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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 645 576 554
Rank change year-on-year -69 -22 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 166 104 241
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.21% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.24% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 137 67 166
10th Percentile £60,000 - £46,875
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.88% -5.56%

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 109,191 44,243 72,281
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 89.71% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 74,643 25,711 42,130
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,598 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 28 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 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 September 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 -66 151 £70,000 +7.69% 76
UK excluding London -90 125 £70,000 +16.67% 46
Work from Home -23 51 £70,000 - 43
North of England -27 40 £70,000 - 20
Midlands -20 38 £70,000 +9.80% 8
London -37 37 £80,000 +6.67% 33
West Midlands -21 25 £75,000 +17.65% 5
Yorkshire - 23 £70,000 - 8
South East -77 20 £65,000 +13.04% 4
North West -23 15 £70,000 - 12
South West -72 14 £70,000 +14.29% 6
East Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +8 6 £90,000 - 1
Wales -65 5 £72,500 +20.83%
East of England -27 2 £100,000 +42.86% 4
North East -65 2 £52,000 -23.53% 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 September 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.

1 166 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 72 (43.37%) AWS
3 45 (27.11%) React
4 37 (22.29%) CI/CD
5 36 (21.69%) TypeScript
6 34 (20.48%) Azure
7 31 (18.67%) Java
8 30 (18.07%) JavaScript
9 29 (17.47%) Node.js
10 28 (16.87%) Python
11 27 (16.27%) AngularJS
11 27 (16.27%) C#
12 26 (15.66%) AI
13 25 (15.06%) .NET
14 24 (14.46%) Agile
14 24 (14.46%) Microservices
15 23 (13.86%) Mentoring
16 22 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (13.25%) Docker
16 22 (13.25%) Serverless
17 21 (12.65%) Security Cleared
18 20 (12.05%) Amazon S3
18 20 (12.05%) Kotlin
18 20 (12.05%) Kubernetes
19 19 (11.45%) DevOps
19 19 (11.45%) SC Cleared
20 18 (10.84%) GitHub
20 18 (10.84%) REST
20 18 (10.84%) Software Engineering
21 17 (10.24%) Oracle

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 7 (4.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.61%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 72 (43.37%) AWS
2 34 (20.48%) Azure
3 22 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
3 22 (13.25%) Serverless
4 20 (12.05%) Amazon S3
5 18 (10.84%) GitHub
6 14 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (6.63%) Anthropic Claude
8 10 (6.02%) GCP
9 9 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.82%) SaaS
10 8 (4.82%) Snowflake
11 7 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (4.22%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.61%) AWS CodePipeline
13 5 (3.01%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.23%) DynamoDB
1 12 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.02%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.81%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.81%) MySQL
4 3 (1.81%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.81%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.81%) Spatial Data
5 2 (1.20%) GIS
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (6.02%) JUnit
2 9 (5.42%) Git
3 7 (4.22%) Maven
3 7 (4.22%) Mockito
4 6 (3.61%) JIRA
5 5 (3.01%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.81%) NUnit
6 3 (1.81%) Selenium
7 2 (1.20%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.20%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.20%) YouTrack
8 1 (0.60%) Moq
General
1 15 (9.04%) Finance
2 11 (6.63%) Public Sector
3 6 (3.61%) Social Skills
4 3 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.20%) Banking
6 1 (0.60%) Back Office
6 1 (0.60%) Front Office
6 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (27.11%) React
2 29 (17.47%) Node.js
3 27 (16.27%) AngularJS
4 25 (15.06%) .NET
5 18 (10.84%) REST
6 16 (9.64%) HTML
6 16 (9.64%) Spring
7 14 (8.43%) CSS
7 14 (8.43%) Vue
8 11 (6.63%) Terraform
9 10 (6.02%) NestJS
9 10 (6.02%) RESTful
10 9 (5.42%) .NET Framework
10 9 (5.42%) ASP.NET
10 9 (5.42%) Laravel
10 9 (5.42%) Spring Boot
11 8 (4.82%) Entity Framework
12 7 (4.22%) CSS3
12 7 (4.22%) HTML5
12 7 (4.22%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.01%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.41%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.81%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.20%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.22%) Linux
2 3 (1.81%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 37 (22.29%) CI/CD
3 26 (15.66%) AI
4 24 (14.46%) Agile
4 24 (14.46%) Microservices
5 23 (13.86%) Mentoring
6 19 (11.45%) DevOps
7 18 (10.84%) Software Engineering
8 17 (10.24%) Technical Leadership
9 16 (9.64%) TDD
10 13 (7.83%) LLM
11 12 (7.23%) Scrum
12 11 (6.63%) Event-Driven
12 11 (6.63%) Front End Development
12 11 (6.63%) Observability
12 11 (6.63%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (6.63%) Roadmaps
13 10 (6.02%) Containerisation
13 10 (6.02%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (5.42%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 36 (21.69%) TypeScript
2 31 (18.67%) Java
3 30 (18.07%) JavaScript
4 28 (16.87%) Python
5 27 (16.27%) C#
6 20 (12.05%) Kotlin
7 15 (9.04%) SQL
8 9 (5.42%) PHP
9 7 (4.22%) Bash
9 7 (4.22%) PL/SQL
9 7 (4.22%) Ruby
10 2 (1.20%) Bicep
10 2 (1.20%) Rust
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.45%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.82%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.61%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.81%) Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.81%) WCAG
2 1 (0.60%) GRC
2 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 22 (13.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (12.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.60%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (10.24%) Oracle
2 12 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.22%) OutSystems
3 7 (4.22%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.81%) OneLogin
5 1 (0.60%) OpenAI