Senior Full-Stack Developer Job Trends

Senior Full-Stack Developer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Developer salary in the UK is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 578 519
Rank change year-on-year +39 -59 +116
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 110 184 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.28% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.29% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 70 123 190
10th Percentile £53,750 £49,140 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £98,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £68,375 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.25% +5.19% +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 48,849 62,485 48,786
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.31% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 30,833 34,885 37,936
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -

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 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Full-Stack Developer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Developer
Top 16 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 29 November 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 +42 90 £70,000 - 26
UK excluding London +45 75 £60,000 -12.25% 22
Work from Home +75 44 £75,000 +25.00% 22
South East +64 37 £57,500 -8.00% 9
London +37 30 £75,000 -23.08% 10
Midlands +44 13 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Wales +7 13 £60,000 -2.04% 1
East Midlands +24 7 £70,000 - 2
West Midlands +47 6 £70,000 +16.67% 3
North of England +40 5 £75,000 +7.14% 2
North West +50 3 £70,000 -
South West +14 3 £60,000 - 1
Scotland 0 3 - -
East of England +32 1 £70,000 -17.65% 4
North East +14 1 £76,000 +38.18%
Yorkshire -3 1 £80,000 +14.29% 2

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 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.

1 110 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 78 (70.91%) React
3 71 (64.55%) AWS
4 62 (56.36%) JavaScript
5 51 (46.36%) HTML
6 47 (42.73%) Agile
7 46 (41.82%) Azure
8 45 (40.91%) Node.js
9 43 (39.09%) CSS
10 42 (38.18%) CI/CD
10 42 (38.18%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (38.18%) TypeScript
10 42 (38.18%) User Experience
11 40 (36.36%) C#
11 40 (36.36%) RESTful
12 39 (35.45%) .NET
13 38 (34.55%) Web Development
14 37 (33.64%) SQL
15 33 (30.00%) UX Design
16 32 (29.09%) DevOps
16 32 (29.09%) GCP
16 32 (29.09%) Git
17 26 (23.64%) ASP.NET
18 24 (21.82%) Docker
19 23 (20.91%) AngularJS
19 23 (20.91%) QA
20 22 (20.00%) Test Automation
21 21 (19.09%) Kubernetes
22 20 (18.18%) Mentoring
23 18 (16.36%) GitHub

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 (7.27%) Headless CMS
2 3 (2.73%) IIS
3 2 (1.82%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.91%) Confluence
4 1 (0.91%) nginx
Business Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Shopify
2 1 (0.91%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 71 (64.55%) AWS
2 46 (41.82%) Azure
3 32 (29.09%) GCP
4 18 (16.36%) GitHub
4 18 (16.36%) Serverless
5 13 (11.82%) Amazon S3
5 13 (11.82%) Amazon SQS
5 13 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (8.18%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (8.18%) Figma
6 9 (8.18%) SaaS
7 8 (7.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (7.27%) Google Analytics
7 8 (7.27%) Vercel
8 5 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.73%) Cloudflare
10 2 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.91%) npm
11 1 (0.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.45%) NoSQL
1 17 (15.45%) SQL Server
2 16 (14.55%) MySQL
3 9 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.55%) Redis
4 5 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.91%) Power BI
7 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (29.09%) Git
2 9 (8.18%) Cypress.io
3 5 (4.55%) git-flow
3 5 (4.55%) JIRA
4 4 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.73%) Jasmine
5 3 (2.73%) JUnit
5 3 (2.73%) Mockito
5 3 (2.73%) NUnit
5 3 (2.73%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.82%) Maven
6 2 (1.82%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.91%) JMeter
7 1 (0.91%) Moq
7 1 (0.91%) PhpStorm
7 1 (0.91%) Vite
General
1 38 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.45%) Law
3 14 (12.73%) Marketing
4 7 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.45%) Finance
6 4 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.73%) Banking
7 3 (2.73%) Games
7 3 (2.73%) Private Banking
7 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.73%) Retail
7 3 (2.73%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.91%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.91%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.91%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (70.91%) React
2 51 (46.36%) HTML
3 45 (40.91%) Node.js
4 43 (39.09%) CSS
5 40 (36.36%) RESTful
6 39 (35.45%) .NET
7 26 (23.64%) ASP.NET
8 23 (20.91%) AngularJS
9 16 (14.55%) REST
10 13 (11.82%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (11.82%) GraphQL
10 13 (11.82%) Vue
11 11 (10.00%) Express.js
11 11 (10.00%) Jest
12 10 (9.09%) Next.js
13 9 (8.18%) Django
14 8 (7.27%) HTML5
14 8 (7.27%) Kafka
14 8 (7.27%) Playwright
14 8 (7.27%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.18%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.18%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.55%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.73%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.73%) Online Games
5 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.91%) IoT
5 1 (0.91%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.91%) Smart City
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.91%) Android
1 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 47 (42.73%) Agile
3 42 (38.18%) CI/CD
3 42 (38.18%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (38.18%) User Experience
4 38 (34.55%) Web Development
5 33 (30.00%) UX Design
6 32 (29.09%) DevOps
7 22 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 20 (18.18%) Mentoring
9 17 (15.45%) Containerisation
10 16 (14.55%) Design Patterns
11 15 (13.64%) MVC
12 14 (12.73%) Customer Engagement
13 13 (11.82%) Microservices
13 13 (11.82%) Sprint Planning
14 10 (9.09%) Analytics
14 10 (9.09%) E-Commerce
14 10 (9.09%) Scrum
14 10 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (56.36%) JavaScript
2 42 (38.18%) TypeScript
3 40 (36.36%) C#
4 37 (33.64%) SQL
5 12 (10.91%) Python
6 7 (6.36%) Java
7 5 (4.55%) PHP
8 4 (3.64%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.91%) C
9 1 (0.91%) C++
9 1 (0.91%) Rust
9 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (2.73%) SC Cleared
1 3 (2.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.82%) Degree
3 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.91%) QA
2 12 (10.91%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.91%) HL7
System Software
1 24 (21.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (19.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.27%) Terraform
3 1 (0.91%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (7.27%) Apple
2 4 (3.64%) Oracle
3 3 (2.73%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.73%) Rollbar
4 1 (0.91%) Adobe
4 1 (0.91%) Databricks
4 1 (0.91%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.91%) Splunk