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 20 April 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 269 175
Rank change year-on-year +64 -94 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 918 457 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.09% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.22% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 784 358 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 80,885 37,363 89,466
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 89.33% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 51,875 23,453 66,238
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 20 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 20 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 +85 838 £65,000 +8.33% 119
UK excluding London +64 626 £60,000 +9.09% 98
Work from Home +71 301 £62,500 +4.17% 65
London +51 231 £80,000 +14.29% 41
North of England +71 197 £70,000 +27.27% 28
South East +27 195 £60,000 +9.09% 38
Midlands +10 96 £60,000 +14.29% 7
North West +35 92 £68,750 +25.00% 8
Yorkshire +9 87 £75,000 +36.36% 13
South West +1 77 £55,000 -8.33% 12
West Midlands -9 53 £60,000 +2.13% 4
East of England -19 43 £100,000 +122.22% 6
East Midlands -25 43 £55,000 +15.79% 3
North East -27 18 £52,500 +16.67% 7
Scotland -24 11 £60,000 +14.29% 6
Wales -28 8 £45,000 -26.83% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 918 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 333 (36.27%) React
3 293 (31.92%) JavaScript
4 247 (26.91%) TypeScript
5 224 (24.40%) AWS
6 199 (21.68%) Node.js
7 180 (19.61%) .NET
8 178 (19.39%) Python
9 171 (18.63%) C#
10 166 (18.08%) Java
11 144 (15.69%) Agile
12 135 (14.71%) CI/CD
13 133 (14.49%) Azure
14 121 (13.18%) Software Engineering
15 120 (13.07%) CSS
16 119 (12.96%) AngularJS
17 117 (12.75%) HTML
18 115 (12.53%) Microservices
18 115 (12.53%) SQL
19 114 (12.42%) DevOps
20 107 (11.66%) Vue
21 95 (10.35%) Problem-Solving
22 94 (10.24%) AI
23 90 (9.80%) Web Development
24 89 (9.69%) Git
25 88 (9.59%) Docker
26 87 (9.48%) Serverless
27 77 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
28 76 (8.28%) REST
28 76 (8.28%) SaaS

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 9 (0.98%) 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 (0.44%) 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 (0.44%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.11%) Magento
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 224 (24.40%) AWS
2 133 (14.49%) Azure
3 87 (9.48%) Serverless
4 76 (8.28%) SaaS
5 62 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
6 55 (5.99%) Amazon S3
7 46 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
8 39 (4.25%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (4.03%) GCP
10 33 (3.59%) GitHub
11 24 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.63%) Power Platform
14 14 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.09%) Apigee
16 10 (1.09%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (1.09%) GitHub Copilot
17 9 (0.98%) Amazon ECR
18 7 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.54%) HTTP
2 3 (0.33%) DNS
3 2 (0.22%) AMQP
3 2 (0.22%) Broadband
4 1 (0.11%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
4 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.75%) SQL Server
3 46 (5.01%) NoSQL
4 36 (3.92%) MongoDB
5 32 (3.49%) MySQL
6 25 (2.72%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.18%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.09%) Power BI
10 9 (0.98%) Redis
11 7 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.76%) DB2
12 6 (0.65%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.44%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.33%) ClickHouse
15 3 (0.33%) TimescaleDB
16 2 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
16 2 (0.22%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 89 (9.69%) Git
2 32 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.27%) Cypress.io
4 17 (1.85%) JIRA
5 12 (1.31%) Maven
6 11 (1.20%) GitLab
7 10 (1.09%) JUnit
8 8 (0.87%) Mockito
9 6 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.65%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.54%) Selenium
10 5 (0.54%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.44%) webpack
12 3 (0.33%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.33%) ESLint
13 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.22%) git-flow
13 2 (0.22%) Mocha
13 2 (0.22%) Storybook
General
1 86 (9.37%) Social Skills
2 77 (8.39%) Finance
3 35 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (2.94%) Banking
5 24 (2.61%) Aviation
6 23 (2.51%) Retail
7 20 (2.18%) Public Sector
8 14 (1.53%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.42%) Front Office
9 13 (1.42%) Games
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 (0.44%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.44%) Publishing
16 3 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (36.27%) React
2 199 (21.68%) Node.js
3 180 (19.61%) .NET
4 120 (13.07%) CSS
5 119 (12.96%) AngularJS
6 117 (12.75%) HTML
7 107 (11.66%) Vue
8 76 (8.28%) REST
9 65 (7.08%) Spring
10 57 (6.21%) RESTful
11 56 (6.10%) .NET Core
12 52 (5.66%) Laravel
13 49 (5.34%) Spring Boot
14 39 (4.25%) Next.js
15 33 (3.59%) GraphQL
15 33 (3.59%) Jest
16 29 (3.16%) ASP.NET
16 29 (3.16%) React Native
17 28 (3.05%) Ruby on Rails
18 27 (2.94%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.58%) Cloud Native
2 32 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (2.29%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.07%) Mobile App
5 18 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.20%) Fixed Income
8 9 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.76%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.65%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.65%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.44%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.44%) IoT
12 4 (0.44%) NHS
12 4 (0.44%) PropTech
13 3 (0.33%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.33%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.42%) Linux
2 5 (0.54%) Android
2 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 144 (15.69%) Agile
3 135 (14.71%) CI/CD
4 121 (13.18%) Software Engineering
5 115 (12.53%) Microservices
6 114 (12.42%) DevOps
7 95 (10.35%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (10.24%) AI
9 90 (9.80%) Web Development
10 58 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (5.23%) API Development
11 48 (5.23%) Clean Code
12 46 (5.01%) Scrum
13 45 (4.90%) Mentoring
14 43 (4.68%) User Experience
15 42 (4.58%) Front End Development
16 40 (4.36%) SDLC
17 39 (4.25%) Test Automation
18 37 (4.03%) Containerisation
18 37 (4.03%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 293 (31.92%) JavaScript
2 247 (26.91%) TypeScript
3 178 (19.39%) Python
4 171 (18.63%) C#
5 166 (18.08%) Java
6 115 (12.53%) SQL
7 62 (6.75%) PHP
8 28 (3.05%) Ruby
9 17 (1.85%) C
10 11 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.09%) Bash
11 10 (1.09%) Go
12 8 (0.87%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.65%) C++
14 5 (0.54%) Groovy
14 5 (0.54%) R
15 4 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.33%) COBOL
17 2 (0.22%) RPG
17 2 (0.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 76 (8.28%) Security Cleared
2 60 (6.54%) SC Cleared
3 31 (3.38%) Degree
4 26 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.31%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.96%) 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 88 (9.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (5.01%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.29%) Terraform
3 7 (0.76%) Ansible
4 5 (0.54%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.33%) Kibana
6 3 (0.33%) Nagios
7 2 (0.22%) Grafana
7 2 (0.22%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (2.61%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.40%) Oracle
3 9 (0.98%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.54%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.44%) Google
5 4 (0.44%) Pega
5 4 (0.44%) Peregrine
5 4 (0.44%) Telerik
6 3 (0.33%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.33%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.33%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.33%) Zoho
7 2 (0.22%) Aderant
7 2 (0.22%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.22%) Foundry
7 2 (0.22%) iManage
7 2 (0.22%) Intapp
7 2 (0.22%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.22%) Splunk
7 2 (0.22%) WSO2