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 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 288 166
Rank change year-on-year +86 -122 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,044 495 1,344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.00% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.11% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 910 371 955
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 £77,500 £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 98,241 44,677 79,563
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 90.06% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 67,184 26,547 53,755
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £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 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,793
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 August 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 August 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 +94 925 £60,000 - 129
UK excluding London +109 792 £60,000 +4.35% 105
Work from Home +90 394 £60,000 - 82
North of England +126 248 £65,000 +8.33% 27
South East +66 223 £60,000 +4.35% 22
London -47 193 £75,000 - 39
Midlands +29 120 £60,000 +2.13% 21
North West +75 113 £65,000 +10.64% 15
Yorkshire +50 102 £75,000 +25.00% 12
South West +6 100 £57,500 -4.17% 22
West Midlands +8 74 £65,000 +8.33% 13
East Midlands +6 46 £60,000 +26.32% 8
East of England -18 44 £62,500 +38.89% 3
Scotland +34 43 £55,000 -4.35% 9
North East -24 33 £47,500 -40.63%
Wales -55 12 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Northern Ireland -76 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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 1,044 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 354 (33.91%) JavaScript
3 333 (31.90%) React
4 314 (30.08%) TypeScript
5 302 (28.93%) AWS
6 235 (22.51%) Node.js
7 195 (18.68%) Agile
8 194 (18.58%) .NET
9 188 (18.01%) CI/CD
10 181 (17.34%) C#
11 179 (17.15%) Python
12 168 (16.09%) Azure
13 167 (16.00%) Java
14 164 (15.71%) Microservices
15 152 (14.56%) AI
16 147 (14.08%) Software Engineering
17 134 (12.84%) AngularJS
18 129 (12.36%) CSS
19 124 (11.88%) HTML
20 115 (11.02%) Vue
21 114 (10.92%) DevOps
22 112 (10.73%) Docker
22 112 (10.73%) SQL
23 105 (10.06%) SaaS
24 104 (9.96%) Serverless
25 102 (9.77%) Git
26 93 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
27 92 (8.81%) SQL Server
27 92 (8.81%) Web Development
28 91 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement

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 13 (1.25%) Confluence
2 11 (1.05%) CMS
2 11 (1.05%) WordPress
3 7 (0.67%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.38%) IIS
5 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.096%) Apache
7 1 (0.096%) CICS
7 1 (0.096%) Drupal
7 1 (0.096%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.096%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.67%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Elementor
3 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.096%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.096%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 302 (28.93%) AWS
2 168 (16.09%) Azure
3 105 (10.06%) SaaS
4 104 (9.96%) Serverless
5 86 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (7.57%) Amazon S3
7 75 (7.18%) Amazon ECS
8 73 (6.99%) GitHub
9 52 (4.98%) GCP
10 49 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
11 38 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
12 27 (2.59%) AWS Step Functions
13 26 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (2.39%) GitHub Copilot
15 18 (1.72%) Amazon ECR
16 17 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
16 17 (1.63%) Apigee
17 16 (1.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.77%) Broadband
2 4 (0.38%) DNS
2 4 (0.38%) HTTP
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.096%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (8.81%) SQL Server
2 87 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (4.89%) MongoDB
4 40 (3.83%) DynamoDB
5 36 (3.45%) MySQL
6 32 (3.07%) NoSQL
7 25 (2.39%) Relational Database
8 21 (2.01%) Redis
9 17 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.05%) Power BI
11 8 (0.77%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.38%) GIS
12 4 (0.38%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.096%) Db2
15 1 (0.096%) Elasticsearch
15 1 (0.096%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 102 (9.77%) Git
2 53 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 40 (3.83%) Cypress.io
4 27 (2.59%) GitLab
5 22 (2.11%) Maven
6 21 (2.01%) JIRA
7 19 (1.82%) JUnit
8 15 (1.44%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.15%) Mockito
