Senior Full-Stack Engineer Job Trends

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 633 673
Rank change year-on-year +69 +40 +202
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer 87 79 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 77 64 52
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £57,188 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,938 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.54% -8.83% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,253 £92,076
90th Percentile - £100,000 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -6.90%

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 54,089 49,558 53,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 92.89% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 33,489 25,634 41,126
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Full-Stack Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Full-Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Top 14 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 January 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 +82 75 £81,250 +14.04% 145
London +60 42 £100,000 +25.00% 26
UK excluding London +67 34 £75,000 +25.00% 133
Work from Home +65 31 £88,750 +16.06% 62
North of England +33 13 £75,000 +7.14% 29
South East +26 11 £80,000 +20.30% 36
North West +33 8 £75,000 +17.65% 10
South West +11 5 £62,500 +4.17% 22
Yorkshire - 3 £90,000 - 14
East of England +24 2 £60,000 - 20
Wales +3 2 £60,000 -11.11% 7
North East +1 2 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Midlands +23 1 £80,000 +33.33% 14
West Midlands +23 1 £80,000 +33.33% 3

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

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Senior Full-Stack Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 35 (40.23%) TypeScript
3 33 (37.93%) React
4 29 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 24 (27.59%) AWS
6 23 (26.44%) Node.js
7 20 (22.99%) CI/CD
8 19 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (18.39%) AI
9 16 (18.39%) Azure
10 15 (17.24%) JavaScript
11 14 (16.09%) Agile
11 14 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (16.09%) GCP
12 12 (13.79%) CSS
12 12 (13.79%) HTML
13 11 (12.64%) .NET
13 11 (12.64%) Collaborative Culture
13 11 (12.64%) Computer Science
13 11 (12.64%) Degree
13 11 (12.64%) E-Commerce
13 11 (12.64%) GitHub
13 11 (12.64%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (12.64%) Java
14 10 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (11.49%) Customer Experience
15 9 (10.34%) Clean Code
15 9 (10.34%) Jenkins
15 9 (10.34%) Python
15 9 (10.34%) Responsive Web Design

Senior Full-Stack Engineer 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 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.15%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.59%) AWS
2 16 (18.39%) Azure
3 14 (16.09%) GCP
4 11 (12.64%) GitHub
4 11 (12.64%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (6.90%) SaaS
6 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.30%) Cloud Run
7 2 (2.30%) CloudFront
7 2 (2.30%) Serverless
8 1 (1.15%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.15%) Figma
8 1 (1.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.15%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) HTTP
1 1 (1.15%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.05%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.30%) MySQL
5 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.15%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.60%) Git
3 1 (1.15%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.15%) GitLab
3 1 (1.15%) JIRA
3 1 (1.15%) JUnit
General
1 12 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.20%) Finance
3 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.15%) Aviation
3 1 (1.15%) Banking
3 1 (1.15%) Front Office
3 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.15%) Law
3 1 (1.15%) Marketing
3 1 (1.15%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (37.93%) React
2 23 (26.44%) Node.js
3 12 (13.79%) CSS
3 12 (13.79%) HTML
4 11 (12.64%) .NET
5 8 (9.20%) REST
6 7 (8.05%) AngularJS
6 7 (8.05%) RESTful
7 5 (5.75%) Redux
7 5 (5.75%) Spring
7 5 (5.75%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.60%) Flutter
9 3 (3.45%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.45%) Blazor
9 3 (3.45%) Next.js
10 2 (2.30%) OAuth
10 2 (2.30%) OLE
10 2 (2.30%) OpenID
10 2 (2.30%) PrimeNG
10 2 (2.30%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.15%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.15%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.15%) Android
1 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 29 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 20 (22.99%) CI/CD
4 19 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (18.39%) AI
6 14 (16.09%) Agile
6 14 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (12.64%) Collaborative Culture
7 11 (12.64%) Computer Science
7 11 (12.64%) E-Commerce
8 10 (11.49%) Customer Experience
9 9 (10.34%) Clean Code
9 9 (10.34%) Responsive Web Design
10 8 (9.20%) Microservices
11 6 (6.90%) Fintech
11 6 (6.90%) Functional Programming
11 6 (6.90%) User Experience
12 5 (5.75%) Front End Development
13 4 (4.60%) DevOps
13 4 (4.60%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 35 (40.23%) TypeScript
2 15 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 11 (12.64%) Java
4 9 (10.34%) Python
5 6 (6.90%) C#
6 4 (4.60%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.45%) SQL
8 2 (2.30%) Go
9 1 (1.15%) Bash
9 1 (1.15%) C++
9 1 (1.15%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.15%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Degree
2 10 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.15%) MBA
3 1 (1.15%) PhD
3 1 (1.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.15%) ECSS
1 1 (1.15%) GDPR
1 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) Argo
2 3 (3.45%) Terraform
3 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.15%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (3.45%) DevExpress
2 2 (2.30%) Google
2 2 (2.30%) Okta
2 2 (2.30%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.15%) Adobe