Full Stack Developer Jobs

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 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 167 167
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 1,427 1,752 4,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.58% 2.17% 2.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 2.36% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,040 1,221 1,941
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,457 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.82% +0.83% +15.79%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer.

Salary trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -5 1,289 £60,000 -14.29% 114
UK excluding London -15 925 £55,000 -0.82% 87
Work from Home -52 490 £58,000 -10.77% 70
London -26 423 £80,000 +7.95% 33
South East -34 249 £57,500 -11.54% 17
North of England +12 233 £55,000 +4.76% 27
Midlands -17 205 £50,000 -9.09% 25
North West +23 151 £55,000 +4.76% 14
South West -1 120 £52,500 - 6
West Midlands +9 107 £55,000 +10.00% 16
East Midlands -28 98 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Yorkshire +27 58 £56,250 +25.00% 9
East of England +13 53 £45,000 - 14
Scotland -73 30 £70,000 +14.29% 2
Wales +27 28 £45,000 -10.00%
North East -16 24 £55,000 +10.00% 5
Northern Ireland +3 7 £60,000 - 4

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Full Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 1,427 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 779 (54.59%) JavaScript
3 646 (45.27%) React
4 584 (40.93%) .NET
5 561 (39.31%) C#
6 502 (35.18%) Azure
7 501 (35.11%) HTML
8 481 (33.71%) CSS
9 441 (30.90%) SQL
10 410 (28.73%) Agile
11 398 (27.89%) AngularJS
12 371 (26.00%) DevOps
13 333 (23.34%) Node.js
13 333 (23.34%) AWS
14 322 (22.56%) Python
15 321 (22.49%) TypeScript
16 319 (22.35%) Vue
17 314 (22.00%) Java
18 276 (19.34%) ASP.NET
19 272 (19.06%) MVC
20 262 (18.36%) jQuery
21 241 (16.89%) PostgreSQL
22 234 (16.40%) Web Development
23 231 (16.19%) User Experience
24 227 (15.91%) Web Services
25 226 (15.84%) Artificial Intelligence
26 222 (15.56%) PHP
27 214 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
28 213 (14.93%) SQL Server
29 210 (14.72%) Serverless

