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 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 317 172
Rank change year-on-year +123 -145 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,001 435 1,635
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 0.99% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.10% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 861 341 1,302
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,325
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -9.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £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 86,118 39,518 92,024
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 89.61% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,984 22,887 67,462
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +113 909 £65,000 +8.33% 116
UK excluding London +125 706 £60,000 +9.09% 101
Work from Home +115 341 £63,750 +6.25% 62
South East +89 233 £60,000 +4.35% 28
London +56 233 £80,000 +10.34% 28
North of England +111 229 £70,000 +27.27% 33
Yorkshire +44 107 £75,000 +30.43% 15
North West +76 101 £67,500 +22.73% 12
Midlands +12 97 £60,000 +13.21% 16
South West -15 75 £55,000 -8.33% 11
West Midlands -13 53 £65,000 +10.64% 7
East of England -1 46 £100,000 +122.22% 10
East Midlands -3 44 £55,000 +15.79% 9
Scotland +12 22 £60,000 +17.07% 4
North East -26 21 £50,000 -2.44% 6
Wales -28 5 £52,500 -25.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 1,001 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 339 (33.87%) React
3 316 (31.57%) JavaScript
4 277 (27.67%) TypeScript
5 243 (24.28%) AWS
6 220 (21.98%) Node.js
7 197 (19.68%) .NET
8 191 (19.08%) Python
9 177 (17.68%) C#
10 163 (16.28%) Java
11 144 (14.39%) Software Engineering
12 140 (13.99%) Agile
13 135 (13.49%) Microservices
14 134 (13.39%) Azure
15 130 (12.99%) CSS
16 128 (12.79%) CI/CD
17 125 (12.49%) HTML
18 118 (11.79%) AngularJS
19 117 (11.69%) AI
20 114 (11.39%) DevOps
21 110 (10.99%) Vue
22 108 (10.79%) SQL
23 93 (9.29%) Docker
23 93 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
24 92 (9.19%) SaaS
24 92 (9.19%) Serverless
25 91 (9.09%) Git
26 90 (8.99%) Web Development
27 84 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
28 82 (8.19%) Security Cleared

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 15 (1.50%) Confluence
2 11 (1.10%) CMS
3 9 (0.90%) ColdFusion
4 8 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.60%) WordPress
6 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.30%) Liferay
7 3 (0.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.100%) CICS
9 1 (0.100%) Drupal
9 1 (0.100%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.100%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.100%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.100%) Magento
2 1 (0.100%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 243 (24.28%) AWS
2 134 (13.39%) Azure
3 92 (9.19%) SaaS
3 92 (9.19%) Serverless
4 66 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
5 61 (6.09%) Amazon S3
6 57 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
7 43 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
8 36 (3.60%) GCP
9 33 (3.30%) GitHub
10 28 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.70%) Power Platform
13 16 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (1.40%) Apigee
16 13 (1.30%) Amazon ECR
17 12 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
18 11 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
19 8 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.60%) Broadband
1 6 (0.60%) HTTP
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.100%) AMQP
4 1 (0.100%) Firewall
4 1 (0.100%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.09%) SQL Server
3 42 (4.20%) MongoDB
4 35 (3.50%) NoSQL
5 34 (3.40%) MySQL
6 21 (2.10%) DynamoDB
7 19 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.20%) Power BI
9 9 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.90%) Redis
10 7 (0.70%) DB2
11 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
12 3 (0.30%) TimescaleDB
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 91 (9.09%) Git
2 39 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 36 (3.60%) Cypress.io
4 23 (2.30%) JIRA
5 17 (1.70%) GitLab
6 16 (1.60%) Maven
7 11 (1.10%) JUnit
8 9 (0.90%) Mockito
9 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.50%) Selenium
12 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.30%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.30%) ESLint
12 3 (0.30%) webpack
13 2 (0.20%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.20%) Storybook
13 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 85 (8.49%) Social Skills
