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 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 296 166
Rank change year-on-year +95 -130 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,034 497 1,338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.00% 1.00% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.11% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 903 372 957
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,375 £38,750
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 £75,000 £77,500 £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 97,698 44,800 78,990
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 90.07% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 66,827 26,689 53,699
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 £71,915
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,844
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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +92 917 £60,000 - 111
UK excluding London +100 786 £60,000 +4.35% 92
Work from Home +87 389 £60,000 - 72
North of England +127 252 £65,000 +8.33% 24
South East +72 221 £60,000 +4.35% 25
London -42 190 £78,500 +4.67% 35
Midlands +32 117 £60,000 +2.13% 18
North West +77 115 £65,000 +10.64% 14
Yorkshire +49 104 £75,000 +25.00% 10
South West -5 97 £56,250 -6.25% 16
West Midlands +7 72 £60,000 - 11
East Midlands +8 45 £60,000 +26.32% 7
East of England -19 43 £65,000 +44.44% 2
Scotland +30 42 £55,000 -4.35% 5
North East -25 33 £47,500 -40.63%
Wales -62 12 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Northern Ireland -76 2 £60,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 1,034 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 349 (33.75%) JavaScript
3 329 (31.82%) React
4 312 (30.17%) TypeScript
5 297 (28.72%) AWS
6 232 (22.44%) Node.js
7 195 (18.86%) Agile
8 192 (18.57%) .NET
9 186 (17.99%) CI/CD
10 179 (17.31%) Python
11 178 (17.21%) C#
12 167 (16.15%) Java
13 163 (15.76%) Azure
14 160 (15.47%) Microservices
15 147 (14.22%) AI
16 144 (13.93%) Software Engineering
17 134 (12.96%) AngularJS
18 129 (12.48%) CSS
19 123 (11.90%) HTML
20 115 (11.12%) Vue
21 114 (11.03%) SQL
22 113 (10.93%) DevOps
23 111 (10.74%) Docker
24 105 (10.15%) Serverless
25 104 (10.06%) Git
26 103 (9.96%) SaaS
27 93 (8.99%) Web Development
28 91 (8.80%) Problem-Solving
29 89 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
29 89 (8.61%) 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 13 (1.26%) CMS
1 13 (1.26%) Confluence
2 11 (1.06%) WordPress
3 7 (0.68%) ColdFusion
4 6 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.39%) IIS
6 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.097%) Apache
8 1 (0.097%) CICS
8 1 (0.097%) Drupal
8 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.097%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Elementor
3 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Shopify
2 1 (0.097%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.097%) Magento
2 1 (0.097%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 297 (28.72%) AWS
2 163 (15.76%) Azure
3 105 (10.15%) Serverless
4 103 (9.96%) SaaS
5 86 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (7.64%) Amazon S3
7 75 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
8 69 (6.67%) GitHub
9 49 (4.74%) Amazon SQS
9 49 (4.74%) GCP
10 37 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (2.71%) AWS Step Functions
12 27 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (2.32%) GitHub Copilot
14 19 (1.84%) Amazon ECR
14 19 (1.84%) Apigee
15 16 (1.55%) Anthropic Claude
15 16 (1.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.77%) Broadband
2 4 (0.39%) DNS
2 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.19%) Firewall
3 2 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.097%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (8.61%) SQL Server
2 87 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (4.93%) MongoDB
4 41 (3.97%) DynamoDB
5 38 (3.68%) MySQL
6 34 (3.29%) NoSQL
7 26 (2.51%) Relational Database
8 20 (1.93%) Redis
9 17 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.06%) Power BI
11 8 (0.77%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.39%) GIS
12 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.097%) BusinessObjects
15 1 (0.097%) Elasticsearch
15 1 (0.097%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 104 (10.06%) Git
2 52 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.77%) Cypress.io
4 28 (2.71%) GitLab
5 23 (2.22%) JIRA
6 22 (2.13%) Maven
7 18 (1.74%) JUnit
8 15 (1.45%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.06%) Mockito
10 10 (0.97%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.48%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.48%) Postman
