Full-Stack Engineer Job Trends

Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 446 310
Rank change year-on-year +173 -136 +131
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 768 257 704
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.51% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.57% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 549 165 291
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +8.11% -12.94%
75th Percentile £95,000 £117,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +12.07% -11.25%

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 100,717 45,123 78,702
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.93% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 68,844 26,712 52,410
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,350 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in the UK

Full-Stack Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 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 +205 706 £80,000 - 158
UK excluding London +121 408 £70,000 +7.69% 80
London +87 313 £85,000 -15.00% 104
Work from Home +95 233 £76,250 -23.75% 74
North of England +85 172 £65,000 -7.14% 23
North West +77 108 £70,000 -12.50% 18
South East +33 91 £80,000 +23.08% 21
South West -27 64 £72,500 +20.83% 6
Yorkshire +10 53 £60,000 -12.73% 3
Midlands +10 42 £60,000 -14.47% 7
East of England +2 25 £100,000 +60.00% 7
East Midlands +3 24 £65,000 - 3
West Midlands -4 18 £57,500 -18.03% 4
Scotland -41 11 £65,000 -10.03% 14
North East - 11 £61,250 - 2
Northern Ireland - 9 £70,000 - 2
Wales - 2 £72,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 August 2026, Full-Stack Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 768 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 327 (42.58%) Software Engineering
3 241 (31.38%) React
4 217 (28.26%) TypeScript
5 211 (27.47%) AWS
6 189 (24.61%) Python
7 157 (20.44%) AI
8 151 (19.66%) Java
9 143 (18.62%) JavaScript
10 132 (17.19%) CI/CD
11 127 (16.54%) Agile
12 124 (16.15%) Microservices
13 114 (14.84%) .NET
13 114 (14.84%) C#
14 112 (14.58%) Node.js
15 94 (12.24%) Security Cleared
16 92 (11.98%) DevOps
17 86 (11.20%) Docker
18 83 (10.81%) Test Automation
19 81 (10.55%) Azure
20 77 (10.03%) AngularJS
21 74 (9.64%) Spring
22 72 (9.38%) SaaS
23 71 (9.24%) Mentoring
24 70 (9.11%) Next.js
25 69 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
26 67 (8.72%) SC Cleared
27 62 (8.07%) Problem-Solving
28 61 (7.94%) Terraform
29 59 (7.68%) GCP

