Full-Stack Developer Jobs

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 1 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 169 169
Rank change year-on-year -165 0 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 477 1,769 1,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 1.64% 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.73% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 374 1,355 1,283
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,313 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £108,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,414
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.75% +0.75%

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 52,152 102,300 81,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.82% 94.79% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,176 72,142 54,048
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,118
% change year-on-year - -5.87% +5.18%

Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full-Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Developer.

Salary trend for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Developer over the 6 months to 1 July 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 1 July 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 -175 421 £60,000 - 1,133
UK excluding London -134 301 £57,500 +4.55% 840
Work from Home -105 204 £60,000 - 688
London -91 162 £75,000 -3.23% 401
South East -66 88 £57,500 +4.55% 203
Midlands -63 57 £58,750 +17.50% 120
North of England -110 54 £60,000 +9.09% 189
East of England -6 40 £45,000 - 127
West Midlands -13 39 £60,000 +9.09% 65
North West -108 36 £55,000 - 125
South West -10 31 £60,000 +14.29% 107
Scotland +74 21 £57,500 -12.71% 54
East Midlands -39 18 £47,500 -2.56% 55
Yorkshire -3 14 £60,000 +9.09% 54
Wales +23 13 £60,000 +23.08% 35
North East +19 4 £80,000 +45.45% 11
Northern Ireland +39 2 £60,000 - 7

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 July 2025, Full-Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 477 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 254 (53.25%) JavaScript
3 216 (45.28%) React
4 212 (44.44%) AWS
5 173 (36.27%) C#
5 173 (36.27%) Agile
6 156 (32.70%) .NET
7 145 (30.40%) HTML
8 144 (30.19%) AngularJS
9 143 (29.98%) TypeScript
10 135 (28.30%) SQL
11 132 (27.67%) Azure
12 130 (27.25%) CI/CD
13 115 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
13 115 (24.11%) Python
14 112 (23.48%) CSS
15 105 (22.01%) Node.js
16 100 (20.96%) Vue
17 97 (20.34%) Git
18 95 (19.92%) Finance
19 94 (19.71%) SQL Server
20 93 (19.50%) Software Engineering
21 90 (18.87%) Social Skills
22 87 (18.24%) RESTful
23 86 (18.03%) DevOps
24 82 (17.19%) Java
25 77 (16.14%) Microservices
26 76 (15.93%) Microsoft
27 73 (15.30%) Docker
28 72 (15.09%) MySQL

