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 February 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 554 575
Rank change year-on-year +12 +21 -158
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 129 117 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.27% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 103 74 224
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,140 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,688 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% -3.85%

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 64,045 43,160 71,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 91.32% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 40,457 23,120 55,854
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,280
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 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 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 28 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 +39 115 £70,000 +16.67% 27
UK excluding London +14 90 £70,000 +21.74% 25
London +23 29 £75,000 +20.97% 7
Work from Home +6 29 £75,000 +25.00% 21
South East -3 26 £72,500 +20.83% 6
North of England +9 23 £75,000 +36.36% 8
Midlands -5 23 £62,500 +4.17% 3
East Midlands -21 15 £55,000 -12.00%
Yorkshire -19 13 £80,000 +39.13% 5
East of England +21 10 £100,000 - 5
North West +3 9 £65,000 +18.18% 3
West Midlands +4 8 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Wales -6 4 £51,250 -19.61%
South West -15 4 £65,000 +18.18% 2
North East -8 1 £76,000 +32.17%

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 129 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 63 (48.84%) React
3 47 (36.43%) JavaScript
4 46 (35.66%) AWS
5 38 (29.46%) Azure
6 36 (27.91%) .NET
7 32 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (23.26%) TypeScript
9 29 (22.48%) C#
10 28 (21.71%) SQL
11 25 (19.38%) CSS
11 25 (19.38%) Python
12 24 (18.60%) HTML
12 24 (18.60%) Web Development
13 22 (17.05%) CI/CD
14 21 (16.28%) Microservices
14 21 (16.28%) Node.js
15 19 (14.73%) Agile
15 19 (14.73%) DevOps
15 19 (14.73%) REST
16 17 (13.18%) SaaS
16 17 (13.18%) Serverless
17 16 (12.40%) AngularJS
18 15 (11.63%) API Development
18 15 (11.63%) Docker
18 15 (11.63%) GitHub
18 15 (11.63%) Mentoring
19 14 (10.85%) AI
19 14 (10.85%) AWS Lambda
19 14 (10.85%) GCP

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 (3.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.33%) ColdFusion
2 3 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (35.66%) AWS
2 38 (29.46%) Azure
3 17 (13.18%) SaaS
3 17 (13.18%) Serverless
4 15 (11.63%) GitHub
5 14 (10.85%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (10.85%) GCP
6 13 (10.08%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.20%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.55%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.55%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (1.55%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.78%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.78%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.53%) MySQL
1 11 (8.53%) NoSQL
2 8 (6.20%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.88%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.33%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.55%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (6.20%) Git
2 6 (4.65%) JUnit
2 6 (4.65%) Maven
2 6 (4.65%) Mockito
3 5 (3.88%) git-flow
4 1 (0.78%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.78%) GitLab
4 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.78%) JIRA
4 1 (0.78%) Moq
General
1 20 (15.50%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.95%) Finance
3 15 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.10%) Law
6 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.33%) Retail
7 2 (1.55%) Aviation
7 2 (1.55%) Legal
7 2 (1.55%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.78%) Back Office
8 1 (0.78%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (48.84%) React
2 36 (27.91%) .NET
3 25 (19.38%) CSS
4 24 (18.60%) HTML
5 21 (16.28%) Node.js
6 19 (14.73%) REST
7 16 (12.40%) AngularJS
8 10 (7.75%) Django
9 8 (6.20%) FastAPI
9 8 (6.20%) Flask
9 8 (6.20%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (6.20%) Vue
10 7 (5.43%) Kafka
10 7 (5.43%) Laravel
11 6 (4.65%) .NET Framework
11 6 (4.65%) Symfony
12 5 (3.88%) ASP.NET
12 5 (3.88%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (3.88%) AWS CDK
12 5 (3.88%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.88%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.10%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.78%) NHS
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.88%) Linux
2 4 (3.10%) Android
2 4 (3.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (18.60%) Web Development
4 22 (17.05%) CI/CD
5 21 (16.28%) Microservices
6 19 (14.73%) Agile
6 19 (14.73%) DevOps
7 15 (11.63%) API Development
7 15 (11.63%) Mentoring
8 14 (10.85%) AI
9 12 (9.30%) Computer Science
10 11 (8.53%) Containerisation
11 10 (7.75%) Data Modelling
12 9 (6.98%) Event-Driven
12 9 (6.98%) Scrum
12 9 (6.98%) Sprint Planning
12 9 (6.98%) TDD
13 8 (6.20%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (5.43%) SDLC
14 7 (5.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (36.43%) JavaScript
2 30 (23.26%) TypeScript
3 29 (22.48%) C#
4 28 (21.71%) SQL
5 25 (19.38%) Python
6 14 (10.85%) PHP
7 9 (6.98%) PL/SQL
8 8 (6.20%) Java
9 4 (3.10%) Bash
9 4 (3.10%) C
9 4 (3.10%) R
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (8.53%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.20%) Degree
4 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) QA
2 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (11.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (8.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.78%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (6.98%) Oracle
2 3 (2.33%) WooCommerce
3 2 (1.55%) Aderant
3 2 (1.55%) iManage
3 2 (1.55%) Intapp
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.55%) OpenAI