Full-Stack Engineer Jobs

Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 329 485
Rank change year-on-year -141 +156 -233
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 219 851 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.87% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.91% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 185 346 332
10th Percentile £45,250 £43,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -18.75% +3.23%
75th Percentile £85,253 £92,500 £100,000
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% +6.12%

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 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in the UK

Full-Stack Engineer
Top 15 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 30 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 -24 206 £70,000 - 300
London +51 113 £75,000 -16.67% 189
UK excluding London -168 98 £60,000 - 125
Work from Home +132 93 £70,000 +8.11% 211
North of England +14 32 £57,500 -4.17% 49
South West +111 21 £60,000 +20.00% 14
South East +57 21 £65,000 +8.33% 23
North West -36 19 £60,000 - 32
Yorkshire +75 13 £50,000 +11.11% 14
Midlands -12 12 £52,500 -10.26% 14
West Midlands +49 11 £52,500 -12.50% 5
East of England +49 5 £60,000 -4.00% 13
Scotland -71 5 £79,569 +22.41% 6
Wales +28 2 £80,000 +33.33% 5
East Midlands -21 1 - - 9

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 219 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 163 (74.43%) React
3 146 (66.67%) AWS
4 123 (56.16%) Software Engineering
5 99 (45.21%) TypeScript
6 90 (41.10%) JavaScript
7 87 (39.73%) Python
8 86 (39.27%) Agile
9 70 (31.96%) Java
10 67 (30.59%) Azure
11 54 (24.66%) CI/CD
12 50 (22.83%) SaaS
12 50 (22.83%) AngularJS
13 46 (21.00%) C#
13 46 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (20.09%) .NET
15 43 (19.63%) Docker
16 42 (19.18%) SQL
17 39 (17.81%) TDD
17 39 (17.81%) Kubernetes
17 39 (17.81%) Microservices
18 37 (16.89%) Node.js
19 36 (16.44%) Finance
20 35 (15.98%) Artificial Intelligence
20 35 (15.98%) REST
21 33 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
22 32 (14.61%) Next.js
23 29 (13.24%) Django
23 29 (13.24%) DevOps
24 28 (12.79%) User Experience

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 (3.65%) Camunda
1 8 (3.65%) nginx
2 3 (1.37%) Apache
3 2 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Drupal
4 1 (0.46%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Strapi
4 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.83%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 146 (66.67%) AWS
2 67 (30.59%) Azure
3 50 (22.83%) SaaS
4 22 (10.05%) Serverless
5 20 (9.13%) GCP
6 15 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.57%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (4.11%) Azure API Management
8 9 (4.11%) GitHub
8 9 (4.11%) IBM Cloud
9 8 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.65%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.28%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.37%) Figma
15 2 (0.91%) AWS Step Functions
15 2 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.28%) HTTP
2 4 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (1.83%) DNS
2 4 (1.83%) DWDM
2 4 (1.83%) Firewall
2 4 (1.83%) LAN
2 4 (1.83%) Network Security
2 4 (1.83%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.83%) VPN
2 4 (1.83%) WAN
3 2 (0.91%) FTP
4 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.46%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (11.42%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.94%) DynamoDB
4 12 (5.48%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.11%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.65%) MySQL
6 8 (3.65%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.83%) Redis
9 3 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.91%) Big Data
10 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.46%) DB2
11 1 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (8.22%) Git
2 5 (2.28%) GitLab
2 5 (2.28%) JIRA
2 5 (2.28%) webpack
3 4 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.37%) JUnit
5 2 (0.91%) NUnit
5 2 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.46%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (16.44%) Finance
2 18 (8.22%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.39%) Banking
4 13 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.48%) Front Office
6 10 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.28%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.91%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.91%) Retail
9 1 (0.46%) Advertising
9 1 (0.46%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.46%) Automotive
9 1 (0.46%) Back Office
9 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.46%) Legal
9 1 (0.46%) Marketing
9 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (74.43%) React
2 50 (22.83%) AngularJS
3 44 (20.09%) .NET
4 37 (16.89%) Node.js
5 35 (15.98%) REST
6 32 (14.61%) Next.js
7 29 (13.24%) Django
8 24 (10.96%) .NET Core
9 21 (9.59%) Spring Boot
10 20 (9.13%) CSS
10 20 (9.13%) Vue
11 18 (8.22%) HTML
12 17 (7.76%) Redux
13 15 (6.85%) RESTful
14 14 (6.39%) GraphQL
15 13 (5.94%) Kafka
16 12 (5.48%) Spring
17 10 (4.57%) .NET Framework
17 10 (4.57%) Entity Framework
18 9 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.94%) Private Cloud
2 11 (5.02%) Fixed Income
2 11 (5.02%) Hedge funds
3 9 (4.11%) Blockchain
3 9 (4.11%) e-Learning
3 9 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.74%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.28%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.83%) Equities
7 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.37%) NHS
9 2 (0.91%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.46%) Lidar
10 1 (0.46%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.74%) Linux
2 3 (1.37%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.91%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Debian
4 1 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 123 (56.16%) Software Engineering
3 86 (39.27%) Agile
4 54 (24.66%) CI/CD
5 46 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (17.81%) Microservices
6 39 (17.81%) TDD
7 35 (15.98%) Artificial Intelligence
8 29 (13.24%) DevOps
9 28 (12.79%) Code Quality
9 28 (12.79%) User Experience
10 27 (12.33%) Mentoring
11 22 (10.05%) Product Roadmap
11 22 (10.05%) Roadmaps
12 18 (8.22%) Pair Programming
12 18 (8.22%) SDLC
13 16 (7.31%) API Development
13 16 (7.31%) Computer Science
13 16 (7.31%) Test Automation
14 14 (6.39%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 99 (45.21%) TypeScript
2 90 (41.10%) JavaScript
3 87 (39.73%) Python
4 70 (31.96%) Java
5 46 (21.00%) C#
6 42 (19.18%) SQL
7 10 (4.57%) Go
8 9 (4.11%) PHP
9 8 (3.65%) Lua
10 3 (1.37%) Perl
11 2 (0.91%) C
11 2 (0.91%) Rust
12 1 (0.46%) Bicep
12 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.46%) Swift
12 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (10.96%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.76%) Degree
3 12 (5.48%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.83%) CCNA
5 4 (1.83%) CCNP
5 4 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.83%) JNCIA
5 4 (1.83%) JNCIS
6 1 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.37%) QA
3 2 (0.91%) MiFID
System Software
1 43 (19.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (17.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.57%) Terraform
3 4 (1.83%) Ansible
4 3 (1.37%) Argo
Vendors
1 23 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.48%) Databricks
2 12 (5.48%) Oracle
3 9 (4.11%) IBM
3 9 (4.11%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.65%) Telerik
5 4 (1.83%) Arista
5 4 (1.83%) Cisco
6 3 (1.37%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.91%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.46%) Google
8 1 (0.46%) Xamarin