Senior Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 January 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 588 551
Rank change year-on-year +48 -37 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 109 124 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.24% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.26% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 84 75 207
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,140 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £79,250 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.88% +6.25%

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 57,468 48,384 64,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 92.28% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 35,727 24,872 50,479
10th Percentile £28,785 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,648 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -4.76%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +50 94 £75,000 +25.00% 27
UK excluding London +20 71 £70,000 +16.67% 25
Work from Home +24 30 £75,000 +25.00% 17
London +39 26 £75,000 +9.89% 7
South East +28 25 £75,000 +20.00% 10
Midlands +3 20 £62,500 +4.17% 3
North of England +20 14 £78,000 +41.82% 7
East Midlands -10 12 £62,500 - 3
Yorkshire -8 9 £80,000 +39.13% 3
West Midlands +24 8 £70,000 +16.67%
East of England +28 6 £100,000 - 2
North West +24 4 £66,250 +26.19% 4
Wales +2 4 £51,250 -31.67% 1
South West -6 2 £62,500 +13.64% 2
North East - 1 £76,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 January 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.

1 109 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 58 (53.21%) React
3 44 (40.37%) AWS
4 37 (33.94%) JavaScript
5 36 (33.03%) Azure
6 33 (30.28%) .NET
7 31 (28.44%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (24.77%) TypeScript
9 26 (23.85%) C#
10 24 (22.02%) SQL
11 21 (19.27%) CI/CD
11 21 (19.27%) CSS
11 21 (19.27%) Microservices
12 20 (18.35%) HTML
12 20 (18.35%) Python
12 20 (18.35%) Web Development
13 19 (17.43%) Agile
14 18 (16.51%) DevOps
15 17 (15.60%) GCP
15 17 (15.60%) GitHub
15 17 (15.60%) REST
16 16 (14.68%) Node.js
17 15 (13.76%) AngularJS
18 14 (12.84%) Docker
19 13 (11.93%) AI
19 13 (11.93%) SaaS
20 12 (11.01%) API Development
20 12 (11.01%) PHP
20 12 (11.01%) Serverless
21 11 (10.09%) Django

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 (3.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.75%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (40.37%) AWS
2 36 (33.03%) Azure
3 17 (15.60%) GCP
3 17 (15.60%) GitHub
4 13 (11.93%) SaaS
5 12 (11.01%) Serverless
6 10 (9.17%) Amazon S3
6 10 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (6.42%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.92%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.92%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.09%) MySQL
2 10 (9.17%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.59%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.75%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.92%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (8.26%) Git
2 6 (5.50%) JUnit
2 6 (5.50%) Maven
2 6 (5.50%) Mockito
3 5 (4.59%) git-flow
4 3 (2.75%) JIRA
5 1 (0.92%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.92%) Moq
General
1 17 (15.60%) Finance
1 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.75%) Retail
4 3 (2.75%) Tech for Good
5 2 (1.83%) Law
5 2 (1.83%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.92%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (53.21%) React
2 33 (30.28%) .NET
3 21 (19.27%) CSS
4 20 (18.35%) HTML
5 17 (15.60%) REST
6 16 (14.68%) Node.js
7 15 (13.76%) AngularJS
8 11 (10.09%) Django
9 8 (7.34%) FastAPI
9 8 (7.34%) Flask
10 7 (6.42%) ASP.NET
10 7 (6.42%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (6.42%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (6.42%) Vue
11 6 (5.50%) .NET Framework
11 6 (5.50%) Kafka
11 6 (5.50%) Laravel
11 6 (5.50%) Symfony
12 5 (4.59%) HTML5
12 5 (4.59%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.26%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.34%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.59%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.59%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Android
2 4 (3.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 31 (28.44%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (19.27%) CI/CD
3 21 (19.27%) Microservices
4 20 (18.35%) Web Development
5 19 (17.43%) Agile
6 18 (16.51%) DevOps
7 13 (11.93%) AI
8 12 (11.01%) API Development
9 11 (10.09%) Mentoring
9 11 (10.09%) Scrum
9 11 (10.09%) TDD
10 10 (9.17%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (9.17%) Sprint Planning
10 10 (9.17%) User Experience
11 9 (8.26%) Clean Code
11 9 (8.26%) Computer Science
11 9 (8.26%) Containerisation
11 9 (8.26%) UX Design
12 8 (7.34%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 37 (33.94%) JavaScript
2 27 (24.77%) TypeScript
3 26 (23.85%) C#
4 24 (22.02%) SQL
5 20 (18.35%) Python
6 12 (11.01%) PHP
7 9 (8.26%) PL/SQL
8 7 (6.42%) Java
9 4 (3.67%) Bash
9 4 (3.67%) C
9 4 (3.67%) R
10 1 (0.92%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (8.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.59%) Degree
4 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) QA
2 4 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.92%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (12.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.75%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (8.26%) Oracle
2 3 (2.75%) WooCommerce