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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 568 508
Rank change year-on-year -37 -60 -145
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 164 123 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.25% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.28% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 147 77 298
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,150 £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 94,649 44,285 87,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.20% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64,854 26,220 61,542
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,082
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 23 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 23 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 -34 152 £70,000 +9.38% 19
UK excluding London -35 134 £70,000 +16.67% 17
North of England +9 49 £70,000 +19.15% 3
Work from Home -26 40 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Midlands -11 35 £70,000 +9.80% 8
South East -42 26 £65,000 +13.04% 4
Yorkshire -6 25 £75,000 +7.14% 1
London -35 25 £84,500 +12.67% 6
North West +14 21 £70,000 +27.27% 2
West Midlands -25 21 £70,000 +9.80% 5
East Midlands - 14 £65,000 - 3
East of England +1 10 £100,000 +42.86%
South West -56 8 £66,250 +8.16%
Wales -56 6 £63,750 +6.25%
North East -52 3 £52,000 -11.49%

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 164 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 70 (42.68%) AWS
3 60 (36.59%) React
4 50 (30.49%) JavaScript
5 44 (26.83%) TypeScript
6 43 (26.22%) Node.js
7 39 (23.78%) Python
8 35 (21.34%) Azure
9 32 (19.51%) DevOps
10 30 (18.29%) C#
10 30 (18.29%) CI/CD
10 30 (18.29%) Serverless
11 28 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (15.85%) AngularJS
13 25 (15.24%) .NET
14 24 (14.63%) Mentoring
15 23 (14.02%) Amazon S3
16 21 (12.80%) HTML
17 20 (12.20%) Agile
17 20 (12.20%) Java
17 20 (12.20%) Security Cleared
18 19 (11.59%) CSS
19 18 (10.98%) AI
19 18 (10.98%) Vue
20 17 (10.37%) Amazon ECS
20 17 (10.37%) GitHub
20 17 (10.37%) SC Cleared
21 16 (9.76%) Software Engineering
22 14 (8.54%) Docker
22 14 (8.54%) Event-Driven

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 (3.66%) Confluence
2 3 (1.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) CMS
3 1 (0.61%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 70 (42.68%) AWS
2 35 (21.34%) Azure
3 30 (18.29%) Serverless
4 28 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (14.02%) Amazon S3
6 17 (10.37%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (10.37%) GitHub
7 13 (7.93%) GCP
8 10 (6.10%) SaaS
9 8 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.27%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (3.66%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.05%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (3.05%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (2.44%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (2.44%) Apigee
14 3 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.93%) DynamoDB
1 13 (7.93%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.83%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.83%) MySQL
5 3 (1.83%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.83%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.83%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.22%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.22%) GIS
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.61%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.88%) Git
2 6 (3.66%) JIRA
2 6 (3.66%) JUnit
3 3 (1.83%) Claude Code
3 3 (1.83%) Maven
3 3 (1.83%) Mockito
3 3 (1.83%) Selenium
4 2 (1.22%) GitLab
4 2 (1.22%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (1.22%) YouTrack
General
1 12 (7.32%) Finance
1 12 (7.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (4.88%) Public Sector
3 3 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (1.83%) Law
4 2 (1.22%) Aviation
4 2 (1.22%) Back Office
4 2 (1.22%) Health Technology
4 2 (1.22%) Legal
4 2 (1.22%) Legal Technology
5 1 (0.61%) Banking
5 1 (0.61%) Front Office
5 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.61%) Marketing
5 1 (0.61%) Retail
5 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (36.59%) React
2 43 (26.22%) Node.js
3 26 (15.85%) AngularJS
4 25 (15.24%) .NET
5 21 (12.80%) HTML
6 19 (11.59%) CSS
7 18 (10.98%) Vue
8 12 (7.32%) Laravel
8 12 (7.32%) REST
9 11 (6.71%) Spring
10 10 (6.10%) ASP.NET
11 9 (5.49%) CSS3
11 9 (5.49%) HTML5
11 9 (5.49%) NestJS
11 9 (5.49%) Ruby on Rails
12 8 (4.88%) Spring Boot
13 7 (4.27%) Express.js
13 7 (4.27%) Flask
13 7 (4.27%) RESTful
14 6 (3.66%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.05%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.44%) NHS
5 3 (1.83%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.22%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.22%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.22%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.61%) PropTech
7 1 (0.61%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.83%) AIX
1 3 (1.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (19.51%) DevOps
3 30 (18.29%) CI/CD
4 24 (14.63%) Mentoring
5 20 (12.20%) Agile
6 18 (10.98%) AI
7 16 (9.76%) Software Engineering
8 14 (8.54%) Event-Driven
9 13 (7.93%) Microservices
9 13 (7.93%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (7.93%) Web Development
10 12 (7.32%) TDD
10 12 (7.32%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (6.71%) Roadmaps
12 10 (6.10%) Front End Development
13 9 (5.49%) Code Quality
13 9 (5.49%) Observability
13 9 (5.49%) Sprint Planning
14 8 (4.88%) LLM
15 7 (4.27%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 50 (30.49%) JavaScript
2 44 (26.83%) TypeScript
3 39 (23.78%) Python
4 30 (18.29%) C#
5 20 (12.20%) Java
6 14 (8.54%) SQL
7 13 (7.93%) PHP
8 9 (5.49%) Ruby
9 4 (2.44%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.83%) Bash
11 2 (1.22%) Bicep
12 1 (0.61%) C
12 1 (0.61%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.37%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.27%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.05%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (3.05%) Degree
5 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (8.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.49%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (4.27%) Oracle
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.83%) OneLogin
3 2 (1.22%) Aderant
3 2 (1.22%) iManage
3 2 (1.22%) Intapp
3 2 (1.22%) OpenAI