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 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 289 166
Rank change year-on-year +93 -123 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,019 503 1,661
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.03% 1.02% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.14% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 895 381 1,255
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £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% -0.75%

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 93,088 44,174 95,628
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 89.90% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 63,779 26,115 68,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +85 905 £65,000 +8.33% 141
UK excluding London +88 767 £60,000 +4.35% 146
Work from Home +84 392 £60,000 - 116
North of England +130 255 £65,000 +8.33% 29
South East +73 220 £60,000 +4.35% 43
London -21 195 £80,000 +6.67% 28
North West +75 118 £65,000 +18.18% 18
Yorkshire +53 106 £75,000 +25.00% 7
Midlands +28 106 £60,000 +4.35% 30
South West +4 93 £56,250 -6.25% 8
West Midlands -6 60 £60,000 - 18
East Midlands -7 46 £60,000 +26.32% 12
Scotland +33 40 £55,000 -4.35% 14
East of England -14 39 £80,000 +77.78% 16
North East -27 31 £50,000 -37.50% 4
Wales -57 12 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Northern Ireland -58 2 £60,000 - 7

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 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 1,019 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 339 (33.27%) JavaScript
3 328 (32.19%) React
4 306 (30.03%) TypeScript
5 285 (27.97%) AWS
6 230 (22.57%) Node.js
7 192 (18.84%) .NET
8 184 (18.06%) Python
9 177 (17.37%) Agile
10 176 (17.27%) C#
11 169 (16.58%) CI/CD
12 167 (16.39%) Java
13 155 (15.21%) Azure
14 148 (14.52%) Microservices
15 141 (13.84%) Software Engineering
16 138 (13.54%) AI
17 135 (13.25%) AngularJS
18 128 (12.56%) CSS
19 124 (12.17%) HTML
20 121 (11.87%) Vue
21 112 (10.99%) DevOps
22 105 (10.30%) SQL
23 104 (10.21%) Docker
23 104 (10.21%) Serverless
24 96 (9.42%) SaaS
25 92 (9.03%) Git
25 92 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
26 90 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
27 89 (8.73%) Web Development
28 84 (8.24%) AWS Lambda

