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 14 April 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 273 177
Rank change year-on-year +66 -96 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 891 451 1,554
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.09% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.22% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 754 354 1,292
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £92,500
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 78,468 36,897 87,959
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 89.58% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 50,382 23,363 65,606
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 14 April 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 14 April 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 +83 812 £65,000 +8.33% 124
UK excluding London +58 601 £60,000 +9.09% 108
Work from Home +74 297 £60,000 +4.35% 72
London +37 229 £80,000 +14.29% 41
North of England +67 189 £68,750 +25.00% 23
South East +21 189 £60,000 +9.09% 42
Midlands +9 92 £57,500 +15.00% 12
North West +34 91 £70,000 +27.27% 8
Yorkshire +2 79 £75,000 +36.36% 12
South West +2 73 £55,000 -8.33% 14
West Midlands +7 52 £60,000 +4.35% 4
East of England -15 42 £100,000 +122.22% 6
East Midlands -26 40 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North East -20 19 £50,000 +14.29% 3
Scotland -22 9 £60,000 +15.94% 8
Wales -25 8 £45,000 -15.09% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 14 April 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.

1 891 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 332 (37.26%) React
3 298 (33.45%) JavaScript
4 239 (26.82%) TypeScript
5 229 (25.70%) AWS
6 196 (22.00%) Node.js
7 181 (20.31%) .NET
8 173 (19.42%) Python
9 170 (19.08%) C#
10 159 (17.85%) Java
11 152 (17.06%) Agile
12 140 (15.71%) CI/CD
13 136 (15.26%) Azure
14 125 (14.03%) CSS
15 121 (13.58%) HTML
16 118 (13.24%) AngularJS
17 117 (13.13%) Microservices
17 117 (13.13%) SQL
18 114 (12.79%) Software Engineering
19 113 (12.68%) DevOps
20 109 (12.23%) Vue
21 97 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
22 92 (10.33%) AI
23 91 (10.21%) Docker
24 90 (10.10%) Git
24 90 (10.10%) Serverless
25 85 (9.54%) Web Development
26 78 (8.75%) REST
27 77 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
28 76 (8.53%) SaaS

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 9 (1.01%) Confluence
2 8 (0.90%) CMS
3 7 (0.79%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.79%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.45%) nginx
6 3 (0.34%) Liferay
6 3 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.22%) Drupal
7 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) CICS
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Shopify
2 1 (0.11%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.11%) Magento
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 229 (25.70%) AWS
2 136 (15.26%) Azure
3 90 (10.10%) Serverless
4 76 (8.53%) SaaS
5 64 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (6.40%) Amazon S3
7 47 (5.27%) Amazon ECS
8 40 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
8 40 (4.49%) GCP
9 36 (4.04%) GitHub
10 25 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (1.68%) Power Platform
13 13 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (1.12%) Apigee
14 10 (1.12%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (1.01%) Amazon ECR
16 7 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.34%) HTTP
2 2 (0.22%) AMQP
2 2 (0.22%) Broadband
3 1 (0.11%) DNS
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (7.07%) SQL Server
3 47 (5.27%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.04%) MongoDB
4 36 (4.04%) MySQL
5 27 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 21 (2.36%) DynamoDB
7 12 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.12%) Power BI
8 10 (1.12%) Redis
9 8 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.90%) DB2
10 7 (0.79%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.56%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.34%) ClickHouse
13 3 (0.34%) TimescaleDB
14 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.22%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 90 (10.10%) Git
2 34 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.37%) Cypress.io
4 17 (1.91%) JIRA
5 12 (1.35%) Maven
6 11 (1.23%) GitLab
6 11 (1.23%) JUnit
7 9 (1.01%) Mockito
8 8 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.67%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.67%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.67%) Selenium