Full-Stack Engineer 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 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.26%) Confluence
1 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.13%) CMS
2 1 (0.13%) Moodle
2 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Shopify
1 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 211 (27.47%) AWS
2 81 (10.55%) Azure
3 72 (9.38%) SaaS
4 59 (7.68%) GCP
5 52 (6.77%) Serverless
6 35 (4.56%) GitHub
7 24 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
8 19 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (2.34%) Amazon S3
9 18 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
10 17 (2.21%) Amazon EventBridge
11 15 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (1.43%) Amazon Cognito
12 11 (1.43%) Cloud Functions
12 11 (1.43%) Cloud Run
13 10 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.17%) Figma
14 9 (1.17%) Vercel
15 8 (1.04%) Power Platform
16 7 (0.91%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) Broadband
2 2 (0.26%) Internet
2 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.26%) VoIP
3 1 (0.13%) AMQP
3 1 (0.13%) MQTT
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.68%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (5.47%) NoSQL
3 26 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 26 (3.39%) SQL Server
4 20 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 18 (2.34%) DynamoDB
6 17 (2.21%) Redis
7 15 (1.95%) MySQL
8 8 (1.04%) Pinecone
9 7 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.65%) GIS
11 3 (0.39%) DuckDB
11 3 (0.39%) Parquet
11 3 (0.39%) Power BI
12 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (5.34%) Git
2 31 (4.04%) GitLab
3 21 (2.73%) Claude Code
4 20 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.04%) JUnit
5 8 (1.04%) Spock
5 8 (1.04%) Vite
6 5 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.65%) JIRA
7 4 (0.52%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.52%) Selenium
8 3 (0.39%) Maven
8 3 (0.39%) Mocha
9 2 (0.26%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) ESLint
10 1 (0.13%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.13%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.13%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 102 (13.28%) Finance
2 81 (10.55%) Social Skills
3 28 (3.65%) Public Sector
4 23 (2.99%) Banking
5 19 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (1.82%) Tech for Good
7 11 (1.43%) Front Office
8 9 (1.17%) Law
9 8 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.04%) Marketing
10 7 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (0.78%) Legal
12 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.52%) Retail
13 3 (0.39%) Advertising
13 3 (0.39%) Legal Technology
14 2 (0.26%) Local Government
14 2 (0.26%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (31.38%) React
2 114 (14.84%) .NET
3 112 (14.58%) Node.js
4 77 (10.03%) AngularJS
5 74 (9.64%) Spring
6 70 (9.11%) Next.js
7 58 (7.55%) Spring Boot
8 56 (7.29%) Vue
9 47 (6.12%) REST
10 38 (4.95%) Django
11 36 (4.69%) CSS
12 34 (4.43%) HTML
13 32 (4.17%) LangChain
14 26 (3.39%) LangGraph
14 26 (3.39%) RESTful
15 24 (3.13%) FastAPI
16 20 (2.60%) .NET Core
17 17 (2.21%) ASP.NET
18 15 (1.95%) AWS CDK
18 15 (1.95%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 69 (8.98%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.30%) AI Agents
4 27 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (1.95%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.69%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.04%) IoT
7 8 (1.04%) Private Cloud
7 8 (1.04%) Sports Betting
8 7 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.78%) Smart Energy
10 5 (0.65%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.65%) e-Learning
10 5 (0.65%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.65%) PropTech
10 5 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.52%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.91%) Linux
2 3 (0.39%) Android
2 3 (0.39%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.26%) VMS
4 1 (0.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 327 (42.58%) Software Engineering
3 157 (20.44%) AI
4 132 (17.19%) CI/CD
5 127 (16.54%) Agile
6 124 (16.15%) Microservices
7 92 (11.98%) DevOps
8 83 (10.81%) Test Automation
9 71 (9.24%) Mentoring
10 69 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (8.07%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 53 (6.90%) LLM
13 52 (6.77%) Observability
14 51 (6.64%) Clean Code
15 50 (6.51%) Containerisation
16 39 (5.08%) Decision-Making
16 39 (5.08%) Event-Driven
17 38 (4.95%) Front End Development
18 36 (4.69%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 217 (28.26%) TypeScript
2 189 (24.61%) Python
3 151 (19.66%) Java
4 143 (18.62%) JavaScript
5 114 (14.84%) C#
6 59 (7.68%) SQL
7 13 (1.69%) Ruby
8 11 (1.43%) Kotlin
9 9 (1.17%) Go
9 9 (1.17%) PHP
10 3 (0.39%) Groovy
10 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.26%) C++
12 1 (0.13%) Elm
12 1 (0.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 94 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 67 (8.72%) SC Cleared
3 22 (2.86%) Degree
4 20 (2.60%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.39%) QA
2 13 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.91%) GDPR
4 4 (0.52%) WCAG
5 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 86 (11.20%) Docker
2 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (7.94%) Terraform
2 53 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.52%) Podman
4 3 (0.39%) Grafana
4 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.13%) Ansible
5 1 (0.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 22 (2.86%) OpenAI
2 13 (1.69%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.04%) AppDynamics
3 8 (1.04%) Foundry
3 8 (1.04%) Splunk
4 7 (0.91%) Google
5 3 (0.39%) Adobe
5 3 (0.39%) Meraki
6 2 (0.26%) Aderant
6 2 (0.26%) iManage
6 2 (0.26%) Intapp
7 1 (0.13%) Databricks
7 1 (0.13%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.13%) New Relic
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle
7 1 (0.13%) Palantir
7 1 (0.13%) Pega
7 1 (0.13%) Solace
7 1 (0.13%) Workday