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 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 218 194
Rank change year-on-year -74 -24 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 464 831 956
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.23% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.29% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 335 513 884
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 47,393 64,241 50,771
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.95% 94.75% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 29,512 36,137 39,329
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,468 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.93% -3.81% -

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 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 -57 412 £60,000 +3.90% 229
UK excluding London -51 282 £57,500 +9.52% 156
London -8 171 £80,000 +10.34% 100
Work from Home -23 163 £60,000 +6.67% 151
South East -20 99 £57,500 +4.55% 53
North of England +10 62 £60,000 +14.29% 20
Midlands -14 33 £60,000 +33.33% 38
North West +14 32 £60,000 +33.33% 12
South West -8 30 £58,750 +30.56% 21
East of England +5 29 £42,500 -5.56% 9
West Midlands +24 22 £60,000 +9.09% 25
North East +17 16 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Wales -3 15 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Yorkshire +7 14 £60,000 - 3
Scotland -13 14 £60,000 -10.11% 4
East Midlands -17 11 £62,500 +56.25% 13
Northern Ireland +1 2 £60,000 -14.29% 2

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, 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.

1 464 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 244 (52.59%) React
3 238 (51.29%) JavaScript
4 220 (47.41%) AWS
5 195 (42.03%) Agile
6 163 (35.13%) CI/CD
7 158 (34.05%) C#
8 153 (32.97%) Azure
9 152 (32.76%) .NET
10 151 (32.54%) TypeScript
11 145 (31.25%) HTML
12 132 (28.45%) AngularJS
13 131 (28.23%) SQL
14 129 (27.80%) CSS
14 129 (27.80%) Problem-Solving
15 111 (23.92%) Java
16 104 (22.41%) Node.js
17 103 (22.20%) DevOps
18 102 (21.98%) Git
19 98 (21.12%) Python
19 98 (21.12%) REST
19 98 (21.12%) User Experience
20 95 (20.47%) Vue
21 92 (19.83%) RESTful
22 89 (19.18%) Docker
22 89 (19.18%) SQL Server
23 73 (15.73%) Microservices
24 68 (14.66%) Kubernetes
25 64 (13.79%) Clean Code
26 63 (13.58%) GCP

