Senior Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 548 524
Rank change year-on-year -12 -24 +98
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 105 199 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.29% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.31% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 64 134 197
10th Percentile £53,750 £46,242 £52,500
25th Percentile £54,688 £53,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,063 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £98,750 £86,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +12.50%

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 46,066 64,284 51,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 95.03% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 28,668 36,353 39,628
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,238 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 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 +17 87 £70,000 - 60
UK excluding London +40 73 £60,000 -7.69% 41
Work from Home +48 46 £75,000 +25.00% 41
South East +62 43 £57,500 -8.00% 22
London +35 29 £75,000 -20.00% 26
Wales +9 11 £60,000 -14.29%
Midlands +43 6 - - 9
West Midlands +33 6 - - 1
North of England +3 5 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Scotland -2 4 - -
South West +16 3 £60,000 -4.00% 1
North West +8 3 £70,000 +16.67% 5
East of England +24 1 £70,000 -17.65% 3
North East +12 1 £76,000 +38.18%
Yorkshire +5 1 £80,000 +14.29%

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 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.

1 105 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 75 (71.43%) React
3 69 (65.71%) AWS
4 58 (55.24%) JavaScript
5 52 (49.52%) HTML
6 49 (46.67%) Agile
7 47 (44.76%) Node.js
7 47 (44.76%) RESTful
8 45 (42.86%) TypeScript
8 45 (42.86%) User Experience
9 44 (41.90%) .NET
9 44 (41.90%) C#
10 43 (40.95%) CSS
11 40 (38.10%) Azure
12 38 (36.19%) CI/CD
12 38 (36.19%) SQL
13 37 (35.24%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (33.33%) Web Development
15 34 (32.38%) ASP.NET
16 33 (31.43%) Git
17 32 (30.48%) UX Design
18 31 (29.52%) GCP
19 30 (28.57%) DevOps
20 28 (26.67%) AngularJS
21 24 (22.86%) QA
21 24 (22.86%) SQL Server
22 23 (21.90%) Mentoring
23 22 (20.95%) Docker
23 22 (20.95%) Kubernetes
23 22 (20.95%) MVC

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 (7.62%) Headless CMS
2 6 (5.71%) IIS
3 1 (0.95%) Apache
3 1 (0.95%) CMS
3 1 (0.95%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.95%) Confluence
3 1 (0.95%) nginx
Business Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Shopify
2 1 (0.95%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 69 (65.71%) AWS
2 40 (38.10%) Azure
3 31 (29.52%) GCP
4 19 (18.10%) Serverless
5 16 (15.24%) GitHub
6 12 (11.43%) Amazon S3
6 12 (11.43%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (8.57%) Figma
8 8 (7.62%) Google Analytics
8 8 (7.62%) Vercel
9 7 (6.67%) SaaS
10 6 (5.71%) Cloudflare
11 4 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.90%) GitHub Copilot
13 1 (0.95%) npm
13 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.95%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 16 (15.24%) MySQL
3 15 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 10 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.71%) Redis
6 5 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.81%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.95%) Power BI
8 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (31.43%) Git
2 9 (8.57%) Cypress.io
3 7 (6.67%) JIRA
4 6 (5.71%) Jasmine
4 6 (5.71%) NUnit
4 6 (5.71%) TeamCity
5 5 (4.76%) Jenkins
6 4 (3.81%) git-flow
7 3 (2.86%) JUnit
7 3 (2.86%) Mockito
8 2 (1.90%) Maven
8 2 (1.90%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.95%) JMeter
9 1 (0.95%) PhpStorm
9 1 (0.95%) Vite
General
1 36 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.14%) Law
3 14 (13.33%) Marketing
4 7 (6.67%) Finance
4 7 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.81%) Banking
5 4 (3.81%) Games
5 4 (3.81%) Private Banking
6 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.86%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.90%) Retail
8 1 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.95%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (71.43%) React
2 52 (49.52%) HTML
3 47 (44.76%) Node.js
3 47 (44.76%) RESTful
4 44 (41.90%) .NET
5 43 (40.95%) CSS
6 34 (32.38%) ASP.NET
7 28 (26.67%) AngularJS
8 16 (15.24%) ASP.NET Core
8 16 (15.24%) Vue
9 14 (13.33%) GraphQL
9 14 (13.33%) Jest
10 12 (11.43%) REST
11 11 (10.48%) Express.js
12 10 (9.52%) CSS3
12 10 (9.52%) HTML5
12 10 (9.52%) Next.js
13 8 (7.62%) Playwright
13 8 (7.62%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (7.62%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.38%) Onboarding
2 12 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 9 (8.57%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.76%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.81%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (3.81%) Online Games
6 3 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.95%) IoT
8 1 (0.95%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.95%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Android
1 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 49 (46.67%) Agile
3 45 (42.86%) User Experience
4 38 (36.19%) CI/CD
5 37 (35.24%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (33.33%) Web Development
7 32 (30.48%) UX Design
8 30 (28.57%) DevOps
9 23 (21.90%) Mentoring
10 22 (20.95%) MVC
10 22 (20.95%) Test Automation
11 17 (16.19%) Containerisation
12 16 (15.24%) Design Patterns
13 14 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
14 13 (12.38%) Sprint Planning
15 12 (11.43%) Microservices
16 11 (10.48%) Analytics
16 11 (10.48%) Scrum
17 10 (9.52%) E-Commerce
18 9 (8.57%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 58 (55.24%) JavaScript
2 45 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 44 (41.90%) C#
4 38 (36.19%) SQL
5 8 (7.62%) Java
6 7 (6.67%) Python
7 3 (2.86%) PHP
7 3 (2.86%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.95%) C
8 1 (0.95%) C++
8 1 (0.95%) Rust
8 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (2.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (2.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.90%) Degree
3 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.86%) QA
2 11 (10.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (20.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (20.95%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.48%) Terraform
3 1 (0.95%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (7.62%) Apple
2 6 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.71%) Rollbar
3 3 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (0.95%) Adobe
4 1 (0.95%) Databricks
4 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.95%) Splunk