11 5 (0.48%) Selenium
12 4 (0.39%) Vite
13 3 (0.29%) Storybook
13 3 (0.29%) Subversion
13 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.29%) webpack
14 2 (0.19%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.19%) JMeter
General
1 94 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 67 (6.48%) Finance
3 35 (3.38%) Public Sector
4 25 (2.42%) Retail
5 16 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.26%) Marketing
7 12 (1.16%) Legal
8 11 (1.06%) Front Office
8 11 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (0.87%) Banking
10 8 (0.77%) Games
10 8 (0.77%) Legal Technology
10 8 (0.77%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.68%) Advertising
12 5 (0.48%) Aviation
12 5 (0.48%) Law
12 5 (0.48%) Local Government
13 4 (0.39%) Publishing
14 3 (0.29%) Automotive
14 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (31.82%) React
2 232 (22.44%) Node.js
3 192 (18.57%) .NET
4 134 (12.96%) AngularJS
5 129 (12.48%) CSS
6 123 (11.90%) HTML
7 115 (11.12%) Vue
8 87 (8.41%) REST
9 74 (7.16%) Spring
10 70 (6.77%) RESTful
11 67 (6.48%) Spring Boot
12 55 (5.32%) Next.js
13 48 (4.64%) Jest
14 44 (4.26%) Ruby on Rails
15 41 (3.97%) .NET Core
16 38 (3.68%) ASP.NET
17 37 (3.58%) .NET Framework
17 37 (3.58%) GraphQL
18 36 (3.48%) Entity Framework
18 36 (3.48%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.54%) Cloud Native
2 41 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (1.74%) Mobile App
4 18 (1.74%) Product Ownership
5 15 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (0.97%) Fixed Income
6 10 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (0.77%) IoT
8 7 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.68%) Virtual Team
9 6 (0.58%) AI Agents
9 6 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (0.48%) NHS
10 5 (0.48%) Sports Betting
11 4 (0.39%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (0.39%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.39%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.39%) PropTech
12 3 (0.29%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.55%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.097%) Windows
3 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,034 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 195 (18.86%) Agile
3 186 (17.99%) CI/CD
4 160 (15.47%) Microservices
5 147 (14.22%) AI
6 144 (13.93%) Software Engineering
7 113 (10.93%) DevOps
8 93 (8.99%) Web Development
9 91 (8.80%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (6.58%) Clean Code
12 65 (6.29%) Mentoring
13 55 (5.32%) E-Commerce
13 55 (5.32%) Front End Development
14 54 (5.22%) User Experience
15 53 (5.13%) Computer Science
16 48 (4.64%) SDLC
17 45 (4.35%) Technical Leadership
18 43 (4.16%) Containerisation
19 42 (4.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 349 (33.75%) JavaScript
2 312 (30.17%) TypeScript
3 179 (17.31%) Python
4 178 (17.21%) C#
5 167 (16.15%) Java
6 114 (11.03%) SQL
7 56 (5.42%) PHP
8 45 (4.35%) Ruby
9 20 (1.93%) Bash
10 19 (1.84%) Groovy
11 15 (1.45%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.16%) Go
12 12 (1.16%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.68%) C++
14 2 (0.19%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.19%) C
14 2 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.097%) Bicep
15 1 (0.097%) CFML
15 1 (0.097%) R
Qualifications
1 74 (7.16%) Security Cleared
2 65 (6.29%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.32%) Degree
4 47 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.03%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
7 10 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.097%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.35%) Accessibility
2 9 (0.87%) QA
2 9 (0.87%) WCAG
3 2 (0.19%) GDPR
3 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.097%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.097%) HL7
4 1 (0.097%) SLA
4 1 (0.097%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 111 (10.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 42 (4.06%) Terraform
3 10 (0.97%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.58%) Ansible
4 6 (0.58%) Grafana
5 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.29%) Kibana
7 2 (0.19%) Argo
7 2 (0.19%) Podman
8 1 (0.097%) Nagios
Vendors
1 61 (5.90%) Microsoft
2 18 (1.74%) Oracle
3 16 (1.55%) Google
4 12 (1.16%) OpenAI
5 8 (0.77%) OneLogin
6 5 (0.48%) Dynatrace
6 5 (0.48%) Peregrine
7 4 (0.39%) Pega
7 4 (0.39%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.19%) Aderant
8 2 (0.19%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.19%) iManage
8 2 (0.19%) Intapp
8 2 (0.19%) Splunk
8 2 (0.19%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.19%) WSO2
9 1 (0.097%) Adobe
9 1 (0.097%) Confluent
9 1 (0.097%) Databricks