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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 565 563
Rank change year-on-year +29 -2 -159
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 189 92 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.22% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.24% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 167 72 295
10th Percentile £54,500 £49,575 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,125 £70,625 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £96,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% -12.28%

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 83,558 37,679 90,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 89.07% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 53,734 23,343 66,736
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,625 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,800 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% +12.83% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +27 173 £70,000 +16.67% 18
UK excluding London +15 145 £70,000 +21.74% 13
North of England -23 47 £70,000 +27.27% 6
South East -12 36 £68,750 +10.00% 3
London -10 33 £84,000 +31.25% 7
Work from Home -13 33 £62,500 +4.17% 9
Midlands -28 32 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Yorkshire -35 27 £75,000 +25.00% 2
North West -12 18 £70,000 +27.27% 2
East Midlands -28 18 £62,500 +13.64%
East of England -9 16 £100,000 +42.86% 2
West Midlands -36 14 £70,000 +16.67% 2
South West -50 9 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Wales -27 5 £52,500 -
North East -36 2 £59,750 +1.70% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 189 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 75 (39.68%) React
3 60 (31.75%) AWS
3 60 (31.75%) JavaScript
4 44 (23.28%) Azure
5 42 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 41 (21.69%) Node.js
7 38 (20.11%) Python
8 33 (17.46%) .NET
9 32 (16.93%) Web Development
10 29 (15.34%) C#
11 28 (14.81%) AngularJS
11 28 (14.81%) DevOps
11 28 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (12.70%) CSS
12 24 (12.70%) HTML
12 24 (12.70%) PHP
12 24 (12.70%) SQL
13 21 (11.11%) CI/CD
13 21 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 18 (9.52%) Laravel
14 18 (9.52%) Security Cleared
14 18 (9.52%) Serverless
15 17 (8.99%) Microservices
15 17 (8.99%) REST
15 17 (8.99%) Vue
16 16 (8.47%) Agile
16 16 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
17 15 (7.94%) Docker
17 15 (7.94%) SC Cleared

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 4 (2.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.06%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (31.75%) AWS
2 44 (23.28%) Azure
3 18 (9.52%) Serverless
4 16 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (7.41%) GCP
5 14 (7.41%) SaaS
6 13 (6.88%) Amazon S3
6 13 (6.88%) GitHub
7 7 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.12%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (2.12%) Apigee
9 4 (2.12%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.59%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.06%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (1.06%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.88%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (4.23%) MySQL
3 5 (2.65%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.12%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.06%) ClickHouse
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.53%) GIS
6 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (3.70%) Git
2 5 (2.65%) JUnit
2 5 (2.65%) Maven
2 5 (2.65%) Mockito
3 2 (1.06%) GitLab
3 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.53%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.53%) git-flow
4 1 (0.53%) Moq
General
1 21 (11.11%) Finance
2 19 (10.05%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.17%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.12%) Law
6 2 (1.06%) Aviation
6 2 (1.06%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.06%) Legal
6 2 (1.06%) Retail
7 1 (0.53%) Back Office
7 1 (0.53%) Marketing
7 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (39.68%) React
2 41 (21.69%) Node.js
3 33 (17.46%) .NET
4 28 (14.81%) AngularJS
5 24 (12.70%) CSS
5 24 (12.70%) HTML
6 18 (9.52%) Laravel
7 17 (8.99%) REST
7 17 (8.99%) Vue
8 7 (3.70%) Django
8 7 (3.70%) HTML5
9 6 (3.17%) .NET Core
9 6 (3.17%) .NET Framework
9 6 (3.17%) Bootstrap
9 6 (3.17%) CSS3
9 6 (3.17%) Flask
9 6 (3.17%) Ruby on Rails
9 6 (3.17%) Spring
9 6 (3.17%) Symfony
10 5 (2.65%) HTML5 Boilerplate
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.23%) Cloud Native
1 8 (4.23%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.12%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.12%) NHS
2 4 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.06%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.53%) PropTech
5 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.53%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.65%) Linux
2 4 (2.12%) Android
2 4 (2.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (16.93%) Web Development
3 28 (14.81%) DevOps
3 28 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 21 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 17 (8.99%) Microservices
6 16 (8.47%) Agile
7 14 (7.41%) AI
7 14 (7.41%) API Development
8 13 (6.88%) Computer Science
9 11 (5.82%) Containerisation
9 11 (5.82%) Software Engineering
9 11 (5.82%) TDD
10 10 (5.29%) Sprint Planning
10 10 (5.29%) Test Automation
11 8 (4.23%) Event-Driven
12 7 (3.70%) Code Quality
12 7 (3.70%) SDLC
12 7 (3.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 60 (31.75%) JavaScript
2 42 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 38 (20.11%) Python
4 29 (15.34%) C#
5 24 (12.70%) PHP
5 24 (12.70%) SQL
6 14 (7.41%) Java
7 7 (3.70%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.17%) Ruby
9 5 (2.65%) C
10 4 (2.12%) Bash
10 4 (2.12%) R
11 2 (1.06%) Bicep
12 1 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.76%) Degree
4 8 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.17%) QA
2 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.53%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (7.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.06%) Terraform
3 1 (0.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (3.70%) Oracle
2 3 (1.59%) WooCommerce
3 2 (1.06%) Aderant
3 2 (1.06%) iManage
3 2 (1.06%) Intapp
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.06%) OpenAI