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 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 612 517
Rank change year-on-year +76 -95 +103
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 109 116 187
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.22% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 70 71 172
10th Percentile £53,750 £49,140 £52,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £63,438
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 £80,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,625 £98,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 53,587 52,523 46,843
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 93.50% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 33,039 28,023 36,198
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,458 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +1.94% -1.90%

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 24 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 24 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 +76 94 £70,000 +16.67% 57
UK excluding London +63 74 £67,500 +12.50% 41
South East +56 40 £67,500 +8.00% 19
Work from Home +61 35 £75,000 +25.00% 26
London +36 28 £75,000 -11.76% 23
Midlands +18 14 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Wales -1 9 £60,000 -20.00% 1
East Midlands -6 8 £66,250 -5.36% 3
West Midlands +36 6 £70,000 +16.67% 1
North of England +22 6 £75,500 +37.27% 6
East of England - 4 £100,000 - 7
Yorkshire 0 3 £80,000 +39.13% 6
North West +31 2 £72,500 +45.00%
North East +7 1 £76,000 +38.18%
South West +2 1 £60,000 +4.35% 4

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 109 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 73 (66.97%) React
3 63 (57.80%) AWS
4 54 (49.54%) JavaScript
5 46 (42.20%) Azure
6 42 (38.53%) HTML
6 42 (38.53%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (36.70%) Node.js
8 39 (35.78%) Agile
9 38 (34.86%) CSS
9 38 (34.86%) User Experience
10 37 (33.94%) .NET
10 37 (33.94%) Web Development
11 35 (32.11%) C#
11 35 (32.11%) TypeScript
12 34 (31.19%) CI/CD
13 32 (29.36%) DevOps
13 32 (29.36%) GCP
13 32 (29.36%) SQL
13 32 (29.36%) UX Design
14 31 (28.44%) RESTful
15 27 (24.77%) Git
16 25 (22.94%) Test Automation
17 23 (21.10%) Docker
18 22 (20.18%) QA
19 18 (16.51%) AngularJS
19 18 (16.51%) Containerisation
19 18 (16.51%) Kubernetes
19 18 (16.51%) NoSQL
20 17 (15.60%) ASP.NET

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 (7.34%) Headless CMS
2 2 (1.83%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (57.80%) AWS
2 46 (42.20%) Azure
3 32 (29.36%) GCP
4 17 (15.60%) Serverless
5 16 (14.68%) GitHub
6 14 (12.84%) Amazon S3
6 14 (12.84%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (11.93%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (10.09%) SaaS
9 9 (8.26%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (7.34%) Figma
10 8 (7.34%) Google Analytics
10 8 (7.34%) Vercel
11 6 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.83%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
14 1 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
14 1 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
14 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.51%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.01%) MySQL
3 9 (8.26%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.59%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.83%) Redis
6 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (24.77%) Git
2 8 (7.34%) Cypress.io
3 5 (4.59%) git-flow
4 4 (3.67%) JUnit
4 4 (3.67%) Mockito
5 3 (2.75%) JIRA
5 3 (2.75%) Maven
6 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.92%) JMeter
6 1 (0.92%) Moq
General
1 37 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.84%) Law
2 14 (12.84%) Marketing
3 9 (8.26%) Finance
4 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.75%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.75%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.83%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (66.97%) React
2 42 (38.53%) HTML
3 40 (36.70%) Node.js
4 38 (34.86%) CSS
5 37 (33.94%) .NET
6 31 (28.44%) RESTful
7 18 (16.51%) AngularJS
8 17 (15.60%) ASP.NET
9 15 (13.76%) REST
10 10 (9.17%) Django
10 10 (9.17%) Express.js
10 10 (9.17%) GraphQL
11 9 (8.26%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (7.34%) Jest
12 8 (7.34%) Next.js
12 8 (7.34%) Playwright
12 8 (7.34%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (7.34%) Vitest
12 8 (7.34%) Vue
13 7 (6.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.50%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.67%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.75%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.83%) Android
1 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 42 (38.53%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (35.78%) Agile
4 38 (34.86%) User Experience
5 37 (33.94%) Web Development
6 34 (31.19%) CI/CD
7 32 (29.36%) DevOps
7 32 (29.36%) UX Design
8 25 (22.94%) Test Automation
9 18 (16.51%) Containerisation
10 16 (14.68%) Design Patterns
11 15 (13.76%) Microservices
11 15 (13.76%) Sprint Planning
12 14 (12.84%) Customer Engagement
12 14 (12.84%) Mentoring
13 10 (9.17%) Analytics
13 10 (9.17%) Clean Code
13 10 (9.17%) ERP
13 10 (9.17%) Unit Testing
14 9 (8.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (49.54%) JavaScript
2 35 (32.11%) C#
2 35 (32.11%) TypeScript
3 32 (29.36%) SQL
4 12 (11.01%) Python
5 5 (4.59%) PHP
5 5 (4.59%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.67%) Java
7 1 (0.92%) Bash
7 1 (0.92%) C
7 1 (0.92%) R
7 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (3.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.18%) QA
2 12 (11.01%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.92%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (21.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (16.51%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.83%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (7.34%) Apple
2 5 (4.59%) Oracle
3 2 (1.83%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.92%) Splunk