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 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 265 180
Rank change year-on-year +37 -85 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 613 560 1,238
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.10% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.19% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 483 335 1,126
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,875 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 59,148 46,920 69,596
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 91.95% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 36,872 24,291 54,623
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 6 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 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 6 February 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 +58 562 £65,000 +8.33% 177
UK excluding London +23 376 £60,000 +9.09% 152
London +53 198 £80,000 +14.29% 50
Work from Home +47 196 £60,000 +2.13% 110
South East +10 142 £60,000 +4.35% 59
North of England +39 101 £60,000 +26.32% 38
Midlands +19 60 £55,000 -4.35% 25
South West +13 42 £60,000 +9.09% 19
North West +19 39 £65,000 +33.33% 21
Yorkshire +6 38 £75,000 +50.00% 11
East Midlands -4 31 £55,000 - 12
West Midlands +21 29 £60,000 +2.13% 13
North East +8 24 £50,000 +17.65% 6
East of England 0 23 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Wales -4 8 £45,000 -29.69% 3
Scotland -21 3 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 February 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.

1 613 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 294 (47.96%) React
3 230 (37.52%) JavaScript
4 193 (31.48%) AWS
5 169 (27.57%) TypeScript
6 159 (25.94%) .NET
7 147 (23.98%) C#
8 145 (23.65%) Agile
9 143 (23.33%) Java
10 133 (21.70%) Azure
11 129 (21.04%) CI/CD
12 120 (19.58%) Node.js
12 120 (19.58%) Python
13 118 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
14 110 (17.94%) CSS
15 109 (17.78%) HTML
15 109 (17.78%) SQL
16 105 (17.13%) AngularJS
17 102 (16.64%) Microservices
18 97 (15.82%) DevOps
19 92 (15.01%) REST
20 88 (14.36%) Docker
21 80 (13.05%) Git
21 80 (13.05%) Vue
22 79 (12.89%) Software Engineering
23 74 (12.07%) AI
23 74 (12.07%) Serverless
24 71 (11.58%) Security Cleared
25 68 (11.09%) PostgreSQL
26 63 (10.28%) Spring

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 11 (1.79%) CMS
2 8 (1.31%) OpenStack
3 7 (1.14%) Confluence
4 6 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.65%) nginx
6 3 (0.49%) ColdFusion
6 3 (0.49%) Liferay
7 2 (0.33%) Drupal
7 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Kentico
8 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 193 (31.48%) AWS
2 133 (21.70%) Azure
3 74 (12.07%) Serverless
4 43 (7.01%) GitHub
4 43 (7.01%) SaaS
5 41 (6.69%) Amazon S3
6 39 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
7 38 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
8 36 (5.87%) GCP
9 30 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (1.96%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.31%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (0.98%) Amazon EventBridge
17 5 (0.82%) npm
18 4 (0.65%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.33%) AMQP
1 2 (0.33%) Broadband
1 2 (0.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.16%) Internet
2 1 (0.16%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (11.09%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (9.30%) SQL Server
3 46 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 41 (6.69%) Relational Database
5 31 (5.06%) MySQL
6 26 (4.24%) MongoDB
7 18 (2.94%) RDBMS
8 14 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.12%) Redis
10 10 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.63%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.47%) Power BI
12 8 (1.31%) DB2
13 3 (0.49%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.49%) ClickHouse
13 3 (0.49%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.33%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 80 (13.05%) Git
2 35 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.26%) Cypress.io
4 18 (2.94%) JUnit
5 17 (2.77%) Mockito
6 15 (2.45%) JIRA
7 12 (1.96%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.79%) Maven
9 9 (1.47%) JMeter
10 7 (1.14%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.14%) Selenium
11 6 (0.98%) GitLab
11 6 (0.98%) webpack
12 5 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.82%) git-flow
13 4 (0.65%) Mocha
14 3 (0.49%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.49%) ESLint
14 3 (0.49%) Storybook
14 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 93 (15.17%) Social Skills
2 60 (9.79%) Finance
3 38 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.06%) Banking
5 30 (4.89%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.59%) Aviation
7 21 (3.43%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.28%) Law
8 14 (2.28%) Retail
9 12 (1.96%) Games
10 11 (1.79%) Front Office
10 11 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.79%) Legal
11 10 (1.63%) Marketing
12 6 (0.98%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.82%) Electronics
13 5 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.82%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.49%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (47.96%) React
2 159 (25.94%) .NET
3 120 (19.58%) Node.js
4 110 (17.94%) CSS
5 109 (17.78%) HTML
6 105 (17.13%) AngularJS
7 92 (15.01%) REST
8 80 (13.05%) Vue
9 63 (10.28%) Spring
10 55 (8.97%) RESTful
11 52 (8.48%) .NET Core
12 40 (6.53%) Spring Boot
13 35 (5.71%) ASP.NET
13 35 (5.71%) Laravel
14 33 (5.38%) HTML5
15 32 (5.22%) CSS3
16 27 (4.40%) Kafka
17 26 (4.24%) Next.js
18 25 (4.08%) .NET Framework
19 24 (3.92%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.75%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.61%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.47%) Hedge funds
8 9 (1.47%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.65%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.65%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.65%) IoT
10 4 (0.65%) Sports Betting
11 3 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.33%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.33%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.28%) Linux
2 9 (1.47%) Android
2 9 (1.47%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.33%) Unix
3 2 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 145 (23.65%) Agile
3 129 (21.04%) CI/CD
4 118 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (16.64%) Microservices
6 97 (15.82%) DevOps
7 79 (12.89%) Software Engineering
8 74 (12.07%) AI
9 62 (10.11%) User Experience
10 50 (8.16%) SDLC
11 49 (7.99%) Clean Code
12 48 (7.83%) Scrum
13 47 (7.67%) TDD
14 46 (7.50%) API Development
14 46 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (7.01%) Web Development
16 39 (6.36%) Front End Development
16 39 (6.36%) Mentoring
17 37 (6.04%) Containerisation
18 35 (5.71%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 230 (37.52%) JavaScript
2 169 (27.57%) TypeScript
3 147 (23.98%) C#
4 143 (23.33%) Java
5 120 (19.58%) Python
6 109 (17.78%) SQL
7 44 (7.18%) PHP
8 16 (2.61%) C
9 13 (2.12%) Ruby
10 12 (1.96%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.47%) Bash
12 9 (1.47%) Go
13 8 (1.31%) C++
14 6 (0.98%) R
15 4 (0.65%) XAML
16 3 (0.49%) COBOL
16 3 (0.49%) Groovy
17 2 (0.33%) Bicep
17 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (11.58%) Security Cleared
2 39 (6.36%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.55%) Degree
4 29 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.65%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.22%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.75%) QA
3 8 (1.31%) WCAG
4 3 (0.49%) GDPR
5 1 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 88 (14.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (9.46%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.26%) Terraform
3 9 (1.47%) Kibana
4 8 (1.31%) Ansible
5 3 (0.49%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.33%) Argo
6 2 (0.33%) Nagios
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (3.75%) Oracle
2 15 (2.45%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.63%) Dynatrace
4 9 (1.47%) Splunk
5 8 (1.31%) Google
6 7 (1.14%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.65%) Telerik
8 3 (0.49%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.49%) Pega
8 3 (0.49%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.49%) WSO2
8 3 (0.49%) Zoho
9 2 (0.33%) Foundry
9 2 (0.33%) IBM
9 2 (0.33%) iManage
9 2 (0.33%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe
10 1 (0.16%) IONA
10 1 (0.16%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.16%) SAP