Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK is £83,577 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 443 376 286
Rank change year-on-year -67 -90 +183
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Engineer 316 1,033 1,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.83% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.87% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 251 333 584
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,577 £70,000 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -13.58% +24.62%
75th Percentile £113,750 £91,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £118,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.74% +10.91% +10.00%

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 50,797 118,142 122,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 95.32% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,144 73,821 84,079
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4 December 2023.

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 4 December 2023. 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 +4 270 £85,000 +21.43% 247
Work from Home -65 180 £80,000 +14.29% 157
London +86 168 £102,500 +28.13% 148
UK excluding London -28 133 £57,500 -5.74% 141
Scotland +33 34 £77,076 +26.33% 5
North of England +91 32 £65,000 - 49
North West +66 21 £63,750 +11.33% 30
South West +36 21 £52,500 -12.50% 4
South East +53 20 £55,000 -21.43% 61
Midlands +107 10 £65,000 +23.81% 12
East of England +96 10 £52,500 -12.50% 3
Yorkshire +86 10 £67,500 -22.86% 15
West Midlands +129 9 £67,500 +28.57% 10
Wales +20 5 £52,500 - 4
North East +35 1 £75,000 - 4
East Midlands +29 1 £65,000 +62.50% 2
Northern Ireland -19 1 £90,000 +56.52% 3

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2023, 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.

1 316 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 218 (68.99%) React
3 216 (68.35%) Software Engineering
4 186 (58.86%) Agile
5 168 (53.16%) Finance
6 156 (49.37%) TypeScript
7 143 (45.25%) AWS
8 141 (44.62%) JavaScript
9 135 (42.72%) AngularJS
10 119 (37.66%) Node.js
11 102 (32.28%) C#
12 99 (31.33%) Azure
12 99 (31.33%) GCP
13 96 (30.38%) .NET
14 83 (26.27%) Python
14 83 (26.27%) Asset Management
15 80 (25.32%) Investment Management
16 79 (25.00%) Banking
17 77 (24.37%) Front Office
17 77 (24.37%) Redux
18 76 (24.05%) Fixed Income
19 75 (23.73%) Java
19 75 (23.73%) SQL
20 73 (23.10%) Git
21 72 (22.78%) DevOps
22 70 (22.15%) HTML
23 66 (20.89%) CSS
24 64 (20.25%) MySQL
25 61 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
26 60 (18.99%) RESTful

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 11 (3.48%) CMS
2 10 (3.16%) Umbraco
3 9 (2.85%) Apache
3 9 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.85%) Confluence
4 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.95%) nginx
5 2 (0.63%) IIS
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 143 (45.25%) AWS
2 99 (31.33%) Azure
2 99 (31.33%) GCP
3 18 (5.70%) SaaS
4 14 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (4.11%) GitHub
6 9 (2.85%) Amazon S3
6 9 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (1.90%) Serverless
8 4 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (0.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.63%) DigitalOcean
10 2 (0.63%) IBM Cloud
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon ECR
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.32%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) AMQP
1 2 (0.63%) Internet
1 2 (0.63%) RTP
2 1 (0.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.32%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (20.25%) MySQL
2 58 (18.35%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (13.92%) MongoDB
4 21 (6.65%) NoSQL
5 15 (4.75%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.48%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.53%) Apache Ignite
8 5 (1.58%) Big Data
8 5 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.58%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.58%) Redis
9 4 (1.27%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.63%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.32%) Event Store
12 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 73 (23.10%) Git
2 37 (11.71%) Cypress.io
3 13 (4.11%) Cucumber
3 13 (4.11%) JIRA
4 10 (3.16%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.58%) Maven
5 5 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.95%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.95%) webpack
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.32%) GitLab
7 1 (0.32%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 168 (53.16%) Finance
2 79 (25.00%) Banking
3 77 (24.37%) Front Office
4 41 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (10.44%) Social Skills
6 26 (8.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (6.33%) Marketing
8 17 (5.38%) Law
9 11 (3.48%) Tech for Good
10 10 (3.16%) Health Technology
10 10 (3.16%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.90%) Retail
13 4 (1.27%) Legal
13 4 (1.27%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.95%) Aviation
14 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.32%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (68.99%) React
2 135 (42.72%) AngularJS
3 119 (37.66%) Node.js
4 96 (30.38%) .NET
5 77 (24.37%) Redux
6 70 (22.15%) HTML
7 66 (20.89%) CSS
8 60 (18.99%) RESTful
9 57 (18.04%) ASP.NET
10 46 (14.56%) Express.js
11 39 (12.34%) Vue
12 38 (12.03%) MEAN Stack
12 38 (12.03%) MERN Stack
13 32 (10.13%) GraphQL
14 28 (8.86%) ASP.NET Core
14 28 (8.86%) Material-UI
15 27 (8.54%) jQuery
16 24 (7.59%) .NET Core
16 24 (7.59%) OpenFin
17 22 (6.96%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 76 (24.05%) Fixed Income
2 34 (10.76%) Derivative
3 28 (8.86%) Hedge funds
4 23 (7.28%) Cloud Native
5 21 (6.65%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (3.48%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (3.16%) Equities
7 10 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.85%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.85%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.53%) Legacy Code
9 8 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.22%) IoT
11 6 (1.90%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.58%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.58%) Distributed Applications
12 5 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.27%) Hackathon
13 4 (1.27%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.75%) Linux
2 4 (1.27%) Windows
3 2 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 216 (68.35%) Software Engineering
3 186 (58.86%) Agile
4 83 (26.27%) Asset Management
5 80 (25.32%) Investment Management
6 72 (22.78%) DevOps
7 61 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (18.04%) Analytics
9 53 (16.77%) Fintech
10 43 (13.61%) TDD
11 40 (12.66%) API Development
11 40 (12.66%) Artificial Intelligence
12 39 (12.34%) User Experience
13 37 (11.71%) Machine Learning
14 36 (11.39%) CI/CD
15 35 (11.08%) Customer Experience
16 32 (10.13%) Roadmaps
17 31 (9.81%) Customer-Centricity
18 30 (9.49%) Scrum
19 29 (9.18%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 156 (49.37%) TypeScript
2 141 (44.62%) JavaScript
3 102 (32.28%) C#
4 83 (26.27%) Python
5 75 (23.73%) Java
5 75 (23.73%) SQL
6 29 (9.18%) Kotlin
7 17 (5.38%) T-SQL
8 10 (3.16%) PHP
9 8 (2.53%) Go
10 6 (1.90%) VBA
11 5 (1.58%) Scala
12 4 (1.27%) C++
13 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.63%) R
13 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.32%) Bash
14 1 (0.32%) F#
Qualifications
1 21 (6.65%) Degree
2 9 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.32%) OCP
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.23%) QA
2 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (10.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (9.18%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.38%) Terraform
3 4 (1.27%) Ansible
4 1 (0.32%) Grafana
4 1 (0.32%) Kibana
4 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (12.03%) Google
2 24 (7.59%) Finsemble
3 13 (4.11%) Oracle
4 4 (1.27%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.27%) Rackspace
4 4 (1.27%) Zend
5 3 (0.95%) Cadence
5 3 (0.95%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.63%) Facebook
6 2 (0.63%) IBM
6 2 (0.63%) PayPal
7 1 (0.32%) Confluent
7 1 (0.32%) SAP
7 1 (0.32%) Sitecore