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 2 January 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 272 190
Rank change year-on-year +23 -82 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 522 579 918
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.88% 1.05% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 1.13% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 383 348 835
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,884 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.29% -10.95% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year +14.29% -0.47% -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 53,612 51,163 49,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.49% 93.12% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32,999 26,912 38,093
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +46 479 £65,000 +13.04% 159
UK excluding London +22 314 £60,000 +14.29% 120
London +33 178 £80,000 +14.29% 55
Work from Home +26 167 £60,000 - 83
South East +6 129 £60,000 +9.09% 48
North of England +39 74 £55,000 +15.79% 36
Midlands +10 42 £55,000 -4.35% 19
South West +17 38 £60,000 +9.09% 11
Yorkshire +10 27 £72,500 +38.10% 17
North West +27 26 £62,500 +38.89% 14
East of England +10 23 £50,000 +11.11% 6
West Midlands +15 22 £60,000 +4.35% 9
North East +19 21 £50,000 +17.65% 5
East Midlands -16 20 £55,000 -5.58% 10
Wales -4 9 £47,500 -36.67%
Scotland -18 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 January 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.

1 522 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 287 (54.98%) React
3 228 (43.68%) JavaScript
4 199 (38.12%) AWS
5 165 (31.61%) Agile
6 163 (31.23%) TypeScript
7 145 (27.78%) .NET
8 143 (27.39%) Azure
9 142 (27.20%) C#
10 139 (26.63%) CI/CD
11 128 (24.52%) Node.js
12 124 (23.75%) HTML
12 124 (23.75%) Java
13 123 (23.56%) CSS
14 117 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
15 111 (21.26%) SQL
16 110 (21.07%) DevOps
17 108 (20.69%) AngularJS
18 104 (19.92%) Python
19 93 (17.82%) REST
20 92 (17.62%) Git
20 92 (17.62%) Microservices
21 90 (17.24%) Docker
22 87 (16.67%) User Experience
23 80 (15.33%) RESTful
24 74 (14.18%) Vue
25 66 (12.64%) Kubernetes
26 65 (12.45%) AI
26 65 (12.45%) Serverless
26 65 (12.45%) Software Engineering

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 8 (1.53%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.34%) CMS
2 7 (1.34%) Confluence
3 5 (0.96%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.57%) Liferay
5 3 (0.57%) nginx
6 2 (0.38%) ColdFusion
6 2 (0.38%) Drupal
6 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.19%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) Kentico
7 1 (0.19%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.38%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 9 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 199 (38.12%) AWS
2 143 (27.39%) Azure
3 65 (12.45%) Serverless
4 51 (9.77%) GCP
5 41 (7.85%) GitHub
6 39 (7.47%) Amazon ECS
7 34 (6.51%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (6.51%) SaaS
8 32 (6.13%) Amazon S3
9 30 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (1.53%) Figma
13 8 (1.53%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.34%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (1.15%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (1.15%) npm
15 6 (1.15%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.57%) Broadband
1 3 (0.57%) HTTP
2 2 (0.38%) AMQP
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (12.26%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (12.07%) SQL Server
3 53 (10.15%) NoSQL
4 42 (8.05%) Relational Database
5 28 (5.36%) MySQL
6 22 (4.21%) RDBMS
7 19 (3.64%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (2.49%) Redis
10 9 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.53%) DB2
12 7 (1.34%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.15%) Power BI
14 4 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
15 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
15 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.38%) Pinecone
15 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 92 (17.62%) Git
2 35 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.64%) Cypress.io
3 19 (3.64%) JUnit
4 18 (3.45%) Mockito
5 15 (2.87%) JIRA
