Full-Stack Software Engineer Jobs

Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 608 460 741
Rank change year-on-year -148 +281 -146
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer 84 502 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.51% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.54% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 74 157 140
10th Percentile £42,875 £42,500 £52,028
25th Percentile £57,267 £47,500 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £83,939 £113,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +13.64%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
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 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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 +104 78 £65,000 -16.13% 128
UK excluding London -105 58 £62,500 +13.64% 77
Work from Home +167 42 £67,500 +5.88% 99
London +65 25 £93,750 -14.77% 74
South West +120 17 £61,250 +22.50% 9
South East +102 16 £65,000 +8.33% 25
North of England +68 12 £45,000 -14.29% 26
Yorkshire +76 6 £45,000 - 4
North West +18 6 £52,500 -6.67% 21
Midlands +73 5 £52,500 -12.50% 7
Scotland -67 5 £79,569 +44.67% 2
West Midlands +46 4 £52,500 -12.50% 3
East of England +54 3 £60,000 +23.71% 11
East Midlands +45 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 84 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 84 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 59 (70.24%) React
3 53 (63.10%) Agile
4 51 (60.71%) Azure
5 47 (55.95%) AWS
6 45 (53.57%) JavaScript
7 39 (46.43%) Python
8 36 (42.86%) Java
9 30 (35.71%) .NET
10 29 (34.52%) C#
10 29 (34.52%) TDD
10 29 (34.52%) CI/CD
11 25 (29.76%) TypeScript
12 22 (26.19%) AngularJS
12 22 (26.19%) Finance
13 21 (25.00%) DevOps
14 20 (23.81%) SQL
15 17 (20.24%) Pair Programming
15 17 (20.24%) GCP
15 17 (20.24%) Kubernetes
15 17 (20.24%) Vue
16 16 (19.05%) .NET Core
16 16 (19.05%) Redux
17 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
18 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
18 14 (16.67%) Security Cleared
19 13 (15.48%) Docker
20 12 (14.29%) Private Cloud
20 12 (14.29%) Fintech

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 2 (2.38%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 51 (60.71%) Azure
2 47 (55.95%) AWS
3 17 (20.24%) GCP
4 10 (11.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (10.71%) Azure API Management
6 7 (8.33%) GitHub
7 6 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (7.14%) Serverless
8 5 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.76%) SaaS
10 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.38%) Azure Pipelines
12 1 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.19%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 1 (1.19%) Supabase
12 1 (1.19%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) FTP
1 1 (1.19%) HTTP
1 1 (1.19%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 6 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.76%) MySQL
2 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.57%) Redis
4 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) webpack
2 4 (4.76%) GitLab
3 3 (3.57%) Git
4 2 (2.38%) NUnit
5 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.19%) JIRA
5 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (26.19%) Finance
2 11 (13.10%) Front Office
3 10 (11.90%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.95%) Banking
5 2 (2.38%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.19%) Advertising
6 1 (1.19%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.19%) Automotive
6 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.19%) Retail
6 1 (1.19%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (70.24%) React
2 30 (35.71%) .NET
3 22 (26.19%) AngularJS
4 17 (20.24%) Vue
5 16 (19.05%) .NET Core
5 16 (19.05%) Redux
6 10 (11.90%) RESTful
7 9 (10.71%) CSS
7 9 (10.71%) HTML
7 9 (10.71%) Middleware
8 8 (9.52%) Next.js
9 6 (7.14%) React Native
9 6 (7.14%) Spring
9 6 (7.14%) Spring Boot
10 5 (5.95%) Blazor
10 5 (5.95%) Node.js
10 5 (5.95%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (4.76%) GraphQL
12 3 (3.57%) Django
12 3 (3.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 11 (13.10%) Fixed Income
2 11 (13.10%) Hedge funds
3 4 (4.76%) Equities
3 4 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.57%) NHS
4 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.19%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.19%) Lidar
6 1 (1.19%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 84 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 53 (63.10%) Agile
3 29 (34.52%) CI/CD
3 29 (34.52%) TDD
4 21 (25.00%) DevOps
5 17 (20.24%) Pair Programming
6 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (14.29%) Analytics
7 12 (14.29%) Fintech
8 11 (13.10%) Asset Management
8 11 (13.10%) B2B
8 11 (13.10%) Data Engineering
8 11 (13.10%) Investment Management
8 11 (13.10%) Microservices
9 10 (11.90%) API Management
10 9 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (10.71%) SDLC
10 9 (10.71%) Use Case
11 8 (9.52%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 45 (53.57%) JavaScript
2 39 (46.43%) Python
3 36 (42.86%) Java
4 29 (34.52%) C#
5 25 (29.76%) TypeScript
6 20 (23.81%) SQL
7 9 (10.71%) Go
8 3 (3.57%) PHP
9 2 (2.38%) Rust
10 1 (1.19%) C
10 1 (1.19%) Perl
10 1 (1.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) Degree
4 1 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) MiFID
1 2 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 13 (15.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (20.24%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.10%) Databricks
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (1.19%) Telerik
4 1 (1.19%) Xamarin