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 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 272 177
Rank change year-on-year +50 -95 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 634 548 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.10% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.20% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 501 333 1,123
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £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 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £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 60,794 45,662 70,425
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 91.74% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 38,174 23,853 55,156
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,280
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 13 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 13 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 +57 581 £65,000 +8.33% 180
UK excluding London +17 388 £60,000 +9.09% 152
Work from Home +38 210 £60,000 - 107
London +70 205 £80,000 +14.29% 53
South East +21 142 £60,000 +4.35% 53
North of England +56 106 £62,500 +25.00% 38
Midlands +20 64 £55,000 -4.35% 29
South West +4 45 £58,750 +6.82% 25
North West +23 43 £65,000 +23.81% 22
Yorkshire -4 38 £75,000 +50.00% 12
West Midlands +16 32 £57,500 -2.13% 21
East Midlands -3 32 £55,000 - 8
North East +13 25 £50,000 +17.65% 4
East of England -3 23 £60,000 +33.33% 3
Wales -8 8 £45,000 -29.69% 1
Scotland -32 2 - - 3
Northern Ireland -18 1 £60,000 -33.33% 2

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 634 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 297 (46.85%) React
3 235 (37.07%) JavaScript
4 194 (30.60%) AWS
5 176 (27.76%) TypeScript
6 157 (24.76%) .NET
7 148 (23.34%) Agile
7 148 (23.34%) Java
8 146 (23.03%) C#
9 129 (20.35%) Azure
10 128 (20.19%) CI/CD
11 127 (20.03%) Python
12 124 (19.56%) Node.js
13 119 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
14 111 (17.51%) CSS
14 111 (17.51%) HTML
15 108 (17.03%) AngularJS
16 106 (16.72%) SQL
17 103 (16.25%) Microservices
18 95 (14.98%) DevOps
19 93 (14.67%) REST
20 90 (14.20%) Docker
21 83 (13.09%) Software Engineering
22 82 (12.93%) Git
23 80 (12.62%) Vue
24 78 (12.30%) AI
25 75 (11.83%) Serverless
26 72 (11.36%) Security Cleared
27 69 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
28 62 (9.78%) 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 (1.74%) CMS
2 8 (1.26%) Confluence
2 8 (1.26%) OpenStack
3 6 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.63%) nginx
5 3 (0.47%) ColdFusion
5 3 (0.47%) Drupal
5 3 (0.47%) Liferay
6 2 (0.32%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) Kentico
7 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 194 (30.60%) AWS
2 129 (20.35%) Azure
3 75 (11.83%) Serverless
4 43 (6.78%) SaaS
5 42 (6.62%) Amazon S3
6 41 (6.47%) GitHub
7 40 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
9 35 (5.52%) GCP
10 29 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
12 21 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.89%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.26%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (0.95%) Amazon EventBridge
17 5 (0.79%) npm
18 4 (0.63%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.32%) AMQP
1 2 (0.32%) Broadband
1 2 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.16%) Internet
2 1 (0.16%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (8.68%) SQL Server
3 45 (7.10%) NoSQL
4 41 (6.47%) Relational Database
5 30 (4.73%) MySQL
6 27 (4.26%) MongoDB
7 17 (2.68%) RDBMS
8 14 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.05%) Redis
10 11 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.58%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.42%) Power BI
13 8 (1.26%) DB2
14 3 (0.47%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.47%) ClickHouse
14 3 (0.47%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.32%) Pinecone
15 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 2 (0.32%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 82 (12.93%) Git
2 35 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.15%) Cypress.io
4 18 (2.84%) JUnit
5 17 (2.68%) Mockito
6 16 (2.52%) JIRA
7 12 (1.89%) Maven
7 12 (1.89%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.42%) JMeter
9 7 (1.10%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.10%) Selenium
10 6 (0.95%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.95%) GitLab
10 6 (0.95%) webpack
