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 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 306 170
Rank change year-on-year +116 -136 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,001 434 1,633
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.09% 0.99% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.10% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 859 340 1,298
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,375 £39,100
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,750 £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 86,124 39,293 92,007
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 89.47% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 56,991 22,669 67,426
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,729 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.34% +3.46% -5.66%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +125 910 £65,000 +8.33% 101
UK excluding London +125 707 £60,000 +9.09% 91
Work from Home +117 340 £65,000 +8.33% 53
London +44 233 £80,000 +10.34% 22
North of England +111 230 £70,000 +27.27% 30
South East +79 230 £60,000 +4.35% 27
Yorkshire +44 107 £75,000 +30.43% 13
North West +79 101 £67,500 +22.73% 11
Midlands +17 100 £60,000 +13.21% 15
South West -9 76 £55,000 -8.33% 9
West Midlands -18 56 £65,000 +10.64% 7
East of England +4 46 £100,000 +122.22% 8
East Midlands +5 44 £55,000 +15.79% 8
Scotland +7 22 £60,000 +17.07% 4
North East -25 22 £50,000 -2.44% 6
Wales -33 4 £53,750 -23.21% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 1,001 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 339 (33.87%) React
3 317 (31.67%) JavaScript
4 276 (27.57%) TypeScript
5 245 (24.48%) AWS
6 220 (21.98%) Node.js
7 195 (19.48%) .NET
8 192 (19.18%) Python
9 175 (17.48%) C#
10 166 (16.58%) Java
11 144 (14.39%) Software Engineering
12 143 (14.29%) Agile
13 138 (13.79%) Microservices
14 136 (13.59%) Azure
15 131 (13.09%) CSS
16 130 (12.99%) CI/CD
17 126 (12.59%) HTML
18 119 (11.89%) AngularJS
19 118 (11.79%) AI
20 115 (11.49%) DevOps
21 110 (10.99%) Vue
22 108 (10.79%) SQL
23 96 (9.59%) Docker
24 95 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
25 92 (9.19%) Serverless
26 91 (9.09%) SaaS
27 89 (8.89%) Git
27 89 (8.89%) Web Development
28 86 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
29 84 (8.39%) Security Cleared

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 15 (1.50%) Confluence
2 11 (1.10%) CMS
3 8 (0.80%) ColdFusion
3 8 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.60%) WordPress
5 3 (0.30%) Liferay
5 3 (0.30%) nginx
5 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.20%) Apache
6 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.100%) CICS
7 1 (0.100%) Drupal
7 1 (0.100%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.100%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.100%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.100%) Magento
2 1 (0.100%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 245 (24.48%) AWS
2 136 (13.59%) Azure
3 92 (9.19%) Serverless
4 91 (9.09%) SaaS
5 66 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
6 61 (6.09%) Amazon S3
7 58 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
8 43 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
9 36 (3.60%) GCP
10 32 (3.20%) GitHub
11 29 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (1.70%) Power Platform
14 16 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (1.40%) Apigee
17 13 (1.30%) Amazon ECR
18 12 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
19 11 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
20 8 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.60%) Broadband
1 6 (0.60%) HTTP
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.100%) AMQP
4 1 (0.100%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.09%) SQL Server
3 42 (4.20%) MongoDB
4 35 (3.50%) NoSQL
5 33 (3.30%) MySQL
6 21 (2.10%) DynamoDB
7 18 (1.80%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.20%) Power BI
9 10 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.80%) Redis
11 7 (0.70%) DB2
12 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
13 3 (0.30%) TimescaleDB
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.20%) GIS
14 2 (0.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 89 (8.89%) Git
2 39 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 36 (3.60%) Cypress.io
4 23 (2.30%) JIRA
5 18 (1.80%) Maven
6 17 (1.70%) GitLab
7 13 (1.30%) JUnit
8 11 (1.10%) Mockito
9 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.50%) Selenium
12 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.30%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.30%) ESLint
12 3 (0.30%) webpack
13 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.20%) Storybook
13 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 86 (8.59%) Social Skills
2 82 (8.19%) Finance
3 31 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (2.40%) Retail
5 23 (2.30%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.20%) Aviation
7 18 (1.80%) Banking
8 11 (1.10%) Front Office
8 11 (1.10%) Games
9 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
10 8 (0.80%) Marketing
11 7 (0.70%) Local Government
12 6 (0.60%) Advertising
12 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.60%) Law
12 6 (0.60%) Legal
13 5 (0.50%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.40%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.40%) Publishing
15 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (33.87%) React
2 220 (21.98%) Node.js
3 195 (19.48%) .NET
4 131 (13.09%) CSS
5 126 (12.59%) HTML
6 119 (11.89%) AngularJS
7 110 (10.99%) Vue
8 71 (7.09%) Spring
9 66 (6.59%) REST
10 65 (6.49%) RESTful
11 59 (5.89%) Spring Boot
12 53 (5.29%) Laravel
13 52 (5.19%) .NET Core
14 42 (4.20%) Next.js
15 39 (3.90%) Jest
16 37 (3.70%) GraphQL
17 34 (3.40%) React Native
17 34 (3.40%) Ruby on Rails
18 31 (3.10%) CSS3
18 31 (3.10%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 30 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (2.40%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.90%) Product Ownership
4 19 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.10%) Fixed Income
7 9 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (0.80%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.60%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.50%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.40%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.40%) NHS
11 4 (0.40%) PropTech
11 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.30%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (0.30%) IoT
12 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.60%) Linux
2 4 (0.40%) Android
2 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.100%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,001 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 144 (14.39%) Software Engineering
3 143 (14.29%) Agile
4 138 (13.79%) Microservices
5 130 (12.99%) CI/CD
6 118 (11.79%) AI
7 115 (11.49%) DevOps
8 95 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (8.89%) Web Development
10 75 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (6.49%) Mentoring
12 48 (4.80%) Clean Code
12 48 (4.80%) Front End Development
12 48 (4.80%) Scrum
13 47 (4.70%) User Experience
14 46 (4.60%) SDLC
15 45 (4.50%) Containerisation
16 44 (4.40%) TDD
17 42 (4.20%) Computer Science
18 41 (4.10%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 317 (31.67%) JavaScript
2 276 (27.57%) TypeScript
3 192 (19.18%) Python
4 175 (17.48%) C#
5 166 (16.58%) Java
6 108 (10.79%) SQL
7 67 (6.69%) PHP
8 34 (3.40%) Ruby
9 15 (1.50%) Bash
10 13 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.20%) C
12 10 (1.00%) Go
12 10 (1.00%) Groovy
13 8 (0.80%) C++
13 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.50%) R
15 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.30%) COBOL
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) RPG
Qualifications
1 84 (8.39%) Security Cleared
2 72 (7.19%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.20%) Degree
4 34 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.100%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.100%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.100%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.100%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.100%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.70%) QA
2 8 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.20%) WCAG
4 1 (0.100%) HL7
4 1 (0.100%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 96 (9.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.100%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.20%) Terraform
3 8 (0.80%) Ansible
4 7 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.60%) HP Fortify
6 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.40%) Grafana
8 3 (0.30%) Kibana
8 3 (0.30%) Nagios
9 2 (0.20%) Argo
9 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 32 (3.20%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.50%) Oracle
3 12 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
4 5 (0.50%) WooCommerce
5 4 (0.40%) Google
5 4 (0.40%) Pega
6 3 (0.30%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.20%) Aderant
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe
7 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.20%) Foundry
7 2 (0.20%) IBM
7 2 (0.20%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) Intapp
7 2 (0.20%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2