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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 303 204
Rank change year-on-year +80 -99 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 978 433 983
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.83% 0.87% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.97% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 809 315 599
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -4.98%

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 109,143 44,565 69,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 89.75% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74,344 25,695 40,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,825 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -6.50% -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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +85 869 £60,000 -4.00% 285
UK excluding London +92 723 £60,000 - 151
Work from Home +87 352 £60,000 - 147
London -22 213 £66,250 -17.19% 146
North of England +70 204 £65,000 +8.33% 45
South East +34 204 £60,000 +4.35% 28
Midlands +30 108 £60,000 - 22
South West +8 108 £62,500 +4.17% 13
Yorkshire +54 104 £70,000 +16.67% 21
North West +19 72 £60,000 -2.04% 22
West Midlands -8 60 £70,000 +16.67% 15
Scotland +36 52 £55,000 -8.33% 14
East Midlands +9 48 £60,000 -7.69% 7
East of England -25 34 £60,000 +45.45% 14
North East -42 28 £46,250 -7.50% 3
Wales -78 13 £70,000 +16.67% 4

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 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.

1 978 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 323 (33.03%) JavaScript
3 297 (30.37%) React
4 287 (29.35%) TypeScript
5 286 (29.24%) AWS
6 206 (21.06%) Node.js
7 195 (19.94%) CI/CD
8 184 (18.81%) Agile
9 180 (18.40%) .NET
10 169 (17.28%) Azure
11 166 (16.97%) Microservices
12 165 (16.87%) C#
13 152 (15.54%) AI
13 152 (15.54%) Java
14 124 (12.68%) Software Engineering
15 123 (12.58%) Python
16 121 (12.37%) Docker
17 120 (12.27%) CSS
18 116 (11.86%) AngularJS
18 116 (11.86%) HTML
19 106 (10.84%) SQL Server
20 102 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
20 102 (10.43%) SaaS
21 100 (10.22%) Git
22 98 (10.02%) SQL
23 96 (9.82%) REST
24 90 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
24 90 (9.20%) DevOps
25 89 (9.10%) Serverless
26 85 (8.69%) GitHub

