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 28 August 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 564 533
Rank change year-on-year -77 -31 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 161 114 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.23% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.25% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 138 72 238
10th Percentile £55,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £77,500 £95,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -7.14%

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 102,724 44,889 79,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 89.80% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 70,515 26,591 51,705
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -40 149 £70,000 +7.69% 51
UK excluding London -44 132 £70,000 +16.67% 37
Work from Home -35 44 £70,000 - 24
North of England -9 43 £70,000 - 19
Midlands 0 42 £70,000 +9.80% 6
West Midlands -12 29 £70,000 +9.80% 3
London -43 24 £84,000 +12.00% 21
South East -64 24 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Yorkshire -19 23 £72,000 +2.86% 9
North West -8 17 £70,000 - 9
East Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 3
South West -69 10 £71,250 +16.33% 3
East of England -20 6 £100,000 +42.86% 1
Wales -78 5 £72,500 +20.83%
North East -51 3 £52,000 -13.33% 1
Scotland +6 2 £90,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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.

1 161 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 77 (47.83%) AWS
3 54 (33.54%) React
4 41 (25.47%) TypeScript
5 39 (24.22%) Node.js
6 38 (23.60%) JavaScript
7 37 (22.98%) Azure
7 37 (22.98%) CI/CD
8 35 (21.74%) Python
9 28 (17.39%) AngularJS
9 28 (17.39%) C#
9 28 (17.39%) DevOps
10 26 (16.15%) Java
10 26 (16.15%) Mentoring
11 25 (15.53%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (15.53%) Serverless
12 24 (14.91%) Agile
12 24 (14.91%) AI
13 23 (14.29%) .NET
14 21 (13.04%) Amazon S3
14 21 (13.04%) Security Cleared
15 19 (11.80%) GitHub
15 19 (11.80%) SC Cleared
15 19 (11.80%) Software Engineering
16 18 (11.18%) Docker
16 18 (11.18%) Microservices
16 18 (11.18%) Technical Leadership
17 17 (10.56%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (10.56%) HTML
17 17 (10.56%) Kubernetes

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 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.73%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 77 (47.83%) AWS
2 37 (22.98%) Azure
3 25 (15.53%) AWS Lambda
3 25 (15.53%) Serverless
4 21 (13.04%) Amazon S3
5 19 (11.80%) GitHub
6 17 (10.56%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (8.07%) GCP
8 10 (6.21%) Anthropic Claude
9 9 (5.59%) SaaS
10 8 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.73%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (2.48%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.48%) Apigee
13 4 (2.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.24%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.70%) DynamoDB
2 13 (8.07%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.83%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.86%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.86%) MySQL
6 3 (1.86%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.86%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.86%) Spatial Data
7 2 (1.24%) GIS
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.62%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (6.21%) JUnit
2 7 (4.35%) Git
2 7 (4.35%) Maven
2 7 (4.35%) Mockito
3 6 (3.73%) JIRA
4 4 (2.48%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.86%) Selenium
6 2 (1.24%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.24%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.24%) NUnit
6 2 (1.24%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.24%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.24%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.62%) GitLab
7 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (10.56%) Finance
2 9 (5.59%) Public Sector
2 9 (5.59%) Social Skills
3 3 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.24%) Banking
5 1 (0.62%) Back Office
5 1 (0.62%) Front Office
5 1 (0.62%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (33.54%) React
2 39 (24.22%) Node.js
3 28 (17.39%) AngularJS
4 23 (14.29%) .NET
5 17 (10.56%) HTML
5 17 (10.56%) Vue
6 16 (9.94%) Spring
7 15 (9.32%) CSS
8 13 (8.07%) REST
9 11 (6.83%) Laravel
10 10 (6.21%) ASP.NET
10 10 (6.21%) NestJS
10 10 (6.21%) Terraform
11 9 (5.59%) .NET Framework
11 9 (5.59%) Ruby on Rails
11 9 (5.59%) Spring Boot
12 8 (4.97%) CSS3
12 8 (4.97%) Entity Framework
12 8 (4.97%) Express.js
12 8 (4.97%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.80%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.11%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.86%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.86%) NHS
5 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.24%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.24%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.24%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.62%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.62%) PropTech
7 1 (0.62%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.35%) Linux
2 3 (1.86%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 37 (22.98%) CI/CD
3 28 (17.39%) DevOps
4 26 (16.15%) Mentoring
5 24 (14.91%) Agile
5 24 (14.91%) AI
6 19 (11.80%) Software Engineering
7 18 (11.18%) Microservices
7 18 (11.18%) Technical Leadership
8 17 (10.56%) TDD
9 14 (8.70%) Event-Driven
10 13 (8.07%) LLM
11 12 (7.45%) Sprint Planning
12 11 (6.83%) Roadmaps
13 10 (6.21%) Observability
13 10 (6.21%) Scrum
14 9 (5.59%) Containerisation
14 9 (5.59%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (5.59%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (5.59%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 41 (25.47%) TypeScript
2 38 (23.60%) JavaScript
3 35 (21.74%) Python
4 28 (17.39%) C#
5 26 (16.15%) Java
6 14 (8.70%) SQL
7 10 (6.21%) PHP
8 9 (5.59%) Ruby
9 7 (4.35%) Bash
9 7 (4.35%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.86%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.62%) Bicep
11 1 (0.62%) C
11 1 (0.62%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.80%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.97%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.73%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (3.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.24%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.86%) WCAG
2 1 (0.62%) GRC
2 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 18 (11.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.62%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (8.07%) Oracle
2 8 (4.97%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.86%) OneLogin
3 3 (1.86%) OutSystems
3 3 (1.86%) Red Hat