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 13 August 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 581 523
Rank change year-on-year -41 -58 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 168 117 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.23% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.26% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 144 73 251
10th Percentile £55,375 - £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £81,125 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,500 £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 99,901 44,909 79,263
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.92% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 68,253 26,546 52,909
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -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 13 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 13 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 -35 157 £70,000 +7.69% 37
UK excluding London -51 136 £70,000 +16.67% 34
North of England -6 45 £70,000 +7.69% 15
Midlands -9 43 £70,000 +9.80% 7
Work from Home -20 43 £70,000 +1.82% 23
West Midlands -12 29 £70,000 +9.80% 4
London -55 27 £85,000 +13.33% 11
South East -38 24 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Yorkshire -3 22 £71,000 +1.43% 7
North West +16 20 £70,000 - 7
East Midlands - 14 £70,000 - 3
East of England -15 10 £100,000 +42.86%
South West -54 8 £71,250 +16.33% 2
Wales -66 5 £72,500 +20.83%
North East -55 3 £52,000 -11.49% 1
Scotland +12 1 £90,000 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 168 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 78 (46.43%) AWS
3 57 (33.93%) React
4 45 (26.79%) JavaScript
5 43 (25.60%) TypeScript
6 42 (25.00%) Node.js
7 38 (22.62%) Azure
7 38 (22.62%) Python
8 35 (20.83%) CI/CD
9 31 (18.45%) DevOps
10 30 (17.86%) C#
11 27 (16.07%) AngularJS
11 27 (16.07%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (16.07%) Serverless
12 26 (15.48%) Mentoring
13 25 (14.88%) .NET
13 25 (14.88%) AI
13 25 (14.88%) Java
14 24 (14.29%) Agile
15 22 (13.10%) Amazon S3
16 21 (12.50%) Security Cleared
17 19 (11.31%) GitHub
17 19 (11.31%) SC Cleared
18 18 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
18 18 (10.71%) Docker
18 18 (10.71%) Microservices
18 18 (10.71%) Software Engineering
18 18 (10.71%) Vue
19 17 (10.12%) HTML
19 17 (10.12%) 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 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.57%) Confluence
3 2 (1.19%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 78 (46.43%) AWS
2 38 (22.62%) Azure
3 27 (16.07%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (16.07%) Serverless
4 22 (13.10%) Amazon S3
5 19 (11.31%) GitHub
6 18 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (8.33%) GCP
8 12 (7.14%) SaaS
9 9 (5.36%) Anthropic Claude
9 9 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (2.38%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.38%) Apigee
14 3 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.19%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.33%) DynamoDB
1 14 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.95%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.79%) MySQL
5 3 (1.79%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.79%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.19%) GIS
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (5.95%) JUnit
2 7 (4.17%) Git
2 7 (4.17%) Maven
2 7 (4.17%) Mockito
3 6 (3.57%) JIRA
4 4 (2.38%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.79%) Selenium
6 2 (1.19%) GitLab
6 2 (1.19%) Jasmine
6 2 (1.19%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.19%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.19%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.60%) NUnit
7 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (10.12%) Finance
2 12 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.95%) Public Sector
4 3 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.19%) Banking
5 2 (1.19%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.19%) Law
5 2 (1.19%) Legal
5 2 (1.19%) Legal Technology
6 1 (0.60%) Back Office
6 1 (0.60%) Front Office
6 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (33.93%) React
2 42 (25.00%) Node.js
3 27 (16.07%) AngularJS
4 25 (14.88%) .NET
5 18 (10.71%) Vue
6 17 (10.12%) HTML
7 16 (9.52%) Spring
8 15 (8.93%) CSS
9 13 (7.74%) REST
10 11 (6.55%) ASP.NET
10 11 (6.55%) Laravel
11 10 (5.95%) NestJS
12 9 (5.36%) Ruby on Rails
12 9 (5.36%) Spring Boot
13 8 (4.76%) .NET Framework
13 8 (4.76%) CSS3
13 8 (4.76%) Express.js
13 8 (4.76%) HTML5
14 7 (4.17%) Entity Framework
14 7 (4.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.12%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.98%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.38%) NHS
5 3 (1.79%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.19%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.19%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.19%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.19%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.60%) PropTech
7 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.17%) Linux
2 3 (1.79%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 35 (20.83%) CI/CD
3 31 (18.45%) DevOps
4 26 (15.48%) Mentoring
5 25 (14.88%) AI
6 24 (14.29%) Agile
7 18 (10.71%) Microservices
7 18 (10.71%) Software Engineering
8 17 (10.12%) Technical Leadership
9 16 (9.52%) TDD
10 14 (8.33%) Event-Driven
11 13 (7.74%) LLM
11 13 (7.74%) Sprint Planning
12 12 (7.14%) Web Development
13 11 (6.55%) Roadmaps
14 10 (5.95%) Containerisation
14 10 (5.95%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (5.95%) Scrum
15 9 (5.36%) Front End Development
15 9 (5.36%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 45 (26.79%) JavaScript
2 43 (25.60%) TypeScript
3 38 (22.62%) Python
4 30 (17.86%) C#
5 25 (14.88%) Java
6 15 (8.93%) SQL
7 10 (5.95%) PHP
8 9 (5.36%) Ruby
9 7 (4.17%) Bash
9 7 (4.17%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.60%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) C++
Qualifications
1 21 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.31%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.79%) Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.12%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.95%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (7.14%) Oracle
2 8 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.79%) OneLogin
4 2 (1.19%) Aderant
4 2 (1.19%) iManage
4 2 (1.19%) Intapp
4 2 (1.19%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.19%) OutSystems
4 2 (1.19%) Red Hat