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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 560 549
Rank change year-on-year -83 -11 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 167 109 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.25% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 132 70 147
10th Percentile £60,000 - £45,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £53,750 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £82,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -3.70%

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 109,503 44,040 68,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.76% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 74,366 25,685 38,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -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 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 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 13 October 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 -76 153 £70,000 +7.69% 79
UK excluding London -107 120 £70,000 +16.67% 49
Work from Home -33 62 £70,000 - 52
London -38 43 £80,000 +6.67% 36
North of England -28 42 £70,000 -3.45% 20
Midlands -25 36 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Yorkshire -10 25 £70,000 -12.50% 10
West Midlands -27 22 £80,000 +23.08% 6
South West -60 17 £70,000 +14.29% 5
North West -21 15 £70,000 - 8
East Midlands - 14 £70,000 - 4
South East -75 12 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Scotland +6 6 £90,000 - 3
Wales -79 4 £72,500 +20.83%
East of England -34 3 £60,000 -14.29% 4
North East -69 2 £52,000 -23.53% 3

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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.

1 167 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 65 (38.92%) AWS
3 38 (22.75%) CI/CD
3 38 (22.75%) React
4 37 (22.16%) Kotlin
5 30 (17.96%) Azure
5 30 (17.96%) Java
6 28 (16.77%) TypeScript
7 27 (16.17%) AI
7 27 (16.17%) Python
8 25 (14.97%) Agile
8 25 (14.97%) C#
8 25 (14.97%) JavaScript
8 25 (14.97%) Microservices
9 24 (14.37%) .NET
10 23 (13.77%) AngularJS
10 23 (13.77%) Docker
11 22 (13.17%) Mentoring
11 22 (13.17%) Node.js
12 21 (12.57%) Kubernetes
13 20 (11.98%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (11.98%) REST
13 20 (11.98%) Serverless
14 19 (11.38%) Software Engineering
15 18 (10.78%) Amazon S3
15 18 (10.78%) GitHub
15 18 (10.78%) Security Cleared
16 17 (10.18%) Oracle
17 16 (9.58%) SC Cleared
17 16 (9.58%) Technical Leadership

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 7 (4.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.59%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (38.92%) AWS
2 30 (17.96%) Azure
3 20 (11.98%) AWS Lambda
3 20 (11.98%) Serverless
4 18 (10.78%) Amazon S3
4 18 (10.78%) GitHub
5 12 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (6.59%) Anthropic Claude
6 11 (6.59%) SaaS
7 9 (5.39%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.79%) GCP
8 8 (4.79%) Snowflake
9 7 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (3.59%) AWS CodePipeline
10 6 (3.59%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.80%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.99%) DynamoDB
3 9 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.80%) MySQL
5 3 (1.80%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.80%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.20%) GIS
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (5.99%) JUnit
2 9 (5.39%) Git
3 7 (4.19%) Maven
3 7 (4.19%) Mockito
4 6 (3.59%) Claude Code
4 6 (3.59%) JIRA
5 3 (1.80%) NUnit
5 3 (1.80%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.80%) Selenium
6 2 (1.20%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.20%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.60%) Moq
General
1 19 (11.38%) Public Sector
2 15 (8.98%) Finance
3 7 (4.19%) Social Skills
4 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.20%) Banking
6 1 (0.60%) Back Office
6 1 (0.60%) Front Office
6 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (22.75%) React
2 24 (14.37%) .NET
3 23 (13.77%) AngularJS
4 22 (13.17%) Node.js
5 20 (11.98%) REST
6 15 (8.98%) HTML
6 15 (8.98%) Spring
7 14 (8.38%) Vue
8 13 (7.78%) CSS
9 11 (6.59%) RESTful
9 11 (6.59%) Terraform
10 10 (5.99%) ASP.NET
11 9 (5.39%) .NET Framework
11 9 (5.39%) NestJS
12 8 (4.79%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (4.79%) Entity Framework
12 8 (4.79%) Spring Boot
13 7 (4.19%) Laravel
13 7 (4.19%) OAuth
13 7 (4.19%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.57%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.99%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.40%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.80%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.20%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.19%) Linux
2 3 (1.80%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 38 (22.75%) CI/CD
3 27 (16.17%) AI
4 25 (14.97%) Agile
4 25 (14.97%) Microservices
5 22 (13.17%) Mentoring
6 19 (11.38%) Software Engineering
7 16 (9.58%) Technical Leadership
8 15 (8.98%) DevOps
8 15 (8.98%) TDD
9 13 (7.78%) LLM
9 13 (7.78%) Scrum
10 12 (7.19%) Front End Development
11 11 (6.59%) Event-Driven
11 11 (6.59%) Observability
11 11 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (6.59%) Roadmaps
12 10 (5.99%) Containerisation
12 10 (5.99%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (5.39%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.16%) Kotlin
2 30 (17.96%) Java
3 28 (16.77%) TypeScript
4 27 (16.17%) Python
5 25 (14.97%) C#
5 25 (14.97%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.98%) SQL
7 7 (4.19%) Bash
7 7 (4.19%) PHP
7 7 (4.19%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.40%) Ruby
9 2 (1.20%) Bicep
9 2 (1.20%) Rust
10 1 (0.60%) C
10 1 (0.60%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (10.78%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.79%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.59%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (3.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.80%) Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.80%) WCAG
2 1 (0.60%) GRC
2 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 23 (13.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.60%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (10.18%) Oracle
2 13 (7.78%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.19%) OutSystems
3 7 (4.19%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.80%) OneLogin
5 1 (0.60%) Google
5 1 (0.60%) OpenAI