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 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 562 544
Rank change year-on-year -76 -18 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 177 107 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.24% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 137 69 145
10th Percentile £59,000 - £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,400 £82,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -3.70%

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 110,105 43,964 67,208
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 89.90% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 74,779 25,831 38,509
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 16 October 2026.

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 16 October 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 -62 161 £70,000 +7.69% 78
UK excluding London -76 132 £70,000 +16.67% 48
Work from Home -23 64 £70,000 - 46
North of England -24 48 £70,000 -3.45% 20
London -62 41 £80,000 +6.67% 35
Midlands -12 40 £70,000 - 10
Yorkshire -7 29 £70,000 -12.50% 10
West Midlands -25 25 £77,500 - 6
North West -16 17 £70,000 - 7
South West -55 17 £70,000 +14.29% 4
East Midlands - 15 £70,000 - 4
South East -88 12 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Scotland +8 8 £90,000 - 2
Wales -83 4 £72,500 +20.83%
East of England -45 3 £60,000 -14.29% 5
North East -71 2 £52,000 -23.53% 4

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 177 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 66 (37.29%) AWS
3 43 (24.29%) CI/CD
3 43 (24.29%) React
4 40 (22.60%) Azure
5 38 (21.47%) Kotlin
6 32 (18.08%) C#
6 32 (18.08%) TypeScript
7 31 (17.51%) .NET
7 31 (17.51%) AI
8 30 (16.95%) Java
9 29 (16.38%) Python
10 27 (15.25%) Docker
10 27 (15.25%) JavaScript
11 26 (14.69%) Agile
11 26 (14.69%) Microservices
11 26 (14.69%) Software Engineering
12 24 (13.56%) Mentoring
12 24 (13.56%) Node.js
12 24 (13.56%) Serverless
13 23 (12.99%) AngularJS
13 23 (12.99%) REST
14 22 (12.43%) Kubernetes
15 21 (11.86%) DevOps
16 20 (11.30%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (10.17%) Amazon S3
17 18 (10.17%) GitHub
17 18 (10.17%) Security Cleared
18 17 (9.60%) Oracle
18 17 (9.60%) SQL

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 7 (3.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.39%) Confluence
3 4 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.13%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.13%) Shopify
2 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (37.29%) AWS
2 40 (22.60%) Azure
3 24 (13.56%) Serverless
4 20 (11.30%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (10.17%) Amazon S3
5 18 (10.17%) GitHub
6 15 (8.47%) Anthropic Claude
7 12 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (6.21%) SaaS
9 9 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.52%) GCP
10 8 (4.52%) Snowflake
11 7 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.39%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (3.39%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.82%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.65%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.95%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.82%) MySQL
7 4 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.69%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.69%) Spatial Data
9 2 (1.13%) GIS
9 2 (1.13%) Redis
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Git
2 10 (5.65%) JUnit
3 7 (3.95%) Maven
3 7 (3.95%) Mockito
4 6 (3.39%) Claude Code
4 6 (3.39%) JIRA
5 3 (1.69%) NUnit
5 3 (1.69%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.69%) Selenium
6 2 (1.13%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.13%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.13%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.13%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.13%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.56%) Moq
General
1 19 (10.73%) Public Sector
2 16 (9.04%) Finance
3 8 (4.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.13%) Banking
5 2 (1.13%) Billing
5 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.56%) Back Office
6 1 (0.56%) Front Office
6 1 (0.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (24.29%) React
2 31 (17.51%) .NET
3 24 (13.56%) Node.js
4 23 (12.99%) AngularJS
4 23 (12.99%) REST
5 15 (8.47%) HTML
5 15 (8.47%) Spring
6 13 (7.34%) CSS
7 12 (6.78%) RESTful
7 12 (6.78%) Terraform
7 12 (6.78%) Vue
8 10 (5.65%) ASP.NET
9 9 (5.08%) .NET Framework
9 9 (5.08%) NestJS
10 8 (4.52%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (4.52%) Entity Framework
10 8 (4.52%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.95%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (3.95%) OAuth2
11 7 (3.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.39%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.26%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.13%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.95%) Linux
2 3 (1.69%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 43 (24.29%) CI/CD
3 31 (17.51%) AI
4 26 (14.69%) Agile
4 26 (14.69%) Microservices
4 26 (14.69%) Software Engineering
5 24 (13.56%) Mentoring
6 21 (11.86%) DevOps
7 17 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (9.04%) TDD
9 13 (7.34%) LLM
9 13 (7.34%) Roadmaps
9 13 (7.34%) Scrum
10 12 (6.78%) Front End Development
10 12 (6.78%) Observability
11 11 (6.21%) Event-Driven
11 11 (6.21%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (5.65%) Containerisation
12 10 (5.65%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (5.08%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 38 (21.47%) Kotlin
2 32 (18.08%) C#
2 32 (18.08%) TypeScript
3 30 (16.95%) Java
4 29 (16.38%) Python
5 27 (15.25%) JavaScript
6 17 (9.60%) SQL
7 7 (3.95%) Bash
7 7 (3.95%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.39%) Bicep
8 6 (3.39%) PHP
9 4 (2.26%) Ruby
10 2 (1.13%) Rust
11 1 (0.56%) C
11 1 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.52%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.69%) Degree
6 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.69%) WCAG
2 2 (1.13%) GRC
2 2 (1.13%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (15.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (12.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.56%) Grafana
2 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (9.60%) Oracle
2 14 (7.91%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.95%) OutSystems
3 7 (3.95%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.69%) OneLogin
5 2 (1.13%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.56%) Databricks
6 1 (0.56%) Google
6 1 (0.56%) OpenAI