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 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 577 520
Rank change year-on-year -9 -57 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 172 94 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.23% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 153 70 348
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £71,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,475 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -8.77%

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 89,296 40,583 101,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.54% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61,271 23,147 73,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +7 158 £70,000 +12.00% 13
UK excluding London -11 135 £70,000 +16.67% 9
North of England +8 53 £70,000 +21.74%
Work from Home -13 39 £70,000 +7.69% 7
Midlands -12 29 £65,000 +8.33% 7
London -24 29 £84,000 +29.23% 5
Yorkshire -5 27 £75,000 +7.14%
South East -32 27 £62,500 +4.17% 2
North West +16 23 £70,000 +27.27%
West Midlands -19 17 £70,000 +14.29% 3
East of England -4 12 £100,000 +42.86%
East Midlands -20 12 £55,000 - 4
South West -55 9 £65,000 +8.33%
Wales -46 5 £55,000 -8.33%
North East -45 3 £52,000 -11.49%

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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.

1 172 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 67 (38.95%) AWS
3 65 (37.79%) React
4 55 (31.98%) JavaScript
5 45 (26.16%) TypeScript
6 42 (24.42%) Node.js
7 40 (23.26%) Python
8 39 (22.67%) Azure
9 32 (18.60%) DevOps
10 28 (16.28%) AngularJS
11 26 (15.12%) .NET
11 26 (15.12%) C#
12 25 (14.53%) Serverless
13 24 (13.95%) Mentoring
14 23 (13.37%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (13.37%) CI/CD
15 22 (12.79%) HTML
15 22 (12.79%) Security Cleared
16 21 (12.21%) CSS
16 21 (12.21%) Java
17 20 (11.63%) Vue
18 19 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
19 18 (10.47%) Agile
19 18 (10.47%) Amazon S3
19 18 (10.47%) PHP
19 18 (10.47%) SC Cleared
19 18 (10.47%) Web Development
20 17 (9.88%) AI
20 17 (9.88%) SQL
21 16 (9.30%) Docker

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 5 (2.91%) Confluence
1 5 (2.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) CMS
3 1 (0.58%) ColdFusion
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (38.95%) AWS
2 39 (22.67%) Azure
3 25 (14.53%) Serverless
4 23 (13.37%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (10.47%) Amazon S3
6 14 (8.14%) GCP
7 13 (7.56%) GitHub
8 12 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (4.65%) SaaS
10 7 (4.07%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (2.91%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (2.33%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (2.33%) Apigee
13 3 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (1.16%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.23%) NoSQL
1 9 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (4.07%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.49%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.91%) MySQL
5 4 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.74%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.74%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.74%) Spatial Data
7 2 (1.16%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.16%) GIS
8 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.07%) JUnit
2 5 (2.91%) Git
2 5 (2.91%) JIRA
2 5 (2.91%) Maven
2 5 (2.91%) Mockito
3 3 (1.74%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.16%) GitLab
4 2 (1.16%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (1.16%) Selenium
4 2 (1.16%) YouTrack
5 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
General
1 18 (10.47%) Finance
2 15 (8.72%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.07%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.33%) Law
6 2 (1.16%) Aviation
6 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.16%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.16%) Legal
6 2 (1.16%) Legal Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Back Office
7 1 (0.58%) Banking
7 1 (0.58%) Marketing
7 1 (0.58%) Retail
7 1 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (37.79%) React
2 42 (24.42%) Node.js
3 28 (16.28%) AngularJS
4 26 (15.12%) .NET
5 22 (12.79%) HTML
6 21 (12.21%) CSS
7 20 (11.63%) Vue
8 15 (8.72%) Laravel
9 10 (5.81%) REST
10 9 (5.23%) Spring
11 8 (4.65%) CSS3
11 8 (4.65%) Flask
11 8 (4.65%) HTML5
11 8 (4.65%) NestJS
11 8 (4.65%) Ruby on Rails
12 7 (4.07%) .NET Core
12 7 (4.07%) Spring Boot
13 6 (3.49%) ASP.NET
13 6 (3.49%) Next.js
13 6 (3.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.49%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.33%) NHS
5 3 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.16%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.58%) PropTech
7 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.49%) Linux
2 2 (1.16%) AIX
2 2 (1.16%) Android
2 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (18.60%) DevOps
3 24 (13.95%) Mentoring
4 23 (13.37%) CI/CD
5 19 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (10.47%) Agile
6 18 (10.47%) Web Development
7 17 (9.88%) AI
8 16 (9.30%) Microservices
9 13 (7.56%) Software Engineering
9 13 (7.56%) TDD
9 13 (7.56%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (6.98%) Computer Science
11 11 (6.40%) Event-Driven
11 11 (6.40%) Sprint Planning
12 10 (5.81%) Containerisation
13 8 (4.65%) API Development
13 8 (4.65%) Code Quality
13 8 (4.65%) Front End Development
14 7 (4.07%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 55 (31.98%) JavaScript
2 45 (26.16%) TypeScript
3 40 (23.26%) Python
4 26 (15.12%) C#
5 21 (12.21%) Java
6 18 (10.47%) PHP
7 17 (9.88%) SQL
8 8 (4.65%) Ruby
9 6 (3.49%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.91%) Bash
11 4 (2.33%) C
12 3 (1.74%) R
13 2 (1.16%) Bicep
14 1 (0.58%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.47%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.23%) Degree
4 7 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.74%) QA
2 2 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (9.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.07%) Terraform
3 1 (0.58%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (4.65%) Oracle
2 2 (1.16%) Aderant
2 2 (1.16%) iManage
2 2 (1.16%) Intapp
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.16%) OneLogin
2 2 (1.16%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.58%) WooCommerce