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 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 605 514
Rank change year-on-year +56 -91 +113
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 102 119 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.21% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 64 74 177
10th Percentile £53,750 £49,140 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -13.79% +3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,938 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,875 £98,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

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 52,799 53,782 46,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 93.79% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,457 29,075 36,182
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 December 2025.

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 16 December 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 +71 87 £70,000 +14.29% 39
UK excluding London +52 67 £62,500 +4.17% 33
Work from Home +56 36 £75,000 +25.00% 18
South East +53 35 £57,500 -8.00% 14
London +33 28 £75,000 -11.76% 13
Midlands +19 12 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Wales -1 9 £60,000 -20.00% 1
East Midlands -2 7 £70,000 - 3
West Midlands +19 5 £70,000 +16.67%
North of England +19 5 £75,000 +36.36% 5
East of England - 4 £100,000 - 8
North West +22 3 £70,000 +40.00%
South West +8 2 £56,250 -2.17% 2
North East +3 1 £76,000 +38.18%
Yorkshire -11 1 £80,000 +33.33% 5

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, 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.

1 102 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 71 (69.61%) React
3 63 (61.76%) AWS
4 54 (52.94%) JavaScript
5 45 (44.12%) Azure
6 43 (42.16%) HTML
7 41 (40.20%) Node.js
8 40 (39.22%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (39.22%) User Experience
9 39 (38.24%) Agile
10 38 (37.25%) CSS
10 38 (37.25%) Web Development
11 36 (35.29%) C#
11 36 (35.29%) TypeScript
12 35 (34.31%) .NET
13 34 (33.33%) CI/CD
14 33 (32.35%) SQL
14 33 (32.35%) UX Design
15 32 (31.37%) DevOps
15 32 (31.37%) GCP
15 32 (31.37%) RESTful
16 28 (27.45%) Git
17 23 (22.55%) Test Automation
18 22 (21.57%) Docker
19 21 (20.59%) QA
20 20 (19.61%) ASP.NET
21 18 (17.65%) NoSQL
22 17 (16.67%) Containerisation
22 17 (16.67%) Kubernetes
22 17 (16.67%) Serverless

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 8 (7.84%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.96%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.98%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 9 (8.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (61.76%) AWS
2 45 (44.12%) Azure
3 32 (31.37%) GCP
4 17 (16.67%) Serverless
5 16 (15.69%) GitHub
6 13 (12.75%) Amazon S3
6 13 (12.75%) Amazon SQS
6 13 (12.75%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (9.80%) SaaS
8 9 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (7.84%) Figma
9 8 (7.84%) Google Analytics
9 8 (7.84%) Vercel
10 7 (6.86%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
13 1 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.98%) Amazon EventBridge
13 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.78%) MySQL
2 11 (10.78%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.90%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.94%) Redis
5 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (27.45%) Git
2 8 (7.84%) Cypress.io
3 5 (4.90%) git-flow
4 4 (3.92%) JIRA
5 3 (2.94%) JUnit
5 3 (2.94%) Mockito
6 2 (1.96%) Maven
7 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.98%) JMeter
7 1 (0.98%) Moq
General
1 36 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.73%) Law
2 14 (13.73%) Marketing
3 5 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.94%) Finance
4 3 (2.94%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.94%) Tech for Good
5 2 (1.96%) Retail
6 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (69.61%) React
2 43 (42.16%) HTML
3 41 (40.20%) Node.js
4 38 (37.25%) CSS
5 35 (34.31%) .NET
6 32 (31.37%) RESTful
7 20 (19.61%) ASP.NET
8 16 (15.69%) AngularJS
9 15 (14.71%) REST
10 12 (11.76%) GraphQL
11 10 (9.80%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (9.80%) Django
11 10 (9.80%) Express.js
12 9 (8.82%) Next.js
13 8 (7.84%) Jest
13 8 (7.84%) Playwright
13 8 (7.84%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (7.84%) Vitest
14 7 (6.86%) Symfony
14 7 (6.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.80%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.94%) Legacy Code
3 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.98%) IoT
4 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.98%) Android
1 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 40 (39.22%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (39.22%) User Experience
3 39 (38.24%) Agile
4 38 (37.25%) Web Development
5 34 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 33 (32.35%) UX Design
7 32 (31.37%) DevOps
8 23 (22.55%) Test Automation
9 17 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 16 (15.69%) Mentoring
11 15 (14.71%) Design Patterns
12 14 (13.73%) Customer Engagement
13 13 (12.75%) Sprint Planning
14 10 (9.80%) Analytics
14 10 (9.80%) ERP
14 10 (9.80%) Microservices
15 9 (8.82%) E-Commerce
15 9 (8.82%) MVC
15 9 (8.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (52.94%) JavaScript
2 36 (35.29%) C#
2 36 (35.29%) TypeScript
3 33 (32.35%) SQL
4 11 (10.78%) Python
5 4 (3.92%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.94%) Java
6 3 (2.94%) PHP
7 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (2.94%) SC Cleared
1 3 (2.94%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.59%) QA
2 12 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.98%) HL7
System Software
1 22 (21.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.96%) Terraform
3 1 (0.98%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (7.84%) Apple
2 4 (3.92%) Oracle
3 1 (0.98%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.98%) Splunk
3 1 (0.98%) WooCommerce