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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 302 164
Rank change year-on-year +108 -138 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 973 446 1,794
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.01% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.13% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 842 346 1,393
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -4.90%

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 86,220 39,579 100,813
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 89.52% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 58,944 22,377 72,921
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,878 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +111 878 £65,000 +8.33% 87
UK excluding London +131 698 £60,000 +6.67% 77
Work from Home +110 345 £65,000 +8.33% 62
North of England +126 241 £70,000 +27.27% 26
London +45 216 £80,000 +10.34% 17
South East +78 215 £60,000 +4.35% 20
North West +81 111 £67,500 +22.73% 14
Yorkshire +41 104 £75,000 +25.00% 7
Midlands +26 100 £60,000 +4.35% 9
South West -13 68 £55,000 -8.33% 13
West Midlands +1 55 £67,500 +8.00% 4
East Midlands +3 45 £55,000 +15.79% 5
East of England -12 40 £82,500 +83.33% 5
North East -20 26 £50,000 -14.89% 5
Scotland +22 25 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Wales -44 7 £55,000 -15.38% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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.

1 973 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 313 (32.17%) React
3 300 (30.83%) JavaScript
4 277 (28.47%) TypeScript
5 249 (25.59%) AWS
6 208 (21.38%) Node.js
7 195 (20.04%) .NET
8 185 (19.01%) Python
9 173 (17.78%) C#
10 158 (16.24%) Java
11 146 (15.01%) Azure
12 140 (14.39%) Agile
13 135 (13.87%) Microservices
14 130 (13.36%) CI/CD
15 129 (13.26%) AngularJS
16 128 (13.16%) AI
16 128 (13.16%) Software Engineering
17 125 (12.85%) CSS
18 116 (11.92%) HTML
19 113 (11.61%) Vue
20 107 (11.00%) DevOps
21 106 (10.89%) SQL
22 94 (9.66%) Serverless
23 89 (9.15%) Docker
24 88 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
24 88 (9.04%) SaaS
25 82 (8.43%) Security Cleared
25 82 (8.43%) Web Development
26 81 (8.32%) Git
27 78 (8.02%) PostgreSQL

