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 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 569 528
Rank change year-on-year -29 -41 -155
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 165 106 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.22% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.25% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 147 77 341
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,125 £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 91,032 42,825 99,548
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 89.92% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 62,489 24,971 71,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,772 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.54% - -5.76%

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 4 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 4 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 +20 151 £70,000 +12.00% 20
UK excluding London -16 134 £70,000 +16.67% 14
North of England +14 52 £70,000 +19.15% 1
Work from Home -16 38 £70,000 +7.69% 14
Midlands -12 32 £67,500 +14.89% 7
Yorkshire -2 26 £75,000 +7.14%
London -22 24 £84,500 +12.67% 7
North West +6 23 £70,000 +27.27% 1
South East -39 23 £62,500 +8.70% 3
West Midlands -24 18 £70,000 +12.00% 3
East Midlands -6 14 £65,000 +18.18% 4
East of England -9 12 £100,000 +42.86% 1
South West -65 9 £65,000 +8.33% 1
Wales -49 6 £63,750 +6.25% 1
North East -43 3 £52,000 -11.49%

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 165 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 68 (41.21%) AWS
3 64 (38.79%) React
4 55 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 44 (26.67%) Node.js
5 44 (26.67%) TypeScript
6 41 (24.85%) Python
7 36 (21.82%) Azure
8 32 (19.39%) DevOps
9 27 (16.36%) Serverless
10 26 (15.76%) AngularJS
10 26 (15.76%) C#
11 25 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (14.55%) CI/CD
12 24 (14.55%) HTML
12 24 (14.55%) Mentoring
13 22 (13.33%) .NET
13 22 (13.33%) CSS
13 22 (13.33%) Security Cleared
14 21 (12.73%) Java
15 20 (12.12%) Amazon S3
16 19 (11.52%) Vue
17 18 (10.91%) Agile
17 18 (10.91%) SC Cleared
18 17 (10.30%) Problem-Solving
18 17 (10.30%) SQL
19 16 (9.70%) Kubernetes
20 15 (9.09%) AI
20 15 (9.09%) Docker
20 15 (9.09%) 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 (3.64%) Confluence
2 4 (2.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.61%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 68 (41.21%) AWS
2 36 (21.82%) Azure
3 27 (16.36%) Serverless
4 25 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (12.12%) Amazon S3
6 14 (8.48%) GCP
7 13 (7.88%) GitHub
8 12 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (4.85%) SaaS
10 7 (4.24%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.42%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (2.42%) Apigee
13 3 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (1.21%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.21%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.45%) NoSQL
1 9 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.85%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.42%) MySQL
4 4 (2.42%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.42%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.82%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.82%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.21%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.21%) GIS
7 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.61%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.24%) JUnit
2 6 (3.64%) Git
2 6 (3.64%) JIRA
3 4 (2.42%) Maven
3 4 (2.42%) Mockito
4 3 (1.82%) Claude Code
4 3 (1.82%) Selenium
5 2 (1.21%) GitLab
5 2 (1.21%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.21%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.21%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (1.21%) YouTrack
6 1 (0.61%) CircleCI
General
1 14 (8.48%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.88%) Finance
3 11 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.85%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.42%) Law
6 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.21%) Aviation
7 2 (1.21%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.21%) Legal
7 2 (1.21%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.61%) Back Office
8 1 (0.61%) Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Marketing
8 1 (0.61%) Retail
8 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (38.79%) React
2 44 (26.67%) Node.js
3 26 (15.76%) AngularJS
4 24 (14.55%) HTML
5 22 (13.33%) .NET
5 22 (13.33%) CSS
6 19 (11.52%) Vue
7 14 (8.48%) Laravel
8 10 (6.06%) REST
8 10 (6.06%) Spring
9 9 (5.45%) CSS3
9 9 (5.45%) HTML5
9 9 (5.45%) Ruby on Rails
10 8 (4.85%) Flask
10 8 (4.85%) NestJS
10 8 (4.85%) Spring Boot
11 6 (3.64%) ASP.NET
11 6 (3.64%) FastAPI
11 6 (3.64%) Next.js
11 6 (3.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.42%) NHS
4 4 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.82%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.21%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.21%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.21%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.21%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.61%) PropTech
7 1 (0.61%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.03%) Linux
2 3 (1.82%) AIX
3 1 (0.61%) Android
3 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (19.39%) DevOps
3 24 (14.55%) CI/CD
3 24 (14.55%) Mentoring
4 18 (10.91%) Agile
5 17 (10.30%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (9.09%) AI
6 15 (9.09%) Software Engineering
6 15 (9.09%) Web Development
7 14 (8.48%) Microservices
8 13 (7.88%) TDD
8 13 (7.88%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (6.67%) Event-Driven
10 10 (6.06%) Computer Science
10 10 (6.06%) Sprint Planning
11 8 (4.85%) Code Quality
11 8 (4.85%) Containerisation
11 8 (4.85%) Front End Development
11 8 (4.85%) Observability
12 7 (4.24%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 55 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 44 (26.67%) TypeScript
3 41 (24.85%) Python
4 26 (15.76%) C#
5 21 (12.73%) Java
6 17 (10.30%) SQL
7 15 (9.09%) PHP
8 9 (5.45%) Ruby
9 5 (3.03%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.42%) Bash
11 3 (1.82%) C
12 2 (1.21%) Bicep
12 2 (1.21%) R
13 1 (0.61%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.85%) Degree
4 6 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.82%) WCAG
2 2 (1.21%) QA
System Software
1 15 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (9.70%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.85%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (4.85%) Oracle
2 3 (1.82%) OneLogin
3 2 (1.21%) Aderant
3 2 (1.21%) iManage
3 2 (1.21%) Intapp
3 2 (1.21%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.21%) OpenAI