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 13 (2.80%) CMS
2 9 (1.94%) IIS
3 8 (1.72%) Headless CMS
4 6 (1.29%) Umbraco
5 5 (1.08%) Apache
5 5 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.86%) Confluence
7 3 (0.65%) nginx
7 3 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.43%) Drupal
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.22%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.22%) Kentico
9 1 (0.22%) MetaMask
9 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.65%) S-PLUS
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.59%) Shopify
2 3 (0.65%) Magento
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 220 (47.41%) AWS
2 153 (32.97%) Azure
3 63 (13.58%) GCP
4 60 (12.93%) Serverless
5 50 (10.78%) SaaS
6 48 (10.34%) GitHub
7 36 (7.76%) Amazon ECS
8 34 (7.33%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (5.17%) Amazon S3
11 23 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (2.59%) Vercel
15 11 (2.37%) Figma
16 9 (1.94%) npm
17 8 (1.72%) Google Analytics
17 8 (1.72%) Power Platform
18 6 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.65%) Broadband
2 2 (0.43%) Internet
3 1 (0.22%) AMQP
3 1 (0.22%) HTTP
3 1 (0.22%) MQTT
3 1 (0.22%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.22%) SMS
3 1 (0.22%) SSL
3 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (19.18%) SQL Server
2 63 (13.58%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (10.78%) Relational Database
4 47 (10.13%) NoSQL
5 37 (7.97%) MySQL
6 28 (6.03%) RDBMS
7 19 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (3.66%) Redis
9 15 (3.23%) MongoDB
10 11 (2.37%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.94%) Big Data
12 8 (1.72%) Power BI
13 6 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.08%) Apache Hive
14 5 (1.08%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.08%) HBase
15 4 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (0.86%) Apache Iceberg
15 4 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 102 (21.98%) Git
2 32 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.96%) JUnit
3 23 (4.96%) Mockito
4 22 (4.74%) JIRA
5 18 (3.88%) JMeter
6 15 (3.23%) Cypress.io
7 11 (2.37%) Maven
7 11 (2.37%) TeamCity
8 7 (1.51%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.29%) Vite
10 5 (1.08%) git-flow
10 5 (1.08%) Gradle
10 5 (1.08%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.08%) NUnit
10 5 (1.08%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.86%) Mocha
11 4 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.86%) webpack
General
1 115 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 67 (14.44%) Finance
3 42 (9.05%) Law
4 38 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.68%) Marketing
6 24 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.96%) Front Office
8 22 (4.74%) Banking
9 15 (3.23%) Investment Banking
10 14 (3.02%) Games
11 13 (2.80%) Retail
12 12 (2.59%) Legal
13 9 (1.94%) Health Technology
14 5 (1.08%) Aviation
14 5 (1.08%) Electronics
14 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.86%) Advertising
15 4 (0.86%) Back Office
15 4 (0.86%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (52.59%) React
2 152 (32.76%) .NET
3 145 (31.25%) HTML
4 132 (28.45%) AngularJS
5 129 (27.80%) CSS
6 104 (22.41%) Node.js
7 98 (21.12%) REST
8 95 (20.47%) Vue
9 92 (19.83%) RESTful
10 60 (12.93%) Spring
11 58 (12.50%) ASP.NET
12 49 (10.56%) GraphQL
13 45 (9.70%) .NET Core
14 40 (8.62%) .NET Framework
15 39 (8.41%) Web Services
16 38 (8.19%) HTML5
17 36 (7.76%) CSS3
18 34 (7.33%) Spring Boot
19 32 (6.90%) ASP.NET Core
19 32 (6.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.82%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.66%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 15 (3.23%) Hedge funds
7 13 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.37%) Fixed Income
10 10 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.16%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.08%) Equities
11 5 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.08%) Legacy Code
12 4 (0.86%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.86%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (0.86%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.86%) Online Games
13 3 (0.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.16%) Unix
2 9 (1.94%) Linux
3 7 (1.51%) Android
3 7 (1.51%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 195 (42.03%) Agile
3 163 (35.13%) CI/CD
4 129 (27.80%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (22.20%) DevOps
6 98 (21.12%) User Experience
7 73 (15.73%) Microservices
8 64 (13.79%) Clean Code
9 62 (13.36%) Software Engineering
10 60 (12.93%) AI
11 58 (12.50%) Web Development
12 56 (12.07%) SDLC
12 56 (12.07%) TDD
12 56 (12.07%) UX Design
13 52 (11.21%) Test Automation
14 46 (9.91%) Mentoring
15 43 (9.27%) Containerisation
16 42 (9.05%) Scrum
17 39 (8.41%) Computer Science
18 36 (7.76%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 238 (51.29%) JavaScript
2 158 (34.05%) C#
3 151 (32.54%) TypeScript
4 131 (28.23%) SQL
5 111 (23.92%) Java
6 98 (21.12%) Python
7 20 (4.31%) PHP
8 19 (4.09%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.45%) Go
10 11 (2.37%) PL/SQL
11 10 (2.16%) VB.NET
12 8 (1.72%) C
13 6 (1.29%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.08%) C++
15 4 (0.86%) Bicep
15 4 (0.86%) R
15 4 (0.86%) XAML
16 3 (0.65%) Bash
17 2 (0.43%) Ruby
17 2 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (9.91%) Security Cleared
2 43 (9.27%) Degree
3 32 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 15 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.86%) AWS Certification
5 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.62%) QA
2 38 (8.19%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.29%) GDPR
3 6 (1.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (19.18%) Docker
2 5 (1.08%) HDFS
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) Firmware
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (14.66%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.33%) Terraform
3 18 (3.88%) Kibana
4 5 (1.08%) Ansible
5 1 (0.22%) Argo
5 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.96%) Splunk
3 19 (4.09%) Dynatrace
4 10 (2.16%) Google
4 10 (2.16%) Oracle
5 8 (1.72%) Apple
5 8 (1.72%) DevExpress
6 6 (1.29%) Databricks
7 5 (1.08%) Cloudera
7 5 (1.08%) Rollbar
8 4 (0.86%) Telerik
9 3 (0.65%) IBM
9 3 (0.65%) Pega
9 3 (0.65%) WSO2
9 3 (0.65%) Zoho
10 2 (0.43%) iManage
10 2 (0.43%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.22%) Adobe
11 1 (0.22%) IONA
11 1 (0.22%) Sybase