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 66 (4.63%) CMS
2 62 (4.34%) Apache
3 43 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.96%) WordPress
5 16 (1.12%) Confluence
6 14 (0.98%) Umbraco
7 13 (0.91%) nginx
8 12 (0.84%) SharePoint
9 11 (0.77%) IIS
10 9 (0.63%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.42%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.35%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.21%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.21%) JBoss
13 3 (0.21%) Orchard CMS
13 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
14 1 (0.070%) Apache Pulsar
14 1 (0.070%) Documentum
14 1 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.070%) WildFly
Applications
1 22 (1.54%) Photoshop
2 6 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.070%) Revit
3 1 (0.070%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (2.59%) SDL Web 8
2 10 (0.70%) Magento
2 10 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.49%) Shopify
4 5 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.070%) Infor LN
6 1 (0.070%) nopCommerce
Cloud Services
1 502 (35.18%) Azure
2 333 (23.34%) AWS
3 214 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 210 (14.72%) Serverless
5 146 (10.23%) Azure Service Bus
6 138 (9.67%) Azure Functions
7 135 (9.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 126 (8.83%) Azure API Management
9 125 (8.76%) IBM Cloud
10 124 (8.69%) SaaS
11 93 (6.52%) GCP
12 60 (4.20%) GitHub
13 29 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (1.54%) Power Platform
15 21 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
16 20 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
17 18 (1.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 18 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 18 (1.26%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.70%) MQTT
2 7 (0.49%) VPN
3 5 (0.35%) HTTP
3 5 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.21%) SSH
5 2 (0.14%) Internet
5 2 (0.14%) SMS
6 1 (0.070%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (16.89%) PostgreSQL
2 213 (14.93%) SQL Server
3 196 (13.74%) Relational Database
4 175 (12.26%) MongoDB
5 165 (11.56%) NoSQL
6 137 (9.60%) MySQL
7 134 (9.39%) DB2
8 43 (3.01%) Apache Ignite
9 21 (1.47%) Redis
10 19 (1.33%) DynamoDB
11 17 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.77%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.70%) Power BI
15 8 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.42%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.42%) SQLite
17 5 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
18 4 (0.28%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 205 (14.37%) Git
2 100 (7.01%) JIRA
3 50 (3.50%) TeamCity
4 47 (3.29%) NUnit
4 47 (3.29%) Visual Studio
5 46 (3.22%) GitLab
6 43 (3.01%) Moq
7 36 (2.52%) Cypress.io
7 36 (2.52%) Jenkins
8 21 (1.47%) JUnit
8 21 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
9 20 (1.40%) SpecFlow
10 18 (1.26%) git-flow
10 18 (1.26%) Sourcetree
11 16 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
12 13 (0.91%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.63%) Maven
13 9 (0.63%) webpack
14 8 (0.56%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 196 (13.74%) Social Skills
2 190 (13.31%) Finance
3 167 (11.70%) Public Sector
4 89 (6.24%) Banking
5 69 (4.84%) Marketing
6 58 (4.06%) Front Office
7 42 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (2.80%) Retail
9 30 (2.10%) Tech for Good
10 28 (1.96%) Games
11 20 (1.40%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.26%) Aviation
12 18 (1.26%) Law
12 18 (1.26%) Legal
13 16 (1.12%) Health Technology
14 14 (0.98%) Aerospace
15 13 (0.91%) Advertising
15 13 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 646 (45.27%) React
2 584 (40.93%) .NET
3 501 (35.11%) HTML
4 481 (33.71%) CSS
5 398 (27.89%) AngularJS
6 333 (23.34%) Node.js
7 319 (22.35%) Vue
8 276 (19.34%) ASP.NET
9 262 (18.36%) jQuery
10 227 (15.91%) Web Services
11 193 (13.52%) REST
12 186 (13.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 173 (12.12%) Laravel
14 162 (11.35%) RESTful
15 154 (10.79%) .NET Core
16 151 (10.58%) ASP.NET Core
17 148 (10.37%) .NET Framework
18 128 (8.97%) Ember.js
19 125 (8.76%) Backbone.js
20 120 (8.41%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.74%) Algorithms
2 133 (9.32%) Blockchain
2 133 (9.32%) Data Structures
3 125 (8.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 81 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
5 59 (4.13%) Hedge funds
6 55 (3.85%) Mobile App
7 51 (3.57%) Fixed Income
8 40 (2.80%) Legacy Code
9 31 (2.17%) Product Ownership
10 30 (2.10%) Cloud Native
11 29 (2.03%) IoT
12 28 (1.96%) Equities
13 23 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.61%) Private Cloud
14 22 (1.54%) Onboarding
15 19 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 12 (0.84%) Blog
16 12 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
17 10 (0.70%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 186 (13.03%) Linux
2 140 (9.81%) Windows
3 132 (9.25%) Android
4 131 (9.18%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.63%) Unix
6 8 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.070%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.070%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,427 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 410 (28.73%) Agile
3 371 (26.00%) DevOps
4 272 (19.06%) MVC
5 234 (16.40%) Web Development
6 231 (16.19%) User Experience
7 226 (15.84%) Artificial Intelligence
8 201 (14.09%) OO
9 198 (13.88%) OOP
10 196 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
11 188 (13.17%) Design Patterns
12 177 (12.40%) Software Engineering
13 174 (12.19%) CI/CD
14 170 (11.91%) SOLID
15 166 (11.63%) Responsive Web Design
16 149 (10.44%) TDD
17 133 (9.32%) Generative AI
18 125 (8.76%) API Management
18 125 (8.76%) Co-Creation
18 125 (8.76%) Design Thinking
Programming Languages
1 779 (54.59%) JavaScript
2 561 (39.31%) C#
3 441 (30.90%) SQL
4 322 (22.56%) Python
5 321 (22.49%) TypeScript
6 314 (22.00%) Java
7 222 (15.56%) PHP
8 62 (4.34%) T-SQL
9 26 (1.82%) Go
10 19 (1.33%) XPath
11 15 (1.05%) VB.NET
12 12 (0.84%) C++
13 10 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.70%) Ruby
14 9 (0.63%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.56%) Delphi
16 7 (0.49%) VBA
17 6 (0.42%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.42%) R
18 5 (0.35%) JSX
Qualifications
1 127 (8.90%) Degree
2 59 (4.13%) Security Cleared
3 58 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (2.52%) SC Cleared
5 19 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (0.63%) Postgraduate
7 7 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.28%) HND
9 3 (0.21%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.21%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.21%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.070%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.070%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.64%) QA
2 35 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.77%) GDPR
4 5 (0.35%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.14%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.14%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.070%) SLA
System Software
1 113 (7.92%) Docker
2 5 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.21%) KVM
3 3 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.070%) Varnish
5 1 (0.070%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 32 (2.24%) Terraform
3 11 (0.77%) Kibana
4 9 (0.63%) Ansible
5 7 (0.49%) Grafana
6 3 (0.21%) cPanel
6 3 (0.21%) Plesk
7 2 (0.14%) Rancher
8 1 (0.070%) Control-M
8 1 (0.070%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.070%) Kiali
8 1 (0.070%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 125 (8.76%) IBM
1 125 (8.76%) Red Hat
2 67 (4.70%) Microsoft
3 59 (4.13%) Google
4 25 (1.75%) Adobe
5 19 (1.33%) OpenAI
6 18 (1.26%) Cognizant
7 15 (1.05%) Oracle
8 10 (0.70%) Atlassian
8 10 (0.70%) Xamarin
9 9 (0.63%) UiPath
9 9 (0.63%) Zend
10 7 (0.49%) Dynatrace
10 7 (0.49%) Splunk
11 6 (0.42%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.28%) BT
12 4 (0.28%) F5
12 4 (0.28%) Facebook
12 4 (0.28%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (0.28%) WSO2