Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 176 157
Rank change year-on-year -4 -19 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 1,618 2,176 4,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 2.10% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 2.30% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,297 1,429 1,976
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £77,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%

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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
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 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK

Full Stack Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England -1 1,466 £60,000 -11.11% 194
UK excluding London -23 1,029 £52,500 -4.55% 110
Work from Home -26 601 £60,000 -7.69% 123
London -4 506 £77,500 +6.90% 82
South East -40 273 £55,000 -12.00% 18
North of England +32 271 £55,000 +12.82% 33
Midlands +6 186 £50,000 -9.09% 24
North West +48 171 £55,000 +4.76% 25
South West -19 146 £52,750 +5.50% 18
West Midlands +32 112 £55,000 +15.79% 12
East of England +59 85 £45,000 -16.28% 10
East Midlands -33 74 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Yorkshire +36 70 £55,000 +22.22% 6
Scotland -99 51 £52,500 -10.64% 4
North East -9 30 £60,000 - 2
Wales -3 16 £50,000 -4.76% 5
Northern Ireland -2 1 £45,000 -10.89% 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Full Stack Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 1,618 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 941 (58.16%) JavaScript
3 802 (49.57%) React
4 633 (39.12%) C#
5 624 (38.57%) .NET
6 539 (33.31%) HTML
7 538 (33.25%) Azure
8 517 (31.95%) CSS
9 501 (30.96%) SQL
10 486 (30.04%) AngularJS
11 461 (28.49%) Agile
12 449 (27.75%) AWS
13 434 (26.82%) Node.js
14 405 (25.03%) TypeScript
15 400 (24.72%) Java
16 380 (23.49%) DevOps
17 371 (22.93%) Vue
18 359 (22.19%) Python
19 313 (19.34%) MVC
20 294 (18.17%) ASP.NET
21 286 (17.68%) Web Development
22 265 (16.38%) PostgreSQL
23 260 (16.07%) User Experience
24 259 (16.01%) jQuery
25 254 (15.70%) Social Skills
26 242 (14.96%) Web Services
27 241 (14.89%) PHP
28 239 (14.77%) Finance
28 239 (14.77%) Git
29 231 (14.28%) Artificial Intelligence

