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 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 563 568
Rank change year-on-year +32 +5 -162
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 188 91 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.21% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.24% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 166 71 295
10th Percentile £55,000 £49,250 £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 £80,188 £71,250 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £95,000
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 83,425 37,731 90,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 89.01% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 53,614 23,379 66,680
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,860 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +45 172 £70,000 +16.67% 17
UK excluding London +6 144 £70,000 +21.74% 13
North of England -29 46 £70,000 +27.27% 6
South East -14 36 £68,750 +10.00% 3
London +11 33 £84,000 +31.25% 7
Work from Home -7 33 £62,500 +4.17% 8
Midlands -24 32 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Yorkshire -39 27 £75,000 +25.00% 2
North West -18 18 £70,000 +27.27% 2
East Midlands -30 18 £62,500 +13.64%
East of England -10 16 £100,000 +42.86% 2
West Midlands -29 14 £70,000 +16.67% 2
South West -45 9 £65,000 +18.18%
Wales -28 5 £52,500 - 1
North East -32 1 £67,500 +17.39% 2

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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.

1 188 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 75 (39.89%) React
3 59 (31.38%) AWS
3 59 (31.38%) JavaScript
4 43 (22.87%) Azure
5 42 (22.34%) TypeScript
6 40 (21.28%) Node.js
7 37 (19.68%) Python
8 32 (17.02%) .NET
8 32 (17.02%) Web Development
9 29 (15.43%) C#
10 28 (14.89%) AngularJS
10 28 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (14.36%) DevOps
12 24 (12.77%) PHP
12 24 (12.77%) SQL
13 23 (12.23%) CSS
13 23 (12.23%) HTML
14 20 (10.64%) CI/CD
14 20 (10.64%) Mentoring
15 18 (9.57%) Laravel
15 18 (9.57%) Security Cleared
15 18 (9.57%) Serverless
16 17 (9.04%) Microservices
16 17 (9.04%) REST
16 17 (9.04%) Vue
17 16 (8.51%) Agile
17 16 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
18 15 (7.98%) SC Cleared
19 14 (7.45%) AI

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 (2.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.06%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.38%) AWS
2 43 (22.87%) Azure
3 18 (9.57%) Serverless
4 16 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (7.45%) GCP
5 14 (7.45%) SaaS
6 13 (6.91%) Amazon S3
6 13 (6.91%) GitHub
7 6 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.66%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.13%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (2.13%) Apigee
9 4 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.06%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (1.06%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.06%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.91%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (4.26%) MySQL
3 5 (2.66%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.06%) ClickHouse
6 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (3.19%) Git
2 5 (2.66%) JUnit
2 5 (2.66%) Maven
2 5 (2.66%) 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 (11.17%) Finance
2 18 (9.57%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.19%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.13%) 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 (39.89%) React
2 40 (21.28%) Node.js
3 32 (17.02%) .NET
4 28 (14.89%) AngularJS
5 23 (12.23%) CSS
5 23 (12.23%) HTML
6 18 (9.57%) Laravel
7 17 (9.04%) REST
7 17 (9.04%) Vue
8 7 (3.72%) Django
8 7 (3.72%) HTML5
9 6 (3.19%) .NET Framework
9 6 (3.19%) Bootstrap
9 6 (3.19%) CSS3
9 6 (3.19%) Ruby on Rails
9 6 (3.19%) Spring
9 6 (3.19%) Symfony
10 5 (2.66%) hapi
10 5 (2.66%) HTML5 Boilerplate
10 5 (2.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.26%) Cloud Native
1 8 (4.26%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.13%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.13%) NHS
2 4 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.06%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.53%) PropTech
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.66%) Linux
2 4 (2.13%) Android
2 4 (2.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (17.02%) Web Development
3 28 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (14.36%) DevOps
5 20 (10.64%) CI/CD
5 20 (10.64%) Mentoring
6 17 (9.04%) Microservices
7 16 (8.51%) Agile
8 14 (7.45%) AI
8 14 (7.45%) API Development
9 12 (6.38%) Computer Science
10 11 (5.85%) Containerisation
10 11 (5.85%) Software Engineering
10 11 (5.85%) TDD
11 10 (5.32%) Sprint Planning
11 10 (5.32%) Test Automation
12 8 (4.26%) Event-Driven
13 7 (3.72%) Code Quality
13 7 (3.72%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (3.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 59 (31.38%) JavaScript
2 42 (22.34%) TypeScript
3 37 (19.68%) Python
4 29 (15.43%) C#
5 24 (12.77%) PHP
5 24 (12.77%) SQL
6 14 (7.45%) Java
7 7 (3.72%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.19%) Ruby
9 5 (2.66%) C
10 4 (2.13%) Bash
10 4 (2.13%) R
11 2 (1.06%) Bicep
12 1 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.98%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.26%) Degree
4 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.19%) QA
2 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.53%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (7.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.06%) Terraform
3 1 (0.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (3.72%) Oracle
2 3 (1.60%) 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