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 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 590 529
Rank change year-on-year +44 -61 +125
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 103 121 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.24% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 78 74 170
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,140 £51,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,875 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +4.17%

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 54,710 49,797 52,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 92.91% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,899 25,819 40,678
10th Percentile £28,560 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,325
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.18%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +47 89 £75,000 +25.00% 59
UK excluding London +27 66 £70,000 +16.67% 56
Work from Home +32 28 £75,000 +25.00% 17
South East +35 26 £68,750 +10.00% 18
London +51 25 £75,000 +1.69% 8
Midlands +20 20 £62,500 +4.17% 8
East Midlands -10 11 £62,500 -10.71% 7
North of England +17 9 £80,000 +45.45% 13
West Midlands +17 9 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Yorkshire -6 7 £80,000 +39.13% 8
East of England +31 6 £100,000 - 7
Wales -2 3 £50,000 -33.33% 2
South West -13 2 £62,500 +13.64% 6
North West +22 1 £75,000 +50.00% 4
North East +11 1 £76,000 +38.18% 1

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

For the 6 months to 15 January 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.

1 103 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 57 (55.34%) React
3 43 (41.75%) AWS
4 35 (33.98%) .NET
4 35 (33.98%) Azure
5 33 (32.04%) JavaScript
6 28 (27.18%) C#
6 28 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (26.21%) TypeScript
8 26 (25.24%) SQL
9 21 (20.39%) Microservices
9 21 (20.39%) Web Development
10 20 (19.42%) CI/CD
11 19 (18.45%) Agile
12 18 (17.48%) AngularJS
12 18 (17.48%) CSS
12 18 (17.48%) HTML
12 18 (17.48%) Node.js
12 18 (17.48%) Python
13 17 (16.50%) DevOps
13 17 (16.50%) GCP
13 17 (16.50%) GitHub
13 17 (16.50%) REST
14 14 (13.59%) Docker
15 13 (12.62%) AI
15 13 (12.62%) SaaS
16 11 (10.68%) Django
16 11 (10.68%) QA
16 11 (10.68%) Scrum
16 11 (10.68%) 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 4 (3.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.94%) ColdFusion
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (41.75%) AWS
2 35 (33.98%) Azure
3 17 (16.50%) GCP
3 17 (16.50%) GitHub
4 13 (12.62%) SaaS
5 11 (10.68%) Serverless
6 9 (8.74%) Amazon S3
6 9 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.83%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.94%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.71%) MySQL
1 10 (9.71%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.85%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.94%) Redis
7 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.74%) Git
2 6 (5.83%) JUnit
2 6 (5.83%) Maven
2 6 (5.83%) Mockito
3 5 (4.85%) git-flow
4 3 (2.91%) JIRA
5 1 (0.97%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.97%) Moq
General
1 18 (17.48%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.50%) Finance
3 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.91%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.94%) Retail
7 1 (0.97%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (55.34%) React
2 35 (33.98%) .NET
3 18 (17.48%) AngularJS
3 18 (17.48%) CSS
3 18 (17.48%) HTML
3 18 (17.48%) Node.js
4 17 (16.50%) REST
5 11 (10.68%) Django
6 10 (9.71%) ASP.NET
7 7 (6.80%) ASP.NET Core
7 7 (6.80%) FastAPI
7 7 (6.80%) Flask
8 6 (5.83%) .NET Framework
8 6 (5.83%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (5.83%) Symfony
8 6 (5.83%) Vue
9 5 (4.85%) AWS CDK
9 5 (4.85%) Kafka
9 5 (4.85%) Material-UI
9 5 (4.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.77%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.85%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.88%) Android
1 4 (3.88%) Apple iOS
1 4 (3.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 28 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (20.39%) Microservices
3 21 (20.39%) Web Development
4 20 (19.42%) CI/CD
5 19 (18.45%) Agile
6 17 (16.50%) DevOps
7 13 (12.62%) AI
8 11 (10.68%) Scrum
8 11 (10.68%) TDD
8 11 (10.68%) User Experience
9 10 (9.71%) API Development
9 10 (9.71%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (9.71%) Sprint Planning
10 9 (8.74%) Containerisation
10 9 (8.74%) Mentoring
11 8 (7.77%) Clean Code
11 8 (7.77%) Computer Science
11 8 (7.77%) UX Design
12 7 (6.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 33 (32.04%) JavaScript
2 28 (27.18%) C#
3 27 (26.21%) TypeScript
4 26 (25.24%) SQL
5 18 (17.48%) Python
6 9 (8.74%) PHP
7 8 (7.77%) PL/SQL
8 6 (5.83%) Java
9 4 (3.88%) Bash
9 4 (3.88%) C
9 4 (3.88%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (7.77%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.80%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.88%) Degree
4 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.68%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.97%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (13.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.91%) Terraform
3 1 (0.97%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (7.77%) Oracle
2 3 (2.91%) WooCommerce