Full Stack Developer 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 58 (3.58%) CMS
2 49 (3.03%) Apache
3 38 (2.35%) WordPress
4 34 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (1.24%) Umbraco
6 18 (1.11%) nginx
7 15 (0.93%) IIS
8 14 (0.87%) OpenStack
9 13 (0.80%) Apache Spark
9 13 (0.80%) Confluence
10 12 (0.74%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.68%) SharePoint
12 7 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.19%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.19%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.19%) Orchard CMS
15 2 (0.12%) JBoss
15 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 18 (1.11%) Photoshop
2 7 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 26 (1.61%) SDL Web 8
2 19 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
3 11 (0.68%) Shopify
4 9 (0.56%) Magento
5 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.19%) R3 Corda
7 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.12%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.12%) nopCommerce
7 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 538 (33.25%) Azure
2 449 (27.75%) AWS
3 223 (13.78%) Serverless
4 210 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
5 137 (8.47%) Azure Functions
6 134 (8.28%) Azure Service Bus
7 128 (7.91%) Azure Logic Apps
8 126 (7.79%) Azure API Management
8 126 (7.79%) IBM Cloud
9 114 (7.05%) SaaS
10 103 (6.37%) GCP
11 72 (4.45%) GitHub
12 44 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (1.85%) Power Platform
14 29 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
19 16 (0.99%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.80%) MQTT
2 12 (0.74%) HTTP
3 7 (0.43%) Internet
4 5 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.31%) VPN
5 4 (0.25%) DNS
6 2 (0.12%) SSH
6 2 (0.12%) SSL
7 1 (0.062%) Firewall
7 1 (0.062%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (16.38%) PostgreSQL
2 200 (12.36%) Relational Database
3 195 (12.05%) SQL Server
4 191 (11.80%) NoSQL
5 187 (11.56%) MongoDB
6 172 (10.63%) MySQL
7 135 (8.34%) DB2
8 34 (2.10%) Apache Ignite
9 25 (1.55%) Redis
10 24 (1.48%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.87%) Power BI
12 14 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.80%) Apache Hive
13 13 (0.80%) Big Data
13 13 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.68%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 239 (14.77%) Git
2 90 (5.56%) JIRA
3 66 (4.08%) Visual Studio
4 53 (3.28%) GitLab
5 48 (2.97%) NUnit
6 44 (2.72%) TeamCity
7 41 (2.53%) Jenkins
8 32 (1.98%) Moq
9 29 (1.79%) Cypress.io
10 21 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 19 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
12 18 (1.11%) MSTest
13 16 (0.99%) SpecFlow
14 14 (0.87%) Bitbucket
14 14 (0.87%) git-flow
14 14 (0.87%) JUnit
14 14 (0.87%) Sourcetree
15 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
16 11 (0.68%) IntelliJ
16 11 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 254 (15.70%) Social Skills
2 239 (14.77%) Finance
3 214 (13.23%) Public Sector
4 104 (6.43%) Banking
5 71 (4.39%) Marketing
6 64 (3.96%) Retail
7 56 (3.46%) Front Office
8 37 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (2.22%) Games
10 31 (1.92%) Law
10 31 (1.92%) Tech for Good
11 24 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.42%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.11%) Health Technology
14 18 (1.11%) Legal
15 16 (0.99%) Advertising
16 15 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (0.87%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.80%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 802 (49.57%) React
2 624 (38.57%) .NET
3 539 (33.31%) HTML
4 517 (31.95%) CSS
5 486 (30.04%) AngularJS
6 434 (26.82%) Node.js
7 371 (22.93%) Vue
8 294 (18.17%) ASP.NET
9 259 (16.01%) jQuery
10 242 (14.96%) Web Services
11 213 (13.16%) REST
12 194 (11.99%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 188 (11.62%) Laravel
14 156 (9.64%) RESTful
15 147 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
16 146 (9.02%) .NET Framework
17 131 (8.10%) .NET Core
18 128 (7.91%) Ember.js
19 125 (7.73%) Backbone.js
20 107 (6.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.39%) Data Structures
2 144 (8.90%) Algorithms
3 137 (8.47%) Blockchain
4 126 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 99 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
6 53 (3.28%) Mobile App
7 52 (3.21%) Fixed Income
8 47 (2.90%) Hedge funds
9 38 (2.35%) Private Cloud
10 30 (1.85%) Legacy Code
11 28 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.55%) Product Ownership
13 22 (1.36%) Cloud Native
14 21 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (1.30%) Onboarding
15 20 (1.24%) IoT
16 19 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.11%) Equities
18 14 (0.87%) Blog
18 14 (0.87%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 186 (11.50%) Linux
2 144 (8.90%) Windows
3 131 (8.10%) Android
3 131 (8.10%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.31%) Unix
4 5 (0.31%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.062%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.062%) Solaris
7 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,618 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 461 (28.49%) Agile
3 380 (23.49%) DevOps
4 313 (19.34%) MVC
5 286 (17.68%) Web Development
6 260 (16.07%) User Experience
7 231 (14.28%) Artificial Intelligence
8 223 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
9 218 (13.47%) Software Engineering
10 208 (12.86%) Design Patterns
11 198 (12.24%) OOP
12 195 (12.05%) CI/CD
13 180 (11.12%) OO
14 175 (10.82%) SOLID
15 159 (9.83%) Responsive Web Design
16 150 (9.27%) TDD
17 136 (8.41%) Computer Science
18 131 (8.10%) Generative AI
19 125 (7.73%) API Management
19 125 (7.73%) Co-Creation
Programming Languages
1 941 (58.16%) JavaScript
2 633 (39.12%) C#
3 501 (30.96%) SQL
4 405 (25.03%) TypeScript
5 400 (24.72%) Java
6 359 (22.19%) Python
7 241 (14.89%) PHP
8 67 (4.14%) T-SQL
9 44 (2.72%) Go
10 26 (1.61%) Ruby
11 23 (1.42%) Kotlin
12 16 (0.99%) Delphi
13 15 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 15 (0.93%) XPath
14 10 (0.62%) PowerShell
15 9 (0.56%) C++
16 7 (0.43%) Bash
16 7 (0.43%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.43%) VBA
17 6 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 163 (10.07%) Degree
2 97 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 75 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 23 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.68%) Postgraduate
9 7 (0.43%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.25%) HND
11 3 (0.19%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.12%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.062%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.062%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.062%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.09%) QA
2 33 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.80%) GDPR
4 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.19%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.19%) PMO
6 2 (0.12%) HL7
6 2 (0.12%) IEC 62304
6 2 (0.12%) WAI
7 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.062%) SLA
System Software
1 190 (11.74%) Docker
2 9 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.37%) Firmware
4 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.062%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 104 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.65%) Terraform
3 21 (1.30%) Ansible
4 7 (0.43%) Grafana
4 7 (0.43%) Kibana
5 5 (0.31%) Control-M
6 4 (0.25%) Rancher
7 1 (0.062%) Consul
7 1 (0.062%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.062%) Kiali
7 1 (0.062%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.062%) Packer
7 1 (0.062%) Puppet
Vendors
1 130 (8.03%) IBM
2 126 (7.79%) Red Hat
3 86 (5.32%) Microsoft
4 55 (3.40%) Google
5 28 (1.73%) Adobe
6 27 (1.67%) Oracle
7 16 (0.99%) Sitecore
8 14 (0.87%) Cognizant
8 14 (0.87%) OpenAI
8 14 (0.87%) WSO2
9 10 (0.62%) SAP
10 9 (0.56%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.43%) F5
12 6 (0.37%) UiPath
12 6 (0.37%) VMware
12 6 (0.37%) Xamarin
13 5 (0.31%) Facebook
13 5 (0.31%) PayPal
13 5 (0.31%) WorldPay
14 4 (0.25%) Splunk