Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 479 262
Rank change year-on-year +150 -217 +212
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Engineer 852 625 2,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.60% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.65% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 343 333 371
10th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,375 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +3.23% +24.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.43% +10.42% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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
UK excluding London +207 676 £60,000 -9.43% 58
England +77 480 £70,000 -12.50% 163
Scotland +126 348 £65,000 +20.93% 4
London +24 165 £90,000 - 106
Work from Home -115 151 £64,750 -20.31% 86
North of England +83 107 £60,000 -22.58% 17
North West +70 91 £60,000 -7.69% 11
Midlands +65 87 £58,500 +11.43% 15
South East +45 77 £60,000 -14.29% 5
East Midlands +44 73 £55,000 -31.25% 9
South West -20 26 £50,000 -23.08% 10
Wales +16 15 £60,000 - 2
West Midlands +25 14 £60,000 +14.29% 5
East of England +5 14 £62,500 -9.09% 5
Yorkshire +67 10 £45,000 -43.75% 4
North East -2 6 £65,000 - 2
Northern Ireland +11 2 £90,000 +56.52%

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 852 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 566 (66.43%) Software Engineering
3 552 (64.79%) Agile
4 528 (61.97%) React
5 470 (55.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 437 (51.29%) Finance
7 436 (51.17%) Artificial Intelligence
8 418 (49.06%) Java
9 405 (47.54%) SQL
10 389 (45.66%) JavaScript
11 365 (42.84%) AngularJS
12 364 (42.72%) SDLC
13 332 (38.97%) Law
14 315 (36.97%) CI/CD
15 281 (32.98%) Operational Stability
16 280 (32.86%) Machine Learning
17 254 (29.81%) AWS
18 252 (29.58%) TypeScript
19 249 (29.23%) NoSQL
20 247 (28.99%) Algorithms
21 245 (28.76%) CSS
22 236 (27.70%) HTML
22 236 (27.70%) Spring
23 222 (26.06%) MongoDB
24 213 (25.00%) Azure
25 204 (23.94%) Node.js
26 196 (23.00%) Python
27 179 (21.01%) PostgreSQL
28 177 (20.77%) C#
29 173 (20.31%) Microservices

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 53 (6.22%) FileNet
2 38 (4.46%) nginx
3 36 (4.23%) Camunda
4 32 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (3.40%) Apache
6 17 (2.00%) Cloud Foundry
7 16 (1.88%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.35%) Confluence
9 2 (0.23%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Simulink
2 3 (0.35%) Sketch
3 2 (0.23%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) UXPin
4 1 (0.12%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 254 (29.81%) AWS
2 213 (25.00%) Azure
3 140 (16.43%) IBM Cloud
4 91 (10.68%) GCP
5 53 (6.22%) Amazon S3
6 36 (4.23%) OpenShift
7 28 (3.29%) GitHub
8 23 (2.70%) SaaS
9 21 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (2.00%) BlazeMeter
11 14 (1.64%) Serverless
12 10 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.35%) DigitalOcean
14 3 (0.35%) Figma
14 3 (0.35%) IaaS
15 2 (0.23%) Amazon Cognito
15 2 (0.23%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (0.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.70%) MQTT
2 3 (0.35%) HTTP
2 3 (0.35%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (29.23%) NoSQL
2 222 (26.06%) MongoDB
3 179 (21.01%) PostgreSQL
4 104 (12.21%) DB2
5 78 (9.15%) Elasticsearch
6 53 (6.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 48 (5.63%) MySQL
8 47 (5.52%) Relational Database
9 39 (4.58%) Oracle Database
10 29 (3.40%) Apache Ignite
11 18 (2.11%) Redis
12 17 (2.00%) RDBMS
13 16 (1.88%) Apache Hive
14 13 (1.53%) Big Data
15 8 (0.94%) SQL Server
16 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (0.35%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.35%) HBase
17 2 (0.23%) Power BI
18 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 73 (8.57%) JUnit
2 53 (6.22%) Git
3 39 (4.58%) Jenkins
4 33 (3.87%) Cypress.io
5 22 (2.58%) Jasmine
6 21 (2.46%) Mockito
7 17 (2.00%) JMeter
8 16 (1.88%) GitLab
9 15 (1.76%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.76%) JIRA
10 7 (0.82%) Maven
11 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.59%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.47%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.47%) IntelliJ
14 3 (0.35%) Gradle
14 3 (0.35%) webpack
15 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 470 (55.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 437 (51.29%) Finance
