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 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 547 519
Rank change year-on-year -50 -28 -152
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 165 124 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.28% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 149 78 313
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,925 £95,000
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 94,139 44,347 91,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 89.90% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,646 26,264 64,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -15 153 £70,000 +12.00% 16
UK excluding London -46 136 £70,000 +16.67% 13
North of England +19 51 £70,000 +19.15% 2
Work from Home -20 42 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Midlands -11 35 £70,000 +19.15% 9
South East -43 26 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Yorkshire 0 25 £75,000 +7.14%
London -25 24 £84,500 +12.67% 3
North West +11 23 £70,000 +27.27% 2
West Midlands -15 20 £70,000 +12.00% 6
East Midlands -6 15 £65,000 +18.18% 3
East of England -9 10 £100,000 +42.86%
South West -58 8 £66,250 +8.16%
Wales -59 6 £63,750 +6.25%
North East -44 3 £52,000 -11.49%

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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.

1 165 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 72 (43.64%) AWS
3 62 (37.58%) React
4 52 (31.52%) JavaScript
5 43 (26.06%) Node.js
5 43 (26.06%) TypeScript
6 40 (24.24%) Python
7 35 (21.21%) Azure
8 32 (19.39%) DevOps
9 30 (18.18%) C#
9 30 (18.18%) Serverless
10 29 (17.58%) CI/CD
11 28 (16.97%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (15.15%) .NET
12 25 (15.15%) AngularJS
13 24 (14.55%) Mentoring
14 23 (13.94%) Amazon S3
14 23 (13.94%) HTML
15 21 (12.73%) CSS
16 20 (12.12%) Agile
16 20 (12.12%) Java
16 20 (12.12%) Security Cleared
17 19 (11.52%) Vue
18 18 (10.91%) AI
19 17 (10.30%) SC Cleared
20 16 (9.70%) Amazon ECS
20 16 (9.70%) GitHub
20 16 (9.70%) Software Engineering
21 15 (9.09%) PHP
21 15 (9.09%) Problem-Solving

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 6 (3.64%) Confluence
2 3 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) CMS
3 1 (0.61%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 72 (43.64%) AWS
2 35 (21.21%) Azure
3 30 (18.18%) Serverless
4 28 (16.97%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (13.94%) Amazon S3
6 16 (9.70%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (9.70%) GitHub
7 13 (7.88%) GCP
8 9 (5.45%) SaaS
9 7 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (4.24%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.64%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.03%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.42%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (2.42%) Apigee
13 3 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.21%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.88%) NoSQL
2 12 (7.27%) DynamoDB
3 9 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.85%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.42%) MySQL
6 4 (2.42%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.82%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.82%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.82%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.21%) ClickHouse
8 2 (1.21%) GIS
9 1 (0.61%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (4.24%) Git
2 6 (3.64%) JIRA
2 6 (3.64%) JUnit
3 3 (1.82%) Claude Code
3 3 (1.82%) Maven
3 3 (1.82%) Mockito
3 3 (1.82%) Selenium
4 2 (1.21%) GitLab
4 2 (1.21%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.21%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (1.21%) YouTrack
General
1 12 (7.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.67%) Finance
3 9 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.85%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.82%) Law
6 2 (1.21%) Aviation
6 2 (1.21%) Back Office
6 2 (1.21%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.21%) Legal
6 2 (1.21%) Legal Technology
7 1 (0.61%) Banking
7 1 (0.61%) Front Office
7 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.61%) Marketing
7 1 (0.61%) Retail
7 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (37.58%) React
2 43 (26.06%) Node.js
3 25 (15.15%) .NET
3 25 (15.15%) AngularJS
4 23 (13.94%) HTML
5 21 (12.73%) CSS
6 19 (11.52%) Vue
7 14 (8.48%) Laravel
8 11 (6.67%) REST
8 11 (6.67%) Spring
9 10 (6.06%) ASP.NET
10 9 (5.45%) CSS3
10 9 (5.45%) HTML5
10 9 (5.45%) Ruby on Rails
11 8 (4.85%) NestJS
11 8 (4.85%) Spring Boot
12 7 (4.24%) Flask
12 7 (4.24%) RESTful
13 6 (3.64%) .NET Framework
13 6 (3.64%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.48%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.42%) NHS
5 3 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.82%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.21%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.21%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.21%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.61%) PropTech
7 1 (0.61%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.42%) Linux
2 3 (1.82%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (19.39%) DevOps
3 29 (17.58%) CI/CD
4 24 (14.55%) Mentoring
5 20 (12.12%) Agile
6 18 (10.91%) AI
7 16 (9.70%) Software Engineering
8 15 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (8.48%) Event-Driven
10 13 (7.88%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (7.88%) Web Development
11 12 (7.27%) Microservices
11 12 (7.27%) TDD
12 11 (6.67%) Roadmaps
13 9 (5.45%) Code Quality
13 9 (5.45%) Front End Development
13 9 (5.45%) Sprint Planning
14 8 (4.85%) LLM
14 8 (4.85%) Observability
15 7 (4.24%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 52 (31.52%) JavaScript
2 43 (26.06%) TypeScript
3 40 (24.24%) Python
4 30 (18.18%) C#
5 20 (12.12%) Java
6 15 (9.09%) PHP
6 15 (9.09%) SQL
7 9 (5.45%) Ruby
8 4 (2.42%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.82%) Bash
10 2 (1.21%) Bicep
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.30%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.24%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.64%) Degree
5 5 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (8.48%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (4.24%) Oracle
2 3 (1.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.82%) OneLogin
3 2 (1.21%) Aderant
3 2 (1.21%) iManage
3 2 (1.21%) Intapp
3 2 (1.21%) OpenAI