Senior Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 560 565
Rank change year-on-year +20 +5 -159
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 189 92 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.21% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.24% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 167 72 292
10th Percentile £54,500 - £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £82,000 £70,625 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year +21.74% -6.12% -15.52%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 84,854 38,887 90,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 89.46% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 54,818 23,400 66,698
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +11.79% -12.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Senior Full-Stack Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Full-Stack Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Developer over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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 +54 173 £70,000 +16.67% 20
UK excluding London +12 145 £70,000 +21.74% 15
North of England -12 47 £70,000 +27.27% 6
South East -14 36 £70,000 +12.00% 3
Work from Home +1 35 £62,500 +4.17% 11
London -11 33 £84,000 +23.08% 7
Midlands -26 31 £62,500 +4.17% 4
Yorkshire -26 27 £75,000 +25.00% 2
North West -9 18 £70,000 +27.27% 2
East Midlands -24 18 £62,500 +13.64%
East of England +1 16 £100,000 +42.86% 2
West Midlands -29 13 £70,000 +16.67% 4
South West -45 10 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Wales -27 5 £52,500 -
North East -29 2 £59,750 +1.70% 2

Senior Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2026, Senior Full-Stack Developer 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 Senior Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 189 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 76 (40.21%) React
3 62 (32.80%) JavaScript
4 61 (32.28%) AWS
5 43 (22.75%) Node.js
5 43 (22.75%) TypeScript
6 42 (22.22%) Azure
7 38 (20.11%) Python
8 33 (17.46%) .NET
9 32 (16.93%) Web Development
10 30 (15.87%) DevOps
11 29 (15.34%) C#
12 28 (14.81%) AngularJS
13 27 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (12.70%) CSS
14 24 (12.70%) HTML
14 24 (12.70%) PHP
15 22 (11.64%) Mentoring
15 22 (11.64%) SQL
16 20 (10.58%) CI/CD
17 18 (9.52%) Laravel
17 18 (9.52%) Security Cleared
17 18 (9.52%) Serverless
18 17 (8.99%) Vue
19 16 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
19 16 (8.47%) Microservices
20 15 (7.94%) Agile
20 15 (7.94%) GitHub
20 15 (7.94%) REST
20 15 (7.94%) SC Cleared

Senior Full-Stack Developer 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 4 (2.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.06%) ColdFusion
3 2 (1.06%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (32.28%) AWS
2 42 (22.22%) Azure
3 18 (9.52%) Serverless
4 16 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (7.94%) GitHub
6 14 (7.41%) GCP
6 14 (7.41%) SaaS
7 13 (6.88%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (2.12%) Apigee
10 4 (2.12%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.59%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.06%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (1.06%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.35%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (4.23%) MySQL
3 7 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.65%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.06%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.06%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.53%) GIS
8 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (3.17%) Git
2 4 (2.12%) JUnit
2 4 (2.12%) Maven
2 4 (2.12%) Mockito
3 2 (1.06%) GitLab
3 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.06%) JIRA
4 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.53%) git-flow
4 1 (0.53%) Moq
General
1 20 (10.58%) Finance
1 20 (10.58%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (2.65%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (2.12%) Law
5 2 (1.06%) Aviation
5 2 (1.06%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.06%) Legal
5 2 (1.06%) Retail
6 1 (0.53%) Back Office
6 1 (0.53%) Marketing
6 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (40.21%) React
2 43 (22.75%) Node.js
3 33 (17.46%) .NET
4 28 (14.81%) AngularJS
5 24 (12.70%) CSS
5 24 (12.70%) HTML
6 18 (9.52%) Laravel
7 17 (8.99%) Vue
8 15 (7.94%) REST
9 7 (3.70%) Django
9 7 (3.70%) HTML5
10 6 (3.17%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.17%) Bootstrap
10 6 (3.17%) CSS3
10 6 (3.17%) Flask
10 6 (3.17%) RESTful
10 6 (3.17%) Ruby on Rails
10 6 (3.17%) Symfony
11 5 (2.65%) FastAPI
11 5 (2.65%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.23%) Cloud Native
1 8 (4.23%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.12%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.12%) NHS
2 4 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.06%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.53%) PropTech
5 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.53%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.65%) Linux
2 4 (2.12%) Android
2 4 (2.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (16.93%) Web Development
3 30 (15.87%) DevOps
4 27 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (11.64%) Mentoring
6 20 (10.58%) CI/CD
7 16 (8.47%) Microservices
8 15 (7.94%) Agile
9 14 (7.41%) AI
9 14 (7.41%) API Development
10 13 (6.88%) Computer Science
11 11 (5.82%) Containerisation
11 11 (5.82%) Software Engineering
12 10 (5.29%) TDD
12 10 (5.29%) Test Automation
13 9 (4.76%) Sprint Planning
14 8 (4.23%) Event-Driven
15 7 (3.70%) Code Quality
15 7 (3.70%) Continuous Integration
15 7 (3.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (32.80%) JavaScript
2 43 (22.75%) TypeScript
3 38 (20.11%) Python
4 29 (15.34%) C#
5 24 (12.70%) PHP
6 22 (11.64%) SQL
7 13 (6.88%) Java
8 6 (3.17%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.17%) Ruby
9 5 (2.65%) C
10 4 (2.12%) Bash
10 4 (2.12%) R
11 2 (1.06%) Bicep
12 1 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.76%) Degree
4 8 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.17%) QA
2 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.53%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (5.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.06%) Terraform
3 1 (0.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (3.17%) Oracle
2 3 (1.59%) WooCommerce
3 2 (1.06%) Aderant
3 2 (1.06%) iManage
3 2 (1.06%) Intapp
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.06%) OpenAI