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 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 308 166
Rank change year-on-year +115 -142 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,001 413 1,655
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 0.97% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.09% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 859 321 1,313
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,000
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% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £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 86,685 38,020 93,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 89.33% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 57,629 21,313 68,696
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,620 £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 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.43%

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 26 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 26 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% 74
UK excluding London +136 709 £60,000 +9.09% 68
Work from Home +104 340 £65,000 +8.33% 45
North of England +118 238 £70,000 +27.27% 22
London +51 231 £80,000 +10.34% 18
South East +88 224 £60,000 +4.35% 22
Yorkshire +42 110 £75,000 +36.36% 11
North West +67 104 £67,500 +22.73% 6
Midlands +10 102 £60,000 +12.15% 11
South West -17 74 £55,000 -8.33% 5
West Midlands -18 56 £65,000 +8.33% 4
East Midlands -2 46 £55,000 +15.79% 7
East of England -7 46 £100,000 +122.22% 3
North East -24 24 £50,000 -13.04% 5
Scotland +8 22 £60,000 +20.00% 5
Wales -33 4 £53,750 -23.21% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 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
2 334 (33.37%) React
3 314 (31.37%) JavaScript
4 278 (27.77%) TypeScript
5 248 (24.78%) AWS
6 219 (21.88%) Node.js
7 197 (19.68%) .NET
8 187 (18.68%) Python
9 176 (17.58%) C#
10 165 (16.48%) Java
11 143 (14.29%) Agile
12 140 (13.99%) Software Engineering
13 139 (13.89%) Azure
14 137 (13.69%) Microservices
15 134 (13.39%) CI/CD
16 132 (13.19%) CSS
17 125 (12.49%) HTML
18 123 (12.29%) AngularJS
19 119 (11.89%) AI
20 115 (11.49%) DevOps
21 109 (10.89%) SQL
21 109 (10.89%) Vue
22 97 (9.69%) Docker
23 95 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
23 95 (9.49%) Serverless
24 90 (8.99%) Web Development
25 89 (8.89%) Git
25 89 (8.89%) SaaS
26 87 (8.69%) PostgreSQL
27 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 12 (1.20%) CMS
3 8 (0.80%) ColdFusion
3 8 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 7 (0.70%) WordPress
5 6 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.30%) Liferay
6 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.100%) CICS
8 1 (0.100%) Drupal
8 1 (0.100%) NServiceBus
8 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
1 248 (24.78%) AWS
2 139 (13.89%) Azure
3 95 (9.49%) Serverless
4 89 (8.89%) SaaS
5 69 (6.89%) AWS Lambda
6 64 (6.39%) Amazon S3
7 61 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
8 45 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
9 35 (3.50%) GCP
10 34 (3.40%) GitHub
11 30 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (1.80%) Power Platform
14 17 (1.70%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (1.50%) Apigee
16 14 (1.40%) Amazon ECR
17 12 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
18 8 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.60%) Broadband
2 5 (0.50%) HTTP
3 4 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.20%) Firewall
4 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.100%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (8.69%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.29%) SQL Server
3 42 (4.20%) MongoDB
4 36 (3.60%) NoSQL
5 34 (3.40%) MySQL
6 23 (2.30%) DynamoDB
7 18 (1.80%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.20%) Power BI
9 11 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.80%) Redis
11 6 (0.60%) 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 41 (4.10%) Jenkins
3 36 (3.60%) Cypress.io
4 23 (2.30%) JIRA
5 18 (1.80%) GitLab
5 18 (1.80%) Maven
6 13 (1.30%) JUnit
7 11 (1.10%) Mockito
8 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.50%) Selenium
11 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.30%) ESLint
12 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.20%) Storybook
12 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.20%) webpack
General
1 86 (8.59%) Social Skills
2 80 (7.99%) Finance
3 31 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (2.40%) Retail
5 23 (2.30%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.10%) Aviation
7 18 (1.80%) Banking
8 11 (1.10%) Front Office
9 10 (1.00%) Games
9 10 (1.00%) Marketing
10 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.70%) Legal
11 7 (0.70%) Local Government
12 6 (0.60%) Advertising
12 6 (0.60%) Law
13 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
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
1 334 (33.37%) React
2 219 (21.88%) Node.js
3 197 (19.68%) .NET
4 132 (13.19%) CSS
5 125 (12.49%) HTML
6 123 (12.29%) AngularJS
7 109 (10.89%) Vue
8 70 (6.99%) Spring
9 69 (6.89%) REST
10 66 (6.59%) RESTful
11 60 (5.99%) Spring Boot
12 52 (5.19%) Laravel
13 51 (5.09%) .NET Core
14 41 (4.10%) Next.js
15 39 (3.90%) Jest
16 38 (3.80%) GraphQL
17 34 (3.40%) Ruby on Rails
18 32 (3.20%) React Native
19 31 (3.10%) CSS3
19 31 (3.10%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 51 (5.09%) Cloud Native
2 28 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (2.30%) 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
2 143 (14.29%) Agile
3 140 (13.99%) Software Engineering
4 137 (13.69%) Microservices
5 134 (13.39%) CI/CD
6 119 (11.89%) AI
7 115 (11.49%) DevOps
8 95 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (8.99%) Web Development
10 76 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 67 (6.69%) Mentoring
12 49 (4.90%) User Experience
13 48 (4.80%) Scrum
14 47 (4.70%) Clean Code
14 47 (4.70%) Front End Development
15 46 (4.60%) Containerisation
16 45 (4.50%) SDLC
17 43 (4.30%) TDD
18 42 (4.20%) Computer Science
19 41 (4.10%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 314 (31.37%) JavaScript
2 278 (27.77%) TypeScript
3 187 (18.68%) Python
4 176 (17.58%) C#
5 165 (16.48%) Java
6 109 (10.89%) SQL
7 66 (6.59%) PHP
8 34 (3.40%) Ruby
9 15 (1.50%) Bash
10 13 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.20%) Groovy
12 10 (1.00%) Go
13 9 (0.90%) C
14 8 (0.80%) C++
14 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.50%) R
16 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) RPG
18 1 (0.100%) T-SQL
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 11 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.100%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.100%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.100%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Certification
9 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 97 (9.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.100%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (5.49%) 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 34 (3.40%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.40%) 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