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 10 February 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 271 178
Rank change year-on-year +41 -93 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 624 555 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.11% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.21% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 492 332 1,135
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,250 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,375 £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 59,861 45,885 70,536
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 91.77% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 37,368 23,689 55,248
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +70 573 £65,000 +8.33% 181
UK excluding London +10 382 £60,000 +9.09% 152
Work from Home +23 204 £60,000 - 112
London +58 203 £80,000 +14.29% 53
South East +10 143 £60,000 +4.35% 53
North of England +48 102 £62,500 +28.21% 41
Midlands +18 62 £55,000 -4.35% 25
South West -3 44 £57,500 +4.55% 25
North West +29 41 £65,000 +30.00% 23
Yorkshire -9 37 £75,000 +50.00% 11
West Midlands +15 31 £55,000 -6.38% 14
East Midlands -2 31 £55,000 - 11
North East +15 24 £50,000 +17.65% 7
East of England +2 23 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Wales -5 8 £45,000 -29.69% 2
Scotland -25 3 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 February 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.

1 624 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 294 (47.12%) React
3 232 (37.18%) JavaScript
4 194 (31.09%) AWS
5 174 (27.88%) TypeScript
6 159 (25.48%) .NET
7 148 (23.72%) C#
7 148 (23.72%) Java
8 147 (23.56%) Agile
9 132 (21.15%) Azure
10 127 (20.35%) CI/CD
11 125 (20.03%) Python
12 121 (19.39%) Node.js
13 118 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
14 108 (17.31%) AngularJS
14 108 (17.31%) CSS
14 108 (17.31%) HTML
15 107 (17.15%) SQL
16 103 (16.51%) Microservices
17 97 (15.54%) DevOps
18 92 (14.74%) REST
19 88 (14.10%) Docker
20 83 (13.30%) Software Engineering
21 80 (12.82%) Git
21 80 (12.82%) Vue
22 77 (12.34%) AI
23 74 (11.86%) Serverless
24 71 (11.38%) Security Cleared
25 68 (10.90%) PostgreSQL
26 63 (10.10%) User Experience

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 (1.76%) CMS
2 8 (1.28%) OpenStack
3 7 (1.12%) Confluence
4 6 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.64%) nginx
6 3 (0.48%) ColdFusion
6 3 (0.48%) Liferay
7 2 (0.32%) Drupal
7 2 (0.32%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Kentico
8 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 194 (31.09%) AWS
2 132 (21.15%) Azure
3 74 (11.86%) Serverless
4 44 (7.05%) SaaS
5 43 (6.89%) GitHub
6 41 (6.57%) Amazon S3
7 39 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (6.09%) GCP
9 29 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (1.92%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (0.96%) Amazon EventBridge
17 5 (0.80%) npm
18 4 (0.64%) DigitalOcean
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.32%) AMQP
1 2 (0.32%) Broadband
1 2 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.16%) Internet
2 1 (0.16%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.90%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (9.13%) SQL Server
3 45 (7.21%) NoSQL
4 40 (6.41%) Relational Database
5 31 (4.97%) MySQL
6 26 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 17 (2.72%) RDBMS
8 14 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.08%) Redis
10 10 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.60%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.44%) Power BI
12 8 (1.28%) DB2
13 3 (0.48%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.48%) ClickHouse
13 3 (0.48%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.32%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.32%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 80 (12.82%) Git
2 35 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.21%) Cypress.io
4 18 (2.88%) JUnit
5 17 (2.72%) Mockito
6 15 (2.40%) JIRA
7 12 (1.92%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.76%) Maven
9 9 (1.44%) JMeter
10 7 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.12%) Selenium
11 6 (0.96%) GitLab
11 6 (0.96%) webpack
12 5 (0.80%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.80%) git-flow
13 4 (0.64%) Mocha
14 3 (0.48%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.48%) ESLint
14 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
14 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (14.58%) Social Skills
2 62 (9.94%) Finance
3 37 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.13%) Banking
5 29 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.53%) Aviation
7 21 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.24%) Law
8 14 (2.24%) Retail
9 12 (1.92%) Front Office
9 12 (1.92%) Games
10 11 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.76%) Legal
11 10 (1.60%) Marketing
12 7 (1.12%) Tech for Good
13 6 (0.96%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.80%) Electronics
14 5 (0.80%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.48%) Local Government
15 3 (0.48%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (47.12%) React
2 159 (25.48%) .NET
3 121 (19.39%) Node.js
4 108 (17.31%) AngularJS
4 108 (17.31%) CSS
4 108 (17.31%) HTML
5 92 (14.74%) REST
6 80 (12.82%) Vue
7 62 (9.94%) Spring
8 53 (8.49%) RESTful
9 52 (8.33%) .NET Core
10 40 (6.41%) Spring Boot
11 35 (5.61%) Laravel
12 34 (5.45%) ASP.NET
13 32 (5.13%) HTML5
14 31 (4.97%) CSS3
15 28 (4.49%) Kafka
16 26 (4.17%) Next.js
17 24 (3.85%) .NET Framework
17 24 (3.85%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.69%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.44%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.28%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.64%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.64%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.64%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.64%) IoT
11 4 (0.64%) Sports Betting
12 3 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.32%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.24%) Linux
2 8 (1.28%) Android
2 8 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.32%) Unix
3 2 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 147 (23.56%) Agile
3 127 (20.35%) CI/CD
4 118 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (16.51%) Microservices
6 97 (15.54%) DevOps
7 83 (13.30%) Software Engineering
8 77 (12.34%) AI
9 63 (10.10%) User Experience
10 49 (7.85%) Clean Code
11 48 (7.69%) Scrum
11 48 (7.69%) SDLC
11 48 (7.69%) TDD
12 47 (7.53%) API Development
12 47 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (6.89%) Web Development
14 39 (6.25%) Mentoring
15 38 (6.09%) Containerisation
15 38 (6.09%) Front End Development
16 34 (5.45%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 232 (37.18%) JavaScript
2 174 (27.88%) TypeScript
3 148 (23.72%) C#
3 148 (23.72%) Java
4 125 (20.03%) Python
5 107 (17.15%) SQL
6 43 (6.89%) PHP
7 16 (2.56%) C
8 13 (2.08%) Ruby
9 12 (1.92%) PL/SQL
10 11 (1.76%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.60%) Go
12 9 (1.44%) Bash
13 7 (1.12%) C++
14 6 (0.96%) R
15 4 (0.64%) XAML
16 3 (0.48%) COBOL
16 3 (0.48%) Groovy
16 3 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.32%) RPG
Qualifications
1 71 (11.38%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.57%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.29%) Degree
4 28 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.04%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.64%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.69%) QA
3 8 (1.28%) WCAG
4 2 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 88 (14.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (9.46%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.21%) Terraform
3 9 (1.44%) Kibana
4 8 (1.28%) Ansible
5 3 (0.48%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.32%) Argo
6 2 (0.32%) Nagios
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (3.69%) Oracle
2 16 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.60%) Dynatrace
4 9 (1.44%) Splunk
5 8 (1.28%) Google
6 7 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.64%) Telerik
8 3 (0.48%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.48%) Pega
8 3 (0.48%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.48%) WSO2
8 3 (0.48%) Zoho
9 2 (0.32%) Foundry
9 2 (0.32%) IBM
9 2 (0.32%) iManage
9 2 (0.32%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe
10 1 (0.16%) IONA
10 1 (0.16%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.16%) SAP