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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 290 165
Rank change year-on-year +93 -125 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,018 505 1,463
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.03% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.14% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 892 383 1,071
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,313 £76,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.82%

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 95,058 44,279 85,185
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 90.13% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 65,017 26,287 59,282
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +87 901 £60,000 - 117
UK excluding London +94 768 £60,000 +4.35% 99
Work from Home +80 393 £60,000 - 67
North of England +127 248 £65,000 +8.33% 24
South East +48 218 £60,000 +4.35% 32
London -27 192 £78,500 +4.67% 34
North West +62 113 £65,000 +18.18% 13
Midlands +18 109 £60,000 +2.13% 16
Yorkshire +50 104 £75,000 +25.00% 10
South West -5 95 £55,000 -8.33% 14
West Midlands +5 63 £60,000 - 9
East Midlands -2 46 £60,000 +26.32% 7
Scotland +39 42 £55,000 -4.35% 4
East of England -11 42 £75,000 +66.67% 8
North East -22 31 £47,500 -40.63% 1
Wales -58 12 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Northern Ireland -67 2 £60,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 25 July 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 1,018 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 344 (33.79%) JavaScript
3 330 (32.42%) React
4 308 (30.26%) TypeScript
5 290 (28.49%) AWS
6 230 (22.59%) Node.js
7 197 (19.35%) .NET
8 188 (18.47%) Agile
9 183 (17.98%) Python
10 180 (17.68%) C#
11 178 (17.49%) CI/CD
12 166 (16.31%) Java
13 160 (15.72%) Azure
14 152 (14.93%) Microservices
15 141 (13.85%) AI
16 140 (13.75%) Software Engineering
17 135 (13.26%) AngularJS
18 131 (12.87%) CSS
19 125 (12.28%) HTML
20 121 (11.89%) Vue
21 114 (11.20%) DevOps
22 113 (11.10%) SQL
23 108 (10.61%) Docker
24 104 (10.22%) Serverless
25 102 (10.02%) Git
26 98 (9.63%) SaaS
27 92 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
27 92 (9.04%) Web Development
28 91 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
29 89 (8.74%) SQL Server

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 16 (1.57%) CMS
2 13 (1.28%) Confluence
3 11 (1.08%) WordPress
4 8 (0.79%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.39%) IIS
5 4 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.29%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.098%) CICS
8 1 (0.098%) Drupal
8 1 (0.098%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.098%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.098%) Magento
2 1 (0.098%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 290 (28.49%) AWS
2 160 (15.72%) Azure
3 104 (10.22%) Serverless
4 98 (9.63%) SaaS
5 85 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
6 76 (7.47%) Amazon S3
7 75 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
8 67 (6.58%) GitHub
9 48 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
10 46 (4.52%) GCP
11 33 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 29 (2.85%) AWS Step Functions
13 24 (2.36%) GitHub Copilot
14 23 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (1.96%) Amazon ECR
16 20 (1.96%) Apigee
17 18 (1.77%) Power Platform
18 15 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.79%) Broadband
2 4 (0.39%) DNS
2 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.098%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 85 (8.35%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (5.01%) MongoDB
4 42 (4.13%) MySQL
5 40 (3.93%) DynamoDB
6 34 (3.34%) NoSQL
7 28 (2.75%) Relational Database
8 19 (1.87%) Redis
9 13 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.18%) Power BI
11 8 (0.79%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.20%) GIS
15 1 (0.098%) BusinessObjects
15 1 (0.098%) Db2
Development Applications
1 102 (10.02%) Git
2 52 (5.11%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.83%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.85%) GitLab
5 23 (2.26%) JIRA
6 21 (2.06%) Maven
7 15 (1.47%) JUnit
8 13 (1.28%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.88%) Mockito
11 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.39%) Postman
11 4 (0.39%) Selenium
11 4 (0.39%) Vite
12 3 (0.29%) Storybook
12 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.29%) webpack