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (6.08%) CMS
2 19 (3.98%) IIS
3 12 (2.52%) Confluence
3 12 (2.52%) Headless CMS
4 10 (2.10%) Umbraco
4 10 (2.10%) WordPress
5 6 (1.26%) Apache
5 6 (1.26%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.42%) Drupal
7 2 (0.42%) Kentico
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.42%) nginx
8 1 (0.21%) DNN
8 1 (0.21%) MetaMask
8 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.42%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.42%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 10 (2.10%) Shopify
2 8 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (1.26%) Magento
4 3 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 212 (44.44%) AWS
2 132 (27.67%) Azure
3 62 (13.00%) SaaS
4 58 (12.16%) GCP
4 58 (12.16%) Serverless
5 38 (7.97%) GitHub
6 19 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (3.35%) Amazon S3
9 14 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (2.94%) Power Platform
10 11 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (2.10%) Cloudflare
11 10 (2.10%) Figma
12 9 (1.89%) Azure Functions
12 9 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.26%) Internet
2 4 (0.84%) MQTT
2 4 (0.84%) SMS
2 4 (0.84%) VPN
3 2 (0.42%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (19.71%) SQL Server
2 72 (15.09%) MySQL
3 60 (12.58%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (7.13%) MongoDB
5 33 (6.92%) NoSQL
6 27 (5.66%) Relational Database
7 19 (3.98%) Redis
8 13 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.52%) Power BI
10 11 (2.31%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.89%) Big Data
11 9 (1.89%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.47%) BigQuery
14 6 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.05%) Apache Hive
15 5 (1.05%) Hadoop
15 5 (1.05%) HBase
16 4 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
16 4 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 97 (20.34%) Git
2 32 (6.71%) JIRA
3 16 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 15 (3.14%) GitLab
5 14 (2.94%) JMeter
5 14 (2.94%) Visual Studio
6 12 (2.52%) JUnit
7 10 (2.10%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.10%) Jasmine
7 10 (2.10%) Mockito
7 10 (2.10%) NUnit
7 10 (2.10%) TeamCity
8 7 (1.47%) Maven
9 6 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (1.26%) PHPUnit
9 6 (1.26%) Storybook
9 6 (1.26%) Vite
10 5 (1.05%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.05%) Gradle
11 4 (0.84%) Postman
General
1 95 (19.92%) Finance
2 90 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 30 (6.29%) Front Office
4 24 (5.03%) Marketing
5 21 (4.40%) Law
6 20 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.19%) Retail
7 19 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.77%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.31%) Banking
9 11 (2.31%) Games
10 8 (1.68%) Advertising
11 6 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.26%) Tech for Good
12 5 (1.05%) Automotive
12 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.84%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.84%) Legal
13 4 (0.84%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (45.28%) React
2 156 (32.70%) .NET
3 145 (30.40%) HTML
4 144 (30.19%) AngularJS
5 112 (23.48%) CSS
6 105 (22.01%) Node.js
7 100 (20.96%) Vue
8 87 (18.24%) RESTful
9 65 (13.63%) ASP.NET
10 61 (12.79%) REST
11 52 (10.90%) .NET Core
12 47 (9.85%) Spring
13 46 (9.64%) GraphQL
14 43 (9.01%) HTML5
15 39 (8.18%) Web Services
16 35 (7.34%) CSS3
17 33 (6.92%) Spring Boot
18 32 (6.71%) Blazor
19 31 (6.50%) Laravel
20 27 (5.66%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.87%) Mobile App
2 26 (5.45%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.45%) Fixed Income
3 23 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (4.82%) Hedge funds
4 17 (3.56%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.52%) Equities
6 12 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.68%) IoT
9 6 (1.26%) Life Science
9 6 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.05%) EPoS
11 4 (0.84%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.84%) e-Learning
11 4 (0.84%) Legacy Code
11 4 (0.84%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.35%) Linux
2 10 (2.10%) Unix
3 6 (1.26%) Android
4 5 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 173 (36.27%) Agile
3 130 (27.25%) CI/CD
4 115 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (19.50%) Software Engineering
6 86 (18.03%) DevOps
7 77 (16.14%) Microservices
8 67 (14.05%) TDD
9 64 (13.42%) User Experience
10 60 (12.58%) Web Development
11 58 (12.16%) MVC
12 54 (11.32%) Artificial Intelligence
13 53 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 51 (10.69%) Clean Code
15 45 (9.43%) API Development
16 43 (9.01%) SDLC
17 42 (8.81%) Analytics
18 41 (8.60%) Front End Development
19 38 (7.97%) Fintech
20 36 (7.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 254 (53.25%) JavaScript
2 173 (36.27%) C#
3 143 (29.98%) TypeScript
4 135 (28.30%) SQL
5 115 (24.11%) Python
6 82 (17.19%) Java
7 42 (8.81%) PHP
8 12 (2.52%) C++
9 11 (2.31%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.89%) VB.NET
12 8 (1.68%) Go
12 8 (1.68%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.26%) C
14 5 (1.05%) Delphi
15 4 (0.84%) Bicep
16 3 (0.63%) R
16 3 (0.63%) VB
17 2 (0.42%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (9.64%) Degree
2 24 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 14 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.84%) AWS Certification
5 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.21%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.21%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.66%) QA
2 15 (3.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.42%) GDPR
3 2 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (15.30%) Docker
2 5 (1.05%) HDFS
3 3 (0.63%) LXC
4 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.42%) Firmware
5 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.13%) Terraform
3 9 (1.89%) Kibana
4 3 (0.63%) Grafana
5 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.21%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 76 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.61%) Google
3 15 (3.14%) Splunk
4 11 (2.31%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.10%) Rollbar
6 7 (1.47%) Databricks
6 7 (1.47%) DevExpress
7 6 (1.26%) PayPal
8 5 (1.05%) Cloudera
9 4 (0.84%) SAP
10 3 (0.63%) Adobe
10 3 (0.63%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.63%) IBM
10 3 (0.63%) Oracle
10 3 (0.63%) Xamarin
11 2 (0.42%) Apple
11 2 (0.42%) Sage
11 2 (0.42%) Sun
12 1 (0.21%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.21%) Telerik