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 6 May 2025.

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 332 472
Rank change year-on-year -157 +140 -218
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 207 861 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.87% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.92% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 182 348 339
10th Percentile £44,125 £43,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £62,500
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 £65,351
% change year-on-year - -8.19% +4.56%

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 48,283 93,229 94,684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.44% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,442 66,845 59,589
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -53 194 £70,000 - 357
London +61 112 £75,000 -16.67% 233
Work from Home +114 95 £70,000 +10.24% 254
UK excluding London -194 87 £60,000 - 175
North of England -9 26 £57,500 -4.17% 56
South West +102 19 £61,250 +22.50% 15
South East +37 17 £65,000 +8.33% 63
Yorkshire +82 13 £50,000 +11.11% 17
North West -60 13 £60,000 - 36
Midlands -27 12 £52,500 -10.26% 15
West Midlands +48 11 £52,500 -12.50% 6
East of England +38 6 £60,000 -4.00% 17
Scotland -84 5 £79,569 +32.62% 6
Wales +26 2 £80,000 +33.33% 4
East Midlands -34 1 - - 9

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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.

1 207 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 150 (72.46%) React
3 137 (66.18%) AWS
4 119 (57.49%) Software Engineering
5 98 (47.34%) TypeScript
6 87 (42.03%) Python
7 81 (39.13%) Agile
8 78 (37.68%) JavaScript
9 63 (30.43%) Azure
10 58 (28.02%) Java
11 52 (25.12%) CI/CD
12 48 (23.19%) SaaS
13 47 (22.71%) AngularJS
14 45 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
15 44 (21.26%) C#
16 43 (20.77%) .NET
17 42 (20.29%) SQL
18 40 (19.32%) Kubernetes
19 38 (18.36%) Microservices
20 36 (17.39%) Finance
20 36 (17.39%) TDD
21 35 (16.91%) Docker
22 33 (15.94%) Next.js
23 32 (15.46%) REST
23 32 (15.46%) PostgreSQL
24 30 (14.49%) DevOps
25 29 (14.01%) Artificial Intelligence
26 28 (13.53%) Django
26 28 (13.53%) Node.js
27 27 (13.04%) Code Quality

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 2 (0.97%) CMS
2 1 (0.48%) Apache
2 1 (0.48%) Drupal
2 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.48%) Strapi
2 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.93%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 137 (66.18%) AWS
2 63 (30.43%) Azure
3 48 (23.19%) SaaS
4 22 (10.63%) Serverless
5 20 (9.66%) GCP
6 15 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.83%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (4.35%) Azure API Management
8 9 (4.35%) GitHub
9 8 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.42%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (1.93%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.93%) Figma
14 2 (0.97%) AWS Step Functions
14 2 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.97%) Azure Pipelines
15 1 (0.48%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.93%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (1.93%) DNS
1 4 (1.93%) DWDM
1 4 (1.93%) Firewall
1 4 (1.93%) LAN
1 4 (1.93%) Network Security
1 4 (1.93%) TCP/IP
1 4 (1.93%) VPN
1 4 (1.93%) WAN
2 3 (1.45%) HTTP
3 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.46%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.73%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.28%) DynamoDB
4 12 (5.80%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.86%) MySQL
6 5 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.42%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.97%) Big Data
8 2 (0.97%) Redis
8 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.48%) DB2
9 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (7.73%) Git
2 5 (2.42%) GitLab
2 5 (2.42%) webpack
3 4 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.45%) JIRA
4 3 (1.45%) JUnit
5 2 (0.97%) NUnit
5 2 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (17.39%) Finance
2 18 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.76%) Banking
4 12 (5.80%) Front Office
5 5 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.93%) Retail Banking
7 3 (1.45%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.48%) Advertising
8 1 (0.48%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.48%) Automotive
8 1 (0.48%) Back Office
8 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.48%) Legal
8 1 (0.48%) Marketing
8 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (72.46%) React
2 47 (22.71%) AngularJS
3 43 (20.77%) .NET
4 33 (15.94%) Next.js
5 32 (15.46%) REST
6 28 (13.53%) Django
6 28 (13.53%) Node.js
7 24 (11.59%) .NET Core
8 21 (10.14%) Spring Boot
9 19 (9.18%) Vue
10 17 (8.21%) CSS
10 17 (8.21%) Redux
11 15 (7.25%) HTML
12 14 (6.76%) GraphQL
12 14 (6.76%) Kafka
13 13 (6.28%) RESTful
14 12 (5.80%) Spring
15 10 (4.83%) .NET Framework
15 10 (4.83%) Entity Framework
16 9 (4.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.28%) Private Cloud
2 11 (5.31%) Fixed Income
2 11 (5.31%) Hedge funds
3 7 (3.38%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.42%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.93%) Equities
6 4 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.93%) NHS
7 2 (0.97%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.97%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.48%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.48%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.93%) Linux
2 3 (1.45%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.97%) Android
4 1 (0.48%) Debian
4 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 119 (57.49%) Software Engineering
3 81 (39.13%) Agile
4 52 (25.12%) CI/CD
5 45 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (18.36%) Microservices
7 36 (17.39%) TDD
8 30 (14.49%) DevOps
9 29 (14.01%) Artificial Intelligence
10 27 (13.04%) Code Quality
11 26 (12.56%) User Experience
12 21 (10.14%) Product Roadmap
12 21 (10.14%) Roadmaps
13 19 (9.18%) Mentoring
14 18 (8.70%) Pair Programming
15 16 (7.73%) API Development
15 16 (7.73%) Computer Science
16 15 (7.25%) Test Automation
17 14 (6.76%) Fintech
18 13 (6.28%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 98 (47.34%) TypeScript
2 87 (42.03%) Python
3 78 (37.68%) JavaScript
4 58 (28.02%) Java
5 44 (21.26%) C#
6 42 (20.29%) SQL
7 10 (4.83%) Go
8 9 (4.35%) PHP
9 3 (1.45%) Perl
10 2 (0.97%) C
10 2 (0.97%) Rust
11 1 (0.48%) Bicep
11 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) Swift
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (8.21%) Degree
2 15 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.93%) CCNA
5 4 (1.93%) CCNP
5 4 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.93%) JNCIA
5 4 (1.93%) JNCIS
6 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.93%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.97%) MiFID
2 2 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 35 (16.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (19.32%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.83%) Terraform
3 4 (1.93%) Ansible
3 4 (1.93%) Argo
Vendors
1 19 (9.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.80%) Databricks
3 8 (3.86%) Telerik
4 4 (1.93%) Arista
4 4 (1.93%) Cisco
5 3 (1.45%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.97%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.97%) IBM
6 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.48%) Google
7 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.48%) Xamarin