
10 13 (2.43%) Retail
11 11 (2.06%) Front Office
11 11 (2.06%) Games
11 11 (2.06%) Legal
12 10 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.50%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.12%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.94%) Electronics
16 3 (0.56%) Local Government
16 3 (0.56%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (53.37%) React
2 148 (27.72%) .NET
3 123 (23.03%) Node.js
4 116 (21.72%) CSS
4 116 (21.72%) HTML
5 106 (19.85%) AngularJS
6 91 (17.04%) REST
7 74 (13.86%) RESTful
8 72 (13.48%) Vue
9 62 (11.61%) Spring
10 45 (8.43%) .NET Core
11 40 (7.49%) ASP.NET
12 35 (6.55%) Spring Boot
13 31 (5.81%) HTML5
14 30 (5.62%) .NET Framework
14 30 (5.62%) CSS3
15 27 (5.06%) Kafka
16 25 (4.68%) ASP.NET Core
16 25 (4.68%) Next.js
17 22 (4.12%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (4.31%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.37%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.87%) Hedge funds
6 10 (1.87%) Reference Data
7 7 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.75%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.75%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.56%) Social Media
11 2 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.37%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.37%) IoT
11 2 (0.37%) Robotics
11 2 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.87%) Linux
2 9 (1.69%) Android
2 9 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.56%) Unix
4 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 155 (29.03%) Agile
3 135 (25.28%) CI/CD
4 117 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (20.22%) DevOps
6 93 (17.42%) Microservices
7 82 (15.36%) User Experience
8 68 (12.73%) AI
9 67 (12.55%) Software Engineering
10 58 (10.86%) Web Development
11 52 (9.74%) Clean Code
12 47 (8.80%) Scrum
13 46 (8.61%) SDLC
13 46 (8.61%) TDD
14 45 (8.43%) Containerisation
14 45 (8.43%) UX Design
15 39 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (7.12%) Front End Development
16 38 (7.12%) Test Automation
17 33 (6.18%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 222 (41.57%) JavaScript
2 156 (29.21%) TypeScript
3 142 (26.59%) C#
4 128 (23.97%) Java
5 109 (20.41%) SQL
6 106 (19.85%) Python
7 31 (5.81%) PHP
8 14 (2.62%) C
9 13 (2.43%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.87%) Ruby
11 9 (1.69%) Go
11 9 (1.69%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.12%) Bash
12 6 (1.12%) C++
12 6 (1.12%) R
13 5 (0.94%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.75%) XAML
15 3 (0.56%) COBOL
16 2 (0.37%) RPG
17 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 62 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 32 (5.99%) Degree
3 28 (5.24%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.93%) QA
2 34 (6.37%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.50%) WCAG
4 4 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 89 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (12.36%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.75%) Terraform
3 11 (2.06%) Kibana
4 8 (1.50%) Ansible
5 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Argo
6 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (3.56%) Oracle
2 14 (2.62%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.25%) Dynatrace
4 11 (2.06%) Splunk
5 8 (1.50%) Google
6 6 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.75%) Telerik
8 3 (0.56%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.56%) Pega
8 3 (0.56%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.56%) WSO2
8 3 (0.56%) Zoho
9 2 (0.37%) DevExpress
9 2 (0.37%) Foundry
9 2 (0.37%) IBM
9 2 (0.37%) iManage
9 2 (0.37%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.37%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.19%) Adobe
10 1 (0.19%) Red Hat