Senior Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 570 534 561
Rank change year-on-year -36 +27 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 105 262 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.35% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 67 187 206
10th Percentile - £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £98,750 £91,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -7.69% -5.45% +14.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,309 74,419 56,988
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.24% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26,050 44,613 44,179
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Full-Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Full-Stack Developer 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 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Top 14 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 19 September 2025. 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 -16 88 £65,000 -7.14% 31
UK excluding London +37 76 £60,000 -7.69% 21
South East +55 43 £57,500 -8.00% 8
Work from Home +45 42 £70,000 +16.67% 32
London -2 26 £75,000 -14.29% 21
Wales +9 10 £60,000 +14.29%
West Midlands +37 9 £63,750 +2.00%
Midlands +23 9 £63,750 +2.00%
North of England +12 5 £70,000 +3.70% 7
South West +61 4 £61,250 -5.77% 3
Scotland +44 4 - - 1
North West -3 3 £70,000 - 5
North East +18 2 £68,000 +23.64% 1
East of England -15 1 £70,000 -17.65% 1

Senior Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Senior Full-Stack Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Full-Stack Developer in the job title.

1 105 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 73 (69.52%) React
3 69 (65.71%) AWS
4 58 (55.24%) JavaScript
5 55 (52.38%) HTML
6 54 (51.43%) RESTful
7 51 (48.57%) Node.js
8 48 (45.71%) C#
9 47 (44.76%) Agile
9 47 (44.76%) User Experience
10 46 (43.81%) .NET
11 42 (40.00%) CSS
11 42 (40.00%) TypeScript
12 41 (39.05%) ASP.NET
13 40 (38.10%) SQL
13 40 (38.10%) Web Development
14 38 (36.19%) AngularJS
15 37 (35.24%) CI/CD
16 36 (34.29%) Git
17 35 (33.33%) Social Skills
18 34 (32.38%) Problem-Solving
18 34 (32.38%) SQL Server
19 33 (31.43%) MVC
20 31 (29.52%) Azure
21 30 (28.57%) UX Design
22 25 (23.81%) GCP
23 24 (22.86%) DevOps
24 23 (21.90%) Test Automation
25 21 (20.00%) Docker
25 21 (20.00%) Kubernetes

Senior Full-Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (9.52%) IIS
2 8 (7.62%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.90%) CMS
4 1 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.95%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) nginx
4 1 (0.95%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.95%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Shopify
2 1 (0.95%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 69 (65.71%) AWS
2 31 (29.52%) Azure
3 25 (23.81%) GCP
4 14 (13.33%) Serverless
5 11 (10.48%) GitHub
6 10 (9.52%) Cloudflare
7 9 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (8.57%) Figma
8 8 (7.62%) Amazon S3
8 8 (7.62%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (7.62%) Google Analytics
8 8 (7.62%) Vercel
9 5 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (4.76%) SaaS
10 2 (1.90%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.95%) npm
11 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.95%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) Internet
1 1 (0.95%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (32.38%) SQL Server
2 17 (16.19%) MySQL
3 11 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (8.57%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.71%) Redis
7 5 (4.76%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.95%) Power BI
8 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (34.29%) Git
2 10 (9.52%) Jasmine
2 10 (9.52%) NUnit
2 10 (9.52%) TeamCity
3 9 (8.57%) Cypress.io
4 7 (6.67%) JIRA
5 5 (4.76%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.90%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.95%) GitLab
7 1 (0.95%) JMeter
7 1 (0.95%) JUnit
7 1 (0.95%) Mockito
7 1 (0.95%) PhpStorm
7 1 (0.95%) Postman
7 1 (0.95%) Vite
General
1 35 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.14%) Law
3 14 (13.33%) Marketing
4 7 (6.67%) Finance
5 6 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.76%) Games
7 4 (3.81%) Banking
7 4 (3.81%) Private Banking
8 3 (2.86%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.95%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.95%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (69.52%) React
2 55 (52.38%) HTML
3 54 (51.43%) RESTful
4 51 (48.57%) Node.js
5 46 (43.81%) .NET
6 42 (40.00%) CSS
7 41 (39.05%) ASP.NET
8 38 (36.19%) AngularJS
9 20 (19.05%) Vue
10 18 (17.14%) Jest
11 17 (16.19%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (13.33%) CSS3
12 14 (13.33%) GraphQL
12 14 (13.33%) HTML5
13 11 (10.48%) Express.js
14 10 (9.52%) Next.js
15 8 (7.62%) Blazor
15 8 (7.62%) Playwright
15 8 (7.62%) Tailwind CSS
15 8 (7.62%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.62%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.76%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.81%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (3.81%) Online Games
6 2 (1.90%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.95%) IoT
7 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.95%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.95%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.95%) Android
1 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 47 (44.76%) Agile
2 47 (44.76%) User Experience
3 40 (38.10%) Web Development
4 37 (35.24%) CI/CD
5 34 (32.38%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (31.43%) MVC
7 30 (28.57%) UX Design
8 24 (22.86%) DevOps
9 23 (21.90%) Test Automation
10 20 (19.05%) Mentoring
11 17 (16.19%) Containerisation
12 15 (14.29%) Design Patterns
13 14 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
14 11 (10.48%) Analytics
14 11 (10.48%) Sprint Planning
15 10 (9.52%) E-Commerce
15 10 (9.52%) Mobile First
16 9 (8.57%) Unit Testing
17 8 (7.62%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 58 (55.24%) JavaScript
2 48 (45.71%) C#
3 42 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 40 (38.10%) SQL
5 7 (6.67%) Java
6 6 (5.71%) Python
7 5 (4.76%) PHP
8 2 (1.90%) C++
9 1 (0.95%) C
9 1 (0.95%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.95%) Rust
9 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (1.90%) Degree
1 2 (1.90%) SC Cleared
1 2 (1.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.05%) QA
2 12 (11.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) Kibana
3 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) Rollbar
3 8 (7.62%) Apple
4 1 (0.95%) Adobe
4 1 (0.95%) Databricks
4 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.95%) Google
4 1 (0.95%) Splunk
4 1 (0.95%) Xamarin