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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 288 163
Rank change year-on-year +92 -125 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,022 506 1,538
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.03% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.14% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 899 384 1,142
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,625 £76,563 £76,250
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% -0.75%

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 94,464 44,263 88,687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 90.01% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 64,822 26,191 62,318
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,183
90th Percentile £96,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 22 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 22 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 +90 905 £60,000 - 108
UK excluding London +94 768 £60,000 +4.35% 97
Work from Home +90 394 £60,000 - 52
North of England +123 249 £65,000 +8.33% 18
South East +64 222 £60,000 +4.35% 32
London -17 195 £79,250 +5.67% 26
North West +68 113 £65,000 +18.18% 9
Midlands +29 107 £60,000 +2.13% 18
Yorkshire +48 105 £75,000 +25.00% 7
South West -6 95 £55,000 -8.33% 15
West Midlands +11 62 £60,000 - 11
East Midlands +3 45 £60,000 +26.32% 7
Scotland +36 41 £55,000 -4.35% 5
East of England -9 40 £77,500 +72.22% 8
North East -24 31 £47,500 -40.63% 2
Wales -61 12 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Northern Ireland -65 2 £60,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 1,022 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 344 (33.66%) JavaScript
3 332 (32.49%) React
4 306 (29.94%) TypeScript
5 287 (28.08%) AWS
6 232 (22.70%) Node.js
7 196 (19.18%) .NET
8 185 (18.10%) Python
9 183 (17.91%) Agile
10 181 (17.71%) C#
11 171 (16.73%) CI/CD
12 165 (16.14%) Java
13 158 (15.46%) Azure
14 150 (14.68%) Microservices
15 141 (13.80%) Software Engineering
16 140 (13.70%) AI
17 134 (13.11%) AngularJS
18 128 (12.52%) CSS
19 124 (12.13%) HTML
20 119 (11.64%) Vue
21 112 (10.96%) DevOps
22 109 (10.67%) SQL
23 105 (10.27%) Serverless
24 103 (10.08%) Docker
25 97 (9.49%) Git
26 94 (9.20%) SaaS
27 92 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
28 91 (8.90%) Web Development
29 89 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
30 85 (8.32%) AWS Lambda

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 (1.27%) Confluence
3 11 (1.08%) WordPress
4 8 (0.78%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.39%) IIS
6 3 (0.29%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 (0.68%) 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
1 287 (28.08%) AWS
2 158 (15.46%) Azure
3 105 (10.27%) Serverless
4 94 (9.20%) SaaS
5 85 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
6 76 (7.44%) Amazon S3
7 74 (7.24%) Amazon ECS
8 63 (6.16%) GitHub
9 48 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
10 46 (4.50%) GCP
11 34 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (2.74%) AWS Step Functions
13 27 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
15 22 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (1.86%) Amazon ECR
17 19 (1.86%) Apigee
18 17 (1.66%) Power Platform
19 14 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.78%) 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 84 (8.22%) SQL Server
2 83 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (4.99%) MongoDB
4 41 (4.01%) MySQL
5 38 (3.72%) DynamoDB
6 34 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 27 (2.64%) Relational Database
8 19 (1.86%) Redis
9 13 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.08%) Power BI
11 8 (0.78%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.20%) GIS
14 2 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
15 1 (0.098%) BusinessObjects
15 1 (0.098%) Db2
Development Applications
1 97 (9.49%) Git
2 50 (4.89%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.82%) Cypress.io
4 26 (2.54%) GitLab
5 23 (2.25%) JIRA
6 19 (1.86%) Maven
7 14 (1.37%) JUnit
8 13 (1.27%) Claude Code
9 10 (0.98%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.78%) Mockito
11 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.39%) Postman
11 4 (0.39%) Selenium
12 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.29%) Vite
13 2 (0.20%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.20%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.20%) Karma Test Runner
13 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.20%) YouTrack
General
1 90 (8.81%) Social Skills
2 67 (6.56%) Finance
3 28 (2.74%) Public Sector
4 26 (2.54%) Retail
5 19 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (1.17%) Front Office
7 11 (1.08%) Aviation
7 11 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.08%) Legal
7 11 (1.08%) Marketing
8 8 (0.78%) Banking
9 7 (0.68%) Advertising
9 7 (0.68%) Legal Technology
9 7 (0.68%) Tech for Good
10 6 (0.59%) Games
11 5 (0.49%) Law
11 5 (0.49%) Local Government
12 4 (0.39%) Publishing
13 3 (0.29%) Automotive
13 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (32.49%) React
2 232 (22.70%) Node.js
3 196 (19.18%) .NET
4 134 (13.11%) AngularJS
5 128 (12.52%) CSS
6 124 (12.13%) HTML
7 119 (11.64%) Vue
8 79 (7.73%) REST
9 70 (6.85%) Spring
10 66 (6.46%) Spring Boot
11 65 (6.36%) RESTful
12 48 (4.70%) Next.js
13 46 (4.50%) Jest
14 41 (4.01%) Ruby on Rails
15 40 (3.91%) .NET Core
15 40 (3.91%) Laravel
16 38 (3.72%) GraphQL
17 36 (3.52%) ASP.NET
18 35 (3.42%) .NET Framework
19 34 (3.33%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.05%) Cloud Native
2 34 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (1.66%) Mobile App
5 17 (1.66%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.08%) Fixed Income
6 11 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (0.88%) IoT
8 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.68%) Sports Betting
9 5 (0.49%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.49%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.39%) Augmented Reality
10 4 (0.39%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.39%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.39%) NHS
10 4 (0.39%) PropTech
10 4 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.57%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.098%) Windows
3 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,022 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 183 (17.91%) Agile
3 171 (16.73%) CI/CD
4 150 (14.68%) Microservices
5 141 (13.80%) Software Engineering
6 140 (13.70%) AI
7 112 (10.96%) DevOps
8 92 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (8.90%) Web Development
10 89 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (6.36%) Clean Code
12 63 (6.16%) Mentoring
13 54 (5.28%) Front End Development
14 53 (5.19%) E-Commerce
15 50 (4.89%) User Experience
16 48 (4.70%) Computer Science
17 43 (4.21%) SDLC
18 41 (4.01%) Containerisation
19 40 (3.91%) TDD
19 40 (3.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 344 (33.66%) JavaScript
2 306 (29.94%) TypeScript
3 185 (18.10%) Python
4 181 (17.71%) C#
5 165 (16.14%) Java
6 109 (10.67%) SQL
7 60 (5.87%) PHP
8 41 (4.01%) Ruby
9 19 (1.86%) Groovy
10 17 (1.66%) Bash
11 12 (1.17%) Go
12 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.88%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.68%) C++
15 3 (0.29%) C
16 2 (0.20%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.20%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.098%) Dart
17 1 (0.098%) R
Qualifications
1 74 (7.24%) Security Cleared
2 65 (6.36%) SC Cleared
3 51 (4.99%) Degree
4 44 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 10 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 10 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.098%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.17%) Accessibility
2 9 (0.88%) QA
2 9 (0.88%) WCAG
3 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.098%) GDPR
3 1 (0.098%) HL7
3 1 (0.098%) SLA
3 1 (0.098%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 103 (10.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (5.87%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.42%) Terraform
3 10 (0.98%) HP Fortify
4 7 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.59%) Ansible
5 6 (0.59%) Grafana
6 5 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.29%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Argo
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 60 (5.87%) Microsoft
2 16 (1.57%) Oracle
3 15 (1.47%) Google
4 10 (0.98%) OpenAI
5 8 (0.78%) 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