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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 556 541
Rank change year-on-year -90 -15 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 165 104 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.21% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.24% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 137 67 174
10th Percentile £60,000 - £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £56,563
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -3.70%

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 108,916 44,178 72,902
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 89.68% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 74,482 25,948 42,900
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £40,552 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,769
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 24 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 24 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 -59 150 £70,000 +7.69% 87
UK excluding London -76 126 £70,000 +16.67% 50
Work from Home -37 48 £70,000 - 53
North of England -24 41 £70,000 - 20
Midlands -21 38 £70,000 +9.80% 8
London -45 35 £80,000 +6.67% 42
West Midlands -30 25 £75,000 +17.65% 5
Yorkshire - 23 £70,000 - 6
South East -77 21 £65,000 +13.04% 8
North West -11 16 £70,000 - 14
South West -69 13 £70,000 +14.29% 6
East Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +6 6 £90,000 - 1
Wales -81 5 £72,500 +20.83%
East of England -32 2 £100,000 +42.86% 4
North East -65 2 £52,000 -23.53%

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 165 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 74 (44.85%) AWS
3 45 (27.27%) React
4 37 (22.42%) TypeScript
5 36 (21.82%) CI/CD
6 34 (20.61%) Azure
7 32 (19.39%) JavaScript
7 32 (19.39%) Node.js
8 31 (18.79%) Java
9 29 (17.58%) Python
10 28 (16.97%) AngularJS
11 27 (16.36%) C#
12 25 (15.15%) .NET
12 25 (15.15%) AI
13 24 (14.55%) Mentoring
14 23 (13.94%) Agile
14 23 (13.94%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (13.94%) Microservices
14 23 (13.94%) Serverless
15 22 (13.33%) Security Cleared
16 21 (12.73%) Amazon S3
16 21 (12.73%) Docker
17 20 (12.12%) DevOps
17 20 (12.12%) SC Cleared
18 19 (11.52%) GitHub
18 19 (11.52%) Kubernetes
19 18 (10.91%) Technical Leadership
20 17 (10.30%) HTML
20 17 (10.30%) Kotlin
20 17 (10.30%) 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 (4.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 74 (44.85%) AWS
2 34 (20.61%) Azure
3 23 (13.94%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (13.94%) Serverless
4 21 (12.73%) Amazon S3
5 19 (11.52%) GitHub
6 15 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
8 10 (6.06%) GCP
9 9 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.85%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (4.85%) SaaS
10 8 (4.85%) Snowflake
11 7 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.64%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.82%) Amazon ECR
14 3 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.21%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.88%) DynamoDB
2 12 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.82%) MySQL
5 3 (1.82%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.82%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.82%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.21%) GIS
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.61%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (6.06%) JUnit
2 9 (5.45%) Git
3 7 (4.24%) Maven
3 7 (4.24%) Mockito
4 6 (3.64%) JIRA
5 5 (3.03%) Claude Code
6 3 (1.82%) NUnit
6 3 (1.82%) Selenium
7 2 (1.21%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.21%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (1.21%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.21%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.21%) YouTrack
8 1 (0.61%) Moq
8 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
General
1 15 (9.09%) Finance
2 11 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 6 (3.64%) Social Skills
4 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.21%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.21%) Banking
6 1 (0.61%) Back Office
6 1 (0.61%) Front Office
6 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (27.27%) React
2 32 (19.39%) Node.js
3 28 (16.97%) AngularJS
4 25 (15.15%) .NET
5 17 (10.30%) HTML
5 17 (10.30%) REST
6 16 (9.70%) Spring
7 15 (9.09%) CSS
7 15 (9.09%) Vue
8 11 (6.67%) NestJS
8 11 (6.67%) Terraform
9 9 (5.45%) .NET Framework
9 9 (5.45%) ASP.NET
9 9 (5.45%) Laravel
9 9 (5.45%) RESTful
9 9 (5.45%) Spring Boot
10 8 (4.85%) CSS3
10 8 (4.85%) Entity Framework
10 8 (4.85%) HTML5
10 8 (4.85%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.42%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.82%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.21%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.21%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.61%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.61%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.24%) Linux
2 3 (1.82%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 36 (21.82%) CI/CD
3 25 (15.15%) AI
4 24 (14.55%) Mentoring
5 23 (13.94%) Agile
5 23 (13.94%) Microservices
6 20 (12.12%) DevOps
7 18 (10.91%) Technical Leadership
8 17 (10.30%) Software Engineering
8 17 (10.30%) TDD
9 13 (7.88%) LLM
10 11 (6.67%) Event-Driven
10 11 (6.67%) Observability
10 11 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (6.67%) Roadmaps
10 11 (6.67%) Scrum
11 10 (6.06%) Containerisation
11 10 (6.06%) Front End Development
11 10 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (5.45%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.42%) TypeScript
2 32 (19.39%) JavaScript
3 31 (18.79%) Java
4 29 (17.58%) Python
5 27 (16.36%) C#
6 17 (10.30%) Kotlin
7 15 (9.09%) SQL
8 9 (5.45%) PHP
9 8 (4.85%) Ruby
10 7 (4.24%) Bash
10 7 (4.24%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.21%) Bicep
12 1 (0.61%) C
12 1 (0.61%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.85%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.64%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.82%) Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.82%) WCAG
2 1 (0.61%) GRC
2 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 21 (12.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (11.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (10.30%) Oracle
2 12 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.24%) OutSystems
3 7 (4.24%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.82%) OneLogin
5 1 (0.61%) OpenAI