11 5 (0.79%) git-flow
12 4 (0.63%) Mocha
13 3 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.47%) ESLint
13 3 (0.47%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.32%) Storybook
General
1 91 (14.35%) Social Skills
2 64 (10.09%) Finance
3 38 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.05%) Banking
5 29 (4.57%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.47%) Aviation
7 21 (3.31%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.21%) Law
8 14 (2.21%) Retail
9 13 (2.05%) Games
10 12 (1.89%) Front Office
11 11 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.74%) Legal
12 10 (1.58%) Marketing
13 8 (1.26%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.95%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.79%) Electronics
15 5 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.47%) Local Government
16 3 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (46.85%) React
2 157 (24.76%) .NET
3 124 (19.56%) Node.js
4 111 (17.51%) CSS
4 111 (17.51%) HTML
5 108 (17.03%) AngularJS
6 93 (14.67%) REST
7 80 (12.62%) Vue
8 62 (9.78%) Spring
9 52 (8.20%) .NET Core
10 51 (8.04%) RESTful
11 40 (6.31%) Spring Boot
12 36 (5.68%) Laravel
13 32 (5.05%) HTML5
14 31 (4.89%) CSS3
15 30 (4.73%) ASP.NET
16 28 (4.42%) Kafka
17 27 (4.26%) Next.js
18 25 (3.94%) Django
19 23 (3.63%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (4.10%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.94%) Greenfield Project
3 25 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.37%) Mobile App
6 12 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.42%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.26%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.63%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.63%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.63%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.63%) IoT
10 4 (0.63%) Sports Betting
11 3 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.32%) Animation
12 2 (0.32%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.37%) Linux
2 8 (1.26%) Android
2 8 (1.26%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.32%) Unix
3 2 (0.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 148 (23.34%) Agile
3 128 (20.19%) CI/CD
4 119 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (16.25%) Microservices
6 95 (14.98%) DevOps
7 83 (13.09%) Software Engineering
8 78 (12.30%) AI
9 62 (9.78%) User Experience
10 50 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (7.73%) Clean Code
12 48 (7.57%) API Development
12 48 (7.57%) Scrum
12 48 (7.57%) SDLC
12 48 (7.57%) TDD
13 43 (6.78%) Web Development
14 40 (6.31%) Mentoring
15 39 (6.15%) Containerisation
15 39 (6.15%) Front End Development
16 35 (5.52%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 235 (37.07%) JavaScript
2 176 (27.76%) TypeScript
3 148 (23.34%) Java
4 146 (23.03%) C#
5 127 (20.03%) Python
6 106 (16.72%) SQL
7 45 (7.10%) PHP
8 16 (2.52%) C
9 13 (2.05%) Ruby
10 12 (1.89%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.58%) Go
13 9 (1.42%) Bash
14 7 (1.10%) C++
15 6 (0.95%) R
16 4 (0.63%) XAML
17 3 (0.47%) COBOL
17 3 (0.47%) Groovy
17 3 (0.47%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 72 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.47%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.36%) Degree
4 28 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.32%) 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 33 (5.21%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.63%) QA
3 8 (1.26%) WCAG
4 2 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 90 (14.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.15%) Terraform
3 10 (1.58%) Kibana
4 8 (1.26%) Ansible
5 4 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.47%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.32%) Argo
7 2 (0.32%) Grafana
7 2 (0.32%) Nagios
8 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (3.63%) Oracle
2 16 (2.52%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.58%) Dynatrace
4 9 (1.42%) Splunk
5 8 (1.26%) Google
6 7 (1.10%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.63%) Telerik
8 3 (0.47%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.47%) Pega
8 3 (0.47%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.47%) WSO2
8 3 (0.47%) Zoho
9 2 (0.32%) Foundry
9 2 (0.32%) IBM
9 2 (0.32%) iManage
9 2 (0.32%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe
10 1 (0.16%) Databricks
10 1 (0.16%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.16%) ServiceNow