Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 309 197
Rank change year-on-year +87 -112 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,018 439 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.87% 0.89% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.99% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 861 323 656
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

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 108,916 44,178 72,902
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 89.68% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 74,482 25,948 42,900
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £40,552 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,769
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 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 September 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 +94 905 £60,000 - 305
UK excluding London +103 766 £60,000 +4.35% 183
Work from Home +74 358 £60,000 - 166
North of England +81 224 £67,500 +12.50% 61
South East +37 215 £60,000 +4.35% 40
London -16 207 £67,500 -11.48% 136
Midlands +22 113 £60,000 - 28
Yorkshire +57 112 £75,000 +25.00% 23
South West -1 109 £60,000 - 19
North West +25 84 £62,500 +4.17% 34
West Midlands -7 66 £70,000 +16.67% 20
Scotland +39 52 £57,500 -4.17% 11
East Midlands +7 47 £60,000 +26.32% 8
East of England -22 39 £65,000 +57.58% 12
North East -46 28 £46,250 -22.92% 5
Wales -77 14 £62,500 +4.17% 1

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

For the 6 months to 24 September 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 1,018 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 347 (34.09%) JavaScript
3 309 (30.35%) React
4 305 (29.96%) TypeScript
5 298 (29.27%) AWS
6 218 (21.41%) Node.js
7 197 (19.35%) CI/CD
8 193 (18.96%) Agile
9 190 (18.66%) .NET
10 177 (17.39%) C#
11 174 (17.09%) Azure
12 171 (16.80%) Microservices
13 158 (15.52%) Java
14 155 (15.23%) AI
15 146 (14.34%) Python
16 127 (12.48%) CSS
17 123 (12.08%) HTML
17 123 (12.08%) Software Engineering
18 120 (11.79%) AngularJS
18 120 (11.79%) Docker
19 107 (10.51%) SaaS
20 105 (10.31%) SQL
21 104 (10.22%) SQL Server
22 103 (10.12%) Git
22 103 (10.12%) Problem-Solving
23 100 (9.82%) DevOps
24 99 (9.72%) Serverless
25 93 (9.14%) REST
26 92 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
27 91 (8.94%) Vue

