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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 303 163
Rank change year-on-year +109 -140 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Developer 1,003 444 1,823
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.05% 0.98% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.10% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 874 344 1,405
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £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 £76,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,625 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,875
% change year-on-year +4.35% +8.75% -3.86%

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 89,394 40,455 102,187
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.45% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 61,374 23,051 73,787
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,620
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 £98,474 £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 24 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 24 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 +116 897 £65,000 +4.00% 81
UK excluding London +124 726 £60,000 +4.35% 82
Work from Home +111 365 £62,500 +4.17% 51
North of England +131 252 £67,500 +22.73% 14
London +31 216 £80,000 +10.34% 24
South East +74 210 £60,000 +4.35% 19
North West +80 116 £67,500 +22.73% 9
Yorkshire +50 109 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Midlands +23 100 £60,000 +4.35% 17
South West -10 82 £55,000 -8.33% 11
West Midlands +7 55 £70,000 +14.29% 8
East Midlands 0 45 £55,000 +15.79% 9
East of England -17 40 £82,500 +83.33% 3
Scotland +21 30 £55,000 +4.76% 11
North East -20 27 £50,000 -16.67% 2
Wales -44 10 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 1,003 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 320 (31.90%) React
3 312 (31.11%) JavaScript
4 292 (29.11%) TypeScript
5 275 (27.42%) AWS
6 218 (21.73%) Node.js
7 189 (18.84%) .NET
8 187 (18.64%) Python
9 169 (16.85%) C#
9 169 (16.85%) Java
10 159 (15.85%) Agile
11 154 (15.35%) Azure
12 149 (14.86%) CI/CD
13 145 (14.46%) Microservices
14 139 (13.86%) AI
15 137 (13.66%) AngularJS
16 134 (13.36%) Software Engineering
17 125 (12.46%) CSS
18 119 (11.86%) HTML
19 117 (11.67%) Vue
20 112 (11.17%) DevOps
21 108 (10.77%) SQL
22 105 (10.47%) Serverless
23 101 (10.07%) Docker
24 95 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
25 90 (8.97%) SaaS
26 86 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
26 86 (8.57%) Git
27 84 (8.37%) AWS Lambda
27 84 (8.37%) 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 13 (1.30%) CMS
2 12 (1.20%) Confluence
3 8 (0.80%) ColdFusion
4 7 (0.70%) WordPress
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.100%) CICS
8 1 (0.100%) Drupal
8 1 (0.100%) Liferay
8 1 (0.100%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.100%) CiviCRM
2 1 (0.100%) Magento
2 1 (0.100%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 275 (27.42%) AWS
2 154 (15.35%) Azure
3 105 (10.47%) Serverless
4 90 (8.97%) SaaS
5 84 (8.37%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (7.48%) Amazon S3
7 70 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
8 48 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
9 47 (4.69%) GitHub
10 43 (4.29%) GCP
11 32 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (2.59%) AWS Step Functions
13 25 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (1.99%) Power Platform
16 18 (1.79%) Amazon ECR
16 18 (1.79%) Apigee
17 16 (1.60%) GitHub Copilot
18 14 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
19 11 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.80%) Broadband
2 4 (0.40%) DNS
2 4 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.20%) Firewall
3 2 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.18%) SQL Server
3 47 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 37 (3.69%) MySQL
5 31 (3.09%) DynamoDB
6 30 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 23 (2.29%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.20%) Power BI
9 11 (1.10%) Redis
10 10 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.80%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.40%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.20%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.20%) ClickHouse
14 2 (0.20%) GIS
14 2 (0.20%) TimescaleDB
15 1 (0.100%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 86 (8.57%) Git
2 43 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 40 (3.99%) Cypress.io
4 25 (2.49%) GitLab
5 21 (2.09%) JIRA
6 20 (1.99%) Maven
7 15 (1.50%) JUnit
8 11 (1.10%) Claude Code
9 10 (1.00%) Mockito
10 9 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.30%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.30%) Postman
