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 26 July 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 566 511
Rank change year-on-year -42 -55 -144
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 164 121 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.25% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.27% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 147 76 282
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £55,000
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 £80,000 £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 95,392 44,432 84,355
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 90.12% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 65,258 26,408 58,586
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
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% - -5.12%

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 26 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 26 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 -42 152 £70,000 +12.00% 21
UK excluding London -44 134 £70,000 +16.67% 18
North of England +2 46 £70,000 +19.15% 7
Work from Home -30 42 £70,000 +7.69% 9
Midlands -12 38 £70,000 +9.80% 7
South East -52 26 £65,000 +13.04% 2
London -28 25 £84,500 +12.67% 6
West Midlands -12 23 £70,000 +9.80% 4
Yorkshire -15 23 £75,000 +7.14% 2
North West +15 20 £70,000 +27.27% 5
East Midlands - 15 £65,000 - 3
East of England -9 10 £100,000 +42.86%
South West -63 8 £66,250 +8.16%
Wales -61 6 £63,750 +6.25%
North East -48 3 £52,000 -11.49%

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 72 (43.90%) AWS
3 61 (37.20%) React
4 50 (30.49%) JavaScript
5 44 (26.83%) TypeScript
6 43 (26.22%) Node.js
7 40 (24.39%) Python
8 36 (21.95%) Azure
9 32 (19.51%) DevOps
10 31 (18.90%) CI/CD
11 30 (18.29%) C#
11 30 (18.29%) Serverless
12 28 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (15.85%) AngularJS
14 25 (15.24%) .NET
14 25 (15.24%) Mentoring
15 23 (14.02%) Amazon S3
16 21 (12.80%) Agile
16 21 (12.80%) HTML
16 21 (12.80%) Java
16 21 (12.80%) Security Cleared
17 19 (11.59%) AI
17 19 (11.59%) CSS
18 18 (10.98%) SC Cleared
18 18 (10.98%) Vue
19 17 (10.37%) Amazon ECS
19 17 (10.37%) GitHub
20 16 (9.76%) Software Engineering
21 15 (9.15%) Docker
21 15 (9.15%) Kubernetes

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 4 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.61%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 72 (43.90%) AWS
2 36 (21.95%) 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 11 (6.71%) 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 Service Bus
14 3 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
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 7 (4.27%) JUnit
3 6 (3.66%) JIRA
4 4 (2.44%) Maven
4 4 (2.44%) Mockito
5 3 (1.83%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.83%) Selenium
6 2 (1.22%) GitLab
6 2 (1.22%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.22%) YouTrack
General
1 13 (7.93%) Finance
2 12 (7.32%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (1.83%) Law
5 2 (1.22%) Aviation
5 2 (1.22%) Back Office
5 2 (1.22%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.22%) Legal
5 2 (1.22%) Legal Technology
6 1 (0.61%) Banking
6 1 (0.61%) Front Office
6 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.61%) Marketing
6 1 (0.61%) Retail
6 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (37.20%) 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 13 (7.93%) REST
9 12 (7.32%) Laravel
9 12 (7.32%) 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
4 4 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.83%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
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 4 (2.44%) Linux
2 3 (1.83%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (19.51%) DevOps
3 31 (18.90%) CI/CD
4 25 (15.24%) Mentoring
5 21 (12.80%) Agile
6 19 (11.59%) AI
7 16 (9.76%) Software Engineering
8 14 (8.54%) Event-Driven
8 14 (8.54%) Microservices
9 13 (7.93%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (7.93%) TDD
9 13 (7.93%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (7.32%) Web Development
11 11 (6.71%) Roadmaps
12 10 (6.10%) Front End Development
12 10 (6.10%) Sprint Planning
13 9 (5.49%) Code Quality
13 9 (5.49%) LLM
13 9 (5.49%) Observability
14 8 (4.88%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 50 (30.49%) JavaScript
2 44 (26.83%) TypeScript
3 40 (24.39%) Python
4 30 (18.29%) C#
5 21 (12.80%) Java
6 15 (9.15%) SQL
7 12 (7.32%) PHP
8 9 (5.49%) Ruby
9 5 (3.05%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.44%) Bash
11 2 (1.22%) Bicep
12 1 (0.61%) C
12 1 (0.61%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.98%) 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 15 (9.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.49%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (4.88%) 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