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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 310 189
Rank change year-on-year +98 -121 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,029 440 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 0.89% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.99% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 883 322 692
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,250 £96,125
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 106,506 44,266 74,164
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.35% 89.67% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 73,200 26,014 44,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +100 910 £60,000 - 333
UK excluding London +111 786 £60,000 +4.35% 190
Work from Home +89 365 £60,000 - 159
North of England +83 231 £65,000 +8.33% 56
South East +54 226 £60,000 +4.35% 30
London -22 194 £70,000 -9.68% 179
Midlands +41 115 £60,000 - 28
Yorkshire +64 114 £75,000 +25.00% 14
South West +6 109 £60,000 - 25
North West +37 88 £65,000 +8.33% 34
West Midlands 0 67 £70,000 +16.67% 20
Scotland +41 52 £60,000 - 19
East Midlands +3 48 £60,000 +26.32% 8
East of England -21 39 £65,000 +57.58% 15
North East -42 29 £47,500 -24.00% 9
Wales -77 14 £62,500 +4.17%

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 1,029 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 354 (34.40%) JavaScript
3 314 (30.52%) React
4 311 (30.22%) TypeScript
5 302 (29.35%) AWS
6 222 (21.57%) Node.js
7 195 (18.95%) CI/CD
8 192 (18.66%) Agile
9 188 (18.27%) .NET
10 175 (17.01%) C#
11 171 (16.62%) Azure
12 168 (16.33%) Microservices
13 155 (15.06%) Java
13 155 (15.06%) Python
14 151 (14.67%) AI
15 131 (12.73%) CSS
16 126 (12.24%) HTML
17 123 (11.95%) Software Engineering
18 119 (11.56%) AngularJS
19 114 (11.08%) Docker
20 110 (10.69%) SaaS
21 106 (10.30%) SQL
22 100 (9.72%) DevOps
22 100 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
22 100 (9.72%) Serverless
23 99 (9.62%) Git
23 99 (9.62%) SQL Server
24 96 (9.33%) Vue
25 93 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
26 87 (8.45%) 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 14 (1.36%) Confluence
1 14 (1.36%) WordPress
2 11 (1.07%) CMS
3 7 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.49%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.39%) IIS
6 2 (0.19%) nginx
6 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.097%) Apache
7 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.097%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 302 (29.35%) AWS
2 171 (16.62%) Azure
3 110 (10.69%) SaaS
4 100 (9.72%) Serverless
5 85 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (7.87%) Amazon S3
7 80 (7.77%) GitHub
8 75 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
10 47 (4.57%) GCP
11 39 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (2.72%) AWS Step Functions
15 27 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
16 25 (2.43%) Snowflake
17 19 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
18 18 (1.75%) Apigee
19 17 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.68%) Broadband
2 4 (0.39%) DNS
2 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.097%) Internet
4 1 (0.097%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 87 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (5.34%) MongoDB
4 44 (4.28%) DynamoDB
5 33 (3.21%) MySQL
6 31 (3.01%) NoSQL
7 27 (2.62%) Redis
8 26 (2.53%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.07%) Power BI
11 8 (0.78%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.39%) GIS
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.29%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
15 1 (0.097%) ClickHouse
15 1 (0.097%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.097%) DocumentDB
15 1 (0.097%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 99 (9.62%) Git
2 54 (5.25%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.28%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.82%) GitLab
5 23 (2.24%) Maven
6 20 (1.94%) JUnit
7 18 (1.75%) JIRA
8 15 (1.46%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.26%) Mockito
10 11 (1.07%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.78%) Storybook
11 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.68%) Vite
13 6 (0.58%) Postman
14 5 (0.49%) NUnit
14 5 (0.49%) Selenium
14 5 (0.49%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.39%) Subversion
16 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 100 (9.72%) Social Skills
2 71 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 53 (5.15%) Finance
4 17 (1.65%) Retail
5 14 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.26%) Marketing
7 12 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.07%) Legal
9 7 (0.68%) Legal Technology
10 5 (0.49%) Advertising
10 5 (0.49%) Banking
10 5 (0.49%) Games
11 4 (0.39%) Aviation
11 4 (0.39%) Local Government
12 3 (0.29%) Automotive
12 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.29%) Law
12 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (30.52%) React
2 222 (21.57%) Node.js
3 188 (18.27%) .NET
4 131 (12.73%) CSS
5 126 (12.24%) HTML
6 119 (11.56%) AngularJS
7 96 (9.33%) Vue
8 87 (8.45%) REST
9 75 (7.29%) Spring
10 73 (7.09%) RESTful
11 68 (6.61%) Spring Boot
12 56 (5.44%) Next.js
13 53 (5.15%) Jest
13 53 (5.15%) Ruby on Rails
14 43 (4.18%) .NET Core
15 41 (3.98%) Terraform
16 39 (3.79%) .NET Framework
16 39 (3.79%) ASP.NET
17 37 (3.60%) Entity Framework
18 33 (3.21%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 50 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (1.94%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 14 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (0.87%) IoT
7 8 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.68%) AI Agents
8 7 (0.68%) Virtual Team
9 6 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.39%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.39%) NHS
10 4 (0.39%) Sports Betting
11 3 (0.29%) Augmented Reality
11 3 (0.29%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.29%) Mainframe
11 3 (0.29%) PKI
11 3 (0.29%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.36%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.097%) Windows
3 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,029 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 195 (18.95%) CI/CD
3 192 (18.66%) Agile
4 168 (16.33%) Microservices
5 151 (14.67%) AI
6 123 (11.95%) Software Engineering
7 100 (9.72%) DevOps
7 100 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 72 (7.00%) Clean Code
10 71 (6.90%) Web Development
11 65 (6.32%) Mentoring
12 58 (5.64%) Computer Science
13 57 (5.54%) User Experience
14 55 (5.34%) E-Commerce
15 54 (5.25%) SDLC
16 53 (5.15%) Front End Development
17 49 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
18 48 (4.66%) Test Automation
19 44 (4.28%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 354 (34.40%) JavaScript
2 311 (30.22%) TypeScript
3 175 (17.01%) C#
4 155 (15.06%) Java
4 155 (15.06%) Python
5 106 (10.30%) SQL
6 55 (5.34%) Ruby
7 51 (4.96%) PHP
8 42 (4.08%) Kotlin
9 22 (2.14%) Bash
10 20 (1.94%) Groovy
11 10 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.68%) C++
13 3 (0.29%) Go
13 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.19%) Perl
15 1 (0.097%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.097%) Bicep
15 1 (0.097%) C
15 1 (0.097%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (6.71%) Security Cleared
2 60 (5.83%) Degree
3 58 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 53 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
7 10 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.097%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.097%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.17%) QA
3 11 (1.07%) WCAG
4 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.097%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.097%) GRC
6 1 (0.097%) SLA
System Software
1 114 (11.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.07%) HP Fortify
3 5 (0.49%) Ansible
3 5 (0.49%) Grafana
4 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Kibana
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.19%) Argo
7 1 (0.097%) Podman
Vendors
1 69 (6.71%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.33%) Oracle
3 17 (1.65%) Google
4 15 (1.46%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.87%) OneLogin
6 7 (0.68%) OutSystems
6 7 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.58%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
9 3 (0.29%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.29%) Splunk
10 2 (0.19%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.19%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.097%) Confluent
11 1 (0.097%) Mistral
11 1 (0.097%) NEC
11 1 (0.097%) Pega
11 1 (0.097%) WSO2