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 11 April 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 547 555
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 168 94 327
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.26% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 145 73 287
10th Percentile £53,750 £49,140 £52,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -11.54% -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 77,261 36,752 87,362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 89.59% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 49,774 23,301 65,437
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -2 154 £70,000 +21.74% 35
UK excluding London -1 129 £70,000 +21.74% 30
North of England -31 41 £70,000 +27.27% 11
South East -24 34 £68,750 +10.00% 7
Work from Home -9 31 £68,750 +14.58% 18
Midlands -35 30 £62,500 +4.17% 5
London -6 29 £85,000 +41.67% 7
Yorkshire -35 23 £80,000 +33.33% 7
North West -18 17 £70,000 +27.27% 4
East of England -17 16 £100,000 +42.86% 5
East Midlands -35 16 £58,750 +6.82% 2
West Midlands -20 14 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Wales -30 4 £52,500 - 2
South West -50 4 £65,000 +18.18% 1
North East -27 1 £67,500 +17.39%

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

For the 6 months to 11 April 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.

1 168 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 72 (42.86%) React
3 59 (35.12%) AWS
4 53 (31.55%) JavaScript
5 43 (25.60%) Azure
6 36 (21.43%) TypeScript
7 34 (20.24%) .NET
7 34 (20.24%) Node.js
8 32 (19.05%) Python
8 32 (19.05%) Web Development
9 31 (18.45%) C#
10 29 (17.26%) DevOps
11 28 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (14.88%) SQL
13 21 (12.50%) CI/CD
13 21 (12.50%) CSS
13 21 (12.50%) HTML
14 20 (11.90%) AngularJS
14 20 (11.90%) Serverless
15 18 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (10.71%) Microservices
15 18 (10.71%) REST
16 17 (10.12%) Agile
16 17 (10.12%) GCP
17 16 (9.52%) Mentoring
17 16 (9.52%) NoSQL
17 16 (9.52%) PHP
17 16 (9.52%) SaaS
18 15 (8.93%) Amazon S3
19 14 (8.33%) API Development

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 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.19%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (35.12%) AWS
2 43 (25.60%) Azure
3 20 (11.90%) Serverless
4 18 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (10.12%) GCP
6 16 (9.52%) SaaS
7 15 (8.93%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.95%) GitHub
9 6 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.38%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (2.38%) Apigee
10 4 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.79%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.19%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (1.19%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.19%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.95%) MySQL
3 8 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.38%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.19%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.19%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.19%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (4.17%) Git
2 5 (2.98%) JUnit
2 5 (2.98%) Maven
2 5 (2.98%) Mockito
3 3 (1.79%) git-flow
4 2 (1.19%) GitLab
4 2 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.60%) Moq
General
1 21 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.31%) Finance
3 16 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.98%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.38%) Law
6 3 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.19%) Aviation
7 2 (1.19%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.19%) Legal
7 2 (1.19%) Retail
8 1 (0.60%) Back Office
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (42.86%) React
2 34 (20.24%) .NET
2 34 (20.24%) Node.js
3 21 (12.50%) CSS
3 21 (12.50%) HTML
4 20 (11.90%) AngularJS
5 18 (10.71%) REST
6 10 (5.95%) Laravel
6 10 (5.95%) Vue
7 7 (4.17%) Django
8 6 (3.57%) .NET Framework
8 6 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (3.57%) Spring
8 6 (3.57%) Symfony
9 5 (2.98%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.98%) FastAPI
9 5 (2.98%) Flask
9 5 (2.98%) Kafka
9 5 (2.98%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.38%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.38%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.38%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.38%) NHS
2 4 (2.38%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.19%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.60%) PropTech
5 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.98%) Linux
2 4 (2.38%) Android
2 4 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (19.05%) Web Development
3 29 (17.26%) DevOps
4 28 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 18 (10.71%) Microservices
7 17 (10.12%) Agile
8 16 (9.52%) Mentoring
9 14 (8.33%) API Development
10 13 (7.74%) AI
11 12 (7.14%) Computer Science
12 11 (6.55%) Containerisation
13 10 (5.95%) Event-Driven
13 10 (5.95%) Sprint Planning
13 10 (5.95%) Test Automation
14 9 (5.36%) Data Modelling
14 9 (5.36%) Software Engineering
15 7 (4.17%) Continuous Integration
15 7 (4.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 7 (4.17%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 53 (31.55%) JavaScript
2 36 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 32 (19.05%) Python
4 31 (18.45%) C#
5 25 (14.88%) SQL
6 16 (9.52%) PHP
7 12 (7.14%) Java
8 7 (4.17%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.38%) Bash
9 4 (2.38%) C
9 4 (2.38%) R
9 4 (2.38%) Ruby
10 1 (0.60%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.95%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.60%) HL7
System Software
1 13 (7.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.19%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (4.17%) Oracle
2 3 (1.79%) WooCommerce
3 2 (1.19%) Aderant
3 2 (1.19%) iManage
3 2 (1.19%) Intapp
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.19%) OpenAI