Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer Jobs

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
UK

The median Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer salary in the UK is £77,285 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 676 869 953
Rank change year-on-year +193 +84 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer 16 27 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.027% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.029% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 31
10th Percentile £61,250 - £55,000
25th Percentile £62,188 £45,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,285 £57,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.41% -25.81% -
75th Percentile £85,253 £66,563 £86,250
90th Percentile £91,317 £90,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £57,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +23.91% -25.81% -

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer in the UK

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Top 11 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 Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +203 13 £71,250 +23.91% 17
England +158 11 £75,000 +30.43% 35
Work from Home +195 8 £79,569 +38.38% 28
Scotland - 5 £79,569 -
London +105 3 £88,805 +4.48% 26
South East +109 2 £70,000 +16.67% 6
Midlands +83 2 £63,750 -1.92% 1
Yorkshire +73 2 £80,000 +77.78% 1
North of England +71 2 £80,000 +39.13% 7
West Midlands - 2 £63,750 -
South West - 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Full-Stack Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 16 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (87.50%) React
3 13 (81.25%) Agile
4 12 (75.00%) Azure
5 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
6 10 (62.50%) JavaScript
6 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
7 9 (56.25%) Java
7 9 (56.25%) DevOps
8 8 (50.00%) C#
8 8 (50.00%) .NET
9 7 (43.75%) TDD
9 7 (43.75%) Go
9 7 (43.75%) Microservices
10 6 (37.50%) AWS
10 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (37.50%) Pair Programming
10 6 (37.50%) SDLC
11 5 (31.25%) Spring Boot
11 5 (31.25%) webpack
11 5 (31.25%) Translating Business Requirements
11 5 (31.25%) Redux
11 5 (31.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 5 (31.25%) Customer Experience
11 5 (31.25%) Banking
11 5 (31.25%) Spring
11 5 (31.25%) Finance
11 5 (31.25%) HTML

Senior Full-Stack Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
4 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) GitHub
5 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) Supabase
6 1 (6.25%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) FTP
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
1 1 (6.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) webpack
2 2 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (87.50%) React
2 8 (50.00%) .NET
3 5 (31.25%) CSS
3 5 (31.25%) HTML
3 5 (31.25%) Redux
3 5 (31.25%) Spring
3 5 (31.25%) Spring Boot
4 4 (25.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
6 2 (12.50%) Blazor
6 2 (12.50%) Flutter
6 2 (12.50%) Next.js
6 2 (12.50%) RESTful
7 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
7 1 (6.25%) Kendo UI
7 1 (6.25%) Middleware
7 1 (6.25%) NestJS
7 1 (6.25%) Node.js
7 1 (6.25%) REST
7 1 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Lidar
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (81.25%) Agile
3 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
4 9 (56.25%) DevOps
5 7 (43.75%) Microservices
5 7 (43.75%) TDD
6 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (37.50%) Pair Programming
6 6 (37.50%) SDLC
7 5 (31.25%) BDD
7 5 (31.25%) Customer Experience
7 5 (31.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (31.25%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 3 (18.75%) Front End Development
9 3 (18.75%) Technical Debt
10 2 (12.50%) Data Design
10 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) Java
3 8 (50.00%) C#
4 7 (43.75%) Go
5 4 (25.00%) Python
5 4 (25.00%) SQL
6 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (6.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Telerik