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 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 589 524
Rank change year-on-year +45 -65 +111
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 103 164 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.26% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.28% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 64 111 186
10th Percentile £53,750 £49,140 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,376 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - -1.75% +1.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,875 £98,750 £90,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 50,261 59,063 47,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.04% 94.04% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 31,429 32,705 37,339
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -3.39% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +45 87 £70,000 - 95
UK excluding London +52 68 £62,500 -10.71% 99
Work from Home +64 37 £75,000 +25.00% 92
South East +49 34 £57,500 -8.00% 25
London +40 28 £75,000 -23.08% 10
Midlands +21 13 £70,000 +16.67% 18
Wales +1 9 £60,000 -14.29% 5
East Midlands +14 7 £70,000 - 7
West Midlands +26 6 £70,000 +16.67% 10
North of England +25 5 £75,000 +7.14% 19
East of England +28 4 £100,000 +17.65% 21
North West +37 3 £70,000 - 8
South West +15 2 £56,250 -6.25% 8
North East +9 1 £76,000 +38.18% 1
Scotland +3 1 - - 4
Yorkshire -4 1 £80,000 +14.29% 10

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 2025, 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.

1 103 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 72 (69.90%) React
3 65 (63.11%) AWS
4 54 (52.43%) JavaScript
5 45 (43.69%) Azure
6 44 (42.72%) HTML
7 42 (40.78%) Node.js
8 41 (39.81%) User Experience
9 40 (38.83%) Agile
10 39 (37.86%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (37.86%) Web Development
11 38 (36.89%) CSS
12 36 (34.95%) .NET
12 36 (34.95%) C#
12 36 (34.95%) CI/CD
12 36 (34.95%) TypeScript
13 35 (33.98%) SQL
14 34 (33.01%) RESTful
15 33 (32.04%) UX Design
16 32 (31.07%) DevOps
16 32 (31.07%) GCP
17 27 (26.21%) Git
18 23 (22.33%) Docker
18 23 (22.33%) Test Automation
19 22 (21.36%) ASP.NET
20 21 (20.39%) QA
21 19 (18.45%) Kubernetes
22 18 (17.48%) AngularJS
22 18 (17.48%) NoSQL
23 17 (16.50%) Containerisation

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 8 (7.77%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.94%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.97%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 9 (8.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (63.11%) AWS
2 45 (43.69%) Azure
3 32 (31.07%) GCP
4 17 (16.50%) Serverless
5 16 (15.53%) GitHub
6 13 (12.62%) Amazon S3
6 13 (12.62%) Amazon SQS
6 13 (12.62%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (9.71%) SaaS
8 9 (8.74%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (7.77%) Figma
9 8 (7.77%) Google Analytics
9 8 (7.77%) Vercel
10 7 (6.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.94%) GitHub Copilot
13 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.97%) Amazon EventBridge
13 1 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.48%) NoSQL
2 13 (12.62%) SQL Server
3 11 (10.68%) MySQL
4 6 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.85%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.91%) Redis
6 3 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (26.21%) Git
2 8 (7.77%) Cypress.io
3 5 (4.85%) git-flow
4 4 (3.88%) JIRA
5 3 (2.91%) JUnit
5 3 (2.91%) Mockito
6 2 (1.94%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.94%) Maven
7 1 (0.97%) JMeter
7 1 (0.97%) Moq
General
1 36 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.56%) Law
3 14 (13.59%) Marketing
4 5 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.88%) Finance
6 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.91%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.94%) Retail
8 1 (0.97%) Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.97%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (69.90%) React
2 44 (42.72%) HTML
3 42 (40.78%) Node.js
4 38 (36.89%) CSS
5 36 (34.95%) .NET
6 34 (33.01%) RESTful
7 22 (21.36%) ASP.NET
8 18 (17.48%) AngularJS
9 14 (13.59%) REST
10 12 (11.65%) GraphQL
11 10 (9.71%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (9.71%) Express.js
12 9 (8.74%) Django
12 9 (8.74%) Next.js
13 8 (7.77%) Jest
13 8 (7.77%) Playwright
13 8 (7.77%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (7.77%) Vitest
13 8 (7.77%) Vue
14 7 (6.80%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.91%) Legacy Code
3 3 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.97%) IoT
4 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.97%) Android
1 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 41 (39.81%) User Experience
3 40 (38.83%) Agile
4 39 (37.86%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (37.86%) Web Development
5 36 (34.95%) CI/CD
6 33 (32.04%) UX Design
7 32 (31.07%) DevOps
8 23 (22.33%) Test Automation
9 17 (16.50%) Containerisation
10 16 (15.53%) Mentoring
11 15 (14.56%) Design Patterns
12 14 (13.59%) Customer Engagement
13 13 (12.62%) Sprint Planning
14 11 (10.68%) Microservices
14 11 (10.68%) MVC
15 10 (9.71%) Analytics
15 10 (9.71%) ERP
16 9 (8.74%) Clean Code
16 9 (8.74%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 54 (52.43%) JavaScript
2 36 (34.95%) C#
2 36 (34.95%) TypeScript
3 35 (33.98%) SQL
4 11 (10.68%) Python
5 4 (3.88%) Java
5 4 (3.88%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.91%) PHP
7 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (2.91%) SC Cleared
1 3 (2.91%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.39%) QA
2 12 (11.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.97%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (22.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (18.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.91%) Terraform
3 1 (0.97%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (7.77%) Apple
2 4 (3.88%) Oracle
3 1 (0.97%) Databricks
3 1 (0.97%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.97%) Splunk
3 1 (0.97%) WooCommerce