Senior Full-Stack Engineer Jobs

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 647 788 847
Rank change year-on-year +141 +59 -271
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer 59 110 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 49 93 85
10th Percentile £57,250 £46,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -16.13% -3.13%
75th Percentile £117,500 £86,250 £97,500
90th Percentile - £92,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -17.24% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 49,511 93,886 92,389
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,626 67,255 58,266
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Full-Stack Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Full-Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Full-Stack Engineer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Engineer over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

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 11 May 2025. 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 +109 47 £97,500 +39.29% 167
Work from Home +155 37 £105,000 +61.54% 109
London +101 34 £105,000 +27.27% 138
UK excluding London +140 20 £63,750 +6.25% 68
North of England +38 7 £57,500 -4.17% 18
Scotland +126 5 £79,569 -4.80% 2
Yorkshire +66 4 £57,500 +27.78% 4
South West +105 3 £60,000 - 1
North West -17 3 £57,500 -4.17% 13
Wales +29 2 £80,000 +68.42% 2
South East +92 1 £65,000 +8.33% 39
Midlands +64 1 £67,500 +1.89% 4
East of England +37 1 £60,000 -14.29% 1
West Midlands - 1 £67,500 - 1

Senior Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Senior Full-Stack Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 53 (89.83%) React
3 44 (74.58%) AWS
4 36 (61.02%) TypeScript
5 25 (42.37%) Agile
6 23 (38.98%) User Experience
7 22 (37.29%) SaaS
7 22 (37.29%) Code Quality
8 21 (35.59%) Next.js
8 21 (35.59%) JavaScript
9 20 (33.90%) Artificial Intelligence
10 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
11 17 (28.81%) Software Engineering
11 17 (28.81%) Python
11 17 (28.81%) Node.js
12 16 (27.12%) Serverless
13 15 (25.42%) Kubernetes
14 14 (23.73%) Microservices
15 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (22.03%) Azure
16 12 (20.34%) Test Automation
17 11 (18.64%) Java
17 11 (18.64%) AWS Lambda
18 10 (16.95%) C#
19 9 (15.25%) .NET
19 9 (15.25%) Degree
19 9 (15.25%) Computer Science
19 9 (15.25%) DevOps
20 8 (13.56%) Spring Boot
20 8 (13.56%) DynamoDB

Senior Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.39%) CMS
2 1 (1.69%) Drupal
2 1 (1.69%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.69%) Strapi
2 1 (1.69%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 44 (74.58%) AWS
2 22 (37.29%) SaaS
3 16 (27.12%) Serverless
4 13 (22.03%) Azure
5 11 (18.64%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.17%) GCP
7 5 (8.47%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (8.47%) GitHub
8 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.69%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.69%) Supabase
10 1 (1.69%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) DynamoDB
2 6 (10.17%) MongoDB
2 6 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.08%) MySQL
5 2 (3.39%) DB2
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.47%) webpack
2 4 (6.78%) Git
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) JUnit
General
1 8 (13.56%) Finance
2 5 (8.47%) Banking
2 5 (8.47%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (89.83%) React
2 21 (35.59%) Next.js
3 17 (28.81%) Node.js
4 9 (15.25%) .NET
5 8 (13.56%) Spring
5 8 (13.56%) Spring Boot
6 7 (11.86%) AngularJS
6 7 (11.86%) CSS
6 7 (11.86%) HTML
7 6 (10.17%) Redux
8 4 (6.78%) .NET Core
8 4 (6.78%) GraphQL
8 4 (6.78%) REST
8 4 (6.78%) RESTful
9 3 (5.08%) Kafka
9 3 (5.08%) Laravel
10 2 (3.39%) Backbone.js
10 2 (3.39%) Bootstrap
10 2 (3.39%) Ember.js
10 2 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.39%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.39%) Educational Technology
2 2 (3.39%) e-Learning
2 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.69%) Lidar
3 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.39%) Android
2 2 (3.39%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 25 (42.37%) Agile
3 23 (38.98%) User Experience
4 22 (37.29%) Code Quality
5 20 (33.90%) Artificial Intelligence
6 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
7 17 (28.81%) Software Engineering
8 14 (23.73%) Microservices
9 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (20.34%) Test Automation
11 9 (15.25%) Computer Science
11 9 (15.25%) DevOps
12 8 (13.56%) Pair Programming
12 8 (13.56%) TDD
13 7 (11.86%) API Development
13 7 (11.86%) Mentoring
13 7 (11.86%) Translating Business Requirements
14 6 (10.17%) BDD
14 6 (10.17%) Containerisation
14 6 (10.17%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (61.02%) TypeScript
2 21 (35.59%) JavaScript
3 17 (28.81%) Python
4 11 (18.64%) Java
5 10 (16.95%) C#
6 7 (11.86%) Go
7 6 (10.17%) SQL
8 3 (5.08%) PHP
9 1 (1.69%) Bicep
9 1 (1.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Degree
2 7 (11.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (10.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (25.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.39%) HubSpot
1 2 (3.39%) IBM
1 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
1 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.69%) Bloomberg
2 1 (1.69%) Databricks
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft