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 4 March 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 576 566
Rank change year-on-year +38 -10 -149
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 137 110 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.24% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.26% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 111 73 240
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,140 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £82,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -11.54% -

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 65,273 41,513 74,477
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 91.10% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 41,213 22,694 57,615
10th Percentile £29,520 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.21%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +4 124 £70,000 +16.67% 49
UK excluding London +28 99 £70,000 +21.74% 51
Work from Home +3 31 £70,000 +16.67% 42
North of England -2 30 £70,000 +27.27% 12
London +29 29 £75,000 +20.97% 6
South East -12 26 £72,500 +20.83% 15
Midlands -11 24 £58,750 -2.08% 4
Yorkshire -22 16 £80,000 +39.13% 5
East Midlands -22 15 £55,000 -12.00% 1
North West +9 13 £65,000 +18.18% 6
East of England +15 11 £100,000 - 11
West Midlands +4 9 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Wales -9 4 £51,250 -2.38% 3
South West -23 4 £65,000 +18.18% 5
North East -15 1 £76,000 +32.17% 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 March 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.

1 137 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 66 (48.18%) React
3 50 (36.50%) JavaScript
4 49 (35.77%) AWS
5 40 (29.20%) Azure
6 36 (26.28%) .NET
7 31 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (22.63%) TypeScript
8 30 (21.90%) C#
9 28 (20.44%) SQL
10 27 (19.71%) Python
11 25 (18.25%) CSS
11 25 (18.25%) Web Development
12 24 (17.52%) HTML
13 23 (16.79%) CI/CD
13 23 (16.79%) DevOps
13 23 (16.79%) Node.js
14 21 (15.33%) Microservices
15 19 (13.87%) Agile
15 19 (13.87%) REST
15 19 (13.87%) Serverless
16 17 (12.41%) SaaS
17 16 (11.68%) AngularJS
17 16 (11.68%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (11.68%) Mentoring
18 15 (10.95%) AI
18 15 (10.95%) API Development
18 15 (10.95%) Docker
18 15 (10.95%) GCP
18 15 (10.95%) GitHub

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 (2.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.19%) ColdFusion
2 3 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.73%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (35.77%) AWS
2 40 (29.20%) Azure
3 19 (13.87%) Serverless
4 17 (12.41%) SaaS
5 16 (11.68%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (10.95%) GCP
6 15 (10.95%) GitHub
7 13 (9.49%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.84%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.46%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (1.46%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.46%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.46%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.73%) Azure App Service
12 1 (0.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.76%) NoSQL
2 11 (8.03%) MySQL
3 8 (5.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.65%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.92%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.19%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.46%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Git
2 6 (4.38%) JUnit
2 6 (4.38%) Maven
2 6 (4.38%) Mockito
3 5 (3.65%) git-flow
4 2 (1.46%) GitLab
4 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.73%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.73%) Moq
General
1 21 (15.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.87%) Finance
3 16 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.92%) Law
5 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.19%) Retail
7 2 (1.46%) Aviation
7 2 (1.46%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.46%) Legal
8 1 (0.73%) Back Office
8 1 (0.73%) Marketing
8 1 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (48.18%) React
2 36 (26.28%) .NET
3 25 (18.25%) CSS
4 24 (17.52%) HTML
5 23 (16.79%) Node.js
6 19 (13.87%) REST
7 16 (11.68%) AngularJS
8 10 (7.30%) Django
9 9 (6.57%) Vue
10 8 (5.84%) FastAPI
10 8 (5.84%) Flask
10 8 (5.84%) Laravel
10 8 (5.84%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (5.11%) Kafka
12 6 (4.38%) .NET Framework
12 6 (4.38%) Symfony
13 5 (3.65%) ASP.NET
13 5 (3.65%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (3.65%) HTML5
13 5 (3.65%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.65%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.92%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.46%) NHS
7 1 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.65%) Linux
2 4 (2.92%) Android
2 4 (2.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 31 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (18.25%) Web Development
4 23 (16.79%) CI/CD
4 23 (16.79%) DevOps
5 21 (15.33%) Microservices
6 19 (13.87%) Agile
7 16 (11.68%) Mentoring
8 15 (10.95%) AI
8 15 (10.95%) API Development
9 12 (8.76%) Computer Science
9 12 (8.76%) Containerisation
10 11 (8.03%) Data Modelling
11 10 (7.30%) Event-Driven
12 9 (6.57%) Sprint Planning
12 9 (6.57%) TDD
13 8 (5.84%) Scrum
13 8 (5.84%) SDLC
13 8 (5.84%) Test Automation
14 7 (5.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 50 (36.50%) JavaScript
2 31 (22.63%) TypeScript
3 30 (21.90%) C#
4 28 (20.44%) SQL
5 27 (19.71%) Python
6 15 (10.95%) PHP
7 9 (6.57%) Java
7 9 (6.57%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.92%) Bash
8 4 (2.92%) C
8 4 (2.92%) R
9 1 (0.73%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (8.03%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.84%) Degree
4 2 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.30%) QA
2 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.73%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (10.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (8.03%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.19%) Terraform
3 1 (0.73%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (6.57%) Oracle
2 3 (2.19%) WooCommerce
3 2 (1.46%) Aderant
3 2 (1.46%) iManage
3 2 (1.46%) Intapp
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.46%) OpenAI