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 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 308 164
Rank change year-on-year +114 -144 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,000 445 1,801
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 0.98% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.10% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 874 344 1,384
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 89,296 40,583 101,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.54% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61,271 23,147 73,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,734
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +108 895 £65,000 +4.00% 81
UK excluding London +124 729 £60,000 +4.35% 79
Work from Home +100 364 £62,500 +4.17% 47
North of England +126 251 £67,500 +22.73% 14
South East +66 212 £60,000 +4.35% 20
London +4 212 £80,000 +8.47% 24
North West +79 117 £67,500 +22.73% 9
Yorkshire +57 107 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Midlands +24 101 £60,000 +4.35% 18
South West -6 82 £55,000 -8.33% 10
West Midlands +1 55 £70,000 +14.29% 9
East Midlands -3 46 £55,000 +15.79% 9
East of England -11 40 £82,500 +83.33% 4
Scotland +20 31 £55,000 +4.76% 9
North East -24 27 £50,000 -16.67% 2
Wales -44 10 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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 1,000 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 317 (31.70%) React
3 313 (31.30%) JavaScript
4 293 (29.30%) TypeScript
5 278 (27.80%) AWS
6 218 (21.80%) Node.js
7 188 (18.80%) .NET
8 187 (18.70%) Python
9 169 (16.90%) Java
10 167 (16.70%) C#
11 156 (15.60%) Agile
12 153 (15.30%) Azure
13 151 (15.10%) CI/CD
14 145 (14.50%) Microservices
15 138 (13.80%) AI
16 136 (13.60%) AngularJS
17 134 (13.40%) Software Engineering
18 125 (12.50%) CSS
19 119 (11.90%) HTML
20 118 (11.80%) Vue
21 111 (11.10%) DevOps
22 107 (10.70%) SQL
23 105 (10.50%) Serverless
24 102 (10.20%) Docker
25 94 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
26 90 (9.00%) SaaS
27 86 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
28 85 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
28 85 (8.50%) Git
29 84 (8.40%) PostgreSQL

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 13 (1.30%) CMS
2 12 (1.20%) Confluence
3 8 (0.80%) ColdFusion
3 8 (0.80%) WordPress
4 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.20%) Apache
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
6 2 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.10%) CICS
7 1 (0.10%) Drupal
7 1 (0.10%) Liferay
7 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Elementor
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 278 (27.80%) AWS
2 153 (15.30%) Azure
3 105 (10.50%) Serverless
4 90 (9.00%) SaaS
5 85 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
6 76 (7.60%) Amazon S3
7 71 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
8 48 (4.80%) Amazon SQS
9 46 (4.60%) GitHub
10 42 (4.20%) GCP
11 32 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
12 27 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
13 26 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (2.00%) Power Platform
16 19 (1.90%) Amazon ECR
16 19 (1.90%) Apigee
17 16 (1.60%) GitHub Copilot
18 14 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
19 11 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.80%) Broadband
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
2 4 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.30%) SQL Server
3 47 (4.70%) MongoDB
4 38 (3.80%) MySQL
5 32 (3.20%) DynamoDB
6 29 (2.90%) NoSQL
7 23 (2.30%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.20%) Power BI
8 12 (1.20%) Redis
9 10 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.80%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.20%) GIS
13 2 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
14 1 (0.10%) BusinessObjects
14 1 (0.10%) Db2
Development Applications
1 85 (8.50%) Git
2 44 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 41 (4.10%) Cypress.io
4 26 (2.60%) GitLab
5 21 (2.10%) JIRA
5 21 (2.10%) Maven
6 15 (1.50%) JUnit
7 11 (1.10%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.00%) Mockito
8 10 (1.00%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.30%) Postman
