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 21 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 549 559
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -143
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 126 123 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.28% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 99 77 225
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,140 £51,250
25th Percentile £59,375 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -

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 62,841 44,387 71,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 91.47% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 39,642 23,421 55,777
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +37 111 £70,000 +16.67% 35
UK excluding London +10 87 £70,000 +16.67% 33
Work from Home +6 30 £75,000 +25.00% 22
London +34 28 £75,000 +20.97% 7
South East -5 26 £72,500 +16.00% 9
Midlands +1 23 £62,500 +4.17% 1
North of England -14 21 £75,000 +36.36% 16
East Midlands -19 15 £55,000 -12.00%
Yorkshire -19 13 £80,000 +39.13% 8
East of England +23 9 £100,000 - 3
West Midlands -2 8 £70,000 +16.67% 1
North West -1 7 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Wales -9 4 £51,250 -31.67%
South West -18 4 £65,000 +18.18% 3
North East -14 1 £76,000 +32.17%

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

For the 6 months to 21 February 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.

1 126 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 63 (50.00%) React
3 46 (36.51%) AWS
4 44 (34.92%) JavaScript
5 36 (28.57%) Azure
6 34 (26.98%) .NET
6 34 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (22.22%) SQL
7 28 (22.22%) TypeScript
8 27 (21.43%) C#
9 25 (19.84%) CSS
9 25 (19.84%) Python
10 24 (19.05%) HTML
11 23 (18.25%) CI/CD
11 23 (18.25%) Web Development
12 21 (16.67%) Microservices
13 20 (15.87%) Agile
13 20 (15.87%) Node.js
14 19 (15.08%) REST
15 17 (13.49%) DevOps
15 17 (13.49%) GitHub
15 17 (13.49%) Serverless
16 16 (12.70%) AngularJS
17 15 (11.90%) API Development
17 15 (11.90%) Docker
17 15 (11.90%) SaaS
18 14 (11.11%) AI
18 14 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
18 14 (11.11%) GCP
18 14 (11.11%) Mentoring

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 (3.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.38%) ColdFusion
3 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.79%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (36.51%) AWS
2 36 (28.57%) Azure
3 17 (13.49%) GitHub
3 17 (13.49%) Serverless
4 15 (11.90%) SaaS
5 14 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (11.11%) GCP
6 13 (10.32%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.38%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.79%) Azure AI
11 1 (0.79%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.79%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.73%) MySQL
2 10 (7.94%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.97%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.38%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.59%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (7.14%) Git
2 6 (4.76%) JUnit
2 6 (4.76%) Maven
2 6 (4.76%) Mockito
3 5 (3.97%) git-flow
4 2 (1.59%) JIRA
5 1 (0.79%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.79%) Moq
General
1 19 (15.08%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.29%) Finance
3 15 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.38%) Law
5 3 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.38%) Retail
5 3 (2.38%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.59%) Aviation
7 1 (0.79%) Back Office
7 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.79%) Legal
7 1 (0.79%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (50.00%) React
2 34 (26.98%) .NET
3 25 (19.84%) CSS
4 24 (19.05%) HTML
5 20 (15.87%) Node.js
6 19 (15.08%) REST
7 16 (12.70%) AngularJS
8 11 (8.73%) Django
9 9 (7.14%) FastAPI
9 9 (7.14%) Flask
10 8 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (6.35%) Vue
11 7 (5.56%) Kafka
11 7 (5.56%) Laravel
12 6 (4.76%) .NET Framework
12 6 (4.76%) Symfony
13 5 (3.97%) AWS CDK
13 5 (3.97%) HTML5
13 5 (3.97%) Material-UI
14 4 (3.17%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.97%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.79%) NHS
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.97%) Linux
2 4 (3.17%) Android
2 4 (3.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 34 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (18.25%) CI/CD
3 23 (18.25%) Web Development
4 21 (16.67%) Microservices
5 20 (15.87%) Agile
6 17 (13.49%) DevOps
7 15 (11.90%) API Development
8 14 (11.11%) AI
8 14 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 12 (9.52%) Computer Science
10 11 (8.73%) Containerisation
11 10 (7.94%) Data Modelling
11 10 (7.94%) Scrum
11 10 (7.94%) Sprint Planning
11 10 (7.94%) TDD
12 9 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (7.14%) Event-Driven
13 8 (6.35%) Clean Code
14 7 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (34.92%) JavaScript
2 28 (22.22%) SQL
2 28 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 27 (21.43%) C#
4 25 (19.84%) Python
5 14 (11.11%) PHP
6 9 (7.14%) PL/SQL
7 8 (6.35%) Java
8 4 (3.17%) Bash
8 4 (3.17%) C
8 4 (3.17%) R
9 1 (0.79%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (8.73%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.35%) Degree
4 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.94%) QA
2 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.79%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (11.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (8.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.38%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (7.14%) Oracle
2 3 (2.38%) WooCommerce
3 1 (0.79%) Aderant
3 1 (0.79%) iManage
3 1 (0.79%) Intapp
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.79%) OpenAI