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 17 (1.67%) CMS
2 13 (1.28%) Confluence
3 11 (1.08%) WordPress
4 8 (0.79%) ColdFusion
5 4 (0.39%) IIS
6 3 (0.29%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) nginx
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.098%) CICS
8 1 (0.098%) Drupal
8 1 (0.098%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.098%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.098%) Magento
2 1 (0.098%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 285 (27.97%) AWS
2 155 (15.21%) Azure
3 104 (10.21%) Serverless
4 96 (9.42%) SaaS
5 84 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (7.36%) Amazon S3
7 73 (7.16%) Amazon ECS
8 61 (5.99%) GitHub
9 47 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
10 46 (4.51%) GCP
11 32 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (2.85%) AWS Step Functions
13 28 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 23 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
15 22 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (1.96%) Amazon ECR
17 20 (1.96%) Apigee
18 18 (1.77%) Power Platform
19 14 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.79%) 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%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.15%) SQL Server
2 82 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (4.81%) MongoDB
4 42 (4.12%) MySQL
5 38 (3.73%) DynamoDB
6 33 (3.24%) NoSQL
7 27 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 19 (1.86%) Redis
9 12 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.18%) Power BI
10 8 (0.79%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.39%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.20%) GIS
13 2 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
14 1 (0.098%) BusinessObjects
14 1 (0.098%) Db2
Development Applications
1 92 (9.03%) Git
2 51 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.83%) Cypress.io
4 27 (2.65%) GitLab
5 23 (2.26%) JIRA
6 19 (1.86%) Maven
7 13 (1.28%) Claude Code
7 13 (1.28%) JUnit
8 11 (1.08%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.69%) Mockito
10 4 (0.39%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.39%) Postman
11 3 (0.29%) Selenium
11 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.20%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.20%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.20%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.20%) YouTrack
General
1 90 (8.83%) Social Skills
2 67 (6.58%) Finance
3 28 (2.75%) Public Sector
4 26 (2.55%) Retail
5 19 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (1.18%) Aviation
6 12 (1.18%) Front Office
7 11 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.08%) Legal
7 11 (1.08%) Marketing
8 9 (0.88%) Tech for Good
9 8 (0.79%) Banking
10 7 (0.69%) Advertising
10 7 (0.69%) Games
10 7 (0.69%) Legal Technology
11 5 (0.49%) Law
11 5 (0.49%) Local Government
12 4 (0.39%) Publishing
13 3 (0.29%) Automotive
13 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (32.19%) React
2 230 (22.57%) Node.js
3 192 (18.84%) .NET
4 135 (13.25%) AngularJS
5 128 (12.56%) CSS
6 124 (12.17%) HTML
7 121 (11.87%) Vue
8 76 (7.46%) REST
9 70 (6.87%) Spring
10 68 (6.67%) Spring Boot
11 63 (6.18%) RESTful
12 46 (4.51%) Next.js
13 45 (4.42%) Jest
13 45 (4.42%) Laravel
14 40 (3.93%) .NET Core
14 40 (3.93%) Ruby on Rails
15 38 (3.73%) GraphQL
16 33 (3.24%) ASP.NET
17 31 (3.04%) .NET Framework
17 31 (3.04%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 32 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (1.77%) Product Ownership
6 17 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.08%) Fixed Income
9 7 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.69%) IoT
9 7 (0.69%) Sports Betting
10 5 (0.49%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.39%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (0.39%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.39%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.39%) NHS
11 4 (0.39%) PropTech
11 4 (0.39%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.57%) Linux
2 3 (0.29%) AIX
3 2 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,019 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 177 (17.37%) Agile
3 169 (16.58%) CI/CD
4 148 (14.52%) Microservices
5 141 (13.84%) Software Engineering
6 138 (13.54%) AI
7 112 (10.99%) DevOps
8 92 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 89 (8.73%) Web Development
11 64 (6.28%) Clean Code
12 63 (6.18%) Mentoring
13 54 (5.30%) Front End Development
14 50 (4.91%) E-Commerce
15 48 (4.71%) User Experience
16 47 (4.61%) Computer Science
17 42 (4.12%) SDLC
18 40 (3.93%) Containerisation
18 40 (3.93%) Technical Leadership
18 40 (3.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 339 (33.27%) JavaScript
2 306 (30.03%) TypeScript
3 184 (18.06%) Python
4 176 (17.27%) C#
5 167 (16.39%) Java
6 105 (10.30%) SQL
7 63 (6.18%) PHP
8 40 (3.93%) Ruby
9 20 (1.96%) Groovy
10 17 (1.67%) Bash
11 12 (1.18%) Go
12 9 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 9 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.59%) C++
14 3 (0.29%) C
15 2 (0.20%) Bicep
15 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.098%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.098%) Dart
16 1 (0.098%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (7.36%) Security Cleared
2 66 (6.48%) SC Cleared
3 50 (4.91%) Degree
4 43 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.39%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.098%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.18%) Accessibility
2 9 (0.88%) QA
2 9 (0.88%) WCAG
3 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.098%) HL7
3 1 (0.098%) SLA
3 1 (0.098%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 104 (10.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.34%) Terraform
3 11 (1.08%) HP Fortify
4 7 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.59%) Ansible
5 6 (0.59%) Grafana
6 5 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.29%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Argo
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 58 (5.69%) Microsoft
2 16 (1.57%) Oracle
3 14 (1.37%) Google
4 10 (0.98%) OpenAI
5 8 (0.79%) OneLogin
6 5 (0.49%) Dynatrace
6 5 (0.49%) Peregrine
7 4 (0.39%) Pega
8 3 (0.29%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.20%) Aderant
9 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.20%) iManage
9 2 (0.20%) Intapp
9 2 (0.20%) Splunk
9 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
9 2 (0.20%) WSO2
10 1 (0.098%) Adobe
10 1 (0.098%) Confluent
10 1 (0.098%) Databricks