11 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.20%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.20%) JMeter
11 2 (0.20%) NUnit
11 2 (0.20%) Selenium
11 2 (0.20%) Subversion
11 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 87 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 75 (7.50%) Finance
3 29 (2.90%) Public Sector
4 24 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (2.30%) Retail
6 16 (1.60%) Aviation
7 11 (1.10%) Banking
7 11 (1.10%) Front Office
8 10 (1.00%) Legal
8 10 (1.00%) Marketing
9 9 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
10 8 (0.80%) Local Government
11 7 (0.70%) Games
12 6 (0.60%) Advertising
12 6 (0.60%) Law
12 6 (0.60%) Legal Technology
13 4 (0.40%) Publishing
14 2 (0.20%) Automotive
14 2 (0.20%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (31.70%) React
2 218 (21.80%) Node.js
3 188 (18.80%) .NET
4 136 (13.60%) AngularJS
5 125 (12.50%) CSS
6 119 (11.90%) HTML
7 118 (11.80%) Vue
8 68 (6.80%) Spring
9 67 (6.70%) REST
10 65 (6.50%) Spring Boot
11 62 (6.20%) RESTful
12 49 (4.90%) .NET Core
13 47 (4.70%) Laravel
14 44 (4.40%) Jest
15 42 (4.20%) Next.js
16 40 (4.00%) Ruby on Rails
17 37 (3.70%) GraphQL
18 29 (2.90%) HTML5
19 27 (2.70%) CSS3
20 24 (2.40%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.10%) Cloud Native
2 26 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (1.80%) Mobile App
3 18 (1.80%) Product Ownership
4 17 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.10%) Fixed Income
6 11 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (0.70%) Sports Betting
8 6 (0.60%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (0.40%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.40%) IoT
9 4 (0.40%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.40%) NHS
9 4 (0.40%) PropTech
9 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.30%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.80%) Linux
2 2 (0.20%) AIX
2 2 (0.20%) Android
2 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 156 (15.60%) Agile
3 151 (15.10%) CI/CD
4 145 (14.50%) Microservices
5 138 (13.80%) AI
6 134 (13.40%) Software Engineering
7 111 (11.10%) DevOps
8 94 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 81 (8.10%) Web Development
11 64 (6.40%) Mentoring
12 56 (5.60%) Clean Code
13 49 (4.90%) Front End Development
14 48 (4.80%) Computer Science
14 48 (4.80%) Containerisation
15 46 (4.60%) User Experience
16 40 (4.00%) SDLC
17 39 (3.90%) TDD
18 38 (3.80%) E-Commerce
18 38 (3.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 313 (31.30%) JavaScript
2 293 (29.30%) TypeScript
3 187 (18.70%) Python
4 169 (16.90%) Java
5 167 (16.70%) C#
6 107 (10.70%) SQL
7 62 (6.20%) PHP
8 40 (4.00%) Ruby
9 19 (1.90%) Bash
9 19 (1.90%) Groovy
10 12 (1.20%) Go
10 12 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.70%) C++
13 6 (0.60%) C
14 4 (0.40%) R
15 2 (0.20%) Bicep
15 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.10%) Dart
Qualifications
1 84 (8.40%) Security Cleared
2 74 (7.40%) SC Cleared
3 48 (4.80%) Degree
4 41 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.50%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 10 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.40%) QA
2 9 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.60%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.10%) HL7
4 1 (0.10%) SLA
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 102 (10.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (5.40%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.30%) Terraform
3 10 (1.00%) HP Fortify
4 7 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.60%) Ansible
5 6 (0.60%) Grafana
6 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.30%) Argo
7 3 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 41 (4.10%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.10%) Oracle
3 12 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.60%) OneLogin
5 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
6 4 (0.40%) Pega
7 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.30%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.20%) Aderant
8 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.20%) Foundry
8 2 (0.20%) Google
8 2 (0.20%) iManage
8 2 (0.20%) Intapp
8 2 (0.20%) Splunk
8 2 (0.20%) WSO2
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe
9 1 (0.10%) Confluent
9 1 (0.10%) Databricks