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 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 477 235
Rank change year-on-year +149 -242 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Engineer 715 492 3,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 0.61% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.66% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 293 345 428
10th Percentile £45,250 £53,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,000 £63,631 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,294 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +14.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £101,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £65,351 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +199 533 £58,000 -11.25% 22
England +53 469 £75,000 -9.09% 28
Scotland +104 222 £60,000 -2.32% 5
London +9 167 £95,000 -5.00% 13
Work from Home -144 98 £60,000 -28.36% 13
Midlands +53 90 £55,000 - 1
South East +47 87 £58,000 -11.25% 6
East Midlands +46 82 £55,000 -
North of England +23 74 £60,000 -8.19% 5
North West +27 68 £60,000 -7.69% 2
South West -2 29 £47,500 -34.48%
East of England +4 15 £65,000 -1.89% 4
Wales +32 13 £55,000 -8.33%
West Midlands -2 8 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Yorkshire +36 4 £47,500 -38.71% 1
Northern Ireland +17 3 £50,000 - 2
North East -10 2 £65,000 -13.33% 2

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 715 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 475 (66.43%) React
3 454 (63.50%) Agile
4 418 (58.46%) Artificial Intelligence
5 407 (56.92%) Software Engineering
6 369 (51.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 363 (50.77%) JavaScript
8 339 (47.41%) SQL
9 318 (44.48%) Java
10 307 (42.94%) Finance
11 287 (40.14%) AngularJS
12 261 (36.50%) SDLC
12 261 (36.50%) CSS
13 259 (36.22%) HTML
14 237 (33.15%) NoSQL
15 230 (32.17%) Algorithms
16 228 (31.89%) TypeScript
17 223 (31.19%) Machine Learning
18 221 (30.91%) Azure
19 211 (29.51%) Law
19 211 (29.51%) CI/CD
20 210 (29.37%) AWS
21 194 (27.13%) C#
22 192 (26.85%) Mentoring
23 190 (26.57%) MongoDB
24 182 (25.45%) OO
24 182 (25.45%) PostgreSQL
25 179 (25.03%) Public Sector
26 175 (24.48%) Blockchain
26 175 (24.48%) IBM Cloud

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 55 (7.69%) FileNet
2 44 (6.15%) Apache
2 44 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (5.03%) Camunda
3 36 (5.03%) nginx
4 15 (2.10%) Cloud Foundry
5 5 (0.70%) CMS
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.28%) SAS
6 2 (0.28%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.28%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Confluence
7 1 (0.14%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Simulink
2 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Sketch
2 1 (0.14%) UXPin
2 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 221 (30.91%) Azure
2 210 (29.37%) AWS
3 175 (24.48%) IBM Cloud
4 70 (9.79%) GCP
5 57 (7.97%) Amazon S3
6 36 (5.03%) OpenShift
7 26 (3.64%) SaaS
8 25 (3.50%) GitHub
9 18 (2.52%) BlazeMeter
10 15 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (2.10%) Serverless
11 9 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.28%) Amazon Cognito
14 2 (0.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (0.28%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
15 1 (0.14%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.42%) HTTP
1 3 (0.42%) MQTT
2 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (33.15%) NoSQL
2 190 (26.57%) MongoDB
3 182 (25.45%) PostgreSQL
4 116 (16.22%) DB2
5 79 (11.05%) Elasticsearch
6 55 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 43 (6.01%) Apache Ignite
7 43 (6.01%) Relational Database
8 39 (5.45%) Oracle Database
9 21 (2.94%) MySQL
10 11 (1.54%) RDBMS
11 10 (1.40%) SQL Server
12 7 (0.98%) Redis
13 3 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.28%) Big Data
14 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.28%) Hadoop
15 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 74 (10.35%) JUnit
2 43 (6.01%) Cypress.io
3 37 (5.17%) Git
4 28 (3.92%) Jenkins
5 22 (3.08%) Jasmine
6 21 (2.94%) Mockito
7 18 (2.52%) JMeter
8 15 (2.10%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.82%) JIRA
10 9 (1.26%) GitLab
11 8 (1.12%) Maven
12 6 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.70%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.70%) IntelliJ
13 5 (0.70%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.28%) Mocha
14 2 (0.28%) NUnit
15 1 (0.14%) ESLint
15 1 (0.14%) MLflow
15 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 369 (51.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 307 (42.94%) Finance