10 9 (0.86%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.48%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.48%) Postman
11 5 (0.48%) Selenium
12 4 (0.38%) Storybook
12 4 (0.38%) Vite
13 3 (0.29%) Subversion
13 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.29%) webpack
14 2 (0.19%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.19%) JMeter
General
1 97 (9.29%) Social Skills
2 68 (6.51%) Finance
3 41 (3.93%) Public Sector
4 25 (2.39%) Retail
5 15 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (1.15%) Legal
6 12 (1.15%) Marketing
7 11 (1.05%) Front Office
8 9 (0.86%) Tech for Good
9 8 (0.77%) Games
9 8 (0.77%) Legal Technology
10 7 (0.67%) Banking
11 6 (0.57%) Advertising
12 5 (0.48%) Law
12 5 (0.48%) Local Government
13 4 (0.38%) Aviation
13 4 (0.38%) Publishing
14 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (31.90%) React
2 235 (22.51%) Node.js
3 194 (18.58%) .NET
4 134 (12.84%) AngularJS
5 129 (12.36%) CSS
6 124 (11.88%) HTML
7 115 (11.02%) Vue
8 86 (8.24%) REST
9 75 (7.18%) Spring
10 70 (6.70%) RESTful
11 66 (6.32%) Spring Boot
12 55 (5.27%) Next.js
13 49 (4.69%) Jest
14 46 (4.41%) Ruby on Rails
15 41 (3.93%) .NET Core
16 39 (3.74%) ASP.NET
17 38 (3.64%) GraphQL
18 37 (3.54%) .NET Framework
19 36 (3.45%) Entity Framework
20 35 (3.35%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.66%) Cloud Native
2 43 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (1.72%) Mobile App
4 18 (1.72%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (0.96%) Fixed Income
7 9 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (0.77%) IoT
9 7 (0.67%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.57%) AI Agents
10 6 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.57%) NHS
10 6 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.48%) Sports Betting
12 4 (0.38%) Augmented Reality
12 4 (0.38%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.38%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.38%) PropTech
13 3 (0.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.53%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.096%) Windows
3 1 (0.096%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,044 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 195 (18.68%) Agile
3 188 (18.01%) CI/CD
4 164 (15.71%) Microservices
5 152 (14.56%) AI
6 147 (14.08%) Software Engineering
7 114 (10.92%) DevOps
8 93 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
9 92 (8.81%) Web Development
10 91 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (6.51%) Clean Code
12 65 (6.23%) Mentoring
13 56 (5.36%) E-Commerce
13 56 (5.36%) Front End Development
14 55 (5.27%) Computer Science
15 54 (5.17%) User Experience
16 48 (4.60%) SDLC
17 47 (4.50%) Technical Leadership
18 44 (4.21%) Containerisation
19 42 (4.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 354 (33.91%) JavaScript
2 314 (30.08%) TypeScript
3 181 (17.34%) C#
4 179 (17.15%) Python
5 167 (16.00%) Java
6 112 (10.73%) SQL
7 55 (5.27%) PHP
8 48 (4.60%) Ruby
9 20 (1.92%) Bash
10 19 (1.82%) Kotlin
11 18 (1.72%) Groovy
12 12 (1.15%) Go
12 12 (1.15%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.67%) C++
14 2 (0.19%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.19%) C
14 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.096%) Bicep
15 1 (0.096%) Perl
15 1 (0.096%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (7.18%) Security Cleared
2 66 (6.32%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.46%) Degree
4 49 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.38%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.096%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.53%) Accessibility
2 10 (0.96%) WCAG
3 9 (0.86%) QA
4 2 (0.19%) GDPR
4 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.096%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.096%) HL7
5 1 (0.096%) SLA
5 1 (0.096%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 112 (10.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 42 (4.02%) Terraform
3 9 (0.86%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.57%) Ansible
4 6 (0.57%) Grafana
5 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.29%) Kibana
8 2 (0.19%) Argo
8 2 (0.19%) Podman
9 1 (0.096%) Nagios
Vendors
1 62 (5.94%) Microsoft
2 18 (1.72%) Oracle
3 16 (1.53%) Google
4 13 (1.25%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.86%) OneLogin
6 5 (0.48%) Dynatrace
6 5 (0.48%) Peregrine
7 4 (0.38%) Pega
7 4 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.19%) Aderant
8 2 (0.19%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.19%) iManage
8 2 (0.19%) Intapp
8 2 (0.19%) Splunk
8 2 (0.19%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.19%) WSO2
9 1 (0.096%) Adobe
9 1 (0.096%) Confluent
9 1 (0.096%) Databricks