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 29 April 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 278 172
Rank change year-on-year +79 -106 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 953 457 1,600
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.08% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.21% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 818 357 1,290
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -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 83,325 37,724 90,247
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 89.06% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 53,544 23,378 66,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +102 862 £65,000 +8.33% 107
UK excluding London +86 654 £60,000 +9.09% 98
Work from Home +64 315 £62,500 +4.17% 57
London +42 228 £80,000 +14.29% 29
South East +44 210 £60,000 +6.67% 35
North of England +74 205 £70,000 +27.27% 27
Midlands +13 98 £60,000 +12.15% 8
Yorkshire +15 93 £75,000 +36.36% 10
North West +30 91 £68,750 +25.00% 10
South West +2 77 £55,000 -8.33% 16
West Midlands -10 54 £62,500 +4.17% 5
East Midlands -22 44 £55,000 +15.79% 3
East of England -3 43 £100,000 +122.22% 7
North East -24 21 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Scotland -27 13 £60,000 +17.65% 6
Wales -29 9 £48,750 -20.73% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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.

1 953 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 339 (35.57%) React
3 299 (31.37%) JavaScript
4 262 (27.49%) TypeScript
5 226 (23.71%) AWS
6 212 (22.25%) Node.js
7 182 (19.10%) Python
8 181 (18.99%) .NET
9 169 (17.73%) C#
10 162 (17.00%) Java
11 139 (14.59%) Agile
12 135 (14.17%) Azure
13 133 (13.96%) CI/CD
14 126 (13.22%) Software Engineering
15 122 (12.80%) CSS
16 120 (12.59%) AngularJS
17 117 (12.28%) HTML
18 115 (12.07%) Microservices
19 114 (11.96%) DevOps
19 114 (11.96%) SQL
20 108 (11.33%) Vue
21 96 (10.07%) AI
21 96 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
22 93 (9.76%) Web Development
23 90 (9.44%) Docker
24 87 (9.13%) Git
25 86 (9.02%) Serverless
26 80 (8.39%) SaaS
26 80 (8.39%) Security Cleared
27 75 (7.87%) 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 11 (1.15%) Confluence
2 9 (0.94%) ColdFusion
3 8 (0.84%) CMS
4 7 (0.73%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.31%) Liferay
6 3 (0.31%) nginx
6 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.21%) Drupal
7 2 (0.21%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.21%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.10%) Apache
8 1 (0.10%) CICS
8 1 (0.10%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 226 (23.71%) AWS
2 135 (14.17%) Azure
3 86 (9.02%) Serverless
4 80 (8.39%) SaaS
5 64 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (6.09%) Amazon S3
7 47 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (3.88%) GCP
10 35 (3.67%) GitHub
11 24 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (1.68%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (1.26%) Apigee
14 12 (1.26%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (1.26%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (1.15%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
17 6 (0.63%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.63%) HTTP
2 4 (0.42%) DNS
3 2 (0.21%) Broadband
3 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) AMQP
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (6.19%) SQL Server
3 44 (4.62%) NoSQL
4 37 (3.88%) MongoDB
5 31 (3.25%) MySQL
6 21 (2.20%) DynamoDB
7 18 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.15%) Power BI
10 7 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.73%) DB2
10 7 (0.73%) Redis
11 4 (0.42%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.31%) TimescaleDB
13 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.21%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.21%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.21%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 87 (9.13%) Git
2 33 (3.46%) Cypress.io
3 31 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.99%) JIRA
5 14 (1.47%) GitLab
6 13 (1.36%) Maven
7 8 (0.84%) JUnit
8 6 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.63%) Mockito
8 6 (0.63%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.52%) Selenium
10 3 (0.31%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.31%) ESLint
10 3 (0.31%) webpack
11 2 (0.21%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.21%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.21%) Storybook
11 2 (0.21%) Vite
General
1 83 (8.71%) Social Skills
2 77 (8.08%) Finance
3 33 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (2.62%) Aviation
4 25 (2.62%) Retail
5 23 (2.41%) Banking
6 18 (1.89%) Public Sector
7 13 (1.36%) Games
8 11 (1.15%) Front Office
9 10 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.94%) Marketing
10 9 (0.94%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.73%) Local Government
12 6 (0.63%) Advertising
13 5 (0.52%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.52%) Law
14 4 (0.42%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.42%) Publishing
15 3 (0.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (35.57%) React
2 212 (22.25%) Node.js
3 181 (18.99%) .NET
4 122 (12.80%) CSS
5 120 (12.59%) AngularJS
6 117 (12.28%) HTML
7 108 (11.33%) Vue
8 71 (7.45%) REST
9 62 (6.51%) Spring
10 57 (5.98%) RESTful
11 54 (5.67%) .NET Core
12 53 (5.56%) Laravel
13 49 (5.14%) Spring Boot
14 41 (4.30%) Next.js
15 35 (3.67%) Jest
16 34 (3.57%) GraphQL
17 33 (3.46%) React Native
18 32 (3.36%) Ruby on Rails
19 29 (3.04%) HTML5
20 28 (2.94%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 44 (4.62%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (2.52%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.99%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.15%) Fixed Income
8 8 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.73%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.63%) AI Agents
10 6 (0.63%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.42%) IoT
12 4 (0.42%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.42%) NHS
12 4 (0.42%) PropTech
13 3 (0.31%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.31%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.31%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.36%) Linux
2 5 (0.52%) Android
2 5 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 953 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 139 (14.59%) Agile
3 133 (13.96%) CI/CD
4 126 (13.22%) Software Engineering
5 115 (12.07%) Microservices
6 114 (11.96%) DevOps
7 96 (10.07%) AI
7 96 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (9.76%) Web Development
9 58 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (5.14%) Clean Code
11 48 (5.04%) API Development
12 47 (4.93%) Front End Development
12 47 (4.93%) Mentoring
13 44 (4.62%) Scrum
13 44 (4.62%) User Experience
14 39 (4.09%) Containerisation
14 39 (4.09%) SDLC
15 38 (3.99%) Test Automation
16 37 (3.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 299 (31.37%) JavaScript
2 262 (27.49%) TypeScript
3 182 (19.10%) Python
4 169 (17.73%) C#
5 162 (17.00%) Java
6 114 (11.96%) SQL
7 64 (6.72%) PHP
8 32 (3.36%) Ruby
9 18 (1.89%) C
10 11 (1.15%) Bash
10 11 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.05%) Go
12 8 (0.84%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.73%) C++
13 7 (0.73%) Groovy
14 5 (0.52%) R
15 3 (0.31%) COBOL
16 2 (0.21%) RPG
16 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (8.39%) Security Cleared
2 64 (6.72%) SC Cleared
3 30 (3.15%) Degree
4 25 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 8 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.31%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.78%) QA
2 15 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.21%) HL7
3 2 (0.21%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 90 (9.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.31%) Terraform
3 6 (0.63%) Ansible
3 6 (0.63%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.52%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.31%) Nagios
6 2 (0.21%) Grafana
6 2 (0.21%) Podman
7 1 (0.10%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (2.73%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.31%) Oracle
3 10 (1.05%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.52%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.42%) Google
5 4 (0.42%) Pega
6 3 (0.31%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.31%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.31%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.31%) Telerik
6 3 (0.31%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.31%) Zoho
7 2 (0.21%) Aderant
7 2 (0.21%) Adobe
7 2 (0.21%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.21%) Foundry
7 2 (0.21%) iManage
7 2 (0.21%) Intapp
7 2 (0.21%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.21%) WSO2