3 211 (29.51%) Law
4 179 (25.03%) Public Sector
5 128 (17.90%) Legal
6 64 (8.95%) Marketing
7 63 (8.81%) Banking
8 61 (8.53%) Front Office
9 55 (7.69%) Social Skills
10 16 (2.24%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.82%) Retail
12 12 (1.68%) Health Technology
13 10 (1.40%) Tech for Good
14 9 (1.26%) Analytical Skills
15 8 (1.12%) Aviation
16 6 (0.84%) Automotive
16 6 (0.84%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.70%) Games
17 5 (0.70%) Retail Finance
18 3 (0.42%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (66.43%) React
2 287 (40.14%) AngularJS
3 261 (36.50%) CSS
4 259 (36.22%) HTML
5 171 (23.92%) jQuery
6 170 (23.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 167 (23.36%) .NET
8 164 (22.94%) Web Services
9 161 (22.52%) Spring
10 150 (20.98%) Node.js
10 150 (20.98%) Vue
11 134 (18.74%) REST
12 132 (18.46%) Kafka
13 124 (17.34%) ASP.NET
14 117 (16.36%) Ember.js
15 116 (16.22%) ASP.NET Core
15 116 (16.22%) Backbone.js
16 107 (14.97%) J2EE
17 88 (12.31%) Hibernate
18 83 (11.61%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 230 (32.17%) Algorithms
2 175 (24.48%) Blockchain
2 175 (24.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 151 (21.12%) e-Learning
4 148 (20.70%) Data Structures
5 75 (10.49%) Cloud Native
6 51 (7.13%) Fixed Income
7 44 (6.15%) Hedge funds
8 30 (4.20%) Onboarding
9 27 (3.78%) Equities
10 26 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (3.50%) Reference Data
12 24 (3.36%) Market Risk
13 19 (2.66%) Private Cloud
14 16 (2.24%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.68%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
17 9 (1.26%) Product Ownership
18 6 (0.84%) NHS
19 5 (0.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 141 (19.72%) Linux
2 121 (16.92%) Windows
3 118 (16.50%) Android
4 116 (16.22%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.98%) Unix
6 5 (0.70%) AIX
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 715 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 454 (63.50%) Agile
3 418 (58.46%) Artificial Intelligence
4 407 (56.92%) Software Engineering
5 261 (36.50%) SDLC
6 223 (31.19%) Machine Learning
7 211 (29.51%) CI/CD
8 192 (26.85%) Mentoring
9 182 (25.45%) OO
10 170 (23.78%) Operational Stability
11 165 (23.08%) Coaching
12 141 (19.72%) Risk Management
13 139 (19.44%) Microservices
14 136 (19.02%) OOP
14 136 (19.02%) User Experience
15 135 (18.88%) MVC
16 134 (18.74%) Design Patterns
17 131 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
18 129 (18.04%) SOLID
19 122 (17.06%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 363 (50.77%) JavaScript
2 339 (47.41%) SQL
3 318 (44.48%) Java
4 228 (31.89%) TypeScript
5 194 (27.13%) C#
6 141 (19.72%) Python
7 36 (5.03%) Lua
8 32 (4.48%) PHP
9 19 (2.66%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.12%) C++
11 5 (0.70%) Go
12 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.42%) Ruby
13 3 (0.42%) Rust
14 2 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.28%) Scala
14 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.14%) Bash
15 1 (0.14%) F#
Qualifications
1 31 (4.34%) Degree
2 18 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.12%) Security Cleared
4 7 (0.98%) Master's Degree
4 7 (0.98%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.56%) Azure Certification
5 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.28%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.12%) QA
2 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.28%) GDPR
3 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.28%) IEC 62304
3 2 (0.28%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.28%) MiFID
4 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.14%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (12.03%) Docker
2 5 (0.70%) Firmware
3 2 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (12.59%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.38%) Terraform
3 2 (0.28%) Ansible
4 1 (0.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 175 (24.48%) IBM
1 175 (24.48%) Red Hat
2 124 (17.34%) Oracle
3 49 (6.85%) Google
4 13 (1.82%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.12%) ION Trading
6 4 (0.56%) Cognizant
6 4 (0.56%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.42%) Databricks
7 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.42%) Splunk
8 2 (0.28%) Capita
8 2 (0.28%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe
9 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.14%) PayPal
9 1 (0.14%) SAP
9 1 (0.14%) Siemens
9 1 (0.14%) VMware
9 1 (0.14%) Xamarin