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 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 574 562
Rank change year-on-year +27 -12 -161
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 185 88 343
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.20% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.22% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 160 68 295
10th Percentile £54,875 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.26% -10.00%
75th Percentile £84,063 £70,625 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,075 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -20.00%

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 86,124 39,293 92,007
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 89.47% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 56,991 22,669 67,426
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,729 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.34% +3.46% -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +33 171 £70,000 +16.67% 16
UK excluding London +21 142 £70,000 +21.74% 10
North of England +7 51 £70,000 +27.27% 4
South East -13 35 £72,500 +20.83% 3
Work from Home +17 34 £68,750 +10.00% 6
London -9 33 £84,000 +23.08% 7
Yorkshire -13 30 £75,000 +25.00% 2
Midlands -19 28 £55,000 -8.33% 2
North West +20 18 £70,000 +27.27% 2
East of England +2 16 £100,000 +42.86% 2
West Midlands -43 16 £70,000 +14.29% 2
East Midlands -11 12 £55,000 -
South West -52 9 £65,000 +18.18%
Wales -30 3 £55,000 -13.73%
North East -38 3 £52,000 -11.49%

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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.

1 185 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 70 (37.84%) React
3 60 (32.43%) AWS
4 59 (31.89%) JavaScript
5 42 (22.70%) Node.js
5 42 (22.70%) TypeScript
6 40 (21.62%) Azure
7 34 (18.38%) Python
8 33 (17.84%) .NET
9 30 (16.22%) DevOps
10 28 (15.14%) AngularJS
10 28 (15.14%) C#
11 26 (14.05%) Web Development
12 25 (13.51%) Mentoring
13 23 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (11.89%) PHP
15 21 (11.35%) CSS
15 21 (11.35%) HTML
16 20 (10.81%) Security Cleared
17 19 (10.27%) SQL
18 18 (9.73%) Java
19 17 (9.19%) Laravel
19 17 (9.19%) SC Cleared
19 17 (9.19%) Serverless
19 17 (9.19%) Vue
20 16 (8.65%) Agile
20 16 (8.65%) Microservices
21 15 (8.11%) AI
21 15 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
21 15 (8.11%) CI/CD

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 (3.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.62%) Confluence
2 3 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) ColdFusion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (32.43%) AWS
2 40 (21.62%) Azure
3 17 (9.19%) Serverless
4 15 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (7.03%) GCP
5 13 (7.03%) GitHub
6 12 (6.49%) Amazon S3
7 11 (5.95%) SaaS
8 8 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.16%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (2.16%) Apigee
10 4 (2.16%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (1.62%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.08%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.32%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (3.24%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.70%) MySQL
6 4 (2.16%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.62%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.62%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.08%) ClickHouse
8 2 (1.08%) GIS
9 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.54%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.24%) JUnit
1 6 (3.24%) Maven
1 6 (3.24%) Mockito
2 5 (2.70%) Git
3 3 (1.62%) JIRA
4 2 (1.08%) GitLab
4 2 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.54%) CircleCI
General
1 22 (11.89%) Finance
2 19 (10.27%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.16%) Law
6 3 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.08%) Aviation
7 2 (1.08%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.08%) Legal
8 1 (0.54%) Back Office
8 1 (0.54%) Marketing
8 1 (0.54%) Retail
8 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (37.84%) React
2 42 (22.70%) Node.js
3 33 (17.84%) .NET
4 28 (15.14%) AngularJS
5 21 (11.35%) CSS
5 21 (11.35%) HTML
6 17 (9.19%) Laravel
6 17 (9.19%) Vue
7 11 (5.95%) REST
8 7 (3.78%) .NET Core
8 7 (3.78%) Spring
9 6 (3.24%) CSS3
9 6 (3.24%) Flask
9 6 (3.24%) HTML5
9 6 (3.24%) RESTful
9 6 (3.24%) Ruby on Rails
10 5 (2.70%) Express.js
10 5 (2.70%) hapi
10 5 (2.70%) React Native
10 5 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.32%) Mobile App
2 7 (3.78%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.16%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.16%) NHS
5 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.08%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.08%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.08%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.54%) PropTech
7 1 (0.54%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.78%) Linux
2 4 (2.16%) Android
2 4 (2.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 30 (16.22%) DevOps
3 26 (14.05%) Web Development
4 25 (13.51%) Mentoring
5 23 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (8.65%) Agile
6 16 (8.65%) Microservices
7 15 (8.11%) AI
7 15 (8.11%) CI/CD
8 14 (7.57%) Computer Science
9 13 (7.03%) Containerisation
10 12 (6.49%) Software Engineering
10 12 (6.49%) TDD
11 11 (5.95%) Sprint Planning
12 10 (5.41%) API Development
12 10 (5.41%) Test Automation
13 9 (4.86%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (4.32%) Code Quality
14 8 (4.32%) SDLC
15 7 (3.78%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 59 (31.89%) JavaScript
2 42 (22.70%) TypeScript
3 34 (18.38%) Python
4 28 (15.14%) C#
5 22 (11.89%) PHP
6 19 (10.27%) SQL
7 18 (9.73%) Java
8 7 (3.78%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.24%) Bash
9 6 (3.24%) Ruby
10 5 (2.70%) C
11 4 (2.16%) R
12 2 (1.08%) Bicep
13 1 (0.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.19%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.41%) Degree
4 8 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 15 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (7.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.54%) Argo
2 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (3.78%) Oracle
2 3 (1.62%) WooCommerce
3 2 (1.08%) Aderant
3 2 (1.08%) iManage
3 2 (1.08%) Intapp
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.08%) OpenAI