13 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.20%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.20%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 91 (8.94%) Social Skills
2 67 (6.58%) Finance
3 28 (2.75%) Public Sector
4 26 (2.55%) Retail
5 18 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (1.18%) Front Office
6 12 (1.18%) Marketing
7 11 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.08%) Legal
8 10 (0.98%) Aviation
9 8 (0.79%) Banking
10 7 (0.69%) Advertising
10 7 (0.69%) Legal Technology
10 7 (0.69%) Tech for Good
11 6 (0.59%) Games
12 5 (0.49%) Law
12 5 (0.49%) Local Government
13 4 (0.39%) Publishing
14 3 (0.29%) Automotive
14 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (32.42%) React
2 230 (22.59%) Node.js
3 197 (19.35%) .NET
4 135 (13.26%) AngularJS
5 131 (12.87%) CSS
6 125 (12.28%) HTML
7 121 (11.89%) Vue
8 83 (8.15%) REST
9 72 (7.07%) Spring
10 68 (6.68%) Spring Boot
11 66 (6.48%) RESTful
12 50 (4.91%) Next.js
13 47 (4.62%) Jest
14 42 (4.13%) .NET Core
15 40 (3.93%) Laravel
15 40 (3.93%) Ruby on Rails
16 38 (3.73%) ASP.NET
17 37 (3.63%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.54%) .NET Framework
19 35 (3.44%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 36 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 17 (1.67%) Mobile App
4 17 (1.67%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.08%) Fixed Income
5 11 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (0.79%) IoT
7 7 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (0.69%) Sports Betting
8 5 (0.49%) AI Agents
8 5 (0.49%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.39%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (0.39%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.39%) Mainframe
9 4 (0.39%) NHS
9 4 (0.39%) PropTech
9 4 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.67%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.098%) Windows
3 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,018 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 188 (18.47%) Agile
3 178 (17.49%) CI/CD
4 152 (14.93%) Microservices
5 141 (13.85%) AI
6 140 (13.75%) Software Engineering
7 114 (11.20%) DevOps
8 92 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (9.04%) Web Development
9 91 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 67 (6.58%) Clean Code
11 66 (6.48%) Mentoring
12 55 (5.40%) Front End Development
13 53 (5.21%) E-Commerce
14 51 (5.01%) User Experience
15 49 (4.81%) Computer Science
15 49 (4.81%) SDLC
16 43 (4.22%) Containerisation
16 43 (4.22%) Test Automation
17 41 (4.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 344 (33.79%) JavaScript
2 308 (30.26%) TypeScript
3 183 (17.98%) Python
4 180 (17.68%) C#
5 166 (16.31%) Java
6 113 (11.10%) SQL
7 59 (5.80%) PHP
8 40 (3.93%) Ruby
9 20 (1.96%) Groovy
10 19 (1.87%) Bash
11 12 (1.18%) Go
12 11 (1.08%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.88%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.59%) C++
15 2 (0.20%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.20%) Bicep
15 2 (0.20%) C
15 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.098%) CFML
16 1 (0.098%) R
Qualifications
1 74 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 65 (6.39%) SC Cleared
3 52 (5.11%) Degree
4 45 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.098%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.38%) Accessibility
2 9 (0.88%) QA
2 9 (0.88%) WCAG
3 2 (0.20%) GDPR
3 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.098%) HL7
4 1 (0.098%) SLA
4 1 (0.098%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 108 (10.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 61 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.54%) Terraform
3 11 (1.08%) HP Fortify
4 7 (0.69%) Grafana
5 6 (0.59%) Ansible
5 6 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.29%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Argo
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
9 1 (0.098%) Nagios
Vendors
1 62 (6.09%) Microsoft
2 17 (1.67%) Oracle
3 15 (1.47%) Google
4 10 (0.98%) OpenAI
5 8 (0.79%) OneLogin
6 5 (0.49%) Dynatrace
6 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
7 4 (0.39%) Pega
7 4 (0.39%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.20%) Aderant
8 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.20%) iManage
8 2 (0.20%) Intapp
8 2 (0.20%) Splunk
8 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.20%) WSO2
9 1 (0.098%) Adobe
9 1 (0.098%) Confluent
9 1 (0.098%) Databricks