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 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 273 172
Rank change year-on-year +71 -101 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 922 458 1,601
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.09% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.22% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 788 358 1,300
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 81,450 37,439 89,409
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 89.27% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 52,076 23,545 66,095
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,250
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 22 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 22 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 +76 838 £65,000 +8.33% 137
UK excluding London +76 628 £60,000 +9.09% 115
Work from Home +71 307 £62,500 +4.17% 86
London +48 228 £80,000 +14.29% 52
South East +33 198 £60,000 +9.09% 34
North of England +67 197 £70,000 +27.27% 34
Midlands -1 97 £60,000 +12.15% 8
North West +34 91 £68,750 +25.00% 13
Yorkshire +11 88 £75,000 +36.36% 14
South West -4 76 £55,000 -8.33% 19
West Midlands -4 53 £60,000 - 4
East Midlands -19 44 £55,000 +15.79% 4
East of England -14 42 £100,000 +122.22% 5
North East -31 18 £52,500 +16.67% 7
Scotland -20 11 £60,000 +14.29% 12
Wales -20 8 £45,000 -26.83% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 922 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 336 (36.44%) React
3 293 (31.78%) JavaScript
4 250 (27.11%) TypeScript
5 225 (24.40%) AWS
6 200 (21.69%) Node.js
7 178 (19.31%) .NET
7 178 (19.31%) Python
8 169 (18.33%) C#
9 164 (17.79%) Java
10 145 (15.73%) Agile
11 136 (14.75%) CI/CD
12 134 (14.53%) Azure
13 123 (13.34%) Software Engineering
14 120 (13.02%) CSS
15 117 (12.69%) AngularJS
16 116 (12.58%) HTML
16 116 (12.58%) Microservices
16 116 (12.58%) SQL
17 114 (12.36%) DevOps
18 107 (11.61%) Vue
19 96 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
20 94 (10.20%) AI
21 90 (9.76%) Docker
21 90 (9.76%) Web Development
22 88 (9.54%) Git
23 87 (9.44%) Serverless
24 76 (8.24%) SaaS
24 76 (8.24%) Security Cleared
25 75 (8.13%) 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 10 (1.08%) Confluence
2 8 (0.87%) CMS
2 8 (0.87%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.76%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.43%) nginx
6 3 (0.33%) Liferay
6 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.22%) Drupal
7 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) CICS
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.11%) Magento
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 225 (24.40%) AWS
2 134 (14.53%) Azure
3 87 (9.44%) Serverless
4 76 (8.24%) SaaS
5 64 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (6.18%) Amazon S3
7 46 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (4.45%) Amazon SQS
9 39 (4.23%) GCP
10 33 (3.58%) GitHub
11 24 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (1.63%) Power Platform
14 11 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (1.19%) Apigee
14 11 (1.19%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (1.08%) Amazon ECR
15 10 (1.08%) GitHub Copilot
16 7 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.65%) HTTP
2 4 (0.43%) DNS
3 2 (0.22%) AMQP
3 2 (0.22%) Broadband
3 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.11%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (6.40%) SQL Server
3 47 (5.10%) NoSQL
4 37 (4.01%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.47%) MySQL
6 21 (2.28%) DynamoDB
6 21 (2.28%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.08%) Power BI
9 8 (0.87%) Redis
10 7 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.76%) DB2
11 4 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.43%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.43%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.33%) TimescaleDB
13 2 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.22%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.22%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 88 (9.54%) Git
2 32 (3.47%) Cypress.io
3 30 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.95%) JIRA
5 13 (1.41%) Maven
6 12 (1.30%) GitLab
7 9 (0.98%) JUnit
8 7 (0.76%) Mockito
9 6 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.65%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.65%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.54%) Selenium