10 5 (0.56%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.45%) webpack
12 3 (0.34%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.34%) ESLint
12 3 (0.34%) git-flow
12 3 (0.34%) JMeter
13 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.22%) NUnit
General
1 87 (9.76%) Social Skills
2 77 (8.64%) Finance
3 35 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (3.25%) Banking
5 23 (2.58%) Retail
6 22 (2.47%) Public Sector
7 21 (2.36%) Aviation
8 15 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.57%) Games
10 13 (1.46%) Front Office
11 9 (1.01%) Marketing
12 8 (0.90%) Tech for Good
13 7 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.79%) Local Government
14 6 (0.67%) Advertising
15 5 (0.56%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.56%) Law
15 5 (0.56%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.45%) Publishing
17 3 (0.34%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (37.26%) React
2 196 (22.00%) Node.js
3 181 (20.31%) .NET
4 125 (14.03%) CSS
5 121 (13.58%) HTML
6 118 (13.24%) AngularJS
7 109 (12.23%) Vue
8 78 (8.75%) REST
9 61 (6.85%) Spring
10 58 (6.51%) .NET Core
10 58 (6.51%) RESTful
11 51 (5.72%) Laravel
12 48 (5.39%) Spring Boot
13 36 (4.04%) Next.js
14 33 (3.70%) Jest
15 32 (3.59%) ASP.NET
16 29 (3.25%) GraphQL
17 28 (3.14%) Kafka
18 27 (3.03%) .NET Framework
18 27 (3.03%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.49%) Cloud Native
2 32 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
3 22 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.24%) Mobile App
5 18 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.23%) Fixed Income
7 9 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.79%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.67%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.67%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.45%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.45%) IoT
11 4 (0.45%) NHS
11 4 (0.45%) PropTech
12 3 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.34%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.46%) Linux
2 6 (0.67%) Android
2 6 (0.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 891 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 152 (17.06%) Agile
3 140 (15.71%) CI/CD
4 117 (13.13%) Microservices
5 114 (12.79%) Software Engineering
6 113 (12.68%) DevOps
7 97 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (10.33%) AI
9 85 (9.54%) Web Development
10 60 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (5.61%) API Development
11 50 (5.61%) Clean Code
12 47 (5.27%) Scrum
12 47 (5.27%) User Experience
13 46 (5.16%) Mentoring
14 43 (4.83%) Front End Development
15 42 (4.71%) SDLC
16 39 (4.38%) Test Automation
17 38 (4.26%) Unit Testing
18 37 (4.15%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 298 (33.45%) JavaScript
2 239 (26.82%) TypeScript
3 173 (19.42%) Python
4 170 (19.08%) C#
5 159 (17.85%) Java
6 117 (13.13%) SQL
7 61 (6.85%) PHP
8 27 (3.03%) Ruby
9 17 (1.91%) C
10 11 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.12%) Bash
11 10 (1.12%) Go
12 8 (0.90%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.67%) C++
14 5 (0.56%) Groovy
14 5 (0.56%) R
14 5 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.34%) COBOL
16 2 (0.22%) RPG
16 2 (0.22%) XAML
Qualifications
1 73 (8.19%) Security Cleared
2 56 (6.29%) SC Cleared
3 32 (3.59%) Degree
4 27 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.13%) QA
2 18 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.34%) WCAG
4 2 (0.22%) HL7
5 1 (0.11%) GDPR
5 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 91 (10.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.24%) Terraform
3 7 (0.79%) Ansible
4 5 (0.56%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.45%) Kibana
6 3 (0.34%) Nagios
7 2 (0.22%) Grafana
7 2 (0.22%) Podman
7 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (2.69%) Microsoft
2 22 (2.47%) Oracle
3 9 (1.01%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.67%) Dynatrace
5 4 (0.45%) Google
5 4 (0.45%) Pega
5 4 (0.45%) Telerik
6 3 (0.34%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.34%) Splunk
6 3 (0.34%) WooCommerce
6 3 (0.34%) Zoho
7 2 (0.22%) Aderant
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe
7 2 (0.22%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.22%) Foundry
7 2 (0.22%) IBM
7 2 (0.22%) iManage
7 2 (0.22%) Intapp
7 2 (0.22%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.22%) WSO2