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 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 284 171
Rank change year-on-year +76 -113 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 806 429 1,528
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.06% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.17% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 667 343 1,288
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,125 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.27% -4.09%

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 71,448 36,544 83,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 90.03% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 45,655 22,888 63,388
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,574 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +89 733 £65,000 +8.33% 164
UK excluding London +78 533 £60,000 +9.09% 139
Work from Home +74 278 £60,000 +2.13% 97
London +48 216 £80,000 +18.52% 43
South East +17 171 £60,000 +9.09% 38
North of England +65 164 £67,500 +22.73% 45
Midlands +17 85 £55,000 - 21
North West +42 82 £70,000 +27.27% 22
South West +2 62 £55,000 -8.33% 17
Yorkshire -12 61 £70,000 +27.27% 22
West Midlands +12 48 £60,000 +2.13% 12
East of England -11 37 £100,000 +122.22% 10
East Midlands -19 37 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North East -13 21 £50,000 +17.65% 1
Wales -20 8 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Scotland -36 7 £60,000 +15.94% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 March 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.

1 806 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 327 (40.57%) React
3 282 (34.99%) JavaScript
4 224 (27.79%) AWS
5 215 (26.67%) TypeScript
6 181 (22.46%) .NET
7 180 (22.33%) Node.js
8 165 (20.47%) C#
8 165 (20.47%) Java
9 158 (19.60%) Agile
10 155 (19.23%) Python
11 145 (17.99%) CI/CD
12 142 (17.62%) Azure
13 126 (15.63%) CSS
14 122 (15.14%) SQL
15 121 (15.01%) HTML
16 120 (14.89%) Microservices
17 118 (14.64%) AngularJS
18 111 (13.77%) DevOps
19 109 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
19 109 (13.52%) Software Engineering
20 107 (13.28%) Vue
21 96 (11.91%) Docker
22 90 (11.17%) Git
22 90 (11.17%) REST
23 86 (10.67%) Serverless
24 85 (10.55%) AI
25 80 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
26 72 (8.93%) Web Development
27 67 (8.31%) 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 9 (1.12%) OpenStack
2 8 (0.99%) CMS
2 8 (0.99%) Confluence
3 7 (0.87%) ColdFusion
4 6 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.50%) nginx
6 3 (0.37%) Liferay
6 3 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.25%) Drupal
7 2 (0.25%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.25%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.12%) Apache
8 1 (0.12%) CICS
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 224 (27.79%) AWS
2 142 (17.62%) Azure
3 86 (10.67%) Serverless
4 66 (8.19%) SaaS
5 53 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (6.33%) Amazon S3
7 45 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (5.09%) GCP
8 41 (5.09%) GitHub
9 33 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
10 24 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.74%) Power Platform
14 13 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (0.99%) Azure Service Bus
17 6 (0.74%) Amazon EventBridge
17 6 (0.74%) Apigee
17 6 (0.74%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) AMQP
1 2 (0.25%) Broadband
1 2 (0.25%) HTTP
2 1 (0.12%) Internet
2 1 (0.12%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (7.94%) SQL Server
3 51 (6.33%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.47%) MySQL
4 36 (4.47%) Relational Database
5 33 (4.09%) MongoDB
6 13 (1.61%) DynamoDB
7 12 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.36%) Redis
9 10 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.24%) RDBMS
10 9 (1.12%) DB2
10 9 (1.12%) Power BI
11 8 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.37%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.37%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.37%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.37%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.37%) TimescaleDB
13 2 (0.25%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 90 (11.17%) Git
2 38 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 26 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 16 (1.99%) JIRA
5 15 (1.86%) JUnit
6 13 (1.61%) Maven
6 13 (1.61%) Mockito
