Full-Stack Engineer Jobs

Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK is £79,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2024.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 439 247
Rank change year-on-year +77 -192 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 617 424 2,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 0.66% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.69% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 250 339 410
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,631 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +21.43% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,625 £142,500 £105,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £65,351 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.72% +8.92% +9.09%

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 78,823 61,015 147,583
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.46% 94.26% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 44,906 44,404 82,467
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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 16 September 2024.

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 16 September 2024. 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 +25 460 £80,000 -11.11% 184
UK excluding London +164 418 £59,000 -9.72% 83
London -32 184 £92,500 -9.76% 114
Scotland +65 138 £65,000 -0.54% 5
Work from Home -124 103 £60,000 -29.41% 112
Midlands +53 88 £62,500 +8.70% 9
South East +8 84 £58,000 -11.01% 14
East Midlands +32 75 £65,000 - 2
North of England +12 49 £60,000 -8.19% 27
North West -1 40 £60,000 -7.69% 19
South West -5 36 £57,500 -12.01% 15
West Midlands -11 13 £55,000 -2.22% 7
East of England -22 12 £80,000 +28.00% 10
Wales +38 7 £52,500 - 3
North East -21 6 £70,000 -6.67% 3
Northern Ireland +27 4 £50,000 - 3
Yorkshire +25 3 £47,500 -29.63% 5

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 2024, 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.

1 617 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 444 (71.96%) React
3 356 (57.70%) Agile
4 342 (55.43%) JavaScript
5 326 (52.84%) Artificial Intelligence
6 303 (49.11%) Software Engineering
7 256 (41.49%) SQL
8 255 (41.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 240 (38.90%) Java
10 231 (37.44%) CSS
11 229 (37.12%) HTML
11 229 (37.12%) AngularJS
12 205 (33.23%) TypeScript
12 205 (33.23%) Finance
12 205 (33.23%) Azure
13 193 (31.28%) NoSQL
14 189 (30.63%) AWS
15 181 (29.34%) C#
16 174 (28.20%) MongoDB
17 170 (27.55%) SDLC
18 169 (27.39%) Mentoring
19 161 (26.09%) Algorithms
19 161 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
20 160 (25.93%) Public Sector
21 159 (25.77%) Node.js
22 157 (25.45%) Red Hat
22 157 (25.45%) IBM
22 157 (25.45%) CI/CD
22 157 (25.45%) Hybrid Cloud
22 157 (25.45%) Blockchain

