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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 563 527
Rank change year-on-year -49 -36 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 163 115 304
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.23% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.26% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 140 72 243
10th Percentile £55,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,500 £82,000 £97,000
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 100,959 44,891 79,128
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.94% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 69,008 26,549 52,423
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £47,863 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.06% -4.27% -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 19 August 2026.

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 19 August 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 -33 152 £70,000 +7.69% 33
UK excluding London -37 133 £70,000 +16.67% 32
North of England +1 44 £70,000 - 13
Midlands -8 43 £70,000 +9.80% 7
Work from Home -21 43 £70,000 - 21
West Midlands -11 29 £70,000 +9.80% 4
London -43 25 £85,000 +13.33% 9
South East -52 24 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Yorkshire -3 22 £71,000 +1.43% 6
North West +4 19 £70,000 - 6
East Midlands - 14 £70,000 - 3
South West -59 9 £60,000 -2.04% 3
East of England -21 7 £100,000 +42.86% 1
Wales -64 5 £72,500 +20.83%
North East -54 3 £52,000 -13.33% 1
Scotland -6 1 £90,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 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 79 (48.47%) AWS
3 56 (34.36%) React
4 43 (26.38%) JavaScript
5 42 (25.77%) TypeScript
6 41 (25.15%) Node.js
7 38 (23.31%) Python
8 37 (22.70%) Azure
9 36 (22.09%) CI/CD
10 30 (18.40%) DevOps
11 29 (17.79%) C#
12 28 (17.18%) AngularJS
13 27 (16.56%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (16.56%) Serverless
14 26 (15.95%) Mentoring
15 25 (15.34%) Java
16 24 (14.72%) .NET
16 24 (14.72%) Agile
16 24 (14.72%) AI
17 22 (13.50%) Amazon S3
18 21 (12.88%) Security Cleared
19 19 (11.66%) GitHub
19 19 (11.66%) SC Cleared
20 18 (11.04%) Amazon ECS
20 18 (11.04%) Docker
20 18 (11.04%) HTML
20 18 (11.04%) Microservices
20 18 (11.04%) Software Engineering
20 18 (11.04%) Vue
21 17 (10.43%) Kubernetes

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 7 (4.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 79 (48.47%) AWS
2 37 (22.70%) Azure
3 27 (16.56%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (16.56%) Serverless
4 22 (13.50%) Amazon S3
5 19 (11.66%) GitHub
6 18 (11.04%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (8.59%) GCP
8 11 (6.75%) SaaS
9 9 (5.52%) Anthropic Claude
9 9 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (4.29%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.68%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (3.68%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (2.45%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.45%) Apigee
14 3 (1.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.59%) DynamoDB
1 14 (8.59%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.75%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.84%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.84%) MySQL
5 3 (1.84%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.84%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.23%) GIS
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.61%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (6.13%) JUnit
2 7 (4.29%) Git
2 7 (4.29%) Maven
2 7 (4.29%) Mockito
3 6 (3.68%) JIRA
4 4 (2.45%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.84%) Selenium
6 2 (1.23%) GitLab
6 2 (1.23%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.23%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.23%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.23%) NUnit
6 2 (1.23%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.23%) YouTrack
General
1 17 (10.43%) Finance
2 11 (6.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.13%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.23%) Banking
5 2 (1.23%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.61%) Back Office
6 1 (0.61%) Front Office
6 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.61%) Law
6 1 (0.61%) Legal
6 1 (0.61%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (34.36%) React
2 41 (25.15%) Node.js
3 28 (17.18%) AngularJS
4 24 (14.72%) .NET
5 18 (11.04%) HTML
5 18 (11.04%) Vue
6 16 (9.82%) CSS
6 16 (9.82%) Spring
7 13 (7.98%) REST
8 11 (6.75%) ASP.NET
8 11 (6.75%) Laravel
9 10 (6.13%) NestJS
10 9 (5.52%) .NET Framework
10 9 (5.52%) Ruby on Rails
10 9 (5.52%) Spring Boot
11 8 (4.91%) CSS3
11 8 (4.91%) Entity Framework
11 8 (4.91%) Express.js
11 8 (4.91%) HTML5
12 7 (4.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.43%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.07%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.45%) NHS
5 3 (1.84%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.84%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.23%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.23%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.61%) PropTech
7 1 (0.61%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.29%) Linux
2 3 (1.84%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 36 (22.09%) CI/CD
3 30 (18.40%) DevOps
4 26 (15.95%) Mentoring
5 24 (14.72%) Agile
5 24 (14.72%) AI
6 18 (11.04%) Microservices
6 18 (11.04%) Software Engineering
7 17 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (9.82%) TDD
9 14 (8.59%) Event-Driven
10 13 (7.98%) LLM
10 13 (7.98%) Sprint Planning
11 11 (6.75%) Roadmaps
12 10 (6.13%) Containerisation
12 10 (6.13%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (6.13%) Scrum
13 9 (5.52%) Front End Development
13 9 (5.52%) Observability
13 9 (5.52%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (26.38%) JavaScript
2 42 (25.77%) TypeScript
3 38 (23.31%) Python
4 29 (17.79%) C#
5 25 (15.34%) Java
6 15 (9.20%) SQL
7 10 (6.13%) PHP
8 9 (5.52%) Ruby
9 7 (4.29%) Bash
9 7 (4.29%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.61%) Bicep
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.66%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.91%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.68%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (3.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.84%) Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (11.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.13%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (7.36%) Oracle
2 7 (4.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.84%) OneLogin
4 2 (1.23%) OutSystems
4 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.61%) Aderant
5 1 (0.61%) iManage
5 1 (0.61%) Intapp
5 1 (0.61%) OpenAI