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 (1.74%) Confluence
2 15 (1.53%) WordPress
3 11 (1.12%) CMS
4 7 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.41%) IIS
6 3 (0.31%) nginx
6 3 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Elementor
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.61%) Shopify
2 4 (0.41%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 286 (29.24%) AWS
2 169 (17.28%) Azure
3 102 (10.43%) SaaS
4 89 (9.10%) Serverless
5 85 (8.69%) GitHub
6 76 (7.77%) Amazon S3
7 74 (7.57%) AWS Lambda
8 70 (7.16%) Amazon ECS
9 47 (4.81%) GCP
10 45 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (2.97%) Snowflake
14 28 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
15 25 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
17 18 (1.84%) Anthropic Claude
18 15 (1.53%) Amazon ECR
19 14 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.72%) Broadband
2 3 (0.31%) DNS
2 3 (0.31%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (10.84%) SQL Server
2 83 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (5.62%) MongoDB
4 35 (3.58%) DynamoDB
5 31 (3.17%) Redis
5 31 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 29 (2.97%) MySQL
7 22 (2.25%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.02%) Power BI
10 7 (0.72%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.51%) Spatial Data
12 4 (0.41%) GIS
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 1 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.10%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.10%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.10%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 100 (10.22%) Git
2 57 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 40 (4.09%) Cypress.io
4 27 (2.76%) GitLab
5 22 (2.25%) Maven
6 21 (2.15%) JUnit
7 18 (1.84%) Claude Code
8 17 (1.74%) JIRA
9 14 (1.43%) Mockito
10 11 (1.12%) Vite
11 10 (1.02%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.02%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.92%) Storybook
13 8 (0.82%) NUnit
14 7 (0.72%) TeamCity
15 6 (0.61%) Postman
16 5 (0.51%) Selenium
17 4 (0.41%) Eclipse
17 4 (0.41%) Subversion
18 3 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 102 (10.43%) Social Skills
2 77 (7.87%) Public Sector
3 53 (5.42%) Finance
4 15 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (1.53%) Retail
5 13 (1.33%) Legal
5 13 (1.33%) Marketing
6 12 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (0.72%) Games
7 7 (0.72%) Legal Technology
8 5 (0.51%) Banking
9 4 (0.41%) Aviation
9 4 (0.41%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.41%) Law
10 3 (0.31%) Automotive
10 3 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.31%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.20%) Front Office
11 2 (0.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (30.37%) React
2 206 (21.06%) Node.js
3 180 (18.40%) .NET
4 120 (12.27%) CSS
5 116 (11.86%) AngularJS
5 116 (11.86%) HTML
6 96 (9.82%) REST
7 81 (8.28%) Vue
8 80 (8.18%) Spring
9 75 (7.67%) RESTful
10 71 (7.26%) Spring Boot
11 57 (5.83%) Next.js
12 49 (5.01%) Jest
13 46 (4.70%) Ruby on Rails
14 41 (4.19%) .NET Core
15 39 (3.99%) .NET Framework
16 38 (3.89%) ASP.NET
16 38 (3.89%) Entity Framework
17 36 (3.68%) Terraform
18 31 (3.17%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 74 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 17 (1.74%) Mobile App
6 12 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (0.92%) IoT
8 8 (0.82%) AI Agents
8 8 (0.82%) Virtual Team
9 6 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.41%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.31%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.31%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.20%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.20%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.20%) NHS
12 2 (0.20%) PMI
12 2 (0.20%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.43%) Linux
2 3 (0.31%) AIX
3 1 (0.10%) Android
3 1 (0.10%) Windows
3 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 978 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 195 (19.94%) CI/CD
3 184 (18.81%) Agile
4 166 (16.97%) Microservices
5 152 (15.54%) AI
6 124 (12.68%) Software Engineering
7 102 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
8 90 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 90 (9.20%) DevOps
9 73 (7.46%) Clean Code
10 64 (6.54%) Mentoring
11 60 (6.13%) Computer Science
12 56 (5.73%) E-Commerce
13 54 (5.52%) User Experience
13 54 (5.52%) Web Development
14 53 (5.42%) Front End Development
14 53 (5.42%) SDLC
15 49 (5.01%) Technical Leadership
16 46 (4.70%) Containerisation
16 46 (4.70%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 323 (33.03%) JavaScript
2 287 (29.35%) TypeScript
3 165 (16.87%) C#
4 152 (15.54%) Java
5 123 (12.58%) Python
6 98 (10.02%) SQL
7 68 (6.95%) Kotlin
8 51 (5.21%) Ruby
9 48 (4.91%) PHP
10 20 (2.04%) Bash
11 18 (1.84%) Groovy
12 10 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.72%) C++
14 5 (0.51%) Rust
15 4 (0.41%) Go
16 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) Bicep
17 2 (0.20%) Perl
18 1 (0.10%) Apex Code
18 1 (0.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (6.13%) Degree
2 57 (5.83%) Security Cleared
3 55 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (4.60%) SC Cleared
5 18 (1.84%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.35%) Accessibility
2 12 (1.23%) WCAG
3 11 (1.12%) QA
4 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.41%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.10%) GRC
7 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 121 (12.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 77 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.92%) HP Fortify
3 6 (0.61%) Grafana
4 5 (0.51%) Ansible
5 3 (0.31%) Kibana
5 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) Podman
Vendors
1 79 (8.08%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.66%) Oracle
3 19 (1.94%) Google
4 16 (1.64%) OpenAI
5 10 (1.02%) OutSystems
5 10 (1.02%) Red Hat
6 9 (0.92%) OneLogin
7 6 (0.61%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.51%) Peregrine
9 3 (0.31%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.31%) Splunk
10 2 (0.20%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.10%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.10%) Confluent
11 1 (0.10%) Databricks
11 1 (0.10%) Mistral
11 1 (0.10%) NEC
11 1 (0.10%) Plaid
11 1 (0.10%) ServiceNow