6 12 (2.30%) JMeter
6 12 (2.30%) TeamCity
7 7 (1.34%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.34%) Selenium
7 7 (1.34%) webpack
8 6 (1.15%) Maven
9 5 (0.96%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.96%) git-flow
9 5 (0.96%) Mocha
10 4 (0.77%) Storybook
11 3 (0.57%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.57%) ESLint
11 3 (0.57%) GitLab
11 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 55 (10.54%) Finance
3 34 (6.51%) Public Sector
4 29 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (5.36%) Law
6 27 (5.17%) Banking
7 23 (4.41%) Marketing
8 20 (3.83%) Investment Banking
9 14 (2.68%) Aviation
10 13 (2.49%) Front Office
10 13 (2.49%) Retail
11 11 (2.11%) Games
11 11 (2.11%) Legal
12 10 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.53%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.96%) Electronics
16 3 (0.57%) Local Government
16 3 (0.57%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (54.98%) React
2 145 (27.78%) .NET
3 128 (24.52%) Node.js
4 124 (23.75%) HTML
5 123 (23.56%) CSS
6 108 (20.69%) AngularJS
7 93 (17.82%) REST
8 80 (15.33%) RESTful
9 74 (14.18%) Vue
10 62 (11.88%) Spring
11 45 (8.62%) .NET Core
12 40 (7.66%) ASP.NET
13 35 (6.70%) Spring Boot
14 32 (6.13%) .NET Framework
14 32 (6.13%) HTML5
15 31 (5.94%) CSS3
15 31 (5.94%) GraphQL
16 30 (5.75%) Next.js
17 29 (5.56%) Kafka
18 25 (4.79%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
4 22 (4.21%) Cloud Native
5 21 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.64%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.92%) Hedge funds
8 10 (1.92%) Reference Data
9 7 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.15%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.77%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.77%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.57%) Social Media
13 2 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.38%) Fixed Income
13 2 (0.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.38%) Robotics
13 2 (0.38%) Smart Home
13 2 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.72%) Android
1 9 (1.72%) Apple iOS
1 9 (1.72%) Linux
2 3 (0.57%) Unix
3 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 165 (31.61%) Agile
3 139 (26.63%) CI/CD
4 117 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (21.07%) DevOps
6 92 (17.62%) Microservices
7 87 (16.67%) User Experience
8 65 (12.45%) AI
8 65 (12.45%) Software Engineering
9 60 (11.49%) Web Development
10 53 (10.15%) Clean Code
11 50 (9.58%) UX Design
12 48 (9.20%) Scrum
13 46 (8.81%) SDLC
13 46 (8.81%) TDD
14 45 (8.62%) Containerisation
15 43 (8.24%) Test Automation
16 39 (7.47%) Front End Development
17 37 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
18 34 (6.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 228 (43.68%) JavaScript
2 163 (31.23%) TypeScript
3 142 (27.20%) C#
4 124 (23.75%) Java
5 111 (21.26%) SQL
6 104 (19.92%) Python
7 32 (6.13%) PHP
8 14 (2.68%) Shell Script
9 13 (2.49%) C
10 12 (2.30%) Go
11 9 (1.72%) Ruby
12 8 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.15%) VB.NET
14 5 (0.96%) Bash
14 5 (0.96%) C++
14 5 (0.96%) R
15 4 (0.77%) XAML
16 3 (0.57%) COBOL
17 2 (0.38%) RPG
18 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (10.73%) Security Cleared
2 30 (5.75%) Degree
3 24 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 21 (4.02%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.47%) Accessibility
2 37 (7.09%) QA
3 8 (1.53%) WCAG
4 4 (0.77%) GDPR
5 1 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 90 (17.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.83%) Terraform
3 12 (2.30%) Kibana
4 8 (1.53%) Ansible
5 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Argo
6 1 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (3.07%) Microsoft
1 16 (3.07%) Oracle
2 13 (2.49%) Dynatrace
3 12 (2.30%) Splunk
4 8 (1.53%) Google
5 6 (1.15%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.96%) Apple
7 4 (0.77%) Telerik
7 4 (0.77%) WooCommerce
8 3 (0.57%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.57%) DevExpress
8 3 (0.57%) Pega
8 3 (0.57%) WSO2
8 3 (0.57%) Zoho
9 2 (0.38%) Foundry
9 2 (0.38%) IBM
9 2 (0.38%) iManage
9 2 (0.38%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.38%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.19%) ServiceNow