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 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 549 559
Rank change year-on-year +24 +10 -148
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 179 91 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.22% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.24% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 156 70 295
10th Percentile £54,375 £49,140 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% -12.28%

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 81,353 37,364 89,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 89.32% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 51,978 23,468 66,062
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,261
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +21 164 £70,000 +19.15% 23
UK excluding London +9 137 £70,000 +21.74% 17
North of England -26 43 £70,000 +27.27% 5
South East -25 36 £67,500 +12.50% 5
Work from Home -16 32 £62,500 +4.17% 14
Midlands -21 32 £62,500 +4.17% 1
London -2 31 £84,000 +35.48% 11
Yorkshire -36 25 £75,000 +25.00% 2
East Midlands -39 18 £62,500 +13.64%
North West -18 17 £70,000 +27.27% 1
East of England -20 16 £100,000 +42.86% 2
West Midlands -32 14 £70,000 +16.67% 1
South West -54 6 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Wales -29 4 £52,500 - 3
North East -38 1 £67,500 +17.39% 2

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

For the 6 months to 21 April 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.

1 179 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 73 (40.78%) React
3 59 (32.96%) AWS
4 55 (30.73%) JavaScript
5 44 (24.58%) Azure
6 39 (21.79%) TypeScript
7 36 (20.11%) Node.js
8 35 (19.55%) Python
9 34 (18.99%) .NET
10 32 (17.88%) Web Development
11 31 (17.32%) C#
12 29 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (15.08%) DevOps
14 25 (13.97%) SQL
15 24 (13.41%) AngularJS
16 22 (12.29%) PHP
17 21 (11.73%) CI/CD
17 21 (11.73%) CSS
17 21 (11.73%) HTML
18 19 (10.61%) Serverless
19 18 (10.06%) Microservices
19 18 (10.06%) REST
20 17 (9.50%) Agile
20 17 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
20 17 (9.50%) Mentoring
21 16 (8.94%) GCP
21 16 (8.94%) Laravel
22 15 (8.38%) NoSQL
22 15 (8.38%) SaaS
23 14 (7.82%) Amazon S3

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 4 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (32.96%) AWS
2 44 (24.58%) Azure
3 19 (10.61%) Serverless
4 17 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (8.94%) GCP
6 15 (8.38%) SaaS
7 14 (7.82%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.59%) GitHub
9 6 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.23%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (2.23%) Apigee
11 4 (2.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (1.68%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (1.12%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (1.12%) Azure AI
13 2 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
13 2 (1.12%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.38%) NoSQL
2 9 (5.03%) MySQL
3 8 (4.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (3.35%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.23%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.12%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Git
2 5 (2.79%) JUnit
2 5 (2.79%) Maven
2 5 (2.79%) Mockito
3 2 (1.12%) git-flow
3 2 (1.12%) GitLab
3 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.56%) Moq
General
1 20 (11.17%) Finance
1 20 (11.17%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (2.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.23%) Law
5 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.12%) Aviation
6 2 (1.12%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.12%) Legal
6 2 (1.12%) Retail
7 1 (0.56%) Back Office
7 1 (0.56%) Marketing
7 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (40.78%) React
2 36 (20.11%) Node.js
3 34 (18.99%) .NET
4 24 (13.41%) AngularJS
5 21 (11.73%) CSS
5 21 (11.73%) HTML
6 18 (10.06%) REST
7 16 (8.94%) Laravel
8 14 (7.82%) Vue
9 7 (3.91%) Django
10 6 (3.35%) .NET Framework
10 6 (3.35%) Spring
10 6 (3.35%) Symfony
11 5 (2.79%) .NET Core
11 5 (2.79%) FastAPI
11 5 (2.79%) Flask
11 5 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.79%) Ruby on Rails
11 5 (2.79%) Spring Boot
12 4 (2.23%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.03%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.79%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.23%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.23%) NHS
3 4 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.12%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.56%) PropTech
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.79%) Linux
2 4 (2.23%) Android
2 4 (2.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (17.88%) Web Development
3 29 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (15.08%) DevOps
5 21 (11.73%) CI/CD
6 18 (10.06%) Microservices
7 17 (9.50%) Agile
7 17 (9.50%) Mentoring
8 14 (7.82%) API Development
9 13 (7.26%) AI
10 12 (6.70%) Computer Science
11 11 (6.15%) Containerisation
12 10 (5.59%) Software Engineering
12 10 (5.59%) Sprint Planning
12 10 (5.59%) Test Automation
13 9 (5.03%) Event-Driven
14 8 (4.47%) Data Modelling
14 8 (4.47%) TDD
15 7 (3.91%) Continuous Integration
15 7 (3.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 55 (30.73%) JavaScript
2 39 (21.79%) TypeScript
3 35 (19.55%) Python
4 31 (17.32%) C#
5 25 (13.97%) SQL
6 22 (12.29%) PHP
7 13 (7.26%) Java
8 7 (3.91%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.79%) Ruby
10 4 (2.23%) Bash
10 4 (2.23%) C
10 4 (2.23%) R
11 1 (0.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (7.82%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.15%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.47%) Degree
4 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.91%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.56%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (7.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.12%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (3.91%) Oracle
2 3 (1.68%) WooCommerce
3 2 (1.12%) Aderant
3 2 (1.12%) iManage
3 2 (1.12%) Intapp
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.12%) OpenAI