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 7 June 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 564 546
Rank change year-on-year +10 -18 -154
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 184 95 378
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.21% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.24% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 159 74 316
10th Percentile £54,750 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.77% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -17.24%

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 87,000 39,565 98,947
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 89.42% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 58,806 22,312 71,677
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -6.54%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +28 170 £70,000 +14.29% 15
UK excluding London +18 144 £70,000 +16.67% 8
North of England +14 55 £70,000 +27.27%
Work from Home -8 37 £70,000 +8.53% 7
South East -17 35 £72,500 +14.62% 3
London 0 31 £84,000 +29.23% 8
Yorkshire -14 31 £75,000 +7.14%
Midlands -25 29 £55,000 -8.33% 4
North West 0 21 £70,000 +27.27%
West Midlands -22 18 £70,000 +14.29% 3
East of England -10 12 £100,000 +42.86% 1
East Midlands -16 11 £55,000 - 1
South West -51 9 £65,000 +8.33%
Wales -42 4 £55,000 -8.33% 1
North East -41 3 £52,000 -11.49%

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 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.

1 184 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 70 (38.04%) React
3 64 (34.78%) AWS
4 58 (31.52%) JavaScript
5 44 (23.91%) TypeScript
6 42 (22.83%) Node.js
7 41 (22.28%) Azure
8 38 (20.65%) Python
9 33 (17.93%) .NET
10 32 (17.39%) DevOps
11 30 (16.30%) AngularJS
11 30 (16.30%) C#
12 25 (13.59%) Mentoring
13 22 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (11.96%) Serverless
14 21 (11.41%) CSS
14 21 (11.41%) HTML
14 21 (11.41%) PHP
14 21 (11.41%) Security Cleared
15 20 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (10.87%) CI/CD
15 20 (10.87%) Java
15 20 (10.87%) Vue
15 20 (10.87%) Web Development
16 19 (10.33%) Microservices
17 18 (9.78%) Agile
17 18 (9.78%) AI
17 18 (9.78%) SC Cleared
17 18 (9.78%) SQL
18 16 (8.70%) 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 6 (3.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.17%) Confluence
3 3 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) CMS
4 1 (0.54%) ColdFusion
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (34.78%) AWS
2 41 (22.28%) Azure
3 22 (11.96%) Serverless
4 20 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 14 (7.61%) GitHub
7 13 (7.07%) GCP
8 11 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (5.43%) SaaS
10 6 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.17%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (2.17%) Apigee
13 3 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (1.09%) Amazon EventBridge
14 2 (1.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.43%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (3.80%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.26%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.72%) MySQL
7 3 (1.63%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.63%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.63%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.09%) ClickHouse
8 2 (1.09%) GIS
8 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.54%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.80%) JUnit
2 6 (3.26%) Maven
2 6 (3.26%) Mockito
3 5 (2.72%) Git
4 4 (2.17%) JIRA
5 2 (1.09%) GitLab
5 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.54%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.54%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.54%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.54%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.54%) Selenium
6 1 (0.54%) YouTrack
General
1 22 (11.96%) Finance
2 18 (9.78%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.26%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.17%) Law
6 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.09%) Aviation
7 2 (1.09%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.09%) Legal
8 1 (0.54%) Back Office
8 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Marketing
8 1 (0.54%) Retail
8 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (38.04%) React
2 42 (22.83%) Node.js
3 33 (17.93%) .NET
4 30 (16.30%) AngularJS
5 21 (11.41%) CSS
5 21 (11.41%) HTML
6 20 (10.87%) Vue
7 16 (8.70%) Laravel
8 11 (5.98%) REST
9 8 (4.35%) Flask
9 8 (4.35%) Spring
10 7 (3.80%) .NET Core
10 7 (3.80%) CSS3
10 7 (3.80%) HTML5
10 7 (3.80%) Ruby on Rails
11 6 (3.26%) ASP.NET
11 6 (3.26%) FastAPI
11 6 (3.26%) NestJS
11 6 (3.26%) RESTful
11 6 (3.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.80%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.17%) NHS
5 3 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.09%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.09%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.54%) PropTech
7 1 (0.54%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.80%) Linux
2 3 (1.63%) Android
2 3 (1.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.54%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (17.39%) DevOps
3 25 (13.59%) Mentoring
4 22 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (10.87%) CI/CD
5 20 (10.87%) Web Development
6 19 (10.33%) Microservices
7 18 (9.78%) Agile
7 18 (9.78%) AI
8 14 (7.61%) Computer Science
9 13 (7.07%) TDD
10 12 (6.52%) Containerisation
10 12 (6.52%) Sprint Planning
11 11 (5.98%) Software Engineering
11 11 (5.98%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (5.43%) Event-Driven
13 9 (4.89%) API Development
13 9 (4.89%) Test Automation
14 8 (4.35%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (4.35%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 58 (31.52%) JavaScript
2 44 (23.91%) TypeScript
3 38 (20.65%) Python
4 30 (16.30%) C#
5 21 (11.41%) PHP
6 20 (10.87%) Java
7 18 (9.78%) SQL
8 7 (3.80%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.80%) Ruby
9 6 (3.26%) Bash
10 5 (2.72%) C
11 4 (2.17%) R
12 2 (1.09%) Bicep
13 1 (0.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (11.41%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.78%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.43%) Degree
4 8 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.72%) QA
2 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (8.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (8.15%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (0.54%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (4.35%) Oracle
2 2 (1.09%) Aderant
2 2 (1.09%) iManage
2 2 (1.09%) Intapp
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.09%) WooCommerce
3 1 (0.54%) OneLogin