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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 543 562
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Developer 139 109 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.27% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 113 78 261
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,140 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £73,438 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,625 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% -11.54% -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 66,799 39,870 79,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 90.79% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 42,341 23,010 60,911
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,984 £43,750 £38,750
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -4.81%

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 March 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 March 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 +31 126 £70,000 +16.67% 42
UK excluding London +7 102 £70,000 +21.74% 41
Work from Home +17 31 £70,000 +16.67% 35
North of England -10 31 £70,000 +27.27% 12
London +12 28 £75,000 +20.97% 5
South East -10 26 £72,500 +16.00% 11
Midlands -14 25 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Yorkshire -33 16 £80,000 +39.13% 6
East Midlands -17 15 £55,000 -12.00% 2
North West 0 14 £66,250 +20.45% 6
East of England +13 12 £100,000 +42.86% 7
West Midlands -8 10 £62,500 +4.17% 3
Wales -11 4 £51,250 -2.38% 3
South West -33 4 £65,000 +18.18% 3
North East -22 1 £76,000 +32.17%

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

For the 6 months to 10 March 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.

1 139 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 66 (47.48%) React
3 51 (36.69%) JavaScript
4 49 (35.25%) AWS
5 40 (28.78%) Azure
6 36 (25.90%) .NET
7 31 (22.30%) C#
7 31 (22.30%) TypeScript
8 30 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (20.14%) SQL
10 26 (18.71%) Python
10 26 (18.71%) Web Development
11 25 (17.99%) CSS
11 25 (17.99%) Node.js
12 24 (17.27%) DevOps
12 24 (17.27%) HTML
13 23 (16.55%) CI/CD
14 21 (15.11%) Microservices
15 19 (13.67%) Agile
15 19 (13.67%) REST
15 19 (13.67%) Serverless
16 17 (12.23%) SaaS
17 16 (11.51%) AngularJS
17 16 (11.51%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (11.51%) Mentoring
18 15 (10.79%) API Development
18 15 (10.79%) Docker
18 15 (10.79%) GCP
18 15 (10.79%) PHP
19 14 (10.07%) AI

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 (2.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.16%) ColdFusion
2 3 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.72%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (35.25%) AWS
2 40 (28.78%) Azure
3 19 (13.67%) Serverless
4 17 (12.23%) SaaS
5 16 (11.51%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (10.79%) GCP
7 14 (10.07%) GitHub
8 13 (9.35%) Amazon S3
9 8 (5.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.16%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.44%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (1.44%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (1.44%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.72%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.63%) NoSQL
2 11 (7.91%) MySQL
3 8 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.60%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.16%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.44%) ClickHouse
7 2 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Git
2 6 (4.32%) JUnit
2 6 (4.32%) Maven
2 6 (4.32%) Mockito
3 5 (3.60%) git-flow
4 2 (1.44%) GitLab
4 2 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.72%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.72%) Moq
General
1 21 (15.11%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.67%) Finance
3 16 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (2.88%) Law
4 4 (2.88%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.16%) Retail
6 2 (1.44%) Aviation
6 2 (1.44%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.44%) Legal
7 1 (0.72%) Back Office
7 1 (0.72%) Marketing
7 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (47.48%) React
2 36 (25.90%) .NET
3 25 (17.99%) CSS
3 25 (17.99%) Node.js
4 24 (17.27%) HTML
5 19 (13.67%) REST
6 16 (11.51%) AngularJS
7 9 (6.47%) Django
7 9 (6.47%) Vue
8 8 (5.76%) Laravel
8 8 (5.76%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (5.04%) FastAPI
9 7 (5.04%) Flask
9 7 (5.04%) Kafka
10 6 (4.32%) .NET Framework
10 6 (4.32%) Symfony
11 5 (3.60%) ASP.NET
11 5 (3.60%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (3.60%) AWS CDK
11 5 (3.60%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.47%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.60%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.44%) NHS
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.60%) Linux
2 4 (2.88%) Android
2 4 (2.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 30 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (18.71%) Web Development
4 24 (17.27%) DevOps
5 23 (16.55%) CI/CD
6 21 (15.11%) Microservices
7 19 (13.67%) Agile
8 16 (11.51%) Mentoring
9 15 (10.79%) API Development
10 14 (10.07%) AI
11 12 (8.63%) Computer Science
11 12 (8.63%) Containerisation
12 11 (7.91%) Data Modelling
13 10 (7.19%) Event-Driven
14 9 (6.47%) Sprint Planning
14 9 (6.47%) TDD
15 8 (5.76%) Scrum
15 8 (5.76%) SDLC
15 8 (5.76%) Test Automation
16 7 (5.04%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.69%) JavaScript
2 31 (22.30%) C#
2 31 (22.30%) TypeScript
3 28 (20.14%) SQL
4 26 (18.71%) Python
5 15 (10.79%) PHP
6 9 (6.47%) Java
6 9 (6.47%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.88%) Bash
7 4 (2.88%) C
7 4 (2.88%) R
8 1 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (7.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.47%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.76%) Degree
4 2 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.19%) QA
2 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.72%) HL7
System Software
1 15 (10.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (7.91%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.16%) Terraform
3 1 (0.72%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (6.47%) Oracle
2 3 (2.16%) WooCommerce
3 2 (1.44%) Aderant
3 2 (1.44%) iManage
3 2 (1.44%) Intapp
3 2 (1.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.44%) OpenAI