11 4 (0.43%) webpack
12 3 (0.33%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.33%) ESLint
13 2 (0.22%) git-flow
13 2 (0.22%) Mocha
13 2 (0.22%) NUnit
13 2 (0.22%) Storybook
General
1 85 (9.22%) Social Skills
2 77 (8.35%) Finance
3 34 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (2.71%) Banking
5 24 (2.60%) Aviation
6 23 (2.49%) Retail
7 19 (2.06%) Public Sector
8 13 (1.41%) Games
9 12 (1.30%) Front Office
9 12 (1.30%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.98%) Marketing
11 8 (0.87%) Tech for Good
12 7 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.76%) Local Government
13 6 (0.65%) Advertising
14 5 (0.54%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.54%) Law
15 4 (0.43%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.43%) Publishing
16 3 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (36.44%) React
2 200 (21.69%) Node.js
3 178 (19.31%) .NET
4 120 (13.02%) CSS
5 117 (12.69%) AngularJS
6 116 (12.58%) HTML
7 107 (11.61%) Vue
8 73 (7.92%) REST
9 62 (6.72%) Spring
10 58 (6.29%) RESTful
11 55 (5.97%) .NET Core
12 52 (5.64%) Laravel
13 48 (5.21%) Spring Boot
14 40 (4.34%) Next.js
15 35 (3.80%) Jest
16 33 (3.58%) GraphQL
17 30 (3.25%) React Native
18 29 (3.15%) ASP.NET
18 29 (3.15%) Ruby on Rails
19 26 (2.82%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 32 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (2.28%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 17 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.19%) Fixed Income
8 8 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.76%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.65%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.54%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.43%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.43%) IoT
12 4 (0.43%) NHS
12 4 (0.43%) PropTech
13 3 (0.33%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.33%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.41%) Linux
2 5 (0.54%) Android
2 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 145 (15.73%) Agile
3 136 (14.75%) CI/CD
4 123 (13.34%) Software Engineering
5 116 (12.58%) Microservices
6 114 (12.36%) DevOps
7 96 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (10.20%) AI
9 90 (9.76%) Web Development
10 59 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (5.42%) Clean Code
12 48 (5.21%) API Development
13 46 (4.99%) Scrum
14 45 (4.88%) Mentoring
15 44 (4.77%) Front End Development
16 43 (4.66%) User Experience
17 40 (4.34%) SDLC
18 38 (4.12%) Containerisation
18 38 (4.12%) Test Automation
19 37 (4.01%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 293 (31.78%) JavaScript
2 250 (27.11%) TypeScript
3 178 (19.31%) Python
4 169 (18.33%) C#
5 164 (17.79%) Java
6 116 (12.58%) SQL
7 62 (6.72%) PHP
8 29 (3.15%) Ruby
9 17 (1.84%) C
10 11 (1.19%) Bash
10 11 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.08%) Go
12 8 (0.87%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.65%) C++
13 6 (0.65%) Groovy
14 5 (0.54%) R
15 3 (0.33%) COBOL
15 3 (0.33%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.22%) RPG
17 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (8.24%) Security Cleared
2 60 (6.51%) SC Cleared
3 31 (3.36%) Degree
4 26 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.30%) DV Cleared
6 8 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.95%) QA
2 16 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.22%) HL7
3 2 (0.22%) WCAG
4 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 90 (9.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.39%) Terraform
3 6 (0.65%) Ansible
3 6 (0.65%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.33%) Nagios
6 2 (0.22%) Grafana
6 2 (0.22%) Kibana
6 2 (0.22%) Podman
7 1 (0.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (2.60%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.39%) Oracle
3 9 (0.98%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.43%) Dynatrace
4 4 (0.43%) Google
4 4 (0.43%) Pega
4 4 (0.43%) Peregrine
4 4 (0.43%) Telerik
5 3 (0.33%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.33%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.33%) WooCommerce
5 3 (0.33%) Zoho
6 2 (0.22%) Aderant
6 2 (0.22%) Adobe
6 2 (0.22%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.22%) Foundry
6 2 (0.22%) iManage
6 2 (0.22%) Intapp
6 2 (0.22%) SendGrid
6 2 (0.22%) WSO2