Senior Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 566 504
Rank change year-on-year +39 -62 +111
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 110 194 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.28% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.30% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 70 130 192
10th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £52,625
25th Percentile £57,813 £53,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £98,750 £89,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,750 £66,750
% change year-on-year -10.11% - +11.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 48,061 64,786 49,849
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 30,303 36,624 38,666
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% -

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 +42 91 £70,000 - 37
UK excluding London +40 77 £60,000 -10.11% 22
Work from Home +85 45 £75,000 +25.00% 34
South East +60 39 £57,500 -8.00% 7
London +30 29 £75,000 -18.92% 18
Midlands +51 13 £70,000 +16.67% 8
Wales +8 13 £60,000 -2.04% 2
West Midlands +44 7 £70,000 +16.67% 4
East Midlands +26 6 £70,000 - 4
North of England +30 5 £75,000 +7.14% 3
North West +38 3 £70,000 +7.69%
South West +20 3 £60,000 - 1
Scotland +9 3 - -
East of England +20 1 £70,000 -17.65%
North East +17 1 £76,000 +38.18%
Yorkshire +8 1 £80,000 +14.29% 3

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, 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.

1 110 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 78 (70.91%) React
3 72 (65.45%) AWS
4 62 (56.36%) JavaScript
5 52 (47.27%) HTML
6 47 (42.73%) Agile
7 46 (41.82%) Azure
8 45 (40.91%) Node.js
9 43 (39.09%) C#
9 43 (39.09%) CI/CD
9 43 (39.09%) CSS
9 43 (39.09%) TypeScript
9 43 (39.09%) User Experience
10 42 (38.18%) .NET
10 42 (38.18%) RESTful
11 41 (37.27%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (34.55%) SQL
12 38 (34.55%) Web Development
13 33 (30.00%) Git
13 33 (30.00%) UX Design
14 32 (29.09%) DevOps
14 32 (29.09%) GCP
15 29 (26.36%) ASP.NET
16 25 (22.73%) AngularJS
17 24 (21.82%) Docker
18 23 (20.91%) QA
19 22 (20.00%) Test Automation
20 21 (19.09%) Kubernetes
20 21 (19.09%) Mentoring
21 20 (18.18%) SQL Server

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 8 (7.27%) Headless CMS
2 4 (3.64%) IIS
3 2 (1.82%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.91%) Confluence
4 1 (0.91%) nginx
Business Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Shopify
2 1 (0.91%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 72 (65.45%) AWS
2 46 (41.82%) Azure
3 32 (29.09%) GCP
4 18 (16.36%) GitHub
4 18 (16.36%) Serverless
5 13 (11.82%) Amazon S3
5 13 (11.82%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (8.18%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (8.18%) Figma
6 9 (8.18%) SaaS
7 8 (7.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (7.27%) Google Analytics
7 8 (7.27%) Vercel
8 5 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.64%) Cloudflare
10 2 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.91%) npm
11 1 (0.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 17 (15.45%) MySQL
2 17 (15.45%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.55%) Redis
4 5 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.91%) Power BI
8 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (30.00%) Git
2 9 (8.18%) Cypress.io
3 6 (5.45%) JIRA
4 5 (4.55%) git-flow
5 4 (3.64%) Jasmine
5 4 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.64%) NUnit
5 4 (3.64%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.73%) JUnit
6 3 (2.73%) Mockito
7 2 (1.82%) Maven
7 2 (1.82%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.91%) JMeter
8 1 (0.91%) Moq
8 1 (0.91%) PhpStorm
8 1 (0.91%) Vite
General
1 39 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.45%) Law
3 14 (12.73%) Marketing
4 7 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.45%) Finance
6 3 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.73%) Banking
6 3 (2.73%) Games
6 3 (2.73%) Private Banking
6 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.73%) Retail
6 3 (2.73%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.91%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.91%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (0.91%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (70.91%) React
2 52 (47.27%) HTML
3 45 (40.91%) Node.js
4 43 (39.09%) CSS
5 42 (38.18%) .NET
5 42 (38.18%) RESTful
6 29 (26.36%) ASP.NET
7 25 (22.73%) AngularJS
8 16 (14.55%) REST
9 14 (12.73%) ASP.NET Core
9 14 (12.73%) Vue
10 13 (11.82%) GraphQL
11 12 (10.91%) Jest
12 11 (10.00%) Express.js
13 10 (9.09%) Next.js
14 9 (8.18%) Django
14 9 (8.18%) HTML5
15 8 (7.27%) CSS3
15 8 (7.27%) Kafka
15 8 (7.27%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.18%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.55%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.73%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.73%) Online Games
6 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.91%) IoT
6 1 (0.91%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.91%) Smart City
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.91%) Android
1 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 47 (42.73%) Agile
3 43 (39.09%) CI/CD
3 43 (39.09%) User Experience
4 41 (37.27%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (34.55%) Web Development
6 33 (30.00%) UX Design
7 32 (29.09%) DevOps
8 22 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 21 (19.09%) Mentoring
10 18 (16.36%) MVC
11 17 (15.45%) Containerisation
12 16 (14.55%) Design Patterns
13 14 (12.73%) Customer Engagement
14 13 (11.82%) Microservices
14 13 (11.82%) Sprint Planning
15 10 (9.09%) Analytics
15 10 (9.09%) E-Commerce
15 10 (9.09%) Scrum
15 10 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (56.36%) JavaScript
2 43 (39.09%) C#
2 43 (39.09%) TypeScript
3 38 (34.55%) SQL
4 12 (10.91%) Python
5 7 (6.36%) Java
6 5 (4.55%) PHP
7 4 (3.64%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.91%) C
8 1 (0.91%) C++
8 1 (0.91%) Rust
8 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (2.73%) SC Cleared
1 3 (2.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.82%) Degree
3 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.91%) QA
2 12 (10.91%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.91%) HL7
System Software
1 24 (21.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (19.09%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.18%) Terraform
3 1 (0.91%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (7.27%) Apple
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.64%) Oracle
2 4 (3.64%) Rollbar
3 1 (0.91%) Adobe
3 1 (0.91%) Databricks
3 1 (0.91%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.91%) Splunk