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 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 477 252
Rank change year-on-year +151 -225 +183
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Engineer 860 631 2,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.62% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.68% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 346 343 375
10th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £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 £94,688 £100,000 £93,125
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,351 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.19% +4.56% +25.00%

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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +189 676 £60,000 -8.19% 50
England +46 489 £70,000 -12.50% 144
Scotland +130 350 £55,000 -15.84% 1
London +22 174 £92,500 +0.36% 95
Work from Home -151 136 £62,500 -21.88% 74
North of England +63 99 £60,000 -22.58% 17
Midlands +70 94 £58,500 +11.43% 14
North West +56 86 £60,000 -7.69% 13
East Midlands +53 81 £55,000 - 10
South East +30 77 £60,000 -11.34% 4
South West -43 27 £50,000 -23.49% 7
Wales +11 14 £60,000 - 3
East of England +5 14 £62,500 -10.71% 4
West Midlands +10 13 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Yorkshire +52 7 £45,000 -43.75% 2
North East -2 6 £65,000 - 2
Northern Ireland +6 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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.

1 860 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 567 (65.93%) Software Engineering
3 558 (64.88%) Agile
4 533 (61.98%) React
5 484 (56.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 458 (53.26%) Artificial Intelligence
7 437 (50.81%) Finance
8 422 (49.07%) Java
9 420 (48.84%) SQL
10 394 (45.81%) JavaScript
11 368 (42.79%) SDLC
12 362 (42.09%) AngularJS
13 337 (39.19%) Law
14 317 (36.86%) CI/CD
15 293 (34.07%) Machine Learning
16 284 (33.02%) Operational Stability
17 263 (30.58%) AWS
18 262 (30.47%) TypeScript
19 261 (30.35%) NoSQL
20 257 (29.88%) Algorithms
21 242 (28.14%) CSS
22 239 (27.79%) Spring
23 234 (27.21%) HTML
24 232 (26.98%) Azure
25 221 (25.70%) MongoDB
26 206 (23.95%) Python
27 187 (21.74%) Node.js
28 184 (21.40%) PostgreSQL
29 183 (21.28%) C#
30 181 (21.05%) Mentoring

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 (6.40%) FileNet
2 42 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (4.53%) Apache
4 38 (4.42%) nginx
5 36 (4.19%) Camunda
6 18 (2.09%) Cloud Foundry
7 17 (1.98%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.23%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Confluence
9 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
1 263 (30.58%) AWS
2 232 (26.98%) Azure
3 149 (17.33%) IBM Cloud
4 97 (11.28%) GCP
5 55 (6.40%) Amazon S3
6 36 (4.19%) OpenShift
7 29 (3.37%) GitHub
8 24 (2.79%) SaaS
9 20 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.09%) BlazeMeter
11 14 (1.63%) Serverless
12 9 (1.05%) 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
1 261 (30.35%) NoSQL
2 221 (25.70%) MongoDB
3 184 (21.40%) PostgreSQL
4 113 (13.14%) DB2
5 81 (9.42%) Elasticsearch
6 55 (6.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 47 (5.47%) Relational Database
8 39 (4.53%) Apache Ignite
8 39 (4.53%) Oracle Database
9 34 (3.95%) MySQL
10 18 (2.09%) Redis
11 17 (1.98%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.86%) Apache Hive
13 13 (1.51%) Big Data
14 8 (0.93%) SQL Server
15 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.35%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.35%) HBase
16 2 (0.23%) Power BI
17 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 75 (8.72%) JUnit
2 40 (4.65%) Cypress.io
2 40 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 38 (4.42%) Git
4 23 (2.67%) Jasmine
5 22 (2.56%) Mockito
6 18 (2.09%) JMeter
7 16 (1.86%) Cucumber
7 16 (1.86%) GitLab
8 12 (1.40%) JIRA
9 7 (0.81%) Maven
10 5 (0.58%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.47%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.47%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.47%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.35%) Gradle
13 2 (0.23%) Mocha
13 2 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 484 (56.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 437 (50.81%) Finance
3 337 (39.19%) Law
4 154 (17.91%) Public Sector
5 142 (16.51%) Legal
6 127 (14.77%) Marketing
7 115 (13.37%) Banking
8 75 (8.72%) Front Office
9 59 (6.86%) Social Skills
10 40 (4.65%) Private Banking
11 28 (3.26%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.63%) Aviation
12 14 (1.63%) Retail
13 13 (1.51%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.51%) Health Technology
14 11 (1.28%) Tech for Good
15 10 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
16 7 (0.81%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.70%) Automotive
17 6 (0.70%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (61.98%) React
2 362 (42.09%) AngularJS
3 242 (28.14%) CSS
4 239 (27.79%) Spring
5 234 (27.21%) HTML
6 187 (21.74%) Node.js
7 171 (19.88%) .NET
7 171 (19.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 170 (19.77%) Web Services
9 168 (19.53%) jQuery
10 161 (18.72%) Vue
11 154 (17.91%) REST
12 150 (17.44%) Kafka
13 125 (14.53%) ASP.NET
14 119 (13.84%) J2EE
15 115 (13.37%) Ember.js
16 114 (13.26%) ASP.NET Core
17 113 (13.14%) Backbone.js
18 98 (11.40%) Spring Boot
19 95 (11.05%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 257 (29.88%) Algorithms
2 152 (17.67%) Data Structures
3 149 (17.33%) Blockchain
3 149 (17.33%) e-Learning
3 149 (17.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 116 (13.49%) Cloud Native
5 57 (6.63%) Fixed Income
6 48 (5.58%) Reference Data
7 45 (5.23%) Public Cloud
8 39 (4.53%) Hedge funds
8 39 (4.53%) Onboarding
9 23 (2.67%) Equities
10 22 (2.56%) Market Risk
10 22 (2.56%) Private Cloud
11 16 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.86%) Management Information System
12 14 (1.63%) Legacy Code
12 14 (1.63%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.63%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 152 (17.67%) Linux
2 120 (13.95%) Windows
3 115 (13.37%) Android
4 113 (13.14%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.81%) Unix
6 4 (0.47%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 860 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 567 (65.93%) Software Engineering
3 558 (64.88%) Agile
4 458 (53.26%) Artificial Intelligence
5 368 (42.79%) SDLC
6 317 (36.86%) CI/CD
7 293 (34.07%) Machine Learning
8 284 (33.02%) Operational Stability
9 181 (21.05%) Mentoring
10 176 (20.47%) Coaching
10 176 (20.47%) Microservices
11 160 (18.60%) OO
12 155 (18.02%) Risk Management
13 154 (17.91%) Design Patterns
14 139 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 136 (15.81%) Community of Practice
16 134 (15.58%) User Experience
17 131 (15.23%) Visualisation
18 129 (15.00%) Decision-Making
18 129 (15.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 422 (49.07%) Java
2 420 (48.84%) SQL
3 394 (45.81%) JavaScript
4 262 (30.47%) TypeScript
5 206 (23.95%) Python
6 183 (21.28%) C#
7 36 (4.19%) Lua
8 34 (3.95%) PHP
9 26 (3.02%) Kotlin
10 19 (2.21%) Go
11 9 (1.05%) C
11 9 (1.05%) C++
12 8 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.47%) Ruby
15 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.23%) Rust
17 1 (0.12%) Bash
17 1 (0.12%) Clojure
17 1 (0.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (7.09%) Degree
2 33 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (1.63%) Security Cleared
4 8 (0.93%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.02%) SLA
2 19 (2.21%) 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
1 105 (12.21%) Docker
2 5 (0.58%) Firmware
3 3 (0.35%) HDFS
4 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 114 (13.26%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.28%) Terraform
3 5 (0.58%) Ansible
4 3 (0.35%) logstash
5 1 (0.12%) Grafana
Vendors
1 151 (17.56%) Oracle
2 149 (17.33%) IBM
2 149 (17.33%) Red Hat
3 60 (6.98%) Google
4 9 (1.05%) 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%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.12%) SAP