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 (1.47%) Confluence
2 14 (1.38%) WordPress
3 11 (1.08%) CMS
4 7 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.39%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.39%) IIS
6 3 (0.29%) nginx
6 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.098%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.098%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.098%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 298 (29.27%) AWS
2 174 (17.09%) Azure
3 107 (10.51%) SaaS
4 99 (9.72%) Serverless
5 85 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (8.06%) Amazon S3
7 81 (7.96%) GitHub
8 75 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
10 48 (4.72%) GCP
11 39 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (2.75%) AWS Step Functions
15 27 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
15 27 (2.65%) Snowflake
16 19 (1.87%) Amazon ECR
17 18 (1.77%) Anthropic Claude
17 18 (1.77%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.69%) Broadband
2 4 (0.39%) DNS
2 4 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.098%) Internet
4 1 (0.098%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (10.22%) SQL Server
2 86 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (5.40%) MongoDB
4 44 (4.32%) DynamoDB
5 34 (3.34%) MySQL
6 29 (2.85%) Redis
6 29 (2.85%) Relational Database
7 28 (2.75%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.18%) Power BI
10 8 (0.79%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.39%) GIS
12 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.29%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.098%) ClickHouse
14 1 (0.098%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.098%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.098%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 103 (10.12%) Git
2 56 (5.50%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.32%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.85%) GitLab
5 23 (2.26%) Maven
6 20 (1.96%) JUnit
7 18 (1.77%) JIRA
8 17 (1.67%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.28%) Mockito
10 11 (1.08%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.88%) Storybook
11 9 (0.88%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.88%) Vite
12 7 (0.69%) NUnit
13 6 (0.59%) Postman
13 6 (0.59%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.49%) Selenium
15 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.39%) Subversion
16 3 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 104 (10.22%) Social Skills
2 75 (7.37%) Public Sector
3 54 (5.30%) Finance
4 16 (1.57%) Retail
5 14 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (1.28%) Marketing
7 12 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.18%) Legal
8 7 (0.69%) Legal Technology
9 5 (0.49%) Banking
10 4 (0.39%) Advertising
10 4 (0.39%) Aviation
10 4 (0.39%) Games
11 3 (0.29%) Automotive
11 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Law
11 3 (0.29%) Local Government
11 3 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (30.35%) React
2 218 (21.41%) Node.js
3 190 (18.66%) .NET
4 127 (12.48%) CSS
5 123 (12.08%) HTML
6 120 (11.79%) AngularJS
7 93 (9.14%) REST
8 91 (8.94%) Vue
9 78 (7.66%) Spring
10 76 (7.47%) RESTful
11 71 (6.97%) Spring Boot
12 56 (5.50%) Next.js
13 52 (5.11%) Jest
14 50 (4.91%) Ruby on Rails
15 44 (4.32%) .NET Core
16 40 (3.93%) .NET Framework
16 40 (3.93%) Terraform
17 38 (3.73%) ASP.NET
17 38 (3.73%) Entity Framework
18 33 (3.24%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.66%) Cloud Native
2 50 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 18 (1.77%) Mobile App
6 13 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (0.88%) IoT
8 8 (0.79%) AI Agents
9 7 (0.69%) Virtual Team
10 6 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.39%) Sports Betting
12 3 (0.29%) Augmented Reality
12 3 (0.29%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.29%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.29%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.20%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.20%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.20%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.38%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 1 (0.098%) Windows
3 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,018 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 197 (19.35%) CI/CD
3 193 (18.96%) Agile
4 171 (16.80%) Microservices
5 155 (15.23%) AI
6 123 (12.08%) Software Engineering
7 103 (10.12%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (9.82%) DevOps
9 92 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (7.27%) Clean Code
11 66 (6.48%) Web Development
12 65 (6.39%) Mentoring
13 59 (5.80%) Computer Science
14 57 (5.60%) User Experience
15 56 (5.50%) SDLC
16 55 (5.40%) E-Commerce
17 52 (5.11%) Front End Development
18 50 (4.91%) Technical Leadership
19 46 (4.52%) Containerisation
19 46 (4.52%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 347 (34.09%) JavaScript
2 305 (29.96%) TypeScript
3 177 (17.39%) C#
4 158 (15.52%) Java
5 146 (14.34%) Python
6 105 (10.31%) SQL
7 53 (5.21%) Ruby
8 51 (5.01%) Kotlin
9 49 (4.81%) PHP
10 22 (2.16%) Bash
11 20 (1.96%) Groovy
12 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.69%) C++
14 3 (0.29%) Go
14 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.20%) Bicep
15 2 (0.20%) Perl
16 1 (0.098%) C
16 1 (0.098%) Rust
16 1 (0.098%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (6.88%) Security Cleared
2 61 (5.99%) Degree
3 58 (5.70%) SC Cleared
4 54 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.69%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.098%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.098%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.16%) Accessibility
2 13 (1.28%) QA
3 12 (1.18%) WCAG
4 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.098%) GRC
7 1 (0.098%) SLA
System Software
1 120 (11.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 74 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.08%) HP Fortify
3 5 (0.49%) Ansible
3 5 (0.49%) Grafana
4 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.29%) Kibana
5 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.098%) Podman
Vendors
1 76 (7.47%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.55%) Oracle
3 19 (1.87%) Google
4 16 (1.57%) OpenAI
5 9 (0.88%) OneLogin
5 9 (0.88%) OutSystems
5 9 (0.88%) Red Hat
6 6 (0.59%) Dynatrace
7 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
8 3 (0.29%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.29%) Splunk
9 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.098%) Confluent
10 1 (0.098%) Databricks
10 1 (0.098%) Mistral
10 1 (0.098%) NEC
10 1 (0.098%) Pega
10 1 (0.098%) WSO2