Full-Stack Software Engineer Job Trends

Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

The median Full-Stack Software Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 634 534
Rank change year-on-year +99 -100 +130
Permanent jobs requiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer 114 101 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.15% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.16% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 54 60 151
10th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £59,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% -42.44% +57.69%
75th Percentile £116,875 £78,750 £135,000
90th Percentile £140,625 £103,750 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.17% +4.55% -3.51%

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 45,153 64,335 50,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.08% 95.04% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28,095 36,400 39,152
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,200 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,410 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% -4.32% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Full-Stack Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Full-Stack Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Software Engineer over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Full-Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Full-Stack Software Engineer
Top 13 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 6 November 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
UK excluding London +103 88 £64,500 +12.17% 95
England +56 59 £70,000 +16.67% 125
Scotland +49 52 £73,750 +40.48% 1
Work from Home +45 35 £66,250 +15.22% 97
London +34 22 £127,500 +61.90% 58
South West +36 15 £62,500 +8.70% 6
South East +18 8 £70,000 +23.89% 57
West Midlands +58 6 £62,500 +4.17% 5
Midlands +52 6 £62,500 +19.05% 8
North of England +12 5 £57,500 -4.17% 15
Yorkshire +16 3 £57,500 +21.05% 3
North West +33 2 - - 11
East of England +27 2 £61,250 -23.44% 6

Full-Stack Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, Full-Stack Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Full-Stack Software Engineer in the job title.

1 114 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 113 (99.12%) Software Engineering
3 75 (65.79%) Agile
4 72 (63.16%) React
5 69 (60.53%) CI/CD
6 65 (57.02%) Java
7 53 (46.49%) AWS
8 50 (43.86%) SDLC
8 50 (43.86%) Spring
9 46 (40.35%) AngularJS
10 45 (39.47%) Operational Stability
11 41 (35.96%) AI
12 38 (33.33%) Kubernetes
12 38 (33.33%) Spring Boot
13 35 (30.70%) JavaScript
14 33 (28.95%) TypeScript
15 32 (28.07%) Azure
15 32 (28.07%) Machine Learning
15 32 (28.07%) Python
16 30 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
17 29 (25.44%) Community of Practice
17 29 (25.44%) Visualisation
18 26 (22.81%) DevOps
18 26 (22.81%) SQL
19 25 (21.93%) Kafka
20 24 (21.05%) Microservices
21 23 (20.18%) Decision-Making
22 20 (17.54%) Docker
22 20 (17.54%) Vue
23 19 (16.67%) GitHub

Full-Stack Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.51%) Camunda
2 4 (3.51%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 53 (46.49%) AWS
2 32 (28.07%) Azure
3 19 (16.67%) GitHub
4 15 (13.16%) GCP
5 10 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (7.89%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (7.89%) Serverless
7 8 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.39%) Azure AI
9 4 (3.51%) ChatGPT
9 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (2.63%) Dagster
10 3 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (2.63%) Prefect
11 2 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.75%) Cloud Run
11 2 (1.75%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.02%) Big Data
1 8 (7.02%) Hadoop
1 8 (7.02%) NoSQL
1 8 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (7.02%) Relational Database
2 7 (6.14%) Oracle Database
3 6 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (4.39%) Apache Hive
4 5 (4.39%) HBase
5 4 (3.51%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.51%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.88%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Git
1 5 (4.39%) Gradle
1 5 (4.39%) Jenkins
1 5 (4.39%) JUnit
1 5 (4.39%) Maven
2 3 (2.63%) GitLab
3 1 (0.88%) JIRA
3 1 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.88%) Spock
3 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 61 (53.51%) Finance
2 48 (42.11%) Law
3 46 (40.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (24.56%) Marketing
5 15 (13.16%) Banking
6 12 (10.53%) Front Office
7 11 (9.65%) Social Skills
8 10 (8.77%) Legal
9 9 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
10 5 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (3.51%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.75%) Games
12 2 (1.75%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.88%) Automotive
13 1 (0.88%) Aviation
13 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (63.16%) React
2 50 (43.86%) Spring
3 46 (40.35%) AngularJS
4 38 (33.33%) Spring Boot
5 25 (21.93%) Kafka
6 20 (17.54%) Vue
7 19 (16.67%) RESTful
8 14 (12.28%) .NET
8 14 (12.28%) REST
9 13 (11.40%) Redux
10 12 (10.53%) Node.js
11 10 (8.77%) .NET Core
12 9 (7.89%) Blazor
13 8 (7.02%) Web Services
14 6 (5.26%) GraphQL
15 5 (4.39%) JPA
16 4 (3.51%) Hibernate
16 4 (3.51%) JDBC
16 4 (3.51%) SOAP
16 4 (3.51%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.44%) Algorithms
2 27 (23.68%) Cloud Native
3 16 (14.04%) Fixed Income
4 9 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.14%) Reference Data
6 6 (5.26%) Equities
6 6 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (5.26%) Hedge funds
7 5 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.51%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (3.51%) Low-Code
8 4 (3.51%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.75%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.88%) IoT
10 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.88%) Robotics
10 1 (0.88%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 113 (99.12%) Software Engineering
3 75 (65.79%) Agile
4 69 (60.53%) CI/CD
5 50 (43.86%) SDLC
6 45 (39.47%) Operational Stability
7 41 (35.96%) AI
8 32 (28.07%) Machine Learning
9 30 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (25.44%) Community of Practice
10 29 (25.44%) Visualisation
11 26 (22.81%) DevOps
12 24 (21.05%) Microservices
13 23 (20.18%) Decision-Making
14 18 (15.79%) Containerisation
15 17 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (14.04%) Investment Management
17 14 (12.28%) TDD
18 13 (11.40%) Analytics
19 10 (8.77%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (57.02%) Java
2 35 (30.70%) JavaScript
3 33 (28.95%) TypeScript
4 32 (28.07%) Python
5 26 (22.81%) SQL
6 14 (12.28%) C#
7 7 (6.14%) Go
8 5 (4.39%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.51%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.63%) C++
11 1 (0.88%) Bash
11 1 (0.88%) C
11 1 (0.88%) Groovy
11 1 (0.88%) PHP
11 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.14%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.39%) Degree
5 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.75%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) ECSS
System Software
1 20 (17.54%) Docker
2 5 (4.39%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.02%) Terraform
3 2 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (14.04%) Oracle
2 7 (6.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.39%) Cloudera
3 5 (4.39%) Databricks
3 5 (4.39%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.39%) Splunk
4 2 (1.75%) Google
4 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.88%) Foundry
5 1 (0.88%) Palantir
5 1 (0.88%) Xamarin