13 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.20%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.20%) JMeter
13 2 (0.20%) NUnit
13 2 (0.20%) Subversion
13 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 88 (8.77%) Social Skills
2 75 (7.48%) Finance
3 29 (2.89%) Public Sector
4 25 (2.49%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (2.29%) Retail
6 16 (1.60%) Aviation
7 12 (1.20%) Banking
8 11 (1.10%) Front Office
8 11 (1.10%) Marketing
9 10 (1.00%) Legal
10 9 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.90%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.80%) Local Government
12 7 (0.70%) Games
13 6 (0.60%) Advertising
13 6 (0.60%) Law
13 6 (0.60%) Legal Technology
14 4 (0.40%) Publishing
15 3 (0.30%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.20%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (31.90%) React
2 218 (21.73%) Node.js
3 189 (18.84%) .NET
4 137 (13.66%) AngularJS
5 125 (12.46%) CSS
6 119 (11.86%) HTML
7 117 (11.67%) Vue
8 68 (6.78%) Spring
9 67 (6.68%) REST
10 64 (6.38%) Spring Boot
11 63 (6.28%) RESTful
12 49 (4.89%) .NET Core
13 47 (4.69%) Laravel
14 44 (4.39%) Jest
15 42 (4.19%) Next.js
16 40 (3.99%) Ruby on Rails
17 37 (3.69%) GraphQL
18 30 (2.99%) HTML5
19 28 (2.79%) CSS3
20 24 (2.39%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 27 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 18 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 17 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.10%) Fixed Income
7 11 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (0.70%) Sports Betting
9 6 (0.60%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.50%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.40%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (0.40%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.40%) NHS
11 4 (0.40%) PropTech
11 4 (0.40%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.30%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.69%) Linux
2 2 (0.20%) AIX
2 2 (0.20%) Android
2 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.100%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,003 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 159 (15.85%) Agile
3 149 (14.86%) CI/CD
4 145 (14.46%) Microservices
5 139 (13.86%) AI
6 134 (13.36%) Software Engineering
7 112 (11.17%) DevOps
8 95 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 84 (8.37%) Web Development
11 64 (6.38%) Mentoring
12 53 (5.28%) Clean Code
13 50 (4.99%) Front End Development
14 48 (4.79%) Computer Science
14 48 (4.79%) Containerisation
15 46 (4.59%) User Experience
16 40 (3.99%) SDLC
16 40 (3.99%) TDD
17 39 (3.89%) E-Commerce
18 38 (3.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 312 (31.11%) JavaScript
2 292 (29.11%) TypeScript
3 187 (18.64%) Python
4 169 (16.85%) C#
4 169 (16.85%) Java
5 108 (10.77%) SQL
6 62 (6.18%) PHP
7 40 (3.99%) Ruby
8 18 (1.79%) Bash
8 18 (1.79%) Groovy
9 12 (1.20%) PL/SQL
10 11 (1.10%) Go
11 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.70%) C++
13 6 (0.60%) C
14 4 (0.40%) R
15 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.20%) Bicep
16 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.100%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 83 (8.28%) Security Cleared
2 73 (7.28%) SC Cleared
3 48 (4.79%) Degree
4 41 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.40%) AWS Certification
6 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.100%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.100%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.50%) QA
2 9 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.70%) WCAG
4 1 (0.100%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.100%) HL7
4 1 (0.100%) SLA
4 1 (0.100%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 101 (10.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.29%) Terraform
3 9 (0.90%) HP Fortify
4 7 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.60%) Ansible
5 6 (0.60%) Grafana
6 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.30%) Argo
7 3 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.20%) Nagios
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 41 (4.09%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.09%) Oracle
3 12 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.60%) OneLogin
5 5 (0.50%) Dynatrace
5 5 (0.50%) Peregrine
6 4 (0.40%) Pega
7 3 (0.30%) Google
7 3 (0.30%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.30%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.20%) Aderant
8 2 (0.20%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.20%) Foundry
8 2 (0.20%) iManage
8 2 (0.20%) Intapp
8 2 (0.20%) Splunk
8 2 (0.20%) WSO2
9 1 (0.100%) Adobe
9 1 (0.100%) Databricks
9 1 (0.100%) SendGrid