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 39 (6.32%) FileNet
2 36 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (5.51%) Apache
4 33 (5.35%) Camunda
4 33 (5.35%) nginx
5 15 (2.43%) Cloud Foundry
6 6 (0.97%) Confluence
7 5 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.81%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) IIS
8 2 (0.32%) SAS
8 2 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 205 (33.23%) Azure
2 189 (30.63%) AWS
3 157 (25.45%) IBM Cloud
4 63 (10.21%) GCP
5 44 (7.13%) Amazon S3
6 33 (5.35%) OpenShift
6 33 (5.35%) SaaS
7 25 (4.05%) Serverless
8 23 (3.73%) GitHub
9 17 (2.76%) BlazeMeter
10 12 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (0.65%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.49%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.49%) dbt
14 3 (0.49%) Figma
15 2 (0.32%) Azure Functions
15 2 (0.32%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.65%) Wireless
2 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.16%) MQTT
2 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (31.28%) NoSQL
2 174 (28.20%) MongoDB
3 161 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
4 101 (16.37%) DB2
5 68 (11.02%) Elasticsearch
6 39 (6.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 36 (5.83%) Oracle Database
8 32 (5.19%) Apache Ignite
9 29 (4.70%) Relational Database
10 20 (3.24%) MySQL
11 12 (1.94%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.30%) Redis
13 5 (0.81%) Big Data
13 5 (0.81%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.65%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.65%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.65%) Power BI
15 3 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.49%) Apache Hive
16 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 52 (8.43%) JUnit
2 45 (7.29%) Git
3 32 (5.19%) Cypress.io
4 27 (4.38%) JIRA
5 26 (4.21%) Jenkins
6 20 (3.24%) Cucumber
7 17 (2.76%) JMeter
8 15 (2.43%) Jasmine
8 15 (2.43%) Mockito
9 13 (2.11%) Maven
10 10 (1.62%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.65%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.65%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.49%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.49%) GitLab
12 3 (0.49%) NUnit
12 3 (0.49%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.16%) MLflow
General
1 255 (41.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 205 (33.23%) Finance
3 160 (25.93%) Public Sector
4 118 (19.12%) Law
5 79 (12.80%) Legal
6 64 (10.37%) Social Skills
7 53 (8.59%) Banking
8 35 (5.67%) Front Office
9 29 (4.70%) Marketing
10 19 (3.08%) Investment Banking
11 16 (2.59%) Health Technology
12 9 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
13 7 (1.13%) Retail
13 7 (1.13%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.97%) Automotive
14 6 (0.97%) Games
14 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.81%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.65%) Back Office
16 4 (0.65%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 444 (71.96%) React
2 231 (37.44%) CSS
3 229 (37.12%) AngularJS
3 229 (37.12%) HTML
4 159 (25.77%) Node.js
5 156 (25.28%) .NET
6 141 (22.85%) jQuery
7 140 (22.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 136 (22.04%) Vue
9 129 (20.91%) REST
10 125 (20.26%) Web Services
11 111 (17.99%) ASP.NET
12 105 (17.02%) Spring
13 104 (16.86%) ASP.NET Core
14 102 (16.53%) Ember.js
15 101 (16.37%) Backbone.js
16 82 (13.29%) Kafka
17 66 (10.70%) GraphQL
17 66 (10.70%) J2EE
18 55 (8.91%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 161 (26.09%) Algorithms
2 157 (25.45%) Blockchain
2 157 (25.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 133 (21.56%) e-Learning
4 126 (20.42%) Data Structures
5 53 (8.59%) Cloud Native
6 33 (5.35%) Hedge funds
7 32 (5.19%) Fixed Income
8 27 (4.38%) Equities
9 26 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (3.73%) Market Risk
11 15 (2.43%) Private Cloud
12 14 (2.27%) Product Ownership
13 13 (2.11%) Onboarding
13 13 (2.11%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.94%) NHS
15 11 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (1.46%) Management Information System
17 4 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
17 4 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 119 (19.29%) Linux
2 105 (17.02%) Windows
3 103 (16.69%) Android
4 101 (16.37%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.13%) Unix
6 4 (0.65%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 356 (57.70%) Agile
3 326 (52.84%) Artificial Intelligence
4 303 (49.11%) Software Engineering
5 170 (27.55%) SDLC
6 169 (27.39%) Mentoring
7 157 (25.45%) CI/CD
8 153 (24.80%) OO
9 145 (23.50%) Coaching
10 144 (23.34%) Machine Learning
11 136 (22.04%) User Experience
12 124 (20.10%) MVC
13 123 (19.94%) Microservices
14 122 (19.77%) OOP
15 119 (19.29%) Design Patterns
16 117 (18.96%) Web Development
17 115 (18.64%) SOLID
18 103 (16.69%) Code Quality
19 102 (16.53%) Responsive Web Design
20 101 (16.37%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 342 (55.43%) JavaScript
2 256 (41.49%) SQL
3 240 (38.90%) Java
4 205 (33.23%) TypeScript
5 181 (29.34%) C#
6 107 (17.34%) Python
7 33 (5.35%) Lua
8 28 (4.54%) PHP
9 14 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 13 (2.11%) Go
11 10 (1.62%) C++
12 8 (1.30%) C
12 8 (1.30%) Rust
13 3 (0.49%) Groovy
13 3 (0.49%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.32%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.32%) Perl
14 2 (0.32%) Ruby
14 2 (0.32%) Scala
14 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (4.54%) Degree
2 8 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (0.81%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.49%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.16%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (0.97%) Accessibility
1 6 (0.97%) QA
2 3 (0.49%) MiFID
3 2 (0.32%) GDPR
4 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.16%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 87 (14.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 78 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.30%) Grafana
2 8 (1.30%) Terraform
3 7 (1.13%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.81%) Kibana
5 1 (0.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 157 (25.45%) IBM
1 157 (25.45%) Red Hat
2 78 (12.64%) Oracle
3 35 (5.67%) Google
4 9 (1.46%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.30%) ION Trading
5 8 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 5 (0.81%) Atlassian
6 5 (0.81%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.81%) Sitecore
7 4 (0.65%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.49%) Databricks
8 3 (0.49%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.49%) Splunk
9 2 (0.32%) Adobe
9 2 (0.32%) Capita
9 2 (0.32%) SAP
10 1 (0.16%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.16%) Siemens
10 1 (0.16%) Xamarin