7 10 (1.24%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.12%) GitLab
9 7 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.87%) Selenium
10 6 (0.74%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.62%) git-flow
11 5 (0.62%) JMeter
11 5 (0.62%) webpack
12 4 (0.50%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.37%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.37%) ESLint
13 3 (0.37%) Mocha
14 2 (0.25%) Storybook
General
1 96 (11.91%) Social Skills
2 79 (9.80%) Finance
3 37 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (3.97%) Banking
5 25 (3.10%) Public Sector
6 24 (2.98%) Retail
7 22 (2.73%) Aviation
8 17 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.86%) Front Office
9 15 (1.86%) Games
10 9 (1.12%) Marketing
11 8 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.99%) Law
11 8 (0.99%) Tech for Good
12 7 (0.87%) Health Technology
13 6 (0.74%) Legal
13 6 (0.74%) Local Government
13 6 (0.74%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.62%) Advertising
15 4 (0.50%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (40.57%) React
2 181 (22.46%) .NET
3 180 (22.33%) Node.js
4 126 (15.63%) CSS
5 121 (15.01%) HTML
6 118 (14.64%) AngularJS
7 107 (13.28%) Vue
8 90 (11.17%) REST
9 63 (7.82%) Spring
10 57 (7.07%) .NET Core
11 55 (6.82%) RESTful
12 47 (5.83%) Spring Boot
13 45 (5.58%) Laravel
14 34 (4.22%) ASP.NET
14 34 (4.22%) Kafka
14 34 (4.22%) Next.js
15 29 (3.60%) Jest
16 28 (3.47%) GraphQL
17 25 (3.10%) .NET Framework
17 25 (3.10%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.09%) Cloud Native
2 29 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
3 25 (3.10%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.11%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.36%) Fixed Income
8 10 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (0.99%) Management Information System
10 7 (0.87%) Sports Betting
11 6 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.62%) Hedge funds
13 4 (0.50%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.50%) IoT
13 4 (0.50%) NHS
13 4 (0.50%) Reference Data
14 3 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.86%) Linux
2 7 (0.87%) Android
2 7 (0.87%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 158 (19.60%) Agile
3 145 (17.99%) CI/CD
4 120 (14.89%) Microservices
5 111 (13.77%) DevOps
6 109 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
6 109 (13.52%) Software Engineering
7 85 (10.55%) AI
8 72 (8.93%) Web Development
9 60 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (6.58%) User Experience
11 51 (6.33%) API Development
12 50 (6.20%) Clean Code
12 50 (6.20%) Scrum
13 48 (5.96%) Front End Development
13 48 (5.96%) Mentoring
14 47 (5.83%) SDLC
15 45 (5.58%) TDD
16 37 (4.59%) Computer Science
16 37 (4.59%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 282 (34.99%) JavaScript
2 215 (26.67%) TypeScript
3 165 (20.47%) C#
3 165 (20.47%) Java
4 155 (19.23%) Python
5 122 (15.14%) SQL
6 55 (6.82%) PHP
7 22 (2.73%) Ruby
8 17 (2.11%) C
9 14 (1.74%) Go
9 14 (1.74%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.24%) Bash
11 8 (0.99%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.74%) C++
13 6 (0.74%) R
14 4 (0.50%) Groovy
15 3 (0.37%) COBOL
15 3 (0.37%) XAML
16 2 (0.25%) RPG
Qualifications
1 67 (8.31%) Security Cleared
2 45 (5.58%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.34%) Degree
4 30 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 5 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.85%) QA
2 22 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.50%) WCAG
4 2 (0.25%) HL7
5 1 (0.12%) GDPR
5 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 96 (11.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.61%) Terraform
3 9 (1.12%) Ansible
4 6 (0.74%) Kibana
5 5 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.50%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.37%) Nagios
8 2 (0.25%) Argo
8 2 (0.25%) Grafana
9 1 (0.12%) Podman
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (2.98%) Oracle
2 22 (2.73%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.12%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.74%) Dynatrace
4 6 (0.74%) Pega
5 5 (0.62%) Google
5 5 (0.62%) Splunk
6 4 (0.50%) Telerik
6 4 (0.50%) WSO2
7 3 (0.37%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.37%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.37%) Zoho
8 2 (0.25%) Aderant
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe
8 2 (0.25%) Foundry
8 2 (0.25%) IBM
8 2 (0.25%) iManage
8 2 (0.25%) Intapp
8 2 (0.25%) SendGrid
9 1 (0.12%) ServiceNow