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 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 563 516
Rank change year-on-year -49 -47 -152
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 162 118 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.24% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.27% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 147 78 326
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £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 92,998 44,238 95,769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.85% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 63,730 26,125 68,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 13 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 13 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 -17 149 £70,000 +12.00% 17
UK excluding London -26 134 £70,000 +16.67% 14
North of England +15 51 £70,000 +19.15% 1
Work from Home -20 40 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Midlands -16 34 £70,000 +19.15% 8
Yorkshire -10 25 £75,000 +7.14%
South East -37 25 £65,000 +13.04% 4
North West +3 23 £70,000 +27.27% 1
London -28 22 £84,000 +12.00% 6
West Midlands -20 18 £70,000 +12.00% 4
East Midlands -15 16 £65,000 +18.18% 4
East of England -9 10 £100,000 +42.86%
South West -60 8 £66,250 +8.16%
Wales -53 6 £63,750 +6.25%
North East -50 3 £52,000 -11.49%

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 162 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 71 (43.83%) AWS
3 62 (38.27%) React
4 53 (32.72%) JavaScript
5 44 (27.16%) Node.js
5 44 (27.16%) TypeScript
6 41 (25.31%) Python
7 33 (20.37%) Azure
8 32 (19.75%) DevOps
9 30 (18.52%) Serverless
10 29 (17.90%) C#
11 28 (17.28%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (17.28%) CI/CD
12 25 (15.43%) AngularJS
13 24 (14.81%) .NET
13 24 (14.81%) HTML
14 23 (14.20%) Amazon S3
14 23 (14.20%) Mentoring
15 22 (13.58%) CSS
16 20 (12.35%) Security Cleared
17 19 (11.73%) Agile
17 19 (11.73%) Java
17 19 (11.73%) Vue
18 16 (9.88%) AI
18 16 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (9.88%) SC Cleared
18 16 (9.88%) Software Engineering
19 15 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
19 15 (9.26%) GitHub
19 15 (9.26%) PHP

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 (3.70%) Confluence
2 3 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.62%) CMS
4 1 (0.62%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 71 (43.83%) AWS
2 33 (20.37%) Azure
3 30 (18.52%) Serverless
4 28 (17.28%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (14.20%) Amazon S3
6 15 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (9.26%) GitHub
7 13 (8.02%) GCP
8 8 (4.94%) SaaS
9 7 (4.32%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.09%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (3.09%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.47%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.47%) Apigee
12 4 (2.47%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.79%) DynamoDB
3 9 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.47%) MySQL
7 4 (2.47%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.85%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.85%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.85%) Spatial Data
9 2 (1.23%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.23%) GIS
10 1 (0.62%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.62%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (4.32%) Git
2 6 (3.70%) JIRA
3 5 (3.09%) JUnit
4 3 (1.85%) Claude Code
4 3 (1.85%) Selenium
5 2 (1.23%) GitLab
5 2 (1.23%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.23%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.23%) Maven
5 2 (1.23%) Mockito
5 2 (1.23%) YouTrack
General
1 12 (7.41%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (6.17%) Finance
3 8 (4.94%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (1.85%) Law
5 2 (1.23%) Aviation
5 2 (1.23%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.23%) Legal
5 2 (1.23%) Legal Technology
6 1 (0.62%) Back Office
6 1 (0.62%) Banking
6 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.62%) Marketing
6 1 (0.62%) Retail
6 1 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (38.27%) React
2 44 (27.16%) Node.js
3 25 (15.43%) AngularJS
4 24 (14.81%) .NET
4 24 (14.81%) HTML
5 22 (13.58%) CSS
6 19 (11.73%) Vue
7 14 (8.64%) Laravel
8 10 (6.17%) Spring
9 9 (5.56%) ASP.NET
9 9 (5.56%) CSS3
9 9 (5.56%) HTML5
9 9 (5.56%) REST
9 9 (5.56%) Ruby on Rails
10 8 (4.94%) NestJS
10 8 (4.94%) Spring Boot
11 7 (4.32%) Flask
11 7 (4.32%) RESTful
12 6 (3.70%) Express.js
12 6 (3.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.09%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.47%) NHS
5 3 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.85%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.23%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.23%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.62%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.62%) PropTech
7 1 (0.62%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.85%) AIX
1 3 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (19.75%) DevOps
3 28 (17.28%) CI/CD
4 23 (14.20%) Mentoring
5 19 (11.73%) Agile
6 16 (9.88%) AI
6 16 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (9.88%) Software Engineering
7 13 (8.02%) Event-Driven
7 13 (8.02%) Web Development
8 12 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (6.79%) Microservices
9 11 (6.79%) TDD
10 10 (6.17%) Roadmaps
11 8 (4.94%) Code Quality
11 8 (4.94%) Front End Development
11 8 (4.94%) Observability
11 8 (4.94%) Sprint Planning
12 7 (4.32%) Computer Science
13 6 (3.70%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 53 (32.72%) JavaScript
2 44 (27.16%) TypeScript
3 41 (25.31%) Python
4 29 (17.90%) C#
5 19 (11.73%) Java
6 15 (9.26%) PHP
6 15 (9.26%) SQL
7 9 (5.56%) Ruby
8 3 (1.85%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.23%) Bash
9 2 (1.23%) Bicep
10 1 (0.62%) C
10 1 (0.62%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.32%) Degree
4 6 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.47%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (8.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (3.70%) Oracle
2 3 (1.85%) OneLogin
3 2 (1.23%) Aderant
3 2 (1.23%) iManage
3 2 (1.23%) Intapp
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.23%) OpenAI