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 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 577 563
Rank change year-on-year +30 -14 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 110 127 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.24% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.27% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 85 78 221
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,140 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +4.17%

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 58,000 47,786 67,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.14% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 36,092 24,542 52,929
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.15% +8.88% -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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +47 95 £75,000 +25.00% 27
UK excluding London +5 73 £70,000 +16.67% 25
Work from Home +16 30 £75,000 +25.00% 15
South East +36 26 £75,000 +20.00% 9
London +41 25 £75,000 +9.89% 7
Midlands +10 20 £62,500 +4.17% 3
North of England +6 15 £76,000 +38.18% 8
East Midlands -5 12 £62,500 - 3
Yorkshire -6 9 £80,000 +39.13% 3
West Midlands +25 8 £70,000 +16.67%
East of England +26 6 £100,000 - 2
North West +26 5 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Wales -5 4 £51,250 -31.67% 1
South West -9 2 £62,500 +13.64% 2
North East - 1 £76,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 February 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.

1 110 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 57 (51.82%) React
3 43 (39.09%) AWS
4 36 (32.73%) JavaScript
5 35 (31.82%) Azure
6 32 (29.09%) .NET
7 31 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (23.64%) TypeScript
9 25 (22.73%) C#
10 24 (21.82%) SQL
11 21 (19.09%) CI/CD
11 21 (19.09%) CSS
11 21 (19.09%) Microservices
12 20 (18.18%) HTML
12 20 (18.18%) Python
12 20 (18.18%) Web Development
13 19 (17.27%) Agile
14 17 (15.45%) DevOps
14 17 (15.45%) GitHub
14 17 (15.45%) REST
15 16 (14.55%) GCP
15 16 (14.55%) Node.js
16 15 (13.64%) AngularJS
17 14 (12.73%) Docker
18 13 (11.82%) AI
18 13 (11.82%) SaaS
19 12 (10.91%) API Development
19 12 (10.91%) PHP
19 12 (10.91%) Serverless
20 11 (10.00%) Django

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 (3.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.73%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (39.09%) AWS
2 35 (31.82%) Azure
3 17 (15.45%) GitHub
4 16 (14.55%) GCP
5 13 (11.82%) SaaS
6 12 (10.91%) Serverless
7 10 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 10 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.36%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.73%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.91%) Azure App Service
12 1 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.91%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.00%) MySQL
2 10 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.73%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.91%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Git
2 6 (5.45%) JUnit
2 6 (5.45%) Maven
2 6 (5.45%) Mockito
3 5 (4.55%) git-flow
4 3 (2.73%) JIRA
5 1 (0.91%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.91%) Moq
General
1 17 (15.45%) Finance
1 17 (15.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.73%) Retail
4 3 (2.73%) Tech for Good
5 2 (1.82%) Aviation
5 2 (1.82%) Law
5 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (51.82%) React
2 32 (29.09%) .NET
3 21 (19.09%) CSS
4 20 (18.18%) HTML
5 17 (15.45%) REST
6 16 (14.55%) Node.js
7 15 (13.64%) AngularJS
8 11 (10.00%) Django
9 8 (7.27%) FastAPI
9 8 (7.27%) Flask
10 7 (6.36%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (6.36%) Vue
11 6 (5.45%) .NET Framework
11 6 (5.45%) ASP.NET
11 6 (5.45%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (5.45%) Kafka
11 6 (5.45%) Laravel
11 6 (5.45%) Symfony
12 5 (4.55%) AWS CDK
12 5 (4.55%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.18%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.55%) Linux
2 4 (3.64%) Android
2 4 (3.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 31 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (19.09%) CI/CD
3 21 (19.09%) Microservices
4 20 (18.18%) Web Development
5 19 (17.27%) Agile
6 17 (15.45%) DevOps
7 13 (11.82%) AI
8 12 (10.91%) API Development
9 11 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 11 (10.00%) Scrum
9 11 (10.00%) TDD
10 10 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
11 9 (8.18%) Clean Code
11 9 (8.18%) Computer Science
11 9 (8.18%) Containerisation
11 9 (8.18%) User Experience
12 8 (7.27%) Data Modelling
12 8 (7.27%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 36 (32.73%) JavaScript
2 26 (23.64%) TypeScript
3 25 (22.73%) C#
4 24 (21.82%) SQL
5 20 (18.18%) Python
6 12 (10.91%) PHP
7 9 (8.18%) PL/SQL
8 8 (7.27%) Java
9 4 (3.64%) Bash
9 4 (3.64%) C
9 4 (3.64%) R
10 1 (0.91%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.55%) Degree
4 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.91%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (12.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.73%) Terraform
3 1 (0.91%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (8.18%) Oracle
2 3 (2.73%) WooCommerce