3 332 (38.97%) Law
4 145 (17.02%) Public Sector
5 140 (16.43%) Legal
6 125 (14.67%) Marketing
7 117 (13.73%) Banking
8 67 (7.86%) Front Office
9 59 (6.92%) Social Skills
10 40 (4.69%) Private Banking
11 27 (3.17%) Investment Banking
12 24 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
13 14 (1.64%) Aviation
13 14 (1.64%) Retail
14 13 (1.53%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.53%) Health Technology
15 11 (1.29%) Tech for Good
16 7 (0.82%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.70%) Automotive
17 6 (0.70%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 528 (61.97%) React
2 365 (42.84%) AngularJS
3 245 (28.76%) CSS
4 236 (27.70%) HTML
4 236 (27.70%) Spring
5 204 (23.94%) Node.js
6 163 (19.13%) .NET
7 161 (18.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 160 (18.78%) Web Services
9 158 (18.54%) jQuery
10 151 (17.72%) Vue
11 146 (17.14%) Kafka
12 144 (16.90%) REST
13 116 (13.62%) J2EE
14 115 (13.50%) ASP.NET
15 106 (12.44%) Ember.js
16 105 (12.32%) ASP.NET Core
17 104 (12.21%) Backbone.js
18 97 (11.38%) Spring Boot
19 95 (11.15%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 247 (28.99%) Algorithms
2 143 (16.78%) Data Structures
3 140 (16.43%) Blockchain
3 140 (16.43%) e-Learning
3 140 (16.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 116 (13.62%) Cloud Native
5 49 (5.75%) Fixed Income
6 47 (5.52%) Reference Data
7 45 (5.28%) Public Cloud
8 39 (4.58%) Onboarding
9 29 (3.40%) Hedge funds
10 21 (2.46%) Private Cloud
11 20 (2.35%) Market Risk
12 18 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.88%) Legacy Code
13 16 (1.88%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.64%) Equities
14 14 (1.64%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.53%) Product Ownership
16 12 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 146 (17.14%) Linux
2 111 (13.03%) Windows
3 106 (12.44%) Android
4 104 (12.21%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.82%) Unix
6 4 (0.47%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 566 (66.43%) Software Engineering
3 552 (64.79%) Agile
4 436 (51.17%) Artificial Intelligence
5 364 (42.72%) SDLC
6 315 (36.97%) CI/CD
7 281 (32.98%) Operational Stability
8 280 (32.86%) Machine Learning
9 173 (20.31%) Microservices
10 171 (20.07%) Mentoring
11 167 (19.60%) Coaching
12 151 (17.72%) OO
12 151 (17.72%) Risk Management
13 146 (17.14%) Design Patterns
14 138 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 135 (15.85%) Community of Practice
16 130 (15.26%) Visualisation
17 127 (14.91%) Decision-Making
18 125 (14.67%) User Experience
19 120 (14.08%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 418 (49.06%) Java
2 405 (47.54%) SQL
3 389 (45.66%) JavaScript
4 252 (29.58%) TypeScript
5 196 (23.00%) Python
6 177 (20.77%) C#
7 36 (4.23%) Lua
8 34 (3.99%) PHP
9 27 (3.17%) Kotlin
10 21 (2.46%) Go
11 9 (1.06%) C
11 9 (1.06%) C++
12 8 (0.94%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.47%) Ruby
15 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.35%) VBA
16 2 (0.23%) Bash
16 2 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 61 (7.16%) Degree
2 33 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.64%) SC Cleared
3 14 (1.64%) Security Cleared
4 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.47%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.23%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.12%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.12%) OCP
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.05%) SLA
2 19 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.70%) QA
4 3 (0.35%) ISO 13485
5 2 (0.23%) GDPR
5 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.23%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 107 (12.56%) Docker
2 5 (0.59%) Firmware
3 3 (0.35%) HDFS
4 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 116 (13.62%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.29%) Terraform
3 5 (0.59%) Ansible
4 3 (0.35%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) Grafana
Vendors
1 149 (17.49%) Oracle
2 140 (16.43%) IBM
2 140 (16.43%) Red Hat
3 51 (5.99%) Google
4 9 (1.06%) Microsoft
5 4 (0.47%) ION Trading
5 4 (0.47%) Rackspace
5 4 (0.47%) Zend
6 3 (0.35%) Cloudera
6 3 (0.35%) Databricks
6 3 (0.35%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.35%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.35%) Splunk
6 3 (0.35%) Telerik
7 2 (0.23%) Adobe
7 2 (0.23%) VMware
7 2 (0.23%) YouTube
8 1 (0.12%) SAP