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 12 (1.23%) CMS
1 12 (1.23%) Confluence
2 8 (0.82%) ColdFusion
3 7 (0.72%) WordPress
4 6 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.31%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.21%) Apache
6 2 (0.21%) IIS
6 2 (0.21%) Liferay
6 2 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.10%) CICS
7 1 (0.10%) Drupal
7 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.10%) Magento
2 1 (0.10%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 249 (25.59%) AWS
2 146 (15.01%) Azure
3 94 (9.66%) Serverless
4 88 (9.04%) SaaS
5 74 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (6.78%) Amazon S3
7 62 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
8 44 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
9 35 (3.60%) GCP
10 34 (3.49%) GitHub
11 30 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (2.06%) AWS Step Functions
13 20 (2.06%) Power Platform
14 19 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.54%) Amazon ECR
15 15 (1.54%) Apigee
16 13 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
17 10 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
18 8 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.82%) Broadband
2 4 (0.41%) DNS
2 4 (0.41%) HTTP
3 2 (0.21%) Firewall
3 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (6.17%) SQL Server
3 43 (4.42%) MongoDB
4 32 (3.29%) MySQL
5 31 (3.19%) NoSQL
6 24 (2.47%) DynamoDB
7 20 (2.06%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.23%) Power BI
9 10 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.72%) Redis
11 6 (0.62%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.41%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.31%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.21%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.21%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.21%) Db2
14 2 (0.21%) GIS
14 2 (0.21%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 81 (8.32%) Git
2 36 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 32 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.16%) JIRA
5 19 (1.95%) GitLab
6 18 (1.85%) Maven
7 13 (1.34%) JUnit
8 11 (1.13%) Mockito
9 8 (0.82%) Claude Code
10 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.31%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.31%) ESLint
12 2 (0.21%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.21%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.21%) JMeter
12 2 (0.21%) NUnit
12 2 (0.21%) Selenium
12 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.10%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (8.32%) Social Skills
2 78 (8.02%) Finance
3 27 (2.77%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (2.67%) Public Sector
5 23 (2.36%) Retail
6 18 (1.85%) Aviation
7 14 (1.44%) Banking
8 11 (1.13%) Front Office
8 11 (1.13%) Marketing
9 9 (0.92%) Tech for Good
10 8 (0.82%) Games
10 8 (0.82%) Local Government
11 7 (0.72%) Legal
12 6 (0.62%) Advertising
12 6 (0.62%) Law
13 5 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.41%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.41%) Publishing
15 3 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.21%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (32.17%) React
2 208 (21.38%) Node.js
3 195 (20.04%) .NET
4 129 (13.26%) AngularJS
5 125 (12.85%) CSS
6 116 (11.92%) HTML
7 113 (11.61%) Vue
8 66 (6.78%) REST
9 63 (6.47%) Spring
10 59 (6.06%) RESTful
11 55 (5.65%) Spring Boot
12 51 (5.24%) .NET Core
13 48 (4.93%) Laravel
14 39 (4.01%) Jest
14 39 (4.01%) Next.js
15 37 (3.80%) GraphQL
16 35 (3.60%) Ruby on Rails
17 29 (2.98%) HTML5
18 28 (2.88%) CSS3
19 27 (2.77%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 62 (6.37%) Cloud Native
2 20 (2.06%) Mobile App
2 20 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (1.95%) Product Ownership
4 14 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.13%) Fixed Income
6 10 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (0.72%) Sports Betting
8 6 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.51%) AI Agents
9 5 (0.51%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.51%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.41%) Augmented Reality
10 4 (0.41%) NHS
10 4 (0.41%) PropTech
10 4 (0.41%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.31%) IoT
11 3 (0.31%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.64%) Linux
2 3 (0.31%) Android
2 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.21%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) AIX
4 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 140 (14.39%) Agile
3 135 (13.87%) Microservices
4 130 (13.36%) CI/CD
5 128 (13.16%) AI
5 128 (13.16%) Software Engineering
6 107 (11.00%) DevOps
7 88 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (8.43%) Web Development
9 76 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (6.68%) Mentoring
11 46 (4.73%) Containerisation
11 46 (4.73%) Front End Development
12 45 (4.62%) User Experience
13 44 (4.52%) Clean Code
14 43 (4.42%) Computer Science
15 40 (4.11%) TDD
16 38 (3.91%) API Development
16 38 (3.91%) Scrum
16 38 (3.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 300 (30.83%) JavaScript
2 277 (28.47%) TypeScript
3 185 (19.01%) Python
4 173 (17.78%) C#
5 158 (16.24%) Java
6 106 (10.89%) SQL
7 63 (6.47%) PHP
8 35 (3.60%) Ruby
9 16 (1.64%) Bash
10 13 (1.34%) Groovy
10 13 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.03%) Go
12 8 (0.82%) C++
12 8 (0.82%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.72%) C
14 5 (0.51%) R
15 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.21%) Bicep
16 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.10%) Dart
Qualifications
1 82 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 72 (7.40%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.42%) Degree
4 35 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.13%) AWS Certification
6 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (0.62%) DV Cleared
6 6 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (1.75%) QA
2 7 (0.72%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.31%) WCAG
4 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.10%) HL7
4 1 (0.10%) SLA
4 1 (0.10%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 89 (9.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.77%) Terraform
3 6 (0.62%) Ansible
3 6 (0.62%) HP Fortify
3 6 (0.62%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.41%) Grafana
6 3 (0.31%) Kibana
7 2 (0.21%) Argo
7 2 (0.21%) Nagios
7 2 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 39 (4.01%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.16%) Oracle
3 11 (1.13%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.62%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.51%) Peregrine
6 4 (0.41%) Pega
6 4 (0.41%) WooCommerce
7 3 (0.31%) Google
7 3 (0.31%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.21%) Aderant
8 2 (0.21%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.21%) Foundry
8 2 (0.21%) iManage
8 2 (0.21%) Intapp
8 2 (0.21%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.21%) Splunk
8 2 (0.21%) WSO2
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe
9 1 (0.10%) Confluent
9 1 (0.10%) Databricks