2 80 (7.99%) Finance
3 31 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (2.50%) Retail
5 23 (2.30%) Aviation
5 23 (2.30%) Public Sector
6 18 (1.80%) Banking
7 11 (1.10%) Front Office
7 11 (1.10%) Games
8 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
9 8 (0.80%) Marketing
10 7 (0.70%) Local Government
11 6 (0.60%) Advertising
11 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.60%) Law
11 6 (0.60%) Legal
12 5 (0.50%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.40%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.40%) Publishing
14 3 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (33.87%) React
2 220 (21.98%) Node.js
3 197 (19.68%) .NET
4 130 (12.99%) CSS
5 125 (12.49%) HTML
6 118 (11.79%) AngularJS
7 110 (10.99%) Vue
8 68 (6.79%) Spring
9 66 (6.59%) REST
9 66 (6.59%) RESTful
10 58 (5.79%) Spring Boot
11 54 (5.39%) Laravel
12 53 (5.29%) .NET Core
13 43 (4.30%) Next.js
14 39 (3.90%) GraphQL
14 39 (3.90%) Jest
15 35 (3.50%) React Native
16 34 (3.40%) Ruby on Rails
17 31 (3.10%) CSS3
17 31 (3.10%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 50 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 31 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (2.40%) Mobile App
4 19 (1.90%) Product Ownership
5 18 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.10%) Fixed Income
8 10 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (0.80%) Sports Betting
10 6 (0.60%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.50%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.50%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.40%) IoT
12 4 (0.40%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.40%) NHS
12 4 (0.40%) PropTech
13 3 (0.30%) Augmented Reality
13 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.40%) Linux
2 4 (0.40%) Android
2 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.100%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,001 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 144 (14.39%) Software Engineering
3 140 (13.99%) Agile
4 135 (13.49%) Microservices
5 128 (12.79%) CI/CD
6 117 (11.69%) AI
7 114 (11.39%) DevOps
8 93 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (8.99%) Web Development
10 73 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 63 (6.29%) Mentoring
12 49 (4.90%) Front End Development
13 48 (4.80%) Clean Code
14 46 (4.60%) Scrum
14 46 (4.60%) User Experience
15 45 (4.50%) SDLC
16 42 (4.20%) API Development
16 42 (4.20%) Containerisation
16 42 (4.20%) TDD
17 40 (4.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 316 (31.57%) JavaScript
2 277 (27.67%) TypeScript
3 191 (19.08%) Python
4 177 (17.68%) C#
5 163 (16.28%) Java
6 108 (10.79%) SQL
7 68 (6.79%) PHP
8 34 (3.40%) Ruby
9 13 (1.30%) Bash
10 12 (1.20%) C
10 12 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.00%) Go
11 10 (1.00%) Groovy
12 8 (0.80%) C++
12 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.50%) R
14 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.30%) COBOL
16 2 (0.20%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) RPG
Qualifications
1 82 (8.19%) Security Cleared
2 70 (6.99%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.00%) Degree
4 33 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.100%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.100%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.100%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.100%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.100%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.70%) QA
2 8 (0.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.20%) WCAG
4 1 (0.100%) HL7
4 1 (0.100%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 93 (9.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.100%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.30%) Terraform
3 8 (0.80%) Ansible
4 6 (0.60%) HP Fortify
4 6 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.30%) Grafana
6 3 (0.30%) Kibana
6 3 (0.30%) Nagios
7 2 (0.20%) Argo
7 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 32 (3.20%) Microsoft
2 23 (2.30%) Oracle
3 12 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
4 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
4 5 (0.50%) WooCommerce
5 4 (0.40%) Google
5 4 (0.40%) Pega
6 3 (0.30%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.20%) Aderant
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe
7 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.20%) Foundry
7 2 (0.20%) IBM
7 2 (0.20%) iManage
7 2 (0.20%) Intapp
7 2 (0.20%) SendGrid
7 2 (0.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.20%) WSO2