Full-Stack Engineer Jobs

Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 345 522
Rank change year-on-year -74 +177 -246
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 264 738 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.80% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.84% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 174 322 324
10th Percentile £42,875 £43,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,485 £50,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,253 £91,451 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 45,395 87,713 101,679
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.82% 94.66% 91.93%
Number of salaries quoted 26,632 64,228 63,419
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,501 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,650 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -8.92% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,433 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full-Stack Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack Engineer in the UK

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer.

Salary trend for Full-Stack Engineer in the UK

Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

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 2 April 2025. 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 +36 243 £70,000 - 432
UK excluding London -114 138 £60,000 - 139
London +52 117 £75,000 -16.67% 330
Work from Home +75 87 £70,000 - 244
North of England +33 39 £57,500 -4.17% 23
South East +88 32 £65,000 +8.33% 55
North West -14 24 £62,500 +4.17% 14
South West +98 23 £62,500 +25.00% 20
Midlands +30 17 £52,500 -10.26% 12
East of England +49 14 £57,500 -4.17% 10
West Midlands +30 14 £52,500 -12.50% 7
Yorkshire +69 12 £45,000 - 8
Wales +32 6 £80,000 +33.33% 2
Scotland -75 6 £79,569 +44.67% 13
North East +40 3 - - 1
East Midlands +19 3 - - 5
Northern Ireland +39 1 - - 4

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 April 2025, Full-Stack Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 264 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 214 (81.06%) React
3 199 (75.38%) AWS
4 116 (43.94%) Software Engineering
5 107 (40.53%) AngularJS
6 93 (35.23%) TypeScript
7 89 (33.71%) Artificial Intelligence
8 84 (31.82%) JavaScript
9 81 (30.68%) Roadmaps
10 79 (29.92%) Python
11 77 (29.17%) Serverless
12 76 (28.79%) Agile
13 67 (25.38%) React Native
14 63 (23.86%) Cloud Native
15 62 (23.48%) Java
16 59 (22.35%) Decision-Making
17 58 (21.97%) Customer Requirements
17 58 (21.97%) TikTok
17 58 (21.97%) Generative AI
17 58 (21.97%) Games
18 54 (20.45%) Azure
19 50 (18.94%) SaaS
20 46 (17.42%) Docker
21 45 (17.05%) CI/CD
22 43 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
23 41 (15.53%) Microservices
23 41 (15.53%) REST
23 41 (15.53%) C#
24 40 (15.15%) Node.js
24 40 (15.15%) Kubernetes

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.03%) Camunda
1 8 (3.03%) nginx
2 4 (1.52%) Apache
3 2 (0.76%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Drupal
4 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Strapi
4 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 199 (75.38%) AWS
2 77 (29.17%) Serverless
3 54 (20.45%) Azure
4 50 (18.94%) SaaS
5 20 (7.58%) GCP
6 12 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.79%) GitHub
8 9 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (3.41%) IBM Cloud
9 8 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.03%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.89%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (1.89%) Azure API Management
10 5 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.89%) HTTP
2 3 (1.14%) Firewall
3 2 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.76%) DNS
3 2 (0.76%) DWDM
3 2 (0.76%) FTP
3 2 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.76%) LAN
3 2 (0.76%) MQTT
3 2 (0.76%) Network Security
3 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.76%) VPN
3 2 (0.76%) WAN
4 1 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.38%) NAS
4 1 (0.38%) SAN
4 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (10.61%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.79%) DynamoDB
3 10 (3.79%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.41%) MySQL
4 9 (3.41%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.03%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.52%) Redis
7 3 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.76%) Big Data
8 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.38%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.38%) DB2
9 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (8.33%) Git
2 5 (1.89%) JIRA
2 5 (1.89%) webpack
3 3 (1.14%) JUnit
4 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.76%) GitLab
4 2 (0.76%) NUnit
4 2 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (21.97%) Games
2 37 (14.02%) Finance
3 15 (5.68%) Banking
3 15 (5.68%) Social Skills
4 13 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.79%) Front Office
7 6 (2.27%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.76%) Marketing
8 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.76%) Retail
9 1 (0.38%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.38%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Automotive
9 1 (0.38%) Back Office
9 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.38%) Legal
9 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (81.06%) React
2 107 (40.53%) AngularJS
3 67 (25.38%) React Native
4 41 (15.53%) REST
5 40 (15.15%) Node.js
6 38 (14.39%) .NET
7 31 (11.74%) Django
8 29 (10.98%) Next.js
9 22 (8.33%) .NET Core
9 22 (8.33%) CSS
9 22 (8.33%) Spring Boot
10 21 (7.95%) HTML
11 17 (6.44%) GraphQL
12 16 (6.06%) Vue
13 15 (5.68%) Redux
14 13 (4.92%) RESTful
15 12 (4.55%) Kafka
15 12 (4.55%) Spring
16 11 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
17 10 (3.79%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 63 (23.86%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.41%) Blockchain
2 9 (3.41%) e-Learning
2 9 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.03%) Fixed Income
3 8 (3.03%) Hedge funds
3 8 (3.03%) Private Cloud
4 7 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.76%) NHS
7 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.38%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.38%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.38%) Equities
8 1 (0.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.03%) Linux
2 4 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.14%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Debian
4 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 116 (43.94%) Software Engineering
3 89 (33.71%) Artificial Intelligence
4 81 (30.68%) Roadmaps
5 76 (28.79%) Agile
6 59 (22.35%) Decision-Making
7 58 (21.97%) Customer Requirements
7 58 (21.97%) Generative AI
8 45 (17.05%) CI/CD
9 43 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (15.53%) Microservices
11 33 (12.50%) DevOps
12 32 (12.12%) TDD
13 28 (10.61%) Mentoring
13 28 (10.61%) User Experience
14 25 (9.47%) Code Quality
15 23 (8.71%) Product Roadmap
16 21 (7.95%) Test Automation
17 18 (6.82%) SDLC
18 17 (6.44%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 93 (35.23%) TypeScript
2 84 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 79 (29.92%) Python
4 62 (23.48%) Java
5 41 (15.53%) C#
6 38 (14.39%) SQL
7 10 (3.79%) PHP
8 8 (3.03%) Go
8 8 (3.03%) Lua
9 3 (1.14%) Perl
10 2 (0.76%) Ruby
10 2 (0.76%) Rust
11 1 (0.38%) Bash
11 1 (0.38%) Bicep
11 1 (0.38%) C
11 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.38%) Swift
11 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (7.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.44%) Degree
3 10 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.79%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.76%) CCNA
4 2 (0.76%) CCNP
4 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (0.76%) JNCIA
4 2 (0.76%) JNCIS
4 2 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.14%) QA
3 2 (0.76%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (17.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 40 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.79%) Terraform
3 2 (0.76%) Ansible
3 2 (0.76%) Argo
4 1 (0.38%) Grafana
4 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (21.97%) TikTok
2 17 (6.44%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.55%) Oracle
4 9 (3.41%) IBM
4 9 (3.41%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.41%) Telerik
5 7 (2.65%) Databricks
6 3 (1.14%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.76%) Arista
7 2 (0.76%) Cisco
8 1 (0.38%) Google
8 1 (0.38%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.38%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.38%) Splunk
8 1 (0.38%) VMware