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 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 566 518
Rank change year-on-year -25 -48 -151
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 163 111 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.23% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.25% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 146 78 332
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,625 £53,750 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,925 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -7.14%

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 92,213 43,991 96,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.88% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 63,185 25,842 69,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -13 149 £70,000 +12.00% 15
UK excluding London -19 133 £70,000 +16.67% 12
North of England +5 51 £70,000 +19.15% 1
Work from Home -6 40 £70,000 +7.69% 7
Midlands -14 34 £70,000 +19.15% 8
Yorkshire -7 25 £75,000 +7.14%
South East -49 24 £65,000 +13.04% 3
North West +16 23 £70,000 +27.27% 1
London -24 23 £84,000 +12.00% 4
West Midlands -12 19 £70,000 +12.00% 4
East Midlands -8 15 £65,000 +18.18% 4
East of England -3 10 £100,000 +42.86%
South West -55 8 £66,250 +8.16%
Wales -52 6 £63,750 +6.25%
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 10 July 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.

1 163 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 71 (43.56%) AWS
3 63 (38.65%) React
4 54 (33.13%) JavaScript
5 45 (27.61%) Node.js
5 45 (27.61%) TypeScript
6 41 (25.15%) Python
7 35 (21.47%) Azure
8 32 (19.63%) DevOps
9 29 (17.79%) Serverless
10 28 (17.18%) C#
11 27 (16.56%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (16.56%) CI/CD
12 25 (15.34%) AngularJS
13 24 (14.72%) HTML
13 24 (14.72%) Mentoring
14 23 (14.11%) .NET
15 22 (13.50%) Amazon S3
15 22 (13.50%) CSS
16 21 (12.88%) Security Cleared
17 20 (12.27%) Java
18 19 (11.66%) Agile
18 19 (11.66%) Vue
19 17 (10.43%) SC Cleared
19 17 (10.43%) Software Engineering
20 16 (9.82%) AI
20 16 (9.82%) Kubernetes
20 16 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
20 16 (9.82%) SQL
21 15 (9.20%) 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 6 (3.68%) Confluence
2 3 (1.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) CMS
3 1 (0.61%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 71 (43.56%) AWS
2 35 (21.47%) Azure
3 29 (17.79%) Serverless
4 27 (16.56%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (13.50%) Amazon S3
6 14 (8.59%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (8.59%) GCP
6 14 (8.59%) GitHub
7 9 (5.52%) SaaS
8 7 (4.29%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.07%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.45%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (2.45%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (2.45%) Apigee
11 3 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.75%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.13%) DynamoDB
2 10 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.68%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.45%) MySQL
5 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.84%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.84%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.84%) Spatial Data
7 2 (1.23%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.23%) GIS
8 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.61%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (4.29%) Git
2 6 (3.68%) JIRA
2 6 (3.68%) JUnit
3 3 (1.84%) Claude Code
3 3 (1.84%) Maven
3 3 (1.84%) Mockito
3 3 (1.84%) Selenium
4 2 (1.23%) GitLab
4 2 (1.23%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.23%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (1.23%) YouTrack
5 1 (0.61%) CircleCI
General
1 13 (7.98%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.75%) Finance
3 10 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.91%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.45%) Law
6 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.23%) Aviation
7 2 (1.23%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.23%) Legal
7 2 (1.23%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.61%) Back Office
8 1 (0.61%) Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.61%) Marketing
8 1 (0.61%) Retail
8 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (38.65%) React
2 45 (27.61%) Node.js
3 25 (15.34%) AngularJS
4 24 (14.72%) HTML
5 23 (14.11%) .NET
6 22 (13.50%) CSS
7 19 (11.66%) Vue
8 14 (8.59%) Laravel
9 10 (6.13%) REST
9 10 (6.13%) Spring
10 9 (5.52%) CSS3
10 9 (5.52%) HTML5
10 9 (5.52%) Ruby on Rails
11 8 (4.91%) ASP.NET
11 8 (4.91%) NestJS
11 8 (4.91%) Spring Boot
12 7 (4.29%) Flask
12 7 (4.29%) RESTful
13 6 (3.68%) Express.js
13 6 (3.68%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.59%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.07%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.45%) NHS
5 3 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.84%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.84%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.23%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.23%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.61%) PropTech
7 1 (0.61%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.45%) Linux
2 3 (1.84%) AIX
3 1 (0.61%) Android
3 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (19.63%) DevOps
3 27 (16.56%) CI/CD
4 24 (14.72%) Mentoring
5 19 (11.66%) Agile
6 17 (10.43%) Software Engineering
7 16 (9.82%) AI
7 16 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (7.98%) Event-Driven
8 13 (7.98%) Microservices
8 13 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (7.98%) Web Development
9 12 (7.36%) TDD
10 9 (5.52%) Roadmaps
10 9 (5.52%) Sprint Planning
11 8 (4.91%) Code Quality
11 8 (4.91%) Computer Science
11 8 (4.91%) Front End Development
11 8 (4.91%) Observability
12 7 (4.29%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 54 (33.13%) JavaScript
2 45 (27.61%) TypeScript
3 41 (25.15%) Python
4 28 (17.18%) C#
5 20 (12.27%) Java
6 16 (9.82%) SQL
7 15 (9.20%) PHP
8 9 (5.52%) Ruby
9 4 (2.45%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.84%) Bash
11 2 (1.23%) Bicep
11 2 (1.23%) C
12 1 (0.61%) C++
12 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.29%) Degree
4 5 (3.07%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.84%) WCAG
2 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 15 (9.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.52%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (4.29%) Oracle
2 3 (1.84%) OneLogin
3 2 (1.23%) Aderant
3 2 (1.23%) iManage
3 2 (1.23%) Intapp
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.23%) OpenAI