Full Stack Software Engineer Jobs

Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer salary in the UK is £67,500 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 507 711 598
Rank change year-on-year +204 -113 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Software Engineer 365 176 901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.22% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.24% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 143 164 150
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £40,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £70,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £100,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +53.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £143,375 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,750 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.75% +14.29% -

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 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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Full Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full Stack Software Engineer
Top 16 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 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 +198 287 £57,750 -3.75% 9
Scotland +121 220 £60,000 +50.00%
England +8 139 £80,000 -20.00% 11
London +28 72 £110,000 +7.32% 2
Work from Home -41 50 £57,500 -43.90% 9
South East +16 25 £58,000 -7.20% 5
North of England +3 12 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Midlands -12 12 £55,000 -
East of England - 10 £61,250 - 1
North West -10 8 £57,500 -11.54% 1
South West 0 6 £48,500 -25.38%
West Midlands -1 6 - -
East Midlands - 6 £55,000 -
Yorkshire +52 2 £47,500 -29.63%
Wales +29 2 £68,750 +14.58%
North East - 2 £65,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 365 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 365 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 275 (75.34%) Agile
3 270 (73.97%) Finance
4 221 (60.55%) Artificial Intelligence
5 220 (60.27%) React
6 217 (59.45%) Java
6 217 (59.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 214 (58.63%) Machine Learning
8 205 (56.16%) Law
9 196 (53.70%) SDLC
10 192 (52.60%) CI/CD
11 187 (51.23%) SQL
12 170 (46.58%) Operational Stability
13 143 (39.18%) TypeScript
13 143 (39.18%) Spring
14 137 (37.53%) JavaScript
15 136 (37.26%) AngularJS
16 135 (36.99%) Risk Management
17 129 (35.34%) AWS
18 124 (33.97%) Kafka
19 123 (33.70%) Legal
20 111 (30.41%) NoSQL
21 108 (29.59%) Microservices
22 106 (29.04%) J2EE
23 101 (27.67%) Algorithms
24 100 (27.40%) Community of Practice
25 99 (27.12%) Continuous Improvement
26 98 (26.85%) Visualisation
26 98 (26.85%) Python

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 55 (15.07%) FileNet
2 43 (11.78%) Apache
2 43 (11.78%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (4.11%) Cloud Foundry
4 5 (1.37%) CMS
5 2 (0.55%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.27%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Simulink
2 1 (0.27%) Sketch
2 1 (0.27%) UXPin
2 1 (0.27%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 129 (35.34%) AWS
2 65 (17.81%) Azure
3 57 (15.62%) Amazon S3
4 56 (15.34%) GCP
5 23 (6.30%) GitHub
6 18 (4.93%) BlazeMeter
7 10 (2.74%) Serverless
8 9 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.37%) SaaS
11 4 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.27%) Amazon Cognito
13 1 (0.27%) AWS CodePipeline
13 1 (0.27%) AWS Fargate
13 1 (0.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 1 (0.27%) BrowserStack
13 1 (0.27%) CloudFront
13 1 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.27%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (30.41%) NoSQL
2 77 (21.10%) Elasticsearch
3 58 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (15.07%) Apache Cassandra
5 43 (11.78%) Apache Ignite
6 37 (10.14%) Relational Database
7 32 (8.77%) MongoDB
8 19 (5.21%) MySQL
9 11 (3.01%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.64%) Redis
10 6 (1.64%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.82%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 74 (20.27%) JUnit
2 41 (11.23%) Cypress.io
3 27 (7.40%) Git
4 24 (6.58%) Jenkins
5 21 (5.75%) Jasmine
5 21 (5.75%) Mockito
6 18 (4.93%) JMeter
7 15 (4.11%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.29%) JIRA
9 5 (1.37%) GitLab
9 5 (1.37%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.55%) NUnit
11 1 (0.27%) Mocha
11 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 270 (73.97%) Finance
2 217 (59.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 205 (56.16%) Law
4 123 (33.70%) Legal
5 61 (16.71%) Front Office
6 60 (16.44%) Banking
7 57 (15.62%) Marketing
8 16 (4.38%) Social Skills
9 15 (4.11%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (2.19%) Aviation
11 6 (1.64%) Automotive
11 6 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.37%) Retail
12 5 (1.37%) Retail Finance
13 2 (0.55%) Aeronautics
13 2 (0.55%) Electronics
13 2 (0.55%) Games
13 2 (0.55%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (60.27%) React
2 143 (39.18%) Spring
3 136 (37.26%) AngularJS
4 124 (33.97%) Kafka
5 106 (29.04%) J2EE
6 88 (24.11%) Hibernate
7 86 (23.56%) CSS
7 86 (23.56%) HTML
8 85 (23.29%) Node.js
9 83 (22.74%) JMS
10 68 (18.63%) GraphQL
11 61 (16.71%) JSON
12 55 (15.07%) Spring Integration
13 54 (14.79%) jQuery
13 54 (14.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 51 (13.97%) Material-UI
14 51 (13.97%) Redux
15 46 (12.60%) Web Services
16 43 (11.78%) gRPC
16 43 (11.78%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 101 (27.67%) Algorithms
2 71 (19.45%) Cloud Native
3 51 (13.97%) Fixed Income
4 44 (12.05%) Hedge funds
5 30 (8.22%) Onboarding
6 26 (7.12%) Equities
7 25 (6.85%) Reference Data
8 20 (5.48%) Data Structures
9 18 (4.93%) Market Risk
10 17 (4.66%) Private Cloud
11 15 (4.11%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.82%) CAN bus
13 3 (0.82%) IoT
14 2 (0.55%) Educational Technology
15 1 (0.27%) ARM Cortex
15 1 (0.27%) Hackathon
15 1 (0.27%) Product Ownership
15 1 (0.27%) Public Cloud
15 1 (0.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.01%) Linux
2 5 (1.37%) Unix
3 2 (0.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 365 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 275 (75.34%) Agile
3 221 (60.55%) Artificial Intelligence
4 214 (58.63%) Machine Learning
5 196 (53.70%) SDLC
6 192 (52.60%) CI/CD
7 170 (46.58%) Operational Stability
8 135 (36.99%) Risk Management
9 108 (29.59%) Microservices
10 100 (27.40%) Community of Practice
11 99 (27.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 98 (26.85%) Visualisation
13 68 (18.63%) Decision-Making
14 55 (15.07%) AOP
14 55 (15.07%) Document Management
15 52 (14.25%) Asset Management
15 52 (14.25%) Investment Management
16 43 (11.78%) Automated Trading
17 42 (11.51%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 217 (59.45%) Java
2 187 (51.23%) SQL
3 143 (39.18%) TypeScript
4 137 (37.53%) JavaScript
5 98 (26.85%) Python
6 33 (9.04%) C#
7 15 (4.11%) PHP
8 8 (2.19%) C++
8 8 (2.19%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.82%) Rust
10 2 (0.55%) Ruby
10 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.27%) Bash
11 1 (0.27%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (5.48%) Degree
2 13 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.37%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.82%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.82%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.55%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
1 2 (0.55%) GDPR
1 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
1 2 (0.55%) IEC 62304
1 2 (0.55%) ISO 13485
1 2 (0.55%) MiFID
1 2 (0.55%) QA
2 1 (0.27%) IEC 61131
2 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (7.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.55%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 75 (20.55%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.01%) Terraform
3 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 86 (23.56%) Oracle
2 47 (12.88%) Google
3 4 (1.10%) Cognizant
4 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
4 3 (0.82%) Splunk
5 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.27%) Siemens
6 1 (0.27%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.27%) VMware
6 1 (0.27%) Xamarin