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 21 October 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 306 206
Rank change year-on-year +65 -100 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 950 427 890
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.87% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.97% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 772 305 552
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £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 £106,250 £98,750
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.

6 months to
21 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 110,883 44,071 65,836
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 89.76% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 75,047 25,988 37,616
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,500 £56,252
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +64 845 £60,000 - 252
UK excluding London +69 709 £60,000 +4.35% 151
Work from Home +62 348 £60,000 - 142
London -24 205 £65,000 -18.75% 109
North of England +57 200 £65,000 +8.33% 47
South East +24 197 £60,000 +4.35% 29
Midlands +32 113 £59,999 0.00% 23
Yorkshire +53 100 £70,000 +16.67% 20
South West +3 100 £65,000 +8.33% 13
North West -15 71 £60,000 - 24
West Midlands -12 65 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Scotland +48 54 £55,000 -8.33% 7
East Midlands +3 48 £55,000 -13.73% 7
East of England -41 32 £60,000 +41.18% 13
North East -55 29 £47,500 -5.00% 4
Wales -67 13 £70,000 +16.67% 5

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Full-Stack Development100.0%950
2JavaScript33.6%319
3React29.8%283
4TypeScript29.6%281
5AWS29.2%277
6Node.js21.7%206
7CI/CD20.7%197
8.NET19.4%184
9Agile18.9%180
10Azure18.5%176
11C#17.6%167
12Microservices17.1%162
13AI16.1%153
14Java14.5%138
15Software Engineering13.4%127
16Docker12.6%120
17CSS12.4%118
18HTML12.0%114
18Python12.0%114
20SQL Server11.5%109
21AngularJS11.4%108
22SaaS11.3%107
23Git10.9%104
24Problem-Solving10.7%102
25REST10.6%101
26SQL9.9%94
27DevOps9.7%92
28Continuous Improvement9.3%88
28Serverless9.3%88
30GitHub9.2%87

Full-Stack Developer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Full-Stack Developer19.7%187
2Software Developer14.8%141
3Lead Full-Stack Developer10.7%102
4Full-Stack Java Developer9.6%91
5Full-Stack .NET Developer8.2%78
6Lead Software Developer7.2%68
7React Developer7.1%67
8Full-Stack C# Developer4.3%41
9AWS Developer3.3%31
10Full-Stack Python Developer3.2%30
11Full-Stack Web Developer2.7%26
12C# .NET Developer2.5%24
13Full-Stack Engineer2.1%20
13Senior Java Developer2.1%20
13Senior React Developer2.1%20
16Azure Developer2.0%19
17Angular Developer1.9%18
18Senior Python Developer1.7%16
19.NET Software Developer1.5%14
19Senior Software Developer1.5%14
307 Full-Stack Developer jobs Nationwide