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 24 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 278 178
Rank change year-on-year +52 -100 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 668 516 1,277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.96% 1.09% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.19% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 536 329 1,139
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,500 £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 63,267 43,239 71,576
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 91.36% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 39,857 22,950 55,756
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,420
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 £92,500
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 24 February 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 24 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 +70 613 £65,000 +8.33% 168
UK excluding London +31 414 £60,000 +9.09% 150
Work from Home +55 231 £60,000 - 99
London +62 212 £80,000 +14.29% 34
South East -7 144 £60,000 +6.67% 46
North of England +51 115 £65,000 +18.18% 42
Midlands +15 70 £55,000 -4.35% 31
South West +5 51 £57,500 +4.55% 22
North West +31 50 £67,500 +22.73% 24
Yorkshire -6 39 £75,000 +42.86% 11
West Midlands +13 36 £57,500 -2.13% 26
East Midlands -7 34 £55,000 - 5
North East +10 26 £50,000 +17.65% 7
East of England -1 26 £92,500 +105.56% 5
Wales -10 8 £45,000 -29.69%
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1
Scotland -34 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 668 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 303 (45.36%) React
3 246 (36.83%) JavaScript
4 201 (30.09%) AWS
5 188 (28.14%) TypeScript
6 162 (24.25%) .NET
7 153 (22.90%) Java
8 152 (22.75%) Agile
8 152 (22.75%) C#
9 134 (20.06%) Node.js
10 133 (19.91%) Python
11 131 (19.61%) Azure
12 128 (19.16%) CI/CD
13 115 (17.22%) CSS
13 115 (17.22%) HTML
14 113 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
15 111 (16.62%) AngularJS
16 107 (16.02%) Microservices
17 106 (15.87%) SQL
18 95 (14.22%) DevOps
19 93 (13.92%) Docker
20 92 (13.77%) REST
21 86 (12.87%) Software Engineering
22 82 (12.28%) Vue
23 81 (12.13%) Git
24 78 (11.68%) Serverless
25 77 (11.53%) AI
26 73 (10.93%) Security Cleared
27 70 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
28 60 (8.98%) Kubernetes

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 (1.65%) CMS
2 9 (1.35%) Confluence
3 8 (1.20%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.60%) nginx
6 3 (0.45%) ColdFusion
6 3 (0.45%) Drupal
6 3 (0.45%) Liferay
7 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.15%) Apache
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) Kentico
8 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 201 (30.09%) AWS
2 131 (19.61%) Azure
3 78 (11.68%) Serverless
4 44 (6.59%) Amazon S3
4 44 (6.59%) SaaS
5 43 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (5.84%) GitHub
8 38 (5.69%) GCP
9 29 (4.34%) Amazon SQS
10 28 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (1.95%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (0.90%) Amazon EventBridge
17 4 (0.60%) Amazon ECR
17 4 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.30%) AMQP
1 2 (0.30%) Broadband
1 2 (0.30%) HTTP
2 1 (0.15%) Internet
2 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (7.93%) SQL Server
3 44 (6.59%) NoSQL
4 41 (6.14%) Relational Database
5 29 (4.34%) MongoDB
5 29 (4.34%) MySQL
6 16 (2.40%) RDBMS
7 13 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.95%) Redis
8 12 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.50%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.35%) Power BI
11 8 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.20%) DB2
12 3 (0.45%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.45%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.30%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.30%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 81 (12.13%) Git
2 36 (5.39%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.29%) Cypress.io
4 19 (2.84%) JUnit
5 17 (2.54%) Mockito
6 16 (2.40%) JIRA
7 12 (1.80%) Maven
7 12 (1.80%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.35%) JMeter
9 7 (1.05%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.05%) GitLab
9 7 (1.05%) Selenium
10 6 (0.90%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.90%) webpack
11 5 (0.75%) git-flow
12 4 (0.60%) Mocha
13 3 (0.45%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.45%) ESLint
13 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.30%) Storybook
General
1 89 (13.32%) Social Skills
2 68 (10.18%) Finance
3 38 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (5.09%) Banking
5 29 (4.34%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.29%) Aviation
7 21 (3.14%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.40%) Front Office
9 15 (2.25%) Retail
10 14 (2.10%) Games
11 13 (1.95%) Law
12 11 (1.65%) Legal
13 10 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.50%) Marketing
14 7 (1.05%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.05%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.75%) Electronics
15 5 (0.75%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.45%) Local Government
16 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (45.36%) React
2 162 (24.25%) .NET
3 134 (20.06%) Node.js
4 115 (17.22%) CSS
4 115 (17.22%) HTML
5 111 (16.62%) AngularJS
6 92 (13.77%) REST
7 82 (12.28%) Vue
8 60 (8.98%) Spring
9 50 (7.49%) .NET Core
10 48 (7.19%) RESTful
11 40 (5.99%) Spring Boot
12 37 (5.54%) Laravel
13 31 (4.64%) ASP.NET
13 31 (4.64%) Kafka
14 30 (4.49%) HTML5
15 29 (4.34%) CSS3
16 28 (4.19%) Next.js
17 24 (3.59%) Django
17 24 (3.59%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.19%) Cloud Native
2 26 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.25%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.35%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.20%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.05%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.60%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.60%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.60%) IoT
12 4 (0.60%) Sports Betting
13 2 (0.30%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.25%) Linux
2 8 (1.20%) Android
2 8 (1.20%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.30%) Unix
3 2 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 152 (22.75%) Agile
3 128 (19.16%) CI/CD
4 113 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (16.02%) Microservices
6 95 (14.22%) DevOps
7 86 (12.87%) Software Engineering
8 77 (11.53%) AI
9 58 (8.68%) User Experience
10 51 (7.63%) API Development
11 49 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (7.19%) Scrum
13 47 (7.04%) Clean Code
13 47 (7.04%) TDD
13 47 (7.04%) Web Development
14 46 (6.89%) SDLC
15 43 (6.44%) Front End Development
16 41 (6.14%) Mentoring
17 39 (5.84%) Containerisation
18 34 (5.09%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 246 (36.83%) JavaScript
2 188 (28.14%) TypeScript
3 153 (22.90%) Java
4 152 (22.75%) C#
5 133 (19.91%) Python
6 106 (15.87%) SQL
7 45 (6.74%) PHP
8 16 (2.40%) C
9 15 (2.25%) Ruby
10 13 (1.95%) Go
11 12 (1.80%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.35%) Bash
14 6 (0.90%) C++
14 6 (0.90%) R
15 4 (0.60%) XAML
16 3 (0.45%) COBOL
16 3 (0.45%) Groovy
16 3 (0.45%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.30%) RPG
Qualifications
1 73 (10.93%) Security Cleared
2 44 (6.59%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.79%) Degree
4 27 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.54%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.34%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.44%) QA
3 6 (0.90%) WCAG
4 1 (0.15%) GDPR
4 1 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 93 (13.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (8.98%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.84%) Terraform
3 10 (1.50%) Kibana
4 8 (1.20%) Ansible
5 4 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.45%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.30%) Argo
7 2 (0.30%) Grafana
7 2 (0.30%) Nagios
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (3.44%) Oracle
2 16 (2.40%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.50%) Dynatrace
4 9 (1.35%) Splunk
5 8 (1.20%) Google
5 8 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.60%) Telerik
7 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.45%) iManage
7 3 (0.45%) Pega
7 3 (0.45%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.45%) WSO2
7 3 (0.45%) Zoho
8 2 (0.30%) Foundry
8 2 (0.30%) IBM
8 2 (0.30%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe
9 1 (0.15%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.15%) SAP
9 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow