Full Stack Software Engineer Jobs

Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer salary in the UK is £102,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 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
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 562 695 511
Rank change year-on-year +133 -184 +149
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Software Engineer 171 417 771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.33% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.35% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 127 120 304
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £68,492 £50,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £62,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -26.47% +54.55%
75th Percentile £142,500 £85,313 £115,000
90th Percentile £143,000 £91,250 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +5.00%

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 51,668 119,945 122,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 95.32% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 37,837 75,409 83,805
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 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Full Stack Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full Stack Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Software Engineer.

Salary trend for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Software Engineer over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Full Stack Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 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 +181 151 £102,500 +57.69% 28
Work from Home +63 107 £102,500 +70.83% 22
London +246 102 £110,000 +37.50% 13
UK excluding London +50 65 £50,000 -16.67% 18
North of England +91 23 £66,250 -24.29% 6
Scotland +30 15 £47,500 -24.00%
North West +80 14 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Yorkshire +90 9 £67,500 -22.86% 1
Midlands +127 7 £60,000 +20.00% 1
West Midlands +120 7 £60,000 +20.00% 1
South East +118 6 £47,500 -19.15% 6
East of England +107 6 £50,000 -6.98%
Wales +15 5 £52,500 - 1
South West +43 3 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, Full Stack Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 171 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 171 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 147 (85.96%) React
3 141 (82.46%) Agile
4 126 (73.68%) Finance
5 103 (60.23%) AWS
5 103 (60.23%) TypeScript
6 89 (52.05%) GCP
7 85 (49.71%) Asset Management
7 85 (49.71%) Node.js
8 83 (48.54%) Investment Management
9 82 (47.95%) Front Office
10 81 (47.37%) Fixed Income
11 79 (46.20%) Redux
12 74 (43.27%) AngularJS
13 72 (42.11%) JavaScript
14 62 (36.26%) Python
15 54 (31.58%) C#
15 54 (31.58%) .NET
16 53 (30.99%) Fintech
17 52 (30.41%) Analytics
18 48 (28.07%) Azure
19 45 (26.32%) Banking
19 45 (26.32%) CSS
20 44 (25.73%) HTML
21 43 (25.15%) PostgreSQL
22 42 (24.56%) Java
23 39 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
24 36 (21.05%) Derivative
24 36 (21.05%) Git

Full Stack Software 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 8 (4.68%) Apache
1 8 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 103 (60.23%) AWS
2 89 (52.05%) GCP
3 48 (28.07%) Azure
4 9 (5.26%) SaaS
5 5 (2.92%) Serverless
6 4 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.17%) IBM Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.58%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.58%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.58%) DigitalOcean
9 1 (0.58%) Firebase
9 1 (0.58%) GitHub
9 1 (0.58%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) AMQP
2 1 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (25.15%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (20.47%) MongoDB
2 35 (20.47%) MySQL
3 8 (4.68%) Apache Ignite
4 7 (4.09%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.34%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.75%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.17%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.58%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 36 (21.05%) Git
2 32 (18.71%) Cypress.io
3 5 (2.92%) JIRA
4 3 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.75%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.58%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 126 (73.68%) Finance
2 82 (47.95%) Front Office
3 45 (26.32%) Banking
4 32 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (6.43%) Marketing
7 9 (5.26%) Social Skills
8 8 (4.68%) Law
9 3 (1.75%) Aviation
9 3 (1.75%) Legal
9 3 (1.75%) Retail
10 2 (1.17%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.58%) Electronics
11 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.58%) Games
11 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (85.96%) React
2 85 (49.71%) Node.js
3 79 (46.20%) Redux
4 74 (43.27%) AngularJS
5 54 (31.58%) .NET
6 45 (26.32%) CSS
7 44 (25.73%) HTML
8 36 (21.05%) RESTful
9 31 (18.13%) Express.js
9 31 (18.13%) Material-UI
9 31 (18.13%) MEAN Stack
9 31 (18.13%) MERN Stack
10 30 (17.54%) Vue
11 29 (16.96%) ASP.NET
12 27 (15.79%) GraphQL
13 25 (14.62%) ASP.NET Core
14 24 (14.04%) OpenFin
15 10 (5.85%) .NET Core
16 9 (5.26%) .NET Framework
17 8 (4.68%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 81 (47.37%) Fixed Income
2 36 (21.05%) Derivative
3 28 (16.37%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.85%) Equities
4 10 (5.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.92%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.75%) IoT
9 2 (1.17%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.17%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.17%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 171 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 141 (82.46%) Agile
3 85 (49.71%) Asset Management
4 83 (48.54%) Investment Management
5 53 (30.99%) Fintech
6 52 (30.41%) Analytics
7 39 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (19.30%) User Experience
9 32 (18.71%) DevOps
10 31 (18.13%) API Development
10 31 (18.13%) Customer Experience
10 31 (18.13%) Customer-Centricity
11 29 (16.96%) Roadmaps
12 28 (16.37%) TDD
13 23 (13.45%) Performance Attribution
13 23 (13.45%) Risk Analytics
14 22 (12.87%) Technology Roadmap
15 16 (9.36%) CI/CD
15 16 (9.36%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 103 (60.23%) TypeScript
2 72 (42.11%) JavaScript
3 62 (36.26%) Python
4 54 (31.58%) C#
5 42 (24.56%) Java
6 31 (18.13%) SQL
7 25 (14.62%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.75%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.17%) R
10 1 (0.58%) PHP
10 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (2.92%) Degree
2 2 (1.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.20%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (20.47%) Google
2 24 (14.04%) Finsemble
3 8 (4.68%) Oracle
4 3 (1.75%) Cadence
4 3 (1.75%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.17%) Facebook
5 2 (1.17%) IBM
5 2 (1.17%) PayPal
6 1 (0.58%) SAP
6 1 (0.58%) Sitecore