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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 294 162
Rank change year-on-year +106 -132 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 985 445 1,800
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.01% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.12% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 852 345 1,393
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 £93,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -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 87,018 39,622 101,237
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.50% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,614 22,403 73,185
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £38,569
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 12 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 12 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 +119 890 £65,000 +8.33% 73
UK excluding London +126 709 £60,000 +4.35% 67
Work from Home +102 351 £65,000 +8.33% 55
North of England +129 242 £70,000 +27.27% 21
South East +75 219 £60,000 +4.35% 22
London +34 217 £80,000 +10.34% 17
North West +91 111 £67,500 +22.73% 10
Yorkshire +50 105 £75,000 +25.00% 6
Midlands +23 101 £60,000 +2.13% 5
South West -18 73 £55,000 -8.33% 10
West Midlands -4 56 £70,000 +14.29% 1
East Midlands -6 45 £55,000 +15.79% 4
East of England -15 40 £82,500 +83.33% 3
North East -19 26 £50,000 -14.89% 5
Scotland +17 25 £60,000 +14.29% 5
Wales -41 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 12 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.

1 985 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 317 (32.18%) React
3 305 (30.96%) JavaScript
4 283 (28.73%) TypeScript
5 257 (26.09%) AWS
6 211 (21.42%) Node.js
7 195 (19.80%) .NET
8 185 (18.78%) Python
9 174 (17.66%) C#
10 160 (16.24%) Java
11 149 (15.13%) Azure
12 146 (14.82%) Agile
13 139 (14.11%) Microservices
14 135 (13.71%) CI/CD
15 133 (13.50%) AI
16 130 (13.20%) AngularJS
17 129 (13.10%) Software Engineering
18 126 (12.79%) CSS
19 117 (11.88%) HTML
20 114 (11.57%) Vue
21 108 (10.96%) DevOps
21 108 (10.96%) SQL
22 96 (9.75%) Serverless
23 91 (9.24%) Docker
24 90 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
24 90 (9.14%) SaaS
25 82 (8.32%) Security Cleared
25 82 (8.32%) Web Development
26 81 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
26 81 (8.22%) Git

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 (0.30%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.30%) 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
1 257 (26.09%) AWS
2 149 (15.13%) Azure
3 96 (9.75%) Serverless
4 90 (9.14%) SaaS
5 76 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
6 68 (6.90%) Amazon S3
7 63 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
8 45 (4.57%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (3.76%) GitHub
10 36 (3.65%) GCP
11 30 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
12 21 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (2.03%) Power Platform
14 16 (1.62%) Amazon ECR
14 16 (1.62%) 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 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.29%) SQL Server
3 43 (4.37%) MongoDB
4 32 (3.25%) MySQL
5 31 (3.15%) NoSQL
6 26 (2.64%) DynamoDB
7 20 (2.03%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.22%) Power BI
9 10 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.91%) Redis
11 6 (0.61%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.41%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.30%) 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 81 (8.22%) Git
2 37 (3.76%) Cypress.io
3 34 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.13%) JIRA
5 20 (2.03%) GitLab
6 19 (1.93%) Maven
7 13 (1.32%) JUnit
8 11 (1.12%) Mockito
9 9 (0.91%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.71%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.30%) ESLint
12 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.20%) JMeter
12 2 (0.20%) NUnit
12 2 (0.20%) Postman
12 2 (0.20%) Selenium
12 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 84 (8.53%) Social Skills
2 79 (8.02%) Finance
3 28 (2.84%) 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 (0.91%) Tech for Good
10 8 (0.81%) Games
10 8 (0.81%) Legal
10 8 (0.81%) Local Government
11 6 (0.61%) Advertising
11 6 (0.61%) Law
12 5 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.41%) Legal Technology
13 4 (0.41%) Publishing
14 3 (0.30%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (32.18%) React
2 211 (21.42%) Node.js
3 195 (19.80%) .NET
4 130 (13.20%) AngularJS
5 126 (12.79%) CSS
6 117 (11.88%) HTML
7 114 (11.57%) Vue
8 65 (6.60%) REST
9 63 (6.40%) Spring
10 60 (6.09%) RESTful
11 56 (5.69%) Spring Boot
12 51 (5.18%) .NET Core
13 47 (4.77%) Laravel
14 41 (4.16%) Next.js
15 40 (4.06%) Jest
16 37 (3.76%) GraphQL
17 36 (3.65%) Ruby on Rails
18 29 (2.94%) HTML5
19 28 (2.84%) CSS3
20 27 (2.74%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 64 (6.50%) Cloud Native
2 22 (2.23%) 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%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.51%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.51%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.51%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.41%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (0.41%) NHS
11 4 (0.41%) PropTech
11 4 (0.41%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.30%) IoT
12 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.62%) Linux
2 3 (0.30%) Android
2 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) AIX
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 985 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 146 (14.82%) Agile
3 139 (14.11%) Microservices
4 135 (13.71%) CI/CD
5 133 (13.50%) AI
6 129 (13.10%) Software Engineering
7 108 (10.96%) DevOps
8 90 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (8.32%) Web Development
10 81 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (6.60%) Mentoring
12 49 (4.97%) Clean Code
13 47 (4.77%) Front End Development
13 47 (4.77%) User Experience
14 46 (4.67%) Computer Science
14 46 (4.67%) Containerisation
15 40 (4.06%) TDD
16 39 (3.96%) SDLC
17 38 (3.86%) API Development
17 38 (3.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 305 (30.96%) JavaScript
2 283 (28.73%) TypeScript
3 185 (18.78%) Python
4 174 (17.66%) C#
5 160 (16.24%) Java
6 108 (10.96%) SQL
7 62 (6.29%) PHP
8 36 (3.65%) Ruby
9 17 (1.73%) Bash
10 14 (1.42%) 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 (0.30%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 82 (8.32%) Security Cleared
2 72 (7.31%) SC Cleared
3 46 (4.67%) Degree
4 38 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 7 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (0.71%) 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 16 (1.62%) QA
2 7 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.30%) 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 91 (9.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.84%) Terraform
3 7 (0.71%) 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 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Argo
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 39 (3.96%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.13%) 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 (0.30%) Google
7 3 (0.30%) 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